Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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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

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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 - - Television These are some of the events that led to fifteen million American homes having television receivers: 1941—Demonstration of home television on translucent screen, television on theater screen, and pictures automatically radio-relayed. 1945— Construction of new antenna begun atop of the Empire State Building. 1946— Airborne television demonstrated; colored television demonstrated publicly at RCA laboratories in Princeton, N. J. 1947— Simultaneous electronic television demonstrated. 1948— First public demonstration of ultrafax—a highspeed photographic process featuring the transmission of television messages with a potential of handling a million words a minute. 1949— Puppet show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie shown in Washington, D. C., in color with no effect on black and white sets. 1950— 51—Research in color television, UHF, and cross-country relay of color television by microwave. 1952—Broadening of television service by the UHF band. —Francis Ray buck CHARLES ALBERT GUTH Academic Boys' Chorus; Mixed Chorus; A Cappella Choir; County Chorus; Drill Team; Business Committee; Treasurer of 214. BARBARA J. HALL Commercial F. B. L. A. State Vice President; Sub-Deb; Press Club; N. J. H. S.; Snapshot Committee. PHYLLIS K. HARRIGER Academic Argonauts; Tru Blu; Literary Staff. VIRGINIA ANN HAUGH Academic Tru Blu; Sub-Deb; N. J. H. S.: Junior Class Play; Snapshot Committee; Seniors Committee; Sr. Basketball Team. JAMES A. HETRICK Academic Snapshot Committee. ELLEN HIMES Academic Argonauts President; Sub-Deb; Tru Blu; Student Council; A Cappella Choir; Sr. Girls' Trio; Girls' Ensemble; Mixed Chorus; County Chorus; Junior Class Play. IVAN HIMES Agricultural Future Farmers of America. MARY KAY JOHNS Academic Sub-Deb; Tru Blu; N. J. H. S.; Sr. Tumbling Team; Junior Class Play; Le Cercle Francois; Snapshot Committee; Seniors Committee; Sr. Basketball Team. 18 The Echo