Mercer High School - Hi Times Yearbook (Mercer, PA)

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II I-T I M ES REBECCA ROBINSON English B.C.Sc. M.A. Grove City WENDELL MacTAGGART Physical Education B.S. Slippery Rock Teachers College BESSIE MILLER History Grove City CHARLES P. HETTINGER English, Biology A.B. Thiel NELLIE RUSSELL General Science, Chemistry, Physics B.S. Allegheny Fourteen

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I - T I M E S HISTORY OF CLASS OF '31 XN the fall of the year 1927 we stumbled over the threshold of Mercer High School, eighty-five bewildered Freshmen. We immediately picked ourselves up in the hall( or rather the teachers did), hut happily to say, in the ensuing stampede no one was hurt. Then we became acutely conscious of the fact that several large groups of boys and girls called Sophomores were sneering at us, the latest sacrifices on the altars of education. Our boys too were conscious of the fact that Sophomore boys liked to give shampoos gratis. Then we got down to business, determined to live up to the expectations of fond parents. The teachers came to play an important part in our daily life. One began to teach us our A. B. C.’s, putting them into silly equations and calling this Algebra. We laid the foundations of our present intellectual mien on the cornerstones of Latin conjugations and declensions. But nevertheless, we en joyed several parties. At each one we grew better acquainted with each other, more willing to overlook faults and recognize true worth. The following year we rose to greater heights. We climbed the stairs to the Sophomore rooms. Here scenes of great activity ensued. We learned the important fact that,. “All Gaul is divided into three parts.” We also learned that insects may be dissected and angles bisected, but more often than not we interchanged the order by bisecting insects and dissecting angles. We learned to angle at acute angles which were very “cute” when finished. And best of all we became fast friends with the members of other classes. The Juniors were no longer as unapproachable as they had seemed, as Sophomores, to our Freshmen eyes. We have found our place and intend to keep it. As Juniors our confidence waned when we were confronted with apparently hopeless tasks, but we soon fell into our stride again. The time had come when we were to assume various responsibilities, but we pushed chi. We chose class rings. W e were proud to entertain the Seniors at the annual Junior-Senior Banquet. Our talent was brought out when we co-operated with the other classes in sending principals and alternates to the Round-up and County Literary Contest. Our boys ran the Seniors a close race for the Chamber of Commerce Cup in inter-class basketball. And now we are Seniors. Only a few more months lie between us and graduation. We cannot say that we are extraordinarily brilliant as a class, and yet we seem well turned-out as a whole. Perhaps our sterling worth will not be realized until we are gone, because we are not startling in any way. However, we believe that we are well prepared to face future obstacles and hope that we will always remember what Mercer High and its infinitely pleasant and profitable associations have done for us. Sixteen MAR1EL ARLEEN STEISTEK.