Muncy High School - Canusarago Yearbook (Muncy, PA)

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Qin, Class Song Worzls By ROBERTA MCCOURT Tune of Mr, Touchdown U. S. A. JJ! QQLQAJJ K' it HJJJ QJJF Jjdh Ji !JlJilL'FZ'-D Q J.f.1.,5lf.1.rJpj We've had such fun in Muncy High School We hate to see our schooldays end. Tricks we played were not very bad They really made our teachers so mad. So it's goodbye fellow students You soon will graduate too. So its stand and cheer Muncy's We're the Seniors of '52, 27 class of the year J N...- JI F315 JEjJ

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Our Lives in Circus Form With crayons, books, and tablets, We had a lot of fun, When first the big top opened, Our school days were begun. All through the acts and side shows, We, each, did play our part. With teachers as our trainers, The same as from the start. Oh, now the circus closes, But really not to end. Just into another season, And then to begin again. ROBERTA MCCOURT MOTTO-An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. FLOWER-White Carnation COLORS-Green and Gray Class Pledge We, the performers of the class of 1952, as we leave our Alma Mater with high hopes of success, do hereby pledge our loyalty and integrity to God, our country, our community and to ourselves. We pledge to use the skills we have acquired from our teachers throughout our school life to strive for world peace and unity. May God help us in this our pledge. 26

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Class Prophecy It was a sultry, hot July afternoon in 1962 and we were headed for the circus grounds. As we walked into the big top it brought back memories of our senior class when the theme of our graduation program was the circus . The first person to greet us was the circus clown. We couldn't tell what his face looked like because of the grease paint, but we soon recognized his voice as that of Tom Umlauf. Tom informed us that his boss was Gerry Yoder, co-owner of the Yoder and Wolfe Variety Show. Gerry also acted as the strong man, thanks to Mr. Schuy- ler's miraculous wrestling formula. We had seen Marlin outside barking out the wonders of his great show. Tom had to hurry because it was about time for his act, so we went to find seats. Just inside the tent we saw the first-aid station which was run by Ilene App and Alena Colley, two R.N.'s. Their motto is Always have plenty of bottles on the shelf-medicine, that is. They told us that Madelyn Flack and joan Koons were still on the farm as Mrs. James Martin and Mrs. Kenneth Snyder. They have circuses all their own-three kids apiece! Billie Breneisen is out in California running an ice cream parlor called Dip 'em Up and Scoop 'em Out . June Frey is Billie's personal dress designer. As a sideline she designs clothes for Warner Brothers Studio. She is now working out costumes for the movie, ujolson Comes Back or Mammy Swoons starring King Brosby, commonly known as Bill Edgeworth. And, of course, because she did so well in our class play, The Kissing Link , Shirley Mendelsohn plays Mammy . Kenneth Sommers, who was owner of Warner Brothers, is so rich that he even owns a baseball team, The Sommers' Sliders . The star players are Larry Confer, catcher, and Beverly Hill, pitcher. You see, since 1958, baseball teams have been a combination of male and female players. just a few days ago, The Sliders took the series. We knew this because we heard Paul Wertman, the famous sports announcer, bring us play by play description on his own station -Station WERT. Just as Ilene was telling us about Ken, the blare of the trumpet announcing the start of the show interrupted reminiscences. We found our seats and waited very eagerly for the stars to come out in the three big rings. We looked over to see who had made the noise on the trumpet and found that the circus band consisted of Paul Guisewhite and Dick Smith playing trom- bones, Janice Ritter and Ada Ulshafer playing clarinets, and Ellen Akers on the trumpet. Of course, the biggest part of the band consisted of the bass horn which was played by none other than our own Wesley Shook. Right then, out on the track came three elephants, being ridden by Martha Fenstermacher, Priscilla Bennett and Helen Barto. Mickey was doing acrobatics she had learned while cheer- leading at old M. H. S. The trainer of the huge elephants was John Billhime, who had gotten his experience from managing the M. H. S. football team. Next in the parade came the bare- back rider, Dora Schenck, riding a palomino pany. At the end of the Very colorful parade we saw Neil Nuss and his trained monkeys. It seems that the monkeys were donated to the circus by Benjamin Frank Buckn Gardner, the big game hunter who had been in Africa for the past five years. Another blast on the trumpet led our eyes to the main ring where Judy Fry, world-re- nowned bubble-dancer was performing. Right then we remembered that judyis odd ambition in school was to be a bubble-dancer. During the performance, we heard a loud voice yelling Peanuts, popcorn, soda-pop.', In order to purchase any of these articles, the buyer had to look way up to the seller, for it was-you've guessed it-Harold Shorty Stephens. He had lost out in the competition for tall man of the circus to Roland Schodt by two inches. Soon the show came to a close and we went out to walk around the grounds. The first side show we came to was a flea circus conducted by none other than Jim Nicholson. Jim had collected his fleas in the thriving metropolis of Pennsdale, where Donald Miller had just been elected mayor. While talking about politics, Jim told us that Glenn Hessler was running for state senator and Kenneth Reed for state farm inspector. We didn't know that Pennsdale had become a first class city, led by its society matron, Mrs. James Kilgus. Remember Carolyn Bryfogle? She and several of her maids are kept busy taking care of her eleven little wrestlers and one little majorette. 28