Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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Our class was glad to welcome into your midst Miss Wolff and Miss Clemens. Miss Wolff, from Mahanoy City, brought with her the sterling qualities which instant- ly raised her in the estimation of both school inates and instructors. Miss Clemens, from Minersyille, our lfreneh Madaine, instantly captured the heart of one of our boys. 'liidini eould perhaps tell you more about this than 1 eau. lle nieknanied her Teddyg sinee that she has received that name from all her elassniates. Miss Reese entered from the Huntingdon lligh School, and Mr. l'ahner was seen very often ealling on XX'est Norwegian St. This was pleasing to lidythe. and ia developed into a very violent ease. on hoth sides. Miss lileher and Miss Vaxson also entered our Class that year. Mfe ean not say inueh almout those two girls heeanse Miss l'axson studies yery diligently and Miss lfleher told ine that she never had a ease in lligh School. ,Xnd now another year had passed, and we were SlCXlORS. iXhl the meaning in the word only. Xlfe did feel old in a way, too. .Xlthough we had two new teachers this year. things did not go as badly as would he expected, and now, as we're just about getting acquainted. we have to leave dear old l'. H. S. lYe all know that if we had one more year in l'. H. S. everything would go ditifer- ent. for the new teachers would understand us and we theni. At the close of this year. some ofgus will enter Col- lege. some take a Post Graduate Course. and some will travel. Miss Uronson will travel to Europe. tSo she told mel. She didn't say what for though. Perhaps Mr. l :1lnier knows something' ahout this trip, as he told ine he was going on a wedding tour as soon as he gradu- ated. lf you would enter our room sonie day, you could not help hut notiee Mr. KlllllllQ'lI0ll'S sad face. The Cause of this is heeause Florence went away to school and Daniel is lonesome. 2I

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every Tuesday must not be left out of this history. They were one of the most enjoyable Nj happenings of the year. Mr. Ryon enjoyed them to such an extent, that one evening he forgot to go home till six o'clock, and as a consequence, he was given a gas bill for a Xmas gift. .Xt last our Junior year was completed and we were MlDDl,l2RS. Yes, we were truly Middlers, and one could tell that by our hauteur. How we did walk through the school. Our pride was often brought down, too: for when some of our members were showing their authority over the green Juniors, l'rof.,'l'lun'low would yell. Mr. Fox, Mr. Millington, sometimes Mr. Rhoads. llut altogether our Middler year was a year to be remembered by allg for it was the last year with our old teachers. Had we known then that we were going to lose them, many lit- tle kindnesses would we have rendered, which we thought- lesslyi overlooked. The most marked feature of this year was our botan- i7ing tours. l think our class was the favorite class in this respect: as we took more trips than any other class. On one of our trips Prof. Simonds introduced a new feature-a race for girls. Miss Richards won in this race, and as a reward found a new species of flower. Another very important and to be remembered event was our first literary. lt was held from two to two forty-five. when we were told in stern accents to return to our own side of the room- and get to work. lNe thought this would be our first and last literary: but a very excellent program was put upon the slate. and per- mission given to hold another meeting. On this meet- ing we were highly complimented. Two or three more meetings were held, which were repetitions of the second one Pj Mr. Fox came to school one day with a glad smile upon his face. Investigating, we found his heart had been stolen by a Junior maiden. Tele was seen to walk frequently up North Second street with a certain young lady. Miss McCaffrey was the innocent cause of it all. 20

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'Tis better to have loved and lost tfor a whilej than never to have loved at all. Something which will interest you all. l am sure, is the intimacy between Miss Daddow and Mr. Gibson. Their chief sport is automobilingg and as Virginia is able ,to furnish all the necessary requirements for this sport, they go on frequent tours. I am sure you all know of the engagement between Mr. Schimpf and Miss Saul. XYhy, they've had their cards out long ago. Miss Koch is novv sending her glances to a certain Middler boy. Too bad, Guy, you are not graduating. During this year very excellent literary programs were renderedg our class can be proud of them, I am sure. At the last one Miss Bronson sang a beautiful solo, and a quartette, composed of Misses Koch, Saul, Deisher and F. A. Smith, with Miss Reese as accompan- ist, enchanted their listeners t?l Altogether our literar- ies this year were a great success: we enjoyed a half day vacation nearly every two weeks, which I know our in- structors thought we earned. Mr. lsosch usually spent this time in school with Miss Lee. l have tried to give the history of every one in oui' class, but there's Misses XVilliams. O'Llrien. Schwarze and Messrs. Stong. Holmes, Paul and Scheerer-they behave so well that it would be impossible to say anything about thenig although it is rumored that Miss Schwarze has a P. G. S. catch. lflei' brother in the Junior class told me, that's how I knoyv. Mr. Scheerer is called Cupid. lfle wrote so many notes to Miss F. F. Smith that she pur- posely fell in love with a Junior youth. They attended a party. given at Hillside one night by Miss Loughlin. You should have seen them. Miss Shay also found a Junior boy pleasing in her sight. Merritt was the lucky fellow CFJ You should just watch Mr. Furman and Miss XYol1T, the way' they chatter. Talking machines and grapho- phones are nothing in comparison with them. llliss Boone's time is almost all taken up in reading and writing. Reading letters, although she is interested 22 1