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

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A studenfs dream: on uncrowded school bus Goldlecxf ceiling in lobby

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Cherished Memories Serve as Lingering Reminder Those first few days are best remembered as a time when McCaskey High School was iust so many corridors and room numbers, nameless faces and faceless names. But we managed to hang on fairly well that first year . . . the year when cross country found a seat on The McCaskey sports roster in its first season since World War 2 . . . when a paratyphoid epidemic gripped The city, and all McCaskey swimming classes were closed for two months . . . when Lancaster playgoers were delighted with such fare as Time Out for Ginger and Mr. Barry's Etchings , and the lilting melodies of 'iBrigadoon were featured in the annual presentation of McCaskey's glee club and orchestra. We were well in step with this fast-paced world by the time our junior year arrived. This year the traffic situation was blessed with a teachers' parking lot, and the Tornado swimming team was blessed with the title of Second in the State . . . when once again our dramatics and music departments came through in traditional style - Seven Sisters and Sight Unseen were the plays, while the highlight ofthe spring concert consisted of excerpts from Carousel . . . when twenty of our classmates were chosen members of the National Honor Society, and the class met for the first time as a body to elect these officers: President Robert Metzger, Vice-president Douglas Weidman, Secretary Joyce Reynolds, Treasurer George Machlan, Historian John Hambright. Who can forget our senior year? The 20th year of McCaskey history. The year when the Tor- nado of Lancaster rose to become the leading fig ure in Central Penn football, capturing the cham- pionship from Williamsport on that memorable Thanksgiving afternoon in l957, and John McFalls and Barry Butzer popped up on everybody's list of top athletes . . . when John Hambright took the Pennsylvania State championship in the American Legion Ora- torical Contest, and Harvey Bricker, Frederick Mumma, and Ilse Thierne received recognition in the top group of the National Merit Scholarship awards . . . when McCaskey's freestyle relay team swam away with first honors in State competition, and Carl Shaar splashed home to a State second in the l5O-yard individual medley . . . when a veteran cross-country team outran all comers for the league championship . . . when the dramatics group broke away from comedy with a well-received drama, Night of January lo, and the glee club and orchestra tackled a full musical production of the Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan . . . when the school curriculum expanded to include instruction in Latin and French for three years and the first year of Spanish . . . when McCaskey was evaluated for the Third time in its history by the Commission on Second- ary Schools in order to compare and rate the school with other Pennsylvania schools . . . and-oh, yes . . . this was the year of vacations, expected and unexpected - three days for i6 inches of February snow, two more for 20 inches in March, two for E-l-B Day and Schoolmen's Day in October, a half-day to honor that championship victory over Williamsport, and, for many, several midwinter days in deference to the Asian Flu bug. These are the recollections of one class out of many - our class of 1958. May they serve not only as the final written record of our high school days, but also as a ready suggestion to our remem- bering in the years to come. lSignedl John Hambright, Historian Page 6

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Library, facing reference room School stadium filled To capacity at Thanksgiving Day championship football game sf if ,f,Mi,vM