Richland High School - Portal Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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L 'IJ NOW WILL YOU BEHAVE YOURSELF? Back to the old grind after those wonderful Christmas holidays. We won the first basketball game of T951 by defeating Nanty Glo on Janu- ary 2. During the first two weeks of the new year it seems that classes dominated the scene. However, on the l6th the Portal staff presented a movie which included a feature picture, Wild- fire, and three comedies. The Richland cagers were again victorious on the 17th. This time Portage was the victim on the Cochran floor. Junior and Senior English classes were excused on the l8th to see Hamlet which was showing at the State Theater. Some of the Junior girls were deeply moved by the tragedy, but fortunately they had hankies with them. The Freshmen were permitted, for the first time, to sponsor ci money-making event. They wanted it to be successful so they did a lot of advertising. lt paid off, too. The Freshman Frolic on the 'l9th turned out to be one of the best attended dances of the whole year. Basketball monopolized most of the remain- ing dates in January. Richland bowed to Fern- dale, Dale, and Franklin on the 24th, 26th, and 3lst. However, on the 29th we were successful in lassoing Conemaugh's Iron Horse.

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iqfm JOY TO THE WORLD! A' fi V W , 1 4 December 6 and 7 were highlighted by the Senior play, Saved by the Belle, a three-act comedy which was expertly done. Our basket- ball season opened on the 13th, and again Ferndale was our first opponent. Remember how surprised Miss Green looked when George Kleban discovered her standing under a mistle- toe at the Junior Mistletoe Dance. It was a success even though it was held on the 13th. As Christmas approached, many of the stu- dents, desirous of extra Christmas money, secured iobs and obtained excuses for the week of De- cember 'l8. The Richland schools were well represented throughout the stores in town. It was Richland versus Shade on the 19th, and on the 20th Ralph A. Melville of the Antrim Bureau entertained us with a superb exhibition of glass blowing. The old stars as well as the new were out the night of the 22nd for the annual alumni game, and a dance following the game was an appropriate ending for a pleasant day, which incidentally was the beginning of our Christmas Vacation. With last-minute shopping before Christmas and the returning of gifts afterward we had a busy time. No school for a whole week, but what a short week! H' '

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.' iQ, gif, ' xi I LIKE YOU. DO YOU LIKE ME? x 0 'qaQ?i?'h Q Q5 gf Qin-sill, The groundhog legend gave rise to the idea for The Shadow Dance which was sponsored by the Junior Class on February 2. Band mem- bers and cheerleaders were feted at a banquet in the gym on the 5th, thanks to the Band Moth- ers' Club and the School Board. The Silver Bells Orchestra provided music for dancing after the dinner. We were torn away from our classes at Il:30 on February 9 in order that school facili- ties could be made available to the Red Cross Bloodmobile unit which visited Geistown on that date. Just Ducky was the name of the Junior Class play given on the 16th. No title could have been more fitting, and no cast could have done a better iob. The hilarious presentation kept the audience roaring with laughter through- out the performance. The Junior Y-Teens held a skating party on the l7th with proceeds to be used to send a representative to the Y-Teen Tri-State Conference at Bethany College. The F. F. A. boys held a round and square dance on the 22nd, It was appropriately called The Cherry Tree Jambo- ree. Students from Dale High School presented a musical program on the 23rd, and Miss Messina later entertained the Dale school with Richland talent.