Gettysburg High School - Cannon Aid Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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E x EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEQ HE2EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE! UEEEEEIIIIEII SENIOR CLASS HISTORY It was with insecure and faltering steps that the noble seniors of today passed through the frowning portals of this institution in 32 and with protuberant, excited eyes that they gazed at the multitudinous assemblage which had convened within the clean white walls re- sembling rectangular blocks of heaped snow fnot for longlj. The first day swiftly transpired as home rooms were located and schedules adjusted, finally classes and real work were be- gun and the neophytes were precipitated with dazzling swifmess, as it seems now, thru the initial year. The student's choicev of that year was Charles D. Binning whose unremitting labors afforded us with a handsome class party, resplendent in decorations of Ole Bill Waters who has continued in his tedious capacity as decorator and designer throughout the high school career. The sophomore year saw Phil Everhart in the executive chair. It was this year that we inveigled the permission to regale ourselves with an orchestra at the party. Then from the disagreeable obscurity of puerility we rose to the half-light which glimmers unsteadily and waveringly over the scholars of third year category. And from this period of awkward un- certainty we finally transcended to eminence of the senior year and basked in the golden glow of the Seniority. Occasionally a mist arose and darkened the customary brilliance of the position but whether the disconcerting mist emanated from us who enjoyed the gleam be- low or from those above us who move gracefully about like majestic banks of clouds which sometimes drop the sun,-concealing moisture, it always passed away leaving the atmosphere a clear and crystalline when we first entered the delightful state of shortlived nobility. From Fred Troxell's successful sovereignty over the junior year we, in uniform transition, passed into an eventful last passage. The social events of this final year were given impetus by the Fall dance which was held in the weird, ghostly atmosphere of the Hallowe'en season. The commendable embellishments which were originated for the occasion had the remarkable efficacy to produce titillating chills of momentary fright to shiver the spine. Several plays and under class parties constitute the entirety of social functions. We were well represented on the field of battle by Phil Everhart, Willie Weikert, George Hayberger, John Yingling, and other more recent stalwarts. Many of them have fought for the Maroon and White banner for three years laying aside all aspirations of per- sonal gain and striving seduously, diligently, collectively for the pearls of supremacy to place, in radiant glory, around the name, Gettysburg High School. In dramatic circles, Miss Mcllhenny cultivated and polished with marked success the latent talent which abounded in several members of our class. The junior class play, Top of the Worldf' cleverly portrayed by a cast including: Marg Hoffman, Francis Snyder, James Harness, Marian Sheely, Margaret Scott, Fred Troxell, Rachel Everhart, John Crouse, Reginald Zeigler, Dorothy Brown, Edna Trimmer, Mary K. Moticka, met with startling success and since that production our proficient performers have capably enacted other roles. As one last, grand, climactic gesture as a well-meaning class to the appreciative, general public the Senior class has chosen a popular and widely-recognized vehicle, Sidney I-Ioward's The Late Christopher Bean, which will require, for successful reproduction, the best that the class and directors can give it. Our journalistic friends have inaugurated some surprising, anomalous innovations into the venerable Maroon and White, which have been accepted.-We now leave to our suc- cessors an augmented paper, somewhat changed in principle and practice. In a month or so, at this writing, the music will go round and roundi' in the gym and couples will trip lightly to the scintillating harmonies of an orchestra playing for the peren- nial Spring Dance. Ar the same time the plans for a sojourn of several days in Washington must be realized. In the meantime, our thoughts proceed further to the grave, sobering matters of commencement, graduation and the vast, beckoning future. Soon we shall depart from school, surrendering our stations to an infiux of anxious, waiting successors, other faces will replace the familiar ones of the 36ers. Those same faces will go reluctantly for the last time from the sagacious chambers in which were manifested to us all the profundities of clandestine knowledge. Lost forever are the debates of Prof. Fidlerfs amateur politicians, gone is the trenchant satire evoked by negligent French scholars, a pleasant memory remains of Euclid and his researches. This fellowship of our class may dissolve materially but its spirit will live inextinguishably in the individual retrospections of our classmates.