Burr and Burton Academy - Burtonian Yearbook (Manchester, VT)

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THE BURTONIAN DEATH B R Fiske, 35 What rs death? What happens when wc die? What happens to our mmd and consclcnce and soul? We know death as a vvork NVho knows more about It than thrs except for the sorrow and dread that goes wlth 1t7 I sly dread because nearly everyone I know or ever have known dread death Thrs dread that people have of death IS a thmg that I am unable to understand NVe know that when we d1e our bodles remam ln the ground or at the bottom of the sea or ocean or wherever our grave may chance to be But, what of our mind, voice, slght hearlnff and sent1ments7 What hecomes of these They must go somewhere for rf they rem uned wxth us we would be able to talk and see and various other thxngs th 1' we do by use of the senses Vve all have trouhles on thls earth XVe all have sorrows and dxfhcultxes and deferts Is death 1 means of escape from these trlals and tr1bulat1ons7 Could we get r1d of all the unplel mt thlngs on this earth by dy1ng7 Nearly all of us have ancestors who at one tlme or another were pioneers ln some part of the vvorld IH one vxay or another Many of these people rxsked their llves daxly at tunes to save thexr people They dxdnt stop at the thought of death and mmny of the a suffered untold agomes before death overtook them In cases hke tht se they welcomed death Most of us wrll not have to suffer before death comes to us If death could he so comfort able to those people why cant 1C be just as gentle and co nfortrng to us7 We Hfht a losxn battle w1th death It always wlns at last We have wonderful medrcal assrstance but no one can cure death as yet If we can not cheat death forever why fight 1t7 Perhaps It xs our salvatlon I shall AN EVENING Bv V1rg1n1a Mart1n 37 It 15 an evemng rn summer as we drlve along the narrow dusty road Ahead of us tl e town hes nestled among the green mountaxns and hmlls cattle graze laz1ly 1n the fertxle pastures and horses whxnny for thelr suppers The lone, httle red schoolhouse sxts majestlcally on a nearby hrll juttxng out agaxnst 1r1descent sky of the golden settxnff sun As vve near the village the nolse of the flmshlng of the chores xn thus town of forty xnhabltants breaks the air The predomlnatlng bulldxng IS the General Store that sells everythrnff from pxns to farm tools At the rlght of the store 1s the Blaeksmnh s Shop where hammerlng and the d1n of a day s work have long slnce stopped Acro s the street a sm all lnterestlng group of houses stand, chrldren play on the green lawas and the vvomen gather on thexr porches chattmg eagerly On our ret :rn to the store we End that the townsmen have gathered and are busxly engaged m gossrp and matchlnv yarns Bull Jones IS telhng rn a lusty VOICE about how he got the be t an a horse trade wrth the Squxre Doc Brown a kmdly gray hanred gentleman, drrves slowly by and frxendly greetings are exchanged The storekeeper hngers rn the door l1SfCI1ll'1Q rntcntly to one of the far fetched yarns whxch everyone recelves IH a qurte half hehevrng mmner NX hen finally the last have left reluctantly we leave the town sleeping IH peace Stars twlnl-:le overhead, owls hoot ln the dlstance, the babblmg brooks run besxde us as we go along the dusty moonlit load I . v ' C ' 1 ' 4 L Y . . I . . 'L ' ' , , . , e L . 1 , 1 ' I , 4 L 1 . . K N L I v 1 . V . . . . C, . - , . 1 ' 's z . a , 5 t . 7 V .Q . . . . . . L . wx , . . at . 1 ' ' . . ' . L f 'L . L c 1 s -x 1 - n 1 ra . . . . s V I I - f ' - g . g . . . . x L -II N f N I ' L , . . m . welcome 1t wlth open arml. I . . . . , f L 5 V e 1 1- I s - 1 e . . t 3 ,, 5, . : 5 - . A L L S N 1 V . 5 . . .' ' r 1 , l L I s I 4 '. L t . L ' ' .,., L. L sl ex l I L 1 v . sq : . . z . s u I y 1 I A L I ' 1 1 ' ' ' .Aj L L N 5 YL .. L s . 5' . t . , , f ' s . , Y L - 1 - .I Il K V L f ' 1 . . , z . ' , .

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THE BURTONIAN IMAGINATION By Sally Allen 36 Anyone who 15 wxthout 1mag1natxon lacks a vxtal quahty for It IS not only helpful but also very consohng It IS a very interesting thxng to watch chlldren at play and nouce how their lIT1ZlglIldllOl'1 works They can travel faster than any of the fastest modern improve ment IH thexr xmaglnatxon I once overheard a yery amu mg COIIXCIQTIIOII between two of the gang who were playlng together wlth make bchevc homes telephones cars and so forth The Hrst small hoy sald Wxll you come up and see me tlns afternoon And lmmedlately the answer cnne hack Yes hut don t tell my WITC Anyone who has been alound with a hunch of small boys must nectssmly he thankful for that thing called imagination It seems to me that xt would be px xtttcally nnpossthlt to be around wlth them rf they dxdnt haye xt Ch1ldren hye ln an nnagxnary world most of the tnne Young gnls xmaglne themselves as the lovehest mothers of exther perfect or naughty but always adorable chxldren or else as CXQUIQIIC movie stars The garg are glorlhed Dxzzy Deans or Lou Gehrtgs And eyen then If IS not only young chlldren who haxe cons1stent nn l,Q1H1llOD but also older ones There are many dlS'lPPO1l1lIllC1tS and trymt tnnes IU hfe whlth have to be dealt wlth Howeyer one can xlvtays escare IH lns IIHSLIIIZIIIOII to the plate Ol'3l1gH.ElOlIS to anyone and one can go whereyer he pleases There are xlways IYIISSIDQ' hnks ln l1fe as you know but all the e car he rcklaced vyrth more deh htful and happy ones by xmaglnmg Now then lf you have had '1 hard and tryxng day people have been nksome and nothlng seems to have gone well run away hy yourself to your perfect paradxse of xmagmatton SHE SMILED By Cleo Clayton 9 She sm1led Yet she had the least to snnle at How could he be happy wlth the care of a worthless drunltard who was her fzther or yylth the anvclety of a stupmd brother who had absolutely no control oyer elther his body or hxs bfillllv She dxd the work of two women She xxorl ed as clerk tn a small ard Qrnny grocery store all day five days a week and sm1led at each customer as she hnstled hls order Then she hurrled to her second job that of houselteepr and nulst 111 her so called home Nobody knows how she kept the place so neat and cle ml She had nobody that the townspeople knew of to turn to They had come five years before just the three of them Her 9lI11lC was somehow a warm g to all people No one ever spoke to her about herself or her famxly though he held the spot lwht Ill many a conversatlon Nexghbors thoueht her foohsh to hxe such a l1fe but somehow Im not so sure Maybe she knew she d be doubly rewarded for all her troubles here on earth I can see her agaln as she hes pale and wan on the dusty floor of the lxttle gro ery store A can whxch she had been reachlng for on thc top shelf had rolled oyer agamst the barrel of crackers after havtng struck her dxrectly ln the r1ght temple The smlle she wears now xs yery sweet and heavenly And when I look back hadnt her smxle always been heavenly? . , , . . , , , , , . . .. . . -,., . , ' . s - - . I .. 1 . . .. . . , I, . V 't I l A ' 4 vt tl SMI I ' ' ' A . ' 1 ' . . ' ' 1 ' ' . . ,Y . , . . .Q . V. . L . I , I r , t , -. . 1 V ' - X V . K . I I V, Y , A , . ,Q K ' . v , 1 vi vk 1 , ' ' 1' ' N where everything is perfect. One can associate with whom he pleasesg there are no ' ' ' ' r v ' Q w vs -' - Atv ' , 1 , , s . . h , ' ' 1 ' - 1 t 1 A 1 - v Y - .- U , . - --. , , J, ' . . . . . ' 1 . s . ' I Y . . . . . . ' Q . ' t . K ' . 1 T A 1 Y - v . , Y I . , t . . . 1 . . ' . ' , , f 'D ' . A . - 5 t ' T 4 , . - t V L A 4 . .

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3 THE BURTONIAN DANCING By anet Gilbert, 35 Through the ages one of the most widely practiced means of entertaining has been the yery utrxe sport of strange contortions accompanied hy blarts and squawks from utrrl err y shrled pieces of metal in short danerng Of tourse the instruments these days are all made up with nice shiny paint to fool tht people and in somewhat the same manner a young debutante is made up although absolutely not shrny ust mention something about a shiny nose to her, and her powder pull' will be yrgorously applied here rnd there and a new layer of st rrltt p rste will he stuck on somewhere in the 'vicinity of her mouth The general atmosphere of noise and muttering pndons It wrs all my fr lt really is the usual proceeding, and it would probably be quite an rrt if one were able tr take down some of the choice comments made by a young crrl throwrng her line rn double loops Oh you do dance drxrnely Dont you wrsh we could go on d r r l le this all nigh Meanwhile one foot is probably bein-1 completrly drsrhled by the size twelve and a h rlt' slippers of the one who is gurdinfr her through among, ind into the crowd like a horse tearing through th harnyard fence Frguratrvely speaking drneing rs the gentle gliding of young people to soft dreamy musr Literally speal ing dancing is hargrng into other eouples stepping on and being tepp d on to the mournful wail of the blues singer who was neyer really even dzstantlx acquainted with a note of music playing fhopstrcl s in one ot' her delightful arrangements of rt DIVERSE LUCK By R Griffith 37 It wr four o tloclc and time for the divers to come to the wharf They had been working, on the rll fated Moselle that had mysteriously sunk ju t out ide the harbor at Bedford in uly 1978 Ben Hutichson had been watehrng these drvers SIIICC they had strrted a week ago 'X the ship landed Clark Thomas one of the dryers came oyer to Ben and spoke This morning we went through all of the hold without tindrng anything that would show why the ship sank The air wast coming through so good so we quit until tlrrs rflernoon Slowy he sat down and ht his brrar pipe This afternoon we went into most of the st rte rooms It s queer how only one person could get out of hrs room and be saxed He sucked slowly on hrs brrar and pondered Only one person you know was saxed In one room I think rt was 736, there was a small preture of a young rrl Clark handed Ben a drrty and wet picture Ben grasped the photo and tears welled into his eager eyes At lrst I haye found some trace of my daughter, who I thought might have es-,aped with me the nrfrht the boat sank and now my lrttle children you have heard the story of Grandpa Ben and hrs lrttle daughter so run along to bed and dont forget to gargle with your Listerine and say your prayers Now trot along and I will wake you up in time to hear Fab Frlloway at 1' '40 tonight The tired, modern mother turns batk to the Parents Mapa ine and reads an article, The Correct VV'ay to Introduce Vitamins into your Fhrldren s Food ' :Z 4 , I - ' V 1 -Q . l V K' I 1. s r I: 4 za ' 5 g' , ' . . C y - - A - r I 5 . V l . ' V ' 1 , r ' . 'A ' ' 1. ' , ' s ' 1 ' , ' -' ', . ' . ' 1 ' . 2. zu , ' l ' V L i V l , .YI 'I ., ez , ' . ' K an wr i 4 ' t? ' ' r ' g ' QL -I e 1 .K 4 I' A. F I V V . . . . g , , 2 ' , .' . K e ' ' . . 1 M 1. A . .L . , Q H . K . Y S C , ' , V V v I Il L I V V4 -I . 'lIsn't the music just too wonderful, Charlie? It sounds just like the l-iid sister - . , , - , V , Q . . A .5 ' ' . . ' ' f . . . . ' s s . ' ' J , '. . , . ' ' ' . , - . . ' r 2 ' . i s r ' , . ' ., t, . ' X . '. ' . , ' ' , ' . r ' . ' , L- t I Y I I 4 st Y I K. ' s nl I V - , . 1 . . ! V , . . . ,. . - V . t . .r . . . . . . .. . . r r . . , , 'rc , ' . , A I ..- I g . i . .. . . , g ... . ' ' ' . D . is if it Ulf 255 if Pl! I , ' , ' 1 t r V . . . 1 , I -. I I ski' I L I ss V. - I I L .AI .1 . - 1. V . . ' ' 4 , z . . . J , 4,