Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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This machine age . . . Ellis of the straight edge . . . Camera shy . . . Next yeai-'s furniture . . . On the carpet? AMMERS and chisels, saws and planes, paint and shavings, pencil and blueprints, sandpaper and glue full of noisy merriment parade through woodwork shop . . . masterpieces, all dressed up with their curves and knobs, glitter with a polished luster as they join the step of the procession . . . decorated end tables do their duty as they slave under the bookends and lamps . . . buzzing saws and knocking hammers join the chorus, and all who stand on the sideline and wait may receive some appreciation of wood design . . . Left! right! left! right! march through electric shop to the tune of the tiny shrill power of the hells, buzzers, and driving motors. In sharp zig-zag course Jimmy Kilowattn streaks up and down within the procession . . . lvlinkers and magnets, motors and generators, all make up our electric shop . . . strings of wire tie our electrical friends down so they can't march off from the parade . . . Sparks from Welders . . . blinding lights . . . red hot steel . . . purple goggles . . . screeching drills . . . cutting torches . . . noise . . . fire . . . these make up procession in the metal shop. ANU MANUAL WE 1

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HUM! EEUNUWES EEDLES, pins, patterns, and cloth . . . nee- dles, pins, patterns, and cloth . . . millions of yards passing by, of various sizes, colors, shapes!!! Onward they come, sweeping onward, steadily passing in line, overwhelming in their number and rows!!! Snip, snip, snip go the scissors!! Help! Pm becoming dizzy . . . Ummmmmm! What delicious odors! No, not spring, merely some of the many tempting scents that are wafted from the confines of Bl-IS,s kitchens and cookbooks . . . cookies, pies, cakes, salads, desserts, candy, food--food-Food!! . . . Now what? They look like dishpans, dish cloths, and dishes . . . knives, forks, spoons strutting down the avenue! . . . what has happened to this crowd of people? Some on improvised stretchers, some with arm-slings of different types, some wearing chest or shoulder bandages . . . that chap who looks as if he were wearing a Hallowe'en mask is only protecting his injured head uuntil the services of a physician can be secured . . . here are others with injured hands calling First Aid . . . calling First Aid . . . Oh, see whatis coming now! Many Magnet covers which have originated in our Art Departments followed by multicolored pastels, portraits, etchings, architectural and dress designs parade from the brush of talented students. Vogue . . . Careful, boys . . . Mrs. Cross-K. P .... But what makes it run? . . Hold that pose!

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Ellillli PROTRACTOR as drum major whirling a closed compass as his baton leads this division of the parade . . . following are the A, B, C,s of simple Algebra pursued by -l-, -, X, + while the : sign sings throughout . . . waltzing after them are those cute little fractions like jumbled-up men . . . a new formation appears-a tri- angle, a square, and polygeometric figures . . . parallels, intersecting lines, acute angles, 90 degree angles, 180 degree angles pass by . . . now the marching formulas and equations carrying banners reading, uRemember usi' . . . next in the parade we see the long drawn out fractions of second year Algebra . . . then come large and small statement problems carrying banners of if this is so . . .H or find the square root off, etc .... close behind this mass of scrambled figures comes a box, a prism, and a cylinder, bearing propositions from solid geometry . . . graphs strut along with ratio and proportion . . . last are the sines and cosines with General Logarithms marshalling them along for fear one will fly off at a tangent . . . ERE march the future scientists of the good old U. S. A. The parade of science at Butler High School is very highly specialized, you know, in a gruesome sort of way. Mr. Atwell and Miss Critchlow shove that chemistry down our Chemistry test blues . . . Robison at attention . . . Smilin' Sallie . . . Purveyors of a, b, and c . . . Didn't anyone do his home work, Miss Critchlow? . . . Study period . . . Writing up lab experiments . . . T. N. T. UD , . . Looking for the amoeba.