Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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THE NUGGET Student Council Secretary President-----------------Harry Haenigsen ---------Leo Rowe Treasurer Burton Lamscha Mildred Gory Donald De Lazier Richard Rowe Margaret Rowe Albert Falk Clarence Decker Leo Rowe HE Student Council is still in its infancy in Butler High, having first seen the light on Feb. 18, 1918. Since that time it has been instrumental in solving class and school problems. As in other schools, its primary purpose is to bring about some kind of organization and regulation be- tween the classes and societies. It consists of the presidents of all the classes, recognized clubs and societies, and managers of all athletic teams, along with one faculty member. The president of the Senior Class automatically becomes presi- dent of the Council. The other officers are elected by the body. The faculty mem- ber is chosen by the supervisor to repre- sent him. Definite written plans for any activity must be submitted to the Council by the representative of the organization desiring to hold such activity. The Council acts upon these plans and has the power of ac- cepting. changing or rejecting them as they think advisable. If the plans are found to be acceptable they are passed to the faculty member, who reserves the power of passing or vetoing them. If he T .yyi'-J finds them objectionable he must return the plans to the person first submitting them, within one week, accompanying them with his full reason why they are not satisfactory. The representative may then change them to suit the require- ments of the faculty member, and resub- mit them to the Council. Permission to make any expenditure must be secured from the Council. Judge-Five years for stealing $200 from the post office. Prisoner—Golly, please go a little easy, Jedge, ah only went in there to git a piece of paper to write mah address fo a frien’, but it wuz so dog gone dark ah couldn’t see what ah wuz doin’. I may be a GOAT, but you can’t KID me. Captain of Colored Company—Eyes right! Looka yeah, niggah. did you hear whut ah done said? Ah said, ‘Eyes right.’ “Yessa, Capt’n, vessa, youse right. Who in thunder said you wuzn’t?” 25

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THE NUGGET old crowd. One, Arthur Worden, is now a Professor of Psychology there; and about a month ago I read an editorial by Caroline Kretzler on Universal Woman Suffrage” in one of the largest circulated magazines published. Butler was signted about ten o'clock, and a few moments later we made our way through the crowded main thoroughfares. Opposite the railroad station a placard reading thus, being above the door: William Dugan Dancing Parlours Rates reasonable. Classes afternoon and evening. We tried to enter, but the door was locked. I resolved to return in the after- noon, but unfortunately did not have time. “Oh, here is a drug store,” John ex- claimed; “let’s get cooled off.” While we were waiting for the order a very attrac- tively dressed woman entered. Her face looked familiar, but for the moment I was unable to place her. Then K occurred to me that 1 was looking at Florence Post. She greeted us cordially and invited us to her home at the Rectory for luncheon. Gladly did we accept her kind invitation. There I learned that Martha Kayhart and Leonora Tintle had become foreign mis- sionaries; Martha to China, and Leonora to the South Sea Islands. Florence asked me whether.I had kept in touch with the girls who lived in Oak- land. She was greatly surprised to learn that Ruth Sheffield had become a Red Cross nurse, beloved by all the soldiers for whom she cared. At present she is a doc- tor’s assistant in a hospital near Phila- delphia. Elizabeth Muller has an experiment sta- tion in New Brunswick. Her specialty is strawberry cultivation. Myrtle Bush is a European buyer for the old John Wanamaker firm. In between trips she lives in luxury in her summer home on Long Island. I asked Florence whether she knew that Hazel Ryerson had become a fashionable modiste. She promised to visit her estab- lishment on Fifth Avenue sometime in the near future. “But what has become of John Adkins?” “John is a high official in the Rubber Company, but it is whispered about that he manages a matrimonial agency, she told me. Edna Coil, it seems, is a demonstrator for the Studebaker cars, and many a pleas- ant afternoon she has riding about in her own little runabout. An enormous leather concern has learned the ability of Minnie O’Dell and she is now the secretary. Caspar Petrone owns a men’s depart- ment store in Newark. His specialty, 1 am told, is hosiery and ties. in the afternoon we visited the tractor factory of Lamscha, Rowe and Company. After their extensive course in Rutgers they bought out a small concern, and so improved the model of the tractor that within a few years a very nourishing busi- ness grew up. The works were immensely interesting, but we weie unable to see the heads of the firm, for both were away on a short business trip. “ir it were Monday we might stop at the school to make a call on Helen O’Reilly, the p.incipal,” Florence said. She is very popular with the pupils, and I am sure is not tormented by them as our faculty sometimes were by us. We did, however, stop at the public library. Ada La Roe is the librarian. The building, both exterior and interior, is very charming. I was glad to see such a line edifice in the city. Charlotte Davey, the great emotional actress of the movies, was to play that night in an exceptionally good picture. I was sorely tempted to remain, but I knew it was my duty to return to my home in Chicago. Isabelle Johnson is the leading pharma- cist in Butler. Directly opposite is the ice cream and confectionery store of Eva Stewart. During the summer months there is great, though friendly, rivalry be- tween the stores. The time flew miraculously. At four o’clock we started on our return trip. I wish it might be possible to meet all of the thirty-two, but surely I must be satis- fied in just hearing of their fates and for- tunes. Not one failure of all the students of ’18. Successes for every one. I felt that I had spent a very delightful and profitable time, which would furnish food for thought for many days to come. 21

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THE NUGGET Athletic Association President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer .Burton Lamscha -Clarence Decker Harry Haenigsen .Donald DeLazier HIS year has been a rather active one for the Athletic Association. At meetings held a short time after school started, sub-treas- urers for the different classes were elected and these immediately got to work. A set of boxing gloves were purchased for the use of the members of the association. Also work was started on the field in back of the school, the plan being to clear it off, grade it and make a baseball diamond and running track. Up to this time, the level- ing of the field has not been completed, but a good start has been made and it is to be hoped that sometime in the near future Butler High School will have an athletic field of which to be proud. Another important thing done this year by the association was the granting of uni- versal suffrage to the female members of this High School. This was adopted after some discussion by the male members and carries with it all the regular privileges of a member, including the payment of the monthly dues. Money has been brought into the treasury by the A. A. Dance, held at the Emanuel Einstein Library, at Pompton Lakes, and by a plan suggested by some of the Seniors, that of selling tags for admis- sion to baseball games. These have in- creased the amount paid in as dues. Taken all in all, this has been a very successful year for the Athletic Associa- tion. X Letters have been earned by the follow- ing members of the school teams: TRACK TEAM—Leo Rowe, Burton Lamscha, Albert Falk, Richard Rowe, Harold Dobbs. BASEBALL TEAM—Harold Decker, Donald DeLazier, Albert Falk. David Fred- ericks, Harry Haenigsen. Burton Lamscha, Harold Randall, Leo Rowe, Richard Rowe, Whitfield Sisco, Donald Whetham. BASKETBALL TEAM Donald DeLa- zier, Harold Decker, David Fredericks, Albert Falk, Richard Rowe. “Look here, conductor! Isn’t there any place when I can sleep?” “Don’t know of any unless you want to go and lie in the road bed.” Science Question: What is the use of a bean? And name its principal parts. There was a young teacher called Jane, Who taught with her whole might and main. The kids learned so much That their heads darn near bust, ’Cause they were too small for their brain. 2G