Millerton High School - Yearbook (Millerton, PA)

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sg -2 'Pi ,ggi f W: , ..f1'.w1E 3ZP?f J :Q-A,.s:..E1i: '.,1. f i'fy.-Qx.w-.11 -' M X ' 4:x,0,:-,--, .. rr REL On rare occasions, we all attended 'play practice . On other rare JQ dm occasions, the majority stayed until rehearsal was officially over, 3,5- Q' 1 I Meanwhile, our harried director tried vainly to make us aware of the fact that we were t ll ' - 1'2 ,rf .J 1 . L -H ,jj g , :gf 4 . . ,, 3 X it over with . f-as 1 .0 1 I M ' F E ,.,. E . A N A-A '?i. e 4 itorium, bearing a dainty It seemed no time at Wu V- ac ua y going to present the play before an audi ence in less than a week. Something prompted us to assemble stage properties and scenery. As soon as this was taken care of, we re- ' H ii 1. rp ..v.. hearsed two or three times, then settled back and waited for the reck- each perfomance, as the curtains were noisily closed, ecstatic Sc!-Q 81118 , could be heard from behind the scenes, so great was our joy at 'having oning, and it came. We struggled through two nights, and at the end of Our streak of originality, partly restrained for years, came . ., forth in full glory in our Junior year. Our brain-child was 'Junior V Day , which was a delightful day, culminated by a mock graduation. In V our crepe paper gowns, made in our temporary 'class colors', black and -gi ' blue, we performed with great gusto. As Juniors, we also exhibited ourselves to the public at Com- mencement. In our best 'bibs and tuckeren, we paraded through the sud- ,iif flower chain. all before we had reached the pinnacle of .V w 1' I .I I rg xxx i QQJZ 'K . , achievement. we were Seniors. Exercising our newly found privileges 1 u as Seniors, we arranged a Halloween dance. Enthusiastic preparations were made for the 'Spook House' and the 'Fish Pond'. We decided that - 'e, 1 1 a trip to Elmira was a necessity. Hours stolen from English, Latin, I Math., were spent in stringing skinned grapes, arranging leaves, and EQ? inventing 'booby traps' for unsuspecting customers of the 'Spook ke -A !Iouse'. The dance was soon a mere memory, and we no longer had an excus to postpone concentration on our senior play, Let Me Grow Up', whic t w the newspaper, apparently misinformed, entitled, 'Lest We Grow Up'. Despite frequent chidings from our beloved faculty, the preparation andi6g1 WT, W ' Q h f' 4 for this plav moved at the same pace as did our junior play. We were ' A again awakened to reality by glaring footlights and the sudden reali- yy., zation that 'This is it . We rose to the occasion with 'flying via' colors', Although there were no cries of 'Bravo', or 'Eneore', we ZV'i felt very self-satisfied with the entire outcome. J 8 We made a courageous attempt to add to the education of our 5- ' t A' fellow students by chartering the movie, 'Daniel Boone , but, due to I f, 1,3 conditions beyond our control, this attempt was e. miserable failure. :,g.4'ggf.j Now we are fast approaching Commencement and an uncertain future, Qi ,T,fiZ',ff', to be met without the guidance of our ever-helpful faculty. We shall I-:M -, 1953 leave our beloved H.H.S. with numerous memories, humorous and other- Yxtfgb if In is wise. We have broken no records, nor did we leave any spectacular of-'J V' it precedents. The class has diminished greatly since the dave of the Ty-amps . Always eager to acknowledge our own virtues, we believe it that the class illustrates the ancient phrase, Survival of the fn- ' 5 ' 9 Liv? Xqzwig . V W dgwwf V' .,., .. . ' 593' ,, ,,,. .. , j, ,, ..l..-fri? ffwiwtiaw -0-'-'-ff-Hg! - .1 'K te:-gE,45fsn1f'J