Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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2XL ition — To Robert J. Eilenberger we, the Class of 1943, affectionately dedicate our Nugget. We feel that it is our great privilege and honor to dedicate this book to our retiring Supervising Principal. He has devoted his entire career to the field of education. Of these forty-nine years he has given twenty-three years of untiring service to Butler High School. His leadership has made Butler High a truly progressive school. An ardent believer in real democracy, Mr. Eilenberger has worked long and successfully to promote this ideal throughout our school. His true sincerity and splendid personality have brought him the utmost cooperation and loyalty from the administration, the faculty, and the student body. He will long be remembered and fondly referred to as R. J. by past and present faculty members and by the alumni. His magnanimity of spirit, tolerance, and breadth of understanding have won him lasting friendships. His fine influence is now being carried to many parts of the world through the former students of Butler High School who are in the service, fighting to maintain the free- doms which we cherish. We feel that his unceasing efforts for a more democratic way of living will con- tinue through the years. It is to such a true American that we pay tribute in our book. Page Two

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 Jreeclc om 3 ★ Since our high school days are nearly over, we have composed this year- book to preserve the record of our four years in Butler High School. In these four years we have had a pre-view of our future life; we have learned among other things to distinguish liberty from license, freedom of speech from slan- der and freedom of worship from intolerance; as we turn from school to face the world, this preparation will prove invaluable, socially, educationally, and ethically. ★ Freedom of speech and expression are among the most important phases of our school life. They give us the right to ponder facts, to discuss our deduc- tions, and, finally, to draw our own conclusions. In debating clubs, in forum clubs, and in Student Council this right, this ability, is most evident. Freedom of the press is, after all, carrying freedom of expression one step further. We make use of our freedom of the press in our school paper, “The Maple Leaf. These two freedoms will best prepare us socially for our post-school days, and our enjoyment of them during the past four years is an underlying theme of our book. ★ Freedom of self-government, as opposed to absolute control over every action, has represented social, political, and moral freedom. In order to encourage our freedom of self-government, the Student Council was created and it has carried on the spirit. Since our freshman year, either directly or through a representative, we have had some part in decisions concerning the students as a whole, for example: our class parties, the roller skating parties, our Junior Prom. Through this training, we have learned to be less intolerant of the other individual's decisions and more thoughtful as to our own. This aspect of school life will be depicted in the latter part of this book. ★ There is freedom in health. That is the freedom which, though the mind be manacled through lack of education, though the tongue be manacled through oppression, gives to us the independent spirit and soul of freedom. An impos- ing variety of sports and recreations has been made available to the student; through these recreations and avocations, his chances for a healthier, happier, freer life have been increased. ★ Freedom of education, as such, grants us the right to go to a school of our choice. However, in the school, freedom of education has connotated the right of the individual to choose his own courses, each according to his tastes, his interests, his abilities; more than that, he can choose his clubs and mis- cellaneous extra-curricula activities on the same basis matching them to his pre- ference and his abilities. In order to allow this freedom, an exceedingly varied curricula has been maintained; as a result of the broad field of selection, each of us has found his niche. Page Four