Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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Seniors 1953 IRA STORMER General Band; Dance Band; Drill Team. HELEN JANE STRONG Commercial F. B. L. A.; Tru Blu Secretary; Sub-Deb; Snapshots Committee; Ushers Club; Mixed Chorus; Cafeteria Cashier; Press Club; Secretary of 217. BERNARD ERIN TAYLOR Academic Student Council; Student Court; Varsity Club; Football; Baseball; Basketball; Echo Committees. ELLA AMANDA TENNIES Academic RUBY THOMAS SHIRLEY MAE THOMPSON GLENN E. THRUSH Academic Commercial General Argonauts; Ushers Club. Junior Class Play; Ushers Club; F. B. L. A.; Literary Staff; Cafeteria Cashier; Mixed Chorus; Art Club; Press Club; Yearbook Typ- ist. DARREL VANDERVORT General Parade of History - - Communism Communism as we know it today is a carryover from the days of Pluto's republic. Communism is an extreme form of socialism by which a share and share alike basis is used; that is, a movement that calls for the pooling of property resources. Communism has readily become a threat to our democratic way of life. The people of communistic nations have been fed so much propaganda about our country that they feel they would not want to live here. A program called Voice of America came into existence during President F. D. Roosevelt's term in office. This program was and is a means to contact the people of totalitarian countries and let them know just what it is like here in America. The Supreme Court has taken action in many cases of Communist espionage in the United States. Many of their cases have dealt with the giving away of government secrets and the selling of atomic secrets. Communism, or rule by the hammer and sickle, can be combatted only if every good citizen takes a look around and begins to realize that it could happen here. —Ellen Himes The Echo 25

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Seniors 1953 MARIAN ALICE SHOBERT SHIRLEY C. Commercial SHRECENGOST Press Club. Commercial Tru Blu; Cheerleader; Sr. Tumbling Team; Student Court; F. B. L. A.; Sports Committee; Cafeteria Hostess. GENE A. SMITH MOLLY SMITH Academic Academic Sub-Deb; Tru Blu; Chorus; Cheerleader; Student Council Treasurer; Sr. Tumblinq Team; Girls' Ensemble; A Cappella Choir; District Band; Snapshots Committee. WILSON RAY SMITH SHIRLEY MAE SMITH General Commercial Underclassmen Committee; Ushers Club; F. B. L. A; Sr. Tumbling Team; Mixed Chorus; Hall Monitor; Co-editor of Beam; Cafeteria Hostess. H. JOY SPARE GORDON STEELE Commercial General F. B. L. A.; Art Editor of Beam; Art Club; Mixed Chorus; Features Committee; Hall Monitor; Cafeteria Hostess. Parade of History - - Atomic Energy It is impossible to relate the history of atomic energy through the last twelve years without going back over the long period of time leading up to the first real experiment man ever made with atomic energy. Atomic energy goes back to the first great scienitsts of the world. The atomic age has already started. It started in July, 1945, with the explosion of the first atomic bomb. The elemental flame, first fire ever made on earth that did not have its origin from the sun, came from the explosion of the first atomic bomb. At that great moment in history, ranking with the moment when man first put fire to work for him, the vast energy locked within the heart of the atoms of matter was released for the first time in a burst of flame such as had never before been seen on this planet. One of the things that is a wonderment among many people is: Can the power of the atomic bomb be harnessed in some way so that it may be used for good instead of evil? Science has told us that if we could harness the power from one atomic explosion, we would not have to worry about the coal for the furnace, the wood for the fire, or the gas for the stove, because there is enough power in one of the bombs to keep us from worry the rest of our lifetime. —George Morey 24 The Echo

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Seniors 1953 Parade of History - - United Nations And now we approach the final paragraph in the parade of history since we were in first grade. It is only right that we should think of the United Nations as our hope for world peace. In 1942, representatives of all nations then at war with the Axis powers gathered in our national capital where they signed what was known as the Declaration of the United Nations. It wasn't until 1944 that the Big Three the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union laid plans for a United Nations organization. In 1945 delegates from forty-six nations signed the constitution at a San Francisco meeting. The United Nations with her four main units, General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and the International Court of Justice, has come a long way. The early years were frequently characterized by differences of opinion between democratic nations on one side and Russia and her satellite states on the other. So today the world faces the problem—Can the democratic and totalitarian states work together for world peace? Perhaps the answer lies in the strengthening of the United Nations. RICHARD DEAN WALLACE General Art Club. SHIRLEY A. WALLACE Commercial F. B. L. A., Ushers Club. Literary Staff. BETTY JOAN WALTON Commercial F. B. L. A., Mixed Chorus. Cafeteria Hostess. TRICIA WAYLAND Commercial Seniors Committee, Drill Team, Press Club. JIM WHITE General Varsity Club, Treasurer of 217. JOYCE WINGARD Commercial F. B. L. A., Literary Staff, Art Club. JAMES B. WISE General Snapshot Committee, Business Committee. CLARENCE WOLFE General Varsity Club, Vice President of 217. 26 The Echo