Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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SENIOR CLASS SONG New Senior Class v.-e must part, Let one thought remain in our heart, That through our lives we'11 recall, The place we loved best of all. So loudly our praises we sing, Through the ages may they ring, forever, We must all dry our tears now and say, Gcod-bye to all our high-school days, Burt High ferever! ---Sharon Hann (Tune of Stars and Stripes Forever) Class Officers Russell Patterson-----------President Luella V eiske--------------Vice President James Rath- Treasurer

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EASY MONEY By Austin Goetz The class of '4C presented their Senior Class play May 16 17, 1940. Cast Sidney Holbrook--------- Claire Holbrook--------- Stephen Holbrook-------- John Holbrook----------- Mrs. Christine Sheridan- Marilyn Sheridan-------- Happy Wilson---------- Georgia Sanders--------- Edith Blair------------- Barrat------------------ Susanne (A French maid)- -Frank Becker •Luella Weiske -Russell Patterson -Duane Arend •Joyce Graham •Leta Olson •Donald Hammerstrom •Viola Trenary •Mary Jean Rachut •Wallace Hawcott -Thelma' Bristow Synopsis Sunshine plays an important part in the glamour of Southern California, but when two students, Claire and Sidney, of a California University decide to marry and keen it a secret from their parents and relatives, sun- shine merely adds to their difficulty. Easy Money sets them up in luxury but it cannot buy consistent explanations when their dear ones drop in for a weekend and so the complications pile up until they feel as if they were at the bottom of a football scrimmage. Claire Holbrook finds it necessary to Impersonate a boy in order to explain a difficult situation of her own making. Claire no sooner becomes the handsome boy than her mother walks in to spend the weekend. Frantically she switches from boy to girl. Suddenly Sidney's uncle - Stephen Holbrook's brother - appears from Hawaii to see Sidney's new' wife. Uncle John has been the financial mainstay of the young married couple and has come through handsomely when Sid.ney informed him of the marriage. John and Stephen Holbrook have not spoken to one another for fifteen years and now they meet. itn Uncle John waiting to greet Sidney's wife - and Claire frantically trying to keep her identity a secret from Sidney's father - a.nd Clair's mother demanding all sorts of explanations, you can imagine what a dilimma Claire is in. Claire unravels this tangled skein very nioely - and everything ends happily in their favor.

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SENIOR POEM Today decides tomorrow----- Today someone guides our stumbling feet, As we decide what we should do, Tomorrow vre must climb the peak, Our goa.1 is reached, md we are through. Today someone takes our grasping hands, The four years of work have come and gone, Tomorrow we take a different path, Each Senior meets the coming daVm. Today someone helps our stuttering lips, To share with us our joy a.nd sorrow, Tomorrow we must help ourselves, TODAY DECIDES TOMORROW --Sharon Mann Senior Colors,..,........Blue White Senior Flower White Carnation