John Piersol McCaskey High School - Echo Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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june 15, 1950 . . . this date marks the end of three happy years of high school life for the one-hundredth graduating class from public high schools of Lancaster. just as they did for the first graduating class, our high school experiences-unforgettable contacts, associations, trials, and decisionsfwill remain in our minds. W'e are striving in this 1950 l'Echo not only to record the story of our life in high school, but also to depict some of the little things that will make high school more real to us when we look back in the years to come. These little things symbolize familiar scenes around the school . . . the crowded school bus, the convenient side entrance, the jammed hall intersections, the gang in the cafeteria, the over-flowing locker . . . things that add so much to high school life. This book is intended to be a yearbook rather than just a senior class book. There are sections devoted specifically to the sophomore, junior, and senior classes. Anyone H- from any class or coursefcan look at this book and find some phase of it that brings back some special memory. But to us!the seniors! it is more than a mere record of the events of the past three years. It is a symbol of a stepping stone of our lives. It marks both the end and the beginning-the end of twelve years of school life that will never live again, and the beginning of a new future that will lead us toward the goals we have set. If this book-the 1950 Echo -can in the future serve to bring back memories of high school life as it really was, it has reached its goal. Y -Q., ill cl, I 'L ' mama lll 00203 Locale 6 Under Capable Leaclerslmip 12 Our Yury First Impressions ZZ Then VVC llCCOIllC Seniors 30 Our Line Wfas Always llusy 64 fXclvertisements ll2

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We, the class of 1950, dedicate this hook to john H. Rodman, a competent teacher and a helpful friend. Ever striving to develop perseverance in the students with whom he comes in contact, and always willing to use that Uextrall patience that helps a student over the difficulties and prohlems of high school life, Mr. Rodman displays an interest in training hoth mind and character. His patience and his interest in character-building make him ideal as an adviser to a Hi-Y cluh. Showing a personal interest in each hoy, Mr. Rodman has truly guided his cluh toward the high standards of Christian character which the Hi-Y proposes . . . clean speech, clean sportsmanship, and clean living. Fam'

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Um gfame Lancaster City, at the turn of the half century, illustrates a charming combination of the old and the new. Quaint farmers' markets, center of the Garden Spot of the XXf'orId, reveal cheerful relationship between city housewives and rural folk. The oldest tobacco shop, hardware store, and depart- ment store in the nation contrast with modern shops and fiveland-tens, Few sections of the country enjoy such economic balance as Lancaster, industrial payrolls being approximately the same as farm incomes. Lancaster is famous as the home of the Amish, Mennonite, and Dunkard religious sects. These sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch, who are good, thrifty farmers, are largely responsible for the county's ix impressive crop production. Situated among rolling hills, covered bridges, old mills, and stone farmhouses, Lancaster's farm- ing countryside is the seat of many famous his- torical landmarks. The most prominent, XWheat- land, marks the home of james Buchanan, who was the only citizen of Pennsylvania to become President of the United States. North of the city are the Ephrata Cloisters, founded by the Seventh Day Baptists. The birthplace of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, is located in the southern part of the county. The Red Rose City lives, however, in the present rather than in the historic associations of the past. It is a thriving community which has preserved the rich heritage of the past.