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

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PROPHECY To 1960 Bill Knieriem is teaching vocational agriculture. Marion Bittner has an egg farm and is in stiff competition with Mr. Darrah. Jeannine Bow- man has her own theater and is making so much money she has a private nurse-Lois Sellers-to take care of her. There's really nothing wrong with her. Jeannine is still corresponding with Werner Weissbrodt. Rev. Bob Austin is preaching in New York. Bernice Knepper is his secretary. Jean Durr will graduate this year from Columbia University. Joan Griffith and Bonita Boyer are both nurses now. Marriage seems to be the main vocation. Lois Niner heads the list as Mrs. Harold Potter, next is Jane Berkley as Mrs. Harold Werner, and Peg- gy Kimble is also on the list. Jack Hampton is still looking for a girl his height to marry. The best seller of the year How to Nab a Man was authored by Jo Rosenberger fHer pen name Rose Dozej. Janie Robertson is publishing the book. Alysann Bradburn is manager of the Keystone Shoe Store. Wilberta Paul is teaching Driver's Education. That's Jean Kelley you see on television every morning at five o'clock. She's quite a star now. If you've been keeping up with the wrestling matches you've probably noticed Thelma Miller. And Donna Lief is playing John's Other Wife. That's some factory, Otis Baer's building. He's going to make Studebakers. Russ Weimer has been promoted to head car washer. That's the reason he's acting so con- ceited. The produce business must be good. Jack Demarco now has two airplanes. Have you bought any collapsible light bulbs? Gordon Schardt is the inventor in case you don't know. Roger Bowman and Bob Secrest are both working in a factory in Ohio building jet planes. Selling pencils is Edison Garlitz's business. He certainly hasn't ad- vanced with the times. Max Barmoy is selling maple syrup. He tapped all the trees in Meyersdale. Joan Christner is a chorus girl in Meyersdale's Copa Club. Carol Engle is hat-check girl there. Lois Klink is a traffic cop in Summit Mills. Donald Witt is janitor at Wellersburg school. He always liked school so well. Patty Smith teaches school but will soon give up her duties to be married. 65

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From 1950 OUR 1960-This is a flying year--air travel is at its peak. Things are mov- ing so fast that the world just can't seem to keep up with them. just look at Meyersdale for example. XVhy the B 8: O is so fast that the Casselman River has been blown clear over to Bedford County. Even the old shirt factory is feeling the change-I hear they're making jet propelled flying suits now. But one thing they can't change, I guess, is that sweet old maple syrup. That's the best tastin' stuff I've ever had the privilege eatin'-it seems to make my bicuspids pop up and take notice. Speaking of maple syrup reminds me of those first festivals we had. Those were the days-the gay 40's. My old high school days were lots of fun-I can't relive them they say, but I sure do have memories. School memories are fine memories. Why, way back in 1950 I never thought that Patty Conn would be teaching weight-lifting but is thinking of going back to taxi driving. Louis Carouse is coach of the South Side Bulldogs. Buzz Belcher is playing guard for him. Louie has twenty-five cheerleaders with Regena Saylor as leader. Dick Vitale has taken Walt Disney's place. By the way, he'll be one of the celebrities to attend the Maple Festival this year along with Irene Quattro and Wayde Gray who are also in Hollywood. Wilda Weimer just got back from Reno after divorcing her fourth hus- band. Carl Phalin has been voted America's number one play boy. just think of it, Betty Martz is still Mr. Hosie's secretary fHow did she stand him this long?j Don Wagner is a violinist. He is playing solo chair in the Meyersdale Symphony. Bob Pollock is playing solo clarinet in this organization. Dale Phennicie's band is really making headlines. They hope to get him to play for the Queen's Ball this year. Barbara Lawson, Ruth Hutzell, Pauline Bowman, and Vernon Bittner are his vocalists. Ron- nie Fritz is his manager. jack Bassett, a very hadsome and brilliant young man is now Mayor of Garrett. james Smiley is singing commercials on the radio. Helen Baker is a news commentator. Zona Diveley and Bettylu Shockey are typewriter repairmen. It seems George Shockey lost out in big time, he is back on thc farm singing to his chickens. Speaking of farms the class of '50 can be right proud of quite a few of their members. jack Engle has a large dairy farm--five hundred cows. He's the first farmer around here to use atomic powered milkers. Harold Crissinger has been chosen Pennsylvania's lead- ing farmer. Albert Diveley is a veterinarian and even argues with the poor dumb animals. 62

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