Elizabethtown Area High School - Elizabethan Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

Page 23 text:

U CG? li

Page 22 text:

1 ' KW Y I f 11 x2 f x y ' 4' 4 - 'Q 1 , . 'Z f f I 'Q f ffl ' f ,101 if ,ff ff,f'o , X lffvu, f ,Z , 53 ff m 'lll1,' 1 I I X U 1 X 3 . Z - , . 1 ' - I 5 'hh l . H 'I 'y ,,.- 49 f ' ' 1 ' 'M 'I ,, if I . Y' ,A 4:31 I 5 , s ' VX 34:2 4' : -f QA 5' : M Q? 1 f 4 fi f f X234 ' 41' ' f . ,n W? If '60 '+:ii?i!ff ff -www WWW - lb

Page 24 text:

u 'f err, ,MN ny,-1 I ,I x' ' its Byx FRESHMAN YEAR. It all began on a sunny day . . . September 6, 1943, to be exact . . . most numerous and most unimportant class, known as freshmen . . . our outstand- ing characteristic was a vivid shade of green . . . didn't take long to find out agricola meant same as farmer . . . Mr. Trimble, class adviser . . . girls quite chummy at Frosh par- ties . . . boys couldn't dance! . . . war in back of everyone's mind, so girls sold stamps and bonds . . . didn't stop girls from day- dreaming of that certain tall, blue-eyed ath- letic Still '... varsity basketball champs . . . outstanding gym exhibition . . . our first! . . . memorable Home Room 3 assembly . . . final- ly last day of school arrived . . . Did we just imagine that the faculty had a few more gray hairs? SOPHOMORE YEAR. This year the first day of school, September 5, 1944, didn't seem quite so sunny '... especially to the faculty . . . as sophomores, we were more barbarous and warlike . . . our nature to be cruel, you see . . , allowed to join Y groups . . . fun, but those initiations! . . . this year we felt like big wheels . . . you see, it was our turn to elect class officers . . . excellent choices, too . . , president, Samuel Singer, vice-president, Kenneth Kniley, secretary, .lane Cunningham, treasurer, .lane Auch . . . also permitted to select courses . . . and what a time . . . sad! sad! . . . by the way, did history ever kayo us! . . . those poor, poorw-teachers! I lef,ma,lmaJz,4ou. bfztvilmpaai JYNIOR YEAR. The fun really started on September 4, 1945 . . umm! l . . . there we were, ninety intelligent geniuses K? '35 . . . we elected as president, Samuel Singer, vice- presidcnt, Kenneth Kniley, secretary, Virginia Raffensperger, treasurer, Jane Cunningham . . . excellent and efficient class adviser, Mr. Diehl . . . class rings turned out to be baked instead of onyx . . . didn't phase us . . . re- read contract and sent rings back . . . Red McCarthy, our orchestra for Junior-Senior Prom . . . gala decorations . . . found all over girlsl lockers-Alan Ladd and Gregory Peck , . . new refreshment stand . . . gym exhibi- tion practically rained out . . . new athletic field with band to go with it . . . junior play postponed on account of a certain small pack of mischief getting the mumps .... lunior High basketball champs. SENIOR YEAR. We entered E. H. S. for our last year on September 3, 1946 . . . of all pupils the seniors are oldest and wisest . . . so our title seniors described us perfectly . . . officers turned out to be: president, Sam- uel Singer, vice-president, Charles Goodling, secretary, Virginia Raffensperger, treasurer, Jane Cunningham . . . same capable class adviser, Mr. Diehl . . . excellent football and basketball teams . . . girls left feminine ranks -took up field hockey . . . Senior Class play a huge success . . . Not singly, but to- getherl'-our watchword . . . empires have risen and fallen . . . wars have been declared and won . . . fads have swept the earth and died away . . . but the Class of '47 lives on. -20-