Laurel Valley High School - Laurel Yearbook (New Florence, PA)

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Prophecy As we look into the future, shall we say 1938, we remember our classmates and wonder how they are doing and why. We come back to our dear old Alma Mater and New Florence. Filtering the city limits, we see a beautiful new school building. We wonder if we could find out about our classmates in the ancient history department. As we enter the school, we see to our left a large book which tells where, when, how, and why. After gazing through the log books, we decide to make a cross country tour of the United States to see our former class- mates. Well, a trip by plane is the best in this modern age, so we journey toward the north- ward side of the town to the airport to charter a plane. As we take off. we decide to head south over the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Continuing south vard, we pass over Jacksonville, Florida. Below us we see a large boom town which is not charted on the latest maps. We land to look around this new city. As we step from the plane, we are met by some of the town's most prominent citizens. Gazing around the crowd, we see, to our amazement, a young man by the name of O'Shell smoking a brand of cigars of which we have never heard; but back to O’Shell and, How is the world treating you, Mr. O'Shell?” Just fine, just fine! Watch out for that jet plane. I’ve been experimenting with those things down here for a year now. Yes, sir, I'm working for the Navy as a research chemist. Ah, yes, and while we’re speaking of the Navy, a new Naval Reserve Armory has just been constructed here and Cmdr. D. W. Graffius is the head of the outfit. Incidentally, my boy, Robert, Jr., is one of the Commander’s C.P.O.’s and is doing a fine job, too.” As we leave the airport and journey into town, we pass a small radio station where we find Mrs. Nesmith (the former Miss Moore) who is a practical joker on a truth or consequences program. Also just leaving the station is Mary Galbraith who is playing the part of Baby Snooks as an understudy for Fanny Brice. We might add she is doing a fine job too. After a chat with Mary we head for the business section of the city. We pass the town’s most prominent citizen and president of the New National Bank, none other than Barbara Martin who is still as gabby as ever. Who is that cute nurse coming down the street with a sailor on each arm? Oh, well, I might have known it. Yes, your guess was right. It’s Mary Boyle and she is just as cute, quiet, and bashful as always. Hey, look out for that guy. He'll hit you on the head with that tamping pick. Hey, Shannon, don't you watch your men any better than that? Oh, you’re president of the railroad. I’m sorry, I thought you were still tamping ties.” After we cross the railroad tracks, we decide to go in for a bite to eat at Frank Rehn's delicatessen. As we enter, Duane Rager passes us on his way out. Is he in a hurry? All we got was a passing glimpse of him, but I guess that's a lawyer’s life for you. Always on the run. Pardon me, miss, but could you find us a table? Well, blow me down, here's Miss Winebrenner as Frank's head waitress. How is Frank today, Dolores? Oh. he’s just fine, but he’s out just now. I believe he said something about going down to Gable’s new dancing school for a jitterbug lesson; then he had to visit a couple of the local farmers. 1 believe he went to Charles Galbraith’s for some chickens and then he's driving over to see the ever prominent and always popular Roy Richardson to see if his Conemaugh Valley Boys will play here next week. Then he was going somewhere else too. Oh, yes, he had to go down for his special dish of ice cream at Bob Conrad’s Dairy Store. Then, of course, he had to put an ad in the local Gazette; therefore he went to arrange for that with Claire Sutter, the editor. You can see he’s pretty busy. 20

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Class Will We, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Forty- eight, of the New Florence High School, City of New Florence, County of Westmoreland, State of Pennsylvania, being not less than four years of age, of sound mind and body, of amiable disposition and fair character, and realizing the inability of the under- classmen to travel the road ahead of them unaided, do make, declare and publish this, our Last Will. Item I. Advice to all underclassmen: Never play hookey unless there is no one at home. We have tried it much to our disappointment. Item 2. To the teachers: We leave pleasant mem- ories of the Class of '48. Item 3. We will to the Juniors . . . the window blind, candy stand, monopoly on all money- making activities, and also our treasured P.O.D. books. Little do they know what they contain. (Neither do we.) Item 4. To the Sophomores we leave our individual initials which, of course, are on all desks. Item 5. We bequeath our dignity to the Freshmen. We honestly hope they will have the honor of being Seniors within three years. Item 6. We, as individuals, wish to will the following personal traits to show how much we love each and everyone of you. Mary Elizabeth Boyle: Her ability to play volley ball to Alberta Boring. Dolores Winebrenner: Her beautiful, black hair to Jean nine Adams. Anna Grace Killen: Her ability for secretarial work to Joan Overdorff. Charles Galbraith: His small, but mighty, features to Francis Deyarmin. Nancy Kirschner: Her supposed ability to bluff the teachers to Neil Killen. We hope that Neil will appreciate this act of kindness. Donald Graffius: His vocal talent and acting ability to Lois Wallace. Barbara Martin: Her business tact and humor to Olive Martin. Mary Galbraith: Her means of transportation to Skip Mack. Charles Bennett: His special technique” with the girls to Bob Brant. Robert O'Shell: His dexterity to aim paper wads to Robert Shannon. He also wills his special pronunciation of such words as can't (cain't), and squirt (squoit). Roy Richardson: His ability to pick up any instrument and really play you a song to Duane Carney. Claire Sutter: Her intelligence and originality to Dallas Caldwell. Robert Conrad: His ability to sleep on hardwood desks to Ray Boring. Louise Moore: Her clever tricks to Joker Haire. From what we hear he needs these. Emma Rummel: Her best wishes and hopes that some day in the near future his dream of cooperation will be realized to Mr. Young. Cora Boring: Her ability to keep her hair just so” to Sally Trexler. Wayne Gable: His shoes to anyone who can wear them. Duane Rager: His perfect posture to Winifred DeWitt. Frank Rehn: His excellent position at T. D. Loves to Philip Cramer. Donald Shannon: His excellent blocking methods in football to Larry Cavanaugh. Having left all our valuable treasures behind u s for benefit of others, we the Class of '48, hereby set our hand and seal to this document this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight. Signed: 19 CLASS OF '48

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Say, this town is really booming, isn’t it? There’s Kirschner’s Nursing School and coming out the door is the co-owner of the school, Emma Rummel. Who is that lady coming down the street with a smile on her face and singing? Yes, that’s our carefree and happy Cora Boring. Whose children are those, Cora? Well, well, con- gratulations, my dear, and God Bless the little ones too. Well, that just about takes care of our classmates except for one, Anna Grace Killen. Oh, yes, now I remember. She was that cute secretary we talked with back in N.F.H.S. Yes, that’s she, the one who told us she was getting paid for being a secretary since they built the new school. Well, back to our plane to head for New Florence. Let’s journey up front to talk to the pilot of this crate before he lands. Listen, what’s that? Pilot to control tower, pilot requesting landing. 'Control tower to pilot. Come in, Bennett, the runway’s clear.” Class Song Now, listen all you teachers, schoolmates, friends and parents too While we sing a song to you, we sing it though we're blue. Here’s a little ditty that the Seniors have composed While the cover on their book of high school days is gently closed. Chorus — Oh, you can have it, we don't want it, it's too much for us. Sometimes it made us cuss, we really raised a fuss. But you can have it, we don't want it, finally we’re through. Here's detention, books, and tests, we leave them all to you. We got detention, we got scolded. We got together and this plan unfolded — Chorus — Could we figure square root? No! No! No! No! No! And do we give a hoot? No! No1 No! No! No! We're glad that we graduate In nineteen forty eight. Could we possibly very sorry be? No! No! No! No! No! 21