Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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 MANUAL TRAINING SHOP DOMESTIC SCIENCE KITCHEN

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Who’s Who Say It With Music........................................................Orchestra Absent...........................................................Written Work The Sunshine of Your Smile......................................Harry Padgett Tuck Me to Sleep................................................ Harold Williams Do You Ever Think of Me?................................Kitchen after a food sale I Wonder if You Still Care for Me?.........................Chemistry laboratory Wandering Home..........................................From a basketball game Grieving for You.................................................................A gymnasium My Man........ ..................................................Edmund Burke Three Little Maids.........................................Mae, Sadie, and Alma Here, There, and Everywhere..................................................Alice Tintle Keep It Dark...........................................................The bus We Never Grow Old.....................................................The faculty It’s Your Carriage That Counts.................................Physical training Mystery ............................................................. Our future Don’t You Want to Take Me?...............................................Textbooks Two Little Dimples............................................................Miss Kelly Slow and Easy.............................................................Lawrence Provost Whispering.... Senior class It s All Over Now.........................................................Homework •Tust a Wearyin’ for You.......................................... Washington trip Pity Me................................................A Senior girl in assembly Two s a Company Dorothy and Marion Good-Bye....................................................................... H g Do You Tkink There Will Ever Be A Time Wh en Harry Padgett will stop talking about baseball? Every Senior will have English home- work in on time? B. H. S. will have a “gym”? Anybody can out-cheer Mr. Crooks? Lawrence Provost will weigh 100 pounds? Harold Williams will spend a day in school without dozing? Every Senior will have made a suc- cess in life? Mr. Walker will wear a hat in cold weather? William McCue will be the High School cheer leader? We shall regret that we ever went to B. H. S.? A class will not need a teacher to keep it straight? The radio will take the place of teach- ers? The expression “The Cat’s Me-ow” will die out in B. H. S.? James Lyons will realize that curiosity once killed a cat? Gladys will go anywhere without “Butch”? A week will pass without somebody’s falling down the stairs? Mae Roach will wear something be- sides sweaters? Carrie Whitty will eat a lunch? The Juniors will admit that the prom of ’21 was better than theirs? Paterson High will forgive Butler for that defeat they suffered in basketball ? Alice Tintle will stop working? Miss Travell will stop using big words? We shall forget the mistakes we made in B. H. S.? Another class will surpass the class of ’22 in athletic achievements? We shall be able to distinguish the teachers from the students?

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1921-March. of Events-1922 JUNIOR PROM The Y. W. C. A. was transformed into a bower of laurel dotted with gay balloons on the evening of May 20, 1921, when the class of ’22 held their Junior Prom. An arbor of laurel at one end of the hall screened the musicians, the Clef Colored Orchestra, from Broadway. During the intermission, members of the orchestra entertained with singing, while a committee of Freshman girls, in cap and apron, served refreshments. The guests received dainty favors of Kewpie graduates, bluebirds, butterflies, miniature bud vases with May flowers, and tiny candlesticks, made by the class under the capable direction of Miss Lyon. THE PAGEANT A unique feature of the commence- ment exercises of 1921 was “A Pageant of Ye Olden Time,” presented on the lawn of Mr. Charles Wilson on Tues- day afternoon, June 21. Members of the entire school participated in the pageant, under the direction of Miss Lyon, who planned and costumed prac- tically the whole affair. The story cen- tered about the coming of spring, and the crowning of the May Queen. Old Man Winter was driven away by groups of elves and fairies, robins and blue- birds, and other harbingers of spring. Then came the May queen and her court, followed by peasant folk who watched the crowning of their queen, and the dancing and singing in her honor. CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT On the afternoon of December 22 a very delightful entertainment was given in the Butler Opera House by the Senior Class. The hall was attractively deco- rated, so that it had a very Christmas- like atmosphere. There was not only a very good showing of the school pupils at the entertainment, but also of the parents of the pupils. The program presented was very commendable, and was enjoyed by everyone who was there. Several Christmas tableaux were pre- sented, accompanied by appropriate carols from an unseen quartette. Then followed a dramatized version of Dick- ens’ “Christmas Carol,” featuring Paul Ward as the iron-hearted Scrooge. After the entertainment Santa Claus appeared and distributed a present to every member of the faculty. At the conclusion of the program the High School Orchestra furnished music for dancing. INCREASED ENROLLMENT OF HIGH SCHOOLS Everywhere high schools and colleges are reporting increased enrollment, showing as never before the interest in higher education. The Butler High School has been no exception to this gen- eral rule, and has shown for the past three years a very large increase in the enrollment of pupils. With a normal enrollment of slightly over 200 before the war, it dropped be- low that number during 1918-19. The next year it increased to 227. Last year an increase of 24 brought the number far above the highest previous enroll- ment in its history. This year, with an entering class of 153, an increase of 50% over any former class, the total enrollment has reached 319, an increase of 60% in three years. In order to take care of this increase two extra teachers were added to the faculty. As a result of a careful census, 226 pupils now enrolled in the High School have signified their intention of return- ing to school next year, while a survey of the eighth grades of sending-schools indicates that the entering class next September will number probably 175 or more. This will give an enrollment of 400 pupils in the High School, a num- ber surpassed only by two other high schools in the county—Morristown and Dover. The size of the present Junior class indicates that the Senior class of 1923 will be by far the largest ever graduated from the school.