Butler High School - Tiger Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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I am privileged to have this opportunity to express words of inspiration to you as you continue your journey along life’s highway. The theme that you have chosen as your guide “Awareness - Taking the Time to Find Out”, is one that deserves deep consideration by everyone and at all times. We hope that you will not enclose it within the pages of this book, but will strive to make it a living reality. More than ever before the world is in search for enlighten- ed, responsible young men and women with quality leadership. Leadership that involves integrity, moral soundness, honesty of purpose and courage of conviction enrooted in knowledge, understanding and dedication to the welfare of others. The urgency of the hour calls for an awakening of everyone to the eternal miracle of life with its limitless possibilities. Well do we know that time and tide wait for no man, so keep pressing hopefully until you have reached the highest acces- sible goal. All the world is a stage and we are merely players who will play many roles in this drama of life, so act well your part. Our role should be one of star performance and pursuit of the task before us. We must strive to stem the tide and mend the broken dykes. What seems hopeless should loom before us as just another challenge to overcome. Best wishes to the outgoing seniors, and to the “Tiger StafF’, supporters, and well-wishers, we are most grateful for your excellent work and above all your cooperation in the production of this edition of the “Tiger”. Mr. Scott Flounders Asst. Principal and 7 U.S. History Teacher Mr. A. W. Bacote, Asst. Principal “The unexamined life is not worth living.” More than twenty-three hundred years ago Socrates gave these words to his students and through one of them to posterity. And since that long ago time and before then, too, the wise man has been he who sought to understand himself, for only in so doing could he begin to understand any of the great questions of the universe. Man has a great potential for rational thought, but irrational thought and actions are overwhelmingly produced because each man knows himself so poorly, if at all. To act, to speak, to think seem all-compelling when the truly compelling must be why do I act, speak, think as I do. Why am I as I am, and how am 1? Is any of me truly free or do I merely respond to life in Pavlovian fashion, predictably and limitedly? To know oneself surely would require an eon or two, but to begin the quest would just as surely be the single, most profitable adventure one could undertake. And what would it profit one? At least this - “to thine ownself be true, and it follows as night follows the day thou canst not then be false to any man ” Scott Flounders DLR

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Mr. P. P. Smith, Principal I am honored and warmly delighted to have this opportunity to express words of congratulations to the Annual Staff, advisors, the faculty, and student body for your dedicated and competent efforts to make this production possible. To this graduating class I want to commend you on your achievements in having reached one rung on the ladder. Many who started with you have fallen; however, you have come this far. At this point, I would like to remind you of some of the most remarkable people ever to walk the earth. These are the people you know — your parents and grandparents. These people who within just five decades, 1919-1969, have by their works, increased your life expectancy by approximately 50 percent; who while cutting the work day by a third, have more than doubled per capita output. These people lived through history’s greatest depression. Many of them know what it is to be hungry, poorly housed and cold. They know what it is to have poor schools, and some did not have any education advantages at all. Because of all this, they determined it would not happen to you. They are also the people who fought man’s most destructive war. They defeated they tyranny of Hitler, and had the compassion to spend billions to help rebuild their enemies’ homeland. These people had the sense to begin the United Nations. They made a start, although a late one, in healing the scars of the earth and in fighting pollution and the destruction of our natural environment. While they have made these accomplishments, they have had some failures. They have not yet found an alternative for war, nor for racial hatred. Perhaps you, the members of this graduating class, will perfect the social mechanisms by which all men may follow their ambitions without the threat of force, so that the earth will no longer need police to enforce the laws, nor armies to prevent some men from trespassing against others. Those generations made more progress by the sweat of their brows than in any previous era, and let’s not forget it. If your generation can make as much progress in as many areas as these two generations have, you should be able to solve a good many of the world’s remaining ills. It is my hope, and I know, the hope of these two generations, that you find the answers to many of these problems that plague mankind and do something about them. It will not be easy and you will not do it by negative thoughts, nor by tearing down or belittling. You may and can do it by hard work, humility, hope, and faith in mankind. Keep mentally alert to everything that goes on around you; be curious, observant and imaginative. Strive to stretch the range of the eyes and ears, and take time to look, listen, and understand. It is through a growing awareness that one succeeds. 6 Best Wishes

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Office Staff Mrs. C. Sherwood — Secretary Mrs. Segars - Secretary Mrs. H. Flowers — Bookkeeper 8