Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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ENEUEH RAMP! Tramp! Tramp! comes the sound of marching feet . . . first in the procession of our English section come rows of proud, stately exclamation points, followed by roly-poly commas, colons, periods, and semicolons, with par- entheses and brackets scattered through the crowd . . . and what a task to keep them in their proper place! . . . this company is followed by hosts of nouns, pronouns, prepositions, verbs, adverbs, adjectives . . . next come a motley crew of hackneyed expressions, misused and mispro- nounced words, and several very battered looking adjectives known as cute,', good , and nice . . . close by walk a group led by Public Speaking who stops to explain the headaches of play- wright and producer, i.e. play writing, casting, practicing, play technique, costumes, make-up, properties . . . after seeing this fellow, Shakespeare seems to us like a mighty good guy, instead of just a great dramatist. Public Speaking's Chief Aide is Radio whose personal friends are terri- fying microphones and a stop watch, whose bitter enemy is Western Pennsylvanian Nasals . . . members of this group have a special privilege, the person who sticks his tongue out farthest Mrs. Seyler's future Garbos . . . Mrs. Turnblacer, Miss Jamison, and Miss Harper tea-ing . . . Peggy advises . . . Walking out? . . . What a deskful! . . . Mrs. Sarles on guard . . . One second before the bell.

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Eilcen's A's are art and adding , . . Fingers speed while Miss Wigton directs . . . Miss Brier demonstrates lining-up figures and columns. standards and procedures that are essential in acquiring and holding a business position . . . next come figures carrying pen, pencil, and ruler arranged in even columns by the Guides Debit and Credit and led by Major Black who must keep out of the red . . . here are Trial Balances that never balance . . . Profit and Loss Statements with always a loss . . . checks that always bounce . . . General Bookkeeping, a vocational fellow who designs to prepare students for posi- tions as bookkeepers andoffice clerks . . . here come twins: Commercial Geography-directing the route with product maps and magic films to lands of sugar and spice, of minerals and rubber, of fruits and graing and Commercial Law-keeping all within bounds, insisting that Business moves along in an orderly, dignified, and legal manner . . . tagging along are speeding figures, in orderly array, pouring from the adding machine and the mimeograph, and Commercial Arithmetic, counting the cost and working out budgets and interest and short cuts.

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1 flfxi , k..-- I. , - .t .asa Miss Weisen lein Using Language Skills . . . Teacher's pet? . . . Miss Campbell as Hamlet. gets the best grade . . . following these, a column of people leer at us as they pass, the group dreaded by every student, known simply as Themes To Be Written . . . we shudder and glance away, but our attention is drawn back by the sound of trumpets, and we see approaching a great army led by Julius Caesar . . . we are thrilled to see again the beautiful women and daring men met in such stories as ulvanhoen and Lady of the Lake . . . there are other old friends . . . ah! there are Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe, Edgar Allen Poe surrounded by a group of weird characters, the militant Miles Standish . . . now advances a great section of Shakespearean characters: Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Prospero, Miranda, and Puck . . . at the end of the line we find two great divisions, one includes the Ancient Mariner with his gray beard and glittering eyes, Gray's weary plowman, the wife of Bath, Silas Marner leading Eppie . . . in the grand finale of this parade come famous authors: Shakespeare, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Rupert Brooke, Masefield, and innumerable others . . . as they disappear from view, we feel a little sad but remember that from them we have acquired something which we can carry with us always, a greater sympathy for humanity and a greater love for beauty.