Girls High School - Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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Girls' High School Graduates in Military C Nurses, Caroline Albright Helen Brossman Mabel Bucks Florence M. Burky Lillian Foreman Esther Fricker Florence Gerhardt Elizabeth Hodgkins Emily A. Holmes Mary Hunsberger Service lltll 5' ' ff Canteen Workers, Yeomenj Emma Loose Emma Martin Mary Schere Mabel Schofer Marian Seidle Katherine Spang Mary Catharine Stevens Florence Strause Helen Yerkes 2?

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ML I'eani 22 ... .. ........ M iss 10 ..... . ........ Miss I0 ..,,, . ........ Miss 15... . ..,..... Miss 2 .... ........ M iss 1 S I8 ........M1ss .. ......., Miss 19 ,,...,, ,....... M iss 7 ,,.. ,...... Miss 9 ....,, . .......i Miss 13 ..... , ...i..., Miss 1 1 ....... ......., M iss 21 ,,,.,.. ...,.... M iss 6 ,,..... ,.,..... M iss 5 ....... ........ M iss 14 ....... ........ M iss 20 ....... ........ M iss 4 ....... ........ M iss 3 ,,,,,,. ..,..... M iss 12 ,.,.... ........... M iss 1 ,....1.................. Miss Total from September Total l'I'HIll January 18 S.S.TOTAL 1 Q ' tk 'Rayz' :li A v 1. n V . Teacher Amount Hergesheiiner ..... .,,... S 9,241.75 Little U31 ...,, 2,204.89 Ruth .......... 1, Sander .... Swartz .... Fulton U31 Mattern .. Medlar ..,. Fulton UU ...... Little QM Johnston .. Bitlei' ...... Stephen ..,. Eidam ..,.. .. 1, I racy ..... Deck ....... Stahr ......, Gocher .... Lawson .... Hensor .... Meacham 1, 1918-December 31, 1918, 822,80 1918,lODeCe111l1C1'fi1, 1918, 352,17 85525344 Sixteen little Thrift Stamps sitting in a row, Take them to an agent with twenty cents or so, Change theni for a War Saving Stamp and for your loyalty You'll get a crisp tive dollar bill in 1923. We like the -Exchange 1 beautiful brunette, We don't despise the winsoine blonde, But best of all the girls we've niet ls little Miss Iona Bond. 704.42 282.28 998.37 963.68 945.02 914.22 608.71 535.18 486.62 465.48 462.25 456.58 352.42 305.21 241.54 227.09 146.24 144.99 120.63 7.57. 7.93. 19181. -Exchange. 21

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A Letter from France ISS CONSTANCE HALLOCK, teacher of French and history in our , school, left last year to enter the Canteen Service of the Y. M. C. A. She is now working in France and sends very interesting letters to the teachers of the High School. The following is one of her letters:- Dear Miss ........ :- The mail service seems to be improving so much that I hope the enclosed bit of native workmanship will reach you in time for Christmas. If it doesn't, please consider it a valentine or a St. Patrick's Day present, or whatever may happen to be the nearest holiday. I am at St. Nazaire, on the coast of Brittany, right where the Loire flows into the sea. This is perhaps not the picturesque heart of Brittany that you read about in story-books, but it is so old-world, just the same, that I haven't yet got over my delight at some of the things I see on the streets. It is a gray little stone town right on the edge of the water, with little black-sailed fishing-boats tipping along beside big blue and white camouflaged ocean-going vessels, sisters from the convent school, in gray Quaker-like costumes, shepherding a double row of girls in blue dresses and blue sailor hats to church ibut you notice that the blue orphans get a look now and then to and from the swarming American soldiers and sailorsj. The school boys and older men almost all wear the omnipresent blue caps with a hood, wooden shoes go clattering along the streets, and all the women of thirty or over wear white head-dresses of their particular locality. The woman who delivered the coal briquettes for my fireplace tin a push cartj had something like a stulied Tam-O'-Shanter on her head, covered with white lace, the little chubby old country woman who peels potatoes all day long in the canteen kitchen wears a cap with the stiii' strings looped up beside her ears, and another woman who works in the kitchen, whom everyone calls Finisterre because she comes from there, wears a peaked cap of white embroidery like a teacup bottom side up on top of her head. 1 want to get several of the different kinds before I go home, also some wooden shoes and some more lace. The lace is simply wonderful, not only the Brittany net work such as I send you, but Cluny and Venise, Valenciennes and Beaunais-I saw a little Alencon handkerchief today that cost Eve hundred francs-a hundred dollars. Imagine a little city the size of Pottsville having shops with such things as that! But, on the other hand, truth compels me to state that ,though Pottsville may not have four or tive shops at which you can procure priceless Alencon lace, still its streets are not six inches deep in liquid mud all time, and it has at least heard of modern plumbing and furnace-heated houses. If they would only combine the pictur- esque with the sanitary, how happy we all should be! Paris was wonderful, and in the eight days that I was there I managed to squeeze in considerable poking about the city, between lectures and conferences and office appointments which were necessary before the General Headuarters would send us out. I never had so many dealings with the police before in my 23