Hagerstown High School - Heiskelite Yearbook (Hagerstown, MD)

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.. The Heiskehte .. PROPHECY lt was a very hot day in late July, the year isn't really important, so we'll just forget about it. Our scene is the front porch of a cabin in the Kentucky Moun- tains. The characters are two members of the Hagerstown High School. You ask how they got here? They'd like to know the same thing! Oh, you want to know who they areg well, let me see nowhl think if we take a closer look, or if we whistled maybe theyid turn around and give us a smile. There, you see, one of them is Bob Earley and the other? Of course, Libby Krebs. They seem to be in earnest conversation about some matterg perhaps if we moved a little closer we could hear them. Shall we? Say, Li-b, ipeers' to me thu last time I see'd Betty and Dick Myers was et the Prom in 1946. Wander w'at they bin doin! They was a cute couplef' Yea, I 'mem-ber 'em. As matter a fact, I wander wa't happened to all thu kids in thut class. Well, some of em turned out purty good I hear. Let's see now, they was them four dang gals that wanted to be actresses er sumpthin. Seems as how they are all good uns at that. Them was Mable Fentress, Betty Jane Bupp, Carrie Brewer, and Dorothy Williams. And them thar farmin boys has done a swell job a lixin up the land over the country. Bow Sowers, Bill Ricketts, Dale Bink- ley, Bob Baer, Leon Michael, Ralph McCauley, and Richard Rice is thu ones I mean. Course Bill Calhoun, too, but the Navy and jean got hold o' him. I heer'd from Jeanne Hull the other day 'n she say'd thet she, Albert Werk- ing, Charlotte Miller, and Franklin Stanley has used their knowledge of math to the bestest use by goin' into some field ol accountinl Then Betty Bittinger went into some kind of Advertisin' and they say she is doin' line. It thet so, allers know thet thet gal would be good someday. Betty Mar- tin is a real good airy plane hostess and Bob Rohrer, Sarah Bolser and Bob Wolf- kill are airy plane drivers. And Bill Robertson, Jake Shirey and Red Sellman is beg Arch-Archi-whal buildin designers. Whew, I gotta stop an git my breath. Yea, I think its about time you let me talk, cause I got some news: jean DeVore, Barbara Kanaga, Billie Fleigh and Doris Gossard are real line picther drawers. john McMurtree, Charles Dashnaw, and Bob Bitner are workin fer DuPont in some sert o chemistry. I hear'd thet Jennie Badrich is a dress de- signer. 'Member thu time her brother show'd us thu costume she made fer 'Oscar'? U

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. . The Heiskelite . SENIOR CLASS HISTORY The class of 1946 is the first peacetime graduating class in four years. This fact alone should present a brighter future for the 300 odd graduates. The class of '46 has made news, and seen news made in our four years. In the ninth grade as freshmen we became youth at war. We will never forget that Monday, De- cember 8, when classes were interrupted with the news that the United States had declared war on japan. That infamous day not only altered our classes for one day, but it altered our lives for the next four years. Nevertheless, we did our part in winning the war. We bought war bonds an-d stamps. We joined many types of benefit organizations, and many of us waved our brothers and sisters off to war. To those who did not return we pay tribute. During the latter part of our summer vacation of 1945, mankind's most hor- rible war ended. The Atomic bomb, which meant the dawn of a new era, had hastened the day. That new day gave us all new hopes for the future, as we en- tered our Senior year. As we near the time of our graduation we cannot help but look back at the progress we have made. We marvel at how short a space of time it took for us to complete our high school education. We remember only too well that won- derful feeling of graduation from junior High School. Most of us came from schools much smaller than Hagerstown High, and in our sophomore year we were inclined to feel a little lost. The junior year seemed to be that in-between year: some of us felt as if we had passed our worst year and that our best was to come. Then came that year of all years-the year when we became Hsophisticated seniors. This school year of '45-'46 has been a very important one right here in the portals of H. H. S. We have seen the adding of two new courses in the school. This year a new radio course was offered in the school's program of study. The course, under the name of 'tRadio Workshopf' gave experience in radio writing and speaking. The other new course was that of Journalism. All types of newspaper writing will be studied by this new course. Equally important is the advancement made by the vocational and agricultural programs. In some respects you can compare our progress and learning these past four years with that of a War Bond. At first mention this sounds remote, but not if you consider it. Let's say in the ninth grade in our freshman year, we took out a bond. As the next three years sped by our bond gathered interest. There were those along the way that cashed in their bondsg some had no choice, while others could have held onto their bonds. Now our bond as reached its maturity date. It will pay off a dividend-not in money, but in something all the wealth in the world cannot buy, an education. 16

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. . The Heiskelite . . PROPHECY QContinuedJ Shore do, talkin a makin things, you should see the new set of false teeth Morton Weston made me. Purty dang goo, fer chawin! Was goin ta get Huck Hayzlett to make 'em fer me, but he was -too busy makin A's at the Uneversecty. Margaret Finfrock is assistin that dentist husband of her'n in his office too. Dor- othy Knapp is doctorin up the wound Bill Cosey got durin that fight last week with thet killer, he works fer the F.B.I. ya know. USO I've hear'd, Shirley Baker is doin some draftin at Pangborn and Helen Buchanan is working fer the guv'n't as a Diet-fixer. Peg Weller, Mary jane Cri- der, Hazel Sweigert and Ed Schindle are in some kinda' business and Barbara Ward is studying merchandizing. Carmen McDermott, Luella Rice, Betty Coss, Gay- nell Kidwell, Betty jane Reese, Virginia Lee Hook and Belle Davis, them thar white collar workers. I wander if Belle still hears from Eddie: boy she really got thu letters from him! Doris Clopper is a Home Demonstrator or somthin. I wonder if she still goes a skatinf' Cain't rightly say, but I heer'd that Barbara Gibney is a right nice florist. And them bee-u-ty opperators: Grace Creek, Yvonne Scott, Marie Snyder, Mae Moats, Joan Glessner, Betty Kroeger, Helen Knipe, Marie Pressel, Margar't Mills, Phyllis Weikert andl Peggy Miller, is doin' a real good job. Peggy fixed ya up, didn't she? Thelma Middlekauff is a model workin' at one o' them de-part-ta- ment stores in New York. Bettie Weber is the lib-rar-un over to the big buildin at school. Grace Mercereau and Fred Spigler just got thar first books publish- ed. Neither has named 'em yet, though. Now they was a funny pair-Grace alloys tryin' to keep the fellers a guessin' and Freddie al'oys havin' trouble with the Stuff and sich things. Giss thet was life though. 7 Hjanice Wolfe, Phyllis Pryor, Lorraine Martin, Charlotte Shull, Helen Cave, Virginia Browning, Doris Peterson, Mary Johnson, Jeanne Price, Gerrie Ruth- rauff, Bonny Boyer, Louise Eckard, Betty Crilly and Maybelle Horst are all them thar gals that work fer bosses in a office. They say thet the Tel-le-phone Co. got a nice bundle of kids to work fer 'em now. They was Tess Alexander, Doris Batt, Marie May, Irene Munday, Doris Easterday, Juanita Spielman, Lena Mae Diet- rich, Betty Jane Troupe, Gladys Weaver, Helen Hawbaker, Hilda Hause, Betty jane Shoemaker in thu group. I heer'd it said thet Howard Watson is quite a sales- man, of course, he alles was sorta' sold on june. HI heer'd thet Charles Stine and Stanley Chatkin are doin' nice in Radio. Ted is tryn -to teach his wife, Arden, thu stuff, too. They took ther fust case to George Snyder and Charles Sponseller, the best lawyers in town! See'd by thu paper where janet Everline and Delores Davis found some stuff to kill bugs- over in thet Science Lab they work at. Wonderful, what them kids from our class did with their lives, ain't it, Lib? 4