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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1928
Page
5
The 1928 Butler High School senior class drafts a humorous will declaring bequests to the Junior and Sophomore classes, teachers, and friends, then reflects on four years of prep and growth. It ends with introductions to the program of an afternoon.
A class poem laments graduation year and the call to higher learning while the narrator vents about senior privilege and perceived underclass contempt. The piece blends hopeful lines about Alma Mater and mastery with sharp critique of teachers, parents, and younger students.
A long reminiscence traces the 1923 start of the Butler High senior class now sixteen seniors strong. It highlights Bertha Cox as poet and debater, Edith Jarrell and Pansy Brewer as scholars and athletes, and peers like Lois Harvey, Mercer Montgomery, Louie McGee, and others. The narrative wanders through imagined travels reflecting each student’s talents, from poetry and athletics to astronomy and editing, ending with a note that the journey continues on the next page.
Jeanetth Brown greets attendees and reflects on past present and future as classmates prepare to part. She thanks classmates for selecting her to represent them during a day of happy sorrow as they anticipate separate paths ahead.
A senior girl laments teens’ vanity and cruelty in a school social scene. She denounces classmate remarks about appearance, notes male attention and arrogance, and urges peers to respect seniors while keeping distance from unwanted familiarity. The letter contrasts intelligence with petty gossip and hints at personal restraint in public encounters.
A dramatic prophecy invites the 27 28 seniors to glimpse their future by traveling through a multicolored Wonder Bag. The journey spans distant corners of the world revealing a North Georgia town with a church spire, a parsonage, and a peaceful domestic scene as fortune places a member in contentment.
Synopsis recounts scenes in a school auditorium production. Miss Bright leads pupils to Mother Goose Island and meets her famed family. Terry the fiddler narrates the Wishing Well ritual on May Day eve. Children plan to visit at dawn and Peggy seeks a forest bird for a sick child. May Morning stories unfold as the nymphs grant wishes. Admission 25 cents adults, 15 cents children.
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