Saxton Liberty High School - Block Yearbook (Saxton, PA)

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Dear Miss Long, Saxton, Pennsylvania June 13, 1948 I suppose you will be quite surprised to hear from one of your former students in the Saxton Liberty High School, class of 1938. First let me tell you of my biggest experience since I left high school. I had an uncle living in the West who died last January and left me his entire fortune, which amounted to $12,000. With this money I decided to do some traveling and see some of our own great country. The first place I decided to see was Florida because we were having very severe January weather in Saxton. I was lounging one day at Palm Beach when I picked up a magazine that a man had dropped when passing me. As I turned the pages, I came to an article titled Ten Years Ago. There were names, familiar names. Names of our classmates of 1938. And this, Miss Long, is what I read: Roy Allison — Band leeder of a large orchestre in New York. Eugene Bailey — Great violinist in Leonard Starvoski’s orchestra. Ruth Barnett — Singer and dancer at the Golden Rod Night Club. Pauline Blankley — Happily married and living at Six Mile Run. Paul Barnett Acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Francis Bryan — Principal of Stoneville High School. Audrey Bryant — Owner of a beauty parlor in Aitch, Pa. Russell Burkett — Missionary to Africa and South America. Lucille Busserd — Clerk in Vernon Sevadow's clothing store. Carrie Carbaugh — Married and living in Aitch, Pa. Edna Carbaugh — Also married and living in Aitch, Pa. Eunice Carbaugh — Nurse in the Huntingdon Hospital. James Carberry — Owner of a large chicken farm at Marysville. Muriel Cates — Hat check girl in the Saxton Hotel. John Comely — A great doctor in the Altoona Hospital. Marcella Carberry — Girl's physical Ed. Teacher in Saxton. Mary Carbaugh — Operator of a beauty parlor in Sexton, Pa. Emmy Lou Fluke — Artist for the Women's Home Companion Magazine.” George Folk — Wild goose chaser et Gobbler's Knob. Phyllis Ross and Madeline Fouse — Owners of the exclusive Paris Shoo in New York. Kay Gibboney — Pianist for Gable’s Redio Program. James Grove — Owner of the 5 and 10 Cent Store in Saxton. Kenneth Hall -- Living in Dudley and owner of a grocery store. (We wonder why Dudley?) John Hamilton — Greatest full-back Juniata College ever had. Frank Harvey — The model boy for the Highlights in Men's Dresswear. Emma Hollingshead -- Just sold her greatest novel Love. Dorothy Huff — Not married yet, but still in love with Buck. Edna Huff -- Her husband's office nurse, Helen Kifer — Clerk in Huntingdon 5 and 10 Cent Store. Bob Livingston — A second Bing Crosby. Sam Long — Exploring Africa for pretty girls. Tom Maugle — Athletic coach at Penn State. Anne Mary McCollum — Living a retired life at Marysville. Margaret McElwain — Married and living at Round Knob. Eugene Metzger — Building contractor Helen Powell — A great short story writer. Dorothy Reed — Hostess on Trans Atlantic Air Lines. - 22 -

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SENIORS: Occasionally one hears the wail: There is nothing ahead for young people today; no use trying for anything; things are stacked against them; the elders have smashed the world and left youth the wreckage; youth is the lost generation. No youth feels that way unless he is sick. Youth’s attitude is too vibrant and strong to tolerate that sentiment. What shall we advise you, as youth of today? Remember in your com- plaint about the world that the world is only the people in it; that you control that world through your attitude toward it. The only tool with which you work is yourself, whatever tempers you to truer steel is a lucky break. All one gets out of living is life. You are fortunate indeed that you live among a people where men grow big by doing big things, or lesser service in a big way — a country that has only six percent of the world’s population and seventy-one per- cent of the world’s automobiles; six percent of the world’s population and fifty-two percent of the world's telephones; six percent of the world's population end forty-four percent of the world’s radios; six per- cent of the world's population and thirty percent of the world's rail- roads; six percent of the world’s population and double the life insurance of the rest of the world. More children in the schools, more homes owned by families, more college opportunities than anywhere else. This part of the so-called wreckage the elder generation is leaving behind. Re- member that this is a country where men with no capital but their hands, their overells, and an IDEA, and an urge to serve their generation have always had a wide field, and never so wide as now.” The whine of the defeatest must be ignored. Cast your lot on the side of those who give before they take; who share the life they feed by what they put in. Carve your notch in the world with diligence. Lay well your foundations and let nothing discourage you. May those looking on be able to say of you that you left the world a better place than you found it. Joseph W. Howe, Supervising Principal 21

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Martha Ritchey — Advice to the Lovelorn commentator over the Johnstown network. Minnie Roland — Secretary to the Bell Telephone Company. Vernon Savadow — Owner of the largest clothing store in Saxton. David Shaal and Ralph Speck — Night watchmen on Railroad Avenue. Elizabeth Shark — Taking life easy on her husband’s yetch. Dick Sheterom — Saxton's greatest photographer. Clair Smith — Musical aviator of the Sax Airlines. Grsffious Smith — Gigala for giggling girls in Georgia. Paul Thompson — Manufacturer of permanent wave equipment. Ruth Treece — Married and living in Aitch, Pr. Veda Treeco — Clerk at her grandfather's store in Aitch. George Willison — Noted Serenader of the ladies at the Old Folk's Home. Lee Worthing — Best known squire in Saxton. Ethel Hess — Nurse in a Philadelphia Hospital. Iva Houck — A Hollywood model. Susie Heiser — Instructor of music in Saxton Liberty High School. Sera Fields — Stenographer for the New York Life Insurance Company. Tom Black — Chief of Dudley police. Carl Gilman — Seller of stocks rnd bonds. Harold Clark — Taci cab driver from Saxton to Dudley. Nick Angelo — Hollywood's greatest cartoonist. Frank Angelo — Saxton's best shoemaker. Mearl Houck — ”3arker” on an excursion bus between Stonerstown and Dudley. As I read over these lines, I seemed to see again the class of 1938 planning their futures, the future which e- ch ono has seemed to succeed in realizing. Sincerely, Pearl Houp Never let a difficulty stop you. It may be only sand on your track to prevent your skidding. 23