Boyertown High School - Bear Yearbook (Boyertown, PA)

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THE JLINICRS WERE A STRANGE LOT A strange group of students inhabits three rooms on the third floor of the high school building. The name of this group is the Junior Class. Its 101 members can usually be identified by their haughty glances at' lower-class- men and by their respectful atti- tude towards Seniors. An emotion accredited Juniors is their pity for Wriggletwisters Cseventh gradersl who have five years of torture ahead of them. The only reason the all-wise Juniors bother to finish high school is to get their diplomas and possibly pick up any small non - essentials 0 f knowledge taught in twelfth grade. When- ever a teacher has a problem he consults the Juniors since they are, by their own admission, the most intelligent body of students to be found on this side of the International Date Line. The Junior Class was one of the most active, versatile, and interesting of the six grades in the high school. Its representa- tives could be found in practically every school activity except the Senior graduation. Many Juniors became members of the Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y. Three Juniors, Alfred Bashore, Robert Fisher and George Burfete, were among the Hi-Y members who represented Boyertown at the State Hi-Y Conference in Carlisle, Pennsyl- vania. Juniors interested in music joined the Band, Orchestra, or the Senior Chorus. Many Juniors took an active interest in sports. George Bur- fete, William Ellis, Robert Fish- er, John Eddinger, Jerrold Grofe, Donald Bernhart, and Bruce Gil- bert played football. These boys have vivid memories of the last football season-muddy scrim- mages, strained leg muscles, the turkey banquet, and inspiring pep talks. Carl Grim, Robert Weller, Bruce Gilbert, and George Burfete played basketball on the boys' team, Gloria Trout, June Hartenbauer, and Mary Lou Croll played cn the girls' team. Six historically minded Juniors, Claire Schmitt, Hazel Renninger, Annabelle Quigley, Mary Lou Croll, June Hartenbauer, and Jerrold Grofe, took part in the Boyertown, Birdsboro, and Oley panel discussions on the League of Nations. In the week before the discussions these students struggled frantically trying to dig up information. Juniors had a special interest in the cheerleaders. The four of them, Gloria Trout, Mary Had- dad, Helen Stitzel, and Jane Reese, we re all super-active Juniors. A part of major importance in the gym exhibition was played by boys and girls of the eleventh grade. The girls performed an aesthetic dance to the rhythm of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The boys formed the backbone of all apparatus and mat work. Despite the war Juniors pat- ronized the regular Friday night dances in droves. Arnold Romig, a Junior himself, changed the records and made special an- nouncements. Although he had many duties he was often seen stomping with some cute little rug-cutter. The responsibility of financing the Junior-Senior Prom lay on the shoulders of the Juniors. In order to raise money they spon- sorezl a Christmas Dance. They hired an orchestra, decorated the gym, sold tickets, and refresh- ments. For more money they held a cake sale. These two ac- tivities raised more than enough money for the Prom. The Prom was the high point of the year for Juniors and Seniors. Envious lower- class members gazed wistfully at them and wished they were Juniors or Seniors. It was, for most couples, their first semi-formal dance and they entered whole-heartedly into the spirit of the occasion. The Prom was a splendid success to be long remembered by all who were there. Eleventh graders are very in- teresting individually. Claire Schmitt writes novelettes. Wil- liam Ellis eats light bulbs. Laura Landis, a prospective plastic sur- geon, enjoys clay - modelling. John Eddinger has a pet pigeon, Wilbur, Annabelle Quigley collects Indian jewelry. Jerrold Grofe peers at pond ooze through his microscope. Barbara Whit- acre likes to play baseball. How- ard Kleinsmith invents his own photographic accessories. Mary Hadded enjoys traveling. Early in the year an enterprising Junior established a trans-room airmail route in the library. It met with dubious success. Nobody ever discovered who threw the wet rag at Alfred Bashore in chem- istry class. The meetings of the Junior Class were held regularly once a month in the auditorium or the cafeteria. At these meetings the class voted red and white the class colors, de-:ided to sponsor a cake sale and a dance in order to raise money for the Prom, and appointed students to the various committees in charge of the Prom. During the year Class President Bause called a number of special meetings to solve sev- eral of the urgent problems which confronted the class. 29

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11-1-Front row, lef to right: Sands, Schelly, Engel, M. Grofe, Fronheiser, Hartenbauer, Secretary: Bause, Presi- dent, Reeves, Vice-president, Bechtel, Croll, Landis, Thomas, Pennypacker, Gabel. Second row left, left to right: Geisler, Renninger, Schmitt, Second row right, left to right: Quigley, Tyson, Steinmuller. Third row, left to right: J. Grofe, Weller, Heydt, Frey, Bashore, Keppler, Miss Schmeelk, Miller, Kleinsmith, Stauifer, Reig- ner. Absent: Fisher, Gilbert, Grim, Romig, Jacob, Seasholtz. 31 11-2-Front row, left to right: Herbst, Magee, Heffner, Haddad, Secretary-Treasurer, R. Houck, President, Hart- ranft, Keyser, Solt, Rothenberger. Second row, left to right: Magners, Bartman, Schwenk, Brannan, Faust, Long, L. Miller, Kleinsmith, Grim. Third row, left to right: W. Eshbach, Grant, Weiss, Hartman, Grim, E. Houck, Foreman, Moyer, Frain. Last row, left to right: T. Eshbach, Cleaver, Conrad, Burfete, Mr. Fleming, Gottshall, Herb, P. Miller. Absent: Herb, Vice-president, Freed. 11-3-Front row, left to right: Beidler, Babb, Lutz, Heydt, Reppert, Vice-president, Reese, Treasurer, Erb, Presi- dent, Eddinger, Wolf, R. Weller, Knepp. Second row, left to right: Bernhard, S. Swavely, Schwartz, Whitacre, Neiman, E. Swavely, Stitzcl, Trout, Ellis. Third row, left to right: Mr. Gilbert, Houck, Emes, Reitnauer, Rothenberger, Hatfield, Keyser, Stevens. Absent: Ehst, Giles, Schaeffer, T. Weller.

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10-1-Front row, left to right: B. Bechtel, Johnson, Rickert. Appel, Secretary-Treasurer, Corff, Presidentg Ritter, Vice-president: McNey, Fisher, Leister. Second row, left to right: Butterweck, Neiman, D. Rhoads, J. Rhoads, Searfoss, Mrs. Lynch, Harrison, Stoudt, Reigner, S. Bechtel, Walt. Third row, left to right: Rissell, Miller, Landis, Dietz, Schell, Grofe, Schultz, Schoch, Hollowbush, Houck. 10-2-First row left, standing, left to right: R. Martin, Ritter, MacDonald, V. Moyer, First row, sitting, left to right: Reinhard, Landis, Vice-presidentg Merkel, Presidentg Shell, Secretary, Krick. First row right, standing, left to right: Golfee, Weller, B. Moyer, Linnemeier. Sec ond row left, standing, left to right: Gehris, Gentner, Treasurer: B. Martin, Second row seated, left to rig ht: Rader, Mest, Schwarz, Hoffman, Hallman, Millward, Zajacg Second row, standing, left to right: Updegrove, Grozser, Naigle. Third row standing, left to right: Herb, Nester, Kutz, Reifsnyder, Miss Hahn, Luft, Steltz, Renninger, Reinert. WWEWTQH 'T-nm' '73 'Tu-' Tau' 'WL I ll., 10-3-Front row, left to right: Frey, Albitz, Aichroth, Flicker, Carrington, Bittenbender, Gaugler, Eschbach, G. Brumbach. Second row, left to right: M. Brumbach, Fronheiser, Secretaryg Bechtel, Burkholder, Del Grosso, Weiss, Barr, Cox. Third row, left to right: Turck, Richards, Mayer, Schlegel, Derr, Nagel, Vice-president: D. Brown, A. Brown, President. Fourth row, left to right: Rhoads, Becker, Weber, Miss Moyer, Johnson, Rose.