Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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THK SENIOR MAGNET 7 ■fir ... Editorials... Farewell James Eisler The journey of our life, as well as anyone’s life, is along a road of many windings and turnings. Sometimes, we find it extremely difficult to look either forward or backward—forward, because we can see only such a little way beyond our present position; backward, because of tears blinding our eyes. Our high school days may have seemed long; but when we glance back over them, the road was short, after all. Ever since we began our educational activities, we have looked forward to the time when we would be seniors, then to graduation from high school. We have reached the goal of our ambition. We have worked for it and dreamed for it as the realization of our hopes and desires. For four years, we have traveled together, gathering what we thought to be good; now, we must separate and go different ways. We are full of hope and eager for the great world in which we must take up our life work. Only one word remains to be said— farewell.” We must go different ways, to do what we know not. As we leave, we go with the wish that as many as find it possible will complete their high school education. The four years will pass quickly; and having attained that goal, they will find the effort well worth while. Which Way? Frances Campbell To every man there opened a way and a way and a way And every man decideth the way his soul shall go. Some take the high way and some take the low; While in between on the misty flats, tlx rest drift to and fro; For to every man there openeth a high way and a low. And every man determineth the way his soul shall go. Today, the ways lie open before us. We must decide the way we are to follow or drift with the current. Some one has said that we do not always choose between the worst and the best but often between the good and the best. As we look at those who have chosen, we realize how many drift along in the current. It is difficult to group people by their apparent successes. At

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6 THE SENIOR MAGNET BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL 1 THE RAINBOW CHASER 3 DEDICATION 4 EDITORIALS 7 LITERARY 11 Suds—Felix Rosenthal .................................. 12 Lest We Forget—Anonymous 14 Aspiration—HenJren Llewellyn .......................... 17 Patsy—Dorothy Sljcef .................................. 18 Youth—Grace Rhodaberger ............................... 20 Two Unclaimed Ships—Merle Hughes ...................... 21 Advice to Freshmen—Alice W diner ...................... 24 Mrs. Snow’s Ambition—Duira Baldinger .................. 25 Sonnet On a Shooting Star—Alice Wellner ............... 27 A Rural Romance—Catherine Marinaro .................... 28 On Cramming For Examinations—Margaret Hildebrand 31 The Wrong Package—Edward Brown ........................ 32 Ideal—Grace Rhodaberger ............................... 33 Chinese Faith—Joan Groutt ............................. 34 Grandad and the Good Old Days—Harold D. Leavitt 37 Adieu to Butler High—Gertrude Davis 39 Lucky Poison—Anonymous 40 The Water Boy—Esther Von Krogh 44 SENIORS ................................................... 47 SENIOR MAGNET STAFF 75 SKITS ..................................................... 76 ACTIVITIES 97 ADVERTISEMENTS ............................................113 HUMOR .....................................................115

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8 THE SENIOR MAC.NET first, we are caught by those who stand in the lime-light. Then as we classify the drifters, we discover we have not picked out all the high souls. These are not always the famous ones, but they who are achieving or have achieved their set goal by high aims and unstinted labors. We are young, eager, and impatient. Inspired by the event of our Commencement, we feel we must take that way which will bring us lasting success. In the days to come, amidst the competition and many other opposing forces, it will be impossible to succeed unless we have a goal which we desire with all our being. Let us choose with the consciousness that we may aim as high as we are willing to labor. For to every wan there openeth a high way and a low, And every wan determine!h the way his soul must go.” A Plea For Individuality Duira Baldinger Down deep in the heart of each one of us is a strange indefinable something which poets call the divine spark.” It is called by various names, individuality, personality, or even, by some scientists, the reaction of the nervous system to environment. Astounding, isn’t it, how such cold, scientific words are able to destroy the enchantment of the mystery which veils the human soul? The romanticist who wishes to remain a romanticist in these days of stern realism must, by sheer will-power, keep a firm hold on his imagination. We of this modern day have succeeded almost phenomenally in hiding this individuality. We conceal our true reactions beneath a crust of mass thinking, catch phrases, and fashionable cynicism. It is almost trite to say again that one of the pet fallacies of our age is that to be clever one must be cynical. We brand as a mild maniac the one who dares to assent his true self and scorns conventional manners, custom, and thought. Yet, we find that the man who succeeds in making a name for himself in the world today is the man who has always stood out as an individual, an individual who is not ashamed of his eccentricities, who is not ashamed to look at his fellowmen squarely and say, I am as I am. You may try to pour me into your mold, but1' you will not succeed in destroying my real self.” In the year 1900, there was graduated from one of our smaller eastern colleges, an awkward, ungainly youth who was made the butt of the majority of the jokes of his classmates. The clubs on the campus shunned him. The girls of the school laughed at him. He was, in the simple phraseology of youth, queer. Today, that youth is considered one of the most brilliant law-