Ferndale High School - Reflector Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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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

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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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JUNIOR GIRLS. FIRST ROW (left to ROW —McHugh. Strorar E Shaffer G. Hopkins. Shull. Frankowsky. Miss Long ROW—P. Brasher. P. Cobaugh. Oyler. P Bockel. Barron SEVENTH ROW-G. 2 Under the capable leadership of President Bob Rucosky, Vice President Jim Johnston, and Secretary Karl Fried- line, the Class of '47, upperclassmen at last, swung into their third year at Femdale High. A good-looking plain gold class ring, chosen unanimously by the class, was delivered early in December. Heavy schedules including languages, shorthand, mathematics, chemistry, and physics were taken in stride by the juniors, for again this year the class topped the six-weeks honor roll. Not stopping with curricular activities, they were also seen on the athletic field and gym floor as inter- ighO — P. Coughenour. Gastlev. C. Kukenberger. Kolar. Pinelli. Bandrowskv Dvba. Koehler SECOND Gehman. Ornrr Mavstrovkh. Moor- . Mena THIRD ROW —E. Frombaih Fletcher. Cushman. Parker. FOURTH ROW —Simler. Grantham. T. Levergood. M Pollock. Kantner M Walko. FIFTH achy. Pecsenve. Popovich. I. Schweitzer. SIXTH ROW—Speck. Kist. Henderson. Carlmark. leanne ober. P. Lawson. Zrm. , J Ashman.