Westmont Hilltop Senior High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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What! In trouble again ? Thippin’ thodas thru a thraw ... Loafer's paradise Etiquette in 303 House cleaning . . . Age of chivalry is not past . . . Keeping eye on the ball . Trombone virtuoso . Bad connection . Red or black ink ? 23

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Ethel Weil . . . Frenchie trans- ferred to VV.-U.Y. from Allen- town High School. Allentown. Pennsylvania in her senior year . . . moved to Erie. Pennsylvania after a short time. Edward Yinc.linc, . . . was a crack physics student . . . earned the title M.S.T.—Master Stage Technician . . . annoyed the teachers with cultivated cough . . . sneezed on brightly colored handkerchiefs. Frederick Yanker . . . Fred will be remembered as one of our gridiron sensations . . . dis- position changed as often as the weather . . . smooth dancer . . . chased deer (dear) with dex- terity. Laura Yost . . . Yosty had a crush on all the student teachers . . . Essie in the class play . . . forever recited The Raven . . deeply grieved at Ronald Col- man's marriage. Senior Sequences . . . hopes, ambitions, and plans for the future as they were three months before graduation . . . Miriam Barn- hart. Anna Jean Drager, Mildred Haynes, Mildred Lentz, and Jack Sheesley intend to enroll in a business course, the girls at Cam- bria-Rowe and Jack at Bentley School. Boston Joe Evans and Jack Grogan ex- pect to enter Notre Dame . . . aeronautical careers are planned by Merrill Glasser and Edward Yingling, who will enroll at Pitt, and by Fred Yanker, who expects to go to I ri-State, Indiana . . . professional careers are planned by Charles Hannan, Robert Ideson, and Jack Ogle, who will study at the University of Michigan, and by Robert Scharmann, who will enroll at Dartmouth, and Freda Sattel at the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry . . . science and chemis- try courses will be taken by Edgar Hanks at Gettysburg, by John McCleary at Penn State, and by Wesley Rohrer at Jr. Pitt . . . Florence Kaminsky intends to study at Wilfred's Academy of Beauty Culture, Pitts- burgh, and Margaret Thomas plans a career as a stylist after studying at Juniata . . . Joanna Hager is preparing to enter Vassar to study theatrics and designing . . . Jane Maley and Richard Shaulis will go to Indiana State Teachers' College . . . others who have decided upon a career but not a school are Betty Reid, June Schell, and Laura Yost, teaching; Frances Hamilton, and June Lechler nursing; Stella Frank, art; Donald Matthews and Bernard Rhodes, journalism . . . others planning to attend college but who have not decided upon a course are Jane Berkebile. Penn State; David Blough. Susquehanna; Helen Blozovitch, Temple; Lucy Frank, Carnegie Tech; Robert Miller, Cleveland Radio Institute; Arthur Long, Muhlenburg; Reed Smith, Duke; and Peggy Suppes. Connecticut College for Women. 22

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JUNIORS Junior Class . . . socially, a most ac- tive class . . . comprised of forty-six charming girls and thirty-six specimens of approaching manhood . . . took a decisive step in the right direction by electing four outstanding class officers . . . Tommy Depp was selected to wield the gavel . . . Phyllis Barnhart acted as vice president . . . Mary Louise Hersh- berger recorded the minutes . . . Percy Blough was placed in charge of the pe- cuniary affairs . . . led the advisers. Mrs. McCready, Miss Reiser, and Miss Josephine Williams, a merry life . . . furnished a great many school celebri- ties among whom were: five lettermen for the football team including Hess, the captain; five of the seven cheer- leaders; three of the four splendid chorus directors; and Dick Stinely and Eugene Suto, the props of the art de- partment . . . boasted of six Hi-Y mem- bers and many more Girl Reserves . . . sponsored the first dance of the season, appropriately named the Harvest Hop . . . added twenty-five much needed dollars to the rather lean class coffers . . . Jimmy Cannin slowed up his sweet syncopation because of the overwaxed floor . . . dog house placed in Miss Reiser's American history classes failed to quiet the “wasps” and other insects . . . diligently practiced the class play, The Moonstone, which was discontinued because of a few' non-cooperative stu- dents . . . girls as a whole preferred F r Ji, while boys preferred German, so it was “oui, oui and “halt das Maul . . . (accidentally) two girls and a boy almost demolished the chemistry lab at the outset of the term . . . contributed an average representation of five stu- dents to the honor roll . . . continued to hold high the journalistic torch by winning third prize in the P.S.P.A. for their Yodler and carrying aw'ay two second prizes for individual work, Betty Clark for news story and Barbara Mur- doch for cartoons . . . were dramatic and acrobatic . . . numerous boys play- ed for the Junior Varsity squad ... all the students entertained by the boys’ thrilling backbone for gym demon- stration on Fun Nite . . . justifiably crowed over their class rings and pins . . . gave the Prom, a breathtaking fare- well celebration for reluctantly depart- ing seniors . . . decorations and music could not have been surpassed ... a never-to-be-forgotten night for all . . . leaves a record for under-classmen to strive for ... stand at the threshold of the thrilling realm of seniors with only one regret—that the coming year will be the $)st of their happy and carefree ar. Officers: Depp. President; M. Hershberger. Secretary. Blough. Treasurer; P. Barn- hart. Vice-President, 24