Mount Penn Lower Alsace Joint High School - Penn Alma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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I9 OLD' ..M6HZOVy l 00 C After our Greenie and Half-baked years in the seventh and eighth grades. came the dawn of a bright new future for us as Freshmen. Basketball came to mean so much more to us . . . Cwe even remembered what the score was when we went home.j We sat far into the night com- pleting our Pennsylvania History notebooks and were losing our fresh bloom of youth worrying about Latin and Algebra. We all went on a bowling spree that winter. Frosh bowling was really something to behold! We were the biggest and best in the Iunior High: our parties were gay and our hopes for the years to come were shining. We really began to live as Sophomores. SENIOR HIGH . . . absolute magic! Our wonderful seats in assembly were ever a source of joy! We were in Service Club, Cheerleading, Basketball, Y-Teens . . . all things were possible. Our Soph Hop was our greatest occasion of the year 1948. We carried out a new idea, inviting Exeter and Pennside to join us for this gala affair. Those friends we made then seem so much a part of Mount Penn now, it's hard to believe they ever bade sad farewells to a previous Alma Mater. Our Raindrop programs and umbrella decorations carried out an April Showers theme, and we all became experts at making crepe paper flowers. After an afternoon of hard work, everyone agreed that the time had been well spent and that the results were simply wonderful. Our Iunior and Senior years have been the years of golden memories to be cherished forever. In 1949, we realized the proximity of 1950 and we rather reluctantly accepted the mantle of Seniors. As Iuniors we were the I. V. Squad . . . CHAMPS: cheerleaders, key band members: always at the athletic field . . . in fall for soccer, . . . in spring for track. The Iunior play China Boy , shaved at least seven years off the lives of its cast members, who were in the throes of stage fright weeks in advance of opening night, but it couldn't have been better Cor funnier!j. The Iunior Prom was beautiful and gay with jolly little circus animals hanging on the walls and a whirl of pastel crepe streamers hung from the very top of the ceiling to make our Carousel. We went to commencement and saw even closer our own departure from Mount Penn High, but were not too saddened to enjoy a glorious summer vacation. 1950-Seniors-a Varsity squad of near champions with a heartbreaking defeat at the end of the season. Along with all the crazy fun we could cook up, were our serious problems of college application and the search for jobs. The Senior play, Seventeenth Summer brought the poignant realization of teenage problems to its audience and was soundly acclaimed one of Mt. Penn's best productions. Can we describe the twist it gave our hearts to see our last basketball game as students and march for the last time in orange and black? Nor can we do justice to the happy-go-lucky days with a picture exchange going on from morning till night: our dancing to dreamy music at our mid-winter prom and at last our banquet and dance at the Country Club. Now there are only days left before we too, misty-eyed and in caps and gowns, shall receive our diplomas and become members of the alumni. 50

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Cildllflly IACOB D. WENTZEL English Franklin and Mcxrshcxll College, B.A. Columbia University, M.A. HELEN B. WHITE Music Bethlehem Conservatory ol Music est Chester State Teachers College. B.S. Christensen Choral School DAVID S. ZIMMERMAN Health, Physical Edu:ation Stroudsburg Stale Teachers College, 13.3 Temple University, lVI.Ed. IQSO

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