Athens Area High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, PA)

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THE ATHENIAN. Published Six Times During the School Year by the Students of the Athens High School. Editor-in-Chief, - - Leland H. Grenoll. ’18 Business Manager, - - - C. Hinton Cook, ’19 Asst. Business Manager, - - Mildred Stevens, ’18 EDITORIAL STAFF: Myra Tompkins, ’18 Joseph Francke, '18 Marjorie Fergunon. 21 Max Mitchell, ’21 Emily Tozer, 19 Wayne Howland, '19 Doris Mulligan. ’22 Leon Decker '22 Arleigh Wiggins. ’20 Leon Cooper, 20 Charlotte Brown. '20 Harlan MacMorran, 20 Yearly Subscription, ... Seventy-five Cents Single Copy, 10 Cents - - Annual, 25 Cents For advertising rates address the Business Manager. Athens High School. Entered as second-Hass matter in the 1‘ost Office at Athens, Pennsylvania. HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTORY High School Congress President—Walter Lunger. Vice President—Leon Cooper. President of the Senate—Leon Cooper. Pages of the Senate—Hinton Cook and Marie Salsman. Clerk of Senate—Stanley Payne. Sergeant-at-Arms of Senate—Everett Russell. Speaker of the Assembly—Raymond Casper. Slerk of the Assembly—Arleigh Wiggins. Pages of the Assembly—Elmer Decker and Rheta Lake. Athletic Association President—Leon Cooper. Secretary—Wayne Howland. Treasurer—Mr. Bowen. Senior Class President—Wesley Vannoy. Vice President—Donna Mills. Secretary—Myra Tomkins. Treasurer—Marjorie Carner. Junior Class President—Harold Tonkin. Vice President—John Weller. Secretary—Muriel Carner. Treasurer—Mrs. Bowen. Second Year Class President—Donald Lurcock. Secretary—Miss Ewing. Treasurer—Catherine McClarty. Orchestra Vionlins—Harry Blostein, Robert Fitzgerald, John Weller. Cello—Paul Stevens. Cornet—Leon Cooper. Clarinet—James Miller. Drums—Harold Tonkin. Piano—Miss Ewing. Girls’ Chorus Soprano — Muriel Carner, Lillian Gerould. Helen Luckey, Sibyl Mac-afee. Rheta Samson. Alto — Laura Campbell, Mildred Carmer, Marjorie Carner, Mildred Gerould, Lucile Prince. Piano—Hilda Morey. Leader ot Orchestra and Girls’ Chorus—Miss Jordan.

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Shoe Your Horse Having on hand a large stock of shoes of which I must dispose before spring I am making great reductions this month. I have in my employ Mr. Schomo, one of the most competent, scientific horse-shoers in Bradford county. He is an expert in shoeing horses afflicted with sore feet, thrush, knee knocking, cross firing, paddling and interfering. Commodious and well equipped shop. B. J. Overfield Susquehanna St., Athens our education will be wortl) more if backed by a strong 3 ank Account. We will be glad to help you acquire a tidy little nest egg. Come in any time. farmers National ! ank. 5. 3or6an, and .. . Printing . .. ttasonlc 3Mock. - . Aliens, Jla. T3l)e -Averts furniture (To. cnna. Manufacturers of Bra6e an6 Medium furniture Dr. R. T. Harrigan Dental Surgeon All Branches of Dentistry Office opp. Post Office.

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The Athenian. Vol. VIII. Athens, Pa., June, 1918. No. 6. FOR AMERICA We sat in the evening twilight and were watching the street cars and the various automobiles glide slowly down the street between the silent policemen and rows of electric lights, and we wondered what Benjamin Franklin would say if he were to see all these things for which, in a way, he was responsible, and what he would consider, in this age of science to be the greatest of all improvements. As we gazed listlessly down the broad street, we saw a dim, odd, out-of-place figure approaching slowly, gazing first at the lights, then at the cars and automobiles. Immediately as he stepped under the light, Evangeline said to me, “Donna, that man is Benjamin Franklin himself. I wonder what he is doing back here now.’ He approached us, saying, “I have just heard that you girls would like to know what I think the greatest thing of the age. Perhaps you would take me about and then I can tell you better. We wore delighted at this idea. We took him to the movie theatre. He was very much pleased with it, and after we told him it was all done by electricity he . .. “I have always said that electricity would rule the world. We then played the Victrola for him and his pleasure could not be surpassed a he b John McCormack, who was thousands of miles away, sing Mother Machree. After hearing and seeing all of this he calmly said, “I rather expected all this, but please tell me, girls, what is the meaning of these red and white flags with a blue star in the center that I see in nearly every home? “Those are Service Flags, explained Evangeline, who hastened to tell him what they meant. “Well, well, said he. “Is there a camp nearby? I should like very much to visit one. The next day we went to one not far away. The old man’s eyes filled with tears of pride and pain as he looked at the long files of khaki-clad youth and realized that these were the ones who were giving their all for America. We watched the cavalry, infantry, machine gunners and air-men drill with a spirit of true patriotism and then filled with the spirit himself, he said, “The greatest joy of my life is that I am an American. The next day we asked him to go to the Red Cross rooms to see what the women were doing to help the orphan children of Belgium and France, the boyi fighting “over there and those in the training camps. In this working room there were many women who were running sewing machines, others cutting, basting, knitting, wrapping and packing various articles to send to the boys on the firing line. When the women explained to him the different kinds of work, he said, “You are • ' -••'-'•C. I am sure your devotion will never be forgotten and trust that the c f. ;r day will be better equipped and clothed than they were in mine. I or’ wirh that I were young again, that I could fight for my country. Ti e day following we took Franklin to the shipyards, where many large ships were being built. He said, “Isn’t that a very large ship? “No, we replied, “this is nothing out of the ordinary. Franklin said, “If some of our great men of the past could see it, they would be very mreh surprised. Donna then said, “Well, I guess they would be. They would see many changes in the art of shipbuilding and the engines by which they are run. We went on board a large steamer that seemed like some wealthy man’s residence to Franklin. He said that one would hardly know whether he was on land or sea when he was In the rooms of this magnificent vessel. . Next we were permitted to go on the deck of one of our great war ships. Here the o,!ors woi'fe just having their daily drill, and the many large guns and shells on board the ship again opened his eyes in astonishment. One of the men ex- 4