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

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degree, VVe spent our time mostly in dreaming and it took us one whole year to find out that Action not NVords or Thoughts, was the by-word of Success. However, though we did drift rather aimlessly the first term we imbibed a little of knowledge and gained lots of experience, and moreover, we were enjoying life and that is the primary thing-so it seemed to us. The most interesting class of our Freshman year was the Algebra classg it was not the study so much, but the teachers. XYe had a great many subs and subs are always so fascinating-Mr. Dave Bechtel proved espe- cially so. tgradesj ! ! ! At Christmas time we had great fun in getting and decorating our class Christmas Tree a11d we felt quite proud of it though the effect would have been better if Ransloe Boone hadn't been on the decorating committee because he was always eating the pop-corn off of it. The second semester of that year a new class was formed-a Thursday afternoon class-held in the llippo- drome. The attendance was taken regularly by XYarren Morgan and Rus Kepner, and they didn't have to mark many absent marks. Did you Rus,'? For further in- formation ask Rus to show you the records. XVhen we returned from the Summer Vacation we were Sophs-Sophisticated Sophs. VYe had lost a little of our freshness Zllltl verdance, and we believe we had the usual feelings attributed to Sophomorcs. XYe made the loveliest discovery this year. Guess- XYell-we discovered Miss Short. Last year we had known she was in the school, and that she always seemed so pleasant, but we had never known her very well, be- cause we werenit in any other of her classes. But this year afforded us the most delightful pleasure of knowing her more intimately, and it certainly was a most agree- able surprise to find how interested and sympathetic she was with us both individually and as a class. K ln the spring of this year many Botany Hikes were taken. lt was on one of these Botany Hikes that the Royal Order of the llorses' Hoof was organized of which Miss Boyer was elected High Master. The initiation of new members was a great and joyous diversion, that is, it was joyous to the initiators but to the victims it was 14

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K, . a I FZN 0 gay c ww .. C 'VU HAP ,. QA .y,. SENIOR CLASS HISTORY. Four short, sweet years have passed since this Class of ,ZI first entered P. H. S. They passed and are gone forever, but while we were living them they seemed inter- minably long and indeed far from sweet. lt is probable that distance lends enchantment. XVe know we shall remember our l-ligh School days with joy in having lived them and with the hope we could experience them once again: and that as each year passes, the memory of them will grow fonder and we will become increasingly appre- ciative of their happiness. Before we entered High School, the first morning of the school term four years ago, we were divided into five groups, that is we were divided in sentiment. Because for two years we had all been rivals in athletics and schol- arship in grammar schools. But before the morning was over we had become a classg the live groups with their live different loyalties to live different schools were merged into one single new one, and henceforward there was one loyalty to one class. This new school life seemed so much bigger and broader than that which we had known before. There were so many interests and the vista of a future of great achievements rose up before our childish Freshman minds. VVe were going to take all the laurels in every field. VVe'd show those upper-classmen that age and experience didn't always win and even though we were young and green there were fine possibilities in us. Yes, there were fine possibilities in us, but we didn't develop them that year, at least not to any extraordinary 13 gr

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an awful ordeal. However, the privileges and honor of being a member compensated for that. Our junior year, was of course another eventful year. XN'e had lost some of our classmates, Beany Boone, Louis Ulmer, Conde Felver, Alex. Hill, Betty Mortimer, etc.-having gone away to school. In this year we elected our Class Day Historian, Butch', Buechley, the girl with the radiant hair, re- ceived the highest number of votes. VVe also elected our Editor-in-Chief of the C. 81 VV. Ben. Schnerring, a very competent editor, was elected. A vaudeville show was given for the benefit of boys' athletics. Many members of our class starred in this show. Did you hear Ted Toussaint sing, I used to call her baby P I wonder who he meant? This year the Hockey Team made its debut. VVe started our career by defeating the Senior Girls, the score being 3-O. Finally we were quite proud when we sat down in the first three rows of the Hippodrome at the Commence- ment Exercises of the Class of 1920. The thought came to our mind that we would take their place, the coming year, and we were to be a credit to our Alma Mater. Un September of 1920 we came back to P, H. S., as Seniors. Dignified Seniors indeed. Yes, serious and dignified we were, but we were very few in number compared with the class as it entered in 1917. Some left us to enter other schools and others to enter the commercial world. XVe are sorry that our iormer class mates are not graduating with us but we are glad to welcome to our class, those who have entered during our Junior and Senior years. VVhen we entered as Freshies and were very small and still green, one of the Senior girls of the class of 1918 remarked, I guess they'll be bringin, 'em in with socks on nextf, XYell, her prophecy has come true. The class that entered this year brought several children with them wearing socks and dresses above their knees. However, with all their childish looks and traits, they are far from children when it comes to respecting upper Classmen. The Sophs might also be mentioned with that. The Seniors have to dodge them in the Halls. 15