Franklin High School - Franklinite Yearbook (Franklin, PA)

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DECEMBER 1950 THE LONG ANTICIPATED EVENING OF THE PROM finally arrived and found Betty Lou Anderf son and Bill McGuckin as queen and king. The court consisted of Jim McBride, Mary Baker, Jay Rhoads, and Sally Morris with Larry Morris and Peggy McDowell as crown bearers. At the beginning of the second semester of our Junior year, Bill Gaiser, Peg Walz, Pat Brown, Dick Haggerty, Sue Riddle, Barbara Porter, and Charlotte Serge were honored by being asked to become members of the Franklin Chap' ter of the National Honor Society. Bill Gaiser and Peg Walz served as president and secretary during their Senior year. On the Hfth day of September, 1950, we embarked upon our last lap of the long and toilsome journey with a company of 136. However, a few, eager to venture into matrimony, left us during the year. We missed one whole assembly when we met in the gym the first week of our Senior year to iron out a few important problems. Officers emerging successfully from the election that day were Jay Rhoads, president, Charlotte Serge, secretary, John Harris, treasurerg and a tie between Jim McBride and Dick Haggerty for the vicefpresidency. After casting the votes over again Jim McBride was elected. At the meeting the class chose white and maroon as the class colors and decided the girls' robes for graduation should be white and the boys' maroon. Following this meeting the yearbook staff selected a cover of maroon and def cided that the Franklinite for 1951 should be a diary of our year s activities. Three successful record hops were held after the football games. Early in the fall we ordered an assortment of Christmas cards to sell, and you could always pick out the Seniors as they went about burdened with an armload of samples. ROW 1-B. Fleming, N. Good, S. Blair, L. Crisman, P. Carlson, D. Barlett, L. Graham, J. Griflin, J. Beach, D. James, S. Hughes, S. Hughes, L. Hexamer, J. Hoover, S. Bolmer, A. Colella, R. Eaton, P. Amon. ROW 2-E. Burns, R. Graham, N. Crisman, A. Gyder, M. Gourley, D. Deeter, S. Fogle, J. Burrell, B. Kelley, S. Graham, R. Brown, L. Fahey, T. Keating, S. Harris. ROW 3-G. Abel, D. Frazier, G. Ferringer, G. Gibson, M. Aylesworth, QC. Engles,' S. DeWoody, D. Dille, E. Bean, L. Boughner, L. Harry, J. Heffern, R. Borell, R. Harter. ROW 4-D. Keller, R. Beatty, D. Blanchard, R. Dykins, J. Fulmer, D. Hircsina, L. Ferrare, P. Cunningham, R. Hovis, K. Jaillet, D. Baker, J. Green, H. Card, P. Hawf kins, B. Adams, B. Heller, R. Johnson. TOP ROWAC. Black, P. Bleakley, D. Bowning, R. Baker, D. Anderson, A. Hayes, J. Doyle, J. Harrison, A. Dailey, E. Haylett, B. Johnson, D. Henshaw, B. Hunter, J. Brink, M. Boughner, H. Beers, M. Boughner, G. Fry, E. Harry, E. Johnson.

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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.

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Freshmen g . ,..-.-X ROW l Al. McKinley, A. Sheafer, M. Noggle, C. Rennard, N. Wile, C. Yetka, V. Young, A. Nestos, bl. Zilhaver, C. Sibley, A. Patterson, hl. Sutman, D. Miller, S. Wright, N. McMurdy, G. lviorgan, nl. Miller. ROW 2 bl. Rhodes, C. Snyder, D. Long, D. Sutley, P. Steele, B. Morris, E. O'Brien, V. Pachla, A. Leta, D. Kriek, E. Sandieson, J. Reeves, E. Weaver. ROW BW bl. Turner, G. Wyant, P. Tirk, B. Woods, M. Smithhl. Spackman, M. Paden, C. Luton, P. Muse ul. Reid, B. Morrison, M. Sutley. ROW 4-J. Woolf, T. Wood, R. Stoebe, C. Krizon, F. Krizinsky, D. Klingensmith, C. Stainbrook, G. Leyda, Al. Smith, H. Page, R. Wood, D. Snyder, R. Wyatt, Ll. O'Brien, R. Moultoii, L. Stucke. TOP ROW-A E. Kresinski, D. Lawrence, D. Martin, N. Latshaw, C. Mitchell, bl. Snyder, D. Moyer. D. Wightman, G. Paden, hl. Poindexter, xl. Novak, W. Simpson, R. Nadig, D. Wood. 1 THE PACE IS GETTING EASTER. Shortly after the record hops a Senior dance committee started work ing on the decorations for the football dance, and the night of November 17, 19511, found the gym decorated with varif colored pennants clustered together and fastened at the center of the gym to a miniature football field with goal posts and all. The crowning of a football queen was the main feature of the evening. Mary Baker had been chosen as queen by the FHS band and was crowned by Ed Wihle, honorary captain of the squad for the season. Ted Brookhouser and his orchestra played for the event. We might mention here that FHS had been served faithfully and well for the last four years by Ginny Gramlich, Charlotte Serge, Nancy Dudley, and Mary Baker as cheerleaders. Our next big project was the Senior play, A Credit To The Family , and although we were hampered by the big snow, school being closed, the date changed, and other obstacles too numerous to mention, the production proved successful. We can still call to mind Pete Bargar, with his long hair and willowy figure reciting poetry to a bevy of girls Shortly after the first semester the new Senior members of the Honor Soceity were chosen. Those selected were Dick Gillingham, lim McBride, Phyllis DiPasquale, Susan Moulton, Shirley Wilson, Ed Wible, Nancy Dudley, Mary Baker and Rick Bleakley. April brought another Broadcast featuring Guy Stallone, Mary Ann Weigel, Pat Brown and many others of our classmates. And now, with Class Day scheduled for Friday, May 18, Baccalaureate for Sunday, May 20th, and Graduation for Thursday, May 24th, we face the future with courage and hope. 1. in-1 - QE