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

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Table of Contents Dedication Alma Mater Board of Education Faculty Student Council Seniors Senior Class History Senior Class Will Senior Class Prophecy Senior Class Poem Senior Class Officers, Motto, Flower Graduation Exercises Junior Class Pictures Junior Class History Sophomore Class Pictures Sophomore Class History Freshmen Class Pictures Freshmen Class History Band Chorus Sextette “Chips” Block” “Janie” Review “Pride and Prejudice” Junior Prom Hallowe’en Party Review Valentine Party Review Neptune Party Review Home Economics Review Football Team Pictures Football Review Cheerleaders Review Basketball Team Pictures Basketball Review School Calendar 8- 9 12 13-15 16 21-27 18-19 28-29 30-31 32 33 34-35 38 39 42 43 46 47 50 51 52 54 55 56 57 58 59 63 64 65 68 69 70 71 72 74-77 SEVEN

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Foreword ★ If this 1946—Block will in any way aid its readers in developing a loyalty of purpose to themselves, to their school, and to their community, it will have indeed accomplished its aim. six

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Dedication . . . PVT. FLOYD H. MELLOTT, JR. Class of 1941 BORN: DECEMBER 2. 1923 DIED: DECEMBER 29, 1943 Floyd H. Mellott, Jr., son of Mrs. Lulu Mellott and the late Floyd H. Mellott. Sr. of Saxton, was inducted into the Army on May 11, 1943. After his basic training was completed, he was assigned to the Infantry and sent to Italy, where he was killed in action on December 29. 1943 and was buried there. Pvt. Mellott won, posthumously, the Purple Heart and the Presidential Citation. COXSWAIN EDWARD MICHAUX Freshman in 1934 BORN : 1920 DIED: NOVEMBER 13, 1942 Edward Michaux, son of Mr. and Mrs. Omer Michaux of Charleroi, formerly of Hummel, enlisted in the Navy, September 15, 1939. He had three months training and was then assigned to sea duty, serving on a destroyer and a troop transport. He was then transferred to the Cruiser. U. S. S. Juneau, and was listed as missing when that vessel was sunk by the enemy in the Pacific on November 13, 1942. Coxswain Michaux was posthumonusly awarded the Purple Heart. PVT. SAMUEL H. THOMPSON Class of 1932 BORN: AUGUST 22, 1913 DIED: OCTOBER 29. 1942 Samuel H. Thompson, son of Mr. Jasper Thompson and the late Mrs. Rhoda Thompson of Coalmont, enlisted in the Army Air Corps, Septem- ber 12. 1940. After training in the States for nine months, he was sent to Clark Field, Philippine Islands. On May 7, 1942, he was taken prisoner by the Japs. Private Thompson died from pellagra and beri beri, at Cabanatuan prison camp, Phillippine Islands, and was buried on Luzon, according to re- ports released by the Japanese on July 3, 1944. S|SGT. JAMES L. CARBERRY Class of 1938 BORN: JUNE 24, 1920 DIED: DECEMBER 30, 1942 James L. Carberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Logan Carberry of Saxton, enlisted in the Army Air Corps on September 23. 1941. After a year’s train- ing as a gunner and aerial engineer, he was sent to England in September. 1942' a member of a Flying Fortress crew. While on a raid over France on Decem- ber 30. 1942, he was missing in action. A short time later he was reported EIGHT