Lemasters High School - Parnellian Yearbook (Lemasters, PA)

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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 .

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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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That took earo of all the girls in the class. We were all quite pleased with the outcome 'of' everyone of them. hitter all entering life in a world at war, with everything uncertain, hadn't been an easy taslc. It looked new as if the Class of '41 had succeeded in spite oi' a lcaliedoscepic world. Just as my thoughts had wandered far into day dreaming , I heard Mildred Reeder say, Isn't anyone going to ask about Dizzy ? How could we over forgot him. Oh, let me guess what Dizzy is doing, begged Helen. Of course sho was right on the first guess. It was bound to have something to do with sports. Yes, Raymond was o. famous sports cenu-nontator. My mind ran beck to our Junior History Class and all the speeches Dia used to give us on baseball. We all said then that he should bo a radio announcer. Guess what else! Ovorcash had married Flossie , that girl he had been teased so much about in 1941. I wondered if he still liked to play tricks as well as he did when wo were in high school. He ceuldn't have changed. ' . Creston Rosenberry, Mildred went on to tell us, had attended medical school in Philadelphia and was new o. full-fledged doctor in Gettysburg, whore he lived with the girl he had married. She was somone strange. None of thc girls ho.d over heard of her. I could hardly believe that Creston was new :1 doctor, but I was glad to lcncw that at least one had come from our class. Mildred said Creston had a large practice. He was sometimes called upon by the government for short periods of war duty. Phyllis told us that Harold Hamil owned several large trucks and was filling large government contracts for hauling defense materials to whatever centers they were needed. Harold drove one of his own trucks. Since his work took him almost anywhere, he was seeing e lot of the country. To our inquiries the girls replied that Harold had not married and, so far as they know, he wesnlt even interestod . New Mildred Phenicio gave us o piece of information that shouldnft have surprised anyone under the country's circumstances, but was rather shocking at that. The rest of the boys in the class were in the army. There were five of them - Rewo'Byers, Edgar Stoner, Marvin Bcelor, Guy Martin, and Richard Deck. Yes, they had all said back in '41 that they were going to join the army. I wondered what positions they all held, but Mildred knew the positions of only two - Rowe and Diek'. They were both getting somewhere. Both were new commissioned officers.- Rowo a first lieutenant, and Dick c. second lieutenant. Pepper , Lug, and Eddie were situated somewhere in the Panama Canal Zone. Although no one knew just what division of the army service they were in there or whether they held officers positions or not, we were all sure that they had to be getting along fine - since they were of the Class of '41, Someone mentioned Kate , but no one knew whether she and Eddie had been married or not. -We had always thought that sometime they would be, in spite ef Eddie's little escapades en the side-line. It surprised us new when we realized how much territory we had covered since we met for the evening - and we had consumed s. good-sized dinner, toe. We weren't doing the town up red by any means tonightg instead we were dreamy and quiet - reminiscing. I was sure we were never going to forget that night. But wait! I still wanted to knew a few things. We heard of so many others being married. Who-L ahonlx- the six girls here? Wore they all ll