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

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SENIOR HISTORT For the last four years the majority of the class of '35 have struggled through high school together. An even dozen have passed through the en tire twelve years without changing schools. They are Jeane Amts, Ruth Bowen, Donald Brigham, Vent Casselbury. Milton Cohen. Roger Converse. Jack Coughlin. Lucile Holcombe, Frances Johnston. June MacDaniels. Esther Watkins, and Margaret Welch. Seven of our class started in the Willow Street school in 1M22. They are: Karl Alpaugh, Helen Beardsley, Bernard Campbell, Franklin Dolan, Ardis Cowan, Esther Hunt, and Zaida Parks. At the beginning of our Freshman year, we were a group of enthusiastic, but somewhat bewildered, students. A number of the boys went out for football and some played on the second and third teams. Athens finished second in the league schedule in that year. We also had a number of aspirants out for basketball: none, however, were successful in earning a letter. Soon after the close of basketball season, came the election of class officers. Harold McCauley was elected President with John Lambert as Vice President. John Lambert’s life was cut short by an untimely death, in the following year. This was the first great loss of the class of '35. Other officers elected were bred Mitchell. Secretary, and John Lucy, Treasurer. In our Sophomore year, the Juniors welcomed us by giving a dance in our honor. We purchased class pins that year which were very well liked. The boys who made letters in athletic competition were: Clyde Anderson, Lawrence Belcher. Harold Coombs, Harold McCauley, Tom Simpson, and Jack Terry. The officers of the class that year were: Harold McCauley, President: Ruth Bowen. Vice President: Bernard Campbell, Secretary; and John Lucy, Treasurer. In our Junior year La Verne Zimmer was elected President. Other officers were Vern Caseslbury. Vice President: Ruth Bowen, Secretary: and John Lucy. Treasurer. As Juniors we purchased class rings which proved very satisfactory to the class as a whole. The Juniors were instrumental in saving the Athenian from a certain downfall, through a plan of President Zimmer to guarantee payment of the Junior subscriptions. In our Junior English classes the boys prepared debates and the girls acted in one act plays. This dramatic training prepared us for the Senior Evenings which we gave this year. At the end of the year we entertained the Seniors by giving them a dance in the 1. R. Hall. Now, as the time is approaching for the commencement of our new life, we realize what all this has meant to us. The happiest days of our life have been spent in Athens High. We hope that the class of '35 will live in the history of Athens High forever and for the class of ’36 we wish all of the happiness that we had in high school. Harold McCauley. Vuye twenty-two

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CIoAcScS PROPHECT As the mists of time dissolve into nothingness before our new invention, the Futuroscope. we see our former schoolmate, Earl Alpaugh, skillfully applying the knife in the operating room of a great hospital. Lo and behold! Clyde Anderson, sphere under arm. pounds into view, tearing the turf for dear old I’enn State. Hailey's future is uncertain. Focussing our lens on a bank of clouds high up in the air. we see a silver dot winging its way to a distant land: its inventor and pilot. Carson Baxter. We see Donald Brigham arranging a sheaf of papers in an U. S. Law Court, preparing to defend some innocent victim of circumstances. Amid the confusing clatter of noisy typewriters. we hear Casselbury barking out orders to his staff of subordinates— editor of a large chain of newspapers. e perceive certain domestic tendencies in Bernard Campbell whom we see slinging baskets on Penn State's Quintet. Paging Mr. Van Scoten. we see his double in Kenneth Chandler, lack Coughlin, we believe, is a “chip off the old block in medicine. Our Futuroscope next reveals Roger Converse in the role of a superdynamic salesman. Watch your step; he could sell you your own shirt. There goes Harold Coombs, that plunging, hard-hitting Tulanc fullback, with a possible chance for All American selection. Fmerging from a pile of books, verbs, nouns, etc., we see Robert Depew dishing out English to his room ftdl of young proteges. Picking up a daily edition of Casselbury's paper, we discover several cartoons bearing the signature of that nationally known cartoonist, Franklin Dolan. Peering into the future, we find ourselves at home twisting the dials of a radio televisor, invented and perfected by Walter Dewitt. While still in the radio and electrical field, we encounter that radio and electrical wizard, John Drake. Opening an issue of a 1940 Silver Screen, we see the popular matinee idol, Donald (Clark Gable) Hair. Donald Connor, the hero of a great tragedy, Frank Kellogg, radio entertainer, and the distinguished debater. Professor Gordon Langford, member of the Harvard Faculty. Crash! Another head-on collision, and who rushes to the aid of the injured but good old John “Doc”, Lucy with his little black bag and soothing hands. He'll pull 'em through! Rambling through the last of colleges, we find Harold “Slip’’, McCauley’s name gracing the list of Harvard's basketball quintet, making basketball history. Whizzing along the highway at a terrific rate of speed, we get a glimpse of James Parks, our former schoolmate, testing a super car of his own design and manufactured in his own plant. In partnership with “Jimmie” we find none other than Roy Phelps supplying half of the brains for the successful corporation. While still in the mechanic field, we take notice of Milton Cohen, the old maestro of the violin himself, selling cars as a sideline. Another newspaper career rivalling that of Casselbury’s is forecast for “Ed” Reinhardt. Upon turning back to the mechanical field, we find the Ryan Trucking Company; sole owner and supervisor, Alson Ryan, former Athenian schoolmate. We can't keep away from school and our attraction proves to be “Bill” Sammons, English instructor at Mansfield Normal. Scanning the list of All American football stars, we find the name of “Tommy Simpson who made football history for Penn State. Agriculture proves an interesting and profitable vocation for Gerald Smith. Look out for a Burbank! That old history enthusiast. Jack Terry, will, undoubtedly, make basketball history for Pittsburgh and be included in the All American selection. Another agriculturist who will prove to be a true son of the soil is Andrew Wilbur, who has a great future. “Pat Zimmer, we find, is a hotel manager with cartooning as a sideline. Ellsworth Bailey. Huge twenty-one

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