Butler High School - Butlerite Yearbook (Butler, MO)

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Alumni -lqi-1.-. ' ln the year 1883, four students graduated from Butler High School. Those students bore the distinction of being the first class to graduate from an institution which has rapidly and steadily progressed, year after year, until today it is generally acknowledged to be one of the best high schools in this section of the state. Q Of the third class of '85, one member, W'in-nie ,CPeachj Pharis, still resides near Butler and is proud of the fact that each of her children, two song and two daugh- ters, are graduates of Butler High School. Since that first year, the graduating classes have varied in siie from two to thirty- one. The class of '18 will add- forty-one members to the list ofthe graduates who daily pay tribute to their Alma Mater. if The Alumni of Butler High School now has a total membership of 491 names. p Nineteen of our members are now in the service of Uncle Sam, risking all for Liberty and Justice---edoing their share in the struggle to make the World a fit place to live in. They are: George Hupp, Elmer Kinney, Ashby Wayland, Wendell Atkeson, LaVern,e Holloway, George Caruthers, Clyde Sells, 'VValter Catterlin, Sam Armstrong, Gaylord Vantrees, Roger Ely, Harry lfVyatt, Ofred Jackson, Gardner Smith, Everett Deweese, Lorraine Kinney, Frank Ludwick, William Allen, and Wendell McHenry. i Two of the bravest and best of our number, Elliott Walker-and John Dykman, were in the service of their country ready to fight for the cause so- dearuto all true Americans, but it was His Will that they should be taken before they should enter the field of battle. It is with deepest grief, and yet with pride that We mention the noble sacrifice of these brave hearted young men. A E To the students of Butler High School, the Alumni wish to express its undying interest in their welfare and its implicit faith in their effort and determination to make Lhe world proud of the men and women who were boys and girls in dear old B. H. S. ' BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI. IOSEPHINE SIMPSON, Secretary. Sixty-five

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Z! n k ellis - -i Mr. Gorrell: CTO new pupilb-- How do you like B. H. S. as a whole? New Pupil: VVorst hole I was ever in. Ernest Evens: Good looks run in our family, but they ran clear past me. ' Miss Adams: QTo chorus classj- Now you must take your breath in the right places. In this song see 1f you canit hold your breath until you get to God. Latin Translations: , I Ruth Kern: While the state was trying to escape, Orgetorix executed his right arm. I ' Marie Stayton: HVVIICI1 they met him on the march they cast themselves at Caesar's foot soldiers. In the Algebra class the pupils were violently shaking their hands in the air, eager to recite. i'VVcll, said Miss Johnson, HI suppose we will have to fight to see who gets the E's. . Kinley Simpson: By gum, that's one time I'm out of arfightf' Miss Chastain was explaining the advantages of having the-clocks set up an hour: You see, it will give us time in the evening to Work and study and- Yes,i' interrupted Emerson, 'if you get the kids to bed in timef' Ola Ayers: CI11 Review classj- If a man earns a dollar'n-a-half a day, how much would he earn in two days? Helen Clark: tiQi1icklyj-- Why, three dollars, of course. Ola: No, he wouldn't. I-Ie'd get four dollars. Helen: I don't see where she gets that, Mr. Henderson. Ola: VVhy, simple enough. If he gets a dollar in one half of a day, in two days he'd get four dollars. ' ' Claude McComb: Mr, Gorrell, I think I didn't deserve a zero on that test. Mr. Gorrell: I didn't either, but I couldn't give you less. Lola: ':Mr. Gorrell, do you think a chicken three weeks old is old enough to eat? Mr. Gorrell: UNO, I think they should be about two months old. Lola: How do you expect it to live, then? Freshman: There was a man here to see you, Mr. Gorrellf' Mr. Gorrell: Did he have a bill? t Freshie: No, just a plain nose. Miss Chastain: CTO Herman Hendersonj-- Herman, what was Luther's idea of Salvation? A - i v Herman: 'tHe thought that priests should have the right to marry. Miss Chastain: Well, do you call that Salvation? ' Sixty-seven