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

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FQKESI-IMEN . . . The OFFICERS President ............... .ROBERT HORN Vice-President. . . . . ..DORIS CTOODMAN Treasurer .... .... N ANCY JOHNS Secretary .... . . UGEORGE TQLINGER X AST YEAR in the month of June, the class of 37, had the opportunity to visit the school with which they are now Well ac- quainted, our own Pottsville High School. They Walked the steps in pairs, gazing intensely at the magnificent building which was soon to be their institution of further learning, until the third floor was reached. The girls went to the East study hall and the boys to the West. Here they Were shown seats and given complete instructions for the coming year by their respective homeroom teachers. The attendance takers, who were appointed by the eighth grade teachers, were placed in the rear seat of each row. Their duty for the coming term was to turn in records of absentees before and after each school session. The pupils, Who were anxious for a vacation, but nevertheless eager for their future high school life, were dismissed. VVhen the following September rolled around, Freshmen were seen scurrying around the halls trying to find their different classes With a bewil- dered look on their faces, however, they soon learned the routine.

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Class ol In Qctober, the N. R. A. authorities ol of our students participated. A prize of HV the best appearance in line. The school has order. , Latefy during assembly period, lVIr. Legm to the Freshman class for the most excellf This was the beginning of many hone December, Helen Casari Won first prize f a hundred dressed by the students. Her 1 red Wool with two cunning skiis in its are A group of Freshman girls were the fir Week Contest, the proceeds of which pai children. 523.93 Was the amount made by In February, Myrtle Adams won first 1 Her subject vyas Franklin Delano Roosev second place in an Interpretive Reading C classes. Doris Goodman also distinguished hersel fest SP0I1SO1'Cd by the city N. R. A. Comp We hope that these Freshman will rem coming Sophomore year. , JAMMM YEARS HERE... T HAS BEEN almost four years since we of the graduating class entered first through the portals of expectation into our high school - four years, pock-marked by the ravaging of disap- pointment, and grief, but blushingstill with the mem- ory of joys, friendships, and fulhlled responsibilities. Ours has been the opportunity of taking a part in the genesis of a new era-the era of a new building, pre- senting facilities beyond all of our humble hopes. Soon we are to terminate this seemingly long ca- reer, and to leave behind us joys and griefs alike. Far removed is the moment when we can no longer recall to quivering ears the stately ring of our alma mater-as from our eager throats it floats in union with that our fellow classmen. A shadowed picture of dancing forms, charging athletes, shelves of books, kindly instructors, pleasant meals, and happy leis- ure, transforms itself into the kaleidoscope of a care- free but advantageous student life. Now this life is to end and a new life is to begin with our commencement. We are to be launched as freshmen in the sea of life with the knowledge of how to live vouched for by our possession of a stiff white diploma. g We may feel reasonably certain that we shall some day look upon these crowded years as the most pleas- urable in all our existence. But we are needed be- yond to jill the positions vacated by life's scourge. Thus with eye, damp or dry, we look upon our student years with an awe and reverence befitting a time so nobly spent.