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

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Class Prophesg ltls a lovely day in the great metropolis of Mars today. Flags are flying, banners waving, and crowds cheering the celebrities as they enter the Hotel Caylor for the seventeenth annual reunion of the Class of '43. Greeting their old classmates at the door we find Wallace Caylor, owner of the hotel, and Alice Sheridan, featured singer with Ermine', Kramer and her All-Male Orchestra, who will furnish the musical entertainment for the event. Let us step inside and view the gathering more closely. The Mars Press is well represented by its editor, Jean Crea, who is accompanied by her brother Bob, junior meteorologist from Wash- ington, D. C. At the table with Miss Crea are Marion Fleming and Jean Purvis, assistant edi- tors, Hilda Richards, and Viola Scharf and Chris- tine Yurko, society columnists. A Hash of light!-and we see Bob Fredley, head photographer of the Davis News Photos, Inc., and his boss, Mae Davis, taking pictures of the unusually large gathering. Listenl Do you hear those cheers? Someone of importance evidently is arriving. Yesl-here come those two superb movie stars, Jack Gardner and Angela Giallombardo, and the director of their latest film, uCupid's Capersf' Jack Little. Angela is wearing a beautiful gown designed by Violet Flaig and Mary Ellen Herbert, and is accompa- nied by several other famous stars, Ethel Moon and Bob Morris, who has his newly-gained wife, Esther Wittmer, with him. The girls' hair styles are beautiful, the credit for which goes to Roberta Pinkerton, who just entered with Phyllis Kirschler, sound effects manager at the Don Park Studios. The dinner is now being served, and by the looks of the guests, faces, it certainly must be good. Possibly because it has been prepared by Martha McPherson and Anna Krunosky. Let us glance about the room and see who is here. There in the far corner are Margaret Gibson, famed tobacco auctioneer, Jane Kirschner, owner of the largest spaniel kennels in Pleasant Hills, and the founder of Knox cosmetics, Lois Knox. At an ad- joining table we catch a glimpse of William Selle, production chief at Kaiser shipyards. Lt. Com- mander Russell B. Cooper of the United States Navy, and Lee Smith, better known to many as a modern Walter Winchell. The guest speakers of the evening are Jane Andrew, great scientist, who has recently discov- ered the ninety-third element in her private lab- oratory, and Rita Joe Fanto, author of How to Make Book Reportsf, best-seller among high school students of today. While they are speak- ing, let me tell you of the few who were unable to be here tonight: Doreen Conner has returned to the land of the shamrock, and Ensign Backderf and Bonnie Dobson are honeymooning aboard a private yacht. Betty Yeakle, visiting friends in North Africa. Robert Kennedy, internationally known pianist, on a concert tour. Wanda Jean Hager and Dorothy Urick, living on their ranch in Arizona. Jean Miller, missionary to Japan. Elfrieda Rummer and Charles Utz fnow Mr. and Mrs. Utzl are sitting at the speakers' table with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lewis, Mrs. Lewis being the former Emma Kennedy. Ralph owns a large sugar plantation in Cuba, where he has as fore- man George Shrewsbury, and as trained workers, Ken Creese and Ed Hartley. Also, Dorothy Ken- nedy, Professor of Foreign Languages at Catawba, N. C., and Doctor George Hood. Among others present at this dinner of dinners are Margaret Clinton, star of the 1960 lce Follies, and her sister-in-law, Ruth Farringer. The latest paintings of Miss Ladebu are now on display in New York under the title l'Sketches by Lorrainef' That famous football pro, Harry Allendar, is en- joying himself with the new dance team, Buffone and Whiteside. Jean Slining and Mary Eurich, office workers in the Sarver Bubble Gum Corp. Doris Trimble, secretary of Robert Park, thriving young Los Angeles architect. Elvera Phillips, heir to Phillips Milk of Magnesia fortunes. Vivian Morrow of Morrow Dairies, and Alma Jane Mor- row, welder at Lockheed. Jean Roberts, Eleanore Hager, and Mary Powers are Powers' models in New York, and Marie Reiser is an excellent sculp- tor. With Ruth Gray and Violet Zambo, who are now residing at the King Edward Apartments with their husbands, is Ruth Hawkins, senator from Pennsylvania. Eileen Hespenheide and Jean Dize have been collaborating on plans for another Stop and Come lnng while Frances Krien recently opened another haberdashery. Ken Little is now head mechanic at Curtiss-Wright. Harry Mitchell, coach of Mars Planets. Rita Callara, librarian in a large San Francisco public library. Dorothy Clev- er, grand opera singer, is sitting with Ruth Merten, speech teacher at the local high school, and Betty Kuntz, now happily married in Punxey. Kenneth Speer is a paymaster in the Marines, Joan Mc- Kain, department supervisor at Mine Safety Ap- pliance. Tom Doman, President of Dough-man Cars, Inc., is enjoying married life with Evelyn Patton, and occasionally stopping for a snack at Dudzinski's Hot Dog Shoppe. Ruby Echandahl, founder of the Tru-Blu Matrimonial Bureau. Colonel Cuddyre of the U. S. Army has been corresponding with Bobb Flasher, cartoonist tak- ing Walt Disney's place. Eva May Croop, trans- continental bus driver. Barbara Bielo, introducing new fashions in her famous store, located near the Boyle and Brandt Child Nursery. Alice Finley, a Rosie the riveter, rooming with Velma Morrow, girls' basketball coach at Bakerstown High. Helen Mattern, instructor at a local dancing school, de- posits her profits in the First National Bank of Wexford, of which George Staley is vice presi- dent. Doris Forsythe has established another speed typing record while working for the Rowan Racing Shell Co., and soon expects to join the Women's Marine Corps. Sara Jane Fuhr is majorette of the XVAMS band, and is assisted by Genevieve Hop- per. And now the class reunion of 1960 has come to a close. The crowd is thinning slowly, as these tired but happy members of the class of '43 sep- arate for another year.

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uniofz ass In September, 1940, a group of 155 timid Freshmen entered Mars High. They were duly initiated into our midst by the Juniors on No- vember Hrst, and thereafter proved themselves worthy of Mars High, Realizing that they must be unified, they elect- ed: Robert Gabosch as president, Bob Wensel, secretary, and Eleanor Ferguson, treasurer. Under the guidance of these students, they held dances and skates for the rest of the student body and thus ended their roll as Freshmen with a good start in M. H. S. When they came back in the fall of '41, they were a much more determined group. They had things set before them and they had to work hard. For that term they elected: Jack Penney, president, Bob Wensel, vice president, Louis Lehm, secretary, and Bud Brooks, treasurer. Once more they held dances and skating parties and en- larged their treasury from their Freshman year. During their Freshman year, a few ventured in- to the sports activities of the school, but during their Sophomore year there were many more. Ches Walters made the varsity team. Several made good on the Junior varsity. Also, the girls, basket- ball team had new prospects in girls of Richland Township. They, too, proved themselves good sports and were an asset to Mars High. When the year ended they had prospered both financially and educationally, as Sophomores. Their Junior year brought new hopes and new thoughts in various phases. Some Junior boys as well as girls, found cupid around the corner, and thus there was a sparkle of romance intermingled with studies. Qnce again they elected class officers and this year they were: Jack Penny, president, Jean Wightinaim, vice president, Mary Ann Houck, secretary, and Bud Brooks, treasurer. These peo- ple, along with various committees, led the class through a very successful year. With their Junior year went the Junior Play, and at last each had an equal chance to try their acting ability. Their play, Strangers at 1-lomef' under the direction of Miss Patton, displayed out- standing talent and character portrayals long to be remembered. A matinee was held for the bene- fit of the student body on December third. The production was also given on the evenings of De- cember third and fourth and proved a great suc- cess, and liked by all. They also had dances and various activities to raise funds for the Jr.-Sr. Prom and Banquet. These activities brought entertainment for the student body and were greatly appreciated by everyone. The Juniors had Rooms E, G and 1-1 as their home rooms, and from these doors came talent displayed in all lines of sports. The Juniors were well represented on the football field as well as the basketball floor, and all displayed good sports- manship. Thus the book is closed on their third year in Mars High. As it goes without saying, this class has stood up to all standards, and we sincerely hope its Senior year is as prosperous as its first three have been. To this class we wish all the luck that can be found in this world of war and turmoil. Q24 --