Lemasters High School - Parnellian Yearbook (Lemasters, PA)

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second call from Bill , however, the ship turned aside to investigate. They found a life raft with six Cuban survivors aboard, who had been adrift forty-eight hours. For his find Lowans was given an ovation by Navy and Press officials in New York City, when his ship landed at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, - and a six day furlough. One day of that furlough Bill spent with his L. H. S. class- mates and with Emma, Emma is the freshman girl whose name Bill gave to the Press as that of his girl back home, but the color of whose eyes he was unable to tell them. Bill revealed to two senior interviewers, however, that he got that little matter of color straightened out first thing after he arrived home. Of all the places Bill had been he preferred without question the good old U. S. A. He found Chile the most attractive country of those he had visited in South America. The most unforgettable char- acter he had met in his travels was a German Jewish exile in Ecuador, who had been driven from Germany in the purge of 1938 and hoped eventually to get to the United States or Canada and find work. In general Bill liked the Navy, after his first siege of qualms was over. He joined up for the duration His ambition is to get in the aviation line of the Navy. His classmates wish him all the luck he needs and more. MARCHING I I 'v march for frcrdom and victory, Wo, llw Class of Forly-two, As we sland un lhc threshold of life Glim-psing a world fllcd with slrife. Alufays sil'ii'ing for higlxesl goals LVL' haw reached the md of high srhool days, And, 'ufilh llm help of Alirziglity Gad, Wo slmll arliioz-r snrccss, como wlmt may. So, Goodbyv, Dvar old Lcmastcrs High-, Fond nlrniarirs made lwre will linger with as As plodding ctw onward to flu' goals on our 'way We gfvc llzanks for llzy learhing and guidanrc. EDNA HoLLrNcEn.

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Our Navy Man XY1l.1.l.x xi l.oxx'.x NS Bill left his senior classmates to join the Navy, December 15, 1941, eight days after the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor. After several months training at the Norfolk Navy Yards, he went to sea on the U. S. S. Hambletian. It was on his maiden voyage, after he had visited many South American countries and was in the Atlantic noar the West Indies, that Bill put himself and Lemasters High School on the front pages of the c0untry's leading newspapers. Why? Because he has a pair of super eyes. Through rain and fog one night in March, while he was on duty in the sky lookout, he discerned with his naked eye a small yellow object floating about three miles to starboard. He called the bridge but the officers there failed to see the object with glasses. After a

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THE PHYSICISTH Tuesday morn has rolled aroundg Time for Physics bell to soundg Every senior takes his place, With a laugh upon his face, 'Tis Ulabu day I Apparatus we set up' UJuniorn lazy as a 'pupH. Teacher comes and gives the low-down 'Till he finally gets around. 'Tis lab day I We have good times on that day, 'Til we hear the teacher say Assignment for tomorrow will be From page 192 to page 233, 'Tis lab day I By collaboration , Isobel Beatty Susan Rockwell William Failor THE NIGHT How peaceful is the night When all is still and oalm and clear, When birds are 'sleeping far and near, And the owl comes out to make his flighti How peaceful is the night ' With a blanket of star, dust over our heads Sparkling a glow to light us to bed, Beneath the silence of the night. How beautiful is the night When the moon makes a path of lovers' delight, To stroll and dream through the peaceful night 'Till the Sandman puts them to bed. William Failor