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

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class By begunnung our secondary education un Lugonuer Hugh School we the Class of l947 have taken advantage of one of the great freedoms that Americans enloy Thus us that precious free dom of free education whuch us granted so that we may become able cutuzens ln taking advan tage of thus pruvulege we know that we have learned a great deal and also enloyed every munute of our first year un L H S Most of us were quute excited over our new posutuons For the first couple of weeks ut was nothing to find ourselves suttung un the wrong room or being late for class because we could easuly lose our way among the vast expanse of doors Besides our first look unto our Latun books left us weak un the knees But we were left un no better condutuon when cuvucs, algebra general scuence and English came along ln algebra fauth un people who do not belueve un the Hunt and Fund System Heres how some of us turned out Edward Clawson better known as Turkey was the polutucuan un cuvucs class Ernest Zimmerman made a habut of catchung up on hus sleep un Muss Keffers study hall Peggy Cochrane was our agule cheerleader Bernard Fush Dale Campbell Duane Craug and Turkey Clawson contributed theur extra energy to hugh school athletics by becomunq members of the football squad Dale Campbell and Turkey Clawson have also yielded to the excutung sport of basketball These freshmen sport fans wull be our future athletic stars Then too Mr Weller has duscovered an artustuc genius un Dale Campbell We freshmen are helping to fight for free dom by buyung war bonds and stamps We FRESHMEN CREATE A FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE V Pres Cochrane assumed the presudency vacated by Ralph Alexandre and cooperated wuth Secy Campbell and Treas Nucely to lead an ambutuous have put forth an honest effort and have maun tained hugh percentages The Class of 1947 gave the Publucatuon Staff unusually fine support for freshmen They dud exceptionally well during the Mountauneer Subscruptuon Campaugn wuth a 'lO3'Xa tue between Rooms 2 and 4 Then un March they sold maga zune subscruptuons whuch netted the hughest profits ever realuzed un such a prolect un the hus tory of L H S and turned over the benefits to the Mountauneer Room 4 launched the freshmen assembly programs by portraying the Christmas story un colorful pantomumes After the holudays Room 2 presented a play called False Pretenses Jum Hall an alumnus of Room 2 helped them out when one of theur maun characters Arthur Fus cher, moved away Room 8 clumaxed the assem bly programs wuth a play entitled Elmer B ll Half Chuck Nucely fitted the part of Elmer a m chuevous young brother quute well He kept us constantly un an uproar when he decuded to play detectuve for the famuly but he dud more harm than good One day un December we thought we were seeung double when we duscovered to our amaze ment that twuns had enrolled un our class Anne and Jean McDermott have been hard to tell apart but have become valuable classmates Thus we have come to the close of the first year un our hugh school traunung a year un whuch we have receuved a luttle more knowledge and a luttle more wusdom to and us un attaunung our numerous varued goals un lufe un free Ameruca We are all lookung forward to the happiness and pleasure of the comung years un Lugonuer Hugh School The Mountauneer 24 . . ' , . . . , I . . ' I 1 , . . . ' . I ' . ' ll ll - s Q is s I I , . . . . . , - I ' ' class Miss Dickinson doesn't seem to have much . ' . ,, ,, , - - - - H . I ' ll ' ll ' I - u ' , IS' I 0 ' , . . Il II ' ' ' I I I I I - l I 1 ' ' . ' II Il ' ' I l Il Il . ' I ' ' . . . . . , . . . . u I .

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SOPHOMORES ACHIEVE RECORDS OF DISTINCTION Pres Malkoch discusses with his fellow officers Sec y Bearer Treas Wolford and V Pres Craig the pos slbrllttes of a square dance Freedoms rays spread afar and bring every individual into a deeper sense of the best in lfe Thus we of the Class of 46 have been brought to a realization of Freedoms ways through this our second year of secondary edu cation Among the freedoms that are guaranteed to us as Americans we treasure the following freedom from fear we are now free of the mann fear of initiation about which we were gravely worried as freshmen freedom of elec tion we exercised this power in various ways the Sophomore Class voted unanimously for a class activities as the sophomore party the Christmas dance and a square dance we em ployed its power ln our own special honor of choosing the May Queen and above all w used ut In the election of our class officers The outcome of this election proved that our sopho more athletes are very popular for all the offices were capably filled by them Therefore It was only proper that we conducted a successful magazine subscription campaign for the benefit of the Athletic Association in December The freedom of speech was strongly brought forth In the interesting and informative if some times heated debates that arose spontaneously in Miss Gross World History class One of the most heated of thes debates was the one between Robert McKelvey and Carolyn Seaholm on what should be done with Japan after the war One side advocated kindness and educa tion to the masses of people without undue harshness while the opposing side maintained that we should retaliate and give them the more harsh treatment which was bestowed on our people by the Japanese We sophomores also enloyed the freedom of physical action by participating In high school athletics About 25 per cent of the football play ers were sophomores In basketball we were quite well represented for almost the entire Junior Varsity was composed of our classmates Nicky Malkoch and John Bolha were promoted to the Varsity at the beginning of the season Then besides the manager of the teams was our own Lynn Shotzbarger The gurls too were active In extra curricular activities Basketball attracted some of our girls Then also Joan Pershing as head malorette and Nancy Jean Nicely as a twlrler did some hugh stepping in front of the band while Jane Brere ton led us in our school cheers We also participated an assembly programs Room 9 was the first to perform with a humorous debate Resolved Ligonier Hugh School should have an elevator installed Room I0 followed by presenting Supt John G Hulton of the Latrobe Public Schools who talked to us con cernmg the second anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day They also featured Lee Hartman as Ps tol Packin Mama but the climax came when Nicky Malkoch chased Johnny Martin off stage In a take off on Hellzapoppm Room ll en tertamed with a play entitled ' Herbert in which Lynn Shotzbarger as Herbert won has case when he broadcast his own radio program The sophomores helped keep the Torch of Liberty burning by investing on War Bonds and Stamps every Thursday with Room 'IO usually in the lead We hope to keep it burning so that all people may share the blessings of Freedom which we engoy The Mountaineer 23 h gc- . . -9 9 'NLT fr , . . , . I . , . - . . , - . I . . I . z u I I I ' 7 - . . . . Student Councilp we decided in favor of such ' ' . . . . ' ' . I n 4 n - I I ' - I l 5 I e . . . on : ' ' ' ' l - H . , , a s 1 n . I - ' . ll - ' I II ' 1 . .... I . - - . ' - ll ' ll - , D ', . . . . , H . . u I I I Y

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