Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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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

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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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(2) all employed in the Heinz factory at Pittsburgh; Pearl is in the office. Margaret is a recipe inventor and tester, and Dorothy is a pickle inspector. Helen Law and Mary Champion are models at Macy’s in New York, and Pat Verstine is that store's Paris buyer. Doris Visingard and Marjorie Brady hold positions with Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh. June Thrush works in a cosmetic factory in Jersey City. I la Perrin works for Simon and Schuster, reading incoming manuscripts to see if they are worthy of publication. Miriam Emery illustrates children’s books, while Forrest Hughey makes those catchy sketches for “Esquire.’’ Sara Gilmore is a dress designer for “Harper’s Bazaar. Keith Vandervort holds the place in the hearts of America once occupied by Edgar Guest. Jacque Arthurs now runs a sweethearts’ correspondence school in New York City. Margaret Rhoades is librarian in Carnegie Library. Pittsburgh. Florence Fetzer and Gwenda Ingersoll are clerks in the Boston Y. W. C. A. Pearl and Verba Work are “working’’ their way through Penn State. George Inman is a traveling salesman in newly-developed Alaska. In the sports world are Arthur Brenneman. bull-fighter: Daryl Cable, who plays pro football with the Pittsburgh Pirates; and Dale Gilbert and Glenn Lindemuth. who play ball for the New York Yankees and the Giants, respectively. Web Boozer caddies and sells gum at the Pinecrest club house. In the professional world. Lois Reitz is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Ray Zitzelberger. Helen Winkelman. and Dick Prenatt have established a field laboratory to study paper pulp at Sheffield. Pa. Also in the chemical world is Earle Thompson, industrial chemist with the DuPonts, and Paul McFadden. an agricultural chemist at Penn State. The latter makes many experiments on Ernest Caldwell’s farm near Hazen. Rufus Hetrick has made some valuable observations with the new 200-inch telescope at the Mount Palomar observatory. Following up aviation is Lilburn Glover, who aids the pilots as weather observer at Newark airport. There also we find Test Pilot Ed Johns tap-dancing in a hangar when off duty. Near Newark. Bill Morrison has opened a monument works, adjacent to his undertaking establishment and doctor's office. (Bill is near the airport. Pat Wonderling is a TWA stewardess. Draw your own conclusions.) At New York City. I found Ed Smail. president of the Coca Cola company. I also located Jim Munro, the Park Avenue playboy who made a fortune on the horses. In the same city are Zoe Moore, who inherited a fortune from an old spinster and lives on a Long Island estate, and Dale Shields, contented with employment once a year as a department store Santa Claus. In the Empire City. Ronald Uplinger keeps the zoo animals contented and makes them feel at home. Betty Bennett plays for the Salvation Army, and Dorothy Nolph is a missionary to India. Howard Wood lives in Canada where he has extensive lumber interests, and Ronald Mauk is a mine superintendent in South America. Dick Swab and Gene Wallace are guides for visiting fishers to the Canadian woods. Fenton Jones operates a profitable fishing establishment in Tampa. Florida, with his cousin. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. (Yesiree!) Betty Moore manages exclusive Scottie kennels near New York, while Mary Hivick owns a Wyoming sheep ranch. Harriet and Lucille Swineford. and Helen Schaeffer are florists in Atlantic City. On the marriage list. Craig Brosius and Ruth Bullers. who were married four years ago. live in Cleveland and employ Hazel Shields as the nurse of their five-month-old twins. Rodger and Jane Cooley Quick live in Philadelphia, while Joe and Marie Brosius Himes reside in Cincinnati. Evelyn Swartz is the housekeeper in the Tom Mix home in California, and reports say they will be married in June. Eva King has met her Adam in St. Paul. Minnesota.