Lemasters High School - Parnellian Yearbook (Lemasters, PA)

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Tho choral clubs were full of Juniors. Our representation on the Vox Scholee staff had increased. Mackey end. Fai-lor were still the artists fthough they had to take a good many turkeys this year because they were getting 1nzy7.' Edna Hollingerg Betty Faith, and Ethel Houpt retained their reporting positions and B:ll1Q' Lowons his job as an rwssistant feature writer. Susan Rockwell became the new Feature Editor. Merrilll Bivens the Circulation Manager, with Mary Jarrett as his assistant, and Bernard Mcllucas and Harold Hswbnker assumed the roles of assistant printers. Billy Tailor, in addition to hs ,job as artist, did outstanding work es an assistant advertiser. The opening of the soccer season found Cheer Leader Bill Lowans hard at work. with two Juniors among his assistants--Merrill Bivens and Genifrede Smith. On the soccer team were Dick Hoge. Bob Hill and Glenn Miller. Before the Thanksgiving vocation we wont through the exciting ordeal of selecting our class rings. We fought and we fought- Mr- Lnusch had to mr-ke two speeches' telling us it was no life or death matter. To us it was. We succeeded in getting out of classes all afternoon- And we finally picked n ring to satisfy the mn,-jority. By this time, too, Junior Mackey had succeeded in crashing the dram:-tic circle--as e Romeo , too, in the garb of an ice-man. On the last nigxt before the Thanksgiving vacation he appeared as Pete McDonald in I.indn . We thought he was swell. CSo did his little nephew back: in the audiencmj V December found Coach Hoge and Conch Gonrhart warming up tho basketeers. Genifrede Smith end Kate Mills and Dick Hega made the varsity teams. Mary Jnrrett, Billy Failor and Paul Barnes saw action with the subs . Phyllis Rosenberry had been appointed manager for all girls' sports. Juni or Mackey and Bernard McLucss r-.re assistant managers for boys' sports. In intramursls our ,junior yerlr has 'been our worst one yet. The .girls fight over Rho is going to play and then end up by forfeiting the game. Even the boys have been guilty of several forfeitures, their excuse being that the competition is too strong. It sounds like a qu'lttcr's excuse. we know, but for some reason or other wo are not ' . sports-minded as n group. Neither have we been shining in subject mutter. Pete said solid geometry was too solid for him. So was it for the rest of un, though Mr. Launch said it was our heads that were solid. Chemistry has been another nigxtmare. We soon found we couldn't slide through it either. We felt somewhat better about history until the third quarter report cards come out with eleven of ue drawing E's and nine of us D's . Maybe our Lines didn't make as big s. hit with the teachers ns we thought they were. To offset all these disgrsccs we have something to boast of. Two of us are air-minded. Robert Anderson and Donald Lawyer ore the only students in the history of the school to take flying lessons. Bob even made the front pages of the newspapers 1Pst Fall when he attempted to open a new, short--cut route to China. He didn't get through old

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games rather than lose them all. We were convinced that the intra- mural cup was not in Our linen. Of course we weren't worrying about such a small loss in glory, because Don Lawyer had figured out all sorts of schemes for ridding the world of Hitler. We were bound to become famous through him. Then, too, hedn't the Assembly Award come to us the second semester? We had wrested that from the conspiring and aspiring Juniors and Seniors. ,With all of our success this year misfortune too crept in. Hazel Hsun had to give up her appendix: Helen Reeder spent some time in the hospital under observation: and Ethel Houpt vanished into thin air for several months. Two ,other members left us for good. Blanche Sollenberger moved to Washington Township: Warren Divelbiss found too much spring work on the farm to continue his schooling. Jack Malone rejoined us in the spring--for baseball, but just sitting' in classes gave more pain than the baseball joy and he did. not last long. And so another commencement dawned, bringing us one year closer our goal. We went off to our summer vacations determined to make the third lap of our school careers more valuable to us than even the first two had been. On September 3, 1940, we cs-me back for that third lap , but determination ws.sn't riding in the front seat. We had grown lazy, and we made more noise than all the rest of the school put together. Wishy-washy, splneless Jelly-fish was what half of us had become. VHCHNOH had done some thing to us. CP.S.--Dan Cupid was partly to blame. He had begun nibblineg at some heartsJ When the roll call was taken we found that our numbers, too, had diminished over summer. Ray Byers, Nathan Funk. and Davis Nelling stayed behind with the class of '43. Roy Sollenbcrger, Lucille Parker, Edna Sites, Rachael Hackman, and Hazel Haun had given up their schooling. Hazel and Edna had become Mrs. . On September 9 we held our first class meetinrq, when we reelocted Junior Mackey to the class presidency. To help him we put in Bernard McLucas, as vice president, Mary Jarrett, secretary, Phyllis Rosenberry, as treasurer. and Genifrede Smith and Robert Anderson. athletic managers. To supervise the planning and practicing of the four assembly programs scheduled for us during the year, President Mackey appointed a Home Room Program Committee composed of Susan Rockwell, chairman, Harold Hawbaker, Junior Mackey, Billy Feilor, and Mary Jarrett. Nezr the middle of September our membership was increased from thirty-seven to thirty-eight, when Grace Oakman, formerly of Fannetts burg High School, ,joined us. The boys, for some reason, began to find it hard to keep their minds on their books. Put, just as we Began to get really worried Dolly pulled out for Florida and the toys got to work. By the end of September we had settled down to the regular routine of school life. Our desires were again being voiced in the School Council by Junior Mackey. Goldie Sires, and Ethel Houpt-

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Mother Earth, but he did get 'back--on crutches. Don is still vory new in the flying grune. When he rerchos the solo stngo it might do well for Hitler to take note of some of Don's plans for his exterm- inntion. Now commencement season is near again to mnrk the completion of another lap in our four-yorr relay. As the Pnrnollinn staff calls for this history. we are laying plans for zx Senior Farewell Banquet on Mpy 9. The place will probably be Caledonia. Junior Mackey, president of the class and toast-master for the affair, is already busy on those tor'sts . Wo aim to show the seniors P. really good time. At drxto our membership stands Pt the tirty-three mark. Five have been lost in the ye:-r's struggle. They are: Grace Onkman, Betty St.:-.rliper, Helen Jarrett, Glenn Miller, and Robert Hill- Bob ond. Glenn found nontnl owrk too ,greet a strain. Poor marks are hong- lng over the hands of several more of our members, too. Perhrlps even less will respong when the roll is cnlledln September. We hope HOL but until then we say So longin- Susnn Rockwell THE JOLLY JUNIORS We are the jolly Juniors With pep and vigor galore In both noise and good-looks We run ourselves up r. high score But in books and intra1m:r:w.ls . Our ratings could easily be more. We are the jolly Juniors Good followers cf the Golden Rule. Next yeau' iso expect to gltzduatc And end our cm-cor in this school. This, my friends, is just n sample Oi' the Class of Forty-Chvo, We are the jolly Juniors Yes-sir-o-o. Of sailors we have now Just thir - ty - 'thrc - o. But way at 'tho 'top wo rank .Ina-bil-li-ty. Susan Rockwell