Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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Nancy Prescott was the consumate English teacher, the parts of speech that make up the whole. She was the noun. As person, she was the friendly face, the mother” of V.U.H.S., the coach, the snowflake lady. She became the place” — the destination. Students didn't run to Mrs. Prescott's room; they ran to Mrs. Prescott. Nancy as thing was color; true blue in her loyalty to friends, colleagues, students and family; red in her fervor as a teacher, yellow with a sunny disposition that brightened our days. Nancy was a verb. As state of being, she represented constancy for her students. As action, she worked unceasingly to bring out the best in her pupils, her thespians, her gymnasts and herself. As an adjective enhances a noun, so Mrs. Prescott enhanced the lives of those around her. As the adverb, Nancy demanded that work be done very well; she greatly encouraged her students and she lovingly helped sixth graders become responsible junior high students. Direct objects receive their action directly from the verb. One only had to watch Nancy coach gymnastics or direct a play to understand how they work. Winning the State Trophy in Dramatics was the indirect object. Nancy was fond of saying that a preposition was anything a plane could do to a cloud. That definition was Nancy in life. She went above, around and through life with an extraordinary zest and capacity for love. We are left with simple punctuation. The exclamation — our shock and dismay at hearing the sad news! The question mark of Why?” The one unusable mark is the period — it denotes finality, a complete thought finished — Nancy's influence on us is not finished — for Nancy, a comma, and a dash — the links between the series, of past, present and future — because even though there has been a break — a shift of tenses from present to past, the link is there — we are better in our lives because of what she was in hers. - Ann Sullivan IN MEMORIUM

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 Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”- that is all Ye know on earth and earth and all ye need to know. - John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Using examples of creativity through the centuries, museums capture the history of the world. In a similar way Mr. Yarnall's classroom captures history at VUHS. The foundation of this is Mr. Yarnall's strong conviction that his students are capable of using their talents and intelligence to produce museum quality art work and also produce writing samples of equal excellence. By studying examples of excellence and personal achievement in people throughout the ages, Mr. Yarnall spurs his students on to reach toward high personal levels of achievement. Personal involvement does not end at the classroom door. He arranges field trips with colleagues teaching Humanities and Contemporary Man and World History classes. Together they widen the students' horizons and see the beauty of works of art and history in Boston and Montreal; thus they reach far and near to understand that Beauty is truth, truth is beauty- For this sincere desire to create a love of beauty in history we dedicate the 1988 Blue and White to Mr. Jon Yarnall.

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Tonight's the night we'll make history, Honey, you and I, And I'll take any risk To tie back the hands of time And stay with you here tonight. . . . The best of times are When I'm alone with you; Some rain, some shine. We'll make this a world for two. Our memories of yesterday Will last a lifetime. We'll take the best, Forget the rest. And someday we'll find These are the best of times. -STYX PRESENTING THE CLASS OF 1988!