Hornell High School - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Hornell, NY)

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gfau Mhtoty 'k'k'k Some philosophers tell us never to look backward, and not too far forward. We should live mainly in the present. However, this book is one of memories, it is dedicated to a part of our lives which will, to a great extent, mold our future. In years to come, we shall look back and smile, tenderly or amusedly, at many fond memories of our high school life. This history will aid our recollection. V September 2, 1941, anxious and full of ambition, the new frosh entered Mount Joy High School, It was rather hard to adapt ourselves to high school life, but we gradually did it. This year we elected Newton Kendig, president, John Booth, vice president, Jeannette Nissley, secretary, and Nancy Ellis, treasurer. This was the year in which we wrote our autobiographies, this was also the year for the beginning of successful magazine campaigns. Dick Gerberich began his career as star magazine salesman. Our boys resumed their basketball careers on the junior high team, and Doris Eshbach and Newton Kendig were selected to be cheerleaders to help spur our varsity on to victory. Kathryn Leib and Newton Kendig represented the freshmen in the May Queen's Court. In the fall of '42 we returned to Mount Joy High School as sophomores. The hated appellation of greenies was passed on to another class. Our class selected its executives-Newton Kendig, president, Gene Myers, vice president, Kathryn Leib, secretary, and Doris Eshbach, treasurer. Again Dick Gerberich was high salesman in the magazine campaign. Then The Scourge of M. J. H. S. was presented by the 10B class in assembly. Our class was really busy this year, with all the dances and other extracurricular activities. Lee Rice enlisted in the Navy, he was the first boy from our class to leave Mount Joy High School to join the armed forces. It was in our sophomore year that there came a great day in our high school life-we ordered our school rings! Again this year Kathryn Leib and Newton Kendig represented our class in the May Queen's Court. We entered our junior year full of enthusiasm and pep. This year our class officers were Newton Kendig, president, Gene Myers, vice president, Betsy Bigler, secretary, and Virginia Shirk, treasurer. At last our school rings arrived. We started the year with a doggie roast at the Stone Bridge. Dick Gerberich was again the super- salesman in the magazine campaign. What's more, our class inaugurated the Sadie Hawkins' Day Dance, to which all the Daisy Macs and L'il Abners were invited. We really did a lot this year too-we made and directed a radio program in English class, and then Miss Deckard and Miss Zeller accompanied the physics class to Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. We chose our class colors, maroon and silver gray, for our pennants and hats. Our journalists, Betsy Bigler, Doris Eshbach, and Dick Gerberich, were initiated into the Quill and Scroll International Honorary Society. Above all, we made our stage debut in Every Family Has One. Doris Eshbach was our leading lady, assisted by eleven members of our class. Betsy Bigler and Newton Kendig were the May Queen's attendants at a dance sponsored by the juniors. The juniors also entertained the seniors at a semi-formal prom. This was the first affair of its kind at Mount Joy High School. Finally, maintaining our high scholastic standards, Mary Gerberich won the Dr. A. F. Snyder Memorial Prize in American History at the Class Day Exercises. Mostiof us entered our senior year with mixed feelings-some sorry, some glad. Our senior oliicers were Newton Kendig, president, Gene Myers, vice president, Betsy Bigler, secretary, and Erma Gainor, treasurer. When our class decided to have a yearbook, The Voyager, Victor Kupferer was appointed editor-in-chief, assisted by Doris Eshbach and Jeannette Nissley. We had loads of fun working at our senior stand, which was a great linancial success. Henry Wagner invited the class to his home for our last Halloween party. Then The Green Light, our second stage production, was full of suspense, with Virginia Shirk and John Booth playing the leading roles. Our school life has practically ended for most of us. Just Class Day, Baccalaureate, and the climax of our twelve years in school-Graduation Day-remain. High school was not just hard work, it was loaded with fun and full of experiences we will never forget. Twenty

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Cl! 242.4 21102 'kit Dear John: So you're the chief chemical engineer at Dupont! Nice going. You certainly have made use of your chemistry since those trying classes in high school. You probably didn't know it, but I am now secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania. I go to all the big conferences and take every single word in shorthand. But perhaps you'd like to know about the rest of the '45'ers on this tenth anniversary of our graduation. I've been trying to keep in contact with all of them, and so far as I know, this is what is happening to them. Our president, Newt, is a surgeon in New York City and is very successful in that capacity. While we're in the city, I may as well tell you that Nan and Herb have a dance team. They are much in demand at all the big nightclubs. However, they prefer to work with Ralph Hassinger and his orchestra. Some of the fellows who entered the service immediately after graduation have remained in it ever since. John Rosenfeld is now a Chief Petty Oiiicer, and they tell me he is quite popular with the lady-folks. Marine Sergeant Robert Hoffmaster and his wife are living at Parris Island, North Carolina, where Bob is an instructor of new recruits. Naturally our girls are represented in the service. Marian Shearer is a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps at Walter Reed Hospital. Irene Kuhn is a dietician at the Lancaster General Hospital. Betty Breneman is also working in Lancaster. She is a buyer for Hager's Department Store. Harold Eby is the general superintendent for the American Stores Corporation. He is married and is living in Harrisburg. Luke Bomberger owns his own store in the old hometown. Did you know we have seven teachers from our group? Jean Eberly is teaching in a rural school. Mary Stoner teaches in the East Donegal Township School. Erma is teaching English at the Lancaster Country Day School, having refused a position in the English department at Ursinus. ' Dot Sprout is an elementary teacher at Middletown, and Adelaide is teaching in Allentown. Doris was a teacher of English at New Cumberland, where she seems to have found romance. She was married last Christmas and is now a permanent resident of that city. Finally, Jeannette is a physical education teacher in Canada. Abie, our lover of the great outdoors, is a Pennsylvania game warden. Bill Longenecker is a taxidermist, well known throughout Lancaster County. Mouse is a foreman at Gerberich-Payne, while Bob Meckley owns a trucking company and has built up quite a name for our fair city. Ye yearbook editor is an aeronautical engineer. Bud is employed by the Curtis-Wright Aeronautical Corpora- tion. Gene Myers is a draftsman for a big architectural concern in Philadelphia. Molly is a social worker in Philadelphia and is doing a great deal toward bettering the slum conditions there. You've no doubt read about her work in the newspapers. Our commercial students have made use of their knowledge in their chosen careers. Kitty Hess is working in the stenographic department at Armstrong's. Jean Leed is secretary to the president of the Chrysler Corporation in Detroit. june is a receptionist for a doctor in Lancaster. Jean Neiss is supervisor in the clerical department of the John Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia. Jean Schefiier and Ginny worked at the Marietta Depot until after the war but have now settled down to house- keeping. Jean is living at Marietta, and Ginny in Harrisburg. Gloria and Art, of course, were married the summer after we graduated arid have a little girl. Harry Reheard has found himself in a whirl of adventure. His ambition was to become a. pilot, and he is now one of the best naval pilots in America. Bobby Tyndall is one of the officials of the Schock Independent Oil Company. He is soon to take over as head of the company. Dorothy Miller is the supervisor at the telephone exchange in Lancaster. Jim Hennessey is making a name for himself as a plane designer. He designed a number of the latest planes built by Grummun Airplane Corporation. Our class is not without a few farmers. Ed, Ralph Swarr, Bob Hess, and Henry are doing very well. They are all married and have very prosperous farms. This letter has been rather lengthy, but I'm sure you're glad to know how the members of the class have scattered themselves throughout the United States. Sincerely, Betsy Twenty-one 4