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? S H S° THE SPECTATOR JCHNSKMNHGH SCHOOL JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA L Dedication We, the members of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Four, dedicate this book to the memory of a kind and skilful teacher, Mr. Frank Hower, of the Vocational Depart- ment. Mr. Hower’s influence will long be felt in both the community and the school. Foreword In this “Spectator,” our final work at Johnstown High School, we, the Class of 1934, have chosen as our theme, the Hundredth Anniversary of Free Education in the State of Pennsylvania. Contents Theme Administration The Class Literary Studies The Staff Athletics Organizations Humor Advertisements Appreciation We, the members of the Staff of the “Spectator,” wish to express our appreciation to the citizens, the business men, the students, the faculty, and the sponsors, Miss Swisher, the Literary Adviser; Miss Gocher, the Business Adviser; and Miss Hoffman, the Art Adviser, for their splendid help and generous support which has made possible this publication. Jk. PfU afflWDViai ai(P THE FIGHT FOR FREE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA The first half century of our National history the population was largely rural, railways were just beginning, canals were scarce, and roads were few and poor. About 1820, old occupa- tions increased their demands, and new ones were constantly aris- ing. There was a natural concentration of wealth and population in the cities and towns that were advantageously situated. Before 1830, there was an inrush of laborers of all kinds. Unskilled la- borers often worked for $ .50 to $ .75 a day. City life produced changes. Many boys and girls worked in factories when they should have been in school. In 1829, organizations of working men in Philadelphia asked each candidate for a formal statement as to his attitude toward “an equal and general system of education.’’ The Leaders in these movements saw that free public education was the greatest blessing that could be given the poorer classes and that it offered practically the only means of advancement for those without wealth. The Pennsylvania Society was organized in 1827 for the pro- motion of Public Schools. A report from the society three years later stated that not one pupil in three, of school age, was getting any education at all. This society kept up vigorous activity for free schools for several years. In the Legislative Session of 1830-1831, Governor Wolf strong- ly advocated some provision for free public schools. Bills provid- ing for a system of public education were introduced in both houses in 1831, but they failed to pass in either. A bill did pass, how- ever, providing a Common School Fund. In 1834, this bill was stated as follows: 1. Section One provided that each County of the Common- wealth should form a school division, and that every ward, town- ship and borough, should form a school district. 2. The Second and Third Section fixed the number of school directors and the manner of their election. Iff 3. Sections Four, Five, and Seven, provided for annual meet- ings of the County Commissioners and a representative of each School Board in the County. 4. Sections Eight, Nine, and Eleven defined the powers and duties of School Directors in locating and building schools, hiring teachers, and attending to many other details. 5. Section Ten provided for school visits by the Board and annual reports to the District Inspectors. 6. Sections Eleven to Fifteen, inclusive, provided for the ap- pointment annually by the Court of Quarter Session in each County or district of two inspectors of the public schools whose duty was to examine and certify teachers, visit each school at least once in three months, and report conditions to the Superintendent of Public Schools. 7. Section Sixteen made the Secretary of the Commonwealth Superintendent of Public Schools and defined his duties. In September, 1834, efforts were made to repeal this law. The aristocrats felt that education should be only for the better people, the well-born or wealthy. Many people in rural surround- ings could see no practical use for education. Both houses of the Legislature, which met December 2, 1834, seemed to be in the hands of the enemies of public education, and these forces lost no time in presenting bills ranging from merely amending the Act of 1834 to its complete repeal and return to the Pauper Act of 1809. The Senate was in favor of the repeal. In the House there was at no time a clear majority in favor of the repeal of the Act of 1834. When efforts to accept the Senate Bill repealing the Act of 1834 failed, every sort of amendment was re- sorted to in an effort to destroy the force of the measure. All such amendments were voted down by the free school men. Since the date of final adjournment had been set, there was no time for presenting a new measure. The fight for the principle of State-controlled free education had at last been won. THE HISTORIC SPEECH FOR FREE EDUCATION IN PENNSYLVANIA There is one date in the history of Pennsylvania which should always be remembered by everyone who has ever attended a pub- lic school. On this date, April 11, 1835, the Honorable Thaddeus Stevens gave a speech that laid the foundation for the great system of free education now in existence in our state. Thaddeus Stevens gave his memorable speech to stay the re- peal of the Act of 1834. This Act, which was passed in both the Senate and the House, provided for the establishment of Common Schools in Pennsylvania. However, when it was approved by Gov- ernor George Wolf, many counties sent in petitions for its repeal. People were incensed because of the law, and friends became bit- ter enemies. It was in this atmosphere of disapproval that Mr. Stevens gave his eloquent and forceful oration which swayed the prejudiced legislators to take his view of the question. In his speech, he used various methods of attacking his sub- ject. Logical reasoning, flattery, courtesy, and the appeal to hu- man interest are some of these. He began his speech by stating in a direct but courteous way, his reasons for opposing the repeal of the school law. Perhaps the best argument he used was the fact that the law was not given a fair chance. He said that to re- peal it before it had been tested would be unwise, for this would make it appear to have a glaring and pernicious defect. Another view was that the law would lighten the burden of taxation and raise the standard of human intellect. He assumed that everyone knew that education was essential for good citizenship. Not only did he state this fact, but he also proved it by showing from Ancient History how the citizens of the old republics considered it a duty to their country to make means of learning available to every free child. Knowledge, he declared was absolutely necessary in that citizens must have it in order that they might know how to take part in governmental activities. Mr. Stevens then took up the cost of free education, because he knew that it was one of the main reasons why so many people opposed the Act. By actual figures, however, he showed that this SPECIAR OR permanent system would cost one-half less than the incompetent method of schooling that was then in use. A point which he brought out about school taxes may still be applied today. The point is that money paid in taxes is not only benefiting the parents and relatives of school children, but it is also helping others in that these educated people will improve and perpetuate the govern- ment. Through improvement in the public schools, the colleges and literary institutions will be improved since there would be more students prepared to enter them. The fact that there were not many higher institutions of learning in Pennsylvania was still an- other argument used by Mr. Stevens in showing the necessity of free education. Then, he took up the political view of the question and proved that unjustly it influenced the decision of the people in regard to this law. Prejudices and political views should all be put aside, he insisted, in order that the legislators might decide the question with a clear mind. He appealed to the wish to be known to posterity by urging that furthering education was a sure way of being remembered. Even if the expense were great, the fame they would reap would be still greater. In conclusion he argued that the citizens should not consider the material aspect, because they could not look upon the material with pleasure. By lifting themselves above this and voting for the law, they would be dealing with human beings. They would be bestowing one of the greatest gifts on mankind and especially on the children in unfortunate circumstances who could gain an equal footing with their more fortunate friends. No words of appreciation will suffice to show the gratitude that is due to Thaddeus Stevens, but Charles Sumner expressed it as nearly as words can do when he said: “Not a child in Pennsylvania, conning a spelling book beneath the humble rafters of a village school, does not owe him gratitude; not a citizen, rejoic'ng in that security which is found only in lib- eral institutions, founded on equal rights of all, is not his debtor.” Elizabeth George. 16 THADDEUS STEVENS, ADVOCATE OF FREE EDUCATION Every child educated today in a free school in Pennsylvania is indebted to the tireless efforts of Thaddeus Stevens, champion, throughout his active life, of universal freedom and universal edu- cation. Without his efforts, it is probable that Pennsylvania would have been one of the last of the old free states to adopt free edu- cation. It was in April, 1835, while a member of the House of Repre- sentatives in the Pennsylvania Legislature, that he supported the bill for free education with his immortal speech. After that the House immediately passed his motion, that of substituting for the Senate bill another bill strengthening the law which it proposed to repeal, but most remarkable of all, the Senate, which but a short time before had so decisively voted for repeal, immediately return- ed to its chambers and concurred, with a few unimportant amend- ments, in the House substitute bill. This incident in Thaddeus Stevens's career as a brilliant statesman came early in his political life. Forty-three years before this, Thaddeus Stevens, the son of Joshua and Sally Stevens, was born at Danville, Caledonia Coun- ty, Vermont, cm the fourth day of April, 1792. Although very little is known about his ancestors, the stock was evidently Anglo- Saxon. His parents were poor, and the community he lived in was inhabited by poor people. Not much is known about his father except that he disappeared when Thaddeus was a youngster, leav- ing Mrs. Stevens to rear four sons. She had great energy, a strong will, and deep piety. During an ordinary childhood, Thaddeus was sickly and crip- pled. Mrs. Stevens let him attend the common schools in that dis- trict. After he finished there, he prepared for college at Peacham Academy in his native county. From here, he entered the Univer- sity of Vermont, remaining there about two years. After this, he proceeded to Dartmouth and was graduated from that institution in 1814. Determined to become a lawyer, he read law’ at Peacham for some months. In 1815, he settled in York, Pennsylvania. Here he taught in an academy and pursued his legal studies. On account of certain ■ ■ - ■ -------r—T- IH rules of court in that district, he went to Belair, Hartford County, Maryland, where he was examined and admitted to the Bar in 1816. Returning to Pennsylvania, he opened a law office at Gettys- burg, in Adams County, and entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in that and adjoining counties. In a short time, he was in possession of an extensive and lucrative business to which he gave his entire attention for some sixteen years. Thaddeus Stevens first entered politics at the rise of the Anti- Masonic party about 1828 or 1829. In 1883 he was elected to the popular branch of the Legislature at Harrisburg. There he served as a representative from Adams County. He continued to serve in that body almost without interruption until 1840. It was in the Legislature that he became the leader of his party and contributed much towards the establishment of a free school system. It is a significant fact that when a gymnasium was organized by a few of the prominent citizens during his residence at Gettys- burg that he soon conceived the idea of building on this modest foundation a more useful institution. Through his influence as a member of the Legislature, he secured a charter changing the gymnasium to “The Pennsylvania College,” and he also obtained a donation from the State of an amount of monev sufficient to erect for the college its principal and most costly edifice. The only con- sideration for this liberality was the free education of a specified number of destitute young men who might avail themselves of this privilege from time to time and also that the German language should constantly be taught in the institution. Thaddeus Stevens served as a member of the Board of Trustees to the time of his death. But he achieved his great desire for the education of the poor when by a single effort he established the principle that it is the duty of the state to provide the facilities for education to all the children of the Commonwealth. Before 1834, public education was provided only to self-con- fessed paupers. In order to have his children educated at public expense, it was necessary for the parent or guardian to make it ap- pear that he was not able to furnish them the means of education. This system was illustrated by the Friends’ Public School, where the rich were educated at reasonable rates, and the poor were maintained and schooled for nothing. The system of public education was first tried in Philadelphia, and the agitation for such a plan to include the whole State termi- nated in the Act of 1834 whose basic principle was free education for all. This Act passed with only one dissenting vote. Of course it involved taxation, and the thrifty people of Pennsylvania could not consent to a system which took the money of those who had no children and used it for the education of the children of the well- to-do. So at the next session of the Legislature, the people sent rep- resentatives who were instructed to repeal the Bill. It was this Legislature that Thaddeus Stevens converted and from which he secured public education for future generations of Pennsylvania. While a member of this legislative body, he attended the con- vention called in 1837 to revise the Constitution of Pennsylvania. He refused to put his name to the completed instrument because the word, “white”, was inserted as a designation for qualification of suffrage. On account of losses in the iron business and other debts in- curred by loans to his friends, he moved to Lancaster County in 1842 and resumed his law practice. His reputation as a lawyer preceded him, and from the large income he earned, he was able in a few years to pay his debts and save the bulk of his estate. Thaddeus Stevens became a member of the Congress at Wash- ington, D. C., in 1849. He was the leader of the House of Repre- sentatives from July 4, 1861, until his death. During the Civil War, he was Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means and afterwards of the Committee on Appropriations and Reconstruc- tion. All his efforts during the War were concerned with the abo- lition of slavery. His life up to his death on Tuesday, August 11, 1868, was devoted to the poor and oppressed. Tireless in his efforts to insure freedom and equality for all people in spite of race, he will be remembered in the hearts of students of the public schools of Pennsylvania as hastening their freedom from ignorance. Today the splendidly equipped and well-organized school buildings of Pennsylvania remain as fitting monuments to Thaddeus Stevens. Edna May Bates. THADDEUS STEVENS A school of logs, though it be crude, Is all I want for gratitude; A quiet place in some lone spot, Where children’s minds are bound in thought; Where they may have a chance to try Their eager minds to satisfy. And may I leave one heartfelt plea, That schools be kept forever free. Elizabeth George. -----o------ SCHOOL BELL Upon The frosty air, Sparkling among the hills, A school bell sends out its song of Wisdom. Edna May Bates. -----o------ NIGHT GUARD The moon, Like a wise owl, Serenely guards Temples Of Learning, from her cloudy perch On high. Edna May Bates. To Mr. McMaster, To you, Mr. McMaster, we owe our appreciation of your untiring efforts and your ceaseless labor in making our lives in Johnstown High School worth while. Un- selfishly you have devoted your time and energy to our education. Some of us, after giving up all hope of graduation, made a final effort and succeeded after a few words of kind advice and encouragement from you. Even the Honor Students have been aided by your kind- ly supervision. Some of us will go on to take high and responsible positions. We shall scatter out to all parts of the globe. A few of us will make great names for ourselves, but, regardless of where we go, or what we become, your memory will always linger with us and guide us on our way. We, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty- Four bid you, Mr. McMaster, a most hearty and affec- tionate farewell. Gratefully yours, Edna May Bates, Editor of the “Spectator.” I HE SPECTATOR Mr. Dale McMaster Principal of the High School 23 THE FACULTY First Row: Elizabeth S. Hoge, (Librarian); Julia H. Stuckey, (Clerk to Mr. McMaster) Margaret M. Evans, (History); Ruth Kantner, (English; Marie G. Culli- ton, (Shorthand and Typewriting); Alma I. Hughes, (Typewriting); Alice M. Gocher, (Business English). Second row: Joseph V. Harrick, (Coach, Vocational Mathematics); Hugh P. Liggett, (Administrative Assistant); Clarissa Hills, (Head of the Commercial Depart- ment); Lucrece H. Ohart, (French); Sophia M. Moiles, (Physics); Besse Glosser, Bookkeeping, English); Edna K. Fearl, (Latin, Italian); Mary D. Glenn, (English); Charles B. Wonders, (Machine Shop) ; M. J. Miles, (Plumbing). Third row: Amy V. Bollinger, (English); Nettie Showers, (Physiology, Physi- ography); June Hoffman, (Art); Anna 0. Woodring, (Dramatics); De Grace Thomas, (English); Ida Hawman, (History); Agnes B. Neary, (German); Margaret Berry, (Telephone Operator) j Dorothy W. Ditmar, (Clerk to Mr. Liggett) ; Helen Hinch- man, (Household Arts); D. S. Lockner, (Commercial Law, Salesmanship). Fifth row: Charles Marks, (Electricity); C. Porter Huntington, (Music, Orches- tra); Charles Aikey, (Music, Band); Marguerite Hinchman, (Foods and Nutrition); Irene McKinney, (Shorthand, Typewriting); Alletha Standish, (History, Social Prob- lems); Jessie Canan, (English); Clarence A. Tood, (Algebra, Geometry); Elnora Felix, (English) ; Laura Merritt, (Head of the Modern Language Department) ; D. D. McMaster, (Principal). Sixth row: Ralph E. Gillman, (Vocational Algebra, Geometry); J. Howard Weisel, (Chemistry); L. E. Corbin, (Wood Work); Myra B. Swisher, (English); Helen Lockard, (Spanish): Frieda Fleck, (Physical Education); Josephine Young, (French, German); Jessie M. Tomb, (Problems of Democracy, Home Visitor, Social Director); Algie Baumgardner, (Chemistry). Seventh row: Ross C. Benshoflf, (Latin, Vocational Geometry); Wilbur F. Cleaver, (Printing); Nevin J. Smith, (Mathematics); Marshall A. Fisher, (Physical Education); Warren Heller (Assistant Coach. History, Civics): Don A. West, (Me- chanical Drawing); J. Emmet George, (Head of the Science Department Physics); Harry H. Klahre, (Head of the Vocational Department); Raymond W. Morgan, (Shorthand, Salesmanship, Economics). 24 c I fi PECTATPDR. Senior Events Monday, May 21 Senior Assembly Monday, May 21................................. Senior Play , Tuesday, May 22.................................Senior Play Friday, May 25 Senior Dance Sunday, May 27 Baccalaureate Service Monday, May 28 Commencement Senior Assembly Selection from the Bible Chaplain, Kent Armstrong Flag Salute Margaret and Kathryn Kuhne Presentation of the Key Class President, Blair Johnston Prophecy Radio Announcement Blair Johnston Selection Dance................Emma Jean Bowman and Lucille Lonergan Selection Vocal Duet Agnes Mattes, Doris Machamer Accordion Mike Nanna Selection Senior Orchestra Scarecrow Dance Betty Lou Kistler, Mary J. Crouse Josephine Wesner, Margaet Lewis Flute Solo Mary Sauers Selection Senior Orchestra Boys’ Dance A Group of Seniors Sketch Fae Paul, Blair Johnston Vocal Solo Sara Grazier Class Song By the Class Selection Senior Orchestra Senior Play SKIDDING The Cast for Monday, May 21 Aunt Milly............................ Kathleen Long Andy Mrs. Hardy Mary Blanche Polster Judge James Hardy Kenneth Martin Grandpa Hardy Joseph Hanzel Estelle Hardy Campbell Frances Louise Tomb Marion Hardy Wayne Trenton III Nicholas Coates Mr. Stubbins Frank Genovese Myra Hardy Wilcox Time: Spring. Elizabeth Bailey Place: Idaho. Act I, II, III—Living room of the Hardy home. Senior Play SKIDDING The Cast for Tuesday, May 22 Aunt Milly .................................................Fae Paul Andy......................................... Blair Johnston Mrs. Hardy..............................................Dorothy Caldwell Judge James Hardy ........................William Orris Grandpa Hardy.................................... Jack Sacks Estelle Hardy Campbell.................................... Ruth Winder Marion Hardy..................................Mary Eva Byers Wayne Trenton III........................................Curtis Geer Mr. Stubbins..................................Frank Genovese Myra Hardy Wilcox................................. Sara Grazier Time: Spring. Place: Idaho. Act I, II, III—Living room of the Hardy home. IH Commencement Program May 28, 1934, 10:00 A. M. March......................—.............High School Orchestra Priests’ March—Mendelssohn Invocation....................Reverend Howard W. Armstrong Methodist Episcopal Church Southwest Greensburg, Penna. The Theme—The Hundredth Anniversary of Free Education in Pennsylvania. The Program in Charge of Robert Conrad President of Student Council. Speech........................................Richard Falstick The Fight for Free Education in Pennsylvania I Piano.............................Frances Louise Tomb Trio , Flute................................... Mary Sauers ( Violin................................ Mary Cotroneo Speech.......................................... Carl Jordan The First Schools in Pennsylvania Cornet Duet..-..................Wilmer Davis, George Harrison Speech—....................................... Agnes Furman When Grandfather Went to Country School Clarinet Solo.................................Edward Kress Speech........................................ Frank Hauber Schooldays When Johnstown Was a Village Baritone Solo.................................Ray Berkebile Speech......................................Mary Jane Crouse Miss Pennsylvania Receives An Education. Flute Solo......................................Earl Diggins Speech.......................................... Wayne Hill Why I Am Proud To Be a Graduate of the Johnstown Public Schools Trombone Solo.................................Paul Campbell Presentation of the Class......................Dale McMaster Principal of the Johnstown High School Presentation of Diplomas.......................J. D. Rutledge President of the Board of Education Benediction...................Reverend Howard W. Armstrong Commencement Program May 28, 1934, 2:00 P. M. March.................................. High School Orchestra Priests’ March—Mendelssohn Invocation................................Reverend B. F. Bungard Park Avenue United Brethren Church The Theme—The Hundredth Anniversary of Free Education in Pennsylvania. The Program in Charge of Leo Napotnik, Vice-President of Student Council Speech......................................... Agnes Pokrzywa The Fight for Free Education in Pennsylvania I Piano........................... Frances Louise Tomb Trio Flute................................................. Mary Sauers ( Violin.................................. Mary Cotroneo Speech.......................................... George Stull The First Schools in Pennsylvania Trombone Solo................................... Paul Campbell Speech........A................................. Marion Lewis When Gandfather Went To Country School Baritone Solo................................... William Orris Speech........................................ Dorothy Rodgers Schooldays When Johnstown WTas a Village French Horn Solo......................... -...Robert Stephey Speech......................................... Edith Rickabaugh Miss Pennsylvania Receives An Education. Clarinet Solo...........—...........................Ted Loch Speech......................................... Charles Statler Why I Am Proud To Be a Graduate of the Johnstown Public Schools Piano Solo.............._......................Mary Salovich Presentation of the Class.................... D. D. McMaster Principal of the Johnstown High School Presentation of Diplomas......................J- D. Rutledge President of the Board of Education Benediction.............................Reverend B. F. Bungard Iff Baccalaureate Service Choir Sunday, May 27, 1934 Vesper Service 4 P. M.—High School Auditorium Processional Hymn ......................... Author of Life Divine—(Thiman) Scripture Reading and Prayer Reverend O. E. Bennett Hymn .....-.........................................._ Choir Emitte Spiritum Tuum (Send Forth Thy Spirit.)—Schuetky) Sermon.................................Reverend O. E. Bennett Hymn .................................................. Choir Mizpah—(English) Recessional Paul J. Kent at the piano Mary H. Weaver, Director 4 _J Class of 1934 Honor Roll Paul Campbell Agnes Furman Frank Hauber Wayne Hill Cora Jane Bell Ted Gleason Edith Rickabaugh Stanley Ciba Clyde Cummins Elizabeth George David Jenkins Emma Jean Bowman Isadore Suchman Elvin Overdorff Stephen Papp Frank Mirto Marion Lewis George Bernard Alex Atty Walter Gill Joseph Hanzel Eleanor McFeaters Ruth Hershberger Doris Machamer Gladys Head Steve Dedianko John Gregorchik Ruth Harrison Rita Hartwiger Edward Novak Andrew Otrosina Mary Blanche Polster Walter Reighard James Schreier Helen Vital Ben Gribble Sophia Lipko Jack Minahan Andew Oravec HIGHEST HONOR Blair Johnston Carl Jordan Dorothy Rodgers Agnes Pokrzywa HIGH HONOR Frances Louise Tomb Lillian Wallace Lucille Lonergan Marion Ashcom Mary Louise Shaffer Nydia Schwartz Charles Statler Lula Dittmar Carl Byers William Peat Robert Grape Fae Paul Margaret Schatz Francis Smith HONOR Thomas W. Gilchrist Maxine Hesketh Helen Louise Seigh John Borecky Rosemary Burns John Beatty Seward Davis Andrew Hricko Harold Shaulis John Foster Minnie Boyer Watson Horner Jacob Horowitz Ruth Lohr George Harrison Elroy Hepner Miriam Bell Maron Schmidt Joe Hunter Jane Miller Georgia Ripple Alexander Sabo Edna Mae Bates Mary Jane Crouse Salvo Rizza Earl Diggins John Borsuk Tony Toman Amber Mangus Mary Sauers Joseph Jones William Burke Robert Griffith Clement Harris Ethel Hochstein George Stull Vida Babb John Cwik Anne Englebach Gus Stelmack Charles Troupe Mary Zangaglia Earl Adams David Caples William Frick Emory Vince Henry Frombach Glennavee Cook Betty Gleason Harold Alwine Betty Bailey Florence Bohansky Robert Lambert Paul Stegura Mary Louise Stombaugh Ruby Wilson Francis Zlatohlavy Richard Falstick Class Officers BLAIR JOHNSTON President JAKE SHANK Vice-President 34 BEN MAINHART Treasurer EMMA JEAN BOWMAN Secretary THE ECTATOIR George C. Abel Abe Hi-Y Club Plumbing Pinochle George Ackerman “Rosy” German Club Physics Auto Mechanics Engineering Kathryn Adams Kay” French Club Girl Reserves Mathematics Sports Teaching Advanced Mathematics Audrey E. Adamson “Adamson” Library Staff Booster Club Student Council German Club English Reading Teaching Rhetta Marie Alters Dolly” Spanish Club Band Spanish Hair-Setting Teaching Lum Abraham Lummey” Trigonometry Sharpshooting Cabinet Making Earl Adams Pal” Outdoor Sports Plumbing Pr.ul Adams “Shrimp” Spanish Club Spanish Sports Aeronautics Mary Lou Allen “Skippy” Office Staff “Blue and Black” (Society Editor) Spanish Club “Spectator” (Assistant Athletic Editor) .Journalism Music Organ Playing Harold R. Alwine “No Beer” Pep Club Hi-Y Club Pinochle Radio 35 I HE SPECTATOR Joe Ames Ames” Hi-Y Club (Secretary) Booster Club Spanish Club Pep Club ’34 Club Physics Camping Law Kent Armstrong “Chips” Student Council (Chaplain) Pep Club ’34 Club Booster Club Physics Camping Engineering Alex Atty Football Team Geometry Professional “Hulla” Varsity Club Athletics Football Vida C. Babb Babs” Girl Reserves Pep Club Library Staff Atiiletics Swimming Nursing Journalistic Work Helen Baldwin “Blondie” Spanish Club Girl Reserves Gymnastics Tennis Teaching Helen M. Antosh Pickles Spanish Club “Spectator” English Hiking Interior Decorating M arion Ashcom Marion” Spanish Club Pep Club Student Council (Secretary) Literary Staff Languages Sports Teaching Delpha Lcuise Atty “Curly” Writing Poetry Keeping a Scrap-Book Newspaper Reporting Betty Bailey “Betty” “Blue and Black” (Assistant Editor) A-B Club “Spectator” French Club Dramatics Dogs Rosella M. Balint “Balint” Spanish Club Cooking Reading Teaching Home Economics 36 I HE SPECTATOR Franci Ban ky Bansky” Wood Work Golf Cabinet Making Betty Barnhart “Nip” Pep Club Booster Club Girl Reserves Student Council Law Swimming Private Secretarial Work Franci Baretincic “Barry” Wood Work Athletics Aviation Richard Beam Dick Machine Shop Swimming Working With Machinery John Beatty “Johnny” Physics Reading Lumbering Mildred Barbato Milly” Basketball Reading Stenography Irma Barnhart “Irma” Mixed Chorus Library Staff Art Music Nursing Edna May Bates “Boitaie” “Spectator” (Editor) “Blue and Black” Library Staff Girl Reserves French Club A-B Club Journalism Collecting Programs Nursing John C. Beaner Squirt” Law Swimming Salesmanship Helga Becker “Becker” Gymnastics Sports Interior Decorating 37 I HE SPECHA.TOIR James Beckley “Jim” Mixed Chorus Orchestra Mechanical Drawing Sports Drafting Miriam Bell “Dong” German Club Mixed Chorus “Spectator” “Blue and Black” Cooking Singing Teaching Foreign Languages Harry W. Bennett “Hap” Machinery Basketball U. S. Army Aviation Blaine R. Berkebile “Berkey” Law Driving Salesmanship J. Ray Berkebile “Berkey” Mixed Chorus ’34 Club Music Swimming Singing Cora Jane Bell “Ding Mixed Chorus S. 0. S. Club German Club Spanish Club Mathematics Music Teaching Mathematics Arthur Bennett “Art C. E. (President) Physics Scrap Books Medicine Elsie Berg “Elsie” S. 0. S. Club Band ‘Blue and Black” “Spectator” English Teaching Leadership Training Work Gladys Berkebile “Glad” “Spectator” Sewing Sports Interior Decorating Margaret Berkey Sparky” Mixed Chorus “Spectator” French Club Red-Headed Club Art Singing Interior Decorating 38 IffE SPECTATOR George Bernard Chemistry Club Physics Camping House Wiring Dora Bloom “Dorey Spanish Sewing Private Secretarial Work Jack Berriman “Jack” Hi-Y Spanish Club Gymnastics Tennis Marine Engineering Miriam Bloom “Red” Girl Reserves Latin Reading Sewing Nursing John Bobovsky “Bobo” Football Spanish Club Science Hiking Lumbering Florence Bobansky “Flotsie” French Club Art Dancing, Reading Stenography Frank Luther Bolger “Curley” Airplane Study Sports Auto Mechanics John A. Borecky “Johnnie' Vocational Mathematics Plumbing John J. Borsuk “Czar’ Brother” Pep Club Hi-Y Booster Club “Blue and Black” Commercial Law Collecting Samples Banking Robert Bower “Bob” Shop Swimming Printing 39 Iff E PECI4TOR Emma Jean Bowman ‘Jeanie” Class Secretary Mixed Chorus Pep Club Girl Reserves Library Staff Booster Club S. O. S. Club Spanish Club (Secretary) Tap Dancing Sports Teaching Wilfred L. Bossert “Snow Shoe ” Pep Club Swimming Mechanical Drawing Aviation William Francis Bretz “Bill” Public Speaking Office Work Nancy Bryan “Nan” Basketball Dancing Stenography Dorothy E. L. Buch “Dot” Dancing Tennis Nursing Minnie Boyer “Miniiehaha” Laboratory Drawing Cooking Nursing Dorothy Brady “Dot” French Club French Sewing Teaching Philip Brown “Phil” Hi-Y S. O. S. Club Student Council Social Problems Radio Radio Technician Jack Brydon “Jack” ’34 Club Ball Drawing Aviation Margaret Bungard “Peggie” Glee Club Spanish S. O. S. Club Cooking Dietician 40 I HE SPECTATOR Joseph Calvin Burgo “Joe Motion Picture Projectionist Helping the Janitor Baseball Working With Motion Pictures William A. Burke “Bill” Spanish Club S. 0. S. Club Science Fishing, Traveling Electrical Engineering Rosemary Burns Babe” Blue and Black” “Spectator” Typing Poetry Writing Hazel Butler “Butler” Girl Reserves Pep Club “Spectator” Gymnastics Dancing Stenography Mary Eva Byers “Byers” Mixed Chorus Dramatics Spanish Club Chorus Work Reading Walking Teaching Margaret Shirley Burgo “Peggie” “Blue and Black” Typing Dancing Gymnastics Playing Mushball Stenography Don Burns “Don” Science Sports Medicine John Bushko “Boots” Spanish Club S. 0. S. Club History Target Shooting Aeronautics Carl W. Byers “Flash” Spanish Club History Sports Teaching History Dorothy Caldwell Dot” Booster Club Mixed Chorus Girl Reserves (Vice-Pres.) Pep Club (Pres.) Red-Headed Club (Sec.) “Spectator” English Swimming Nursing 41 I HE SPECTATOR. William Caldwell Bill” Mathematics Stamp Collecting Accounting Paul Campbell Soup” Band Orchestra A-B Club Music Music Music David Caples Dead Horse” Working With Janitor Basketball Undertaking Bertram Cauffiel “Bud” Printing Pitching Horseshoes Olga Chemerys Olga” Typing Swimming Stenography Florence Campbell “Flo” Pep Club Basketball Music Teaching Carl Capel Son” Mathematics Sports Medicine Frank Caramico “Curly” Dancing Writing Catherine Cenc Kate” Basketball Tennis Physical Training Paul Chernak Kid” Reading Athletics Political Work 42 IHE SPECTATOR Ralph Chriat “Bud” “Spectator” Basketball, Mushball Reading, Coin Collecting Stenography Edward Cleazynaki “Shinake” Physics Class Reading Magazines Working With Machinery Freda Claycomb Fritzie” Mixed Chorus French Club “Spectator” Art Sports Interior Decorating Nicholaa Coatea “Funk” ’34 Club Hi-Y Club Pep Club Physics Swimming Practicing Law Robert Conrad “Connie” Student Council (President) Pep Club (President) ’34 Club Spanish Club Physics Social Activities Business Stanley Ciba Stan” Printing Sports Printing Anna Mary Ciraulo “Ann” Law Dancing Secretarial Work Jamea Clement “Jimmy” ’34 Club Hi-Y Club History Social Activities Postal Work Ralph Conlev “Bangs” Hi-Y (Treasurer) ’34 Club (President) Booster Club Physics Baseball Engineering Glennavee Cook “Tony” Pep Club Booster Club Library Staff Spanish Club Mixed Chorus Spanish Swimming Nursing 43 SPECTATOR Mary Catherine Cooper “Mary Kay” Booster Club Mixed Chorus Library Staff Pep Club Gymnastics Tennis Teaching Mary Cotroneo “PeeWee” Girl Reserves French Club Orchestra Music Reading Concert Work Helen Louise Cox “Cox” Girl Reserves Spanish Cub Gymnastics Sports Kindergarten Teaching Ida Ruth Crissey “Tibby” Band Art Dancing, Reading Nursing Mary Jane Crouse “Mickey” Girl Reserves Booster Club Pep Club (Treasurer) Mixed Chorus “Spectator” “Blue and Black” French Club Library Staff Red-Headed Club (Treasurer) S. 0. S. Club (Secretary) French Dogs Teaching Richard Cooper Dick” Booster Club Pep Club Hi-Y '34 Club “Spectator” Business Fishing Dallas B. Covert, Jr. Dal” Orchestra English Upholstering Cabinet Making Lillian Mae Crawley “Johnny” Modern and Mediaeval History Dancing Band Spanish Club Nursing Mary M. Crock “Crock” Library Staff Reading Swimming Teaching Rosemary Culliton “Rose” Booster Club “Spectator” Typing Dancing Stenography 44 I HE SPECTATOR Clyde Cummin “Cummin ” Spectator” (Head Typist) Shorthand, Typing Music, Dancing Teaching Raphael Curry “Ray” Mixed Chorus Social Activities Crossword Puzzles Printing Ear! R. Cuppett “Cuppie” Physics Outdoor Sports Undertaking John Cwik “John Henry” Football Team Studying Sports Practicing Law Ralph Davi “Ray” Geometry Playing Pinochle Managing a Big Baseball League Dick De Armey “Red” Spanish Club “Spectator” Law Sports Advertising Steve Dedianko “Steve” Physics Gymnastics Engineering Seward Davis “Judy” Band Spanish Club Mathematics Reading Teaching Mathematics Beatrice Decker “Bea” English Dancing House-Keeping Angelo Joseph De Fazio “Ninny” Basketball Sports Barbering 45 I HE SPECTATOR Bernard Diable “Bernie” Mathematics Sports Civil Engineering Fred DiFlauro “De Fange Woodwork Traveling Gaging Frieda K. Dill “Fritz” Typing Dancing Secretarial Work David Driscoll “Dave” Band Orchestra Mixed Chorus Music Listening To the Radio Veterinary Work Emery Dula “Albie” Reading Driving Automobile Designing Wilda Dietz “Dietz” Pep Club Booster Club Spanish Club Band Library Staff Spanish Sports Social Work Earl Diggins “Earl” S. O. S. Club Spanish Club Composers’ Cluh Band Orchestra Pep Club Mathematics Playing the Flute Engineering Lulu Dittmar “Ginger” Pep Club Girl Reserves (Treasurer) Booster Club Red-Headed Club “Blue and Black” Shorthand Dancing Secretarial Work Nicholas Dudukovich “Dixie” Footba(l Varsity Club Basketball Geometry Athletics Coaching Elwood Dull “Sonny Boy” Mixed Chorus Geometry Experimenting With Radio Working With Radios 46 THE SPECTATOR Ivan Dunbar Dunhof” Student Council Running Errands Driving Television Gertrude Ann Dyba “Gertie” Basketball Dancing Stenography Ruth Egolf “Iggie’ Pep Club Typing Driving a Car Stenography Anne Engelbacb “Anne” Girl Reserves Dramatics Movies Dental Hygiene Homer Evans “Evans” Gymnastics Baseball Engineering Helen Duransy “Duraney” German Club, Mixed Chorus Gymnastics, Russian Dancing Teaching Dancing Wilbert Eckenrod “Will” Reading Athletics Mechanics Jack Eisenberg “Jakie” Pep Club Mixed Chorus Law Truck Driving The Wholesale Fruit and Produce Business Freda Eplett “Fritz” Girl Reserves Gymnastics Dancing Stenography Lettie Evans “Let”’ Spanish Club Gymnastics Swimming Nursing 47 I HE SPECTATOR Earl Everhart “Fuzzy” Mechanical Drawing Drawing Making Blue Prints Evelyn Felton “Felton” Office Force Gymnastics Camping Secretarial Work La Vora Finnell Finnell” Gymnastics Sewing Tennis Stenography Mary Flynn Tip” Reading Saxophone Nursing Richard J. Falstick “Dick” “Spectator” Commercial Law Tennis Business Elizabeth Fetsko “Betty” Spanish Club Reading Reading Nursing Katherine Fisher “Katy” Red-Headed Club Gymnastics Tennis Stenography George Ford “Jit” Physics Hunting Mechanics Nicholas Forosisky “Frosty” Algebra Hunting Army Aviation Charles Elmer Frick “Dingle” Red-Headed Club English Athletics Mechanics 48 William Frick Physics Electrical “Dutch” Athletics Drafting Henry Frombach “Hen” Auto Mechanics Baseball Army Aviation James Fulton “Doctor” Band Orchestra “Spectator” Dramatics Radio, Music Rad io Engineering Joseph Furnari Band ’34 Club “Joe” Orchestra Pep Club Hi-Y Club Music Dance Orchestra Business James D. Galito “Jimmy” Art Dancing Business Anna Mae Friedel “Dixianna” French Swimming Stenography Eleanor Fulton “Fultie” Orchestra Spanish Club Mus'c Reading Teaching Music Agnes V. Furman “Aggie” Student Council German Club Foreign Languages Nature Study Nursing William Galbreath “Bill” Shop Swimming Navy Service Edgar Gardner “Eddie” Plumbing Hunting Civil Engineering 49 THE SPECTATOR Andrew R. Gaydos “Andy” A-B Club Automobile Mechanics Carrying Papers Working With Machinery Dorothy Geisel “Dot” Gymnastics Swimming Stenography Elizabeth A. George “Libby” “Blue and Black” (Literary Editor) “Spectator” S. 0. S. Club Pep Club French Club Girl Reserves Tennis Science Booster Club Medical Technology Walter Giffin “Giff” Pep Club Reading Fishing Electrical Work Thomas W. Gilchrist “Gilly” German Club “Spectator” Translating German Roller-Skating Business Curtis Geer “Flash” Hi-Y Club ’34 Club Student Council Basketball Public Speaking Baseball Surgery Frank Genovese “Professor” Mixed Chorus Spanish Club Advertising Journalistic Work Genevieve George “Georgie” Spanish Club Girl Reserves Spanish Sports Teaching Samuel J. Gigliotti Giggolo” Basketball Roller-Skating Drafting Walter Gill “Red” A-B Club Automobile Mechanics Social Activities Working With Machinery 50 I HE SPECTATOR Fd win Morri Given, Jr. “Yu.kie” Booster Club Pep Club S. 0. S. Club Gymnastics Sports Accounting George Gleason ‘Ted Spanish Club (President) Student Council Booster Club ’34 Club Pep Club Red-Headed Club Hi-Y Club “Spectator Science Tennis Aeronautical Engineering Joieph Goff “Chokee Geometry Playing Baseball Aviation Francis Goucher “Fran” “Spectator Drawing Model Building Drawing Anthony Graziano “Tony' Orchestra Italian Driving Medicine Betty Gleason “Betts” Booster Club Library Staff (Secretary) Girl Reserves Spanish Club “Blue and Black” Girls’ Pep Club Spectator” Spanish Driving a Car Teaching Leonora Jean Goebert “Goebert” Booster Club Girl Reserves Library Staff German Club Gymnastics Tennis Stenography Alta Gordon Band Gymnastics “Skip” Orchestra Skating Nursing Robert Grape “Grape” Glee Club S. 0. S. Club (President) German Club Pep Club Booster Club Clubs Sports Chemistry Sara Grazier “Sally” Mixed Chorus Booster Club Spanish Club Law Singing Singing With An Orchestra 51 Ben Gribble Ben” IHE John Gregorchik “Greggie” “Spectator” (Art Editor) “Blue and Black” (Cartoonist) Art Drawing Commercial Artist Robert Griffith “Bob” Student Council Gymnastics Basketball Physical Training Mike J. Grimaldi “Mic” Football Basketball Italian Dancing Barbering Richard Gross “Dick” History Swimming Managing a Drugstore Dorothy A. Hammer “Red” Gymnastics Dancing Stenography Pinochle Electrical Work Anthony Grimaldi “Ponzi” Bank Woodwork Playing Drums for a Dance Orchestra Directing a Dance Orchestra William Gritzer “Willie” Physics Collecting Stamps Barbering Edward Hack “Eddie” Hi-Y ’34 Club Law Electrical Pep Club Booster Club Tennis Engineering William John Hansel “Bill” Mixed Chorus Singing Football Plumbing 52 I HE SPECTATOR Joteph Hanzel Joe” Football Dramatics Fishing Forestry Clement F. Harris “Clem” German Club (President) Pep Club Mixed Chorus S. 0. S. Club (Vice-Pres.) Booster Club Chemistry Tennis Chemical Engineering George Harrison “Georgie” Band French Club French Playing the Trumpet, Music Rita Hartwiger “Ritzie” Blue and Black” “Spectator” German Club A-B Club German Mushball Accountancy Frank Hauber “Pidge” Band German Club Pep Club ’34 Club Mixed Chorus Student Council German Practicing German Practicing Medicine Ma ry Lou Hargreaves “Tootsie” S. 0. S. Club Pep Club Dramatics Singing Nursing Mary Jane Harris “Jane” Mixed Chorus “Spectator” Reading Welfare Worker Mary Ruth Harrison “Ruthie” “Spectator” Spanish Club French Camping Secretarial Work Jack M. Hate “Jack” ’34 Club Plane Geometry Traveling Aviation Gladys Eleanor Head “Gladys” “Blue and Black” “Spectator” Social Problems Reading Secretarial Work 53 Charles Ernest Heinrich “Chick” Auto Mechanics Hunting Auto Mechanics Ruth Hershberger “Ruth” Spanish Club Athletics Tennis Nursing William Francis Hessler “Hess” Varsity Club ’34 Club Student Council Geometry Dancing Teacher of Athletics El wood Hill “Mike” Public Speaking Basketball Civil Engineering Benjamin Hiner “Ben” Plumbing Horse-Back Riding Working As a Jockey Elroy Hepner “Wimpy” A-B Club English Baseball Electrical Work Maxir.e Hesketh “Max” A-B Club Office Staff Spanish Club Girl Reserves Social Problems Swimming Teaching Kenneth Hildebrand “Kenny” Stage Crew Basketball Drafting Wayne Hill “Hill Pep Club Spanish Club Student Council S. O. S. Club Hi-Y Club A-B Club Mathematics Baseball Civil Engineering Betty Hinks “Hinkle” Pep Club Booster Club Mixed Chorus Gymnastics Dancing Teaching 64 Iff IE SSPEC1ATOM Charlotte Hipp “Lottie” English Dancing Secretarial Work Ethel Mae Hochstein “Hocky” Spanish Club French Club “Spectator” Spanish Tennis Teaching Regis Hopfer Hop” Physiology Pinochle Medicine Donald Horner Don” English Football Working With Machinery Watson Horner Wats Algebra Sports Electrical Engineering Anna F. Hocevar “Ann” Law Dancing Stenography James Hoover Hi-Y Club Booster Club Printing “Elmer” ’34 Club (Vice-Pres.) Baseball Bert Horn “Bert” “Blue and Black” “Spectator” Physics Skiing Politics Lavelle Horner “Horner” Mixed Chorus Singing Reading Electrical Engineering Jacob A. Horowit “Jacie” “Spectator” Salesmanship Swimming 55 Judy” Iff IE Betty Horton Pep Club Student Council Music Church Work Secretarial Work Margaret E. Hovanec “Gret German Tennis Stenography Andrew Hricko Andy” Printing Basketball Joe Hunter Punk” German Club Practicing German Singing Aeronautical Engineering Andrew F. Isban Bus” Typing Traveling Salesmanship Julia Jane Houck “Spectator” Cooking Reading Stenography Marion B. Howard Marney” Red-Headed Club Gymnastics Dancing Stenography John Hropovich Rumphy” Physics Traveling Mechanical Work Regis Francis Hynes Pickles” Mathematics Baseball Drafting Irene Aurelia Jakubik “Goldie” Law Dancing Secretarial Work 50 David Jenkins “Dave” Band Playing a Horn Science Chemistry Berlin John “Bert” Reading Driving Army Service Eleanor Johnston Nell' German Club “Spectator” Mixed Chorus English Basketball Aviation Joseph H. Jones “Joe” Student Council S. 0. S. Club French Club (Vice-Pres.) Mixed Chorus “Spectator” Chemistry Public Speaking Practicing Law Robert Lloyd Jones “Buck” Swimming Printing Charles Jesko “Jocko” Mechanical Drawing Orchestra Drafting Blair Johnston “Kid” Pep Club S. 0. S. Club (Treasurer) Mixed Chorus German Club Hi-Y Club ’34 Club “Spectator” Dramatics Sociability Practicing Medicine Frederick Jones “Freddie” Spanish Club Spanish Athletics Optometry Kenneth Jones “Ken” Dramatics Music Engineering Carl Jordan “Chim” Scouting Owning and Operating a Machine Shop 57 I HE SPECTATOR Michael Karl Kabo Sports Mechanical Work Blaine Keiper Bates” Orchestra Spanish Club Basketball Music Printing: Robert Kepple Bob” Mechanical Drawing: Drafting Athletics Margaret Ann King “Kingie” Girl Reserves Dancing Cooking Stenography Andrew Kiraly “Andy” German Club Mathematics Sports Engineering Esther Kaufman Essie” Library Staff Mixed Chorus Public Speaking Dancing Teaching Music Hazel Keiper “Shrimp” Pep Club Mixed Chorus Caesar Dancing Nursing Paul Kerekes Xerxes” Social Activities Billiards Undertaking Robert Kinsey “Bob” Printing Sports Ronald Kissell Ron” English Tennis Undertaking 58 Kathleen Kleinmeyer “Katy” “Dot” EC1ATC5SR Gymnastics Swimming Stenography Pauline Kluchevsik “Polly” Girl Reserves Typewriting Dancing Nursing Martin Kolnacki Mart” Spanish Club Gymnastics Stamp Collecting Business Man Edward Kres “Eddie” Band Orchestra Mixed Chorus Art Music Office Work Albert Kuhne “Al” German Club English Basketball Business Dorothy Klink Library Staff Gymnastics Basketball Girl Reserves Teaching Home Economics Paul E. Knudsen “Paul” Social Problems Listening to the Radio Accounting Sanford Koontz “Bud” Printing Sports Hulda Kuchenbrod “Cookie” Gymnastics Roller Skating Secretarial Work Kathryn Kuhne “Kay German Club “Spectator” Girl Reserves Cooking Motion Pictures Teaching 59 I HE SPECTATOR Margaret Kuhne “Peggy” German Club Cooking Movies Teaching Stanley Kwaikowski “Kwat” Algebra Rabbit Raising Engineering Ruth Marguerite Lamberson “Toot.” Cooking Sewing Stenography William Ear rimer “Bill” English Tinkering With Cars Structural Engineering Thankful Layton “Layton” French Club Gymnastics Roller Skating Stenography Helene Olive Kurtz “Lenie” German Square Dancing Stenography Joseph Lacho “Joe” Working Around Machines Basketball Marine Service Robert Lambert “Bob’” Spanish Club Algebra Swimming Printing John Lawrence “Johnny” Band Spanish Club Pep Club “Spectator” Social Problems Tennis Practicing Medicine Rosalia Leach “Rosie” Social Problems Dancing Social Work 60 I HE SPECTATOR Mary A. Lee “Lee” Sewing Dancing Stenography Charlotte Lewi “Ruth” S. 0. S. Club French Club Girl Reserves History Driving Cars Teaching Margaret Irene Lewis “Peggy” Pep Club Girl Reserves Booster Club French Club S. 0. S. Club Mixed Chorus Library Staff Poetry Keeping a Diary Practicing Law John Emil Lickvar “Lucky” Typing Farming Business Managing John H. Livingston “Johnny” Geometry Athletics Drafting Virginia Lentz Jinny” Pep Club Mixer Chorus Booster Club Girl Reserves English Dancing Secretarial Work Harry Lewis “Hop” Printing Radio Marion. Lewis “Lewis” “Blue and Black” (Editor) “Spectator” German Club French Club Student Council S. 0. S. Club Girl Reserves A-B Club Dramatics Reading Teaching Sophie Lipko “Sophie” “Blue and Black” Typing Reading Stenography Thaddeus Loch “Ted” Band, Orchestra Spanish Club Student Council Music Horses Window Decorating 61 I HE SPECTATOR Ruth Lohr “Nursie” Cooking Reading Nursing Kathleen Long “Kitty” Pep Club Spanish Club Booster Club French Club Dramatics Motoring Teaching Louis Lunt “Louie” “Spectator” Mathematics Spanish Journalistic Work Mary Kathryne McCreary “Mary Kay” “Spectator” Geometry Music Teaching Doris Machamer “Ditty’ Mixed Chorus Pep Club Library Staff Algebra Office Girl Reserves Spanish Club “Spectator” Reading Work Lucille Lonergan Lonargan Pep Club French Club Girl Reserves S. 0. S. Club Booster Club Library Staff “Spectator” Dancing Athletics Teaching Grace Louther “Jerry” Band. Orchestra Pep Club. Girl Reserves German Club, S. 0. S. Club Booster Club, “Spectator” Music Tennis Secretarial Work Gertrude E. H. Lynn “Gertrude” Cooking Tennis Nursing Eleanor McFeaters “Featy” French Club “Spectator” (Assistant Business Manager) Typing Reading Secretarial Work Fred Machtley “Mack” Pep Club Mixed Chorus Mixed Chorus Tennis Electrical Engineering 62 I ff E SPECIATO JR Ben Mainhart “Red” Student Council ’34 Club Booster Club Hi-Y Cheerleader Red-Headed Club English Stamp Collecting Reporting Mary Louise Markley “T oots” Law Reading Private Secretary Amber Mangus “Blondie” Sranish Club Girl Re-erves “Spectator” Gymnastics Dancing Teaching Aileen L. Martin “Lil” Mixed Chorus Girl Reserves Sewing Reading Stenography Kenneth Martin “Patches” Booster Club (Director) “Spectator” Pep Club (Treasurer) Spanish Club Hi-Y Club ’34 Club Dramatics Wrestling Business Administration Movene Martin “Fuzzy” S. O. S. Club French Club Orchestra Typing Motion Pictures Nursing Agnes Mattes Iggy” Mixed Chorus Blue and Black” Typing Dancing Nursing Steve J. Merzie “Steve” Typing Baseball Automobile Racing Vicla Merritts “Vi” “Blue and Black” Typewriting Reading Stenography M. Ellwood Meyers Red” Orchestra Electric Shop Dance Orchestra Orchestra Directing 63 “Joe’ IHE PIKT4TOF! William Paul Midderhoff “Bill” Printing Motion Pictures Orchestra Work Louis Miljinovich “Laza” Trigonometry Swimming Plumbing Elizabeth Miller “Busy” German Club Basketball Writing Letters Teaching Hcmer Austin Miller “Doc” Cartooning Randall Miller “Rats” Physics Out Door Sports Working With Machinery Joseph Milcula English Collecting Mystery Work Working With Electricity Doris Miller “Casey” Art Painting Interior Decorating Grace Miller “Shorty” Sewing Playing Ball Secretarial Work Jane Miller “Susie” Library Staff Girl Reserves Pep Club Spanish Club Red-Headed Club (Vice-President) History Tennis Nursing Roy Miller Physics Electrical “Miller” Movies Work 64 THE S1PEC1ATOM Jack Minahan Jack” Basketball Manager Spanish Club Gym Tennis Practicing Medicine Robert Mitchell “Mitch” Pep Club Mixed Chorus Spanish Club S. 0. S. Club Spectator” History Tennis Aeronautical Engineering Robert Mobley “Moby Physics Tennis Electrical Engineering Elizabeth Momchilovich “Liz” Drawing Tennis Private Secretarial Work Gertrude Mosebach “Gert” Girl Reserves French Club Library Staff ball Dancing Nursing Frank W. Mirto “Mirt” Pep Club “Blue and Black (Humor Editor) “Spectator” A-B Club Composing Poems Swimming Journalistic Work Robert Moberly “Bob” “Spectator” Pep Club History Tennis Aeronautical Engineering Esther G. Mock “Red” “Spectator” Art Drawing Stenography Iduma. M. Morris “Duma” Spanish Club Latin Dancing Nursin r James E. Murphy “Murf” Booster Club ’34 Club French Club Hi-Y Club Public Speaking Golf Salesmanship 65 E SIPECmTOlR Irene Nagy “Toots” “Blue and Black” (Secretary) “Spectator” (Athletic Editor) Girl Reserves A-B Club Basketball Tennis Private Secretarial Work James Neff “Jim” Orchestra Physics Class Music Draftsman Louis Nicharot “Taffy” Shop Sports Barber Campton Oakley “Camp” “Spectator” ’3-1 Club Booster Club Cheerleader Physics Traveling Civil Engineering Mary Jo O’Connor “Jo” Girl Reserves (President) Spanish Club (Secretary) Booster Club Pep Club “Spectator” Student Council Art Dancing Primary Teaching Leo Napotnik “Warhorse” Vaisity O.ub Student Council (Vice-President) Football (Co-Captain) Spanish Collecting Material on Sports Events Coaching Football Lcuis Nemeth Neemeich” French Club (Secretary) French Radio Working With Electricity Edward J. Novak “Eddie” Shop Hiking Plumbing Chester Oaks “Chet” Singing Traveling Airplane Mechanics Ivr.n Oldham “Ike” Basketball Working With Electricity 66 I HE SPECTATOR Jack Oliver Booster Club Physiologv “Jack” Spanish Club Dancing Surgery Andrew J. Oravec “Andy” Geometry Mechanics Andrew Otrosina “Otro” Spanish Club Spanish Camping Aviation Paul Owens “Dutch” Mechanical Drawing Drafting Baseball Stephen Papp “Papp” Physics Hunting Francis Ondrejak “Ondrey” Physics Football Aeronautics William Orris Bill” Mixed Chorus ’34 Club Hi-Y Club Booster Club Pep Club “Spectator” A-B Club S. O. S. Club “Blue and Black” Dramatics Skiing Metallurgy Elvin Overdorff “Baron” Pep Club ’34 Club Booster Club German Club (Secretary) S. 0. S. Club Physics Swimming Engineering Pete C. Pagano “Petey” Geometry Roller Skating Plumbing Harry Parker “Parker” Law Travel Electrical Work Office Work I HE SPECTATOR June Park “Parksie” “Spectator” Public Speaking Dancing Private Secretary Fae Paul “Paul” Girl Reserves (Secretary) “Spectator” Library Staff (President) German Club Pep Club Sudent Council S. 0. S. Club Dramatics Art Teaching Ruth Irene Paul Practically Polly Law Camping Stenography Arnold Pavlik “Arnie” Physiography Swimming Piloting Air Mail Joseph F. Pescuric “Roam” Mathematics Dancing Electrical Engineering Edward Pattison “Holly wood “Spectator Public Speaking Social Engagements Advertising John Paul “Zip” Printing Sports Printer Waive Paul “Polly French Club Red-Headed Club Cooking Swimming Nursing William Edward Peat “Pete Band Orchestra Music Target Practice Business Margaret V. Peterson “Mamie Mixed Chorus “Blue and Black” “Spectator” American History Stamp Collecting Political Work fi8 THE SPECTATOR Nevin H. Peterson “Pete” Student Counci Photography Ministry Dorothea J. Petrikin Diz” Mixed Chorus Girl Reserves Booster Club Pep Club Physiology Dancing Stenography Carl Pieger “Hitler” Pep Club Mixed Chorus German Club “Spectator” Gymnastics Card Playing Managing a Meat Market Matilda Eleanor Piskura Tillie” “Spectator” Sewing Crocheting Secretarial Work Theda Ellen Pluck “Pet” Law Reading Seamstress Mary T. Petlaniky “Merch” Sewing Dancing Stenography Edna Elizabeth Petriken “Eddie” Band History Movies Stenography John Piskovich “Piskie” Physics Collecting Old Newpapers Working With Machinery Joe Piurkowsky “Joey” Public Speaking Raising Chickens Practicing Law Agnes Joyce Pokrzywa “Sally” German Club Mixed Chorus “Blue and Black” “Spectator” German Dancing Secretarial Work 69 I HE SPECTATOR Mary Blanche Polster “Pete Pep Club (Secretary) S. 0. S. Club Girl Reserves Booster Club German Club Library Staff “Spectator Sewing Swimming Teaching Michr.el Pcrada “Texas” Social Activities Writing Poetry Marguerite Jane Price “Pete” Library Staff “Spectator” English Flower Gardening Dental Work Ross Price “Price” Pep Club Mathematics Swimming Undertaking George Knute Prokop “Prokey” Plumbing Traveling Coaching Elsie La Verne Rager “Schultz” Spanish Club Basketball Roller Skating Stenography Harold Rager “Rager” Algebra Poultry Raising Kenneth Andrew Rager “Ken Hi-Y Club History Hiking Traffic Work Naomi Raymond “Monie” Cooking Reading Designing Steve Razga “Razzy” Carpentry Traveling Sea Navigation 70 Reed Mary Louise Ream “Shorty” Sewing Writing Letters Stenography Oliver Reese Red” Spanish History Baseball Aeronautical Engineering Leo Rerko “Red” Electricity Football Sports Writing Edward Rice “Rice” Mechanics Swimming Electrical Engineering Edith Rickabaugh “Ede” “Blue and Black” “Spectator” Booster Club Red-Headed Club Girl Referves Italian Club A-B Club English Driving Teaching Latin Marion Reed Student Council Spanish Club Library Staff Art Collecting Pictures Teaching Art Walter Reighard “Bud’ Pep Club Mixed Chorus Spanish Club Booster Club Gymnastics Tennis Teaching Charles Reynolds Chuck” Gymnastics Camping Pharmacy Burl Richardson “Rich” Auto Mechanics Hunting Aviation Bernard J. Riek “Bernie” Geometry Camping Drafting 71 I HE SPECTATOR John Ringler “Johnny Pickles” Hi-Y Club (President) Booster Club Pep Club ’34 Club Social Problems Camping Banking Salvo Rizza “Sub” Pep Club Italian Club Student Council Mathematics Athletics Aeronautical Engineering Dorothy Virginia Rodgers “Dot” Blue and Black” Pep Club French Club Girl Reserves Mixed Chorus A-B Club “Spectator” Mathematics Motion Pictures Teaching William C. Rohde “Bill” Dancing Practical Jokes Butchering Ma rion Rose “Sal” Spanish Club Basketball Roller Skating Stenography Georgia J. Ripple “Rip” Pep Club Booster Club French Club “Spectator” Art Roller Skating Commercial Artistry Frances Louise Rizzo “Fan” Shorthand Saving Buttons Stenography Marion Rodgers “Marion” Student Council Public Speaking Athletics Nursing Florence E. Rose “Rosie” Sewing Roller Skating Stenography Edward Rosko “Eddie” Mathematics Athletics Mechanical Engineering 72 “Bill Alex William Ruttkay “Bill” Physics Model Airplane Construction Aviation Jack Sack “Sack ” Booster Club Pep Club Hi-Y (Vice-President) '34 Club (Treasurer) “Spectator” English Basketball Practicing Medicine Mary Donna Salovich “Mim.” Composers’ Club (Secretary) Orchestra Pep Club Girl Reserves Mixed Chorus Library Staff French Club (Music-Chairman) Music Travel Musical Supervising David Erne t Sarver “King Kong” ’34 Club Social Activities Boating Lead Burning Margaret Schatz “Peggy” Booster Club French Club German Club Girl Reserves German Reading Teaching Alexander V. Sabo “ “Spectator” Shorthand Farming Office Work Louia Joseph Sakai “Lou” Plumbing Sports Aviation Rose Marie Salvia “Pee Wee” Spanish Club Singing Tennis Teaching Mary Sauers “Foozy” Band Orchestra French Club Pep Club Girl Reserves Booster Club Composers’ Club Music Swimming Teaching Music Margaret Schlosser Marg” Spanish Club “Spectator” Art Reading Teaching 73 I HE SPECTATOR Anne Margaret Schmera “Black Eyes” Spanish Club Booster Club Making Friends Piano Playing Teaching English Ma rion Schmidt “Schmitty” “Blue and Black” Girl Reserves “Spectator” Library Staff Pep Club English Swimming Medicine James Schreier “Jim” Physics Football Plumbing Work Laura Schuler “Skeezix” Booster Club Law Reading Tennis Secretarial Work Nydia Schwartz A-B Club French Club Latin Music Writing Leonard Schmerin Larry” HiY Booster Club Pep Club Student Council ’34 Club Dramatics Tennis Practicing Law Robert Schneider “Snitz” ’34 Club Student Council Daw Swimming Business Thelma Mae Schrock “Teddy” Public Speaking Sports Stenography Ruth Eleanor Schultz Schultzie” Library Staff Pep Club Spanish Club Booster Club Nursing Jacob Scornaienchi “Jake” Printing Sports Printing Work 74 I HE SPECTATOR Helen Louise Seigh ‘‘Hy Be” Spectator” Booster Club Spanish Club Pep Club Cooking Driving Home Economic Teaching Mary Lou Shaffer “She.f” German Club Sewing Dancing Teaching Fred Shaheen “Fritz” Spanish Music Music Jake Shank “Jake” Football Basketball Vice-President of Class Basketball Roller Skating Managing Baseball League Walter Shank “Walt” Basketball Football Varsity Club Basketball Athletics Teaching Physical Training Viola Seller. “Vi” French Club Cooking Dancing Nursing Mary Louise Shaffer “Mary Lou” Girl Reserves German Club “Spectator” Mathematics Reading Teaching Francis Shank “Shorty Student Council Gymnastics Football Surgery Kenneth L. Shank “Ken Physics Hunting Aviation John Sharpe “Red” Pep Club ’34 Club Red-Headed Club Spanish Club Physics Baseball Electrical Engineering 75 I HE SPECTATOR Harold Shaulis “Shaulis” Mechanics Radio Electrical Engineering Louise Sievers “Squeezer” Booster Club Basketball Pinochle Bookkeeping Pete Sirianna Physiography Playing the Mandolin Mechanics Bernice Smith “Bernie” Spanish Club Bookkeeping Reading Bookkeeping Mary Jane Smith “Jane” Student Council Cooking Reading Nursing Steve Sholsky “Foozy Radio Army Aviation Violet Simms “Veve” Basketball Reading Stenography Charles Slagle “Chick” Band German Club (Treasurer) Music Dancing F orestry Francis Smith “Red” Hand Printing Athletics Engineering William Smith “Smitty” English Traveling Civil Engineering 76 I HE SEECJC4JTOIR Edward C. Snyder “Chuck” Auto Mechancis Hunting Mechanics Ruth Somerville “Somie” “Spectator” German Club “Blue and Black” English Music Teaching Music Marjorie Spiker “Peggy” Spanish Club “Spectator” Public Speaking Writing Poetry Stenography Charles Statler “Chick” “Blue and Black” “Spectator” German Club A-B Club Engineering Paul Stegura “Pal” Mechanical Drawing Baseball Drafting Robert Snyder “Snitz” ’34 Club Hi-Y Club Social Problems Driving Business Albert Spack “Spacky” English Baseball Painting John E. Stahl “Johnny” Football Varsity Club Trigonometry Baseball Drafting Hulda Steeg Girl Reserves Basketball “Casey” “Spectator” Tennis Stenography Joseph Steinkirchner “Joe” “Spectator” Geometry Baseball Accounting 77 THE PECTATOR Gus Stelmack Guz” ‘Blue and Black” (Reporter) “Spectator”’ (Assistant Humor Editor) Law Singing Editorial Work Frank Stewart “Stewarty” Mixed Chorus Gymnastics Baseball Aviation Mary Louise Stombaugh “Hun Girl Reserves Spanish Club Public Speaking Reading Secretarial Work Steve Strozak Bing” Mathematics Traveling Radio Broadcasting Claude Sturtz “Sturtz” Band Booster Club Music Social Engagements Operating a Clothing Store Robert Stephey “Bob Band Orchestra Gymnastics Basketball Musician Walter Stewart “Slim” Spanish Club Gymnastics Sports Teaching Emily Strayer Dimples” Pep Club Spanish Club Spanish Sports Primary Teaching Gecrge Stull “Georgie” Mechanical Drawing Model Making Airplane Designing Joseph Such “Elmer Zilch” Taking Fords Apart Aviation 78 SSI Izzy Iff Isadore Suchman “Spectator” (Associate Editor) A-B Club Blue and Black” (Sports Editor) Student Council English Mushball Journalism Dorothy L. Thompson “Dot” Mixed Chorus French Club “Spectator” French Reading Private Secretarial Work O. Otis Tilley “Oats” Plumbing Basketball Plumbing Tony Toman “Letfy” Woodwork Baseball Pattern Making Williajn Torok “Snoops” Algebra Golf College Coaching James Summerson “Jim” ’Varsity Club Football Basketball English Swimming Playing Professional Football Lester Louis Thomstatter “Thommie” Red-Headed Club English Sports Automobile Work Steve A. Timchak “Count” Law Moving Pictures Business Frances Louise Tomb Franny Lou” German Club Orchestra Dramatics Composers’ Club “Spectator” Music Making Scrap Books Technician Margaret Trabert “Marg” S. 0. S. Club “Blue and Black” “Specator” Office Staff Caesar . Dancing Nursing 79 William Trevorrow Willie” I ME Anna May Tressler “Tress” Girl Reserves “Blue and Black S. 0. S. Club Latin Dancing Secretarial Work Stanton Trostle “Stan” “Spectator” French Club (President) Mixed Chorus Hi-Y Club S. 0. S. Club History Automobiles Business Leon E. Troutman “Leon” Mathematics Painting Mechanic Work Margaret T. Vandrak “Marg” Typing Dancing Stenography John S. Varner “Jack” Band Orchestra Music Target Practice Laboring English Sports Making Blue Prints Charles Troupe “Trooper” ’34 Club Booster Club Pep Club Spanish Club Student Council Physics Tennis Engineering A.lfred M. Utecht “Tarzan” Latin Swimming Preaching Fred Van Scoyoc Pretzels” Public Speaking Motion Pictures Engineering Joseph Vasilinda “Vassie” Physics Swimming Cabinet Making 80 I HE SPE CX IT OR Robert Venet “Bob” Basketball Football Student Council Gymnastics Dancng Practicing Law Samuel Vidi h “Sammy Salesmanship Radio Managing a Theatre Helen Vital Spanish Club Shorthand Swimming Seeretaral Work John A. Waclo “Johnny” Trigonometry Baseball Marine Service Helen V. Waehner “Wane” Girl Reserves Sewing Roller Skating Stenography Ida Vespa “Ida” Dancing Stenography Emery Vince “Em” Physics Baseball Cabinet Making Carolyn Vuckovich “Carrots” Student Council Library Staff Spanish Club Writing Short Stories Reading Library Work George Wadsworth English Baseball Mechanics Lillian Wallace “Lil” Composers’ Club (Treasurer) Library Staff Girl Reserves Virgil Reading 81 Musician I HE SHECUATOIR Charles Walling “Carlo” Italian Basketball Stenography Harry Walters “Harry” ’34 Club Trigonometry Basketball Medicine Rose Marian Waynik “Ruby” English Athletics Stenography Helen Wendle Pudgee” Booster Club Spanish Club Gymnastics Swimming Nursing Josephine Wesner “Jo” Booster Club Girl Reserves French Club “Spectator” Making Oil Paintings Drawing Art Supervising Harry Walls “Farmer” Law Roller Skating Managing Mary Walz Mary” Spanish Club Spanish Dancing Nursing Twila M. Weimer “Tweedle” German Club Basketball Tennis Teaching George F. Wenael “Machine Gun” Physics Baseball Television and Radio Operating Edward White “Ed” “Spectator” “Blue and Black” Mathematics Reading Accounting 82 THE SPECTATOR Charles Widdersheim Chuck” Football Varsity Club Geometry Tennis Coaching Evelyn J. Williams Hun” “Blue and Black” “Spectator” (Literary Editor) Spanish Club Booster Club Gymnastics Camping Secretarial Work Alexander Wilson “Boy” Band Spanish Club Spanish Music Engineering John Wilson Willis” Spanish Club Solid Geometry Tennis Constructional Engineering Mildred Wilson “Mid” Girl Reserves German Club “Spectator” Library Staff Art Dancing Nursing Evelyn Williams “Ev” Mixed Chorus Library Staff Music Reading Nursing Kathryn Williams “Kay” Pep Club Girl Reserves Booster Club Cooking Swimming Beauty Specialist Charlotte Wilson French Club ___Spanish Club “Spectator” Drawing Collecting Pictures Commercial Art Drawing June Wilson Sis” Library Staff Typewriting Motoring Secretarial Work Ruby Wilson “Rubinoff” Mixed Chorus Music Dancing Teaching 83 I HE SPECTATOR Ruth Winder “Windy” Booster Club “Spectator” Social Problems Listening to Radio Practicing Medicine Ruth Catherine Wood Rth” Girl Reserves Library Staff Mixed Chorus Booster Club Basketball Dancing Private Secretarial Work Frederick Wyant “Freddie” Automobiles Social Activities Auto Mechanics Gladys N. Yoder “Glad” “Spectator” English Sports Secretary John Yurasko “Mamie” Mechanical Drawing Swimming Making Blue Prints Joseph Witeof “Squeaky Pep Club Advance Civics Hunting Farming Ruth Woy “Woy”' Booster Club “Spectator” Spanish Club Physical Training Camping Nursing Joseph Yarchak “Ruhinoff” “Blue and Black” Football Varsity Club “Spectator” Social Engagements Traveling Theology Ruth Young “Red” RedHeaded Club Spanish Club Cooking Dancing Teaching Mary Kathryn Zangaglia “ Aportie Library Staff Spanish Club Italian Sport3 Teaching 84 I HE SPECTATOR. Edward Zips Zip” Mathematics Model Making Electrical Work Louise R- Zoller Chuckle” S. 0. S. Club Mixed Chorus Composers’ Club German Club Library Staff Law Cases Stamp Collecting Practicing Law Herman Daugherty “Doc” Salesmanship Salesmanship Salesmanship Phyllis Georg “Phil” Booster Club Mixed Chorus Physiology Reading Nursing Frances Hocevar Fannie” Gymnastics Mushball Clerical Work Francis Zlatohlavy Frank” “Spectator” Trigonometry Basketball Art Work Alfred A. Betts “Al” Physics Sports Plumbing Wilmor Davis “Pinky” Band F rench Music Teaching Music David Giltinan “Rats” Gymnastics Ice Skating Business Betty Lou Kistler Betty” Pep Club Girl Reserves Booster Club Library Staff Mixed Chorus French Club Gymnastics Dancing Nursing 85 ¥ ¥¥IE SPECTATOUR. Adam Koch Koch” Mechanical Drawing Reading Making Blueprints Francis Neisner “Hitler” English Athletics Law AJbert Schad “Al” Physics Swimming Printing Vida Callihan Vi” French Club Geometry Sewing Nursing Helen D. Grumbling “Grump” Law Skating Office Work Frank Kohler Koch” Mechanical Drawing Art Vincent Sakmar Saky” Physics Travel Electrical Work Olive Ruth Beatty “Ollie” Sewing, Cooking Mushball Secretarial Work Mickey Castania Mouse” Mixed Chorus Singing Dancing Electrical Engineering George Hall Red” Spanish Club Red-Headed Club Drawing for Physics Football Practicing Medicine 86 I HE Lavina Hecker Blonde” Spanish Club Sewing Dancing Teaching Eugene J. Holmes “Gene” Physics Auto Mechanics Florence M. Kuhn Flossie Mixed Chorus Pep Club (Vice-President) Typing Swimming Stenography Martha Mitchell Mitchell” Basketball Movies Ushering Helen Musulin Hully” Spanish Club Girl Reserves Art Swimming Dramatics William A. Rager “Bill” Hi-Y Club Athletics Building Airplanes Aviation William Sanner Bull” Football Athletics Driving Engineering Margaret E. James James” Dancing Kenneth Wertz “Brownie” Trigonometry Baseball Mechanics John Foster “Jack” Typing Woodwork Music Emmett Fisher “Em” Traveling Mechanics Elizabeth Weaver “Libby” Booster Club French Club Girl Reserves Algebra Dressmaking Teaching Anthony Brown Bombtosser” Red-Headed Club English Sports Auto Mechanics Oliver English “Chick” Spanish Club Physics Roller Skating Carpentry 87 CLASS SONG High School days, high school days, By-gone days we view, Days well spent in deep content With loyal friends and true. Memories, Johnstown High, Guide us back to thee, Years that pass will bind us fast To thee in memory. Evening star, chiming bell, Future years foretell, Sunset gleams on golden dreams, With hope our bosoms swell. Gleaming goal, glowing aim, Sunkissed skies of blue, Calls us on with victory’s song, Urged on by thoughts of you. Johnstown High, Johnstown High, Lead us on afar, You will be in memory Our guiding, steadfast star. Fare thee well, Johnstown High, Class of Thirty-four, High school days have passed away, Their laughter rings no more. (Chorus) Thirty-four, farewell, farewell, Thirty-four, God be with you till we meet once more, J. H. S.’s pride and boast, All join and give a toast; The class of success. And one of the best, Farewell, farewell, dear Thirty-four. IME SPECTATOR N Oi s . - 4 r‘ k S, s k r S % •: ■ £ l.’Sejt- 't' LUCI LIE LONERGAN GERTRUDE noSESACrt 1- _ 9 AUDREY ADAflSON ANN ENGLE 3ACH 4 f I CHARLOTTE WIL50N I5LAIR JOHNSTON MART JANE SMITH ; rn LEONARD KOCH CHARLOTTE LEWIS 89 I HE SPECTATOR 1 [HE SPECTATOR N s s v s K s s rr A.n. ah 3 n dc clenna S n.IO‘C 3.n KENT ARHSERONG f Q4 ) • X 0 RUTH WIN DER 3ACK 5ACK5 f PECCYLEWIS ffjf f )! a R - SI L - BERNARD «ABLE fl H ==5 , L f 's • HULDA 5TEEG ROSEriAKY BURNS y HAZEL KEIPER - IVJLLi DVITnAR J n K AH—o CORA 3ANE 1MU JAT1E5 CLEHENT ].n ns n H C H NC 13111 ORRIS j ■ 91 I HE SPECTATOR N 92 EARLY EDUCATION IN THE QUAKER SCHOOL Imagine yourself to be in a small provincial school house late in the seventeenth century, a Quaker school house to be specific. The building is constructed of logs with the spaces between the logs filled with chips and mortar. Logs and earth make up the floor through which snakes sometimes crawl. Benches and tables are also made of logs, roughly hewn and smoothed. A few small windows are covered with greased paper in the winter. Perhaps you would not enjoy the association with the Quaker student since he would probably be a critical companion. One of the doctrines of the Quakers was that each member of the society should continually observe and report all misdemeanors to the proper authorities. Undoubtedly the Quaker students did not ad- here strictly to this statute because records show that the pranks of the Quaker children were just as numerous as those of the mod- ern students. Settlement of the State of Pennsylvania by the Quakers was indeed a fortunate act for the future schools of Pennsylvania on account of the fact that the Quakers were one of the few Colonial groups who realized that the education of their children was an important factor in the future growth of their community. In fact the Quakers were the most active educational group in Pennsylva- nia and were the first to establish educational ideals. Much of the credit for the establishment of schools must be given to William Penn, whose liberal ideas in the field of education were far in advance of their time. Evidence of Penn’s belief in education is found in the twenty-eighth law of his frame of gov- ernment: “All children at the age of twelve years shall be taught some useful trade or skill to the end that none may be idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich, if he becomes poor.” Early records show that the first secondary school in Penn- sylvania was established in 1684 on Tinicum Island, about six miles up the river from Philadelphia and was taught by Christopher Taylor. Little is known about the school except that he had charge of a school where he taught the classics. His business as a teacher was undoubtedly neglected; court records show that he was at the meetings of the Provincial Council frequently. In 1697, the William Penn Charter School was established. This school provided schooling for all Quaker children whether rich or poor. Persons who were able to pay were charged a fee for permitting their children to attend school, but the poor were permitted to send their children to school free of charge. Schools of the Quakers were open to other denominations as well as Quakers, until 1777, when the council forbade John Todd, the Quaker school teacher, to allow anyone except Quakers to at- tend the school. This act was caused by the too rapid growth of other denominations who were attaining numerical superiority in the schools. It was not an unusual thing for the Council to send back to England to obtain a school teacher because of the lack of educated men in the Colonies who were Quakers. Latin, Gram- mar, Spelling, and Geometry were subjects that were generally taught in the schools at that time. At the present time, the Quaker schools are declining in im- portance although there are still several in operation. Whether the Quaker schools continue or whether they disappear, history will always remember them as being pioneers in the fight for free education. Charles Statler. ---------o--------- ONWARD! UPWARD! In Pennsylvania towns In meadows green or brown, In cities all around, Education’s name! In winters or in springs. To tuneful lays it flings, A challenge brave it sings, Education’s fame! Rosemary Burns. ENOCH FLOWER AND HIS SCHOOL Advanced education, offered by the high schools and junior high schools in Pennsylvania in 1934 is vastly different from that offered in the year 1683. The first provisions for establishing schools for formal edu- cation were made in Philadelphia in 1683. William Penn, at the meeting of the Provincial Council in December 26, 1683, sent for Enoch Flower, an inhabitant of the town, who for twenty years had been employed in England in the teaching profession. Enoch Flower’s school included reading, writing and book- keeping, which were taught by the quarter. These were the most essential qualifications for a successful business career. For board- ing a “seholler,” that is to say, his “dyet,” washing, lodging, and schooling, the charge was ten pounds for one whole year. The Quakers chose their teachers for their moral habits and residence as well as for their efficiency. The Flower family of Chester, Pennsylvania, dates its origin from the Norman Conquest. Hugh, one of the adventurers that gathered under the standard of the Duke of Normandy, from his remarkable beauty and his valorous conduct on the field of battle, received the name of La Fleur which in the course of time became translated into the corresponding English term, Flower. Evelyn J. Williams. -------o--------- SCHOOL To me School is a book Of happiness and joy; Each page reveals some knowledge true And clear. Joe Piurkowsky. SAMUEL BRECK THE Samuel Breck, .vho furthered education in Pennsylvania, was born at Boston in 1771. He was a direct descendant of Edward Breck, who came to Boston in 1630 with Governor Winthrop. Samuel received his early education at the Boston Latin School. Later he spent four years of travel and study in France. His father was a wealthy merchant. During the Revolution, he furnished supplies for the French fleet. Through his transac- tions with the French, his father becam'e acquainted with many noted Frenchman, who made possible, Samuel’s trip through France. While working at the counting house of John Codman, Samuel became acquainted with John Quincy Adams and Harrison Gray Otis. These two gentlemen proved to be very valuable friends in later life. In 1790, Samuel went to Europe on one of his father’s vessels. He returned to Philadelphia in 1791, after having met such English notables as Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Sheridan. Samuel married Jean Rose, the daughter of a prominent Phil- adelphia merchant, in 1795. With her he lived for forty-three years in a beautiful home on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, in what is now Fairmount Park. His home was a meeting place for leaders in agriculture, art, science, and music. Politicians and statesmen from all parts of Europe and America frequently vis- ited him. From 1817 to 1821, Breck served in the State Senate and was elected to the National Congress in 1822. In the election of 1824, he worked for his old friend, John Quincy Adams, and was the only member of the House from Pennsylvania to vote for him. The following statement was found in his diary sixteen years later: “Never have I ceased to congratulate myself upon having escaped the reproach of voting for Jackson, whose subsequent conduct as President caused such widespread confusion and ruin.” Breck did not hold a public office again until 1833 when he accepted election to the State Senate for the purpose of aiding in securing a public school system for the state of Pennsylvania. Soon after the beginning of his term, he was made Chairman of the Com- mittee on Education. The Committee drew up a bill which was immediately put through the House and Senate. There were only four votes against it. When presenting the bill, he said: ‘‘Most of our academies have fallen to the grade of common schools.” In addition he proposed means of securing well trained teachers. Breck retired from political life because of poor health. After his retirement, he became in turn, President of the Athe- naeum Society, a scientific organization, and President of the In- stitute for the Instruction of the Blind. Too, he served as an offi- cial in similar organizations. Samuel Breck died in Philadelphia on August 31, 1862, at the age of 91. The learned men of Pennsylvania honored him, and the Aethenaeum Society and the State Historical Society conduct- ed memorial exercises. Addresses dealing with his many activi- ties were given. From about 1810 until his death, Breck kept a diary, in which he wrote us many important happenings and matters of personal interest. It is very fascinating. Recently, part of the diary was found in the hands of descendants of Mr. Breck. It is hoped that the rest will be discovered because his notes contain first hand his- tory. Edward White. ---------o--------- AN OLD LADY A smile Across her face Betrays her memory Of cpris, and slates, and childish pranks At school. Elizabeth George. THE ORIGIN OF THE HIGH SCHOOL IN PENNSYLVANIA The Constitution of 1790 had legally provided for a public school system, but the first evidence of the beginning of public secondary education comes from Honesdale, Wayne County, in 1836, when it was reported to the directors that three students were studying the higher branches. In the same year, Carlisle and Morrison organized their high schools. The establishment of high schools by special acts was prob- ably due to the doubt on the part of the directors concerning their legal powers. In 1836, the Philadelphia controllers appointed a committee to secure the passage of an act to obtain power to estab- lish a Central High School. This power was granted, and the Cen- tral High School of Philadelphia became the first established by a special law. Then high schools were established by similar acts in Pittsburgh, Erie, Hollidaysburg, and Harrisburg. These acts seem to indicate that the power granted was not one of establishing high schools but of establishing a central high school in cities, each with its own board of directors. In 1854, the Legislature passed an act which gave directors the power to establish schools of different grades and authorized them to provide instruction in Orthography, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Arithmetic, and Geography, as well as in any other subjects which they might require. Although this act contains no specific mention of high schools, the very general and discretionary powers accorded to the directors leave little doubt regarding its intent. Just why the legislation hesitated for so long a time to make specific provisions for the establishment of high schools is largely a matter of conjecture. There was much opposition to the public school system in many parts of the State, especially in the German sections, because the schools were thought to be an undue and undemocratic interference with the rights of families in the education of their children and an unjustifiable burden on the tax- payers. The academy, with its long record of service, claimed to be recognized as the only legitimate secondary school in the edu- cational system. The law of 1887 permitted Directors in cities and boroughs divided into wards to establish high schools. The Directors were required to admit all duly qualified children of the district under twenty-one years of age. These Directors exercised supervision over the school, appointed and dismissed teachers, arranged the curriculum, selected books, fixed the length of the school term not to exceed ten months, and required the city or borough to levy a public high school building tax. In 1893, this act was extended to boroughs not divided into wards for school purposes. Two years later saw a provision made for all districts by a law which attempt- ed to define high school and to standardize work. This gave the directors of two or more township schools the power to establish joint high schools. It also provided that a State Superintendent should prescribe a uniform course of instruction which should be taught in the high schools of each grade. The public high school has spread rapidly and has developed into one of the finest educational institutions of the present time. We, the students of today, should grasp the opportunity given to us and be thankful that we have had men who have fought that we might be able to attend school. Mary Jane Crouse. --------o--------- PROGRESS Just a little red school house on top of a hill With lilacs and daisies so spry, Where the sigh and the hum of the busy grist mill Came up from the valley near by. But a mansion of knowledge now stands by a hill No lilacs nor daisies so spry, Just the noise and blare o£ a droning steel mill And the skyscrapers towering near by. William Orris. THE RISE OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN PENNSYLVANIA In recent years, a radical reform has taken place in the course of study and in the administration of the last two years of the ele mentary school. A new institution, commonly known as the jun- ior high school, or intermediate school, has been organized to in- clude the seventh and eighth grades and very frequently to unite these grades with the first year of the high school. The fundamen- tal motive for this new organization is to be found in the fact that formerly the elementary school did not include in its program the advanced studies, such as higher mathematics and foreign lan- guages, nor any of the subjects which lead directly to professional training. In this respect, American schools have been far behind the European. In all the European countries, the boys who are destined to enter the professions are introduced to the study of Latin at the beginning of the fourth school year and to higher mathematics by the sixth year. The postponement in American schools of all higher subjects to the high schools, which lie beyond the elemen- tary school, has handicapped seriously the pupils who go into the higher institutions. Thus, in America, the failure of the elemen- tary school to include Latin in any of the earlier grades has re- sulted in a very limited and defective knowledge of this subject. What has been said with regard to Latin can also be said with re- gard to Algebra, Geometry, and numerous other subjects which have been excluded from the elementary school program. The limitations under which the American elementary school has operated in the past have in recent years been overcome in some measure through the sheer expansion of the educational sys- tem. Children have attended school so much more regularly and for so long a period that they have mastered the rudimentary sub- jects, and, by the time they have entered the seventh grade, they are ready to take on more advanced work than they could have taken in earlier years. The demand came to be very insistent, therefore, that the seventh and eighth grade should include the be- ginnings of work which formerly belonged to the high school. Iff E OUR Furthermore, it has been found that pupils in the seventh and eighth grades are mature enough to be dealt with in matters of dis- cipline and social organization in a fashion wholly different from the way in which primary children ought to be handled. A clear conception of the modern junior high school and its plan of organization cannot be said to have developed before 1900, but some of the forces that brought it about worked together at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1867, the directors of Danville, Pennsylvania, adopted a resolution to establish “An Intermediate High School.” This plan, however, was rescinded a few months later. In 1880, the direc- tors of Carlisle adopted the resolution, that new schools should be established, called the “Preparatory Department of he High Schools and composed of the scholars now known as the third class.” In 1882, Scranton had a “senior high school” and below it a “grade” called the “junior high school.” Whether this “grade had its own building or not, the name “junior high school” was not long retained, for it was soon called the “Preparatory Department” and comprised the upper two of the ten grades below the high school. At the time the Scranton “junior high school” appeared, a committee recommended in Easton that more stress should be placed on the fundamentals in the high school; that, to hold the students in school, the curriculum ought to be arranged for the masses; that, there should be established an advanced grammar school so that the quality of high school work might be maintain- ed ; and that the high school course ought to be an English course without the classics. In 1883, the Wellsboro board established a Junior Academic Department which was to be placed betw'een the Academy and the Senior Grammar School. At Chester in 1895, the Central Grammar School, a form of junior high school, had an enrollment of 212 pupils. In the two grade the subjects were Orthography, Higher English Composi- 102 tion, Arithmetic, Physiology, Penmanship, Reading, Word Lessons, Drawing, Algebra, Geography, and Music in the Eighth Grade; English, Civics, Technical Grammar, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, American Literature, Composition, Algebra, Geometry, and Music in the Ninth Grade. This school was established in 1816 and was more like the modern junior high school than any of the other schools. The following describes the work of one of the early junior high schools in Johnstown: “Last year the Garfield Junior High School was established. The elective subjects are Latin, Gentian, Shorthand, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking, Freehand, and Mechan- ical Drawing. The Seventh Grade pupils are doing excellent work. Subjects requiring memory can be advantageously begun when pupils are young. Architects are now drawing plans for another junior high school building which will accommodate more pupils. Betty Bailey. ---------o--------- FAREWELL TO A BOOK (A Sonnet) Oh little book so gayly bound in blue, I’ve read your stories many times before, My heart with rapture fills, my spirits soar, For me you’ve caused sweet joys I never knew And made me feel a reverence for the true. I have a tender feeling for your lore. To me, O book, you are a magic door Through which I wralk and find odd things full new. Your pages are becoming brown and crisp, Your letters have grown dimmer every year. Although you’re aging fast, the lovers’ tryst Beneath your pages still to me is dear. I see you now as through a veil like mist My death, as yours, I fear is drawing near. William Orris. IH COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IN JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL TODAY Always awake to the needs of its people, the Johnstown School Board hag at all times kept abreast of improvements in the field of education. That other cities throughout the nation are aware of Johnstown’s well organized educational system is shown by the numerous letters received by the Johnstown School Board. Other cities are constantly asking for information concerning our educa- tional system. In the last five years, the Johnstown High School Commercial sion, Pennsylvania, at an early date, introduced the Commercial Department into its schools. The purpose of the Commercial De- partment is to meet the demands of business and industrial organi- zations for well trained office workers. Today the Commercial Department is firmly established in almost all of the high schools of Pennsylvania. In the last five years the Johnstown High School Commercial Department has had a remarkable growth. A comparison of the statistics for the 1929 and 1934 Commercial classes shows that the enrollment for Commercial work today is approximately 100% greater than the Commercial enrollment of 1929. The following subjects are taught in our Commercial Depart- ment: Bookkeeping, Economics, Law, Salesmanship, Shorthand, and Typewriting. The number of students studying Bookkeeping in the fall of 1933 is the same as the number for the same semester in 1929. Enrollment for other subjects has shown a tremendous gain. Salesmanship, with an increase of 400' i over the 1929 class shows the largest gain. Typing, with a 300 r gain, is second in point of enrollment. Law, with an increase of 200' i, is third. Shorthand follows with an increase of 100' • . Thirteen hundred and four students are enrolled in all courses in Johnstown High School, the Commercial Department alone hav- ing an enrollment of three hundred and fifty-two, approximately 27% of the entire school. rmr ' - LiOH ilMUUlli 104 id I The Class of 1934 has a total of 539 graduates; of this num- ber, one hundred and twenty-nine, or 24% are Commercial students. When we consider the needs of the community, the necessity of training boys and girls for clerical and secretarial positions, it is apparent that the Commercial Department more than justifies its existence because of its practical value to so many young men and women who have taken that course of study. Alfred M. Utecht. o TWO SCHOOL BOYS Johnny was awakened by a loud blare of the alarm clock. He turned the thing off and lazily dozed again. Suddenly he was again awakened by, “Johnny, get up, you’ll be late for school.” Sleepily Johnny arose and turned on his shower. As the cold wa- ter poured over him, his brain cleared. “Oh, there’s nothing like a good, cold shower td wake one up.” Then came breakfast, merely a bite, and Johnny was out in his roadster, speeding to school. Fifty years previous to Johnny’s schooling, Johnny’s Grand- father, then only a boy, woke up just as dawn was breaking. He washed and dressed in the chilly bedroom and quickly ran down- stairs. Whistling merrily,he chopped wood and built a fire in the kitchen stove. Then he went out to the barn to feed the chickens and milk the cows. An hour later he returned and sat down to a steaming hot breakfast. After eating heartily, he tucked his books under his arm and trudged down the snowy five mile stretch which led to his school house. Betty Barnhart. THE ORIGIN OF EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Oui modern students, if they would take time to think about it, would appreciate the many outside activities offered them in the schools of today. In this age of speed and efficiency, the three R s would hardly suffice as an education even for the lower types of work. Let us, if we are able, take ourselves back to a typical Latin School. We find the boys studying the traditional lessons of long ago. But there is something lacking in the atmosphere. Boys, then as now, will be boys. They need some outlet for surplus en- ergy, while today, it is found in football and other games. How- ever, these boys got their exercise by playing pranks on the schol- arly-looking professor. A convenient pin, a well directed shot of a rubber-band resulted, eventually, in violent exercise, but on the part of the paddler rather than the paddled. The masters should have been convinced that purely intellectual activity was not suf- ficient nourishment for any boy. Joseph Garner, in 1766, made a new step toward developing a more complete program of study. He suggested injecting a small amount of polite literature into education. This was follow- ed by an athletically inclined person’s presenting an idea of a large and unencumbered area for the Children’s Exercise. This didn’t have a great advantage for the students because on the field or playground, as it would be known today, all physical amusements, such as ball-playing, were prohibited. A library is a very useful but commonplace necessity in our schools today, both to teachers and pupils; but in the days of the English-Latin school, the teachers only were permitted to use the library. The study of literature by students was not considered a necessity, and so it was discouraged at every outcropping. Interest in Journalism plays an important part in school life today, but until 1841, a student journal was unheard of and frown- ed upon by teachers. Athens Academy took the first step, and on August 10, 1811, their paper, “The Athenian,” appeared. Sub- jects of interest and brief notes on events in the schools were 106 THE OIR printed. A girls’ school, Coudersport Academy, eager for some- thing new, printed shortly afterward a paper, “The Ladies’ Re- pository.” The girls were fortunate in this day even to get an education; it is easily understood that gymnastics were even feared by the girls as something harmful. However Mrs. Philips, in 1839, in- troduced the thought that if the body was weak and listless, the mind might not be expected to work at its best. As a result, the girls were assigned small periods of time for gentle but strengthening exercise. Literary and debating societies carry on a work in our present day schools that is vital and important. The Central High School of Philadelphia, from 1850-1860, was a pioneer in this field. We, of today, can do little more than be thankful for the op- portunities offered us in this modern high school with its chances for advancement in every field. Edith Rickabaugh. DREAMS OF A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL In one of God’s own nooks beside a stream Reclines a girl; Her soft brown hair reflects the sunlight’s gleam, The tendrils curl. In eyes, deep limpid pools of glowing brown, Ideals swirl; With service high she hopes her life to crown. Her dreams unfurl. Dorothy Rodgers. 107 WOMEN IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION OM From 1740 on, advertisements of feminine private teachers frequently appeared. Among the Quakers, women were often employed in the elementary school. In 1767, a trustee of Ger- mantown appointed women to conduct a “Mistress' School” there. The fact that women teachers were cheaper, more patient, and more sympathetic was the cause of their more or less rapid pro- gress in the field. A writer, in 1852, listed some of the advantages of women teachers. “Women continue in the field longer; they are better fitted for the nature of the work; they can secure the confidence of the parents more easily; and they are more econom- ical. The chief argument against women in the teaching pro- fession is the fact that they are not so capable of disciplining older students as the masculine sex.” About this time the Civil War began, and this gave women teachers their greatest chance to demonstrate their ability. The results were favorable. By 1862, women were rapidly replacing men. One reason for this was the fact that the salaries were low and did not attract men. The Superintendent of Mercer County said that women were employed as a matter of economy and ne- cessity. In 1861 the average masculine teacher’s salary was $25.68 while the feminine teacher’s salary was only $19.71. The salaries ranged in 1862 from about $23.81 for men to $18.55 for women and in 1875 from approximately $40.03 for men to $31.03 for women. These figures apply to the monthly salaries. Examination of statistics in the reports of the State Superin- tendent shows a rapid increase of women teachers since 1862. The opposition seemed to be fading at this time. As proof of this, in 1853 there were 3,853 women teachers in Pennsylvania, but in 1875 there were 9,597. There was much comment on the unfair treatment of the fem- inine teachers by the masculine examiners in Philadelphia. Ex- aminations for women in 1837 were carried on by women as a re- sult. 108 Opposition was voiced about 1859 against married women’s teaching. The record in Philadelphia declared that married women could not do the work so well, and so the married women were asked to resign. Early in the Eighteen Sixties, there was a demand for equal salaries for men and women. Thomas Burrows pleaded for equal salaries and equal service in 1866. A resolution was passed in 1871 stating that merit, the amount of labor, and not sex would be the basis of compensation to the teachers. In 1883 the mini- mum salary for women was $35.00 a month. Article X, Section 3, of the Constitution of 1873 stated that women of twenty-one or over were eligible to any office of control or management under the School Laws of the state. In 1869 Miss M. L. Sandford was a successful candidate for the position of Coun- ty Superintendent of Schools in Coatesville. Her work was prais- ed. Miss Mary McCord became Principal of Lewistown High School in 1871, and about the same time Miss Sarah W. Stark- weather became Principal of Westchester High School. The above women were probably the only women holding high positions in the Educational Department of the State at this time. From 1828-29, there were thousands of women teachers in the state; among them were twenty-seven supervising principals. However, all the Coun- ty Superintendents were men, but ten women held the position of Assistant County Superintendent. In 1829 the women were refused by courts the right to vote for the vestrymen of the Church in Philadelphia, and the Charter of Conneautville Academy in 1848 excluded women from the vot- ing privileges. Finally, according to the “Pennsylvania School Journal,” we find that the schools opened all their offices to women and permitted them to vote for school officers. Dorothy Rodgers. SPECTATOR FREE EDUCATION IN JOHNSTOWN Approximately one-hundred and thirty-four years ago, the history of education in Johnstown had its beginning. With the establishment of the first homes in Johnstown, there was evidenced a growing desire for a system of public schools, a system in which every boy and girl would be given an equal opportunity for a prac- tical education, regardless of wealth or poverty. With the desire for free schools, came the practical foresight of our city fathers. In 1800, thirty-four years before our public schools came into existence, Joseph Johns set aside a plot of ground located on Market Street, on which was to be erected buildings for educational purposes. Financed by public subscription, in 1811, there was built on the above-mentioned Johns’ lot, a one-storeyed, single-roomed frame structure, which was to be the first school building in Johns- town. This structure, the now famous “Old Blackey,” was used un- til 1855, and was then sold for sixty-three dollars to the highest bidder. Although it was the first school-building in the Cone- maugh Valley, its history and tradition are practically lost. The probable explanation for this loss lies in the fact that prior to 1934, the schools kept no official record of proceedings, nor required any public or district control. To alleviate the small expense of maintenance, parents were required to pay fifty or seventy-five cents each month as a tuition fee. However, in 1809, when the County officials perceived that some parents could not afford even so small an expense, a Pauper Law was passed, permitting the children of such unfortunates to attend school at the County’s expense. Nevertheless, few would accept its provisions. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic were taught. The class procedure was far from scientific; pupils learned their lessons “on the book,” and recited to the master “off the book!” For the most part, the conventional schoolmasters were usually past their zenith of usefulness in the industry of the community but were faithful in the training of their young charges. In contrast with the public schools of today, some of the old schools were in some way connected with the various churches and for this reason were essentially parochial in nature. In 1834, the State Legislature passed a Free School Law, which practically assured the establishment of free public schools in Pennsylvania. Although many districts in the State were opposed to a public school system, Conemaugh Township, which included the village community, was immediately organized into a free school district and set up in operation. Two years later, “The Little Brick” stood on Market Street as a companion to “Old Blacky.” Notwithstanding, schoolrooms were still over crowded, and it was deemed necessary to construct new buildings to accommodate the great increase in enrollment By 1838, the White School House, located on the corner of Wal- nut and Conemaugh Streets, was ready for use. Not long after- ward the Bell Schoolhouse, so named because it had a large bell to call the pupils to their studies, was erected at the head of Main Street. In 1850, the White School House was moved to the Mar- ket Street lot, between “The Little Brick” and “Old Blacky.” in recognition of the need for school buildings in the outskirts of the town, a one-roomed, frame building was erected near the head of Water Street. Because of its location on the other side of the Stonycreek, it was called “the School Across the Bridge.” This simple structure was the first organized school in what is now known as Kernville. Thus from 1834 to 1854, the five buildings mentioned provid- ed accommodations for the schools of the rapidly progressing com- munity. The two frame buildings on the Johns’ lot were sold at public auction to make room for the Union School at the time the Bell Schoolhouse was sold, since it would no longer be needed for school purposes. With the passing of the Free School Law in 1834, the Borough of Johnstown assumed exclusive control of the public schools. Ac- cordingly, the first School Board was organized in the same year to direct and control the school system. At this point, it became P1BC J - T OIR necessary to examine prospective teachers so as to determine their qualifications. This was one of the duties of the School Board. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic were the only subjects in which the teachers of the elementary grades were examined. Teachers of advanced grades were examined in a broader field of study, which included Geography, Geometry, and History. Not- withstanding the fact that the subjects taught were limited, the great majority of the teachers were very well educated in even more complex sciences. Although instruction in comparatively few subjects was offered, those subjects that were taught were well taught and well learned. A review of the Public School status in 1853 will illustrate the contrast between the old and' modern Johnstown School Systems. The school year was continuous except for several short holi- days and a two weeks vacation in August. Only three school- buildings were in active use at this time, and all three were located on the Johns’ lot on Market Street. Masculine and feminine teach- ers, who were required to teach for twenty-four full days each month and every Saturday till noon, received thirty dollars and twenty-five dollars a month, respectively. The total enrollment of 333 pupils was taught by a staff of five teachers. The $115.34 contributed by the State was spent in school maintenance, which cost $1,193.02 for the school year. Coincident with the establishment of the Cambria Steel Com- pany, the entire school system was reorganized. The General School Law of 1854 gave to the Commonwealth the entire super- vision of the school system. Other provisions of this act placed the management and direction of schools in the hands of the County Superintendent of Schools; standardized general qualifications for teachers; required an outlined course' of organized study; and gave to the local Board of Directors wide discretionary powers. On January 1, 1865, the Union Schoolhouse, built on the Johns’ lot at a cost of $3,000, was ready for use. Its completion paved the way for a more thorough classification of schools and resulted in a system of grades discriminating between each advancement in the courses of study. 112 Although co-education had been the conventional in the ele- mentary grades, it had not yet come into favor as a system for ad- vanced pupils. Throughout the 1850’s the schools increased steadily in num- bers and rapidly became much more efficient in organization and method. Within thirty-five years, the Union Schoolhouse had for its companions, the more substantial buildings on Washington Street (the first high school building in Johnstown), Adams Street, Dibert Street, Union Street (the second high school building), and Horner Street. The brick buildings which now stand on Homer and Di- bert Streets were preceded by small frame structures which were used throughout the 60’s and early 70’s. A two-roomed, brick building was also added to the Market Street group in 1883. However, this and the “Little Brick” were destroyed in 1889 by the Great Flood. While such rapid progress was being made within the town proper, the surrounding suburbs were also making rapid strides toward an efficient educational system. Millville, Conemaugh, Woodvale, Cambria City, Morrellvile, Coopersdale, Grubbtown or Osborn, and Moxham all began an organization of a sound school system to keep pace with their rapidly growing population. From 1854 to 1889, the staff of school teachers grew from six to thirty-six. In accordance with the growth of the town, their salaries were gradually increased. Many people in Johnstown, even before the 1850’s, were de- sirous of having a system of higher education. However, the gen- eral public did not favor the use of school funds for “the personal benefit of a limited number.” Johnstown at this time, had several private academies for those seeking higher education, yet gradually the public high school came into popular favor. In 1868, under the stimulus of Dr. W. W. Walters, Secretary of the School Board, and under the direction of Professor A. C. Johnson, the High School Department was organized in what is now the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station. L TTTTJ - - _ lull) LiiililLUl 113 HECIATOIR On June 26, 1882, the first public Commencement of Johns- town High School pupils was held in the Union Hall. The class consisted of seven young ladies: Misses Anna Kratzer. Lizzie Barnes, Mary Layton, Sue Morley, Mamie Walters, J. Louise Mul- ler, and Mary Jane Cooper, formerly Supervisor of Primary Work in the City Schools. The Adams Street building was next used as a high school. On June 9, 1892, the Somerset Street building was dedicated as the new high school. This building was used until the present Joseph Johns building was dedicated on June 1, 1899, and here the high school quarters remained until September, 1926. As a subsidiary to the Central High School, the Junior High Schools were established. The true purpose of these innovations in the old school systems was to provide a sort of stepping stone for pupils passing from the elementary to the secondary grades, as well as to afford a field of educational and vocational exploration and guidance for younger students. In 1915, Garfield Junior High School, the first of its kind in Johnstown, was dedicated. It was another step forward toward a complete and efficient system of public education. Cochran Junior High School was dedicated in November, 1924. It was named in honor of William A. Cochran, a member of the Johnstown School Board from 1890 to 1917, who was instrumental in furthering the educational ambitions of the city. When the new Central High School building was completed in 1926, the old building on Market Street was dedicated as the Joseph Johns Junior High School, thus placing three new schools in three distinct sections of the City. As yet, there had been no opportunity for a college education in Johnstown. However, in 1926, a branch of the University of Pittsburgh was established in the Central High School building, where, for a nominal tuition fee, the young people of Johnstown and surrounding communities could receive instruction in the more advanced courses of study. f c Thus, over a period of one-hundred and thirty-four years, the educational program of Johnstown advanced from mere contem- plation to a reality, wherein every child is prepared for his future place in the world. The schools have advanced in a comparatively short time from rude log buildings to magnificent structures of which our ancestors probably never dreamed. Just as we have grown and prospered throughout the years, we shall continue to advance toward the acme of perfection in the field of public education. Isadore Suchman. --------o--------- THE LUNCH HOUR A bench Stood at the back, Covered with dinner pails, Tin ones, boxes, too; twenty-three In all! A rush When the bell rang, The boys pushing ahead. A clatter of the dinner pails— Lunch time! Play time— A shout is heard— Empty pails put away. Dark hands wipe grimy faces. Games Are on! Shy looks, Pig tails swirling— Ginghams and calicoes Flit through the cool, shadowed room. Just girls! Doris Miller. HE SSPECIATO JOHNSTOWN SCHOOLS THAT WITHSTOOD THE FLOOD The Johnstown Schools played an important role during the Johnstown Flood on May 31, 1889. As the waters rose, they loosened buildings from their foun- dations. Many schools collapsed and were never seen after that. Fortunately, some schools withstood the pressure of the water. After the' waters had receded, several of the schools that survived were turned into morgues. This was true of the Iron Street Build- ing, because of its nearness to the famous Stone Bridge where the debris was piled high. The Millville School saved three hundred lives. Incidentally, Betty Bailey, a Term XII, who is a member of the “Spectator Staff,” is grateful because her grandmother, while afloat, happened to land on the roof of the Dibert Street Building and was rescued by some men in the building. Thirteen Johns- town School teachers lost their lives in the flood. Other schools also withstood the flood. They are the Union Street, Adam Street, Horner Street, and Benshoff Schools. Miriam Bell. -o-------- A SLATE SPEAKS. “Sweethearts, Small barefoot boy And blue-eyed girl, beside A rushing spring, of their future Whispered.” Betty Bailey. THE RISING TIDE (A Playlet) (Note: This playlet contains incidents which happened to school buildings along the path of the Johnstown Flood in May, 1889.) Scene: A one-roomed school house. Characters: Miss Duncan Mary White Jane and James Ross SCENE I (Water is beginning to cover the valley bed.) Jane: Water’s flowing in the path! Mary: Oh, the water is covering the ground! James: Look, you can see it rising! Jane: Miss Duncan, let us go home to our mothers. Miss Duncan: No, children stay here. The water will soon recede. You are safer here. James: See, it’s over the first step. Mary: How fast it is rising toward the second! James: I think it is beginning to seep in at the door. Jane: (Crying.) We’ll all be drowned! James: Let’s climb on the desks! Miss Duncan: Children, be calm! We”ll all be rescued. Mary: But, Miss Duncan, the water’s rising. Miss Duncan: There must be some way to save us. James: If we were only higher! (Cries.) Miss Duncan: Come, we’ll go up on the roof. SCENE II (Miss Duncan and pupils on roof.) Jane: Everything is covered with water! Mary: There are sticks drifting along. James: Over there is a little building. Miss Duncan: Even whole trees have been torn up. THE SPECTATOR Jane: (Looking over the edge of the roof.) The water is pouring in the school room through the window. Mary: Oh, that house is bending over. James: Miss Duncan, the building is shaking.. Mary: (Screaming.) The school’ll be washed away! Miss Duncan: Be brave, James, catch that long pole floating along the edge of the roof. James: (After he has grasped the pole.) What’ll I do with it? Miss Duncan: Try to guide us. Mary: Miss Duncan, we’re floating. Miss Duncan: Yes, now James guide us beside that house. Jane: (Crying.) We’ll all be drowned. James: Miss Duncan, we’ll run into the side of the house. Miss Duncan: All right, James. Let’s do just that. (The school building stops suddenly beside the house, and the pupils are helped off the roof.) Jane: We’re safe. Miss Duncan: Thank God! (Prays.) Marion Schmidt. ---------------o--- TO A SLATE O slate, How well you laid Great foundations, served well, Projected great citadels of Learning! Charles Statler. f c THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HORNER STREET SCHOOL The fiftieth anniversary of the Horner Street School was cele- brated with appropriate exercises at the Seventh Ward building, April 6, 1934. In commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the free public school system, in the State of Pennsylvania, Johnstown’s chief interest was centered in the Horn- er Street School. The program for the evening revived the old-fashioned spell- ing bee. Mr. G. H. Murdock, former Principal of Garfield Junior High School and one of Johnstown’s veteran teachers, was the of- ficial pronouncer, and Watson Horner, Junior, and Clair Wright were the Captains. Mr. I). M. S. McFeaters delivered the principal address. The title of Mr. McFeaters’ speech was “The Historical Setting of the Horner Street School.” The master of ceremonies for the evening was Charles H. De- Frehn. Louis Franke gave an address of welcome. J. D. Ripple, formerly the Principal of the Joseph Johns Junior High School, made the response. The speakers for the evening were James Killius, Superintendent of Schools, J. D. Rutledge, President of the School Board, Dalvin T. Jones, a School Director, and Miss Mary Jane Cooper, former Supervisor of Primary Grades. Additional numbers on the program were given by the fol- lowing: The Reverend Harvey W'arner, Martha Gallagher, Clay- ton Apple, J. L. Jones, Mrs. J. E. Miller, Harvey Horne, Clyde Cummins, Katherine Blanche, Emmaline Horner, and the Johns- town High School Band, directed by Charles I. Aikey. The printed program for the evening bore the pictures of Fred A. Joy, the man, who, fifty years ago put the roof on the Horner Street School, with the aid of his son, Joseph H. Joy; John Von Alt, the only surviving member of the Johnstown School Board of 1883; Wesley Rose, and his son, R. Given Rose, contractors who IH SPECTATOR. erected the school; and Jacob Horner who donated the ground upon which the Horner Street School was built. The pupils of the Horner Street School celebrated the anni- versary by presenting an elaborate program Friday afternoon, April 6, 1934. Altogether the fiftieth anniversary of the Horner Street School w-as fittingly observed. Betty Gleason. ---------o-------- IN PRAISE OF EDUCATION Countries old, Learning need: Countries bold, Wisdom’s seed. Where you will— Fields brown; In street or mill; Towering town; Wind-blown, rain-swept Prairie lands; Dry or dusty, unkempt Desert sands; Green-gowned, dew-mist; Woodland creeks; Dawn tint, sun-kissed Mountain peaks; All wish, all seek, Educations; It means, it is Life to nations! Rosemary Burns. 1_F PECTAT OR ONE OF YESTERDAY’S SCHOOLS Long years have passed since re-echoing young voices shook the dusty and dark rafters of New Amstel’s first school, which the well-meaning pioneers had built to prepare their children to be good citizens, to make this land of ours one of intelligent men and women. None of the ancients of that small farming village can recall hearing of, let alone remembering, the schoolhouse before a fine brick building took its place. Where the building stood no one seems to know. Mary Parsons, who, like the forgotten school- house, belongs to the dim past, was the only person to have had any interest left in the place, for she was the last school marm at that “Old Hickory School.” Miss Parsons alone knew the school’s real history. Some time preceding the Revolutionary War—no records tell exactly when—the settlers of New Amstel volunteered to raise a school- house. Their combined labors resulted in a clearing in the for- est and a one-room log cabin with a roof of mud-plastered brush held down by clap-boards and weight poles. Chinks between the logs were filled with mud, the same mud from which mischievous youngsters dug worms with which to tease the girls. Instead of a clay floor, one of boards was laid in the school. A Jacob Jameson, the first instructor, knew little more of the three R’s than his pupils. Considering the fact that he disliked other occupations, and that his salary was small, he was almost ex- pected to misdirect his pupils. His salary was $12 for each month of his two or three month term. As part of his pay, he boarded around at the homes of his pupils. Such inducements were rarely responded to by persons of real ability. Those who did were usually far from an inspiration to their charges. Textbooks were as poorly selected as the teacher. Reading was the only subject regularly taught. Books were usually learn- ed by heart. Those who liked to read could scarcely find reading matter. Jameson’s pupils pored over single thin readers for whole dreary terms. The early students worked hard for what little education they did get. In teaching reading, Jameson merely €)M called out words which he expected his pupils to learn without the least idea of their meaning. Beyond reading and writing of sums, he did little in arithmetic, the rules of which were altogether mean- ingless. One reason that Jameson was hired was that he could make quill pens. Slates and pencils were unknown until years later. With goose quill pens, his pupils copied words and figures on fools- cap paper. Sap boiled from a certain tree furnished the only ink known. A section of the wall painted black served the purpose of a blackboard. Master Jameson, himself, found it a task to write over the numerous cracks in the wall. Though the boys were thought to have more need for educa- tion than the girls, he taught them hardly anything of practical value, in fact little except dislike of school. Succeeding schoolmasters, like Jameson, were scarcely worth the name of teacher, but it was not so with Miss Parsons. She had received careful instruction from a wise German tutor in a private school and was well qualified to teach, not only because she knew how, but also because she liked to teach. Miss Parsons remembered her own experiences in the ancient school. Hardly past seventeen, she took the place of a disgusted schoolmaster who resigned the preceding spring. That first day dragged slowly along. The very thought of her beginning where he had left off unnerved her. With this comforting thought, she climbed the path which led from her boarding-house to the school in the forest. The sight of the building chilled her more than did the cold morning mists. It was as ugly as other schools she had seen even though it had real glass windows, not greased paper pasted over holes in the building. Scattered pieces of moss seemed to hold the aging roof and mud-chinked walls together. Her hand shook upon opening the battered door which was at the stoop at the rear of the building. Her desk, with the scars and raps of authority still visible on it, did not appeal to her. Near the desk hung a board with “In” and “Out” printed on it. This board indicated 122 that someone had left the room, and also the fact that he had come back. A new tin water pail with shining cups was nearby. From this pail, many pupils contracted typhoid fever. Two small win- dows on either side of the room dimly revealed the almost broken- down stove near the center of the room. Long seats, resembling church pews, enough to seat comfortably thirty-five pupils, lined the room. Expecting to have seventy-five or more pupils to “edjicate,” she cleaned up the room since she was also janitor. She had to get fire-wood too. Finally, having neatly swept the room, she looked at a few books lying in her des.k Some were readers and arithmetics; some, spellin’ books. Rules and regulations so filled these books that it seemed that anyone who could learn their con- tents was a genius. As pupils brought various kinds of books, es- pecially arithmetics, the course of teaching was hard to organize. Arithmetics were so outdated and different that it was almost nec- essary to have as many classes as books. Buying of school books by students was the greatest handicap of our state’s first fifty-nine years of free education, but since there were only two series of readers, Osgood’s and McGuffey’s, lack of uniformity was not felt so much in reading. Pupils more or less memorized their lessons, probably because they could not under- stand them. It was memory alone which marked the champion spellers at the widely-attended “spellin’ bees.” An experienced teacher, McGuffey had intelligently produced many useful features in his books with the aim of making both teaching and learning easier. He succeeded in greatly improving the books formerly used, for his Readers became highly popular as soon as they were published. He placed emphasis on correct grammar and fine lit- erature which could be understood by the average pupil. Stories of human interest and bits of geography brightened the pages of McGuffey’s readers. Having inspected the books, Miss Parsons took a small bell from her desk, where it sat waiting to call young Swedish, Irish, German, and English lads and lassies to books. There at the door, ringing the bell, stood the new teacher until several young- sters appeared from various directions. Beginners were escorted Iff IPECTIATOIR long distances by their mothers so as to be introduced to the school and the teacher. Many of these mothers could hardly talk Eng- lish. The children also persisted in speaking their own language only. Most of the early comers were so young that their dinner buckets dragged on the ground. Older brothers and sisters came last, and what a contrast they were! They were as rough and raw as nature had made them. If the new school “marm” trembled, it was at sight of those big strapping youngsters saying for her benefit, “She won’t last long; she won’t last long! See if she does.” Several schoolmasters had already been roughly treated, put out bodily, and locked out by the big boys. They must have felt a change of heart at seeing pretty Mary Parsons. At least Jim Richardson, the leader, did, for there was no trouble from his tollowers. No doubt Jim had fallen in love with his golden-haired teacher. He must have, because he came to see her often after that time. Peacefully the session started with the arranging of seventy- five pupils where there was room for about thirty-five. Then, each one except the chart pupils was given lessons in the readers. The lower readers studied spelling or read stories, and looked at pic- tures. ( hart pupils scribbling on slates, frowned, and puzzled over the charts from which they were later to painfully decipher “dog, cat, and rat.” On one occasion a rooster proved more interesting to her pu- pils than lessons. She had a dusky pupil at another time, one who made her teeth chatter. With whoops and merry shouts of “Here’s a new scholar. He’ll make a fine one,” the whole school escorted him at the end of a string to the entrance. A big fellow he was, and they told her that he had never been to school before. Some called him “Blacky;”some “Johnny;” but they introduced him— John J. Black-snake. Fortunately he was a dead scholar and beyond the aid of education. Just as vivid in her mind was the roll call. If Willy Schmidt or one of the Hansens or Richardsons was missing, their friends answered for them. They always knew the reason—“Diggin” po- tatoes,” “Shuckin’ corn,” “Don’t have no shoes,” “Went to town PECTATOM with his pap,” ‘‘Gath’rin’ leaves,’” or in surly, drawling tones, ‘‘Makin’ sauerkraut.” A tattered and tired-looking school house, which creaked and grew warped and old as time passed, seemingly ill-treated by each passing mood of the weather, always remained with her to stir countless other memories. Very often the wintry winds reminded her of familiar wintry scenes staged there by her pupils. Cold winds still seemed to be silently whispering at each crack and corn- er of the clay-chinked building while almost frozen children came in, put their heavy wraps on the pegs on the wall, and took off their boots and thick woolen stockings and arranged them near the fire to ‘‘dry ’em out.” All was well until the heat touched the little- washed stockings. More wood piled on the fire to hasten the cir- culation of air was then necessary to make breathing again safe. After toasting themselves by the fire, the children took their seats, some wishing they were closer to the stove while others fairly sizzled. A favorite story of those who had such ex- periences was that they wrapped their hands in Mother’s pancakes to keep them warm on the way to school. Winter was the favor- ite time for social gatherings. The community center was the school. Here were held debating meetings, singing school, spell- ing bees, and sometimes dances. It was from these social events, as well as from “Aunt Dinah’s quilting parties,” that grandfather, when he was a boy, liked to see his Nellie home. Throughout the years, every detail, as Mary Parsons remem- bered it, seemed as clear as if before her. Her scarred and pound- ed desk looked as ugly as ever. Battered and worn seats recalled to her restless boys and girls who sat there, grew up, and never came back. Grandfather she remembered also. Having a pas- sion for art, he fondly engraved beautiful initials on his desk. Like the other lads, too, his efforts at painting with charcoal from the stove were plainly evidenced by highly fantastic murals, which though not done on canvas and not quite so lasting, were bold de- partures from the style of the great masters of painting. Geniuses in business were in evidence too. Each boy usually had something in his pocket which he valued, things worthless as far as utility went, but treasured for some odd quality like brightness of color 125 or the supposed power of giving the owner luck. More varied col- lections could hardly be found in a pawnshop—bits of everything, pebbles, strings, knives, rings, queer coins, and charms. Pockets in those days were rich treasures vaults. No financier was more shrewd than these young traders. More than one had the “mak- in’s of a hoss trader in him.” Strange, too, was her remembrance of the stoop at the en- trance to the schoolroom. This, itself, told her a story older than the school, in fact, as old as the human race. Worn smooth by feet which slowly dragged when entering the room and swiftly thundered out to playing, it told her much about human nature, which, after all, remains unchanged when most other things change. Now the old school has so blended with the earth that not even a portion of it is left for the vines to creep over,yet its spirit to- gether with hers may still be living, perhaps, enshrined in the beautiful structures education has built today, truly the most glori ous monuments to the noble endeavors of Mary Parsons, who wished to prepare her pupils for a world better than the one in which she had lived. Gus Stelmack. --------o--------- LOG CABIN Upon A grassy knoll The crude log school house stood, The root of education, in Past days. Written by the Sixth Period Class, Room in 417. THE ADVENT OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE Pennsylvania has been well known for its development of branch junior colleges in the western part of the state. However, the Johnstown branch was the first junior college in Pennsylvania under the sponsorship of a senior high school. In 1926, the school authorities asked the University of Pittsburgh to outline a plan for a junior college to be conducted in the new senior high school building through the cooperation of the University and the Johns- town Public Schools. In a center such as this, the building and upkeep are furnished by the local public school boards, but the instructions and control are entirely in the hands of a private uni- versity. This makes the junior college a private institution oper- ating in a public school plant. The School Code of the State of Pennsylvania provided free education through the standard four-year nigh school course but did not definitely state that Boards of School Directors might pro- ceed in the organization of two years of standard college work beyond the high school level, where any part of the expense was to be borne by public taxation. After the Johnstown High School building was erected, the question arose as to the powers of the Board of School Directors to lease any portion of this building to a private institution or college. To meet this situation, an amendment to Section 627 of the School Code was passed during the session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1926. This amendment legalized Junior Col- leges and made possible their housing in public school buildings. The underlying principle which promoted the installment oT the Junior College was the need of giving full college preparatory qualifications. There had grown up a practice in Johnstown, as is common in the East, for the parents, who are able, to send their children to some college preparatory school during the last year or two in preparation for college work. Such practice was not considered necessary but detrimental to the educational interests of the city. TH1E SPECTATOR It was found that the opportunities of education beyond that given by a regular high school were desired by larger groups of people who were unable to attend school away from their homes. Further it was determined that such advantages must be made to meet the needs of the three-fourths or more of the graduating classes of the high school who were unable to attend a regular college. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” A college at home is a bird in the hand with both its seen and unseen advant- ages. Elsie Berg. ----------o---------- ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL Into the morning sun he went, His little feet were sore and bare, And with his shoulders slightly bent He sped straight on without a care. Along the lonely road he runs While red-birds sing their jolly notes, A robin’s nest he gently shuns But stops to sail two paper boats. As he dries his feet upon the grass, A little girl with an apple stands; He really can not let her pass, And all his gallantry commands That he her Cavalier may be, A loving comrade through her life; Within the future he can see That she’ll become his little wife. Miriam Bell. f c 1 SPECTATOR Marion Lewis Betty Bailey Klizabeth George Dorothy Rodgers Elsie Berg THE SPECTATOR STAFF Editor-in-Chief—Edna May Bates Associate Editor—Isadore Suchnian Literary Editor—Evelyn J. Wiliams Associate Literary Editor—Bert Horn Humor Editor—Rita Hartwiger Associate Humor Editor—Gus Stelmack Art Editor—-John Gregorchik Athletic Editor—Irene Nagy Associate Athletic Editor—Mary Lou Allen LITERARY STAFF Edith Rickabaugh Rosemary Burns Edward White Marion Schmidt Charles Statler Ruth Somerville Betty Gleason Frank Mirto Miriam Bell Mary Jane Crouse Hazel Butler Dorothy Caldwell James Clement Richard Cooper Earl Cuppett Richard DeArmey Richard Falstick James Fulton Frank Genovese Phyllis Georg Thomas Gilchrist Walter Gill Ted Gleason Robert Grape Sara Grazier Dorothy Hammer Mary Jane Harris Gladys Head Maxine Hesketh Charlotte Hipp Ethel Hochstein Jacob Horowitz Agnes Pokrzywa Rosemary Culliton Alex Sabo BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager—Campton Oakley Associate Business Manager—Eleanor McFeaters Head Typist—Clyde Cummins Betty Horton Eleanor Johnston Blair Johnston Joseph Jones Carl Jordon Betty Lou Kistler Kathryn Kuhne John Lawrence Thankful Layton Virginia Lentz Lucille Lonergan Louis Lunt Mary K. McCreary Amber Mangus Kenneth Martin Viola Merritts Randall Miller Robert Mitchell Robert Moberly Mary Jo O’Connor June Parks Dorothea Petriken TYPING STAFF Marjorie Spiker Ruth Harrison Julia Houck Carl Pieger Agnes Pokrzywa Mary Blanche Polster Marguerite Price Georgia Ripple Jack Sacks Margaret Schlosser James Schreier Laura Schuler Helen Louise Seigh Jack Sharpe Marjorie Spiker Hulda Steeg Joe Steinkirchner Mary Louise Stombaugh Claude Sturtz Dorothy Thompson Frances Louise Tomb Margaret Trabert Stanton Trostle Ruth Winder Gladys Yoder Matilda Piskura Dorothy Thompson Ralph Christ Francis Zlatholavy Homer Miller Esther Mock Josephine Wesner Ruth Woy Freda Claycomb Frank Kohler William Orris ART STAFF Edward Rosko Charlotte Wilson Marion Reed Jack Varner Mildred Wilson Elizabeth Momchilovich Edward Pattison Joe Yarchak Gladys Berkebile Doris Machamer Francis Goucher William Poliak Fae Paul Grace Louther Mary Louise Shaffer THE STAFF OF THE “SPECTATOR” The group selected to edit and publish the “Spectator” for the class of 1934 consists of one hundred and twenty-five able members. The Editors are Bert Horn, Associate Literary Editor; Evelyn J. Williams, Literary Editor; John Gregorchik, Art Editor; Mary Lou Al- len, Associate Athletic Editor; Irene Nagy, Athletic Editor; Edna May Bates, Editor-in-Chief; Isadore Suchman, Associate Editor; Rita Hart- wiger, Humor Editor; Clyde Cummins, Head Typist; Eleanor McFeat- ers, Associate Business Manager; Campton Oakley, Business Manager, Gus Stelmack, Associate Humor Editor. In the Literary Staff, there are fifteen members; in the Business Staff, sixty-eight members; in the Typing Staff, ten members; in the Art Staff, twenty-three members; and in the Editorial Staff, nine mem- bers. Miss Swisher, of the English Department, is Literary Adviser; Miss Gocher, of the Commercial Department, is Business Adviser; and Miss Hoffman, of the Art Department, is Art Adviser. 131 OK 133 THE ’VARSITY CLUB The ’Varsity Club is composed of boys who have been awarded a letter in the Major Sports of the school. Mr. Harrick and Mr. Fisher are sponsors of the organization. The members of the club are as follows: First row—Sam Gigliotti, Alex Atty, Jack Minahan, John Stahl, Charles Widdersheim, Francis Mikula, Joe Yarchak, Jake Shank, Pete Zakula, Mike Grimaldi. Second row—Ralph Whitney, Curtis Geer, Walter Olenick, Wil- liam Hessler, Walter Shank, Robert Venet, Bill Sanner, Steve Petro, Eli Basta ji. Third row—Murray Bowman, Richard Wetzel, Coach Harrick, Leo Napotnic, Francis Vargo. 134 PECX4TOR JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SQUAD First row—Gigliotti, Dudukovich, Summerson, Olenick, Mikula, Hessler, J. Shank, Geer, Zakula. Second row—Coach Joseph V. Har- rick, Venet, W. Shank, Wetzel, Bowman, Vargo, Coach Marshall Fish- er, Manager Minahan. 135 ■ IH1 IPECTATOIR THE BASKETBALL TEAM On Tuesday, March 20, the Johnstown High School basket- ball squad completed a very successful season. After winning the Tri-County League Championship by defeating Ferndale in a play- off game, they defeated Franklin, and then lost to Huntingdon in the District 6 P. I. A. A. Championship Game. The squad lost the first game of the season when they were defeated by the Alumni. The team won the first league game from Portage and then were defeated by Ferndale in a very close game. Successive victories over Altoona and Westmont were fol- lowed by a defeat from Huntingdon. Next came a winning streak of eight games with two victories each over Catholic and Windber and single victories over Ferndale, Portage, Huntingdon, and Westmont. A playoff with Ferndale for the Tri-County League Championship was made necessary by Altoona’s one-point vic- tory over the home team in the final league game of the season. Johnstown was victorious over Ferndale, for the second time to win the league championship. This was followed by a decisive victory over Franklin. Huntingdon handed the “Blue and Black’” five their second defeat and drowned their hopes for the Pennsylvania State crown. BASKETBALL GAMES The Basketball Season of 1933-34 consisted of a formidable schedule of eighteen games. Of these, Johnstown won 13 and lost 5. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—25 Alumni—30 Johnstown opened the season by losing a fast and well con- tested game to the Alumni. The undergraduates were taken into camp in the first quarter, 11 to 7; and at the half, 18 to 16. In the final quarter, the graduates completely outplayed Johnstown. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—34 Portage—29 The second game was a victory for Johnstown. Leading the Portage aggregation by only a few points within the last few min- utes of play in the final quarter, Johnstown launched a fast-break- ing offense and gained a safe margin over Portage. 136 FERNDALE GYMNASIUM Johnstown—24 Ferndale—25 The complete Johnstown team failed to halt a brilliant and inspired Ferndale cage team as Ferndale ended with 25 to our 24. A lightning drive in the second quarter, netting 11 points to the opposition’s 2, gave Ferndale an edge that Johnstown could not overcome in the first and third quarter rallies and recorded the sec- ond Tri-County High School Basketball League victory for the charges of Coach Fisher in as many starts. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—25 Altoona—18 Johnstown conquered Altoona by a score of 25-18 in the bat- tle. and the game was marked by intense rivalry. As a result of its victory, Johnstown tied Windber for second place in the Tri- County League. During the first quarter, Altoona registered four points to Johnstown’s one free toss. However, in the second quar- ter, Johnstown gained a 3-point lead and in the final quarter scored four points while Altoona tallied only four. WESTMONT GYMNASIUM Johnstown—22 Westmont—17 Spurts in the second and third period after being held score- less in the opening chapter gave Johnstown an edge and carried them through to a 22 to 17 victory over Westmont. This gave Johnstown second place in the Tri-County League. HUNTINGDON GYMNASUM Johnstown—21 Huntingdon—29 Clinging carefully to a substantial lead rolled up in the first half of play, the Huntingdon team turned back the invading Johns- town team. This game was the first meeting of the two schools in athletics for four years. WINDBER GYMNASIUM Johnstown—29 Windber—25 Staving off a great rally in the late stages of the game to put on one of their own, Johnstown nosed out the rejuvenated Wind- ber outfit by four points. The victory placed Johnstown in second place in the Tri-County League with four victories out of five. OIR CATHOLIC HIGH GYMNASIUM Johnstown—35 Catholic High—19 Clicking in fine style in the first quarter, Johnstown registered a six-point lead, but in the second quarter, Catholic High succeed- ed in deadlocking the court at eleven; all at the close of the first half. In the second half, Johnstown dropped in field goals from all angles. In the third and fourth quarters, Johnstown netted 24 points to 8 of Catholic High. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—29 Ferndale—20 A record breaking crowd of basketball fans saw Johnstown’s team break the perfect record of Ferndale’s in the Tri-County League. In the third quarter, Ferndale out scored Johnstown by a margin of two points. Only in the third quarter did Ferndale threaten to overtake Johnstown, but a quick switch halted them. PORTAGE GYMNASIUM Johnstown—39 Portage—25 Johnstown walked away with an easy victory over Portage in a snappy contest. Eleven players figured in the game for Johns- town, while Portage used only eight men. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—28 Catholic High—16 Johnstown scored 15 points in the third quarter drive after being held scoreless in the second period. It was the second game won for Johnstown over Catholic High. After taking a five point lead giving into the second chapter, Johnstown was shut out until the half was over while the losers recorded seven points to take a two point lead. A fresh team was put in and ran up 15 points. It then played a winning game to the end. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—42 Windber—15 Johnstown ran roughshod over Windber in the Tri-County League game and won a decisive victory. At the close of the first half, the score was 30 to 6. In the third quarter, our boys an- nexed ten additional points, scoring only two points in the last quarter. 138 JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—28 Huntingdon—24 Huntingdon was given its first defeat of the season. In the first quarter, Johnstown got a good start, leading their opponents by a five-point margin at the close of the period. At the end of the first half, the count was 13 for both teams. Three extra time-outs for Huntingdon cost them three points as Johnstown made the awards on the foul line count. JOHNSTOWN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—40 Westmont—24 Johnstown won an easy victory over Westmont, assuring them- selves of at least a tie for the championship in the Tri-County League. Johnstown acquired 11 points in the first quarter, keep- ing out in the front throughout the game. In the fourth quarter, they scored ten more points to make sure of victory. ALTOONA GYMNASIUM Jchnstown—19 Altoona—20 Johnstown failed to halt Altoona in an interesting tussle that meant the championship for Johnstown. Fine performance on the foul line kept Johnstown in the running with their arch rivals. Johnstown dropped 17 free tossers. WESTMONT GYMNASIUM Johstown—32 Femdale 26 Johnstown emerged the winner over Ferndale in the battle for the championship of the Tri-County League. Throughout the first half, Johnstown lead at the rate of 16 to 10. In the third quarter, Ferndale succeeded in tying the score at 22. In the clos- ing frame, Johnstown won their coveted victory. COCHRAN GYMNASIUM Johnstown—42 Franklin—26 The Franklin championship failed to halt Johnstown. At the first quarter, the score was 6 to 4. In the second quarter, Johnstown aggregated a total of 20 points while Franklin s total was 11. As the third quarter closed, a toss from the foul line made the count 38 to 18 for Johnstown. A field goal ended Johns- town’s scoring just before the final whistle, sounded. THE SPECTATOR, ALTOONA GYMNASIUM Johnstown—10 Huntingdon—19 At Altoona Johnstown’s hopes of annexing the scholastic bas- ketball championship of the state for the season were shattered. When the first quarter ended Huntingdon led with a score of 5 to 2. In the second quarter, Huntingdon registered four field goals and two charity flings while Johnstown tallied one point on a free toss. In the third quarter Huntingdon scored one point while Johnstown made two field goals, making the score 16 to 9. Neither team scored a field goal in the final quarter, but Huntingdon regis- tered three free shots, and Johnstown bagged one just before the final whistle sounded. f c P! winiIntnillEj nilnllM 140 4, STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Council is made up of a group of representatives who are elected by each assembly room to discuss problems of common in- terest to the pupils and the faculty Each assembly elects one represen- tative to Student Council, which meets every Friday in Room 429. With- in the Council, members are elected every month to attend meetings of the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, and the Business and Professional Women’s Club. Reports of these meetings are made in the Council, and thus Johnstown High School keeps in contact with the business and professional world. Miss Domb is the sponsor. The Members First row—Leo Napotnic, vice-president; Marion Ashcom, secre- tary; Robert Conrad, president; and Kent Armstrong, chaplain. In the second row are Agnes Furman, Marion Reed, Minnie Boyer, Mary Jo O’Connor, Mary Jane Smith, Marion Lewis, Mary Louise Ream, and Bet- ty Horton. Third row-Ben Mainhart, Fae Paul, Marion Rodgers, Audrey Adamson, Caroline Vuckovich, Ruth Pardoe, Betty Barnhart, John Vid- mar, Joe Hanzel, Wayne Hill, Theodore Loch, Paul Barnhart, Robert Griffith, Joseph Jones, Charles Henry, Salvo Rizza. Fifth row—Ivan Dunbar, Bruce Steele, Bruce McCartney, Richard Cooper, Ted Gleason, Robert Venet, Leonard Schmerin, Curtis Geer, and Isadore Suchman. 142 Iff E SaPECHATOIR THE STAFF OF THE “BLUE AND BLACK” The Staff of the “Blue and Black” is a special class which is re- sponsible for publishing the bi-weekly news in the “Tribune.” Miss Swisher is the sponsor. Left to right, the members are: First row—Margaret Peterson, Lulu Dittmar, Mary Lou Allen, Ruth Somerville, Irene Nagy, Miriam Bell, Betty Bailey, Marion Lewis, Dorothy Rodgers. Second row— Rosemary Burns, Gladys Head, Agnes Mattes, Viola Merritts, Anna Mae Tressler, Freda Claycomb, Rita Hartwiger, Margaret Trabert, Edna May Bates, Edith Rickabaugh. Third row—Bert Horn, Sophie Lipko, Mary Jane Crouse, Betty Gleason, Evelyn J. Williams, Elsie Berg, Marion Schmidt, Margaret Bergo, John Gregorchik. Fourth row —Charles Statler, Frank Mirto, Edward White, Gus Stelmack, Joe Yar- chak, Isadore Suchman, William Orris, and John Borsuk. 143 IHE BPECTA.TC1R BAND The Johnstown High School Band, consisting of ninety-nine mem- bers under the direction of Charles I. Aikey, took active part during the past year in the high school activities, football games, West End festiv- ities, the Horner Street School celebration, and the May Day Festivities. In the Forensic League they won the second place in the Class A Band Contest. Term XII’s who aided in this splendid work were Seward Davis, Mary Sauers, Earl Diggins, Grace Louther, Ted Loch, Edward Kress, Jack Varner, Alta Gordon, Lillian Crawley Charles Slagle, George Har- rison, Wilmer Davis, David Jenkins, Alexander Wilson, John Ireland, Robert Stephey, Paul Campbell, William Peat, James Fulton, and Claude Sturtz. A brass sextet, and cornet, trombone, flute, clarinet, and baritone horn soloists entered the contest from Johnstown High School this year. 144 ORCHESTRA The Johnstown Senior High School Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. C. P. Huntington, consisted of ninety-three members. It was aug- mented by the three junior high schools for the Forensic Contest be- cause of the fact that vacancies, which were made by the elimination of mid-term graduations, could not otherwise be filled. This year the orchestra made the Forensic League Contest its center of attention since the contest was held in Johnstown. The Orchestra added laurels by winning first place in the Contest. The members of the graduating class are Earl Diggins, Dallas Covert, Mary Cotroneo, Paul Campbell, James Fulton, Anthony Grazi- ano, Alta Gordon, Edward Kress, Ted Loch, Grace Louther, Movene Martin, William Peat, Mary Sauers, Robert Stephey, Mary Salovich, Frances Louise Tomb, and Jack Varner. 145 I HE SPECTATOR THE MIXED CHORUS This semester the Mixed Chorus competed in the State Forensic League Contest, and because of the requirements, it was reduced to one hundred members. The chorus, directed by Miss Mary Weaver, partici- pated in the Community Music Festival and gave the usual programs at service clubs and school assemblies. The chorus won first place in the Forensic League Contest. Other choruses with whom they competed were Beaver Falls and Sharon. The members of the graduating class are Mary Catherine Cooper, Ruby Wilson, Louise Zoeller, Evelyn Williams, Freda Claycomb, Doro- thy Caldwell, Phyllis Georg, Dorothy Rodgers, Margaret Berkey, Sara Grazier, Doris Machamer, Mary Eva Byers, Glennavee Cook, Mary Jane Harris, Agnes Pokrzywa, Lillian Wallace, Irma Barnhart, Hazel Keiper, Dorothy Thompson, Cora Jane Bell, Miriam Bell, Betty Lou Kistler, Agnes Mattes, Ester Kaufman, Virginia Lentz, Margaret V. Peterson, Aileen Martin, Florence Kuhn, Ruth Woods, Margaret Lewis, Margaret Bungard, Mary Jane Crouse, Emma Jean Bowman, Betty Hinks, Mary Salovich, Frank Hauber, Elwood Dull, Blair Johnston, Joseph Jones, Lavelle Horner, Clement Harris, Frank Genovese, Frank Stewart, Carl Pieger, James Berkley, Robert Mitchell, Robert Grape, Raphael Curry, Fred Machtley, Stanton Trostle, William Orris, William Hansel, and Mickey Castania. 146 IffE SPECTATOR GIRL RESERVES Under the direction of the sponsor, Miss Hoge. the Girl Reserves have had an unusually successful year. Among the many social activi- ties they held were a Scavenger Hunt, a Kiddies’ Party, a Skating Frol- ic, and a Tea. Not only did they enjoy themselves this year, but they also increas- ed their membership by an extensive drive held during the second se- mester. The officers of the club are as follows: president, Mary Jo O’Con- nor; vice-president, Dorothy Caldwell; secretary, Fae Paul; and treas- urer, Lulu Dittmar. 147 HI-Y CLUB The Hi-Y Club, as usual, has had a very eventful year. Dances banquets, open forums, and speeches, have figured among the activities of the members. A Father and Son Banquet was an added feature this year. ( The members of the club are (left to right) First row—Joe Ames, Kent Armstrong, John Ringler, Jack Sacks. Second row—Michael Curry, Clarence Critchfield, Jacie Murdock, William Sherman, Ray George, Bob Mayer, William O’Brien, Charles Henry, Kenneth Martin, George Abel, Jerome Nathan, Owen John. Third row—Blair Johns- ton, Stanton Trostle, Mark Tomes, Don Nokes, Paul Kent, Robert Mur- ray, Wayne Hill, David Harris, Ernest Sarver, Curtis Geer, Regis Har- rington, Wilfred Boxler, Charles Troupe. Fouth row—James Fetter- man, Ben Mainhart, Richard McCallister, John Borsuk, Edward Hack, James Murphy, Milan Glumicich. Leonard Schmerin, Robert Conrad, Ted Gleason, Richard Cooper, William Rager. Fifth row—James Clement, Ernest Woodward. Nicholas Coates, Eugene Cohen, Bruce Mc- Cartney, Murray Bowman, Eugene Neilson, Claude Board, James Hoov- er, William Orris. 148 IffE BPECIATOIR LIBRARY STAFF The Library Staff aids Miss Hoge in the library. Staff meetings are held every week on Monday morning during the Activity Period. Educational and entertaining programs are given. Names of the members follow: First row—Fae Paul, president; Betty Gleason, secretary. Second row—Margaret Lewis, Emma Jean Bowman, Leonora Goe- hert, Irma Barnhart, Edna May Bates, Vida Babb, Ruth Woods, Mary Crock, Esther Kaufman, Betty Lou Kistler, and Ruth Neher. Third row—Lucille Lonergan, Mary Jane Crouse, Louise Zoeller, Marguerite Price, Margaret King, Mary Zangalia, Glennavee Cook, Ruth Schultz, Marion Ashcom, and Mary Catherine Cooper. Fourth row—Dorothy Klink, Mildred Kingston, Becky Conway, Lillian Wallace, Jane Miller, Miss Hoge, and Wilda Dietz. 149 THE SPANISH CLUB The Spanish Club, which has a membership of one hundred, holds its meetings every other Tuesday in the audion. Fascinating programs are presented. These programs consist of current events, talks, group singing in Spanish, special music, and Spanish plays. After some of the meetings, refreshments are served. The club has the distinction of belonging to the World League. This year the Spanish, French, and German Clubs sponsored a dance which was very successful. The clubs have organized girls’ and boys’ basketball teams to compete with each other. In the first row are the officers—Charles Henry, treasurer; Dick McAllister, vice-president; Mary Jo O’Connor, secretary; and Ted Glea- son, president. The Spanish Club sponsors are Miss Merritt and Miss Lockard. 150 I HE SPECTATOR SPANISH CLUB PAGEANT The Spanish Club Pageant was presented in the audion to the friends and members of the Spanish Club. This pageant showed the development of the Spanish Language, in the twelve provinces of Spain, then in Central and South American countries, and finally in the Islands of the Indies and the Philippines. n ,y rr: 151 IL CIRCOLO D’ATTORE II Circolo D’ Attore, sponsored by Miss Fearl, is a group of thirty- four students who comprise the Italian classes. Casts have been se- lected for two plays: “Una Partita a Scacchi” and “Agenore L’lnde- ciso,” which are being studied for future presentation. From left to right, the names of the members follow: First row— Vittoria Grandinetti, Caterina Arcuri, Barbara Bancato, Edna Gasbar- ro, Ethel Nicolette, Arvilla Long, Stella Siciliano, Angelina Amento, Rosemary Lill, Dorothy Milazzo. Second row—Iduma Morris, Editta Rickabaugh, Caterina Desanty, Gladys Daniels, Florence Gilbert, Agnes Furman, Maria Zangalia, Ida Vespa, Ruby Wilson. Third row—An- thony Graziano, Mike Grimaldi, Jack Camaratta, Antonio Distefano, Charles Walling, Salvo Rizza, Samuele Gorgone. Fourth row—Gius- seppe Tummino, Fred Richardson, Charles Di Mauro, Jack Lopresti, Giuseppe Patti, James Galito, Ralph Hemphill. 152 THE FRENCH CLUB “Le Cercle Francais,” established last year with Miss Josephine Young and Miss Lucrece O’hart as sponsors, has had a very successful semester. Members enjoy meetings twice a month, one of which is a business meeting, and the other, a social gathering. Several playlets, written by the sponsors, were presented by the members this semester. The French Club also took part in the Language Dance held this term. The members are as follows: First row—Joseph Jones, second vice- president; Stanton Trostle, president; Mark Tomes, treasurer; Ray- mond George, first vice-president. Second row—Martha Brillhart, Louise Bunn, Grace Foust, Betty Bailey, Edna May Bates, Elizabeth George, Margaret Schatz, Sue Hudak, Romaine Roland, Mary Lou Allen, Betty Lou Kistler, Mary Jane Crouse, Irene Lewis, Kathryn Adams, Frances Pender. Third row—Wilda Marsh, Helen Hughes, Charlotte Wilson. Florence Davis, Dorothy Thompson, Beatrice Wagner, Georgia Ripple. Kathleen Long, Elizabeth Weaver, Dorothy Rodgers, Charlotte Lewis, Freda Claycomb, Movene Martin, Eleanor McFeaters, Thankful Layton. Fourth row—Clair Pyle, Jean Brant, Lucille Lonergan, Katherine Mc- Mullen, Viola Sellers, Jean Horne, June Schrift, Ruth Trostle, Mae Mil- ler, Florence Bohansky, Mary Sauers, Rebecca Conway, Mary Salovich, Clara Marie Cooper, Nydia Schwartz. Fifth row—Ivan Potts, Raymond Llewellyn, Albert Ream, Robert Sutt, George Harrison, Don Nokes, James Murphy, Jacie Murdock, William Voyve, Donald Ambrose, Rob- ert Murray, Paul Quent, Sam Gorgone, Irvin Shaffer. Sixth row Rich- ard Faulkner, Ralph Whitney, Wayne Williams. Gertrude Mosebach, Josephine Wesner and Louis Nemeth, the sec- retary, were absent when this picture was taken. 153 THE GERMAN CLUB The German Club, one of the newly organized clubs, has been successful in all its undertakings during the past year. Its sponsors are Miss Neary and Miss Young. The members follow: First row—Sharles Slagle, treasurer; Clement Harris, president; Elvin Overdorff, secretary; Frank Hauber, vice-president; and Jerome Nathan, second vice-president. Second row—Olive Muller, Natalie Matievic, Helen Duraney, Rita Young, Jean Nagel, Katherine Schneck, Agnes Pokrzywa, Eleanor Reiner, Eleanor Johnston, Ruth Neher, Betty Jane Will, Naomi Holz- man, and Ruby Kauffman. Third row—Beatrice Shaffer, Mary Dupin, Louise Zoeller, Claudia Margolis, Betty Hornick, Rene Custer, Charlotte Ditchen, Margaret Schatz, Marion Lewis, Leonora Goebert, Mary Blanche Polster, Grace Louther, Audrey Adamson, Cora Jane Bell, Lois Ford, and Agnes Fur- man. Fourth row—William Callio, Margaret Kuhne, Mary Kulback, Katherine Kuhne, Fae Paul, Miriam Beam, Ruth Somerville, Twila Weimer, Frances Louise Tomb, Elizabeth Miller, Rita Hartwiger, Mir- iam Bell, Howard Potthoff, and Jay Palmer. Fifth row—Carl Pieger, Blair Johnston, Charles Statler, Andrew Kiraly, Albert Kuhne, Thomas Gilchrist, Joe Hunter, Isadore Suchman, Mendell Gross, Robert Grape, Fred Furst, Arthur Nenstiel, Owen John, and Jack O’Neill. 154 THE ENGLISH ASSEMBLY On April 18th, thirty-four English students participated in a unique assembly program. Under the supervision of Miss Glenn and Miss Glosser, scenes from “Twelfth Night” were produced. Miss Thomas and Miss Kantner presented “Silver Lining.” Miss Felix had charge of the Spelling Contest, which the Term XII’s won. — The groups are as follows: Row 1—“Twelfth Night ’—John Ross Weaver, Elvin Overdorff, John Sherman. Row 2—“Prologue”—Wil- fred Boxler; “Twelfth Night”—Fae Paul, Israel Teitelbaum, Betty We- nerd; Pages—Vivienne Hippier, Rosemary Hickey; “The Silver Lining” —Ruth Winder, William Orris; Row 3—Flutist—Earl Diggins; Pianist __Paul Kent; Reader of Pupils’ Original Themes—Milan Glumicich; Narrator of the “Fanny Burney Play”—Jacie Murdock; Spellers—Ora Andrews, Audrey Himes, Betty Wills, Perry Dunmire, Edith Ricka- baugh, Alexander Sabo, Doris Machamer, GusStelmack, Helen Hughes, Nydia Schwartz; Cora Jane Bell; Illustrated Talk—Carl Jordan, Joe Yarchak ; Reader of Themes and Verse—Ruth Neher; Review of “Green Pastures”—Marion Lewis; Row 4—Billy Louther, Theodore Nassir, William Miller, Stanley Ciba. 155 I HE SPECTATOR PLAY CAST The Senior Play, “Skidding,” was presented by the following cast on Monday, May 21: Aunt Milly, Kathleen Long: Andy, Robert Griffith; Mrs. Hardy, Mary Blanche Polster; Judge James Hardy, Kenneth Martin; Grandpa Hardy, Joseph Hanzel; Estelle Hardy Campbell, Francis Louise Tomb; Marion Hardy, Marion Lewis; Wayne Trenton III, Nicholas Coates; Mr. Stubbins, Frank Genovese; Myra Hardy Wilcox, Elizabeth Bailey. On Tuesday, May 22, “Skidding” was again presented by a second east: Aunt Milly, Fae Paul; Andy, Blair Johnston; Mrs. Hardy, Dorothy Caldwell; Judge James Hardy, William Orris; Grandpa Hardy, Jack Sacks; Estelle Hardy Campbell, Ruth Winder; Marion Hardy, Mary Eva Byers; Wayne Trenton III, Curtis Geer; Mr. Stubbins, Frank Genovese; Myra Hardy Wilcox, Sara Grazier. Miss Woodring is the instructor in Dramatics. 156 I HE SPECTATOR THE GIRLS’ PEP CLUB The Girls' Pep Club is one of the most popular clubs in our school. It is enthusiastic in upholding high standards of scholarship and char- acter. During the past term the club’s activities included a roller skat- ing party and a supper. Miss Hauch and Miss Kantner are the sponsors of the club, which now consists of fifty-four members. This term the officers were Doro- thy Caldwell, president; Florence Kuhn, vice-president; Mary Blanche Polster, secretary; and Mary Jane Crouse, treasurer. % The names of the senior members follow: Marion Ashcom, Vida Babb, Betty Barnhart, Emma Jean Bowman, Hazel Butler, Mary Eva Byers, Dorothy Caldwell, Florence Campbell, Glennavee Cook, Mary Catherine Cooper, Mary Jane Crouse, Wilda Dietz, Ruth Egolf, Eliza- beth George, Betty Gleason, Mary Lou Hargreaves, Betty Hinks, Betty Horton, Hazel Keiper, Fances Kirchner, Betty Lou Kistler, Florence Kuhn, Virginia Lentz, Margaret Lewis, Lucille Lonergan, Kathleen Long, Grace Louther, Doris Machamer, Jane Miller, Mary Jo O’Connor, Fae Paul, Mary Blanche Polster, Georgia Ripple, Dorothy Rodgers, Mary Salovich, Mary Sauers, Marion Schmidt, Ruth Schultz, Helen Seigh, Emily Strayer, and Kay Williams. 157 SPECTATOR BOYS’ PEP CLUB This year the Boys’ Pep Club has done the decorating before each football game. They have also had social affairs and have helped to coach. The members to be graduated are Dick Cooper, Robert Conrad. Kenneth Martin, Ted Gleason, Frank Hauber, Blair Johnston, Elvin Overdorff, Ernest Sarver, Charles Troupe, Carl Pieger, Wayne Hill, Ed- ward Hack, John Borsuk, John Ringler, Dallas Knox, Kent Armstrong, Joseph Ames, Jack Sacks, Nicholas Coates, Fred Machtley, Jack Sharpe, Lorraine Zubrod, Ben Mainhart, Ross Price, Salvo Rizza, Earl Diggins, Robert Moberly, John Lawrence, William Orris, Leonard Schmerin. Miss Moiles is the sponsor. The officers are Dick Cooper, Robert Conrad, Kenneth Martin, and Ted Gleason. 158 I HE SIPECTC4.T©SR THE BOOSTER CLUB The Booster Club, one of the school’s most active organizations, sponsored a spring sports dance in April and a formal dance at Jen- nerstown in May. The officers of the club are: president, Richard Cooper; first vice-president, James Hoover; second vice-president, Wilda Dietz; sec- retary-treasurer, Ben Mainhart. The seniors are: Richard Cooper, James Hoover, Wilda Dietz, Ben Mainhart, Ruth Winder, Maxine Hesketh, Louise Sievers, Mary Jane Crouse, Grace Louther, Elizabeth George, Mary Catherine Coop- er, Mary Eva Byers, Helen Baldwin, Sara Grazier, Betty Hinks, Lucille Lonergan, Emma Jean Bowman, Betty Lou Kistler, Helen Louise Seigh, Helen Waehner, Kay Williams, Josephine Wesner, Georgia Ripple, Mary Jo O’Connor, Dorothy Caldwell, Betty Gleason, Glennavee Cook, Betty Barnhart, Virginia Lentz, Audrey Adamson, Laura Schuler, Elvin Overdorff, Ruth Schultz, Kitty Long. Edith Rickabaugh, Elizabeth Weaver, Lulu Dittmar, Hazel Butler, Leonora Goebert, Rosemary Cul- liton, Evelyn Williams, Phyllis Georg, Margaret Schatz, John Borsuk, Robert Schneider, Jack Sharpe, John Ringler, Joseph Ames, Kent Arm- strong, Robert Conrad, Jack Sacks, Kenneth Martin, Charles Troupe, Ted Gleason, Walter Reighard, George Harrison. Claude Sturtz, Leon- ard Koch, Clement Harris, Robert Grape, and William Orris. 159 ¥HE SPECTD4.1T©HR THE ’34 CLUB The ’34 Club is the latest thing in club activities. Sponsored by Mr. Heller and composed of thirty-four senior boys who have pledged themselves to aid the school in every way possible, the club already has made great progress. Next year it will be called the ’35 Club and consist of thirty-five boys who are to be elected from the Term XI Class in May. Members who were elected to offices are Ralph Conley, president; Leonard Koch, vice-president; Kent Armstrong, secretary; and Jack Sacks, treasurer. The names of the members follow: Row 1—Ralph Conley, Kent Armstrong, Leonard Koch, Jack Sacks. Row 2—William Orris, Campton Oakley, Charles Troupe. Jack Hate, James Clement, John Ringler, Joseph Ames, Dick Cooper, Robert Schneider. Row 3—Frank Hauber, Blair Johnston, Edward Hack, Jack Bry- don, Curtis Geer, William Hessler, Robert Snyder, Elvin OverdorflF. Row 4—Harry Walters, Ray Berkebile, Leonard Schmerin, Ted Gleason, Nicholas Coates, Warren Heller, Adviser. 160 I HE SPECTATOR S. O. S. CLUB The S. O. S. or Students of Science Club is an organization spon- sored to promote genuine interest in the field of Science. Students who have take one term of chemistry and have had an average of C or above are eligible to join the club. It is a charter member of the State and National Student Science Clubs of America. First row—vice-president, Clement Harris; secretary, Mary Jane Crouse; president, Robert Grape; treasurer, Blair Johnston. Second row—Mary Bissett, Louise Zeunges, Margaret Lewis, Betty Wener, Ruth Cook, Clara Marie Cooper, Martha Brillhart, Romaine Ro- land, Fae Paul, Elizabeth George, Mary Lou Hargreaves, Ruth Neher. Third row—Beatrice Shaffer, Lucille Donergan, Venus Panagota- cos, Sara Jane Owens, Betty Jane Will. Claudia Margolis, Movine Mar- tin, Charlotte Lewis, Cora Jane Bell, Phyllis Eldridge, Stanton Trostle. Fourth row—Emma Jean Bowman. Mary Ellen Seigh, Edna Mae Shaffer, Albert Evans, Elvin Overdorff, Louise Zoeller, Frank Hauber, Irvin Shaffer, George Bernard, Paul Kent. Fifth row—Bruce Steele, Jack O’Neill, Raymond Llewellyn, Philip Brown, Fred Machtley, William Burke, Joseph Jones, William Orris. Sixth row—Steve Petro, Wilfred Boxler, Robert Beriman, John Bushko, Wayne Hill, Earl Diggins. Seventh row—Murray Bowman, Mr. J. Howard Weisel, sponsor; Robert Mitchell. 161 THE RED HEADED CLUB The most brilliant club in the high school, organized in the fall, is the Red-Headed Club. S. K. are the initials of the secret name of the organization, which was created to perpetuate better understanding among the red heads of the school. • Sponsors of the club are Miss Gocher and Miss Hills, the only red- headed teachers in the building. From left to right the names of the members follow: First row— Mary Jane Crouse, Dorothy Caldwell, Jane Miller. Second row—Marion Howard, Katherine Fisher, Lula Dittmar, Ruth Young, Lois Fisher, Geraldine Howard, Janet Beach, Edith Rick- abaugh, Margaret Berkey, Jane O’Neil. Third row—Robert Tomb, Jack Sharpe, Jack Speicher, Ted Glea- son, Eugene Neilson, Frank Kurtz, George Hall, and Jack Kelly. 162 SAY IT WITH SONGS “Jimmie Had a Nickel”—(Now he has “Dot” Caldwell.) “My Dancing Lady”—Kent Armstrong to Glennavee Cook. “Good-night, Little Girl of My Dreams”—Joseph Jones to Betty Horton. “Three Little Pigs”—Blair Johnston, Frank Hauber, and El- vin Overdorff. “I Just Couldn’t Take It, Baby; Loving You the Way I Do”_ Jake Shank to Mary Jane Smith. “Red-Headed Women”—Margaret Berkey, Katharine Fisher, Jane Miller, Edith Rickabaugh, and others. “My Secret Passion”—The Bell girls and the Football Squad, ou’ve Got To Be a Football Hero”—says Leo Napotnic. “Our Big Love Scene”—Curtis Geer and Ruth Hershberger. “You Nasty Man”—is Dick Cooper’s favorite saying. “Lazybones”—Leonard Koch. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”—High School Halls. “I Want You; I Need You”—Jack Eisenberg to his credits. “Turn Back the Clock”—Not in our classes, thank you! “Please Don’t Talk About Us When We’re Gone”—Begs the Class of ’34. “Three of Us”—Kitty Long, Elizabeth Weaver, and Helen Wendle. “Come Up and See Me Sometime”—Mr. Liggett to any Senior. “There’s Something About a Soldier”—says Marion Schmidt. “The Last Round Up”—The Senior Dance. “Don’t You Remember Me?”—Robert Grape to Vida Babb. “One Minute To One”—Frank Stewart leaving Agnes Mattes. “You’re Such a Comfort To Me”—Bernard Diable to Mar- jory Spiker. “Beautiful Girl”—Boys, you can decide that. “Sweethearts Forever”—Mary Blanche Polster and Morris Given. “Young and Beautiful”—Doris Machamer. “Tired Of It All”—Thomas Gilchrist. “Let’s Make Hay While the Sun Shines”—Farmer Joseph Hanzel. I HE SPECTATOR “Why Do I Dream?”—Edna May Bates. “Wagon Wheels”—Blaine Keiper’s car. “I Can’t Go On Without That Certain Thing”—Jack Sacks warns. (Meaning his diploma,, of course) „ ‘‘Let’s Fall In Love”—Phil Brown to Mary Lou Hargreaves. You Ought 1 o Be In Pictures”—A certain ex-grad says to Helen Louise Seigh. Rollin On Our Roller Skates”—Senior Girl Reserves. Just Give Me the Girl”—Charles Troupe croons. “There Will Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight”—Night of graduation. Love Locked Out —That’s what Margaret Schatz says, but we wonder! “Temptation”—A bright, sunny afternoon. “Puddin’ Head Jones”—Richard Falstick. “Early To Bed”—Joe Ames’s motto. “Yesterday’s Sweetheart”—Aileen Martin. “Absent-Minded Flo”—Florence Kuhn. This Time It’s Love”—protests Ken Martin. Free —The way the Seniors will feel after graduation. Dusty Shoes”—Elsie Berg has an excuse for she walks in from the country. “There Goes My Heart”—Again! Oh, Phyllis! --------o--------- FAITH A little maid with braided hair And freckles on her skin so fair Was shyly writing on her slate, “I’ll wait for you down by the gate; I know that was not done by you. To ink girls’ curls you’d never do.” While walking home that lad and lass Pledge to share all, their time to pass, Their sweet young lives to spend together, Exchanged their rings and said, “Red leather.” Grandma and Grandpa, lass and lad, Gladly content with joys they had. Evelyn J. Williams. I HE SPECTATOR THEN NOW 166 THE SPECTATOR 167 THE SPELLIN’ Is there a grandfather, or a grandmother either, who does not delight in telling one of the rare old times he or she used to have at their spelling bees? From miles away, over the muddy country roads, came whole families, from Grandma to the baby, to exchange news and stand up in the “spellin.’ ” The first step,after Mother had taken down Mrs. Teeter’s cur- rant-jelly recipe, and father had inquired after Mr. Klineman’s sick cow, was to select teams. When the teams were ready, the school- master, or perhaps the parson, took his place in the center of the two rows and pronounced the words. After everyone had been spelled down but Ezekiel, and the spelling book had been exhausted, the defeated spellers were try ing hard to conquer Ezekiel. They gave him encyclopedia, and diphtheria, exasperate, and exaggerate, and he spelled them all to a letter. After a while there was a slight pause, and then a timid voice from the back row called out, “Wail!” Without a moment’s hesitation, and taking a deep breath, as if bored with the whole proceedings, Mr. Jones answered: “Hwail!” It was customary for whole schools to travel to nearby schools to have spelling contests, and this sometimes lead to breaches of discipline and especially to free-for-all fights among the boys. My mother says the only time she was ever punished in school was the time another school was expected to come over for a spell- ing, and she kept looking out the window to see whether they were in sight. Marion Lewis. THE SPECTAT OR Pictures Talk All Languages All Class Groups In This Book By HOMER C. RESSLER PHOTOGRAPHER Tribune Building 169 I HE SPECTATOR GALLIKER’S Quality ICE CREAM and Electrically Pasteurized MILK and CREAM ---------------------------------- Dorothy: I don’t believe a woman could be so fat! Edith: What are you reading now? Dorothy: This paper says an English woman lost 2,000 pounds. -o- Charles Statler: or down? GUESS. (To geometry teacher) Which is horizontal, up ----------o--------- Teacher: Isadore, please run up the window blind. Compliments of PENN ACADEMY OF MUSIC VIOLIN—BANJO—GUITAR INSTRUCTORS Instruments Furnished Free Studios at Moxham 226 Main Street Morrellville 170 THE SPECTATOR All The Ne All The Advertising . . . and . . . A circulation that is the lar- gest in this section of the state The Tribune 171 ASK ANY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT” They Will Recommend THE B-Y SHOPS CONFECTIONERY—GROCERIES-PRODUCE Across from the High School The teacher in an English rural school was examining the class to see how much they remembered of a natural history lesson given the day before. She told each child to give her the name of an animal. Up went a hand. “Well, Johnnie, what animal do you remember: “The warmer,” was the unexpected reply. “Nonsense, there’s no such animal. Sit down.’” Up went another hand. “Please, miss, I know what he means. ’E means the ’otter.” Estimate All Work Cheerfully Given Guaranteed RADIO RALPH JOHNSTOWN’S LEADING RADIOTRICIAN Phone 814-J 103Vi Clinton Street Johnstown, Pa. I HE SPECTATOR 30 Years Towards Perfection Perfectly Pasteurized MILK - CREAM ICE CREAM FROM THE THINKERS Leo Napotnik: (In Physics class) Yes, I’m a deep thinker. Red Shank: What do you do? Dig a hole and go down in it and think ? ------------o----- Teacher: “Who was it crossed the Delaware?” Dumb Student: “Let me think. Oh, yes, Burbank. -----------o----- Teacher: Bill, how far were you from the right answer? Bill: About five seats. Compliments of W. H. DECKER Manager . •— •—••—• WARNER BROS. CAMBRIA THEATRE — . .a. 173 I HE SPECTATOR JOHN HENDERSON CO. Ertablished 1870 FUNERAL DIRECTOR 632 Main Street, Johnstown, Pa. City Phone 152 Bell Phone 943-J THAT’S DIFFERENT Economic Student: That financier was as fishy as he looked; wasn’t he? Wise friend: He wasn’t the fish. The man he hooked was the fish. ry: PAGE THE HISTORIAN! “Donald,” said the teacher, “what were the words of Patrick Hen- t Donald: “Give me liberty or give me love.” “Where Smart Things Cost Less’ “A Safe Place To Buy” BERG’S Always Featuring the Newest In DRESSES—COATS AND SPORTWEAR For the School Mi«s and Graduate 442 Main Street Johnstown, Pa. 174 CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES 'ECIAIOR -- — ----—+ Glosser Bros, congratulates you upon the successful com- pletion of your High School course—you are to be the Homemakers, Business leaders, Professional men and women of tomorrow—we trust you will carry into your future work the same high ideas that have marked your school carrer. If at any time Glosser’s Store can be of any service to you, we are at your command. Again we congratulate you. LAW VS. SCIENCE Law Stude: If someone hit me in the head with a brick what is the law in that case? Physics Student: Two solids can’t occupy the same space. --------o--------- SPEAKING OF LAWS Bill: Did you see in the papers where that tight-rope walker was taken in by the law? Joe: How’s that? Bill: He thought he could beat the law of gravity. • ---------------—---------------------------------------- f Office Phone : 1294—Bell Phone 349 Planing Mill Phone: 1295 W. J. Rose Sons, Ltd. LUMBER—MILLWORK—BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES UPSON BOARD—Be.t for Wall and Ceiling. GOLD BOND PLASTER BOARD 328 Lincoln Street Johnstown, Penna. -- --------------------------——■— ---------------------——-—• ■ 175 I HE SPECTATOR L. G. HORNICK PHOTOGRAPHER Studio—543 Main Street Phone 1058-B •« Established 1898 PORTRAIT AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY -------------------------—-------- i. TYPING Rosemary: He uses the Columbus system of typewriting. Irene: Columbus? What’s that? Rosemary: He discovers a key and then lands on it. o- THE CODE Mr. Morgan: The five-day work week was used by the Hittites four thousand years ago. Stude: (In soft voice) We like the five-hour week better. Henderson Brothers, Corp. LAUNDERERS AND DRY CLEANERS Phone 77 HAY AVENUE JOHNSTOWN, PENNA. Makers of Shoe Groom 176 Compliments of— A FRIEND JOHNSTOWN COUNCIL NO. 85 Junior Order United American Mechanics Instituted Jan. 13, 1870 Meets Monday Nights, G. A. R. Hall PRINCIPLES VIRTUE—LIBERTY— PATRIOTISM Virtue in the home, in society, in public affairs and in our Councils and among our members. Liberty, both civil and religious, our priceless heritage, which we must ever preserve and maintain. Patriotism, that love of Country which inspires good citizenship and loy- alty to our Government and its institutions. A good place for the young man to spend one evening each week. A small weekly due will assure financial aid to you or your family in time of sickness or death. L. Z. TOMB, Recording Secretary, 142 F St. OSCAR P. POORBAUGH, Financial Secretary, 534 Fronheiser St. MISTAKES Teacher: (Checking student’s papers). How many mistakes did you have, John? John: One. Teacher: But I thought you told me you hadn’t prepared your lesson. John: “I didn’t prepare it. That was my mistake. ---------o-------- ATTENTION, POETS! “Blank verse is poetry without words,” said Bob Jones. r-——■ You’ve Tried the Rent—Now Taste the Best Delicious Hot and Cold Drinks Our Own Famous Caramels, Milk, Fruit and Nut Chocolates Made Daily STATE SWEET SHOP—State Theatre Building “THE OASIS”—122 Market Street ■ Delicious Sandwiches and Li(jht Lunches —..— a t--------------------------------------—+ Quaker Sales Corporation, Inc. JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA Shipper of STONE, SAND. BRICK, STEEL, ASPHALTS ASPHALTIC CONCRETE +— -------------------------------— — — ---------------—«• POISON Chemistry Teacher: This poison is so virile that three drops on the tongue of a dog will kill a man in forty seconds. WORSE THAN CANNIBALS History Teacher: The early settlers learned to make maple sugar from the Indians. --------o-------- Have you ever been aware that iron was discovered because some- body smelt it? Compliments of S. J. CONWAY FUNERAL DIRECTOR I HE SPECTATOR ICE CREAM LUNCHES Everybody Goes lo DAIRY-DELL Complete Line of DELICATESSEN AND DAIRY PRODUCTS Special Sunday Dinners EXCELLENT HOME COOKED FOOD SALADS SANDWICHES CIVIC PROBLEMS Edward White: At all state functions, the Secretary of State sits on the right hand of the President. GusStelmack: Then what? 100% Teacher: (Reading “To a Skylark.”) What is the meaning of “love’s sad satiety”? Harry: Marriage. Suppes Motor Sales Company FORD DEALER 335-347 Bedford St. City Phone 55. Bell 75 180 I HE SEECTATOJR Compliments of WOOLF REYNOLDS Johnstown’s Bigger and Better Men’s Store Clothes That Satisfy + • H PROJECTORS Compliments of CAMERAS ACCESSORIES B. HENDLER F. W. BUCHANAN Motion Picture Service Manager of 238 Franklin St. Johnstown, Pa. HENDLER HOTEL Photographic Supplies Developing and Printing — AGENT FOR BELL HOWELL Teacher: (To Health Science Class) How many baths should a per- son take to keep healthy? Johnnie: About once in the summer time and not quite so often in the winter. ----------o-------- Here is a part of Willie’s latest composition: “And Caesar stab- bed with many wounds felt them not. His chief wound was that of seeing his friend, Brutus, among the traitors, and so dying, he gasped out the words, “Tee hee, Brutus.” + Compliments of | FARRELL KREDEL LONG’S SERVICE STATION DRUGGISTS PHARMACISTS 79 Fairfield Avenue 64 Fairfield Avenue + JOHNSTOWN, PA. • • Johnstown, Pa. 181 DR. ALEX S. RYESKY Optometrist in Charge Highest Quality Work at No Higher Prices Satisfaction Guaranteed—Service Unexcelled Penn Optical Service OPTOMETR IS TS—OPTICI A NS PHONE 2098-B Office Hour : 9 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Open Saturday Evenings Evenings by Appointment 207 FRANKLIN STREET JOHNSTOWN, PA. Oir LANGUR'S |)40 WMN STKI t l STUDIO JpilNSTOWY ITOM rjhmcr' •Ottftmcoit fc +r-n ur In Oh ytiUriUor Pjsiat nd Ojyen Portrait Photographs That Please IVe Also Copy and Renew Any Old Photograph YOU DON’T SAY SO. Alfred: (Addressing English teacher.) No, I haven’t read the Last of the Mohicans. I don’t think I ever read any of them. LAW STUDENTS Teacher: Are you using your Commercial Law books, Francis? Francis: Yes, to lean on. ---------o-------- Many people claim that wealth is a disease. If this land is ever infested with a wealth epidemic, many people will wish to be victims. Vi.it STACY’S GRILL Compliments of Home Cooked Lunches and FRANCIS SCOTT’S Dinners ORCHESTRA Home Cooked Lunches and Candies Popular Music for Any Occasion THE CITY’S MOST POPULAR Home Address Telephone EATING PLACE 135 Sell St. 6705 417 Main Street — JOHNSTOWN’S FAMILY THEATRE roiR THE STRAND ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW! DRIVE OUT TO Publicity In Paint ALWINES THE KEYSER SERVICE For Your Ice Cream and Window Backgrounds Sandwiches Displays Johnstown's most popular Ice s The Moit Complete Cream and Sandwich Shop Commercial Shop in Johnstown Somerset Pike Open Each Night Until 1 A. M. j 1 H STORY WRITING Teacher: What do I mean when I say “Be concrete”? Student: That means, “Be hard”. Bill (Discussing Shakespeare.) Viola and Sebastian were twins and were just about the same age. IS THAT SO? Said the historian: “These islands were discovered by Captain Cook, later eaten by the natives, then named Sandwich Islands.” ... .. .. . ... - - - al H Compliments of Visit the THE CAPITAL HOTEL FAIRVIEW AND 211 Market Street CAPITAL GRILL Lunches—Dairy Products The Capital Ha Served You Well In the Past. — • Delicatessen 183 Compliments of SCHWARTZ BROS. MAIN STREET JOHNSTOWN, PA. Phene 6560 Remodeling “Good Furs Make Warm Friends” Torledsky’s Fur Shop Manufacturing FURRIER 414 Main Steel, Johnstown, Pa. Bell Phone 490 City Phone 6394 The Better Tire Service Co. High Grf.de Tire and Tube Specialists on Truck Tire and Truck Balloon Changeover Equipment 251-253 Conemaugh St. JOHNSTOWN, PA. + + Ben Mainhart: (While listening to the orchestra playing) Is the orchestra playing “Misery fro mlnflammatory?” Leonard Koch: No, a “Refrain from Spitten.” -----------o------- Mr. Baumgardner: What is the outstanding contribution that chemistry has given to the world? Bright pupil: Blondes. A man who wanted to be a warden thought he might as well start as a prisoner. ' HUGO ERDMANN WILLIAM SCHRADER FLOWERS “Say It With Floivers” 130 Market Street Opposite Post Office 510 Vine Street JOHNSTOWN, PENNA. JOHNSTOWN, PA. City Phone 1670 Bell Phone 16 Phone 850 Bell 572-J I 184 F. M. SHAFFER ICE CO. MANUFACTURERS OF ARTIFICIAL ICE 151 Homer Street Rear 720 Horner Street Phone 557 The Place Where Bathing Is Idea! LIBERTY PARK Lamb’s Bridge, Near South Fork Where the water is always pure and clear And bathers come from far and near. We Cater To Picnics Dancing, Square and Round, Every Wednesday Night +•---------------—--------------+ Established 1903 DR. A. M. SLUTZKER OPTOMETRIST 120 Market Street Johnstown, Pa. EYES TESTED GLASSES FITTED Prices Moderate . +---------------—---------------•+ Strange as it seems, when a clock strikes, it keeps on working. -----------o------- Jane Miller: I never talk about something I don’t understand. Aileen Martin: You must have a great reputation for silence. -----------o------- High school students have been hearing so much about Scotchmen lately in jokes that they are beginning to wonder just what a Scotchman is. A Scotchman is a person who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he lays his hands on. • • t Phone 230 Open Evenings McKEE’S FRENCH DYE WORKS GLASS 221 MARKET STREET 312 Bedford St. Quality Cleaning Window Glass Auto Glass Plate Glass Furniture Tops | 50c 60c Cash and Carry Delivered 4- — • i OLD MIRRORS RESILVERED I HE SPECTATOR --------------------------------------------.. Compliments of THE STATE THEATRE Presenting the Bei,t Pictures In Town Compliments of •! West End Shoe Repair STATLER COMPANY James Distefano, Proprietor CLEANERS AND DYERS Quality Work—Guaranteed SERVICE WHILE YOU WAIT 439 Lincoln Street 157 Fairfield Avenue Phone 444 Phone 218-J ► i Mother: Well, Jimmy, do you think your teacher likes you? Jimmy: I think so, mummy, because she marks a big kiss on all my ’rithmetic papers. --------------o---- The only way we can get up in the world is by using an elevator. Employer: So you’ve been to college, eh? College grad: Yes. Employer: How can you count? College grad: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king. Your Car Will Behave If • ► — — — You Take It To the M M'm W W DOUNSKY GARAGE rf Ifnh’A Joe and Steve I aJ 87 Fairfield A.ve. Specializing Buick 23 Year ’ Combined Service Quality Clothes at Lower Phene Residence Prices 1292-J 5032-J + — — ■ • . 186 This Graduation Ask the Family for a New MODERN WATCH FROM ROTHSTEIN’S Nationally Famous Watches of Guaranteed Accuracy Such As:— HAMILTON—ELGIN—BULOV A—GRUEN—WESTFIELD ROTHSTEIN’S 529 Main Street Johnstown's Leading: Jewelers 1 H H Phone Residence J. H. HERSHBERGER 1106 2763-M SON R. W. BECK FLOUR FEED GRAIN 507 Franklin Street Quality Service FIXZIT SYSTEM I i Modern Plumbing and Heating First Student: So Mr. McMaster just expelled you, eh? What did you say to him? Second Student: I congratulated him for turning out such fine young men. ---------o- All right, you geniuses and Einsteins, answer this inquiry and test your ability: “How is a man supposed to answer when a girl says, “Do you think I am as silly as I look?’ ” H Compliments of NICK’S LILA ROSE Hairdressing Salon “Smart Shoes” HAIR STYLE ORIGINATORS 500 Main Street 312 First National Bank JOHNSTOWN, PA. PHONE 222 . THE SPECTATOR Compliments of H. V. ALLEN 752 Bedford St. QUALITY MEATS AND GROCERIES Phone 851 An Ideal Graduation Gift! ■ H We rent, sell V - Compliments of and repair all JL , —t makes, at low- C. A. ROHDE est price. MARKET Typewriter Serv. Exch. 244 Market St. 501 Main Street (Opposite Y. M. C. A.) JOHNSTOWN’S FINEST John M. Bowen, Mgr. “ H • • PROVERBS Some people act foolish while others don’t have to act. Fools are a class of people that wise men work for a living. It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt of it. If you have to tell a mule anything, tell it to his face. (If you doubt me, try it for yourself.) Forgive your enemies if they are bigger than you. When you’re rich, you have relatives. ■ • !■ ♦ REISER BROS. DWIGHT R. HELSEL High Grade Home Dressed PURE FOOD MARKET Meats, Fresh Fish and Oysters, High Grade Poultry 608 Grove Avenue JOHNSTOWN, PENNA, 324 FRANKLIN STREET •— - - - - | Phone 3160 188 |—• ————— ■—■ I HE SPECTAE©HR Compliments of A FRIEND Season’s Don't Worry JAMES’ AMERICAN SHOE REPAIR SHOP We’re Ready for Spring or Summer 217 Market Street Phone 5924-L Congratulations Class of 1934 KENNEDY’S CUT RATE 142 Market Street MISTAKEN, MAYBE! The sentence read, “The toast was drank in silence.” Teacher: What is wrong with that, Frank? Frank: It should read, “The toast was ate in silence.” ---------o--------- Bob Conrad: It costs a lot of money to be a broad-minded, intel- ligent man of the world. Ken Martin: I know it does, and I don’t blame you for saving all your money. + — I- — GOING CAMPING? A Rebuilt Shoe Give Come To More Miles Per Dollar CAMP REYNOLDS “LarryM McDonald's Johnstown Y. M. C. A. Boys Camp CLOVER SHOE REPAIR JULY 15—AUG. 12 For Application, Rates, Other Information, see Ccr. Haynes Napoleon Sts. R. G. Traugh, Camp Director Phone 5252 ► i •— —h 189 THE SMB CXATOR T' “ ™ 1 Congratulations of HELEN WILD SPEICHER-GRADY MILLINER DRUG CO., Inc. Hats Made 344 Main Street Old Hats Remodeled Johnstown, Pa. 236 Onion Street A lot of our youngest students ought to hang their heads in Christ- mas trees and get something in them. --------o--------- Many women, so we hear, are prouder of their social crust than they are of their pie crust. ---------o--------- Edward Kress: And believe it or not folks, I played the Suwannee River so naturally that people went home after their bathing suits. ---------o--------- A LITTLE FUN In the Scotch dialect the word “croon” means “to moan.” If Bob Burns, the Scotch bard, could hear our young budding radio crooners, or we should say moaners, he would, no doubt say, “Hoot, mon! Ye’d better jump in this grave wi’ me; ye’re aboot deed, anyhow!” ---------o--------- Physicians now claim that crying is good for one’s complexion, provided, of course, that one’s complexion is one’s own complexion. •i • •! Compliments of Compliments of FORT STANWIX THE SCHOOL CIGAR STAND CAFETERIA SERVICE WITH A SMILE Try Our GOOD HOME COOKING Proprietor Mildred Warner Mr . Naomi Young, Mgr. . h • Senior High School 190 THE SPECTATOR ROTHERT COMPANY Furniture That Keeps Faith Johnstown, Pennsylvania . + Compliments of SKY’S STORE + Did you ever notice that all people who claim that brain work is harder than physical labor are brain workers. -----------o---------- Inquisitive: What is your worst sin? Sweet Sixteen: Vanity—I stand in front of my mirror for hours admiring my beauty. Inquisitive: That’s not vanity, my dear—that’s imagination. -----------o---------- A modern writer says that every man should dress according to his income. Br-r-r-r-r. •----------------------------------------------- PENN PRINTING COMPANY S. ROSS HAMMER. PROP. Pri nting—Ruli ng- -Hindi ng 646 MAIN ST. JOHNSTOWN. 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