Edgewood High School - Sylvan Yearbook (Edgewood, PA)

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But what exams ahead, Hoot mon! Our ranks, though thinner, still pushed on. The end of these twelve years is nigh, We graduate from Edgewood High, These happy ties this day will sever, We'll say farewell to school forever. Senior Class Prophecy Ladies and gentlemen, this is your announcer, Wayne Johnson, broadcasting from the Edgewood Community Club the tenth annual reunion dance of the class of 1939. This evening we are featuring that well-known Maestro of Kitten- ish Kapers, Koozy Kramer and his Kats. The club is gaily decorated with the riotous colors of the Royal Stuart Plaid. The crowd is just beginning to arrive. Say! who's that over there in the corner. lt's that renowned surgeon, Dr. Wil- ford Thunhurst. Would you believe it! He's doing the Highland Fling while his favorite nurse, Miss Marilyn Wells, looks gleefully on. Looking toward the side entrance, we see several well-known persons just entering. Theres Jean Louise Farmer, the concert pianist who has just com- pleted a concert tour of the states, and Miss Kay Ashinger, leader of the all-girl symphony orchestra. With her is Miss Betty Hewitt, her French horn soloist. Behind them are George McClure, owner of the Black Hawk night club, and Josephine Johansson, his songstress. The fashion world is well represented this evening. There's Lois Long, who has just returned from Paris where she has been looking over the latest styles, and Margaret Anderson, editor of Vogue. Across the room we see Ruth Koehler, dress designer, Helen Craighead, creator of the newest styles in hats, and Jessie Summ, Antoine's successor. Carolyn Smith, owner of the well-known Adrienne Dress Shop, is just entering with June Burke, her famous model. They have stopped to speak to Homer Jones, test pilot for United Airways, and to Florence Cvlenwright, the pretty air hostess. Here come those old rivals, Dorothy Stoltz, buyer for Lord and Taylor, and Mildred Livingston, buyer for Bonwit Teller-friends for this evening. Ruth Wilson, who recently made a successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, is entering behind them with James Bennett, her leading man. Near the orchestra pit is a group of familiar faces: Lynn Wilson, owner of the We Swap 'Em Pawn Shop, Bill Burt, basketball coach at Allegheny, Bill Munson, gag writer for radio programs, and Ray Johnston, truant officer. Well! what do you know! Here's Romance headed right this way! James McElf1sh, the noted economist, and Patricia Burke, his able secretary. Entering in regal style are Richard Long, United States ambassador to France, and Mary- belle Cvicquelais, the All-American Housewife. Marian Cvraper and Bob Simpson are conversing eagerly in the far corner. Marian has reached the goal that every- one set for her in high school. She is a renowned portrait painter, and Bob Simpson has become in a very few years one of the finest photographers in the country. His photographic model, La Verne Galyon, is making her way through the crowd toward them. 20

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Senior Class Officers Wayne Johnson President Richard Long Vice President David Estes Secretary Robert Simpson Treasurer Senior Class History Dear reader, let me trace the path Our class of '39 has passed, Since sixty wee bit lads and lasses First entered Edgewoods first grade classes. Twelve years are gone since that first day When off to school we took our way. In junior high six years ago Class-changing and chapel we learned to know. With braw Bill Thunhurst, president, T'was twa' years later we underwent, What freshmen under-dogs all know, Any freshman can tell you so. The seniors welcomed with roasted weiners, With flowers that spring we repaid the seniors. Nor was our second year a flop For we invented the Sophomore I-lop! For the road to fame by all consent Is-think of something different! That year t'was Dick Long at our head Next year t'was Ray Ewart instead. We chose a banner o' Stuart plaid The pride of every lass and lad. At, Christmas time our rings we got Ere long some other fingers sought. 0ur prom was truly the big event, Picket fences a Southern feeling lent, With a well for punch and roses and all ' Repaying our magazine sales that fall. This year Wayne johnson was our chief, Our labors surpassed all belief. The many tasks before a senior, The ads and Sylvan, the roasted weiner. Add to our chapel tribulations The senior play and complications. Our class with husky boys endowed, Made great this school-year's football squad. Spring,iwe're awa' to Washington, ' We did the place while on the run But on the run did we have fun! We veni, vidi, vicif' UD With sorrow we return to class Our teachers strive to make us pass. 19 The S YLVAN

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All hearts begin to Hutter as Tom Garbark, that All-American football star, stalks through the crowd. Eloise Lawthers, successful farmerette, and Ruth Stebbins, dietitian and originator of the Stebbinss eighteen day diet, are with him. Here comes that well-known character actress, Betty Rudman. She is accompanied by Blanche Peters, professor of mathematics at Dennison Uni- versity and by Marion Kinter, bacteriologist at the Mellon Institute. Still great chums, although in vastly different fields of work, Betty Jane Roney, Olympic star in basketball, and Priscilla West, shorthand teacher in dear old Edgewood High School, are entering with Ray Ewart, cartoonist for the Saturday Evening Post, and with Dave Estes, manager of the Sun Valley Lodge, where he divides his time between skiing and business. The orchestra has struck up the strains of that old favorite 'Jeepers Ci eepers The first couple on the floor is Harry Thompson, a picture of what the well- dressed country gentleman will wear, and Edith Feinberg, his secretary. The crowd is beginning to spread out, and we now see several members of the class who were out of sight before. Gilbert lVIcGreevy, who has taken j. Edgar Hoov- er's place, and Paul Douglas, writer of Bedtime Stories. Making his way toward the punch bowl is john Bentley, inventor of the automatic typewriting machine. He is closely followed by Virginia Strathearn, famousiffrench interpreter. But that completes the roll call, so on with the dance, let joy be unconflnedn Senior Class Will We, the illustrious class of 1939, being both mentally Ol and physically fit. do hereby very generously make the following bequests to those we sorrowfully leave behind us. Bequests: l. To the future athletic stars, we leave Windy's, Bill Burt's, and Tommy's ability for captainship, D T 2. The responsibility of the Edgecator, we confer upon Barb Crouse with the hope for a bigger and better scandal colunin. fCould it be that we Edgewoodit es behave, or are we the victims of a censor?l 3. Our blank space on the honor roll, we bestow upon the aspiring seniors- to-be. May they have fewer blanks and more space! 4. To Eugene Bishoff, we leave a generous portion of Bill Munson's height. 5. To the junior girls, we leave the honor seats in assembly-they come in handy when the Pitt Glee Club visits. 6. To the entire high school, we bequeath our flair for originality. Re- member our plaid class colors! 7. The boys' class basketball championship, we leave to the worthy suc- cessors. 8. Our fantastic gym-cut excuses, we give to any girl who can get away with them. 9. To the sophomores, we, the originators, leave the Soph Hop. May they all be as swell as ours! 10. We confer upon the 1940 football team the memory of a season they must strive hard to surpass. I A21 The- S YL VAN