Ferndale High School - Reflector Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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Senior Play CHARACTERS PASSENGERS TO HEAVEN First Escort Ronald Fisher Group I Mr Jordan Second Escort William Kodrowsky William Stoker Escort. .. Ronald Fisher William Gaylow Frederick Zabel Merle Rager Robert Buck Joe Pendleton Robert La Brie '7013 Nurse Tony Abbott Julia Farnsworth Leonard Hayhurst Shirley Otto Robert Walkowski Hazel Bard Alicia Heggie Peter Ingle Lucy Irbon Morris Jacobson Hanna Washington Thomasine Davis Robert Lebzelter Dorothy Sudonick Edward Plantan Mrs. Ames Sandra Mitchell Mary Chemey Betty Logan Doris Price Workman Carl Roberts Group II Ann Max Levene Susie Williams Plainclothesman Lefty Doctor Anna Louise Walters Tom Churchey Lois Jean Saly William Ashman Edward Mish Robert Schuster Richard Bonner Escort. . . William Stoker William Abilius Georgette Kilijia Jenny Kline Anna Porvoo Silvia Sillianpaa Herman Clawson Faye Cameron Martha Grexa Gaynel Baker Virginia Maldet PRINCIPALS: SEATED—(left to right) Mitchell. Ashman. Bard. LaBrie. Price. Churchey. Otto. Kodrowsky. Nine. STANDING: Walkowskl. Salv Mr Kuh . Fisher. Mish. Schuster. Roberts. Bonner. Walters. Hay hurst. Stoker. Twenty Two

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Senior Calendar AUGUST 30—School Opened Hours of leisure behind us, we settled down to the routine of study. OCTOBER 30—Girl Reserves Initiation Girls put new members through a grueling test. Everyone turned out a swell sport. NOVEMBER 15, 16—Senior Play Heaven Can Wait. Production by senior class drew largest audience in years. DECEMBER 3—Football Banquet Players indulged at a banquet held in their honor. DECEMBER 22—Holly Hop Band sponsored a sensational dance presenting Billy Lewis and his Orchestra. JANUARY 9— F Club Initiation Boys were given work out, and we found they could really take it. JANUARY 31—Open House Parents met teachers and learned the whys and wherefores of averages. FEBRUARY 9—Topsy Turvy Valentine Dance Girl Reserves had sole power of invitation and bore expenses. MARCH 14—First Movie The new movie projector was demonstrated and proved to be all it was said to be. MARCH 29—Spring Concert Fine performance by music department. Many contributed toward its success. MAY 2—Junior Senior Reception Juniors entertained seniors for a big night at the Masonic Temple. MAY 8—Senior Assembly Seniors forgot their dignity to provide a rollicking afternoon for every one. MAY 19—Baccalaureate Services Seniors received needed inspiration by attending church together. MAY 23—Commencement Curtain call on the seniors’ last act. The long-awaited and hard-earned piece of paper was finally won. MAY 28—School Closed Doors closed on the last day. Now only the memories are left. Twenty One

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 Heaven Can Wait was the intriguing title of the annual dramatic presentation by the Senior Class. The plot centered about a young boxer (Bob La Brie) who was taken to heaven sixty years before his time by an over-zealous messenger from the other world (Leonard Hayhurst). While his body was uninhabited, it was cremated by his manager (Tom Churchey). Accompanied by an executive from heaven (Bill Kodrowsky), the saxophone-tooting boxer traveled to the earth in search of a body suitable to replace the one from which he had been snatched. His insistence that it must be in the pink made the search difficult. Eager to assist an attractive young lady (Doris Price) in her efforts to help her father out of a financial and legal predicament, Joe lived for a time in the body of a Mr. Farnsworth, who had been drowned by his wife (Hazel Bard) and his assistant (Bob Walkowski). A succession of humorous incidents kept the audience delightfully entertained, while the thread of philosophy running through the play was stimulating to the more serious-minded. In the final act, Joe Pendleton was placed in the body of a murdered boxer and lost all recollection of the strange events which had befallen him. As a new personality, he faced the prospect of a happy, normal life, and the play was brought to a satisfactory conclusion. The production was witnessed by the largest audiences in the history of the school, and was highly praised by all who attended. Knowing how hard the performers worked for their laurels, the class was justly proud of them. PASSENGERS TO HEAVEN. ROW — Davis. Clawson. Rager. Baker. Cameron. FIRST ROW. (left to right 1—Crinlip. Lebrelter. Plantan. Mr Kuhn. SECOND Buck. THIRD ROW —budonlck. Ckeraey. Grexa. FOURTH ROW —Maldet. Twenty Three