Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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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

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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 Parade of History - - Medicine During the last generation great progress has been made in the field of medicine. Since 1940 biochemistry has discovered and developed substance originating from living organisms such as molds. These substances prevent the growth and reproduction of micro-organisms. Penicillin, streptomycin, and more recently, aureomycin have been highly effective in combating a number of diseases. Since 1941 medical study has shown many forms of insanity to be curable. Recognition of vitamins, activities of glands of internal secretion and their importance in promoting growth and controlling metabolism has come about. Today X-ray has advanced to a point where an X-ray picture of PEGGY M. JOHNSON FRED E. KELSO. JR. Commercial General Mixed Chorus; Girls' Cho- Features Committee; Un-rus; Sub-Deb; Press Club; dercl assmen Committee: F. B. L. A.; Art Club; Liter- Groups Committee; Drill ary Staff; Cafeteria Hostess; Team; Rifle Club. Ushers Club. the entire body can be taken in a fraction of a second. X-ray and radium are still the only non-surgical treatments known for cancer. In this field radio-active substances were discovered, but up to the present the results have been unsatisfactory because improvement was followed by severe and fatal anemia. Sulfanala-mide drugs have been used successfully to prevent the development of infections. A discovery of blood groups by Landsteiner in 1943 made possible blood transfusions. His work did much to decrease the death rate on the battlefield. Yes, medicine has progressed, and because of the progress, people are living happier and longer lives. —Ruby Thomas ABRAHAM A. KENNEDY MARY ALICE KNISELY General Academic Tru Blu; Le Cercle Francais; Sub-Deb; N. J. H. S.; A Cap-pella Choir; Mixed Chorus; Literary Staff; Press Club. JULIA ELIZABETH KRAUS JIM LINDEMUTH THOMAS EUGENE LOVE ANN M. McANINCH Academic General General Commercial Tru Blu; Tri-Hi-Y President; Le Cercle Francais; Sr. Girls' Trio; Sr. Tumbling Team; Sr. Girls' Basketball-Features Committee; Literary Staff; Chorus. Snapshop Committee. Rifle Club; Projectionist: Features Committee; Graduation Announcement Committee. F. B.L. A.; N. J. H. S.; Literary Staff. The Echo 19