Lemasters High School - Parnellian Yearbook (Lemasters, PA)

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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

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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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soohw wmowvug vw an The morning of September 5, 1939, found fifty-one big-eyed, wonder- ing freshmen rxlighting from the 'buses in front of Lemesters High School. Either 'by esking meekly where to go, 'by following the crowd hoping they were going our wey, or 'by looking so forlorn someone took pity on us end directed us to our destination, we finally lnnded in our home-room. How relieved we felt--until Mr. Hege gave us our schedules. Every class met in rv different room. The rooms were plninly marked on the schedules, 'but how were we to know where was ilhere '7 Mr. Hege was some help, but then he wos ne' too. Consequently we did plenty of blundering the first several weeks. By that time we had begun to learn the routine of high school life, so Mr- I-lege suggested we now elect officers to lead us in matters where group action was necessary. Thereupon we elected: Thomas Fries, President: Mary Feilor, vice president: Lorme Molbucas, secretary: Clair Brant, treasurer: and Richard McCullough, historian. On October 6 the sophomores threw a party for us. Its purpose, they said, Cpropagendalj was to welcome us into high school. We never before had heard of hosts WG1C0m1h'rL honor guests with blind- folds, 'bed-testing stuff, perechuteless jumps, hot pokers, and other quite shocking apparatus. To top it out we couldn't eat until we walked out to the center of the gym floor to accept e partner. We were so beshful that it took some persuading, 'but we finally did it 'because we were getting hungry. When the party was ell over. we rather mervelled that we hed come througx in one piece. 'Ve might have been introduced to high school ways and somewhat toughoned by the process, 'but it hr-d not improved our love for the sophomores, end it hed not squelchod us. Dick McCullough, who had received on oxtre dose of everything but the refreshments, was still e prodigy --CThat's his word for him.j Looking beck over our freshmen record, we realize we were out- standing in extra-curricular activities for our eges. We gave the school two pianists lest year--Helen Gift and Lorna Mc'Lucns. Also, we hended over the school's tnllest boy, Dick McFadden, for n. center on Coach He'ge's versitv 'brwsketboll terun. Tom Fries and Don Miller made Jeyvee moteriel. Pug -and Thelma Miller were subs on the girls' squad. In soccer Conch Hemil found varsity materiel in McFadden end Fries, end second team materiel in Miller. These three with Clair Brent constituted our contribution to the bnsebell squad. Few freshmen classes hed ever furnished helf so much first-string versity materiel.