Winchester Thurston School - Thistledown Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Zfrewvrd l School is so much a part of us and our thinking that we seldom realize its great significance in our lives, until in senior year we are suddenly confronted with new and serious thoughts. We begin to understand the depth and meaning in old ideals, to find the complexity and joy of knowledge, to learn the beauty and giving of self that is true friendship. At the same time the surface of our school life takes on tender, more symbolic meaning. We can feel the spirit of Winchester in small things: in the silent morning prayer, in sunshine and copper-red oak leaves outside senior study hall windows, in the chatter of voices that follows the momen- tary hush after the bell. The things we love are often most vividly recalled by the mere sug- gestion of a mood, a mood as elusive and deceptively simple as a piece of drifting thistledown that bears someone's deeply felt wish. Perhaps that is why the yearbook is named Thistledown -for it shows only the bright surface of our school life, yet this stirs the deeper memories of our hearts. M. A. K. The Thistledown Staff of 1961 extends sincere thanks to Mrs. Beard, our faculty advisor, and to Mr. Gene Burke of the Taylor Publishing Company, for their generous advice, assistance, and cooperation in producing this yearbook. We also thank Mr. Jonas of Jonas Studio for his excellent handling of the formal and group photographs, and Nancy Jenks, Mary Alice Hen- ninger, and Anne Witting for their contributions to the informal photography.

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Dedicalirfzfz Frankness and complete sincerity command the respect of her students. Her delightful sense of humor animates an everyday lesson and makes her class one We anticipate. She brings a freshness of approach to her subject that finds surprise in the ordinary and points out the incongruities of everyday life. Her intelligence is founded firmly in understanding, and a sense of mathe- matical logic makes her impartial, critical, and open-minded. Her classroom emits bursts of laughter heard throughout the school, but she seldom laughs aloud and tries to keep a look of uno nonsensew that belies her joie de vivre. Vlfhile she takes the roll call, she is often seen in a pleated skirt, a pastel sweater, a strand of pearls. To the admired, appreciated, and dearly loved Marilyn Denton, the senior class dedicates the 1961 Thistledown- N. S. E. G. F.