Fountain Hill High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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NET EEN THIRTY-EIGHT MEMO A visitor at the High School: Is that the English Department ,H over there. Francis Brown: Yes that's our Chamber of Commasf' 5 -X' if -X- -I6 Miss Todd: What does rex fugit mean? Bertha Pongracz: The king flees. Miss Todd: Make it perfect tense by using has. Bertha: The king has fleesf, 'X' 'X' 'K' -If An absent-minded man was deep in his work when his wife called out to him: Henry! Billy has swallowed all the ink in the inkpot! W'hatever shall we do? VVritc with a pencil, I suppose, was the dreamy reply. 'X' 'X' 'X' -X- Mrs. Posch: Well, Edward, what have you been doing all afternoon?', Edward: Shooting craps. Mrs. Posch: That must stop. Those little things have as much right to live as you have. -I6 'X' -if -X- Mr. Gribbin: Zimmerman where's your pencil?', Zitz: Ain't got one.', lNIr. Gribbin: You shouldn't say that, listen, you don't have any, I don't have any, they don't have any, we don't have ..... Zitz: Well, where are all the pencils P -If -X' 'X' 'K- Toots,' Muhr fto the druggistj: Could you fix me a dose of castor oil so the oil won't taste? Druggist: Certainly, Won't you have a soda while you wait? Toots',: Thanks, fdrinks sodaj Druggist: Something else, Miss?,' Toots : No, just the oil. Druggist: You just drank it. T0ots : Oh dear, and I wanted it for my hrotherf' eighty-three

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EMO IRS NINETEEN THIRTY- IGHT Definition: Education is the inculcation of thc comprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent -X' 'I' 'X' 'X- Philomena Oricko: Did you hear about the skunk that went to church. Charles Miller: No, why? Phil: He sat in his own pew and gave a Qsjcentf' 'X' 'li 'I' 'li' Frank Csrnko: Let's cut classes today and go to a show. Wallace Johnson: Can't do it. I need the sleep. 'I' 'X' 'I' -X' Description: It takes years of practice before a ski-jumper stops looking like someone being thrown out of :1 saloon. -I' -K' 'X' 'I' Frank Mohap: What's worse than raining cats and dogs? Claire Huff: I don't know, unless it's hailing a street car. -I -X' I' 'I- Mr. Geiger: Well, I received a note from your teacher today. Michael: Honest, Pop? Give me a quarter and I won't breathe :1 word about it. ' ' -1- -ll' -l- -li- Betty Hagy: Can you drive with one arm? Bill Haneyz, Sure, I can. Betty: O. K., have an apple. 'I' 'K' 'I' -K- Dorothy Gaal: I'm afraid to go down the street, it's so dark. Chester Klotz: But I'm with you.', Dot: That's why I'm afraid. 41- 'K' -X' 'I' A teacher called for sentences using the word beans. My father grows beans, said the bright boy of the class. My mother cooks beans, said another pupil. Then a third popped up, We are all human beans. eigh ty-two

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