Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

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 Some of the year's most outstanding assembly programs were: Norman Powell, the African explorer; our own Mr. Spurgeon B. Wuertenberger talking on Egypt; the two plays given by the dramatics classes: the chorus from the Overbrook School for the Blind; the program given by our orchestra combined with the Upper Darby orchestra; the Lincoln quartet; and Mr. C. Emerson Brown from the Philadelphia Zoo. Here we see assembly in full session—or should we say full swing? It's the L. H. S. hit parade, Thelma Hahn vocalizing with swing commentators Young and Lafferty seated on the side. Below, the Lansdowne band listens enthusiastically from the pit, while the student body reclines attentively.

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At the sound of the late bell, Lanny hurries to his place in home room to ferry Caesar across the Rubicon, to write a theme, or to bisect a few angles before the daily de-votionals. Miss Lindenmuth leads her wideawake home room in flag salute. These long lines lines wait expectantly on Tuesdays and Thursdays for our entertaining assemblies. Interesting speakers, from without and within our school, thrilling or educational moving pictures, short plays, musical programs moke up the majority of the assemblies. A new tradition is having a senior boy on the stage to announce the speakers and a senior girl to lead in the devotionals. This new custom will help our seniors achieve poise and self-confidence on the stage. Twenty

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Mr. Corbin's raised baton calls for attention. Our well-trained orchestra responds. Violins, violas, cellos, flutes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, horns, trombone, string basses, piano, tympani, fill the air with magic. Lanny Downes passes from class to class. Here are Janet Whit-combe and Virginia Westburgh ascending to Biology class. Bob Beck passes on his way to Trigonometry. Period II, Senior English class and Miss McCullough watch Berford Tomlinson, Ed Pollock, and Jack Muldoon acting in Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth. Our well-stocked library with occupants quiet and busy. Marianne Donohue stamps Geraldine Sponga's library slip; Miss Sheafer watches the far end of the room.