Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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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.

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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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Whafs a bit of chatter between biologists? . . . Shoot, brother, shoot . . . Yingling proves the point. throats until we see in ions, hear in atoms, and talk in equations. The laboratory is sufficiently equipped to keep every student guessing about the future fexplosion or no explosionl. Also to keep us guessing we have Mr. Herron and Mr. Palmer at bat for physics, they are making hits all the time with such things as What goes up must come downu or wfhe volume of I-LO taken up by a bathroom baritone is equal to the volume of the gas escaping from the clown- stairs boilerf, and other little items that involve deep thinking and heavy snoring . . . Talking about science, we must not neglect old Lizzie, the standby for the biology classes. Yes, Lizzie is involved in a science, believe it or not, sheis also involved with Mr. Nicholas, who sees that she is properly dressed and fed the right vitamins fA, B, C, D, E, and Xl. For a pastime Mr. Love and Mr. McMillan put grasshoppers and snakes in girl,s hair! These three biologists easily take care of the future biologists who seem to be waiting expectantly to see the outcome of the war between the amoeba and the paramecia . . . Star-gazing is also included in this procession of science. Of course, you think you know enough about the stars land the Moonl but Miss Cole can show you a few tricks fabout astronomyl. She can tell you how the Big Bear sat on Cassiopeais chair and drank out of the Big Dipper, how Saturn gave Jupiter a run for his money, why the sun shines, and who eats the cheese on the moon.