Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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Seniors 1953 WILLIAM OLIVER COMMONS General Football; Varsity Club; Junior Class Play; Projectionist; Sports Committee; Seniors Committee. JAMES P. CRAWFORD Academic Varsity Club; Argonauts: N.J.H.S.; Junior Class Play; Student Council; Senior Honor Society. MARGARET CROYLE Academic Transferred. LOIS A. DAUGHERTY Academic Tru Blu; Le Cercle Francais: Business Committee; Rifle Club; Junior Class Play; Literary Staff; Sr. Tumbling Team; Sr. Girls' Basketball. REBECCA KAY DAVIS DICK DILLMAN Academic Academic Mixed Chorus; A Cappella Band; Dance Band. Choir; Sr. Girls' Trio; Band; Tri-Hi-Y; Sub-Deb; Echo Staff; Sophomore Class President; Student Council; Sr. Tumbling Team; State Band. Parade of History - - Korea Although a recent event in our school career, the Korean situation merits much attention. Korea was owned by Japan before World War II. After the war it was divided at the thirty-eighth parallel between the United States and Russia. It was decided to form a government. When the forces got together, they found that the Koreans had already formed a government called the Korean Peoples' Republic. The Americans refused to accept this government because it was a regime with faulty representation. Small skirmishes in the border towns began. It soon became a real battle. The North Koreans captured Seoul; the capital; but the NANCY J. DINGER General Driver Training; Ushers Club. EMMA JANE ESH3AUGH Commercial F. B. L. A.; Snapshots Committee; Features Committee. United Nations' forces held outside the city. In due time the Reds were pushed as far north as the Yalu River on the Manchurian border. The Chinese Reds entered the war and pushed the U. N. forces southward. Then followed the fateful fourteen days when the first division of the marines was trapped in the area of the Chung-yang Reservoir. This was the only time that the Marines retreated, but they escgped, taking with them all of their wounded and all of their supplies. The so-called police action in Korea continues in spite of prolonged peace conferences. We can only hope someone can soon find some way to end it. —Ray Clontz 16 The Echo

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Seniors 1953 Parade of History - - World War Two World War II broke out in 1939 when German troops crossed and invaded Polish soil in September. This war was carefully calculated; every step was carefully planned. Germany's main objective was to regain territory lost in previous wars. By November, 1941, the United States was all but in this war. Her navy was sailing the Atlantic to insure delivery of her material. Japan was putting pressure on the United States, and in November she sent an ambassador to explain. But the real explanation came on the morning of December 7, 1941, when two hundred aircraft — carrierborne planes- -attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. This was an unexpected blow. Japan struck simultaneously at the Philippines, Hong Kong, and the surrounding areas. Japan's early progress was very rapid. To name only a few, she had such places as Manila, Malaya, and Singapore. Although things looked black because of the Japanese victories in the Pacific, they were much better on the Russian front. Russia had the Germans on the run. The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway gave us a new outlook. The United States navy had stopped the Japanese for their first victory. From this time on the war began to draw to a close, and on May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered. Soon after came the end of this war with the Japanese surrendering on August 14, 1945. World War II was a very destructive and costly war, leaving many homeless and totaling heavy costs on both sides. —Harold Shaffer BARBARA JOLINE BULLERS General F. H. A.; Cafeteria Hostess; Underclassmen Committee. KATHERYN BUTLER Academic Tri-Hi-Y; Le Cercle Francois; Snapshot Committee; Girls' Chorus; Junior Class Play; N. J. H. S.; Seniors Committee; Groups Committee; A Cappella Choir; Junior Prom Committee. NANCY ANN BYERLY General DALE CARNAHAN Agricultural F. F. A.; Projectionist; '52 Vice President of F. F. A.; Seniors Committee. HENRY CARNES Agricultural F. F. A. Treasurer. LORRAINE DELORES MARY CLINGER CHAMBERLIN General Commercial p h. A.; Cafeteria Hostess. F. B. L. A.; Press Club; Art Club; Drill Team; Literary Staff. RAY CLONTZ General The Echo 15

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Seniors 1953 EMM1N W. FENSTERMAKER. JR. Academic Basketball; Football; Baseball; Varsity Club. JOHN FIKE Academic Varsity Club; Football; Junior Class Play; N. J. H. S.; Sports Committee; Student Court. DAYNE GALBRAITH Commercial Asssitant Editor of Echo; Sub-Deb; Tru Blu; F. B. L. A. President; Art Club; Literary Staff; Cafeteria Hostess; Press Club; Junior Banquet Committee. GAIL GALBRAITH Commercial Tru Blu; Tri-Hi-Y; F. B. L. A.; Press Club; Majorettes; Literary Staff; Faculty Committee; Ushers Club; Junior Prom Committee. M. DEAN GASTON General JANE E. GEIST DONALD D. GILHOUSEN Commercial General BETTY KAY GOBEL Academic Driver Training. Librarians Club; F. B. L. A. Underclassmen Committee. Ushers Club; Chorus. Secretary; Sub-Deb; Press Club; Snapshot Committee. Parade of History - - The United States Airforce When the second World War broke out in Europe, the United States had only a handful of combat planes. At that time the Nazi Luftwaffe was composed of fifteen thousand war planes and about a million men. Our air corps had less than one thousand airplanes of all types including thirteen Flying Fortresses. In the war against Japan, the Army Air Forces, spearheading the attack with the famous B-29's, flew six hundred and sixty-nine thousand sorties. Five hundred thousand tons of bombs were dropped on Japan and its islands. More than ten thousand Japanese aircraft were destroyed, while our losses amounted to forty-five hundred planes. From the few thousand fighters and bombers available in 1941, our forces grew to almost eighty thousand aircraft in 1945, its wartime peak. From a force of about three hundred thousand in 1941, Army Air Force personnel expanded to two million, four hundred and eleven thousand by 1944. In 1945 the jet-powered F-70 Shooting Star made its flight test. In 1946 it spanned the continent in four hours and thirteen minutes. In 1947 Charles E. Yeager flew the Bell X-l, a rocket-propelled plane, faster than sound. In 1949 an airforce B-50 completed the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world. In Korea today we have fighter planes which can fly in excess of six hundred miles an hour. —Jim Sebring The Echo 17