Lemasters High School - Parnellian Yearbook (Lemasters, PA)

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together except that I was afraid they might make other plone during the day, and then wc could not all be together. ' Eventually Helen and lkbol como home ond immediately flung questions right and left, but I flatly refused to tell them anything - except that they were to hurry and dross as we were dining out with some very dear friends. After what seemed ages to me they were ready, and we took a taxi from the apartment to the cozy little res- taurant where I had directed the girls. The head waiter very grac- iously led us to the room I had engaged - so that we could 'reune to our hearts' content. The girls were already there. I'll never forget the expressions on their faces or on the faces of Mabel and Helen when the waiter opened the door . Helen and Mabel were so spell bound I practically had to drag them inside. when the shock had finally worn eff and we had ordered our dinner, Helen and I told the others how we had gone in training at the Washing- ton County Hospital, Hagerstown, Maryland and after completing our training there had taken the New York State Board Examinations to qualify ourselves for nursing jobs in New York. Eventually we had ac- quired our present positions, and had rented an apartment together. I has always kept up a correspondence with Mabel Weller, who had taken a business course and was holding a good job in Philadelphia. One day a letter had come from Mabel saying that her firm was transferring her to its New York branch. Immediately Helen and I wrote and invited her to come and room with us. We were new just one big happy family- Huving told our story we new urged the other girls to tell us how they had fared after they left Lemasters High School. Well , Phyllis began, os you remember back in school,wo told you we wanted to work in a factory, but we never thought about the United States' joining the war. However, wo went to work in the Stanley factory in Chambersburg, ond we get along well. After two years , however, the companymeved its factory to Philadelphia and enlarged it, Wo were invited to to the new factory as department supervisors. It was a nice hdvoncement, After talking it over, we decided to stay together, so we signed up, wont to Philly , rented ourselves a nice roomy apartment, and wont to work. We had been there for five yours when the United States entered - the war. Of course the Stanley Comapny, like all the others, was called upon to give what assistance it could in helping the war cause. Since we had had experience in personnel management, we were sont hero to help relieve the shortage in examiners for selecting the nurses suitable for service abroad, And are we over glad, new that wo have found you three , ehimod in Jenn. Jcan went on to explain that they were doubly glad - not only bc- cause they could be with us, but because they had been trying to learn our whereabouts. While at the Stanley in Chonmborsburg they had been transfer able to keep in touch with most of the Class of '41, The others they know the whereabouts of. We had been the only missing links in the class chain. New the chain was we were going to hear about all complete. How glad we were to know that our classmates, tee. We urged the girls to toll us everything. Sara fitter, they told us, had attended an exclusive dramatic school somewhere in the New Fmgland States and was new teaching drenmtics at the Fenmorc Dramatic School, located somewhere near New York. We had

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DHQODHUEQW My, what an exciting day in an exciting year - 1951! Somehow I had the feeling that something was going to happen today to relieve the monotony of inspecting nurses who were going' over to Emgland to do their bit to help the United States and England 'rrin what had turned out to be a fifteen year's war against Adolf Hitler. Mine was a tedious job - inspecting hundreds and and hundreds of nurses and not engaging them until they had passed every test and met every requirement ' I had received good news this morning and I felt rather refreshed. A telegram was delivered to me, saying that about twenty advanced factory employees would arrive to help mo select nurses. They had been employed in the personnel deparhnont, so they would probably know something about the nature of thc job, What a help that would bo, The telegram stated' that they would arrive at eight, and it was ten minutes until eight. Yes, there the train was pulling in - were those the girls that were to help me? They looked so attractive and strangely enough rather familiar - at least a few of them looked familiar. They seemed rather puzzled or confused about where to go, but finally they found their way up to the glass-inelosed inspection room. We were situated in an attractive building well-equipped with everything wc could want for our work. But to get back to my future assistants. With them I learned was a woman who already knew my name. That would be fine, She could make me ac- quainted with tho rest, As I sat at my desk waiting for them to enter the room, I wondered who it could be that knew my name. But here they were, I looked up from the report I was finishing. Awaiting my eyes was o. tremendous surprise . Among my classmates from good old L.H.S. strangers, But how good to sec Kcefer, Jane Eckstino, Catherine Reeder. We all began talking at many questions to ask, I, too, future assistants were several of my There were six of thom. The others wore the six. Hwy were Jean Barxnont, Phyllis Shoemaker, Mildred Phenicic, and.Mildrcd once. They had so much to tell me and so had many things to tell and ask, But wo rea ized that we had a job to do, so we made plans to meet that night at 11 selected place and tell all we knew, I was introduced to the remainder of tho group and then they wore sent to another room to receive instructions, I had more than one surprise up my sleeve for thc girls, because I -' knew where two more of our classmates were. I hurriedly wrote a note to the head stenographer in our division and requested her presence at our gather- ing that night. She was none other than Mabel Weller - our ovm beloved Blondie , I also sent a telegram to the Superintendent of Nurses at the Soldiers' Hospital - she, too, was requested to attend. The superintendent was my own old pal, Helen Heisey - BecW and I were still together. The hours flew swiftly by that day, for I lcnsvr that in the several rooms.oi' the building several of my old classmates were serving Uncle Sam just as I and many more were, I hurried home to the attractive little apartment I shared ttth Helen and Idabel. I would not have sent them notes about the evening's get-

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hoard of the' school. It was just n short distance up the Hudson River -- - and o, very, very exclusive place. Sc.ric really had a position. Sure, however, that she would be glad to soc us, wo decided to give her a sur risc visit Sunda . Sean then offorodythe information that hor old pal Juno Mollott was a kindergarten tcachor in Washington, ELC. . Always having been fond of little children, June had rorxlizod her high school ambition. Sho was vor hd p Joan said. ' y l:io.iy':,about Vera? Mabel asked. True enough, Vera had married Charlie soon after commencement.. They new had a little son about four years old. They were living in Chicage, where Charlie had a good position making patterns for airplane parts in one of the large companies that was filling government orders for warplanes. Laura Mae Brant, too, had married soon after graduation, Of course it was Wink - and 'Lam-ie new lived in Detroit where Wink was manager of a large mink farm. Apparently they were getting along fine, and said Jane, They new have something more precious than Winlc's job . We guessed a child, but we were wrong for Jane continued, They are the proud parents of three year old twins - a boy and a girl? Glancing about the group my eyes fell on Catherine and immediately I thought of Leona, our only red-head. Catherine reported that she too had realized her ambition - to be a school teacher. Leona had attended Shippensburg State Teachers College and was now teaching in the grade schools of Waynesboro. Both the pupils and the patrons were fond oi' her. We were glad to hear it, Catherine also told us that Sam Meyers had worked himself up to the position of head boss in the Landis Tool Company, Waynesboro. The war had caused the company to expand greatly, so Sam' really had a very im- portant job. Sam' was married, too, but none of the girls knew who the luolcy, girl was. We were left awfully curious, but we couldn't complain, asm' had been the first boy we had learned about, and the beginning had een very good. ' Where is our old yearboelc manager, 'Plotty' Mellott'? asked Becky'Q eager to hear about some more of the boys in the class. Plotty was holding a good position at the Engineering Works in Chmnborsburg, where ho lived with a charming wife and sweet little daughter. The girls said there had been rumors that ho would soon be advanced to the position of vice-president, since the former one had died recently, Somehow we all thought back in school days that Plotty would succeed, Ho surely made D. good manager for the Vox Schelac- and the Parnellian , ' Jane had just received a letter from home telling her, among other things, that Nr. and Mrs. Harold Benedict had just moved to Baltimore, whore 'Bil1 had accepted n new job - governmental, of course. At first I didn't get the connection, then all of a sudden it dawned upon me that Mrs, Harold Bonodiok would be Juno Hissong, another of our classmates. So Junic had married, too, Well, good for hcrl I knew she was happy. Everyone always adored Junie . She cou1dn't bo anything but happy. And Betty Crawford was married! We had done well in tho field of matrimony. Botty's husband would, of course, bo Bob Yeager. Soon after their marriage in 1943 they had moved to Clarksburg, Virginia, Betty's homo before she joined us in our junior year, They, too, were h?ppy,1 and ich had a grand job. There woron't any children that the g r s :new o .