Ligonier Valley High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Ligonier, PA)

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CQZQM WJ! We the Senuor Class of 1944 of Lugonuer Hugh School Westmoreland County Pennsyl vanua beung of sound body and mund hereby make and declare thus to be our last wull and testament and do bequeath the followung specual artucles to the followung students and members of the faculty To Lee Hartman Eduth Kennedys seat on the bleachers durung P T classes To the beautuful Queen of the Junuor Class Mary Lou Essey one lock of haur of the Blond Kung of our most sovereugn Senuor Class Thus saud lock at Bull Barkleys request she wull keep we hope un vuvud memory of our dear departed Jay Huston To Tom Freeman Wulson Leonards seat un front of Mrs Urch s desk un Englush class To all the students who faul to cheer at our thrullung football and basketball games Kath leen Meagher s spurut To Harold Newell Sunny Mathews pruoruty on the bass fiddle To Helen Kozar of the Junuor Class June Baur s tap dancung talent To the Junuor Class Jerry Wungrove s happy days spent un L H S and as a personal touch her comb to Helen Kozar so she wont have to be borrowung one all the tume To Clyde Buell Joy Hustons secret pro cessed paperwad To Leola Zummerman of the Junuor Class Gaul Peterson leaves the task of preparung the 1945 Mountauneer dummy To Judy Nucely Anna Kuttey wulls her seat un Mr Mathews P of D class To a prospectuve successor Eluzabeth Corna Kathryn Graham s love for studyung To Levada Snyder Betty Fletchers most treasured book Englush IV To Twula Crowe Edna Blackburns fauthful shelterung desk un Muss Duckunson s homeroom To Joe Andreychack Emul Pavlovuch s auto mobule for use as a school bus To Jeanne Kunsey Martha Campbell s place un her cherushed art room To Anthony Tuberu hus suster Vurgunua wulls her fauthful alleguance to Katue as a stooge To Alberta McMasters Margaret Garland s hopes for a Home Economucs course To Shurley Meredith Sue Kuntzs errors un her lYP'n9 To Evelyn Roddy Marlorue Lynn s honored posutuon as Muss Gross secretary To Bull Casey Chuck Moonlys tutle as proc tucal loker To Helen Shaulus Dorothy Dennuson s hopes of meetung Hamlet To Mary Jeanne Ambrose Mary Benders place wuth the Gurls Chorus To Dale Campbell Jum Fosters f1rst pre war gumband to be turned over to hum any tume before January 31 1945 by the Mountauneer Staff To Charles Anthony Ernue Scherbans seat To Bull Casey Charles Nucely s regrets on leavung hus pruze seat un Room 5 and Muss Snow den To Jum Noel Bob Noel leaves the guarduan shup of Room 5 and Muss Snowden To Herby Martun Polly Grahams place un Detentuon Hall To Eluzabeth Hood Nancy Hudocks posu tuon as lubraruan To Sara Prunyu Helen Nucelys posutuon as forward on the gurls basketball team To Marge Egner Marge Neuderhusers col ored bow tues and shoe strungs To Kathleen Mary Helen Parke Louuse Man on s over due lubrary books To the equally sleepy Lous E Johnson Laura Ann Rugg s habut of sleepung un P of D class Sugned sealed publushed and declared by the above named Class of 1944 as and for theur last wull and testament The Mounta near 17 0 1 n 1 1 I I I I 1 ' ' I I 1 1 1 0 s 1 1 1 . . I . , I I ' I . , I . ' 1 ' ' . . 1 ' I ' . . . , I 1 - . , . ' ' ' - 1- T I I I I I I . - 1 I . , . ' I I , . . 1 u I I . . , . . - I I I I ' I ' ' 1 1 I - - 1 I ' I ' I 1 . . - 1 - un Room 5 and Muss Snowden. . . , . . , , I n 1 1 1 U I 1 1 I ' I I - 1 I u I I ' I '- 1 1 I ' . 1 1 - 1 I . . . I I I u ' I . . . . . . , I 1 I ' , . I I ' I . I ' ' ' I . , . . , . . . I . . . . . . . . , I I I . . , - I ' I 5 -

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Albert Weltz Geraldlne Wmgrove Joan Wylle Frank Zeunges Everett Zlders Beatrlce Luther Leonard Olsen Warren Pleasants Zin jlilemurp GLENN WILLARD CRAMER September7 T926 October 28, T937 ffwiwze Uoiqe ALBERT WELTZ short fun lovrng Pee wee loves to bowl and :ce skate ln has spare tlme thmks studying as a necessary evll specialized rn mathematics helped to collect tickets at basketball games GERALDINE WINGROVE attracttve artuculate Jerry as from Waterford has musnc at her flngertlps and In her vouce accompanlst for Gtrls Chorus flashes a diamond engagement rung from an army heutenant only student taking fourth year Latun dependable llbrarlan JOAN WYLIE dngmfled Joan wants to attend business school after graduatnon belonged to the Gurls Chorus favornte pastlme ns eat an wrntes to the Navy falthfully was a lunlor counsellor last sum mer at Camp Tweedale a gurl scout camp near Philadelphia FRANK ZEUNGES lovlal and accommodatlng Frank works hard on the farm would luke to study Agnculture at Penn State Pres: dent of F F A llked to set thumb tacks nn Engllsh class often seen wlth George Stanko EVERETT ZIDERS bashful mtellagent Ben has coal black halr IS an authorlty on hlstory was Mrs Urch s problem child In Latm served as tncket salesman at athletuc games was one of that Laughlmtown group of Foster Zuders and Smtth BEATRICE LUTHER blue eyed Bea IS usually seen with a grm thinks Clark Gable us wonderful thoroughly enloys :ce skatmg and square dancmg would luke to work at Halund s after graduatlon LEONARD OLSEN likable hard workmg Tuffy commuted dally on the Cook Townshlp bus a Rep Van Wmkle II nn Englxsh class an out standmg student In the Agnculture Course placed fourth In annual state wnde Prolect Contest m Home Improvement thus year WARREN PLEASANTS curly hatred brown eyed Kent arrived second semester from Penn Twp duslnkes dancmg and fingernasl pollsh but on the other hand llkes Spanish and admnres sporty clothes us keenly unterested m dramatic: and archntecture No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone, Corpse gazmgs, tears, black ratment, graveyard grnmness, Yours stlll you mme, remember all the best Of our past moments, and forget the rest, And so, to where I want, come gently on Wnlllum Cullmgham The Mountameer T6 . 1 - - 11 11 - . . . , - - - - 11 11 - . . . , - . . . . . , - . , . . . , . . . 11 11 - . . . . , - . . . . . , . . . 1 1 - 11 11 - - ' . . , . - - 11 11 - . . . , - . ,, . . ' ,, . . ' 11 11 - , . . , . . . . , ll I . ll 1 I '

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Pres Huston V Pres Mathews Secy Nucely and Treas Clark are amusedly watching Jam Foster drive away nn his automobnle Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on thus continent a new natuon concelved In Llberty and dedicated to the propo sutnon that all men are created equal Yes Abraham Lmcoln spoke these nmmortal words enghty years ago when our great country was engaged In the Cuvul War Today we are fight :ng nn another war And Instead of f1ghtmg to free lust the negro slaves we are fightnng to free everyone all over the world and establush a world f1t to luve nn It was just four years ago that we the Class of 1944 entered Lugomer Hugh 'chool Our country was at peace then and we thought llttle duced to hugh school society at mutnatuon and then at a party gnven by the sensors The next year we returned as gay sophomores and everythung went along normally untll that day December 7 1941 when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor The next day we returned to school where everyone seemed too shocked and surprised to thunk of anythmg but that brutal sneak attack At twelve oclock we sat ln the audltoruum and llstened to Presndent Roosevelt declarung war on the Axns Powers It had all happened so raptdly we were dumbfounded and wondered what It all meant We began to realuze nts sugnuficance durmg the next few months lt meant sacruflces scrap druves buy mg war bonds and seemg brothers and pals off to war As lunuors and upperclassmen we helped to carry on the tradntlons and changes demanded SENIORS HELP FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Um GZQA4 Pmdewi ewewd Me DMZ by war condntuons Everyone was mulltary minded that year for we learned to march In our physlcal tralnmg classes and even our Jun :or Class Play was about army llfe The play A Letter to the Gene l was a comedy ably enacted by our class Thespuans Last August when we returned to our Alma Mater for the last tame we were proud and yet a llttle sorry that our school lufe would soon be over How qunckly those three years had passed' However, tnme moves on and brmgs great changes especnally durmg war days Our class was smaller thus year and rughtly so because some of our classmates have gone to the armed forces We also regretted losung Davld Martens who matriculated at Klskl thus year Charles Znmmerman and Bull Hemtzelman lomed the Navy durmg the summer vacation and soon after school started Bull Hoffman and Bull Cunningham left for duty wnth Albert Shultz and Lawrence Clark leavung at the end of the first semester Yes these boys were the f1rst to go from our class to serve Uncle Sam but as the days roll by there wall be many more Already some of our Alumm have made the supreme sacrlflce and It as whale we are thmknng of these valiant former students of L H S that we quote Lmcoln ln say :ng that lt IS for us the luvnng rather, to be ded: cated here to the unflnxshed work whlch they who fought here have thus far so nobly ad vanced We have a task before us and we are going to do nt The Mountameer 18 , Y , , l 11 - - ' ' - I f . . ,, . . . , - I s 1 ll Ill I I - I l . ' I . . I V I . . of when Wans lo come' W? were QFl:lC,'c'l,lY 'mm' work in factories and others are now serving in I I I J ' , . . . . . , . . I . I - ' H u. . . 0 i .- - - , , , . . , .