Mercersburg High School - Meminisse Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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gfudenf Gounci Seated at table: Shirley Lynch, Myron Pfoutz, Elva Bonebrake, Larry Patterson, Lucille Reeder. First row: Winifred Bowman, Gerald Kemp, Rose Ann Wassell, Janice Dixon, Second row: Richard Rice, Carl Burhannan, Mr. Keim, Jack Kane, Ronald Nelson, Joe Rhodes. The Student Council, a member of the State and National Associations of Student Councils, was established in the Mercersburg High School in February, 1949, by Mr. Keim. The council's membership includes three persons from each class in the high school. This year the council wrote and adopted a constitution. The group sponsored noon dancing sessions, the Christmas dance, and supervised fire drills. To raise money, the organization sold pencils bearing the backetball schedule and printed in the school colors. joseph. Rhodes, Winifred Bowman, Carl Burhannan and Lucille Reeder attended the regional meeting of southern counties of the state in Carlisle on April 14. OFFICERS President - - - - - Elva Bonebrake Secretary - - - - - - Shirley Lynch

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? vw- --YY , 1 . First row: Glenn Bonebrake, Ted Clever, Robert Hawbaker, Joseph Rhodes, Marshall Kuhn, Dean Wagner. Second row: Donald Zeger, Donald Weaver, Bill McCarl, Lee Bowers, Dean Bivens, Third row: Marvin Richesson, Eugene Hoover, Harold Paylor, jack Bricker, Robert Angle, Carl Bivens, Eugene Bloyer. Fourth row: Ronnie Statler, Walter Atherton, Harvey Bricker, Mr. Donald Saunders, Ronald Nelson, Clair Glaser, Myron Pfoutz. The Hi-Y Club, affiliated with the Y. M. C. A., was organized this year by Mr. Donald Saunders. The main purpose of the club is to render service to the community and school. OFFICERS President ....... --- Robert Hawbaker Vice President .... ....... J oe Rhodes Secretary ....... --- Marshall Kuhn Treasurer ........ .... T ed Clever Sergeant-at-arms .... .... D ean Wagner

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mess Club First row: Mrs. Stroup, Shirley Lynch, Jeannette Resley, Joyce Daley, Patsy Filkill, Rebecca Evans, Edna Gipe, Alice Watson, Pauline McDonald. Second row: Winifred Bowman, Jo Anne Stevens, jane Miller, Doris Statler, Nancy Krebs, Elva Bonebrake, Anne Harris, Margaret Stoner, Pauline Armstrong. Third row: Robert Hawbaker, jack Bricker, Harvey Bricker, Ronald Nelson, Myron Pfoutz, Clair Glaser, Robert Nelson, Lee Bowers, The Press Club, now in its fourth year since it was organized by Miss Lula Keller, continues to serve the community as well as the interests of the school by presenting news to the public. The group is composed of the entire junior and senior academic class under the supervision of Mrs. Barbara Stroup. Having begun to send correspondence to The Evening News last year, the group continued the work this year and received honorable mention for the amount of copy printed in the Harrisburg newspaper in December. Representatives of the Press Club attended a press conference and the annual press banquet in Harrisburg. This year Mr. Kane and Mr. Waidlich, publishers of The Mercersburg Journal, very generously set aside a quarter of the front page of this local weekly for school news. The material is assigned by student editors and gathered by student reporters.