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

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pccpuccy Guy Park, possessed of a large, inherited fortune and able to gratify any whim, desired to trace all his fellow graduates in the Class of ’36 of Athens High School. Ten years had passed since his graduation and he had gradually lost trace of most of them; therefore he enlisted the aid of a New York Detective agency, of which Daniel Brown was the founder. After a long interval he received this letter: “Dear Guy, I am happy to inform you that I have located all our classmates of ’36. You are probably aware of Evelyn Spencer’s success on the Metropolitan Opera Stage. Music critics, among them Margery Rawley, have predicted a brilliant career for Evelyn. There are three more musicians from our class. Leo McDonald and Lynn Smith are members of a popular dance orchestra; Elmer Strope plays in a symphony orchestra. Robert Crowley and Edith Lincoln have followed dramatic careers. Bob is a portrayer of juvenile roles on Broadway; and Edith, a comedienne of stage and radio, is not unlike Graeie Allen, famous ten years ago. Melvin Keeler is a psychology professor, and Carlyle Smith has become an eminent authority on mathematics. Eleanor Dunbar is art instructor in a girls’ school in Maryland where Eloise Rockwell directs physical education. Evelyn Hoag is back at Athens High School teaching French, where Betty Bennett is secretary. John Frock teaches French, and Norma Barnhart teaches German in another school. Eloise Carle teaches English, and Ellen Huff and Bette Davies are grade teachers. Esther Briggs is secretary of the grade school of which Ellen Huff is principal. In Chicago the hostess of our hotel, Dorothy Talada, informed me that a party of our fellow graduates was also there. They were Robert Kinner, a successful engineer; Milan Roberts, who now represents his district in the Pennsylvania Legislature; and Margaret Dunbar, who, accompanied by her secretary, Marian Munn, was there to speak at a convention of women’s clubs. While in South Bend, Indiana, I attended a football game between Notre Dame and Southern California as a guest of the coach of the Southern California team. Believe it or not, it was “Bill” Frock! The manager of this team is Donald Shay. Paul Anderson manages a professional football team, and Murray Allen coaches the Colgate football team. I also located David Riley in the Middle West where he is the editor- Pane seventeen

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class msTecy Aye, Aye, Sir, the class ship of 1936 has dropped her anchor safe and sound at her home port. What a glorious, beautiful trip it has been together for four years, taking, battling, and conquering the hardships of a great sea voyage! It was a warm, sunny day in September, 1932, that the class ship of 1936 was launched and started on her four year voyage with her decks full of young boys and girls. What a happy, studious group it soon turned out to be. Late in the year when far out at sea, the class of 1936 was organized and Paul Anderson took over full command of the ship. With “Andy” as captain we reached our first port safe and sound, having made a few good contributions to the field of athletics, and having earned a high record for scholastic ability. On our second voyage, as sophomores, Charles Skinner had command of the ship. We were well used, by now, to the customs and habits of sea voyages. The class ship of 1935 held a dance to welcome us to the long line of graduate and under-graduate ships. We became one of the prominent ships on the voyage, giving T-Dances, contributing material to athletics, and buying our class pins. Thus we again reached a long-sought port. We then discovered that our journey as sailors was half over. We had entered our junior year on the sea, with none other than Paul Anderson, our first captain, in command again. What a year, with the students more enthusiastic about the voyage than ever before! The voyag-eurs during their third year took part in athletics, purchased class rings, erected a small booth for the sale of junior candy, had a bake sale, and T-Dances. The funds from these events helped the ship of 1936 to stage the gala event of the year for the senior ship of 1935—the Junior-Senior Prom, and finally to make port, free from debt. At last we, the ship of 1936, join the endless line of ships at the home port. All of the students have looked forward to reaching this one goal—graduation. We have reached our goal after a short, happy, eventful year with Charles Skinner in command again. We contributed material to the field of athletics; made a great success of our senior play, “Growing Pains”; organized clubs; took leading parts in the operetta; and, with the help of many others, edited this Annual. Our voyage of four never-to-be-forgotten years is over. We have reached one of the greatest ports of our life. What other ports of life are we destined to dock at? Who knows? We are all hopeful that the mates on the 1936 ship will reach other great harbors of fame and fortune. So we, the travelers on the class ship of 1936, bid each other, and Athens High School, “Farewell and Happy Landing.” Bette Davies Page sixteen

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in-chief of a newspaper. His ace reporter is Bert Corneby and at the head of his office staff is Virginia Crocker. Several of the girls who graduated from the Class of ’36 are now nurses, among them Florence Cullington and Marian Wallin. Joyce Terry and Grace Harris are in Rochester at the Strong Memorial Hospital in which Eleanor Parks is the dietician. Marguerite Park is a dietician in a Baltimore Hospital. Several of the boys are now successful politicians. Robert Friant and Kenneth Baxter are active in the politics of Pennsylvania, and Frank Kellogg represents an agricultural group in Washington. I was not surprised to hear of George Robinson and Charles Soper as joint owners of a large dairy farm. Carlton Wittie is well-known for his horticultural experiments. I expected to locate Paul Stafford among those who followed a career of agriculture, but I located him in a small town in the South where he is managing a series of beauty contests. In Elmira, N. Y., Lois Zimmer and Eleanor Schoonover operate a beauty parlor. Ernest Catlin and Charles Skinner are owners of a radio business, and Andrew Champion is a radio operator in an airway transportation company. The Belcher twins are, at present, in China where they work in a mission; Daniel Lane and Arthur Guild are ministers. Bert Sumner and John Peck, owners of a large wholesale company, in Philadelphia, are neighbors of Donald Putnam, a successful osteopath. Joe Smith and Gerald Brown are cartoonists in Walt Disney’s studio. James Murray, who is an undertaker and furniture dealer, is assisted by Anne Ramey, embalmer and laboratory technician. Eugene Wandell, a guide in Yellowstone National Park, is closely associated with Philip Foulke, head ranger of the park. Naoma Parks and Eunice Merrill have had their names changed and are now busy housewives. Laurence Weed, an automobile racer, recently won a race in which he drove a newly-invented stream-lined model. Jack White is a humorist whose syndicated columns appear daily in newspapers of the East. Richard Gaffney is well-known for his one-man comedy skits on the radio. This task has been a great pleasure to me, and I sincerely hope that the results will be satisfactory. Yours truly, Daniel Brown.” Norma Barnhart Page eighteen