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

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FDI? ED EDITED By virtue of the fact that this, the 1940 edition of HI-S-POTTS, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of an official yearbook by the students of Pottsville High School, we, the Staff of '40, hereby bow low to those who have so ably acted as pilot for each edition during the past half century. 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1 900 1 901 1902 1 903 1904 1 905 1 906 1907 1908 1 909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 ,-f ,.. ,... ,-. Iohn G. Smith is deceased. He was an attorney-at-law in Pottsville. Robert Morris is deceased. G. P. Williams is deceased. C. F. Muehlhof is practicing law here in Pottsville. D. W. Althouse, formerly an attorney, is now deceased. B. M. Grillith is the Graduate Manager of Athletics for Bucknell. Norman Beisel, president of the Miner's National Bank, was formerly an engineer in West Virginia. Gilbert Roehrig is Boys' Director in the Y. M. C. A. at Boston. A. E. Bicht lives in Pittsburgh. He works as an engineer for the Pittsburgh and Monongahela Railroad. I. B. Eastman resides in Washington, D. C. He is a member of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. He was formerly Federal Coordinator of Railroads. Thomas McCarthy, an attorney-at-law, lives in St. Clair. He has his office in Pottsville. Theodore I. Dewees is now the pastor of Christ's Church, Binghamton, N. Y. -Bertram Strohmer is a professor at Ped- die Institute, Hightstown, New Iersey. David Morgan, formerly a physician and surgeon, is now deceased. Iames K. Satchell is deceased. Before his death he was a teacher. Meredith Davis was a newspaper cor- respondent and magazine writer. He is deceased. Francis I. Hanley is the State Highway Engineer for the Schuylkill County Dis- trict. Thomas Wayne Boussom is a teacher of Language at Amherst College. William P. Sherman is deceased. He was a newspaper correspondent. Edgar Downey, vice-president of the Pottsville Board of Education, practices law. Thomas B. Golden, living in Pottsville, is employed as the production manager for the Phillips-lones Corporation. This year there was no Annual. There was no graduating class because the course of study was extended from three years to four years. Stanley David died in Los Angeles in 1936. Earl Stevenson lives in Port Carbon and practices medicine. Gay Harper is a teller in the Miner's Na- tional Bank. G. Morton McDonald resides in Milwau- kee, Wisconsin, and is General Manager of Northwestern Fuel Company. Carl Berner resides in Highspire, a sub- urb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is employed by the State. 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 Bob Brigham is employed as a salesman for the Warner Company in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. World War duties neces- sitated his relinquishing his high school duties, so he was succeeded as Editor-in- Chief of HI-S-POTTS by Margaret Pot- ter, who is the manager of the Corner Book Store on Market Street, Pottsville. Wilmer K. Corson is employed as elec- trical engineer for the Bell Telephone Company in Wilkes-Barre. Clyde Long is an accountant at the Yuengling Ice Cream Plant. Franklin Tanner, now living in Harris- burg, is an engineer in the State Highway Department. Benjamin Schnerring works in the Land Department of The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Theodore Toussaint is employed as Serv- ice Engineer for the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Gerald Rettig, district manager for Stand- ard Brands, lives in Washington, Penn- sylvania, Charles Alter, living in Kearney, New Iersey, works for the Western Electric Company at Bloomfield, New Iersey. Iohn Chadwick is a clerk in the State Liquor Store in Minersville, Pennsylva- nia. Mildred Underwood, now Mrs. Maitland McHenry, lives in Malvern, Pennsylva- nia. Iohn Conway is emplo ed by the Miner's National Bank. The Annual was called Hl-S-POTTS for the first time with this edition. Herbert Stephenson is employed by the Fleetwood Craftman Company, Fleet- wood, Pennsylvania. Martha Hertzog now lives in California. Gladys R. Linaberry lives in Williams- port. Elmer Snyder was killed in an automo- bile accident. Ella Zukauskas, whose married name is Mrs. Wharton, is employed by the De- partment of Public Assistance. Constance Golamis is a teacher in the Yorkville Grade School. Hannah Leisse is the Associate Secretary of the Pottsville Y. W. C. A. Mary Weller formerly worked in Phila- delphia for the State. Mildred Croll, now Mrs. Christian Smink, is a Pottsville housewife. Beatrice Tiley is a Iunior at Kutztown State Teachers' College. Betty Fromme is living at Hazleton. She is an instructor in the McCann School of Business. Marjorie Kehler is a freshman at Penn State College.

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DE 'JICAT ION MR. EDGAR DOWNEY His practical yet optimistic nn- derstanding of all our problems, his nnfailing interest in ns, and his whole-hearted encourage- ment gifoen as have placed this man high in the hearts of Potts- foille Hz'gh students. It is with this in mind, together with the fact that in him we salztte a for- mer EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of HI-S-POTTL9, that we, the memhers of the Class of 1940, respectfully dedicate this edition of HI-S-POTTS to MR. EDGAR DOWNEY.

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OR HID IN loml H ANDS--. DR, DILLER Board of Education Dr. Howard W. Diller . . . ....... President i Mr. Edgar Downey ..... .... V ice-President Mr. Howard S. Fernsler ........... Secretary Mr. Lloyd L, Martz ............... Treasurer MR. DOWNEY MR. FERNSLER Mr. William Reid MR. REID MR. MARTZ Mr. Elwyn Iones Mr. Herrwood Hobbs Wflg. L- !! M 5 6 wr , M MR. IONES MR, HOBBS ' MW , , 4 Y 'flllk .--'ff - fx,-f : -Fi f'X3:?..'?. 1 wi X fl , , W X L, I ll 'W Q nl 4 WW ML fu nf IQ f