Millerton High School - Yearbook (Millerton, PA)

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1 sw X CLASS HISTORY 'Q 'ml' ' 'ifli ' l We have accomplished almost nothing, and, as Abraham Lincoln :i ii once said, The world will not long remember what we say here. EQ Aiflfyf Nevertheless, we leave this record of our doings in our beloved, i' scarred, and slandered alma mater. 'Q g In 1942, we emerged from the Dark Ages of grade school to become Seventh Graders. The class then numbered twenty-two. There was no .7+ ,ju individualism in our ranks--the girls strived to achieve that same 5 'seventh-grade look , and the boys laboriously imitated the Ag. boys . 3 1' We all quivered with terror when a teacher spoke, and we all cringed f-as and ran the other way- when an upper classman approached. Few of us Q strayed from the haven of our homeroom, except of course, when abso- i lutely necessary.. Gradually, however, we overcame our timidity, and occasionally even ventured out into the hall. f' gk We first showed traces of originality in our English class. Since ' class officers, class dues, and class parties seemed to be a tradition, n if not a requirement, we organized a club. The ingenious name for . LY f ,V this club was 'Twenty-two reporters-are-meeting-pretty-soon. , which fd 2.2341-. ws shortened to initials and called 'Urns Tramps C1ub . ii The year passed and so did we. The class was whittled down to 'QA , eighteen members when we became Eighth Graders. Supreme happiness re- sulted from our newly acquired ability to 'lord-over' the new crop of 4-img, 'P 1 seventh graders, but our joy was soon dampened by the foreboding men- A'-5,1 , Ak tion of eighth grade exams. We soon learned that this was to be our 'M K, ovm private torture for the year. When the date set for the dreaded event finally came, we all had the beginnings of a persecution com- lqygtl ,HWS plex, which vanished the 'morning after' the exams. Then came our one and only reward for enduring the hardships of 1 eighth grade. We were allowed to trail behind those superior beings, the Seniors, at Commencement in a sorry attempt at marching. With t I wild anticipation, we girls schemed for weeks to get complete new out- ' imma fits, elaborate enough for such an occasion. Even the boys, who pre- Q tended indifference, shed their 'Superman' shirts and donned suits. 'M Clutching precious diplomas, we officially became Freshmen. f' 5 A few months later, after the summer vacation, we found our- ' 3 selves seated in the lab , rejoicing that we finally had become the ff J ' sole possessors of a classroom. Then the blow fell. Legions of unex- pected seventh-graders had poured in, making a chaos of the schoo1's seating arrangement. The entire Freshmen class became 'displaced gc, . persons . We finally wandered into Mr. Bradshaw's room, previously imgileyp Q 'f.-iff, occupied, by sophomores and juniors, and stayed. Finding the prospect of sharing a room with us too horrible for contemplation, the ' Juniors immediately fled to the shelter of the 'Senior room . ixfx i -' Y Before long, we became accustomed to the new routine of being Freshmen. The F. F. A. boys were initiated, and we girls laughed .sss '?.-.:a2Q:sf4.- .iizsifil fm.. F' s.,- sa g f?-51.7-2-1i V .-we-,-131.1-.', - M llu' W A 'H ' .- if - -Q-ga s..