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

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Officers: Laneos. Vice- President ; Braude. T rca- surcr; Rick. President; An- derson. Secretary. F'Resuman Class . . . new group readily adapted themselves to the new curricu- lum and additional activities . . . intro- duced to the new standards for gradu- ation which increased their individual responsibility . . . students were on pro- bation and had to prove fitness to enter the sophomore class . . . three credits or units of freshman work had to be completed to qualify for admission to the next class . . . the making of num- erous new acquaintances enabled the members to select appropriate class officers . . . handsome, likable Jimmy Riek was chosen class president . . .the promising young basketball player, Ray- mond Lantos, made an excellent vice president . . . popular Josephine Ander- son was elected secretary . . . pretty Suzanne Braude acted as an efficient treasurer . . . the Corner Store was quickly discovered as a place for social gatherings . . . defied the seniors by buying candy there . . . more studiously than athletically inclined . . . was rep- resented by an average of four on the honor roll . . . proved, however, to be headaches in sports competition . . . Jimmy Riek drew the attention of all to his energetic football playing on the Junior Varsity squad . . . became en- thusiastic contenders in all intramural games ... for the first time, girls were given opportunity to join the Girl Re- serves club . . . class overrun by “jitter- bugs . . . shown by the attendance of great numbers of couples to the dances throughout the entire year ... it was rumored that one love-struck lad in- vited his partner to the Halloween Dance a year ahead of time . . . the feminine line of the class held the ad- miration of the upper-classmen . . . caused several senior hearts to beat faster . . . many girls, but only three courageous boys, joined the chorus . . . boys seemed to prefer membership in the band and orchestra . . . girls very undecided as to whom to invite to the chorus party . . . exhibited future dra- matic ability by starring Donald Long and Kalman Segal in the Christmas play . . . during assembly had only a distant view of activities on the stage from the rear seats in the auditorium . . . but valiantly stood up under strain on both eyes and ears . . . first freshman class to be fingerprinted . . . presence of G-man in assembly revived to fluttering hearts the almost forgotten game of cops and robbers . . . took the tubercular tests like true soldiers ... all in all, found high school life not entirely a “bowl of cherries . . . few had fear of not being the much desired-to-be sophomores of next year . . . enjoyed working with ad- visers, Miss Williams and Mr. Ott . . . hopefully dreamed of summer vacation. 29

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FRESHMEN Top row: Zubal, Romanow, Waters, Sattel, Williams. Turner. Weigle. Tagnosky, Wood. Zwick, Weiss. Saintz. Thomas. Tilly. Second row: Rosenberger. Anthony. Varchol, Schwab. Zema. Zimmerman. Thack- ray. Stanton. Stincly. Red- dinger. Wolf. Younkin. Ston- er. SchifThauer, Riek. Bottom row: Rohrer. Re- pa sky, Salem. Schell. B. RufT. G. RufT. Trent. Sacks. Thom- as. Suto. Reid. Strayer. Se- gal. Young. Alex Varcnol. Top row: Dovey. Alwinc. J. Green, Edwards, C 'amp- bell. Cahill. Crocker. D. Barn- hart. Dunkle, H. Boyer. Clark. Bishop. Blasko, Blas- chak. Gillin. Second row: Heffley. Ferg. Gawlas. 11. Boyer. Collins. Greer. Allendorfer. Butler. Bennett. V. Green. Anderson. J. Dunkle. Blough. Bottom row: Hadley. Gro- gan. R. Davis. Hart land. R. Davis. Brendel. Ashcom. Braude. Fisaman. Ha vs. J. Brown. Burns. Kozak. Beam. I lartley. Top row: Kuyat. Ogle. I lenze, Kocis, Kapiian. Quinn. Matthews. Lantos. Lentz. R. Miller. Hudson, Love. Nolan. Naugle. Second row: Mayer. Horn- er. Peirce. Mills. Parsons. Kylcr. Kesslak. Maksim Miinar. Mavdak. Mincmver. R. Hunt. Lecinsky. Mifler. Bottom row: Lewis. J. Kohan. Parks. Mateyko. Maiorana. Martinko. M. Kohan. Kelly. McCallum. McGough. Owens. Price, Long. Livingston. Absent when picture was taken: Berney. Bregman. Francis. F. Hunt. Lecky, Mastalsky, Patterson. A. M. Wood. 28

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Creative Thia king, a Most Vital Part in the Education of Young America, Is Inspired by the Teachers Through Academic and Commercial Studies.