New Kensington High School - Taleoken Yearbook (New Kensington, PA)

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SENIOR OFFICERS Seated: James Valentine, Treasurer, Robert Edwards, Vice-president. Joseph Veltri, President, james Cooper Secretary. Standing: Mrs. Klinke, Mr. Mooney, Sponsors. enior ass of We were bewildered in 1942, bewildered because we were in a new environment, high school. No longer were we members of a num- bered grade but now we had a class name- we were freshmen. For some, being a fresh- man meant a new building, new teachers. For all it meant a new idea of school, choosing our courses and being treated like young men and women. The bewilclerment finally wore off, however, and we were just getting used to Ken High when our sophomoreyear arrived. With it came a horde of new faces, for Parnassus sophomores were joining us. At first the old feuds arose but most of them disappeared by the time our basketball team was' in the W. P. I. A. L. playoffs at Pitt Stadium. Those games were still being talked about in Septem- ber when we rose to the status of juniors. Stewart School juniors joined us and our junior year started with a bang when Vocational School won three of the class offices. Every- thing ran smoothly and soon candy bars were luring money into the class treasury. We spent that money on the most spectacular social event of our career, the Prom. It will be a long time before any of us forget the garden- like decorations in the gym. The summer of the prom was illed with momentous events but it .was in September that we got a shock. We were seniors. It seemed incredible that only nine more months of Ken-High remained. Slowly, what being a senior meant dawned on us. We struggled through the traditional maze of pictures, name cards, rings, announcements, speakers and tests. The football season flew past and basketball seemed barely started when we saw our pals turn actor in Junior Miss. The madhouse of Class Day and the exclu- siveness of the Senior Private pounded by and before we knew it the day had come-the last day, Taleoken day, Prom day in all its glory. With graduation a mere two weeks ahead we realized what those four years had meant to us. We realized, too, that we would never forget them.

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JEAN BAKER-Taleoken, N. H. S .... Classical . . . pleasant personality . . . likes Virgil, informality of small classes . . . remembers the Prom . . . hobby, collecting shoes. MARY PAULINE BAKER-Wants to join Waves . . . Home Economics Club . . . listens with pleasure to Hoor talks in English. DOROTHY BALCH-Embarrassed by memory of losing shoe enroute to 401 . . . Commercial Club and Leaclerys Club . . . shorthand. GLORIA BARHAM-Distributive Education . . . enjoys work- 'E ing in the Jenny Shoppe . . . chooses to enter field of X store advertising. i iiimm X f is saw x JEAN EVELYN BARKER-Recalls the Junior Prom with hap- piness . . . favorite school activity is study hall . . . roller ' skates for a hobby. f RITA BARNICKER-Classical Course . . . Taleoken Staff Hi . . . College Club . . . Home Economics Club . . . quiet X little miss iikedyll-far-Brac football game 3 C3 fjjj'lij5iT:1,QV D' GLORIA BEALE- Corky', . . . Commercial student . . . at- ? tended Stewart School . . . typing, her favorite subject . . . interest lies in office work . . . cute. .XFLOQNCE DOLORES BERKOBEN-Distributive Education X . . . Whoa . . . enjoyed the Redstone game . . . Dis- -? t 'bulge Education Club . . . dislikes studies . . . wills il ' V ck' to unclerclassmen. EMA A YN BEST-Wears Tri-Hi-Y, Dramatic Club, N. H. S. ns . . . Bessie . . . enjoys informality of Virgil class f?x ' utiful blonde hair . . . college-bound. i x fr X Z .3 7 ' 1 I l.il.,I,l 5 ELIZABETH ABRAHAM-l'Bette', . . . Distributive Educa- tion Course . . . desires to be a model . . . enjoys working in a store. ELLEN ADAMS-Hails from Stewart . . . likes swimming and senior science . . . former American Legion Award winner. ETHEL ALTMAN-Ken Hils only girl plane pilot . . . plans , I ltq' do photo tinting . . . prefers French. t N! ku I' ,p 1 LICLK' 5 f L if 1lDdR THY Al7TlVl'EYER-'Sis,?7: . .l Victory Club captain 'Llc . . . hasvwng over the Jadio . . . plants to be a secretary. Lv A DOROTHY L. ARMITAGE-Commercial student with a preference for typing . . , aspires to be a telephone oper- ator . . . Stewart School. LAUREL ASHBAUGH- Pinky . , . Distributive Education Course . . . abhors home work . . . enjoyed Har-Brac football game . . . delights in movies. JUNE ASHE-Southerner from way down in Lou-weez- iana . . . Distributive Education . . . plans to attend fash- ion school. BETTY HELEN ASKIN-Talented poetess and author of a book . . . Secretarial Course . . . member of the Civil Air Patrol. LUELLA BAIR-Prefers music theory . . . Pete,' . . . would like to follow her singing hobby after graduation . . . football fan. 'f tariff ii