Hamburg High School - Pinnacle Yearbook (Hamburg, PA)

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,Mgt on ,4 wwf, JM .X4!'l'l6l , fel' For 52 members of the senior class, Hamburg's well-equipped high school becomes Alma Mater on June 1, 194-4. Many of these graduates began their formal education in the elementary school on Third Street. The hallowed halls of these two buildings hold memories that are dear to the hearts of all. As we depart and go our way, we ever will remember, our sad departure made in May, and long for sweet September. L, W Seven 11:1

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THE PINNACLE '7Ae0!a44aff9-Q4 Me .4 ' JauaamajMePwM-e!eia.- PRIVATE PRIVATE RUSSEL F. YODER CARL EDWARD MILLER Carl, an all-around athlete, was the second member of the class to enter the service. Winner of varsity letters in soccer, basketball, and track, he left school and entered the Army Air Corps on January l, 19443. He got his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and was then sent to Met- ropolitan Technical School in New York City. Upon graduation he was transferred to the Aviation Engineers and sent to Cowan Field, Boise, Idaho for maneuver tactics. After four months at Gowan, he was shipped to California and overseas on October 7, 194-3. He has served in Australia and New Guinea, and is at present on a small Island near New Guinea. Carl has earned a medal for expert rifle marksmanship. Six U. S. Army Air Force Russel, better known to the Class of ,44 and the students of Hamburg High as Russ,', enlisted in the Army Air Corps on November 19, 1942. In school, Russ, was liked by all and was usually the life of the party. He always wore a smile on his face and could always be found doing some- thing for someone else. He was a member of the Library Club for 3 years and was on the championship .l. V. basketball team of 1941. uRuss spent some time in Atlantic City and the State of Utah before being ship- ped out of thc States. He has visited several Islands in the South Pacino and at the present time is on one of the Gilbert Islands.

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THE PINNACLE SCHOOL BOARD William Merkle, Thomas Sanger, Holton Confer, Adam Hahn, Paul Tobias, Benjamin Wagner. Earn! Weefin , The Administration of the Hamburg Schools is handled by a very capable group of public-spirited men. Serving without remuneration, these men give of their time and their talents to assure the people of Hamburg of an outstand- ing educational system. Cooperation with the principal and teachers is the creed of this group. The members are: President, Adam G. Hahn, who has served as a member of the Board for seven years and as its president for four years, Vice-President, R. Holton Confer, who is now completing the fifth year of his first six-year term, Secretary, Benjamin S. Wagner, who has been a member of the Board for eleven years and has acted as Secretary for nine yearsg Treasurer, William A. Merkle, who completed his six-year term as a Director last December, but who has been retained by the Board as its treasurerg Thomas Sanger, who has been a director for three years, and Paul C. Tobias who was elected for a six-year term last November. . Theodore Confer, local attorney, serves the Board as Solicitor. Eight