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

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THE BUPTONIAN MOUVTAINS By Leon Edgerton 7 MOLIIXITIITS are a lrstmg remembrance of the great f,l1t1ers wluth crept over mu h of the earth 1 long UIUC wo They cell us of the lands of annuals and the cond1t1ons of a remote period Mount u ms uc about the only thmg that furnlshes tenery From 1 mountam one can see lor hlty nules around In the full the mountams lre beautrful The sun flashes hulk colors of red yellow green and almost any other color They mre the playgrounds of wlld lIllI1'1lS Deer are leapxnj, gracefully about squxrrels jump nnnbly from lnnb to lnnh and there are countless blrds lf studymg pyranuds ol Egypt we only have to look out a wmdow and we can see 9O!llCfl1lHQ exen 1re1ter pyrannds older than any manmlde ones They seem they try to start 15,1111 as huve gulhes show upturned earth and uprooted trees th lt have started down These natural pyramxds are what people come from CICIC5 and plams to look at and get thelr mllldb otf the monotony of seeing plams and the rush of cars ID a crty As I look at them I wonder what they could tell of rf they could talk They haxe weatherel great storms have hurled wlnds back wlth deflance and showed that they were l g to hold themr place. Cf course man can make them dhgraceful by cuttxng off their scenery and malung great quarrres ln them to get marble gramte and llmestone But man doesnt thmk of what he 15 undolnv just the thxngs he IS lS domg furnlshmg wood for lumber and marble for blllldll'l 5 People wrll some day regret the destroyxng of the scenery on mountams They would gxve almost anytlung to be able to see the mountams as they are now PURPLE FINCHES By Conme Harrlngton The lxttle purple fmches Have come to town again They are slttlng on the wmdow slll And tappmg on the pane Daddy calls them red bn-ds Mother calls them rose Granny says thexr color Is lrke lung Georffe s robes Bla lc or yellow Green or brown Its all the same to me I th1nl-r they are the dearest bxrds I ever yet d1d see They play around out on the roof And sxt down 1n the sun And sometxmes smg a joyous song That sounds so full of fun When daddy s car stands by the door They come and warm therr toes, They wonder whence xt comes And where on earth xt goes HSY t bo 1 'N , ' 3 Q 'z' . ' Q L L V Kb . V- h I T S I T h 4 l'!,'LA' ' 'f . 'Q 's' . . , I fs.' '.v-c- D K, l'x2, .V ' I 's 1. . Q ' ' ' y 1 V v - 5 5 j' : ' zz' 1 . ' Y ' , ' ' . . , E Q . . . 'I Q l ' . , h , 1 ' . . 'k '- g . g Y. 'r . . f 1 x f as if a sea had rolled a huge wave toward us and it had suddenly stopped lsometimes pl ly' , . 5 '. . , . , as L .' . J. . 1 , ' 1 I l ' 1. r r , x l - V T' V sa I A s 1 , 11 V Q , .I . . , C r. Q h 9 - - 1 l V 1 as ' 9 ' ' , U. 5 4 S L- . ' , 38 . . ' ' 3 Q ' L K l A , ,. . x F ' C a s s ' . 1 ! . . ,

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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,

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THE BURTONIAN A DINNER PARTY By B Swift 35 A very touchy subject to say the least One doesn t get round a dmner party by merely saymg We had a gorgeous tune Oh no a full descr1pt1on of who was there what they wore and what they sa1d has to be mcluded When you hear the words dinner party you think of spotless damask sparklmg crystal and shmmg sxlver beautlful gowns cover1ng I J lovely UD lacl1esU who st glasslly through lorgnettes and immaculate gentlemen stlff m dlnner clothes You are apt to forget the spxcy comments whlspered behlnd napkxns or the tCdI'lI1g apart of people not present whlch IS apt to happen at any party The hostess IS raglng because the lady on her husband s nght will not talk to anyone else The guest of honor forgot her bracelets and 15 telhng the assembled company that It 15 perfectly absurd of her Madame IS at home In fact she 15 so much so she wxshes to be elsewhere Dlnner parties are xrksome especially when you have to mute all the dumpy people 1n the world Madame stares stonlly Her husband re enters hrs shell nnmedntely The mam course IS served That fat person eats eyerythmg and falrly scrapes her plate She looks pOS1tlN6ly ravenous On the other s1de of he table a xery thm to be a broxled lobster but on second glance one recognxzes xt as a man Strange thxngs these humans After dmner the conversatlon lags The lady who forgot her bracelets has exhausted her stock of jewelry and exeryone knows exactly how much each article Cost The lobster man seems to get redder and redder He jerks excxtely at h1s collar and fmally collapses rn a chaxr by an open wxndow Madame IS not at home not to anyone She IS ln her boudo1r recuperatmg Ho hum' TACT B3 R Lockwood 35 Tact 15 the basls of personality It lg acqulred by few and desxred hy many but It IS absolutely essentnl to the successful busmess man C0lIgCf1lZll and amlable persons possess xt That httle word tact spells acluevement and helps one out of embarrasslng sltuatxons By just usxng a small amount of dlscretlon no one need hurt others fedmgs Llmxted Ilattery or praise IS a form of dlscreetness that nearly always gets its man because of the umxersal egotlstlcal nature of manklnd Fmesse 15 often more valuable than money and It 19 a necessary Qll1lllTL1flOI1 ln the art of makxng and retammg money and frlencls A more prosalc way of quallfymg tact 15 descrlblng xt as the priceless something that goes to make a charnnng and understandlng character RAIN B5 Ida Balch 38 Dxd you ever he awake at mght To hsten to the ram? It spatters and xt spatters And then begms agaln Dad you ever hear quite clearly The soft words of the ram? It seems to always say to me Now go to sleep agam - , . I 5 , 3 . , . , , 9 Q A 5 A . tx . T' V -r A 1 - V, l V , ' ' A , ' ' ' 7 . . ' I . are , l V . I . - iv . . . Y . ' . ' t . ' ' , angular person sits, discontentedly, picking at her food. Next to her is what looks , . , . . . 1 K . . . ' h ' 9 I V . . .1 . K . 4 . - 1 x -A L . l 3 ,