Avalon High School - Annual Yearbook (Avalon, PA)

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Senior Class.

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4 THE BUZZER 0112155 igintnrg Here Beginneth the History of the Class of 1918. Chapter I. Now the history of the class of nineteen hundred and eighteen, of the High School of the town of Av- alon, County of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, is in this wise: In the beginning, in the year of our Lord, in the ninth month and on the seventh day of the month, there entered into this Land of Learning forty-seven seekers of knowledge. Some came up from Eighth Grade, where they had for many months been busily engaged in storing their minds with the honey of wisdom, some were green and fresh from a far away coun- try, some came from farms, Where they had been tillers of soil. And it came to pass as they did enter this land, that they were re- ceived with wild welcomings and rejoicings by those who should henceforth lead them up the slip- pery byways of knowledge. Likewise it came to pass that they were received with malicious glee by a certain band of wild be- ings who were called Sophomores and who, because of their fierce taste for Freshman blood, did pounce upon them daily and might- ily and did cause them to suffer great hardships, and to say in their haste: Behold, closed be the name of Education, for because of it have we endured great torments, both of the body and of the mind. Verily have we been martyrs to its great and noble cause! And when they dwelt long in the land they fell in with the customs of the inhabitants thereof, and their strangeness wore away and they all became as one among the rest. Now it so happened that this land. to which they had come was ruled over by one known as I. Ed- ward of the House of Holsinger, a professor of much wisdomg at the beginning of the second month, he spoke unto them saying: Go gather ye in a body and or- ganize yourselves into a class, that ye may gain in strength, and that your courage may wax hot ! And so it came to pass that four wise members of the faculty, Miss Verna Smith, Miss Florence Wil- son, Miss Mabel Love and Mr. Ar- nold Replogle, were appointed to assist and guard over them. And it so happened in the same year that the class with the other classes of A. H. S. gathered them- selves together so that a photogra- pher might make of them a pic- ture of great likeness and when it was finished, and their eyes fell. up- on that which was said to be their countenances, they rejoiced and were exceeding glad. On the third day of the eleventh month of the same year was held a great feast, where laughter and jubilation made them extremely happy. And they were told to eat, drink and be merry for after this day they should again sojourn into the Land of Learning. And so after many months of hard labor the time came when they should no longer be called Freshies. Chapter II. Now it came to pass at the be- ginning of the second year, that a new band of youths did come up, from the adjoining territory, and the class of nineteen hundred and eighteen, in new dignity of their promotion, remembered the days of their own greatness, and as Sopho- mores of their day had done unto them, even so did they unto these new Freshmen, and did show no mercy unto their sufferings and no