Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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Seniors 1953 GEORGE A. MOREY. JR. Academic Varsity Club Secretary; Football; Baseball; Sports Committee; Vice President of 216. SAM MORRISON Agricultural F. F. A.; Projectionist; Football Junior Year. DORIS MYERS Commercial Press Club; F. B. L. A.; Sub-Deb; Mixed Chorus; Sr. Tumbling Team; Snapshot Committee; Groups Committee: Cafeteria Hostess. ANNA MAE NELSON General F. B. L. A.; F. H. A. DORIS NOLPH PATTY OSBORNE GUY ARDEN OVENSHIRE ANNE PARK Commercial Commercial F. B. L. A.; Sub-Deb; Cafe- 3ub-Deb Vice President: terla Hostess; Ushers Club; F. B. L. A. Treasurer; Press Press Club. Club Treasurer; Ushers Club. Parade of History - - Sports Despite the intervention of war in the period from 1941 to 1953, we find that sports have been thriving. Baseball saw, at last, the end of the Yankee domination. The war brought many would-be second division clubs into pennant contention. Later in the decade the baseball world saw the death of its greatest player, George Herman Ruth. Starting in 1949 the Yankees again began their tyrannical domination and have won four straight World's Championships since. Football saw the merging of two rival pro leagues into one National League with two sections, and Notre Dame under Frank Leahy ran up a string of thirty-eight consecutive wins, an all-time record. Basketball was General General Library Club; F. H. A.; Press Club; Sr. Tumbling Team. knocked for a great loss by the discovery of bribe-taking among college players. In the lesser publicized sports we had Bob Mathias, schoolboy winner of the Olympic Decathlon; Ben Hogan who made such a heartwarming comeback at golf after he had been terribly disabled in an automobile wreck; Gussie Moran who brought lace frills into championship tennis; and Joe Louis who, after sixteen years of ring denomination, bowed out to make way for a new and younger champion. We can readily see that the American sports field has been active during our school life—full of thrills, chills, sorrows, joys, winnings, losings, and above all, fun. —Jim Crawford The Echo 21

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Seniors 1953 MARGARET LOUISE McConnell General F. H. A.; Library Club. PATRICIA ANN McKERNAN General Tru Blu; Faculty Committee. MOLLY MEHRTEN Academic Tru Blu; Tri-Hi-Y; Le Cercle Francois; Band; Mixed Chorus; Girls' Chorus; A Cap-pella Choir; Girls' Ensemble; Business Committee; Features Committee; Drill Team. JOHN JOSEPH MELILLO General Varsity Club; Football; Drill Team; Sports Committee; Baseball. ROBERT P. MILLER. JR. Academic Varsity Club; Football; Drill Team; President of 216; Baseball; Sports Committee. WOODY MILLER JANICE CLAIRE MINNO Academic General Business Committee; Art Tru Blu; Sub-Deb; Seniors Committee; Snapshot Com- Committee; Groups Commit-mittee; Mixed Chorus; Boys' tee. Chorus; A Cappella Choir; Drill Team; County Chorus; Junior Class Vice President. ESTHER ALDINE MOORE Academic Le Cercle Francois; N. J. H. S.; Library Club; Mixed Chorus; Girls' Chorus; Faculty Committee. Parade of History - - Automobiles Today's cars rank with the finest in the world in styling and performance for the American industry is always working to improve its production and products. Nowhere in the world and in such a short time has anything improved as much as the automobile. To name a few of the changes, we now have power steering, automatic light dimmers, tinted windshield glass, increased horsepower, radical differences in tires, automatic transmissions, and greater luxury in interiors. Power steering is a device which takes ninety percent of the work out of steering, while the automatic dimmer receives the light impulses from the other car and automatically dims the lights. In the horsepower race, Cadillac and Chrysler are among the leaders, both having around the two hundred mark. Winter treads have become popular for winter driving. Designers have brought us many variations in automatic transmissions such as Hydramatic, Dynaflow, and Power-glide as in General Motors cars; Fluid Drives which are in the Chrysler cars; and the Forda-matic, Mercumatic, and Hydramatic made by the Ford Motor Company. The interiors of today's cars are masterpieces of styling and comfort. We have carpets on the floors; foam rubber seats; leather, plastic, and fabric seat covers; and colors which blend with the outside of the car. —Chuck Guth 20 The Echo

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Seniors 1953 Parade of History - - Fashions From 1941 to 1953, our fashions have seen many changes. To understand the styles of the war years, you must first understand the effect the First World War had on our women. Then the idea of free and equal rights for women in business was getting a good start. This caused women to imitate men, the more masculinity, the better the fashion. This feeling prevailed 'til the Second World War. Women were eager to be feminine again, and the sweater girl came into view. The styles of this era were made up of slender knee-level skirts, sweaters, or jackets and dresses with well-padded shoulders. Shortages of materials brought about the short evening dress as well as inconveniences, such as no zippers, no silk, no nylon, and few shoes. Post war years brought on the 'new look. Dresses became frilly and low-necked. Materials changed to satins, taffetas, and velvets. Hips and shoulders were rounded, hem lines were ten inches from the floor, skirts billowed, bare heads became coiffed, and covered shoulders were bared. New colors such as tangerine, lavender, and chartreuse made their appearance. In twelve short years women traveled a long way from that masculine period before World War II. —Katheryn Butler FRANCES JOANNE PARK General F. B. L. A.; F. H. A.; Ushers Club; Library Club. BLAISE C. PETROCCI Academic Varsity Club Treasurer: Football; Drill Team; Sports Committee. DONALD LEE PLATO General Rifle Club; A Cappella Choir; Mixed Choir; Boys' Chorus; Snapshot Committee. HELEN PROCIOUS Commercial Ushers Club; Tri-Hi-Y; Library Club; Press Club; Seniors Committee; F. B. L. A. DONWYDETTE PYLE EVA JAYNE QUINN FRANCIS RAYBUCK HOWARD W. REINARD General Commercial Academic Agricultural A Cappella Choir; Band; County Chorus; Girls' Chorus; Girls' Ensemble; Mixed Chorus; Sr. Tumbling Team; Ushers Club; Snapshot Committee. F. H. A.; F. B. L. A.; Press Club; Library Club; Seniors Committee. Varsity Club; Drill Team; Foot ball; Underclassmen Committee; A Cappella Choir; Sr. Boys' Quartet; Mixed Chorus; Boys' Chorus; Baseball. F. F. A. 22 The Echo