Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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The Senior Procrastinator. February 30. 1950 Prominent Divorcee Weds in New York New York City. Feb. 28. Word was received last night of the spring wedding of Mrs. Sydney Shields von Snore-some. prominent divorcee. Mrs. von Snoresome was married to Clarence Vander-built. only son of Mrs. Dc-Witt Vanderbuilt. at a 4:30 wedding. This fashionable wedding took place in the “Little Church Around the Corner. the Rev. Cecil Grubbs officiating. Mrs. Vanderbuilt was attended by Miss Ellen Eisen-man. also of Brookville, who is now foreign buyer at Wan-amaker's Department store. Philadelphia. Horace Vanderbuilt. cousin of the groom, was best man. The bride wore red and carried geraniums. Miss Eis-enman was attired in purple burlap with black accessories and carried a bouquet of carrots. tomatoes and babies breath. This was one of the newest style creations of Madame Idressup of Paris. Miss Eisenman revealed. After a two months honeymoon in Bermuda, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbuilt will be at home at the Vanderbuilt estate in Brentwood. N. J. Mrs. Vanderbuilt was married to Count von Snore-some in 1947. They were divorced in Paris last spring. o-----o Want Ad Wanted, three room house with all modern conveniences. Rent must be reasonable. Call Betty Chitester or Dick Snyder before March 12th. Engagement Announced Philadelphia. Pa.. Feb. 25. At a brilliant bridge party given Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Fred D. Sayer of Hill-crest Avenue, announced the engagement of her daughter. Marjorie Lucas Sayer. to Mr. Jack Lowry, also formerly of Brookville. Miss Sayer. who is a well-known New York dress designer. is planning a June wedding. Well known guests at the wedding were Mrs. Daryl Cable, nee Jane Johns, of State College. Misses Mary Kroh and Betty Caroll of this place. o------o Brookville. Pa.. Feb. 25. Word has just been received from Greenboro. N. C.. of the engagement of Miss Annis Daugherty. R. N.. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Daugherty of this city, to Dr. Thomas Carlyle of Greenboro. The date has been set as the 10th of next month. Miss Daugherty has been employed in the St. Francis hospital there since her graduation in 1943. Misses Ruth Klepfer and Eledryth Fleming, nurses at West Penn hospital. Pittsburgh. plan to attend the wedding. o------o Mr. and Mrs. Happy Ferguson will entertain the members of their bridge club at a dance at the Country Club. Saturday evening. The Brookville High Swing Band, under the direction of Ross Bierly. will furnish the music. N ew T eachers At the monthly meeting of the school board last Monday night it was decided to install Geraldine Rhodes as a History teacher. Margaret Abplanalp. Latin teacher, and Corl McDowell will be come the Chemistry pedagogue. a class which he is well capable of “holding down.” o-----o Hospital Notes Discharged: Albert Lindemuth. tonsil-ectomy. Lulu Hopkins, cured of sleeping sickness. Marjorie McClain, cured of sleep-walking. Admitted: Thomas Bukovac. sprained toe. Stella Kane, love-sickness. Neil Strawcutter was admitted to the hospital Tuesday night after having sustained injuries inflicted by his wife. Helen Horner Straw-cutter. William Strong was admitted to the hospital early Sunday morning after having turned over in his truck on Short street. He was discharged Wednesday.

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I he Senior Procrastinator, February 50. 1950 Join Orchestra A recent addition to the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra contained a group of Brookville high school graduates. Miss Ruth Bennett has been accepted as a clarinetist. Ruth Williamson will augment the violin section, and Margaret Hepler has acquired a position as pianist, doubling in the sax line during the after hours jam session. o-----o Signed to Play Among the first players to sign their 1950 contracts with the Brooklyn Dodgers football team are Howard Shaffer. Isaac Yoder, and Vincent Deemer. Shaffer played guard on Navy's championship team last year. Yoder was the backbone of Yale’s strong line. Deemer starred in the Harvard back-field. o-----o HEALTH AND BEAUTY HINTS by Lady Esther Glontz Dear Lady Esther: I am extremely fat. Will alcohol reduce me? Mary Ann Sushereba Dear Miss Sushereba: If it is externally used, it will help. Lady Esther c-----o Strength— That makes me so vexed 1 could crush a grape. SMILES Always think twice before you speak, and then talk to yourself. o------o He is a wise man who can’t tell his wife the color of his stenographer’s eyes. o------o He failed in Physics, flunked in Chem.. They heard him softly hiss: I'd like to catch the guy who said That ignorance is bliss . o------o Canibal Prince (rushing in): Is it too late for dinner? Canibal King: Yes. ev- erybody’s eaten. o------o How much gas have we got? It says half, but I can’t tell whether it means full or empty.” o------o Boogy: Do you know it is a comfort to have a head like mine? Woogy: Yeah, solid comfort. o------o Diplomacy Did ou make the debating team? N-n-no. They said I-I-I w-w-wasn’t t-t-tall enough. —Exchange The student’s allowance had run out. so he wrote home for more money. Feeling a bit nervous about the impression it would make he ended his letter: P. S.—I did not like writing to you. In fact. I ran after the postman to get this letter back. A week later he received the following reply: You will be glad to know I did not receive your letter. o-----o He: You’ve been out with worse-looking fellows than I am. haven't you? She did not reply. I said you’ve been out with worse-looking fellows than I am. haven’t you? I heard you the first time. I was trying to think. o-----o A Grammatical Kiss A kiss is always a pronoun because she stands for it. It is masculine and fern inine gender mixed, therefore common. It is a conjunction because it connects. It is in interjection: at least it sounds like one. It is plural because it calls for another. It is singular because there is nothing else like it. It is usually in apposition with a caress: at any rate it is sure to follow. A kiss can be conjugated but never declined. —Rammer-Jammer.