Meyersdale Joint High School - Hi Point Yearbook (Meyersdale, PA)

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Sophomores There are some Sophomores who are bright, And others who are dumb. But they're an awful sight to see When they are chewing gum. Some chew as if they had no teeth, And others make it crack, While others stick it on the seats To stick on someone's back. Oh! What a life those Sophomores have, They sit and dream all day. And when the teacher asks them things They don't know what to say. -Florence Leif '42 Class of 1940 We started out with great ambition A Conquest, ours to make. Service to mankind we would render, This spirit we would not forsake. Our morals did not shatter With the toil of endless days. In knowledge we grew stronger, And now we know it pays. We have found contentment In the paths that we have tread. With the help of God and our high school We'll now strive on ahead. These past three years have only been A foundation we have made. As an architect draws his blueprints Our future plans are made. This year w0n't tell what we may be, For no one really knows. The old routine of working hard May be in vain, who knows? -Georgia Keim '40 Seniors of Today I like seniors They run about Doing their lessons With their tongues out. They feel important They dance on their toes, The boys do their lessons While the girls powder their nose. They lose their books, They find them again Seniors are queer creatures, I am one of them. -Frank Mosgruves '40 Transition Happy has been our senior year, Though we did contend with strifeg But the end of such happiness is near An we'll enter into a broaden ami fuller life. But school days are the carefree days When one's thoughts roam far and wide, And the center of our work and play Is school where we work side by side. But soon we will leave this citadel And come face to face with reality, Then to choose one's life work well Requires your best in mentality. Oh, to see our class in the coming years A decade from now, let's say, When we have encountered and conquered many fears And our hopes and aspirations begin to fray. So let's keep our morals and ideals high And on the straight and narrow path remain, Your aims are bounded only by the sky Peace and happiness be your refrain. -Eloise En glehart '40 -43-

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Name Song Hobby Ambition Pet Hate Kenneth Lohr Star Dust Sleeping Doctor Teachers Martha Lohr South of the Border Hiking Nurse A boaster Thelma Maust Whispering Hope Bookkeeper Evelyn Meyers Beer Barrel Polka Reading Secretary Washing Dishes Leon Meyers Weather Man Violin College Professor Untidy people Kenneth Miller Home Sweet Home Reading Mechanic, Aviator A Talker Ray Miller What's New? Reading Aviator Nightwork john Mimmie Deep Purple Wood work Mechanic Flies Marie Modispaw South of the Border Dancing Teach Home Ec. Cats Frank Mosgraves Star Dust Hiking Aviator Assignments Margaret Natalo Over the Rainbow Sports Physical director Arithmetic Clyde Patterson Blue Hawaii Swimming Bookkeeper Snakes Frank Phennicie Over the Rainbow Reading Cats Theodore Pritts My Prayer Meeting people Teach Math Crime Ada Pugh If I Had My Way Dancing Nurse Spinach Hilda Ries Blue Orchids Reading Nurse Cats Mary Roberts South American Way Reading Fortune teller Beans Fred Robertson Beer Barrel Polka Mechanics Aviator School Parker Rumgay My Prayer Football Football coach Girl snatcher Robert Schrader I Didn't Know What Read and Sports Aviator Svmbhonies Time It Was James Slicer Cinderella Mystery Books Air-Line Bullies Kathryn Smith South of the Border Skating Beautician Dumb Corner Marguerite Spence All The Things Dancing Secretary Cats You Are William Stafford Smoke Gets in Your Sports Welder Getting up Monday Eyes Morning Helen Stark South of the Border Reading Nurse Smartness Emma Stein Scatterbrain Playing Cards Stenographer Cats Katherine Stephens Rose Marie Reading Singer Flies Marguerite Stotler Indian Summer Dancing Nurse Elaine Swearman Lilacs in the Rain Radio Secretary Imitators Edward Walters America Moths and Cocoons Craftsman Spinach Lucille Weimer South of the Border Make scrap books Teach Home Ec. Noise Bert Wetmiller Smoke Gets in Your Skating Teach-C. P. A. Girls Eyes Jack Whitford Collect pennants Aviator Braggers Fred Wilmoth Scatterbrain Photography Undertaker School fC0ncluded from Page 402 side seat for all the chess games at Tim Konhaus' funeral parlor to Blaine Swearman. KATHRYN BRENNEMAN'S perpetual motion machine for talking to Ruth Witt. JOE BROWN'S collection of ready-made excuses to Verl Bungard. FRANK MOSGRAVES' membership in the Hayseed Union to Blaine Livengood. KATHRYN STEVENS' wardrobe to Anna Neimiller so she can start a dress shop. Having bequeathed all that we possess, have possessed, and ever expect to possess, we hereby ap- point Kenneth Lohr, Raymond Higgs, Marcia Black as executors of this, our last will and testament. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this first day of May A.D., 1940. Si gned: SENIOR CLASS Signed, sealed, smeared, published, and declared by the Senior class, as and for, their last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at their request, and in their presence of each other, have here- unto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses to said instrument. Signed: KENNETH LOHR RAYMOND HIGGS MARCIA BLACK ..42....

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IN NAME ONLY School days, school days Dear old golden-rule days, Readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic Taught to the tune of the hickory stick- We younger sprouts in the Meyersdale brain factory Qas Bill james calls itj feel it our bound'n duty to give voice to our common wish-we want to belong, We are the little junior highs. We breathe the same air as the M. H. S. We are interested in the same things. We have some of the same teachers. We use the same rooms- but, we are still just the seventh and eighth graders. We believe that we could be a real junior high school of seventh, eighth, and ninth grades-an addition to the senior high school of tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. Other nearby schools have reached this goal and are enjoying its advantages. Besides mathematics, social studies, science, and English fall of which we now havej we should be able to enjoy home economics, shop work, art, and physical education. We feel as Lincoln did one time-that the time for debate is past. We want to really belong. We want to be an actual Meyersdale junior High School. This year our Gray-Y Club was under the direction of two seniors, Dorothea Hilner and Eloise Englehart, and two juniors, Elaine Speicher, and Betty Floto. We are a junior branch of the Alpha and Beta Tri-Hi-Y Clubs, and our aims are similar to theirs-- Self Improvement, Christian Fellowship, and United Service. Our officers are: President-Sally Slicer, Vice-President-Helen Hibner, Secretary-Elva Hare, Treasurer-Virginia Stuver, Chaplain-Barbara Pfrogner. A junior high school basketball team was organized under the direction of Coach Abele. The boys had plenty of fun and exercise. Too bad the girls didn't get their team organized. Better luck next year! -44..