Franklin High School - Franklinite Yearbook (Franklin, PA)

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NOVEMBER 1950 AT OUR FIRST CLASS MEETING in the balcony of the Auditorium we elected the following class ofiiers: Jay Rhoads as president, Dick Haggerty as vicefpresident, Charlotte Serge as secretary, and John Harris as treasurer. These officers served faithfully and well and were refelected for our Junior year. We sponsored several successful projects in 1948. First of our class projects was selling homefmade candy at the plays and the Broadcast. Basketball schedules and pencils were sold at the games and the amount in our treasury gradually increased. In the second semester of our Sophomore year we held our first dance, The Apple Blossom Frolicn and danced to the tunes played by the FHS Swing Band. The gym was attractively decorated in keeping with the theme. During the intermission the dancers were entertained by a floor show. Guy Stallone, already beginning to be noticed for his sin ing ability, rendered a solo, accompanied by Ginny Gramlich, who amused the audience by being dressed in the garb of an old fat farm lady, Norman Beals rendered a selection on his musical saw, and Mary Ann Wiegel enter' tained with a ballet dance. After an evening of fun and dancing everyone left the frolic with a light heart. The many talented members of our class were gaining more recognition, and preparing for the leadership we were looking forward to in the next two years. As Sophomores, Ed Wible and jay Rhoads attended the football banquet and received letters for defending FHS on the gridiron. Qs ROW IAM. Gregory, R. Fulmer, A. Knooihuizen, L. Heffernan, M. Baker, F. Chatley, M. Bargar, J. Fuller, J. Berf man, J. Carner, D. Canon, A. Boughner, N. Cross, B. Barns, M Archer. ROW 24V. Henry, S. Greenlee, E. Dalmaso, M. Glenn, M. Doll, S. Green, M. Conklin, M. Kuhn, D. Kahle, V. Collingwood, S. Burgert, G. Gregory, D. Grove P. Grove, C. Greene B. Hughes. ROW 3--YD. Harris. D. Carson, H. Fogle, P. Kelley, D. Chamberlain, D. Bowen B. Burgert, J. Kuhn, C. Hughes, D. Hutcheson, B. Hoover, D. Hovis, R. Gregory. ROW 4-R. Litzenberger, j.Kunselman D. Donahue, C. Harrah, R. Gillingham, H. Brown, L. Brown, P. Cooley, R. Beach, K. Brown, B. Campbell, Downing B. Harding, C. Fellner, K. Hawkins. ROW 5 YD. Cozad, A. Dunlap, G. Edwards, B. Hazlett, D. King, L. Burrell C. jones, H. Lawson, F. Green, C. Butters, -I. Anderson, G. Hoover, j. Carter, B. Carter, sl. Chamberlain. 1 ea 1 2lMr2xi, LE? ' ' A s

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! Seventh Grade ROW 1fC. Phipps, M. Timney, A. Willyoung, T. Miller, D. Miller, B. Long, L. Vanderhoff, P. Wile, P. lames M. Wentworth, O. Turner, R. McVay, M. Thomas, P. Phipps, L. Wood, B. Young, S. McAlevy. ROW 2 ---ll Will: young, B. Staron, E. Scrudders, B. Neeley, J. McQuaid, A. Smith, D. Wolfkiel, J. Reed, M. Wargo, P. Robson, Bi Steele S. Rumberger, Maul. ROW 3fD. Rhoads, D. Phinney, T. VanBrussel, C. White, W. Vokalek, R. Vaow C Miller, G. Lehman, R. Lindholm, W. McCullough, D. Lynn, B. Saeli. ROW 4-D. Spencer, B. Wood, D. Rogers, B. Muse, T. Moses, A. Ritchey, B. Pedley, D. Shouey, T. Stanley, W. Rarer, S. Osgood, E. Strawbridge, F.Wilsey, H. Sharene, C. Titus. TOP ROWej. Reed, C. Snell, J. Monarch, D. Poindexter, T. McElroy, B. Moon, C. Rila, S. Smith, F. Myers, D. Smith, R. Rodgers, A. Moorehead, j.Monarch, A. Whelman. 52 WE STILL RECALL how enthusiastically we looked forward to the guidance periods that were substituted for Arithmetic on Fridays. This substitution was a reward for a week of good behavior. Some of our more adventurous members started a little newspaper which lasted about two weeks. The high spot of this year was trying to make out our schedules for the next four years. We still remember very kindly some of the friendly suggestions and counsel given by Mr. Newell and our various teachers. And somehow, possibly by a good shove from a kindhearted teacher, we pulled through the eighth grade. In that everftofbe remembered year of 1947, the class of 1951 started on the last lap of its educational training with a few brains, some native ability, much conceit, and a lot of good humor. Our mental geniuses were discovered that year. To our number were added a few new members. We now thought we were the supreme rulers of Junior High, with our body and soul dedicated to being Seniors. During that year we demonstrated our acting ablity and had our first case of stage fright when we presented Bunny Comes To Town . The Coon coat worn during the play started a fad of coon coats in the school. It was this play that started many hopes of succeeding in the bigger plays to come. Early in our Sophomore year we chose Mrs. Burket as our adviser.

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Eighth Grade ROW 1-D. Shilliday, A. Thomas, S. Pyle, G. Perry, N. Simons, B. Rice, E. Sollinger, K. Rivers, M. Tidd, B. Morrif son, E. Peterson, J. Mott, P. Porter, C. List, F. Paden, M. Ward. ROW 2sff'D. Morris, N. McCelland, V. Phenicle V. Silata, N. Yeager, J. LeGrand, F. Reib, J. Ward, P. Rose, J. Royer, L. Shields, E. Potts, E. Witfield, M. Parker. ROW 343. Minnick, P. Peterson, H. Reed, D. Linsley, P. Smith, R. Schull, N. Simmons, S. McCarter, M. Maitland, B. Smith, J. Shilliday, D. Young, L. Willyoung. ROW 4-F. Ramfos, C. Thompson, B. Martin, K. Van Brussel. J. Schuessler, R. Reitz, R. Rhoads, A. Sterner, L. Snyder, P. Shaffer, D. Sifter, B. Reid, E. Riddle, Riddle, R. Smith, D. Weaver. ROW 5-W. Orr, G. McFarlane, J. Moorhead, J. Montgomery, K. Marwood, J. Merck, F. Lepley A. Vokalek, G. Mclntire, D. Mitchell, B. Tidd, j. Vergis, D. Troup, R. White, G. Wright. V. Smith, R. Wiegel. 1 9 qv AT LAST WE ARE NEARING OUR GOAL. By the second week of our junior year we were busily working in the concessions at the football field. Some of our willing workers found it quite a feat to sell hot dogs and watch the game at the same time. Nine juniors were out there defending FHS. Some of us sold candy and pop at the basketball games while others were getting in their share of plays on the floor. By this time we had grown up enough to stage the play, Meet Me in St. Louis . We still smile as we remember Mary Baker and Sue Riddle in their long dresses, black stockings and high button shoes, and the roar that went up from the audience as Mary tried to bite Dick Gillingham's leg, or the party that followed on the last night of the performance. The hard working play cast was soon retplaced by an equally hard working prom committee. After numerous meetings a fairyland theme was chosen. Then ollowed long hours of making pro rams, drawing the never to be forf gotten pictures of Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and many others. These pictures, abfy drawn by Rick Bleakley assisted by other members of the committee, adomed the walls of the gym the night of the dance and were later carefully laid to rest in the third floor for future generations to admire.