Stockton High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Stockton, IL)

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s4 wued Sta ROW 1-Craig Masters, Pat Murphy, Assistant Editor; Mr. Bretl, Adviser; Jane Buford, Editor; Darlene VanDeWeerd, Assistant Editor; Robert Eden. ROW 2-Jane DeBauche, Allen Fredericks, Peggy Clark, Elaine Steinstal, Marlene Miller, Tom Nagel, Peggy Rees. 7elC , The Blackhawk staff consists of juniors and seniors, who, in a mad moment, volunteered to spend half their waking hours in The Hole slaving over misplaced modifiers, faulty pronoun references, deadwood, and dangling word groups. After a consensus was taken, the group decided that meeting the deadline in unseemly haste was not at all dignified or proper. Our despotic editor, Jane Buford, nonchalantly ate erasers as she drove her overworked emaciated slaves into creating interesting layouts, writing copies, and insisting on an effort to meet deadlines. Mr. Bretl, a snarling, barking Simon Legree type, is our incompetent adviser. He realized early this spring that we would never get the book finished, and the only advise he could offer was to go to Mexico with the subscription and advertising funds. Illiterate seniors on the staff include: Jane Buford, Editor; Pat Murphy, Assistant Editor; Darlene VanDeWeerd, Assistant Editor; Peggy Clark; Craig Masters; Bob Eden; and Jane DeBauche. Juniors, a weird form of sub-human life, also had a hand in destroying whatever value a yearbook might have at our school. Junior staffers include: Marlene Miller; Allen Frederick; Tom Nagel; Peggy Rees; and Elaine Steinstel. 12

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Living in an American community, or in a school, could compare to life in a hive. Everyone has his academic preferences and his gregarious needs of activities satisfied in the most favorable way. The action of a single conscience, or a group, is a concern for everybody, for the common spirit. The whole school in America cheers or cries at the defeat or the victory of the basket- ball team: a French school does not. In America, any time, any place, and on any occasion, the words “How to get along with thy neighbor” are an important precept to a son of the Founding Fathers: they do not seem to be so important to the Frenchmen. However, through different ways, both of these nations have common interests - to enjoy life and live harmoniously with other people. The American citizen does it through the virtue of the precept “how to get along with thy neigh- bor,” the Frenchman proceeds differently, but toward the same goal. He will lose rapidly his so-called formality with his guests around a good table thriving with good foods, or even when kissing the hand of a lady. Finally, we often hear the words: “There is no better place than home,” or better expressed by the poet Frost in his poem “The Death of the Hired Man”: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” I went to live in Stockton and the people had to take me in. They did, and I often think there is no better place than here because similarities are much more important than differences.

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