Red Lion Area High School - Lion Yearbook (Red Lion, PA)

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Four short happy years came to an end for the hundred and forty seniors of 1953 in june. From a bang-up class day assembly and the prom with its lovely rose garden setting to the more dignified Baccalaureate and Commencement, the last few Weeks whizzed by. Giving the graduates last minute counsel before becoming alumni was Doctor Morley Mays, dean of Juniata College, with a well-chosen theme, Help Wanted. As they received their diplomas, then handed in the caps and gowns, another chapter in the history of Red Lion High had been completed. Seniors anxiously wait in the basement of St. Paul's church for the Baccalaureate Service to be- gin . . . these hats seem to have the fellows slightly bewildered. Prom couples dance dreamily to the music of Stan Selfon in a beautiful garden of Moonlight and Roses. Sitting this one out are these twosomes . . . probably admiring the three thousand handmade roses adorning the gym.

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