Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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To the Underclassmen Aspirants to the Senior Class Hail to dear old Brookville High, The school we now shall bid adieu. May her honor never die While her destiny depends on You. The “thirty-nine” class has trod her floors: Indeed, four years in her folds we've been. Studied within her classroom doors. Waded through textbooks, thick and thin. We know the standard she sets for you. Let not graduating be your mark. Nor let a seventy get you through: But on the high sea of earnest work, embark. In your four years labor here Ever pace the firing line. Hold your high school's honor dear, And-—remember the class of thirty-nine.” E. Duane Stewart

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L. Keith Vandervort. Chesty” General Course; Football, Boys' Chorus, Varsity Club, Year Book. Lili.ian Patricia Verstine, Pat” General Course: Chorus, Orchestra. Dramatics Club. True Blue, Sub-Deb, Leaders Club, Senior Class Play. Doris Valjean Visingard. Dot” Academic Course; Latin Club. Warren Gene Wallace. Gem Scientific Course; Football, Gym Team. Softball. Hi-Y. Martha E. Wiley, Wiley Scientific Course; Chorus. Orchestra. Mixed Quartette. Dramatics. Pinafore,” Martha.” Faust.” The Tree. Sailor Maids,” Year Book Staff. Leaders Club. Stewart Y. Williamson. Bud” Academic Course; Band. Orchestra, Hi-Y. Helen Winkelman, Helen” General Course. Patricia Jean Wonderling. Pat” Scientific Course: Chorus, Orchestra. Band, Dramatics. Girls' Ensemble. Martha.” The Tree. Sailor Maids,” Pinafore.” Dramatics Club. Tri-Hi-Y, Sub-Deb. Leaders Club, Latin Club. Year Book Staff. Senior Class Play. Howard Merle Wood, 'Happy” Scientific Course; Basketball, Mushball. Verba Maxine Work, Props General Course.

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Bureau of Missing Persons Washington, D. C. Office of the Secretary , February 1 1, 1949. Mr. John E. Biery, Supervising Principal, Brookville High School, Brookville, Penna. My Dear Mr. Biery:— In reply to your letter of the 5th, I have been able to glean for you the following information from the Social Security and Civil Service records, as well as the files of this bureau, to which I have access here in Washington. 1 enclose a list of addresses with remarks. As I understand it, you want to locate all the members of the class of '39, that you may invite them to be present at the dedication of the new auditorium, the gift of Allen P. Kahn, multi-millionaire Broadway producer, and social science columnist for the New York Times.” The first field 1 investigated was the entertainment field. I found that Martha Frazier and Connie Osborne appear regularly with the Boston symphony orchestra, and are heard frequently in piano duets on the Magic Key. Dave Duncan has taken the place of Johnnie on the Phillip Morris program, while Sherwood St. Clair occupies Don Wilson's former place on Jack Benny's show. On the Columbia networks, is Esther George, who now appears on Lady Esther's Serenade.” Ted Arthurs and Roland and Ronald Corbett play for Tommy Dorsey. Patty Mayes doesn't see much of her husband, who runs the Grand Central Station news stand, because she is so busy with her all-girl orchestra. Helen Summerville is her business manager. Gilbert Shilling conducts a question bee over WHJB. Greensburg. every Thursday morning at 8:30. Bill McIntyre, who croons for M. G. M., still sees Dave Hepler. an extra at Warner Brothers. Hollywood gossip says Dave sees a lot of Martha Wiley, of 20th Century-Fox. Gordon Rockey. Martha's publicity man, has built her up to a brunette Alice Faye. Bo Sandt is playing Scarlet O'Hara for the fifth year in the Broadway version of Gone With the Wind.” Virginia DeMotte has been in Italy for three years studying music. In Hollywood again, Floyd Evans has replaced a Ritz brother who recently quit the famous movie laugh trio. Quite a few members of the class have entered the education field. Ruth Jones is running a Pittsburgh business college, Nell Clark is dean of women at Smith, and Nell Frazier teaches speech at Goucher. Two years ago Dale Stahlman assumed the presidency of Vassar, and seems quite satisfied to retain the post. Estella Berkhouse and Ruth Mitchell teach French and Latin respectively in the Pittsburgh schools. Gene Foulks, very much experienced in History IV. has become a teacher of that subject in Weedville High School. Jim Sibley, as you know, teaches some of your third and fourth year math classes, as well as being B. H. S. basketball coach. Jack Thompson has taken the position left vacant at Pitt by Jock Sutherland, ten years ago, and has produced championship teams for three years now. Mary Ferraro is chief telephone operator in Wichita, Kansas, and Aldine Murray in Richmond. Virginia. Also employed by the telephone company is Ronald Kennedy, who is a lineman in California. Edmond Sellers works at the Niagara Falls power plant. Eugene Grubbs is head mechanic at the Chevrolet plant in Detroit. Pearl Carberry, Dorothy Ogorchock, and Margaret Shannon are