Franklin High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Carbondale, PA)

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THE JUNICDR CLASS Closs I-Ilstory F we were To wave a magic wand over Thus school or maybe seT back a Trme machnne a Tew years we would see a group oT brrghT excuTed loolong younc Ters enTerrnr3 hrgh school Tor Thelr TursT Tnme To sTarT an advenTure-ous and lnTeresTrng school year as Treshmen rn The Benlamun Franlclln l-Tlgh School A we enTered The school we assembled ln The aud4Torrum There a shrrrng Tallf was glven by Mr Coleman l-low anxrously we sTudued our new programs wrTh our new Teachers' ATTer acclrmaTlng ourselves To The Treshmen rouTrne we conducTed our TrrsT elechon oT clas oTTlcers The pupils elecTed were presndenT Thomas Farrell vrce pre rdenT Andy Grbson secreTary Vlarron Lalfe Treasurer Jaclc Gllhool The evenT gave The newly Torrnal Treshmen class an rnTeresT rn all The acTrvrTres oT Th school ano made Them a parT oT T A subseguenT Tunchon was The publlcaTlon oT a school paper The Treshmen were rap dly esTapllshrng a TooThold rn exTra currrculum lrTe oT Th school During The same year we drsplay d our soclal lnclrnahons by sTagmg a sporT dance Qur TaculTy advrsors Tor The dance were Mr Brunner and Mass McFadden Qur rnTereT rn oorTs was unmaTched Th Treshmen cass was always represenTed n Too+ball and baskeTball and The boys oT our class who rlay d on The Jun or VarsrTy helped To malce TT a wrnnrng squad Some oT The ouT Tandrng c ayer wer J mmy Smedley Donnre Le and Bruce STeph ns On Frrdays and pecral occa Tons The TudenTs were glven orPorTunT s o ex r Therr TalenT On one such occas on Lo s l-Tall Lo STanTon Mary Van Dres and Ann Parrse under M s Boylans d recT on pr senTed an ouT Tand no cr grann based on mlTary seryr es and home TronT workers AT Chrr Tmas Tme Two nTer , . - 32 . . , ' 3 . X . 1 Q . . , , - 5 T I .I I , . , . . . . a T 1. s A T - -3 . . 3 . . . . 3 s . 9 1 l , J 9 I ' ' ' . s ' ,T s , 3 f l ' Q 1 s s , 5 ss we T s e - clse ' s, f T A Ts , T, on 1: 1 : 'Z S xl T O , . -. , J ' Tl ' C - . S 1 I -

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THE PIONEER I946 THE SCDPHOMORE CLASS Class I-Ilstory N Serlernoer 5 I944 Two hundred and lorly lwo Fr shm n enlrered The door ol Benlamln Franlchn l-hgh School lremendously exculed over lhe lmporlanc of lhe occaslon buf a bl dlsappounl d fha? b cause ol a decrease IH enroll menl lhere would be a lull day schedule ln conlrasl lo 'rhe hall day of The precedlnq year S nce were fearful ol malclng mlslalces we were relieved by every one s apoarenl desure lo help us The larsl Fr day found u ln The audnlorlum alleno ng an assembly al wn ch schedules room numbers and all lh rules of lhe cho were excua ned lo us ln delall oy Mr Coleman We found l C1l'lCull' lor lhe lr werlc b com ng acgua nl d wllh our schedu es bul Hr wa nol long before our cla sn we e runn ng smoolrhly and lhe dally roullne ol hard worlf began Soon aller our me room were organlzed ahd home oom repr se ral ves eecleo We dld no elecl c a s oll cers for + wa nol lne cu lom lor Freshmen 'fo do so Our l rsl year was a succ ss n v ry respecl Our choo won lhe Lackawanna League Basrelball Chamolonsho by deleaf ng Cenfral IO a Pay off game held ln ma y ol lhe C ayers Durlng +he wlnler some oulsland ng assemo es were arranged Ju l o lo Chr s+mas vacahon he band cresenred a hne con err Two lays were T on unde lh d ecl on of lvl ss Score lvlr Coleman arranged +wo olher nler es+ ng 3 semr e one hcw oy a mag c an and ine o er by an rl mafhemal c an g eba on e mc e ame o B J er a se J ,' , , - 3 e 3 l l 1 l l f 1 Q I3 ' , I ' ' e , e ' - l l ' ' . l we ' l , ' - ,l I V . ' l s ' ' ' '- E Q 'T , , , e 3 o , l 7 ' l ' l . . l. ll I H 2' X 2 e ' l e ' ' , ' 3 . 2 ,s . . . , Q no 9 f ' . r e n f 3 , '. ' ' ,l l 5 ' , f s f s . ' e ' 2 e . C , , 'C 1 ' 7 ' ' ,l - , ' Scranlon. We nad a line Jayvee learn a5so fo which lhe Freshmen Class conlrlbuled , rt rl l . ' ' . ' 5 . 'lf , ', 's l 3 re A l l. ' T ' ' .c . c' cu' - r -e If ll 7 . l l E - . .' fi' J' S il ., l l l ' fn la 5153 - 4 7 .. lr 'he srln ba: 'l c r- cf , bacll .Fl-l F, all a lfc ,ol rnany yeau