Grantsville High School - Arch Yearbook (Grantsville, MD)

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CLASS HISTORY We, the Class of 1951, entered the halls of Grantsville High School in l9L7 as enthusiastic Freshmen, knowing that would be the first class to graduate from the twelfth grade system Our class was divided into two groups with Miss Bor ror and Mr Grimm as our homeroom sponsors One outstanding event in our Freshman year was that of the operetta, 'Tulip Time,W presented by the music department of G H S On September 8, l9L8, we began to set our record as the s1lly Sophomores, and Mr Grim , with the patlence of Job, was agaln our homeroom sponsor The highlight of the year was the Prom given to the Seniors of l9A9 by our class With scarcely a trace of greeness left, we began our Jun ior year in September, l9L9, One highlight of the year was the play entitled 'Meet the Wifen we presented Th s was big success, we thought The long waited for honor of becomlng dignified Seniors room sponsor Dale Yommer was elected class president e play, WGrapes for D1nner,W which we presented, the many dances we attended, and most of all the Junior Senior Prom, made our Senior year the most outstanding in our eventful lives But with all of our memories of the past years we shall never for get our dear old Grantsville High School Even though we know that graduating from high school will mean endless sacrifices, we will face the future resolutely CLASS SONG KTune On the Mall P Class of fifty one tonight our hearts are light and ga We are brave, we are proud and we may, Hope for all a future with a pathway that is bright Where our goal we'll attain through our might Let us hear our voices ringing, Wwe are always ready,W Green and Gold, Green and Gold, lead us on! There will always be old G H S in long years gone, You're our joy, hope, and courage rare we O 0 0 . 1 a was ours in the fall-of 1950 with Miss Speicher as our home- . . Th ' ya 1

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CLASS WILL We, the Class of 1951, in the town of Grantsvllle, the County of Garrett, and the State of Maryland, being in good mental cond1t1on as usual, and 1n much better temper than usu al, do hereby make this, our last will and testament, render ing void and of no avail any former w1ll or wills that may have been previously made by us during a pe iod of temporary, 0ptim1Sm We have no specific direct1ons to leave concern1ng our funeral, but we do hope you will come prepared to praise well as bury us, forgetting the trifl1ng faults that may have been ours and rememberlng only our manifold and remarkable IN THIS MANNER DO WE DISPOSE OF OUR POSSESSIONS To the eighth grade class, we leave all the po1se and d1gn1ty of the Senior Class We leave the Freshmen our winning ways with the teachers We bequeath our ability to slide in and out of trouble to the Sophomores To the Juniors, we leave our ability to successfully pub lish THE LINK, our school newspaper To the princlpal and the teachers, we leave the undergrad- uates for their new pr1de and joys Jeanne Lohr wills her ability to dance gracefully to Ruth Michael Shirley Engle leaves her permission to sleep JJ1 Math Class to Cecilia Minick and her nPepsodent Sm1leW to Anna Ruth Turner. To Eloise Durst, Mildred Bittinger bequeaths her big, beautiful, blue eyes and smallness of stature Margaret Krause wills her brain and ability to argue to Selva Jean Broadwater To Jean Jones, Dortha Miller leaves her technique for jumping out of music room windows and to Margie Kelley, her ways with the Accident boys. Virginia Winebrenner bequeaths her good grades to Marvin Snyder and her soprano voice to Donald Rafferty J r O as virtues. . . . I O I O . I O O C O