Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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A The Oracle STAFF Medalist-Columbia Scholastic Press Associa- tion, 1950 F-irst place-Pennsylvania School Press As- sociation, 1950 Editor-in-chief-PATSY SIMON Assistants JANE NEIDE JE.-ANNE SARGENT BONNIE BEEGQUIET ANDRE BoIssEvAIN BARBARA FLOWER EVELYN I-IVTII NANCY SHERER Literary ALBERT MAUTHE LIILIAN NEIIIIAN RALPH PILLISOHER BETTE RILEY BYRON SMITH, RICHARD SPERRY PATRICIA WEI.'LS LOUISE CARTY GWEN FOBSYTII ROBERT GOLD PATRICIA GORRES DOROTHY HOEPPNER NANCY KERR JACK MAOGREGOR Art NAN DIVALERIO THELMA KALEN ELLI RICKERT BETTY STADELIIIEIER LOREAINE BATES Circulation JOAN REDSTEEARE BETTY STOUT A Typists BETTY STOUT JOYCE WENTZ JOAN SUPLEFZ NANCY VAGNONI ROSE PERRY Sponsors Literary-Miss DOROTHY CATHELI, Asst.-ALLAN GLATTHORN Art-Miss EDITH M. MIJLNE Business4-Mrss ALICE F. WEAVER. VERLIN TATE Principal--E. B. GERNERT FLORENCE TERRENZIO MARJOBIE STANERT JOAN REDSTREAKE JOAN REITER EMILY STOERELE Published twice a year by the students of Abington Senior High School, Abington, Pennsylvania Subscription-One dollar a year DECEMBER, 1950 CONTENTS COVER .....,.........,............ Betty Stadelmeter FRONTISPIECE ..,.........,.l.l,.,.... Lorraine Bates LIGHT IN THE. SKY ..,........, Jane N etole 3 PROMISE ..,.l.l......,...... Dwvtd Kleftnbard 4 POINT OF HONOR ........ Ralph Prilltscher 5 POEMS .........,....l......... Barbara Flower 7 THE WINNER ............,ll., .I Robert Gold 8 IE YE HAVE FAITH ,,..,... Lots Wrigley 11 STUDENT DAY ....,....,.. Jeanne Sargent 13 CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN Carolyn Clark 16 PURSUIT ......,...,..... Rfiehard Weppner 18 As OTHERS SEE Us A Andre Botsseoafin 19 FOUR LITTLE STINKERS Jeanne Blaetz 20 THE INVADER ..... ...l...... D amid Durst 21 THE MAN ..,.,................... Tyke Tamara 23 AEEIE's DIARY ........ P. Wells, Sargent 24 SILVER MEDAL ...,.l.......,., Robert Naylor 26 WIDENING HORIZONS ...l........ Roy Brlll 28 Wifnfi Harper, Magnon Ltnck, Freola Sehzenkel, Shirley Jensen TRIP To THE SHOPS Smith, Sperry, Ptllrlscher 34 LAST CLIMB ..,............. Rodman Wood 36 QUAKER TO EAGLE ........ Gold, Carroll 37 ANYTHING EOR CATHY Nan Dt Valerlo 39 ON BEING A TURKEY Sally Lou Gleason 42 How To 'WATERSKI ...l.... Ronald Leon 43 PRIZE VERSE ,... Deafnfs, Smith, Blessing BELLS, BALLS, BILLS .....,.. Joan Pearce HOLIDYXYS, OH, WOOF Dorothy H oeppner 46 NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Robert Colladay 48 44 45 CAROL BOURNE, '51

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Thousands of lives were changed by a. LOR RAIN E BATES, 51 .Braid in Me Sha Christmas Eve, 1970. But where were the bustle, the noise and glitter of other Christmas Eves? Where were the hurry- ing shoppers, the cheerful Santas, the youthful carolers? Where were the bright lights, the bells, the carols, the happy, ex- cited greetings and farewells? All was silence, a deep, black waiting silence, penetrated only by the slight glow of the star. The star, or so it was called for lack of a better name, had first been seen a month ago, just such a night as this, clear, black, and crisp. Then, though, the town had been alive, bustling with the happy excitement of the approaching Christmas season. Suddenly, almost blinding the staitled shoppers with its piercing rays, the thing was in the sky overhead, shining very much as a great light had shone centuries ago, over a sheep-dotted hillside. lt faded almost immediately, but remained in the sky, faintly visible over the hills. The shoppers, recovered from their first fright, hurried home to tell their families, to call their newspapers and demand to know what was going on. All night the thing burned in the other- wise starless sky while busy editors and scientists answered' phone calls. The rays of the morning sun brought a temporary end to the phenomenon but not to the growing apprehension of the people. Newspapers gave various explanations. Several astronomers feared a planet from another universe was heading for the earth at a rate of several thousand miles a. minute and had been arrested, temporarily, they feared, only a few million miles away. Others disagreed, maintaining that the thing was some terrible man-made Weapon that at a certain designated time, control- led by a government miles away, W0111d come hurtling down, destroying the entire United States. Each night the star appeared, and as week followed week, the lives of the people underwent a peculiar change. Feuds and enmities were frogotteng people who had never before associated