Youngwood High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Youngwood, PA)

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1 Ilmlllll llll' 'lr ll l I I r llllllul 'lu ' l' I r mm! I Ir PR OPHEC Y It was the year 1959 Economrc prosper rty of an unprecedented krnd exrsted everywhere rn the country The world was at peace Stalrn was dead The Chrnese Revolutron was at an end Arr obscure professor at Tulane Unrversrty had drscov ered a cure for crncer And the frrst rocket shrp had made a round trrp to the rnoon I was vrsrtrng a professor of psychology at Prrnceton that year and was lrv rng temporarrly there Summoned to New York Crty by W W Norton Company my book publrsher to go over proofs of a forthcomrng volume I looked forward wrth delrght to the trrp I had learned that nearly all of the Youngwood Hrgh School Class of 1949 had somewhat mrraculously congregated rn the worlds larg cst crty srnce leavrng the old Rarlroader school As my tr rrn rolled rnto the statron at Newark who drd I see on tne plat iorm but Rrchard Barnes and Darrell Morrrson Both boarded the tram We shook hands and I learned that Barnes was employed dS a chemrcal engrneer by Monsan to Chemrcal Company and Darrel was sales manager for the Newark branch of the A G Spauldrng Athletrc Goods Company We conversed untrl we arrrved under ground at Pennsylvanra Statron From these old classmates I drscovered that Joe Buffer and Robert Erchner were runnrng a garage at Jeannette wrth Peggy Stern er as therr secretary Also I drscovered that Glenn Watson Lours Cousrns and Zane Shoaf have a fleet of trucks operatrng out of Braddock and that Francrs Connor rs a specral agent rn the U S Department of Forests and Waters rn the cabrnet of James Wagner Governor of the state of Pennsylvanra I left the trarn at New York whrle Barnes and Morrrson remarned aboard on therr way to Bridgeport Connectrcut Upon stepprng from the escalators on the upper level of the statron I ran rnto none other than Don Hart V1cePresrdent of the Srlvrs Mrlk Company Don was on hrs way to a Phrladelphra trarn and he told me that on hrs recent plane trrp to Chrcago he had seen Rosemary Poerro of Unrt ed Arr Lrnes and also Glenn Prrrrkey returr rng to Seattle Washrngton where he rs an aeronautrcal engrneer rn the Boerng Arrcratt Company It was now 10 A M and srnce my apporntment wrth the publrshers was scheduled for 2 P M I had suffrcrent trme to look around town Once rn a subway vs ho drd I bump rnto but Shrrley Currnrngham She told me she was a nurse rn the pedratrrc sectron of Bellevue Hosrrtal and that Lrllran Dugan was a laboratory technrcran there She also mentroned seerng Dr Clarence Young who has a practrce r'r the Bronx She further stated that J B Peterson rs chref surgeon at Massachu setts General Hosprtal rn Boston and hrs surgrcal nurse rs Wanda Smrth I left the subway trarn at 40th street and upon reachrng the street I bought a copy of LIFE and The New York Mrrror a darly tablord I had just turned away lrom the newstand when I was surprrsed to meet Beatrrce Chrrstranson Wrlda Forsythe and Marrlyn Beck all secretarres rn the New York offrces of E I Du pont De Nemours and Company They told me that Eugene Acrte and Roland OKeane were tellers rn the Wall Street Stock Exchange I 1 H' .lm ll rqlt rr rllllu ml I IIII A H ' '1 lr 'llllallllllm rrrullllllnuh rrllllllllvlhrrrlllllrllnllrdlllllllllvrnmulllllllrr lmrrlltlulrr HI rvllllrlllwl rr C289 m,rrrlrr rIll'rf', lllHHl!l1 'UIn ' '1l 'r'l'nn: url' 'l1 ',r ' 'rmllirllrr' lmlylu' V , II' -- r' , .rr , ' I lll' Q I . ,Img I ,Hr A 'Ill umm J ,,,,ffIlg,r.L m',,,,,rlllfrrllml..nlllml I rr .rllllr..W.l'1lIlI ... ...rr1lHlr.. ..r1llll'lnW' rr ' 'Il Illlllll ll I llllllllll ' I U I 1 ll I :gr If llllll 4

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I II ,Ill V lnrr r I I After engagrng a room for the nrght at the Waldorf Astorra I made prepara trons for my rrtervrew and then looked at the Darly Mrrror On the front page was a prcture of Edward Frlrcky and Rrchard Koss both of whom had recently srgned contracts for then frfth season wrth the New York Yankee professronal football team Rrght below was a cut of Robert Brzup Just returned from a trrp to Syrra on Unrted Natrons Busrness Also rn the lower left corner of the page was a prc ture of Walter Gurdas who had made 1 record breakrng non stop coast to coast trrp wrth a super trarler truck Glancrnf at LIFE I noted under the Board of Edrtors that Cherre Barrd was Edrtor rn Chrel and that Esther Breth was chref of the research staff at thrs great prctorral magazrne Leafrng through the rssue Icame rcross prctures of John Hernandez Robert Maley Kenneth Wentzel and Ronald Albrrght all prtchers gettrng ready for a brg year wrth the Chrcago Whltesox A few pages on I came bushels of corn per acre Followrng a two hour rntervrew at W W Norton I was walkrng near Trmes Square and unexpectedly met Joe Conde and Carl Hoyle both rn the unrforms of Chref Petty Offrcers rn the U S Navy Thev sard they had just returned from Manrla wrth the U S Pacrfrc Fleet After drnner that evenrng I watched r telev sron boxrng show rn the hotel lobby It was televrsed from the New Madrson Square Garden under the manage ment of Kenneth Hrxon and Robert Kr rder I drdnt recognrze any of the partrcr pants rn the show so after lrstenrng to a news broadcast by commentator Arthur Keys I harled a taxr for Radro Crty 'vlusrc Hall Insrde I met Carrre Morgan chref of the ushers The movre was a late Hollywood release by Warner Brothers entrtled THE HOUSE OF CHIVALRY The settrng was a medreval castle rn the 14th cen tury and among the nobrlrty were Regrna S'rbota Edward Monske Margaret Ann Helman and Mary Lourse Crusan Zane Shoaf was a travelrng mrnstrel and Don Stohl a Jester rn the retrnue of the krng Prror to the stage performance I noted Janet Noel Thomas Ruffner Robert Coughenour and Ronald Rega rn the orchestra prt When the Rockets came on for then dance number the leadmg roles were carrred by Paula Welsh Joanne Fhomas Katharrne Karas Vrolet Ganter and Gladys 'VIonske After the movre I met Patrrcra COX dramatrc crrtrc for the New York Sun and we went to the Stork Club Here ue met Dwrght Moore owner and heard a strrrrng Hawarran number by Cather me Strosko Pat told me that Florence Matenkoskr Dolores Heckler Marjorre McGrnnrs and Celena Keys were steno graphers rn the offrce of her newspaper and she also called my attentron to the new musrcal play at the Majestrc Theatre starrrng none other than Dorothy Host offer Due back at Prmceton at 1000 the next mornrn I wanted a good nrghts sleep so I left the Stork Club before mrdnrght As I was departrng I met Reathr Stewart artrst for the New Yorker Magazrne She told me that Harry Jones was a desk clerk at the Robert Rrchter Hotel there She also stated that on her recent trrp there she had met Ann Kemerer and Geraldrne Sh rwley both rn student health work rn the Unrversrty of Mramr and that Jeannette Gunsallus has her own beauty shop rn the crty of Mramr near the beach front On checking out at the Waldorf the next mornrn I met James Murray r psychratrrst who was rn the crty to address the annual comentron of the Amerrcan Prrson Wardens r rr rf r 'llHHI:1 -waz 'l :g:11r' ' ..2'r ,,,:run Hr rw ,I 'I lr llrrr1r.mH.,. ll lrlwmi .rrrrlrrll ...rIIIr.rr rr llrillllu muulllllr I .all mln rllmlrlw' rr I , I , ullr 4 lr 1295 ll ll 'rr' 'Im lI3'jI ll I, I I !'llllllllll l ll' llj lll ' 'll'- 'l 'ill I' 'I r 'Ill- H' 'Hr .IIN ' .prt - f r:'1r-'mf ,N hi ,fu 'rllrll 'Hlflg ,Ihr all M IH I 1 W 1 lg I ' r L . r. .lIl. I .rllrnlll.....llH'hH.u. ,rI'..r. llll :HIL lr..lr. .vllrr llll., lr .rllllr . Illlll across Melvin Surnmy, an Iowa farmer, who had broken the world's record yield of