Swissvale High School - Swissvalian Yearbook (Swissvale, PA)

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yf-YW - -v--11 w L FRANCIS HERMAN WATERS Aliizougli Franny is small, all ienow lzim and liiee lxim. BETTY JANE W7lEBISI:R Senior Girls' Ciuib Her sweet zlisposition anfl gentle ways will always win iier ne av frie nfls. SARA JANE WETZIEI, Junior Play lane is a conscientious ami intelli- gent stuclent at all times. EDWARD FRANCIS WILDAU ER The atmospiiere never grows cluil, when Ed is present. LUTHER WlI.LIAM WILSON Crcimstra Lutiver not only amuses llimself, but iiis classmates with iiis giggling. CORA YOUNG Giee Ciuia Cora is famous for izer capacity as a conversationalist. Page Twentyefnur NANCY BAILEY WATT Senior Girls' Club Nancy has a keen sense of ilumor ami a wit tliat is refreshing. DELORIS ELIZABETH WEIMER Senior Girls' Ciuin Deloris is luroacl-minfleol. and iier opinions are certainly unbiased. WIILLIAM Ross VVETZEI. Swissvaiian Bill is as persistent a plugger as any who graced tile portals of S.H.S. PI-IYI.I.Is CATHERINE WILKINSON Senior Girls' Ciuio UFirst to praise'-'last to blame, de- scribes Phyllis. LUcII.I.E E. WISNER Swissvaiian Lucille is a sparizling diamond in anyone's crown of friemisiiip. MARY JEAN YOUNG Senior Girls' Club Mary lean goes on tier way with an ease quite unruffled.

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JAMES ELLIOTT THWAITE lim is always tile first to smile, to iaugil, and io understand. GEORGE WAITER To:vILINso:-I George iias proved to be a pleasant fellow who is concerned with l'tiS own proiziems. Xx'JlLLlAlVl LOUIS Torn Footiyaii Nianager Biii rioesn't say mucii, but ite sureiy gets where lie wants to go. ROBERT ALFRED URE Stage Crew Tiiere is a winning friendliness about Bain that maizes llim a great favorite. HARRIET JEAN WJAGONER Stage Manager Junior Play Tile ieimi of ll girl everyone knows, iiizes, and remembers. SVEN ERIC XKJALLIN Eric siwws tile courage and fia- termination of iiis Scandinavian forefathers. BEN ERNEST vi-OMLINSON Basicetimaii Bennie made quite a name for l'tiI71S9lf in izasieetbuii. GENE ELEANOR TONKIN Senior Giris' Ciuim Gene is unclouivteuiiy our most quiet and demure classmate. SARA VAN EIGHMY TYLER Co-Nianagcr Senior Play Vitaiiy aiive and quiciz to finzl en- ioyment in all that is wholesome is Sally. CARL FRANK VAN RVN Vaiistic Tlrree worcis to iiescriine Cari are ready, willing, ami uinie. ESTHER NIAY XVALRER Cilapci Committee In Estizer we limi a iligii degree of intelligence ami nersutiiity. ELIZABETII JANE XVALTON Orchestra Sunsiline and frecizies were never better suiteci to anyone than Bettv. ! I Page Twenty-tizree

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DONALD M. YouNc.MAN Don may some day direct the wor Hwhai the well-dressed young man will wear . hold confidence. SENIOR HONOR ROLL William Kelly William Baealaek Carl Van Ryn Aliee Kincaid Eugene Kuhn Sara Jane Vvetzei Catherine Powell Miriam Sherwin Esther Walker Lneille Wisner RETROSPECT Graduation Day had come. The senior stood on the threshold of his career. Before him ran a broad road which stretched along valleys and over mountains into the dim mists of the future. Life with its perpetual challenge to Youth was Howing along this road. But the senior iooiced back into the darkness of the past. Little memories clung to him. He saw himself beginning the four years which were now at an end. How well did he remember his bashfulness at the Freshman Party! He could laugh at that now, for his freshman year had given him a certain amount of self-confidence. Then, too, he had been quite proud about being a charter member of the Forum Club. With a chuckle he recalled how he had worried about his first C in conduct. How thrilled he had been about getting a place on the Vaiistic staff and how conscientiously he had worked! Could he ever forget the swings in the gym and the Junior Prom? The Junior Play had been quite an important event in his life, too. O, the joyous ecstasy of defeating Wiikinsburg for the first time in Swissvaie's football history! No one could ever forget that memorable day. How much he had enjoyed the Senior Play, and what fun it had been to again become a child at the Senior Kid Party! But now the senior realized that all these things belonged to the past: the future with all its promises lay before him,-the world was his to conquer. He stepped forth upon the road and faced the dawn. The senior was looking for- ward. Page Tueniy we ALICE IRENE Yunicii Alice has the ability to gain n I