Mars Area Junior Senior High School - Planet Yearbook (Mars, PA)

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af Mars High School Senior Class History 18 is the 6 of September 1917, the first day of our high school career. How well we remember the expression on Professor A. H. Forman’s face as he gazed upon the students, of whom more than one half were fresh- | men. But one should never judge a book by its cover for though we looked | green and incapable of learning at that time, we now leave M.H.S. as the | largest and best class which has graduated from this school. | We had fifty-three students in our class as Freshmen. Soon after school opened we had a class meeting and adopted Lavender and Gold as our class | colors. The first part of our Freshman year was spent in the Common School building with only half day sessions. On the eleventh day of February, 1918, | we entered the new High School building. Though basketball was suspended | for the season owing to the late completion of the gymnasium we arranged a | schedule of class games. The first game we played was with the Sophomores | in which we were victorious, the score bzing 12-3. The next game was with the Seniors in which the score was 13-5, in favor of the Seniors. The only | game the girls played was with the Juniors, our class winning by the score | of 4-3. | The next term, 1918-19, we had an enrollment of only twenty-six. Ata | class meeting we elected Loyal Purvis as President and Clarissa Crawford as | Secretary of our class. ' | When the war work was on and our class was asked for volunteers of | Victory Boys and Victory Girls we answered with our usual zest and patriot- ism, and our class proved to be 100% patriotic. Our class pledging one | hundred fifty-five dollars. This money could not be solicited from parents | or friends but had to be earned by the student. Many seized the oppor- tunity of earning this money at the time when school was closed because of | the flu bug. | During the month of September we enjoyed several trips to the fields () : of the dates which will never be forgotten by the faculty of 1917- | where we caught grasshoppers and butterflies. After we had caught and | chloroformed the grasshoppers we enjoyed ourselves dissecting them. ‘The | butterflies were chloroformed and then mounted. | This term our school was closed from Nov. 21 to Dec. 23 on account of the Flu.” On May the ninth our class with the Freshman History Class visited the Carnegie Museum. We went through the halls of Sculpture and Architecture and saw many fine pieces of art, gathered from all parts of the world. Through | the kindness of Mr. Hyett we saw some parts of the Museum which are not Bace iINivereen

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Mars High School }e- DAVE ROBERTS (Dave) Football, ’20. ‘ Basketball, ’20, 721. Roberts is better known to his classmates as Dave. Dave is one of the good fellows of the class, and he is a jolly good fellow except when his temper gets away with him. He is a good man on the floor, grid, or still better, around the ladies. MARGARET KILP ATRICK (Maggie) We all love “ Maggie”, so happy and gay; Her smile and her dimples we see all the day. She plays the piano, dances and sings, And never a thought of sorrow brings. But some times her books she does neglect, Then she hurries and hastens about in a fret, But she really does beat some by far; Although she often misses the five o’clock car. a TT eee Page Eighteen

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Mars High School eo open to the public. Among these was Carnegie’s Room or the Founder’s Room. We also visited the bone department, stuffed animal department, the Indian department and several others. About three thirty we left the Museum and returned to the city. Some went to the theatre and the.rest came home. We all enjoyed the trip and learned many new wonders of our wor ld. On the twenty second of May we held a social in the Robertson Hall. Our aim was to raise the money we had pledged for the new High School Building at the dedication exercises. Although the weather was wet and stormy a good crwod was present and all reported a good time. Our Junior year was not very eventful. We elected Anna Longdon Secretary for our class, our former Secretary, Clarissa Crawford having left our ranks. We had twenty six members, the same as when we were Soph- omores. Our last year in High School has not been very exciting but nevertheless | we have enjoyed it. This term we have a new professor Mr. Clarence A. Conley, who tis a graduate of the Class of 1910 of Mars High School. The school curriculum has been arranged so that the students only need to carry four studies. This year there is an enrollment of twenty-nine members on the Senior class roll. Katharine Smith of Charelvoix, Michigan, who attended High School last year at Spencer, W. Va., and Edna Seaberg of Fireburgh, New York, entered our class the first day of school. A few days later George Harbison of South Hills High, moved to Mars and added his name to the Senior Class Roll, then last but not least came Helen Boyle of the Sharpsburg High, who joined our ranks a few days before our Thanksgiving vacation. In the fall the Sophomores challenged us to a game of foot-ball. Our see won. We also played a game of basketball with them and came out the victors. After the Christmas vacation a committee was appointed to choose a class play and they decided on “Kicked Out of College.’ Miss Waldorf, dramatic instructor from Carnegie Tech, was hired to coach the play. At one of our late class meetings we chose as our class motto, “Launched, but not Anchored,” and for our class flower the American Beauty Rose. Now as we are about to leave forever Mars High School, and as we are preparing to leave school life and enter life’s school, we turn to wish our followers the greatest of success, and we earnestly hope that those who come afte rus will profit by our mistakes. Catherine Hooks, ’21. Page Twenty