Columbia High School - Susquehannock Yearbook (Columbia, PA)

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PROPHECY Going on down the street, we come to the Iron, Carbon, and Bromide Grade School where Janet Steiner, Patricia Boyles, and Anna Foose, teachers extraordinary, are discussing the problem at hand-how to get Jack Aungst, Jr., out of the second grade Nitrogen Class. When the door to the Directors' Room opens, whom should we iind but James Budesheim, Richard Smoker, Eliza Jenkins, Sarah Vladetich, and Faith Culp busily working over the school's financial report. Two doors away, Joe'l Boyland and James Filizzi, Aluminum Czars, have opened the new Barium Library with a complete set of Mary Ellen Bennett's works. Life With Alvief' Chief librarian, Betty Melbert, with her able assistants, Doris Dietz, Tillie Fogie, and Helen Depew, are promoting the circulation of Marie Hart- manis biography, The Speed of Mercury. Muscles of lron,', by Sydney George heads the best sellern list. Also recommended to readers is Norma Drasch's Advice to the Lovelornf' and Anna Splain's How to Laugh Quietlyf, Coming to Art Nau's 'iCopper-Clad Shoppe, we find him doing a booming business with the assistance of Elaine Swartz, Mary Lou Kauffman, and Ruth Von Stetten. The manicurist, Romaine Spiese, we find. is trying out her new creation, Iodine Redi' nail polish, on Lois Young, who is not a willing subject for the experi- mentation of any new atomic idea. Janet Kilp, seated before a drawing board, is designing new hair styles for the Shoppe, while Ruth Kline, her able assistant, is busily engaged in giving the latest Merry Tnist Curl to Bern Edelman. With evening now approaching, we find it brings with it something new in fun at the Krypton Teen-Age Club, where the chaperones are the very austere Rosemarie Mackey, Louise McKonly, and Geraldine Swarr. Elsie Bachman, Nancy Seitz, Har- riet Leschke, and Suzanne Ellis are teaching the new dance step, The Neon Hop. In another room, Florence Lehman is coaching the play, Winters on the Sunf' pro- duced annually by the Club. In addition to all these activities, the special treat of the evening turned out to be Faye Johnson, better knoun as, Silicon Sue, the Atomic Bombshell of Nucleus Center. Having enjoyed as much of the club's activities as time permitted, we now visit the Inter-Planetarium Self-Service Storeii owned and operated by Chester Kuhns. In his employment are Pauline Birk, Mary Markley, Irene Wertz, and Margaret Fink- biner, whose duty, we learn, is to push the buttons that operate the robots These iron men are an inspiration in the way they dash madly around the store, selecting the goods for the customers. At the corner of Chlorophyl and Chlorine Avenues, we are stopped by Dorothy Dick, Ruth Gerfin, and Catherine Wasche, who are on duty directing trailic. It is remarkable how the Chief of Police, Doris Hippey, can whiz by on her Fluorescent Tricycle, which lights up at intersections. With a quick wave of the hand to Doris we bid her good-by and cross the street to the Venus Art Galleries where Margaret Herr and Elsillia Nobile are happily dabbing paint on their latest creation, The Birth of the Universef, This master- piece, we learn, has brought them so much fame that Ruth Gingerich, Elva Denlinger, and Joyce Wehner are kept busy night and day stamping autographs of these two famous artists on transparent gold leaf. lt was here we learned that Doris Paules is President of the Daughters of the Veterans of the C. I. 0. and that at that very moment she is introducing the eveningis speaker, Geraldine Kauffman, whose subject for dis- cussion is Dimples Produced and Sold or Every Woman Can Have Dimples Now.', The most attentive listener in her audience each evening, it is reported, is Robert Showalter. With few places left to visit in Nucleus Center, we turn our steps toward the Mental Telegraphy Office, supervised by none other than Betty Morrow. At the Circuit Separatorfi Mary Reisinger, Dorothy Bemesderfer, and Betty Jane Larner are lazily watching the Electric Eyew doing their work. Since the hours have ticked by and our Atom-Caps are slowly losing their power, we sorrowfully take leave of this happy. carefree land where life is one big Atomic Bang.

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PROPHECY Let us dreamily drift along to the heretofore unknown Atomic future in our Atom-Caps at the care-free speed of 777 and 1X7 thoughts an hour. As we sauntcr into the sleepy loun of Nucleus Centerf' we find the trade mark of that 'fwhiz-bangi' construction company, Klutz, Klotz, Barninger, and Divetf' on every office, theatre, and home erected there. .lust as in our comparatively crude civilization, we notice that Nucleus Center also has a hospital, the difference being that theirs is located far above the din of the noisy city in the now artificially heated atmosphere. Our gyroscopes easily transport us to the steps of this huge establishment where Doctors Kauffman and Rust are, at the moment, treating patients with their newly developed cure for the atomic-ache. Nearby, in the same room, Barbara Millard and Ruth Zielinski are feverishly adminis- tering first aid to the Doctors' victims. This morbid excursion has put us in the mood for a little relaxation, so at the Minute Theatre on old Radiumway, we catch the rehearsal of Lillian Datesman and her Moleculettes', in their newest musical hit, Away to the Starsf' As an added attraction, David flosel Shickley is presiding at his electronically controlled piano. Off stage, a soft, soul-stirring murmur reaches our ears and gently lures us behind the scenes where we come to a halt before Ed,' Steffan quietly, but dramatically, going over the lines for his next scene in 'fThe Great Loverfi Ah, yes, this new atomic age is indeed wonderful! A lilting tune, seemingly from out of nowhere, interrupts our hopeless trance, but there is nothing to be alarmed about, because the song is only one of the repertoire used by Freda and Rose Alma Ziegler, better known as the Second Dolly Sisters. At the moment, the newest thing in flowers, Singing Daisiesf' is being delivered to them from the Scientific Greenhouses owned and operated by William Schmitt. The senders of these Hwonderw flowers are none other than the once bashful boys, John Overmeyer and Robert Schmitt. Attracted by large black letters on a dressing room door, we read the name Jim', Jones. Inside we can hear him laughing at his own impersonation of the has-beeni' Durante. Leaving the theatre, we venture farther down the street and pass the local stadium from which is coming a conglomeration of sounds. Peeking over the fence, we can see on the lower end of the field '4Ellie', and Gt-zorgiei, Brommer coaching their little Ions, while along the side lines, Maxine Webb, the Atomic Ball, is practicing the Sky Rocketn with the cheering squad. ln the center of the field, Esther Dombach and her Starettes,,' the most popular twirlers of the time, are forming the intricate design of a snowflake. Nearby, at the Meteor Speed Track, Vernon Mummaw, Kenneth Miller, Edward Dinkel, and George Smith are in their glory burning the new synthetic tires off their Jet-Mobiles as they race around the speedway at a breath-taking, break-neck speed. Quickly, before an accident happens, we move to a quieter section of the town where Ginny Bridges is enjoying married life with three bundles of joy-all little Corkers. In this same section we find that Monsieur Bonner has established his exclusive Prosperous Phosphorous Shoppef' where from deep, comfortably cushioned chairs we view Doris Beck and Ethel Devine modeling Madamoiselles Nolte's and Zercher's newest plastic creations. Meandering along, we are amazed to find on Cyclotomic Boulevard, the magnifi- cent edifice of the Arsenic Arms Hotelf, Its gracious proprietor, Bert Campbell, meets us at the entrance, but at the door we are nearly swept off our feet by the tray boys, Chester Witmer, Edward Gambler, and Harry Dietz, who are madly dashing around serving the latest T-bone steak, lettuce, and mashed potato Food Tablets. The head waitresses, Janet Hallacher, Anna Mae Hogentogler, and Jeannine Straw- bridge, speed around in their Atomic Skootersw trying to keep the customers satis- fied. Cashiers, Doris Aston and Mary ,lane Heilman, are kept busy receiving new elastic dollars and celluloid coins in return for the famous food served to the cus- 1011161 S.

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CLASSES .ll'Nl0ll CLASS SOPHOMORE CLASS Charles llalmle -- Leroy Bachman Thelma Welsh Geraldine Poll .28. - - , ..,, lf 1'ce President ---- -----,- Secretary - - - , v... Treasurer - - - - - - , - President Fred Sample , - - - - - - ,. - - - - - President Bryson Laudenberger - Vice President Frances Marie Pickle - ..... Secretary Robert Splain ...... . ..... Treasurer l9'lll91SHlVIAN CLASS Lloyd Kline CWC .L......e.......... President Carl Roclkey .,L, .... V ice President Sally Smoker L ,,,.,A - Secretary Bernice Olena --- ..... Treasurer