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

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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

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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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PESSIMIST Now that we are leaving this school, we would like to make a few complaints so the under-classmen will have life much easier than we have had. There have been a lot of things done around here we did not approve of. But our chief complaint has been and still is the faculty. We could do a great deal for them if they were not too stubborn to grasp the opp- ortunity. They think they know everything. There's the test-tube-rot preacher who preaches on eating sulphur for a week then shaking your socks over the fire-place and watching the sul- phur burn. Next in lino is triangle Stinson who tries to tell his Sophomores how to cross a garden hose with a thorn bush and get an octopus. We have a chicken-hearted plow-boy for faculty adviser of the two tone Chips,’’ which is one part chicks and the other part dirt. Then next we hove the grammatical judge of conversation, who not only tells us how to telk but how to chew. I will be afraid to buy a stick of chewing gum after I get out of here, because it will bring back bad mem- ories of her. We also have the traveling lady, who should stop teaching history of the dark ages, and be a news commentator. She rivals Walter Winchell in length of breath. Our wire wooled supervising principal is so contrary! One day he fell into the river and our dietician ran up-stream yelling franticly, amidst the advice of her friends who asked, Why are you running up-stream when Joe is floating down? Whereupon the dressmaker replied, But I know Joe too well! he is too contrary to float down-stroom. You couldn't walk through the hall this year unless you ran into that trigger-fingered tune twister who thinks he's the whole cheese just because he khocked some of the girls cold. How many times have you or anyone else walked through the hall that you didn't see Lady Boal, with a determined look on her face like that a dog wears when he goes after a cat? She generally surrounded him. And do you know our bulldog coach who is happy about the whole thing?' ;0 him his P.O.D. students are P.O.D. spelled backwards plus E.Y. equals DOPEY. The last but not least on our faculty we have that pencil pusher, or two fingered typist and that teafiher down-stairs who couldn't eat her own cooking, who keep their left eyes on their pets and their right eyes on their copycats. I think someone must have cut a chunk out of our jenitor, and set his shoulders down on his hips. In spite of his size, he deserves a patrol- man's badge. I don't know any seniors who won't be glad to get out of this dump. - 24 -