Punxsutawney Area High School - Mirror Yearbook (Punxsutawney, PA)

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Jim English Course lr. Red t'ross. '24, '25, '26, '27, A. A., '24, '25, '26, '27, Football, '27, High School Play, '27, Commencement Play, '27. To he a friend of ,lim's means true friendship. jim enters a project with the idea of doing both himself and the subject justice. And it is not his fault if such is not the case. 'flim is not a boisterous rollicking fellow but is almost a stoic. But, when he is truly pleased with anything a smile slowly slides up the right half of his cheek. How- ever, this one smile means nine, and cheers one more than many a per- son's hearty laugh. James will teach the Couch school next year. T11 irty james Clyde Smith He does it with cz better grace but I do it more 1zatural. T H E M I RR 0 R H-omer Smith Smitty English Course A. A., '24, '25, '26, '27, Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27, Interclass B. B., '25, '26, '27, Assistant Football hfanager, '26, Football hlanager, '27, History Play, '26, French Play, '27. Let me hate audience for a word 01' two. Homer was our football manager and a very successful one. VVe concede him every right to get puffed up over his record but he seems to have no inclination towards it. As you see from his activities above, he is not unacquainted with basketball, in fact, he is interested in prac- tically everything, including a certain girl in Room S. From this last interest we gain the impression that Homer is very Crafty. Homertells us he is going to attend an electrical school in Chicago. We predict a career as successful in the business world as it has been in High School. Ruth Smith Rufus A. A., '24, '25, '26, '27, Jr. Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. It certainly is too bad that more of the fair sex do not practice law, for judging from the fine work Rufus does in Commercial Law class, she could win many cases. Ruth has become the very efficient leader of the Young People's Christian League, and she has surely done some very fine work along that line. If you see two girls standing at the head of the stairs, or in the hall, talking confidentially, you may be sure they are Ruth and Laura jane. They always give a passer-by the impression that they are trying to get as much said as possible, before the bell rings. Ruth expects to go to Normal, and then teach next fall.

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THE MIRROR Dale Simpson Cowboy Iinglish Course Jr. Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27, A. A., '25, '26, '27, Track, '24, '25, '26, '27, Football, '27, Orchestra, '24, '25, '26, '27, U ' U .-Intl as cz strong man joys to run rr rare. The minute one sees our tall, thin Dale, one observes his track po- tentialities. He always comes over with the goods in track, for he is our star high-jumper. XYith such a record one would think he might be contented with comparative oblivion but instead he has ability in the art of cartooning. Even this is not the limit of his ability, for he has an all devouring passion . If you have ever seen Cowboy playing in the orchestra, you need not ask about the nature of said passion. All together Dale is rather an important person and our track team will surely feel lost without him. XVith characteristic independence Dale in- tends to set out in business for himself and we wish him all good fortune. way. Helen D. Smith Smitty . English Course Jr. Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27, A. A., '24, '25, '26, '27, jr, Civic Club, '25, '26, '27, Girls' B. B., '25, Dramatics, '26. UL'7ZAflLZ:lZkl'llg, idle, tvilrl and young, I lauglfd and z'alk'1l and dunc'1l and sung. A compact lightly opened, a dab of powder on her nose, a brief survey of the part of her countenance visible in her tiny mirror, a look of dissatisfaction, a tiny black curl gracefully fluffed into place, a look of satisfaction. The compact quickly closed, a merry laugh, a cheery word and Smitty is gone. Several times Smitty has left our midst to attend private schools but somehow she just couldn't leave dear old P .H. S. But now she is leaving us permanently, and we wish her luck and plenty of it. Next year Smitty will either take up art at Carnegie Tech, or enter training. Cecil June Smith She seems so near, and yet so far. Smitty English Course A. A., '24, '25, Jr. Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27, Jr. Civic Club, '26. Hair, cascading into little ripples, a quiet demeanor, and a level glance. These casual phrases selected at random certainly describe Cecil But, as is the fault with so many pseudo-descriptions, though these phrases may be characteristic, they cannot adequately describe her There is something intangible about her, something that defies a merc inquisitive interrogator, something that eludes one's garrulous volubility Qne feels that one has attempted to plumb unfathomed depths and that there is a side to Cecil's nature which seems hidden to us. So we fell that Cecil fills her place in the roll of Seniors in a distinct and individual Uflllj'-71 fm

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T H E M I R R O R Kathryn Louise Stitler Kate English Course A. A., '24, '25, '26, '27, Girls' Glee Club, '24, '25, '26, '27, jr. Civic Club, '24, '25, '26, '27, Jr. Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27, Commercial Club, '27, Art Club, '27, Commercial Club Play, '27, These delights if limit canst give, lllirtlz, '2L l'l-IL thee I mean to li-ve. Kate circulates around a desk in Room HT . She has sharp gray eyes and like Pathe News, apparently sees all, knows all . Her chief occupation is sneezing with an art which has been envied by less efficient amateurs. She is cheerful and apparently always grinning. Kate is having a hard time deciding what to do next year but she says that, she is not working when school starts, she will return as a HP. G. to finish her commercial work. if Darhl T. Stormer l English Course Ir. Red Cross, '25, '26. '27, A. A., '25. '26. '27, High School Play, '27, Commercial Club, '27, Commencement Play, '27. Lzffe's cz pleasant institution, Let us take it as it comes! That's Darhl's philosophy of life, for he is a born sportsman in all phases of the work. He recalls to our mind that carefree one brave knight, in armour bright as he trips into T, takes a jaunty aim at a coat hook, and gracefully casts his cap. After an airy word or two to one of the gentler sex he slips into his seat and tells his neighbor a joke and yet he is quiet about it, no loud or aggressive. Though not addicted to intensive toil, he is nevertheless sincere about his work. Sometimes we sense that his effervescence and reckless abandon are caused by some lady ly inclined. tune be with you, Darhl. Helen Adeline Straitiff CLAd77 English Course Jr. Red Cross, '24, '25, '26, '27, A. A., '24, '26, '26, '27, Jr. Civic Club, '25, 26, '27. If she will d0't, she will, and there's 110 end out. The above lines express Ad's determined nature. Wlieii she starts a thing she usually finishes it. Ad's apparent weakness is her ad- miration for males C?J. Her favorite pastime is dating . Perhaps you will hear her merry chatter about her date last night, or the anticipations of her date tonight, issue forth from the depths of a crowd of fair damsels at Feicht's corner . Ad's adding nature has won many friends. Ad intends to go to Indiana Normal next year, and later to col- lege. Much luck and best wishes for your success, Ad . in particular, but this secret never bubbles out, since Darhl is not social- After a summer at Indiana Normal he will teach next year. For- Thirty-one