Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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14 THE SENIOR MAGNET STAFF Kditor-in-Chief—RALPH GOSSARD Assistant Editor—Sylvia Ralston Literary Editors—Hazel Brown, Mary Ruff. Alumni Editor—Ottie Shaner. Athletic Editor—Ira McKee. Exchange Editor—Jessie MacDonald. School Notes—Elizabeth Ramsey. Business Manager—Harry Graham. First Ass’t Business Manager—Richard Holman. Second Ass’t Business Manager—Russell June. A c . . CLASS REPORTERS A Senior -Orville Bricker. A Sophomore—Josephine Bailey. B Senior— B Sophomore— A Junior Georgia Allen. A Freshman—Jettie Poole. B Junior—Anna Kogler. B Freshman— c. TERMS Sixty cents per year, payable in advance; ten cents per copy. Address all communications of a business nature to the Business Manager; Exchanges, Contributions, etc., to the Editor Kathryn Douthett. 'I HE MAGNET published monthly, except July, August and September. Entered as second-class matter December 18, 1907, at th postoffice at Butler, Pa., under the Act of Longress of March 3, 1879. Wqz nfor Magnet SENIOR MAGNET COMMITTEE Ralph Gossard, Chairman | Literary Dept. Mildred Rowen Inez Dougan Mary Doerr. Locals Grace Oswoi.d, Write-ups Harry Orville Bricker, Athletics rs “Punch Bold’ Grace Oswald) « ,. Inez Dm.can M iss Houston, Faculty Adviser Graham, Jr., Bus. Mgr. Vol. .18 FEBRUARY, 1919 “M r H—-■ i H ■■ ■ h ■ ■ 1|—ib—,,— EDITORIALS Ralph Gossard No. 4 Good-bye, dear old Butler High. We are leaving your doors for the last time, and are ready to enter our places in the world after being under your care for four years . It is hard to believe that it is four years since we became “Freshies.” It seems but a short time since we so proudly marched up your steps. We did not seem to see any one for we were students of Butler High School. We had then attained what we had looked forward to during our grammar school years. But our ideals have changed, since we have spent four years in Butler High School, and we are now about to begin to strive after new ideals. For, no matter how good we become, there is always something better. We are now prepared to take up the undertaking of that better life,

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THE SENIOR MAGNET 13 Be a Colonel With an Eagle on Your Shoulder Than a Private With a Chicken on Your Knee?” “Wee, Wee, Marie,” I replied. You remember “Nathan,” the kid who lived “Down By the Old Mill Stream.” Well, he ‘went West’ the other day. I was with him at the last and he talked of no one but his “Mother.” I suppose the official word will reach home before this letter and there will be “A Blue Service Flag Turned to Gold.” Someone told us before we sailed that we’d “Find Dixieland in France” and we sure did—in the form of the Y. M. C. A. The fellows gather there and make some noise. They usually start with “Some Sunday Morning” and end with “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.” One ‘dough-boy’ aroused my sympathy a few weeks ago. We were all in the ‘Y’ having a time and someone began to sing “I Wonder Who's There While I'm Gone.” He began to look sort of down-hearted and I undertook to ‘kid’ him. ‘That’s all right,’ he said, ‘the last night I was home “That Old Sweetheart of Mine” and I went to “The Strutters’ Ball.” We sure had some time. I asked her to “Wait, Hope and Pray Until I Return” and she promised that I would not be “Forgotten.” ’ ‘That’s the boy,’ I told him, ‘ “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile.” ’ We studied French for awdiile. It sure is great stuff. “When the Yankee Doodle Boys Learn to Parley-Vous Francais” they make some hit. I heard one trying to gurgle the other day. It sounded like a mixture of “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” and “It’s Never Too Late to Be Sorry.” I didn’t know what he was trying to say and I don’t think he did either. I had a great dream the other night. I dreamed that “The Great Red Dawn Was Shining” and I was “On the Way to Home, Sweet Home.” The “Indiana” band was playing “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” and I heard you whisper softly, “Kiss Me Again.” Some dream! ! Well, “Katv,” “Keep the Home Fires Burning” until “After the War is Over” and I’m “Homeward Bound” on “The Good Ship Mary Ann” and “When Dreams Come True” we’ll have the happiest “Hearts of the World.” Hoping that “Your Lips Are No Man’s Land But Mine,” 1 remain, As ever, Your, “LONG BOY.”

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THE SENIOR MAGNET 15 prepared through the aid of the Faculty in B. H. S. A number of us will take up our places in the world at once. But all of us who can will seek more education at some college or university. For, where is there better preparation toward success than in education, first in the high school, then in the college? Of course, where the college is impossible there is much to be learned that can be found better outside of the college. So we shall make the best of life wherever we are. As a word to those who shall succeed us, I add: Do your duty while in the high school and make the most of the opportunity offered to prepare you for your life’s work and you will look back upon your life in the high school with pride. Although we, the members of the class of February ’19, have had many tests of our ability, such as difficult lessons, stiff examinations, and many long hours of solid study, we shall always recall with pleasure our four years spent in B. H. S.. And we hope that the memory of our stay, there, will not die out in the minds of those with whom we worked. We, the members of the class of February ’19, zvish to express our thanks to the members of the Faculty for the kindly interest they have taken in us during the last four years. And especially to Misses Houston and Orr who aided so materially with our Class Night program and “Magnet.” , UN yv ... v,; ■ •