Altoona High School - Horseshoe Yearbook (Altoona, PA)

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iillllli 'T B fi Q lx t r U I 'I I I . ,,. fit 1 ing .4 ,ni tix pr . 5.5 I 1-1 .-'lg Y illlit Mil? T ll aw? tit, 1 v llili L 1 lj tl g A ,l if Mu XM. Ev .dl lid.. 1ExEffil5 l eg- grfi II After a happy and fperhapsj a restful vacation, we returned to resume our studies as uJovial Juniors. Being accustomed to the building now, we had little trouble in following our routines, and we settled down to work and to wait anxiously for football season. We had a successful season although we lost the conference championship to our old enemy-Johnstown. How- ever, we had little time to be depressed. The senior class was organizing, and so We too began to think of class organization. Early in February, we elected for our junior class officers, Harry Taylor, president, Delores Mattas, vice president, Irma Rittenhouse, secretary, and Donald Kraft, treasurer. These capable people led us through a very successful year. We had sev- eral successful socials, and a Junior picnic which will be remembered for years. Among, and between these diversions came the annual show in which many members of our class took part. Towards the end of the year the Eng- lish play, uThe Youngest, was produced under the direction of Miss Rod- key, and our vanity swelled to enormous proportions when we discovered that the leading roles were taken by members of our class. After this triumph, we were promptly subdued by the imminence of final exams. With this ordeal over and vacation before us, we again said Mau revoir to our high school until the fall should again bring us to our halls of learning. A III In the fall of 1931 we entered our Alma Mater as seniors. Soon after school opened, football season began and our Maroon and White warriors captured the championship of Western Pennsylvania. A short time after this victory, our class organized, selecting for its officers, James Monahan, president, Irma Rittenhouse, vice president, Delores Mattas, secretary, and Jane Brubaker, treasurer. Along with our socials we had the annual show, a rollicking laugh-fest from beginning to end, the Eng- lish play, which was as excellent and entertaining as before. With all these diversions the year went all too quickly until final tests were upon us-the beginning of the end. There followed in quick succession Commencement exercises, the banquet, the picnic-a mixture of tears and smiles and laughs and sighs. At last we said good-bye for the last time to the halls we loved and to the building which meant to us not stone and brick, nor any material thing. To us it meant three happy years of work and play among our friends-years which can never come again. Page Twenty-four v., gifs W. S 9.3: F' Vi .45 3 1 . l I 3. ,ji .Sui 5.3. S'1.l S Q1 x 5: :SH -.vi JT -fe U13 f-:rf lhiqll ,A -2-we F' .ei

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Senior Class History r S we, who are so soon to leave these halls of learning, look back over the past three years, we feel a soft satisfaction mingled with regret- ful pain. We are satisfied because we know that we, as a class, have done our best to live up to the traditions of our Alma Mater, and we are regretful that it is over, because never again will we enter the Altoona High School as a part of it, shaping its character as it shaped ours. As we say farewell, we take a last lingering look over the past. I On September 4, 1929, we entered the imposing entrance of A. H. S. in pursuit of wisdom. We tried our best to look sophisticated, but we actual- ly managed to look like a group of prisoners awaiting their sentences. How- ever, after the first confusion of finding rooms, getting schedules arranged correctly, etc., we got along fairly well. Although the upperclassmen razzed us a little, they treated us kindly, and the teachers were always ready to lend a helping hand. By the time we had learned our way around and were getting down to normal routine, football season started. Our Wounded vanity was restored by the excellent sophomore material on the varsity. On November 9th- unforgetable date-we beat Johnstown, and on the following Monday we had the memorable walk-out. Perhaps it was illegal, unruly, and against ball rules and regulations, but it will live in our memory long after Latin verbs and geometry rules have passed into oblivion. Early in December we had our famous bonfire in celebration of our victory over Billtowng and what a business the shoe stores had the next day! Doing snake dances in mud up to one's knees is not particularly good for either shoes or feet. After all this festivity, our spirits were brought down again by the mid-year exams. With football season, vacation, and mid-year tests over, life was just threatening to become normal when along came the Annual Show. It was a huge success, in which many members of our class took part. After this event, the school days passed quickly until, before we knew it, the final tests were upon us-the finishing touch to the most exciting year we had ever spent. Page Twenty-three Y . t i A 1 . 4 K .11 ' A asf. A . 9 Wi, tif airaa i 'ipr 1 1 , V yt ' 'Q ip y We E- it f' ? 1 t NH UNE' Eilgg I i-- l . a V M' il ' Wu itil? was .dh ff igt ,Is f f S ei. 3. i if if Qui i , tttilf ri ii fl -iss' fifjgfuvalgl . J . in l is

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