Muncy High School - Canusarago Yearbook (Muncy, PA)

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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

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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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Moving on around the midway, we noticed the thriller show owned by Charles Little. He had quite a few thrills in his show, but the main attraction was the collision of Lee Gruneberg and Wayne Bacon on their motorcycles. While we were watching this event Judy came run- ning out to see us. Tom had told her where we were. She had lots of news to tell us. Tom Myers and Dave Wallis had each married within a year after they had finished high school and they each had their basketball team now. Tom had been admitted to the bar in 1958 and was a well- known lawyer in a divorce court. Dave, although everyone thought he was going to take over his dad's business, had fooled everyone by becoming a doctor. Looks like he wanted to make them well instead of burying them. It seems that Shirley Artley had also married in 1953. She did so hoping that the ship would come in, but all she got was a raft of kids. Oh, well! She always did want a football team. Dick Yagel was then part manager of Weldons. But it wasn't called Weldons anymore. It was Y. W. and S. Company. That's right-Yagel, Winters, and Stackhouse. They didn't make pajamas anymore, either. They were making ready- make hotrods! Well, they had to keep Mary Kathryn Breidinger supplied. Mary Kathryn was the first woman to win the races at the Indianapolis Speedway. Paul Wertman announced this on WERT, too. Just then we heard a familiar voice behind us and turned around to find K Minier, the wise cracker of the class of '52, talking to Bill Baysore. K was the leading joke writer for Bill's magazine, the Friday Night Splinter . They were both doing well in this field, too, because they had scads of money. Bill brought his latest magazine over to let us see it. We were leaf- ing through, looking at the pictures, When we came to one of the ads that usually said Which twin has the Toni? g only this one said Which set of twins has the Toni? It had a picture of the Kelley twins, Patty and Sherry and the Gortner twins, Lorraine and Lorretta. So they were models! Goodness, it didn't seem anytime since we had seen their pictures in the '52 year- book. K told us that Peggy Williams had married Tom Hinaman and was living in Hinaman Heights in Williamsport. Helen Spalding and Bobby McCourt had become inventors. Since they were always busy using their telephones, they thought it would be nice if everyone could see what the person to whom they were talking was doing, so they invented televised-telephones. Bill and K had to go home and Judy had to get back in the big top for the second per- formance. We were tired because of the long day at the circus and were leaving, when whom should we meet but Alice Ann Swartz, Ann Vermilya and Joanne Schoch, more class-mates! We wondered if they were working with the circus and they told us that they were. These three were busy selling raffles, luncheon tickets, and tickets to every sideshow on the midway. This was one job they had all had in school-selling things. But they must have liked it! They had just been talking to Helen Poust, who was running for First Woman Mayor of Hughesville. Well she was in Hughesville more than, Muncy during school days-she ought to make it. While we were there talking, all of us as tired as could be, we had to sum up our last bit of energy and hurriedly jump out of the way of a huge truck bearing down upon us. The truck screeched to a stop and a tall, lanky, redheaded boy appeared with a smile on his face. Out of the other side of the truck came another redheaded fellow. They were Jim Arms and Karl Neiderberger, both truck drivers for the circus. They had just made a trip to Florida and brought back eight huge alligators for the Circus. Jim and Karl yelled Hi and hurried on into the manager's office. We soon decided that if we didn't leave we wouldn't get home before mid- night and so parted company with our old girlfriends. The bus was just leaving when we got to the stop, but we yelled at the driver and he stopped to let us on. Why, what was Donnie Hicks doing driving a bus? He recognized us and started to talk while the bus moved. Don said he liked this job because he didn't have to say anything except Fares, please. He didn't say much but he did tell us that Don Edwards and Jim Brittain owned a gym in New York City. You've heard of those places. A man goes in to learn how to wrestle and comes out bloody and black and blue not wanting to learn how to wrestle. Dolores Frey, the secretary of this establishment, wrote down in her books the amount they had to pay to Sheryl Somerville, the doctor across the street, for damages and for flowers. As we settled into the seats, we noticed that all the advertising in the signs over head were signed M. L. O. and R. E. T. So Ruth Thomas and Mary Lou Odon had made out in advertising! They were always wonderful artists. We were so sleepy that we leaned our heads back on the seats and thought of all the wonderful times we had had in school .... 29