Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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 did I really look like that???” For most of us, being o freshman wos o mind-boggling experience. Gazing wirh wide- eyed omozemenr os the seniors srrolled confidently through the corridors, we wondered If we'd ever moke it through that first year, let olone three more. Being o freshmon meant hoving no concern for college or SAT'S, just what to weor to the Freshmon social or who wos going out with whom. It meant wondering whot in the world wos in the Annex Building and exactly how to master the ort of get- ting sofely through the line wirh o complete lunch still in your possession. Becoming sophomores gove us the advantage of both worlds. We weren't or the ab- solute bottom, yet we still didn't hove to worry about those faraway” things such os graduation, college, ond careers. It wos o year of feeling superior to ‘those lowly freshmen” ond being free of worries ond responsibilities. Junior year brought with it the responsibilities of adjust- ment ond maturity. Entering the world of the upper- classmen, we enjoyed such privileges os taking gym three times o week insreod of every day. Some of us received our driver's licenses. We hod part- time jobs ond juggled job ond school. Senior year finally arrived. We looked bock ond wondered where the years hod gone. Finally, we were the big, confident seniors” storing or those wide-eyed freshmen saying, Did we look like that?” We began to apply to colleges ond to plan for our future. Laughing wirh our friends in the hallways between classes or sitting in the stonds cheering on the football team, each memory holds special meaning for every one of us. We've gone from being ream players to ream coproins, fron junior vorsity to varsity, from reluc- tantly singing the olmo mater in the gym os freshmen to sing- ing it loudly ond proudly at groduorion. With the lost stanza of the olmo morer ond the toss of o groduorion cop, our years or Butler High come to o close, but the memories we hold ore forever.

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 opening doy . . . the first of many firsts... What! No way! Impossible! We look or the colendor ond it's September already. Summer, which in June seemed to stretch out ahead of us. is coming to a close. Now we prepare for the long, challenging, ond sometimes fun year ahead. The first doy of school-new friends, new teachers, different ond often more demanding courses-is intimidating even to up- perclassmen who hove been there before. Each student hos his or her own personal feors. Will I forget my schedule? Will I get lost? Will I get along with my new teachers? Did I choose the right courses? Within o week or two, it's oil so noturol ... it seems like we never left. For many students, the school year began in August. For them, September 3rd only signified the doy dosses began. Bond comp ond foil sports practices began the lost week in August. Yearbook planning went on oil summer. The freshmen orientation ond Student Council Together Doy were olso August events. Returning to Butler High this yeor, students sow some chonges os well os many fomilior sights. The courtyard ond senior lounge still seemed to be the favorite places for seniors to congregate. The lounge sported o new decor thanks to some hard working senior volunteers. A most noticeable difference wos the new look of the old building, with modern windows ond lowered ceilings. The student publications office got o bodly needed fresh coot of point ond o much brighter atmosphere. Lost but nor least, the students encountered o chang- ed foculty, with mony fomilior faces missing ond on equal number of new ones. The beginning of the school yeor is o time of firsts. Students look forward to the first meetings of their favorite clubs. They eager- ly anticipate the traditional pep roily preceding the first football gome. They dreod that first test. For the seniors, this Is the first doy of their lost yeor in high school. The juniors sovor rhier first taste of uppercloss status. The sophomores hove their first chonce to see whor it's like to hove someone lower on the totem pole Lastly, for the freshmen, it’s o first chonce to feel the speciol omibionce found only ot Butler High School. Everyone looks forward to leaving their mark on Butler High School, knowing that Butler High School will surely leave its mark on them. beginnings 7

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p. 8: Ricky Kessler, 62 Freshman Boys' Basketball Team, Melissa Fields; Jim Stukenborg; Dove Sondermeyer; Denise Cusack, 82 Freshmon Girls' Boskerboll Team: Anne Morie Whirry. Noncy Scholl, p 9; '82 Freshmon Class Officers -Joloine Poppa. Kelly Decker, Lisa Shorter, Erinn Carroll; Korhy Ozonic: Laurie Deusinger. Karen Sheehon. Dione Campbell and friends.- Sheri Hester Anne Morie Whiffy. Sondy Homilfon. Kelly Decker. Chris Struck, R. J. Ackermon.- Beth Mongini. Heather Knecht and Jackie Hinkey