Blairstown High School - Amicitiae Yearbook (Blairstown, NJ)

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class IDRODHECY I am the ghost of the Class of 1954. I have come to haunt the halls of my old home, Blairstown High School. As I wander through the halls I am reminded of my old classmates. Now I pause at Room 9 where Maggie Henderson held many heated debates concerning the yearbook. Mag is now a Registered Nurse as is Mary Lou Haldimann, the faithful Senior Secretary. Theresa Noordenbos and Alice Frutchey could usually be found typing in this room. Theresawent to business school and is now executive secretary for a New York cosmetic expert. Alice recently came home on vacation from her job oftraveling the eastern states with her accounting machine. I stopped drea.ming with a start and floated down to the gym. I seem to see Bill Benbrook, Sal Simonetti, Jack Skow and Dink Hendershot practicing shots from the foul line. Bill, Ihear is enjoying himself operating his flea circus. Sal is now selling Ford cars and has convinced many people of their merit. Jack entered college after graduation and is now an engineer in Spain. Dink joined the Navy and is now with the Sea Bees . Up on the stage I can still see Melissa Kohler as she looked when she played Hulda in the Senior play. Melissa went to a dra- matics college and her latest movie opened recently at the Radio City Music Hall. In it she takes the part of a Swedish maid. Down in Room 10, my old homeroom I can still hear the joking and laughter of my class at lunch time. I recall that Patty Burham missed this pleasure by going home. Ihear that she recently opened her interior decorating shop and is now busy fulfilling the many requests for her services. I can still hear Harold Muller and Mark Drake arguing about where each was to sit. Harold has settled down on the farm and is looking forward to many happy years with his cows. Mark entered college, where he studied engineering, and is now working in South America. Betty Bender and Carolyn Litts, the two inseparable pals, used to take this period to discuss the happenings of the night before. They are still together working in the office of a business firm in San Francisco. Just across the corridor is the study hall, in which Nancy Ward and Evelyn Shuster could be seen laughing and talking. Nancy is now a recep- tionist in the office of a local doctor. Evelyn went to business school and is now office manager of the Monroe Calculating firm in Newton. Ben Van Der Wal could usually be seen walking into or out of the Study Hall. He never seemed to stay very long. He is now the County Agri- culture Agent for' Warren County. As I wander outside I can almost see George Transue, Richard Lonie, Charlie Rowe and Allan Hoffman walking towards school. George became an engineer and is now mining Uranium in Canada and Allen, after 13 long years in school, is still taking his well-deserved rest. The latest I was able to dig up about Dick and Charlie was that they were broadening their education by traveling across the country on the shoe leather express. Now I must take leave of these fond and hallowed halls for the last time and take my place among the ghosts of other classes.

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