Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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THE BLUE AND WHITE 5 to their bodies to keep their collars from escaping. Surely this can‘t be true of any student of N. H. S., so our goal is to make use of a quotation such as: “Our heads are large store houses, where any information may be obtained. This can be true of all, and we will make our teachers, professors, classmates, schoolmates, parents, friends and everyone proud of us. Then we shall never be sorry in future life that we spent five-sevenths of each week in our dear old N. H. S. Lives of great men all remind us. We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Foot-prints on the sands of time. Minerva Rinehart, 27.

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4 THE BLUE AND WHITE How many of these diamond seconds have flitted by unobserved? What have we accomplished in those precious minutes? Life is just what we make it, why not make it the best that is in our power. Opportunites stretch out eager hands toward us. They may all be had by reaching for them. But we can not gain a goal by wishing. It takes patience, hard work and persistent efforts. Let us improve our minds by putting into use those escaping seconds. Raise our standards and reap the profits these golden opportunities will reward us. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were tolling upward in the night. Julia Whitmore, '28. WHY ARE WE SPENDING FIVE DAYS EACH WEEK IN N. H. S.? The above question is one that every student vn Newport High School should have solved by this time. If they have not, it is high time for them to find the answer. Are we going to school six hours out of every twenty four merely to have some place to go, or a building for a bit of amusement, or a 'place to meet our friends, or do we go there just because we hear a school bell ring? No. by all means no. Our High School is the place that is now preparing us for a higher education—fitting us properly for our futuie duties—so why not utilize every spare moment and secure all the knowledge possible. Have the prominent and well educated men of today gone Ihus far through life with their school days lacking? No. They have advanced through the grades, high school and then, knowing the value of education, sought a higher one. A person of intelligence is a blessing to his country, while the ignorant person is a detriment because of his ignorance. A person who is intelligent will se?k the higher opportunities of life, and in this manner raise the standard of living. If the entire population of the country becomes educated, our standard of living will be raised, and thus abolish the lower class of people we have today. So, fellow-students of N. H. S., let us fight and become one of those intelligent persons in our country and school! We can do this only by good honest study and work, now during our school days. We have just passed through the first semester examinations, and have they pushed us onward? Surely we should all feel rewarded with the first half year’s work, and make the second still a greater one. Mark Twain has said “Some men's heads are just attachm nts

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6 THE BLUE AND WHITE BETTY’S ADVENTURE WITH THE INDIANS By HELEN KIPP, ’27. Betty Neff was stylish, good looking and twenty. She was going on her first visit to her newly married sister's ranch in Arizona. One day as she was watching the landscape from the train window, as it wrhirled through long stretches of meadow land and deep green valleys, a good looking young man camt into the car and sat down beside he r. It was apparent he had boarded the train at the last station for he did not have the bored expression that most of the other passengers had. “Hello, Bright-eyes! he said, addressing Betty. Betty turned to gaze into a pair of laughing gray eyes. How dare you sir!“ she crieel indignantly, as she moveel to another seat in the car. But the young man was persistent. He followed Betty to the seat and said .“Miss ---------” “Will I have to call the conductor?’’ Betty inquired angrily, looking out of the window. For the next two days the young man tried to get a word with Betty, but she always evaded him. On the third day Betty reached her destination. Her sister, Louise, met her at the station. What to Betty’s surprise when she saw the young man coming toward them!