Munhall High School - Munhisko Yearbook (Munhall, PA)

Text from Pages 1 - 160 of the 1926 volume:

PAGE MISSING PAGE MISSING alu' iHmthtslui Annual Number 1926 ON THE compilation of this, the annual number of the Munhisko, ----- we have not attempted to make this book a masterpiece of literature and art, but rather to portray Munhall High School. It is evident that our work will not please everyone. What we have done has been for the interest and amusement of all the students, and we hope that the majority of them will be satisfied. Don’t forget, readers, that this is our first experience along this line of work and when you criticize this volume of the Munhisko, keep before you the fact that we are only amateurs. We now respectfully commend this volume to you, trusting that it has fulfilled its mission. Five unhisKo r Seven MUNHALL HIGH SCHOOL This stately building majestically stands As a huge rock so firmly implanted— And its graduates mark on Times’s smooth sands The tales of its glory recounted. Still. Hall of Learning, let thy praise increase. Let thy love of learning and honor So cling to thy children, incited to peace. That they be the best men of the morrow. And now, Munhall High, as we, passing on. Can say that we truly do love you, Oh. pray that your students will ever respond To the Right and the glory of Munhall! —Alice Roberts, ’26. unhisKo BOARD OF EDUCATION C. M. Johnstone ...C. A. Goeddel President Vice President Secretary Treasurer MEMBERS Mr. H. O. Reed Mr. A. C. Hough Mr. L. J. Holhnan Mrs. C. M. Johnstone Mrs. A. M. Snodgrass Mr. C. A. Goeddel Nine unhisKo APPRECIATION HEREIN are recorded the facts and the events of the past school year in Munhall High School. This hook, although sponsored by the class of 1926, was not published entirely by the efforts of this class alone, and in this space I wish to express my appreciation to those who in any way contributed to the success of this book. Mere words cannot express my appreciation for Mr. Wherry’s efforts to make this year book not only a success but the best ever published in Munhall High School. I. in speaking for the staff of this book, am greatly indebted to the adverisers, who assured the financial success of this book. I am equally indebted to those who so faithfully supported our every efforts to raise funds for this book. I commend the staff on their combined efforts to carry out so successfully their assigned duties. The subscribers to this book have my final appreciation. because they appreciated our efforts enough to subscribe to the book. It is my sincere hope that our efforts have not been in vain and that this book and what it contains will -prove both interesting and beneficial to you and that you will cherish it in years to come. THE EDITOR. FACULTY “Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach. unhisKo KATHERINE V. BLANK Mathematics Pennsylvania College for Women ESTELLA M. ALBRIGHT Latin A. B., Bucknell University Summer School at: Columbia University University of Pennsylvania HILDA E. SMITH Civics and History A. B.. University of Pittsburgh Graduate work at University of Pittsburgh MAX W. WHERRY Biology and Physiology A. B. Thiel College Foreign student at: Universite de Poiters, France Graduate student at: University of Pittsburgh Thirteen FRANCESNAXNAH English . 13., Mount Holyoke College Summer School at: Pennsylvania State College RUTH X. E3RIGGS Commercial Subjects A. 13.. Miami University Graduate: State Xormal School. Whitewater, Wis. Jacobs Business College, Miami, O. Summer Session at: Bowling Green Business University University of Colorado Night School: University of Pittsburgh MILDRED E. GUIXEY French A. B., University of PiAsburpdi GEORGE E. WALBERT Geometry. History, and Sociology A. B.. Franklin and Marshall College A. M., Washington and Jefferson College Graduate work at: Keystone State Xormal University of Chicago University of Pittsburgh Fourteen unhisKo HARRY C. SMITH Physical Education 13. S., University of Michigan Student work at : West Chester Normal Shippensburg Normal ANNA A. LINCOLN English A. B.. Wilson College ROBLEY J. HACKETT Physics and Chemistry B. S.. University of Pittsburgh Graduate student at: University of Virginia Johns Hopkins University University of Pittsburgh MRS. AGNES H. CLARKE Librarian and Study Supervisor A. B., Elmira College Student work at: Mansfield Normal University of Pittsburgh University of Chicago Fifteen ARM IT AGE LYSLE Home Economics Graduate Indiania Normal HELEN E. BELTZ Supervisor of Music Graduate New York University Graduate work at: Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh Musical Institute Private Study: Piano and Organ—Mr. Rinehart. Mr. Mr. Edwin Organ—Mr. Stcckle ANNA M. JOHNSTON Supervisor of Drawing Student work at: University of Pittsburgh Columbia University Carnegie Institute of Technology Chautauqua-Bureau of University Travel Private instruction: Jeannette Agnew, Harry G. Keller, A. Challcy, Bolton Colt Brown Mayer. Seventeen EXECUTIVES JULIA M. WHITTEN Office Secretary Munhall Graduate CHARLES R. STONE District Superintendent A. B., Obcrlin College Graduate student at: University of Chicago University of Wisconsin University of Pittsburgh EDWARD M. COX School Board Secretary Superintendent of Buildings HYGIENISTS CECELIA RYAN School Nurse and Instructor in: Home Hygiene and Nursing Graduate nurse: Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh DR. CHARLES R. SMITH School Physician Graduate: University of Michigan Intern: West Penn Hospital GRACE GEARY Dental Hygienist Graduate: Temple University Eighteen CO LU CO CO CLASSES “Four ducks on a pond, A grass bank beyond, A blue sky of Spring, White clouds on the wing; What a little thing, To remember for years, To remember with tears!” Twenty-one TO GEORGE E. WALBERT Sponsor, advisor and friend of the Senior Class, who has encouraged our every effort and aided us in all our undertakings during these, the most joyous years of our lives, we extend our most sincere appreciation Twenty-two unhisKo CHARLES CLIFTON ALTMAN—“Charlie” Aadentic Course: Checker and Chess Club; Bowling League: Basket ball (2), (3); Soccer (2): Art Editor for Annual: The Happy Medium: Come Out of the Kitchen. The Senior hero in his class, so tall, so dark and handsome. And if there is a bunch of girls, there’s also Charlie Altman. I SZELL A E. BELL—“Zetty” Academic Course; Exchange Editor for Mun hisko: French Club (4): Art Club (4): Hono-Roll Medalist (1). (2). (3), (4): Activities Edi tor for Annual. Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know. CELIA CARPE—“Celie” Academic Course: Art Club (4); Commercial Club (4); French Club (4); Honor Roll Medalist (2), (3), (4); Society Editor for Annual. Here’s a girl worth while. For she wears a smile When everything goes dead wrong. FOREST CRITCHLOW—“Critch General Course; Chess and Checker Club (4) Inter-Class B. B. (1), (2). (4); Varsity B. B. (3) Assistant Art Editor for Annual. He is an artist, from his finger-tips, To live forevermore Like stories told of by-gone ships, His fancied pictures pour. •enty-fo MARGARET DEDIK Commercial Course; Art Club (4) Commercial Club (4) No, you (I never know when she’s around She very seldom makes a sound. And yet she’s busy all day long. A’sttiding hard so’s not to he wrong. HUGH ALAN ELLIOTT, JR. “Nosey” and “Joe” Scientific Course: Chess and Checker Club (4): Come Out of the Kitchen (4) “And in his brain he hath strange places crammed With observations, the which he vents In mangled forms.” GLADYS BELLE CARR General Course; Commercial Club (2) (4) She may be quiet, she may be meek, But remember the proverb : “Still water runs deep.” Twenty-five unhisKo RUTH ELEANOR DAIBLER—“Ruth General Course; French Club (4); Commercial Club (4). Small of stature, fair of face, Add to this her dainty grace. And her sweet and winsome smile— Ruth, you’ve heat us all a mile! THOMAS ALONZO GAITHER—“Tom Scientific Course; Bul-Bul (3); Sylvia (4); French Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. and Soccer (3); Come Out of the Kitchen (4). Tall and hansome, Dark and—there! You’re all mixed up— Tom’s got red hair! BARNHART GILCHRIST—“Burt BURTON Scientific Course; Assistant Advertising Manager (3); Business Manager (4); Class Treasurer (1); Debating Team Captain (3 and 4); College Days (1); Bul-Bul (3); Commercial Club (2), (4): French Club (4); Dramatic Club (3': Debate Club (president) (3 and 4); Football (1). (2), (3); Inter-Class Track (1); Double Quartette (2); (3); Usher; The Happy Medium (4); Suppressed Desires (4); Come Out of the Kitchen (4); I Love My Alan” (4). Our eloquent Burt is so mighty and great! How he can argue and how he debates! ELSIE ARNETHA GRAVES—“Elsie” ... Commercial Course; Art Club (4); Commer cial Club (4). Anxious to learn and be friendly; Clever and willing to work. Twenty-six unbisKo RUTH CECELIA HAGER—‘•Ruth” Academic Course; French Club (4); Art Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. (3), (4); Honor Roll Medalist ; Student Council (2). Dark brown hair and lovely eyes Ob, Ruthie is so wondrous wise; She studies early and studies late. And scorns all those who have a date. JOHN HORXAK Scientific Course; French Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. (2); Football (3), (4): Freshman Reception Play (3); “Hitting on All Six” (4). He’s an algebraic wonder; all his leisure he spends Solving problems in equations that arc at his finger ends. ANDREW MICHEAL KONDIS—“Andy” Scientific Course; French Club (4); Basket ball (Inter-Class( (3); Socer (2). (3); Orchestra. “And ever ove his work lie bent. And ever lived on earth content.” Twenty-seven unhisKo AUGUST I. RE LANKY Scientific Course; French Club (4). Oli. Augustlee is bashful. And Augustlee is shy. And Augustlee just hates the girls Now can you tell me whv? THELMA BEATRICE HOWELL General Course; Bul-Bul (3): Sylvia (4): French Club (4); Art Club (4) ; Chess and Checker Club (4): Inter-Class B. B. (3). From break of day till set of sun. This girl is happy—full of fun; She smiles the blesed live-long day. She’ll gladly chase your blues away. ANNE PEARL HUNTER Commercial Course Commercial Club (2) She is pretty to walk with. And witty to talk with. And pleasant to think on. too RONALD HENRY LLOYD—“Ronnie Scientific Course; Debating Club (4); Debating Team (4); French Club (4); Student Council (2); Assistant Photo Editor for Annual (4); Come Out of the Kitchen (4). “A wit’s a feather A chief’s a rod. An honest man’s The noblest work of God. Twenty-eight unhisKo KR X EST McSHANE— Ernie Scientific Course; Sylvia (4); Inter-Class Soccer (3). “Happy am I. From all care lam free; Why aren’t they all contented like me? JOHN BAIR MATHIESON—“Matty” General Course; Athletic Editor; Bul-Bul (3): Chess and Checker Club (4): French Club (4); Track. Inter-Class (1). (2), (3), (4); Basket Ball. Inter-Class (1). (2), (3). (4); Basket Ball Manager (3), (4); Assistant Manager (2); Football Manager (3). (4); Assistant Football Manager (2); Athletic Editor (4); Police Squad (2), (4); Usher (4); Stage Manager (3), (4). Quietly, cheerfully going along, While working willingly humming a song. SARA JONES HAMILTON— Sally” Commercial Course; Commercial Club (2), (4); Volley Ball. Inter-Class (2); Inter-Class Basket Ball (1), (2); Inter-Class Hockey (1). Very tidy and very trim. Very industrious and very prim: With work always ready, and time to spare, This describes Sara, we all declare. URSULA B HR NADINE HIGGINS— Urs” Academic Course: Bul-Bul (3): Sylvia (4): Leaders Corps (3); French Club (4); Glee Club (2), (3); Inter-Class Basket Ball (1); Inter-Class Volley Ball (2); Inter-Class Hockey (1) Smiling, frowning evermore. You are perfect in love-lore. ’ Twenty-nine Academic Course: Commercial Club (4); Glee Club (2). (3); French Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. (2). (4); Volley Ball (2). Regina lias a sense of humor. So wonderful, I say, That she can make the time go whizzin’ No matter at work or at play. unhisKo EDITH MARY JAMES—“Edie’’ General Course: Class President (2): Class Secretary (3): Sylvia (4); Commercial Club (4); French Club (4); Glee Club (2). (3); Leaders Corps (3): Inter-Class B. B. (1). (2). (3); Hockey (1); Volley Ball (2). (3); Track (2). She’s at home most anywhere; She’s lots of fun at a party: But if you can't find our Edie Just start to hunt for Charley. FRANCIS O’TOOLE.—“Frenchie Scientific Course; French Club (4). “Let the world nag; I take my time in my own wav.” DONALD CAMERON BRICE, I R.—“Don General Course; Sylvia (4); Inter-Uass B. B. (1), (2). (3). (4); Football (4); Soccer (3. In order to be like the rest of the boys He divides his time twixt sleep and noise. REGINA RUTH KEIZLER Gina Thirty unhisKo EMILIE ELIZABETH MIHOK—“Em Academic Course; Glee Club (2), (3): Commercial Club (4) : French Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. (2). (3), (4); Inter-Class Volley Ball (2). Deep brown eyes bubbling over with glee, Bonnv brown eves are the eyes for me. WILLIAM J. PRICE—“Babb” General Course: Class President (3) Bul-Bul (3) : Commercial Club (4); Checker and Chess Club (4); Football (4); Inter-Class B. B. (3). (4) ; Inter-Class Track (4). Wit and humor a plenty has he. But on time to school he dreads to be. ALBERT SCHERMER—“Al” General Course; French Club (4); Checker and Chess Club (4); Inter-Class Track (1). (2); Inter-Class B. B. (3). He’s rather tall: He’s rather dark: His hair is black as jet; But when it comes to Charlestoning There’s none that’s beat him yet. MILDRED MAE KELTZ—“Kelsey’ Academic Course; Senior Reporter for Mun-hisko: Bul-Bul (3): French Club (4): Debating Club (31, (4); Leaders Corps (3): Art Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. (2). (3). (4); Inter-Class Volley Ball (3); Honor Roll Medalist (1). (2), (3). (4) ; Student Council (1): Senior Reported for Annual Staff; Usher (2); Class Reporter (2). Here’s to the Finest! Here’s to the Kindest! In other words— Here’s to you! Thirty-one ANDRE RENE DeSUHOZA,—“Sukev Commercial Course; Commercial Club (2), (4); Cheer Leader (4); Honor Roll Medallist Come now with me all those who will be g This day is past, now dawns a brighter day, MARGARET JUNE RUFF—“Peggy” Commercial Course: Commercial Club (2) (4); Art Club (4): Basket Ball Manager (4). Sweetest little manager Munhall ever knew; That’s only halt the story tho’ A Dutchman thinks so. too. CELIA SA RON—“Cecelia” Academic Course; French Club (4); Com mcrcial Club (4); Inter-Class Volley Ball (3) Come Out of the Kitchen (4). Chatter, chatter, little girl. Keep our heads all in a whirl; How we wonder what you mean. When your words flow like a stream. ANTHONY JAMES SPINELLI—“Tony” “A. J ” Scientific Course; French Club (3). (4); Foot ball (4). His mouth's like a mouse trap, That works upon springs; He opens it often And says funny things. Thirty EDWIN RUSSELL SCHUETTE—“Ed Academy Course; Sylvia (4); French (4); Inter-Class B. B. (3); Soccer (3). “Why should I more knowledge gain When it only gives me pain.” A I.ICR ANGELA ROBERTS “Bet”, “Al Academic Course; Associate Editor of Munhisko; Class Secretary (2): Class Vice Presidents (3), (4); The Wild Rose (2); Bui-Bui (3): Sylvia (4); (dee Club (2), (3); Commercial Club (President) (4); Art Club (President) (4); French Club (4); Debating Club (3), (4); Leaders Corps (3) ; Varsity B. B. (3). (4); Inter-Class B. B. (I . (2) ; Volley Ball Inter-Class (2). (3); Inter-Class Hockey (1); Assistant Editor of Annual (4); Double Quartette (3) : Girls Quartette (2), (3); The Happy Medium (4); “Come Out of the Kitchen (4); Track (2). With her veracious smile and thoughtful air You couldn't help liking her anywhere. ANNA LOUISE SHERWIN—“Sylvia”, “Lou General Course; Wild Rose (2); Bui-Bui (3); Sylvia (4): Double Quartette (1). (3); Girls Quartette (3); “Come Out of the Kitchen” (4). Here’s to the girl with happy eyes And jolly laugh so free; Here’s to the girl who can sing like a lark; And well liked by all, seems to me.” HARRY BESON TARR—“Bese” Scientific Course; Wild Rose (2); Bul-Bul (3); Sylvia (4); French Club (4); Mandolin Club (4); Orchestra (2), (3), (4); Usher (4;. To run a Ford and play a fiddle. To study hard, to joke, to riddle, , His heart delights. Thirty-three- unhisKo Thirty-jour HAZEL MAE STRANG—“Hay “Scotty” Commercial Course: Commercial Club (2), (4). Her virtues are many. Her faults very few; Wherever you see Hazel There you’ll see Burton, too. CHARLES JOHN SPINELLI—“Dc Laccv” Academic Course: Sylvia (4): French Club (4); Checker and Chess Club (4); Assistant Business Manager for Annual: Police Force (4): Usher (4). I am weary of days and hours Blown buds of barren flowers. Desires and dreams and powers. And everything hut sleep.” ROBERT VIRGIL THOMPSON—“Virg.” General Course; Commercial Club; French Club (3). (4): Inter-Class B. B. (2). (3). (4); Inter-Class Soccer: Football (3); Orchestra (3), (4). “Let me play the fool With mirth and laughter, Let old wrinkles come.” HELEN TERESA M. SVJANTEK—“Helen” Academic Course; Wild Rose (2); Sy Ivia (4); Gleen Club (2). (3); French Club (4): Commercial Club (4); Inter-Class B. B. (1), (2), (3); Class Volley Ball (3); Honor Roll Medalist (1). Helen’s full of humor, And I think she has a beau: But she says its just a rumor And denies that it is so. FLORENCE ELIZABETH TAYLOR “Floss” General Course; Athletic Editor for Munhisko (4) Sylvia (4); (’.lee Club (2). (3): Debating Club (3). (4) Leaders Corps (3); Commercial (2), (4); French Club (4) Varsity B. B. (2), (4); Captain B. B. Team (4); Inter Class B. B. (1); Inter-Class Volley Ball (2). (3); Inter Class Hockey (1)'; Track (2): Student Council (3) Athletic Editor for Annual; Suppressed Desires (4); Vic President of Commercial Club (4). 1 tell you she is pretty, And that you can’t deny: But I can’t name just all her beaux. Not even it I’d try. JOHN JOSEPH KING—“Joe” General Course; Bul-Bul (3); Varsity B. ); Varsity Football (3). (4); Inter-Class .; Inter-Class Track. But lie’s just so democratic. Frankly, freely diplomatic; That lie’s sometimes quite emphatic. He’s a man. CHARLES JOSEPH TIERNEY—“Chick” Scientific Course; Calendar Editor for Munhisko (4); Bul-Bul (3); Sylvia (4) ; French Club (4) ; Checker and Chess Club (4) ; Football (4); Track (3). (4); Inter-Class B. B. (1). (2). (3). (4); Inter-Class Track (1), (2); Calender Editor for Annual (4). Charles, why so solemn? This is no Latin test. Come, now, smile a little— That’s how we kno, you best. MILDRED M. WAGNER—“Smiles Academic Course; Commercial Club (4); Art Club (4); French Club (4); Glee Club (2), (3) “A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles of human kindness bred.” Thirty-five unhisKo MARY MARGARET FRANCIS KING—“Ou Kid Commercial Course; Class Secretary (4) Commercial Club (2), (4); Glee Club (2), (3) Leaders Corps (3); Inter-Class B. B. (1), (2) Varsity B. B. (3). (4); Volley Ball (2). (3); In ter-Class Hockey (1); Track (1), (2); Joke Edi tor for Annual (4). Who is always happy? Who is always gay? Why “Our Kid has the rest of us Laughing all the day. RALPH AUGUSTUS ZIM M ERM AN—“Ralph- Scientific Course; French Club (4); Checker and Chess Club (4): Honor Roll Medalist (2); Police Squad (4); Usher (4). Why should I worry about women. When the women don’t worry about me? HARRY EDWARD WELSH—“Welshie” Academic Course: Advertising Manager for Munhisko (4); Class President (4): French Club (4); Honor Roll Medalist (1). (2), (3), (4); Student Council (1), (2); Orchestra (1), (2). (3). (4); Advertising Manager for Annual (4); Police Squad (4); “Hitting on All Six (4). That Harry’s good-looking’s a fact you can see: That he’s a good president’s as plain as can be. MYRTLE LUELLA JACKSON—“Luclla” General Course: French Club (4): Come Out of the Kitchen (4). Little Luella as you can see. Is neither tall nor thin ; But it is her habit to wear a smile, With which she’s sure to win. Thirty “I take a last glance hack and gently close the door behind me; I catch a friendly hand that’s half outstretched. And I am part of the crowd.” VELMA JEAN SMITH Academic Course; French Club (3). (4); Art Club (3), (4); Inter-Class Volley Ball (1). (2); Inter-Class Baket Ball (1), (2); Track Team (1), (2). “Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, An excellent thing in a woman.” FAR REST LEBARRE WOODSIDE—“Farrie” General Course. So quiet lie seems hut once begun He’ll show vou soon that lie’s full of fun. SUE ANDERSON—“Sue” General Course; French Club; Commercial Club. Susan is just a demure little lass— She’s just the most bashfulest girl in our class But she not so shy when right by her side A certain young man talks and laughs. Thirty-seven unhisKo FIRST GRADUATING CLASS Munhall High School Class of 1906 John McDermott Bessie Coen Laura Price Anna Howell Emma Charles Mabel Palmer Thirty-eight Thirty-nine OFFICERS OF THE JUNIOR CLASS Harry C. Daibler President Fred C. Stewart Vice President Kathryn Watson Secretary-Treasurer Miss Mildred Guinev Class Advisor Colors Flowers Gold and Brown Brown Eyed Susan MOTTO B2 and By’s History of the Junior Class Munhall High School is our stage. The class of '27 are the actors. Some in their time play many parts. (With apologies to Shakespeare). It was September of 1923. The audience which consists of faculty, alumni, and students from the other classes, slowly fill the seats of our theoretical auditorium. The curtain parted disclosing a giddy throng of 1 reshman somewhat in disorder. The silliness soon leaves the actors as they note the responsibility that awaits them. Very little is accomplished in this act. but the girls came into the limelight by winning the interclass basketball championship despite the opposition. This act ended with a joyful picnic at Kennywood Park. After an intermission of summer monts the same actors more or less improved by experience resumed the drama. The main character in this act was Mary Laird, the president of our class. The coach of the sophomore year was Miss Price, who was our class advisor. The call for athletes was answered in football by three boys in this class and in basketball by two boys and three girls. This act ended with many students receiving honor roll medals. 1 he curtain rises for the Junior year. When each player resumed his part. Harry Daibler holds the center of the stage as president. This year we are coached by Miss Guiney. our class advisor. One scene of this act is given up to the operetta “Sylvia” presented by the musical clubs, but glancing at the main cast we find five Juniors. We have changed the standard ring established in 1918 to a more beautiful and durable design. This has caused much murmuring in the audience and much delight on the stage. At the last of this act the Seniors have entered upon our stage to make nterrv with us in a Senior Banquet given in honor of their coming commencement. I he curtain which will open our Senior year remains unparted. The audience, however, will be assured that the scenes which this act contains will be a glorious climax to our high school career. The players for the Munhisko Staff scene have been chosen. The Seniors will undoubtedly take the lead in athletics. They will be called upon to be big brothers of the lower classmen to promote a better student government, Munhall spirit, and to help with other activities. Then to end this glorious feat those who have taken their parts will receive their hard-earned diploma. This act will close our play and we will pass to the audience of the future. —IRENE BUSCH. '27. Junior Class Roll Edward Albrecht Emro Laczko Elizabeth Alexander Frank Laczko Harrison Anderson Dorothea Laird Jean Root Gerald Laird William Brownlee John Laird Irene Busch Margaret Lamont Alice Carr Daniel Maczko Howard Coley Edward Markowitz Elmer Copeland Anna Mitchell Reid Crawford Grace Moore Olive Davis Robert Morgan Harry Daibler Ruth Muir Dorothy Eaknian Bernice Natcher Mary Gerosky Mildred Pearson Milton Goldman Henry Pearson Ethel Gribble Alex Pentek Joe Guiney Max Pearlman Ruth Griffin Emil Punzak John Hickey Ray Rutter Gladys Hutchins Florence Rydzesky Albert Jackson Thomas Smelscer Matthew Kearns John Stevens Frank Kennedy Fred Stewart Joe Kushner Raymond Sullivan Elsie Lacey Katherine Watson William Lacey Merle Williams Isobel Wozniak ?26 Forty-two Forty-three Who’s Who In The Junior Class HARRY DIABLER—Class President (3); Basketball (3); Football (3). FRED STEWART—Vice President (3). KATHRYN WATSON—Secretary and Treasurer (3); Basketball (2) , (3). IRENE BUSCH—Junior Editor (3) ; Operetta “Sylvia” (3); “Hitting on All Six (3) ; Student Council (3). REID CRAWFORD—Vice President (2). JEAN BOOT—Secretary and Treasury (2); Operetta “Sylvia (3); “Hitting on All Six (3). RAY RUTTER—Football (2), (3); Operetta “Sylvia (3); “Too Much Married” (3); Basketball (2); Track (2). ISOBEE WOZNIAK—Basket ball (2). (3); Operetta “Sylvia” (3): “Too Much Married (3); Honor Roll (1), (2). DOROTHEA LAIRD—“Too Much Married” (3). JOE GUINEY—“Too Much Married (3). “Hitting on All Six” (3). HENRY PEARSON—“Too Much Married” (3). “Hitting on A.i Six” (3). MIDRED PEARSON—Secretary of Commercial Club (3). Secretary and Treasurer of Leaders’ Corps (2). GRACE MOORE—Student Council (1). BERNICE NATCHUR—Honor Roll (1); Student Council (2), (3). Mil .TON GO L1) M A N—Orchestra (1) . (2). )3) ; Honor Roll (1). (2) . EDWARD MARKOWITZ — “Hitting on All Six” (3). VIOLA SWENSON—Orchestra (1), (2), (3). RUTH GRIFFIN—Orchestra (1), (2). (3). EMIL l’UNZAK—Student Council (2). Forty-four £ RtTZHi-Ous Forty-five OFFICERS OF SOPHOMORE CLASS Mildred Calvin President Charles Richey Vice President Grace McCague Secretary-Treasurer Miss Anna Lincoln Class Advisor Colors Red and Blue Flowers Lily-of-the-Valley MOTTO •Nut at the top. but climbing' unhisKo 'S'Zz The Class of ’28 On August the thirty-first. 1925. the Sophomore Class set sail upon the sea of knowledge in Munhall, with a crew of sturdy sailors, eighty-five strong. But now we have only seventy-three. Nevertheless we get there. Since no class can accomplish the numerous tasks and activities this class has and expects to do in the future, without organization, the class met on the first of October and elected its officers, which resulted in “Milly” Calvin being chosen pilot of our fleet. After the Sophomore Halloween party, held on October the twenty-eighth. the “Sophs” really felt that they were a part of the school. Among other social activities in which we have taken some part was the Operetta Sylvia . We also have entertained the remainder of the school and Faculty, by our well planned plays in Chapel. Miss Ginney’s room presented us with an interesting play, It Ain't My Fault. in which the characters took then-parts very seemingly. I hen Mr. Klingensmith's room entertained by an interesting play entitled. The Typewriter Lady. in which Violetta Kline was the lady-love a stenog. and Jimmy Bridge’s hero, her boss. Miss Brigg's room also enlightened us by a play. We consider ourselves very fortunate in having in our midst one, who worked very intelligently in advising us—Miss Anna Lincoln. We are proud to say that she, helped us plan our Halloween party which was a great success. Athletics felt the inflow of a wonderful strong stream when this class entered inter-class games. In fact with McAteer, Richey. Wallace. Pearson, and Severa to lead 11s in boys’ athletics in coming years we expect Munhall to try for the championship. 1 hese same boys were champs” when Freshmen : so it can be done. No less credit is due the girls, who made possible the many victories of the girls’ season. Considerable mention should be stressed on our Sophomore Room No. 25. They seem to be the only capable stars in handling money contests. This room won the contest for subscriptions to our school paper, “The Munhisko,” the latter won therace for the subscriptions to the Annual. They all enjoyed a weiner roast given them by the Senior Class as a reward for the first contest. We are assured that our good ship has taken the right course to success. Now. we hope it reaches its destination without any obstacles for hindrance. Time, alone, can display this. But—with the beginning that our class has— its future success is assured. On to Victory. Sophomore Editor, EOMA BURNHAM. 2,6 Forty-seven Sophomore Class Roll Mabel Anderson Genevive Bochie Paul Booth Curtis Bunch Eoma Burnham Mildred Calvin Catherine Caldwell Jean Carr Dorothy Chaney Paul Cigas Violetta Cline John Connelly Louise Cowen Anna Cristofik Hilda Cox Harold Davis Thelma Doyle Harold Evans James Feeney Elizabeth Garland Alexander Graves Harry Hahn Ursula Hasnaucr Merrill Horner George Hough Oda Jackson Helen lames Bernice Jones John Kearns Norma Kellv Mary Kemp Madalyn Keys Milan Kovalik Fred Kramer Agnes Kushner Mary Laird William Laird Louise Llewellyn Alexander Maczko Ladislaus Mares Leona Markowitz Emerson Mathicson Thomas McAteer Grace McCague Thelma McClatchey Margaret McDonald Jack McGill Charles Minnotte Mildred Miskovich Frances Moore Margaret Natcher Ellen O’Neil Mary O’Toole John Park Thelma Patterson Edgar Pearson George Price John Price Henry Reinerth Charles Richey Margaret Roberts Margaret Rosenbaum Mary Russell Harold Schuette William Schwartz Francis Severa Hester Slater Ruth Spawn Viola Swenson Rhoda Thomas Eleanor Thompson Kenneth Thompson Evelyn Tray Daniel Treloar |ohn Vines Madeline Waldman Alex Wallace Ella Wertz Grace Whetstone Frank Wiebelt Hazel Wright Helen Zamborsky John Wilson Donald Zimmerman vMunhisKo Sophomore Who’s Who 1. Mildred Calvin (Milly) is the president of our class and a very capable one. She is also a star in basketball. She’s mighty peppy We'll have to admit, You never hear Milly say— “Oh let’s quit.” 2. Grace McCague is a star in basketball and a sub on the big team. 3. Ellen O’Neil has the honor of being on the honor roll every month. She is also a basketball star. 4. Margaret Natcher always known as Peg, is our pianist, both in the orchestra and at our social functions. 5. Frances Moore is our reporter for the Munhisko. 6. Bernice Jones we recommend very highly. She is a member of our Student Council and we are proud of her for being on the honor roll every month. She is also out forbasketball. 7. Donald Zimmerman, a member of the Student Council, and also on the honor roll. 8. Mary Kemp is a violinist in our orchestra. 9. William Swartz (Billy) we can easily note as the smallest boy in our class and he also is out for basketball. Although small he holds high hopes of getting on the big team. “Stick to it Billy, you’ll get there some day.” 10. William Laird (Bill) is a sub on the first team in basketball. 11. Madaline Waldman, a reporter for the Munhisko. 12. Kenneth Thompson (Ken) is a noted cook. (Girls, please note this fact). Ken also is a football hero. 13. Louise Lewellyn is an athlete all around. She is out for basketball. 14. Thelma McClatchey (Tete) took part in the Sophomore play entitled, “T'Aint My Foult”. Look out Tete or you’ll be putting Colleen Moore out of a job. Ain’t that right, Tete? HltmRN C’RlTc l 0+. Fifty-one J lunhisKo OFFICERS OF THE FRESHMAN CLASS Margaret Bertram ...............................President Michael Timko .............................Vice President Janies Mooney ........................Secretary-Treasurer Miss Katharine Blank......................Class Advisor Colors Blue and Silver Flowers Red Rose MOTTO “Success Crowns Labor” unhisKo History of Class of 1929 August 31. 1925, is a day to be remembered. “Will it remain with us? is a question to be answered affirmatively by each Freshman who entered Munhall High on that day. Everybody and everything was in a state of great excitement. Coming from a grade school into a large building like Munball High has a great effect upon a person and so. naturally, this was the cause of the confusion. When our report rooms were located and schedules made out. the confusion ceased to exist. Soon we became acquainted with our teachers whom we found very fascinating. We then started on our regular routing of daily classes. Our subjects were entirely new to us, but with hard work and the cooperation of our teachers we finally began to progress. At the close of the first six weeks period when our report cards were given to us we found that our classes were well represented on the honor roll. This encouraged our teachers and our interests were soon won by them. As time elapsed the methods and rules of high school were not such a burden as we thought when we entered the school. During the term many enjoyable events occurred. The one that interested the Frcshies most was the “Freshman Reception, which was held a short time after school had begun. This reception was sponsored by the Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors who provided an enjoyable program and a delicious lunch. It was voted by all who participated the Banner Event of the year. Just as interesting was the Lyceum Course Entertainment. This course consisted of ten numbers of which every one was well worth seeing. They were not only entertaining but also educational. All who did not attend any of these numbers missed a real treat. Other events were the entertainments provided by the Seniors, for the benefit of the annual, athletic events, and debates. The Freshmen not to be outdone by their more experienced students played a great part in the athletic events. The Freshman boys and girls won many games, setting a record far beyond that of other classes of the high school. This energetic crowd of Freshies instills confidence into us that Munhall High will win more games in the near future. Despite the fact that they have had no previous experience the Freshman classes have presented interesting assembly programs. The ninth year pupils represented on the student council are Jack Speidel and Dale Hacker. From reports received they have performed their duties faithfully, making us proud of their record. For the first time in several years the Freshman class, failing to follow precedent, organized this year. This opportunity to work as a group of this function more effectively in the school is due to Mr. Wherry’s insight and experience. It will depend upon we Freshmen to show if we are capable of such an organization. The principal of this is to combine us more closely together so as we can have a better time. We hereby take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation to all our teachers who have done their best to make our Freshman year a most successful one. With our eyes turned towoard high ideals of the future let us continue into our Sophomore year with the same spirit of progress which prevailed when we entered our first year of high school. By GRACE MATHEWS, (Class of ’29). Fifty-three Freshmen Girls’ Roll Hilda albrecht dorothy bainbridge sara e bair helen ballock margaret barnes margaret bertram lauretta bowers bella burechson elizabeth capp Helen cloonan sarab cohen - Catherine cosgrove dorothy fawcett eninta gagean ada gaither anna gribble Hilda hepps florence hutnagle mary kohut janet shay grace matthews lola mcconegly elsie mcgreevy dorothy mcwhorter ina inuir josepbine noroski eleanor pfeifer elizabeth price jean pollok mary e rinard lucretia rulofson pearl rushe madeline rvdzesky helen satala alice shalkoski dorothy shuman helen siedlas helen smalley florence Starr margaret sullivan ellen thompson mary toth helen weideli ruth thompson p i Freshmen Boys’ Roll joseph baker andrew bishkoff willard host clarence botsford john bottesch henry brethold russell bredholt Stephen boytim joseph cloonan thoinas copeland paul crawford david cross john cristofik arthur davis Charles davis kenneth davis edward duda michael feckovic michael durika jack finlayson chalmer gifford sam glick earl grlbble anthony grecco dale hacker thomas hart wilbur james waiter jones john kushner arthur kraeuter clyde lewis andrew loosz park lyle frank magiera gustav magnuson william martin paige me adoo Patrick m c connvillc george m c gill taylor nieister kazmere michalik robert moore otto mock james mooney ncyman murray kenneth o’neil andrew pasax edward patnek Stephen pentek albert perhacs james redshaw harold strang richard reinerth russell richev harold rushe harry rutter adam rydzesky andrew sabo gail schoup michael smalley jack spcidel william stitt andrew strichko michael timko Stephen toth steven vadas clyde van wickle Fifty-six 192 6 samuel voght albert veselaney george weber homer wilkinson george williams MOTTOES Do in co-operation It can be done Nothing but good shall go from this school Fifty-nine ACTIVITIES “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. Sixty FOREWORD Activities have been more progressive in Munhall this year than in any other previous years. The students seem to have taken more interest in clubs, organizations, etc. New clubs have been formed so that almost every student belongs to one or the other. The teachers of our school have devoted their time to make them a huge success. Drama and music have worked their way through the school and have become popular even outside of school. Among the new clubs are the Art Club under the direction of Miss Johnston and the Home Nursing Club under the direction of Miss Ryan. Both have been a boon as they have done some outside and practical work as well as school work. The French Club, under the supervision of Miss Guiney seems to have functioned well, both as a social and an educational club. Let us hope that these activities will continue in the future and contain as much zeal as they have had this year. The Student Council Every student in Munhall in the past four years has enjoyed the privilege of self government. In the beginning the idea of a self governing student body in Munhall was suggested and acted upon by the students in 1923. They decided to form a self-governing student body. A constitution was drafted and a student council for which it provides, was elected. The student council had a hard time beginning its climb to success but at last it was started. The constitution drawn up by the student body, was agreed to and adopted by the school board and the faculty. To the present day the supervising authorities have aided the student council and the student body in all endeavors concerning student government. The purpose in forming self governing body was to promote the idea of democracy among the pupils and to stimulate the love of freedom from the iron hand of an individual ruler. The idea of self government in schools has been received loyally by both faculties and students in Munhall. The Student Council has a wide field for its activity. Everything pertaining to students should interest it and all difficulties in school should be acted upon by it as soon as the matter is referred to it by the faculty. A member of the Student Council should be one who thinks of the school first and one who would sacrifice personal pleasure for the betterment of the school. The voters should therefore consider the persons nominated for this office from all viewpoints before voting and should try to back the persons elected with all their strength so as to make the Student Council successful in its work. The Student Council of the school year 1925-1926 has thus far been successful in that it has overcome the difficulties set before it and adjusted wrongs or controversies between all classes or organizations having such cases. Some of the common difficulties in Munhall have been the adjusting of disagreements over athletics. The work as a whole has been a success and the Student Council’s verdicts have been accepted by the students without disagreement or opposition. As the Student Council has been a success in the past four years and as it is a success now in Munhall High School, it asks the entire support of the student body in the future in whatever it may do. If the Student Council of Munhall has this support in the future a successful self governing body can be assured: but without it our future success wavers. Let Munhall work together and put student government over with a boom. “DO IX CO-OPERATION” unhisKo STUDENT COUNCIL OFFICERS Albert Frantz Irene Busch Alice Himes President Vice President Secretary SOPHOMORES SENIORS Alice Himes Albert Frantz JUNIORS Irene Busch Bernice Natcher Bernice Jones Donald Zimmerman FRESHMEN Dale Hacker Jack Speidel Ray O. Klingensmith George E. Walbert Sixty-three Watch for the Announcement of the Date of the Neat Senior Movie and Entertainment JUNIOR ISSUE Oil Ik- hibit HX tk--I Kelt , An.-rican . rt I hi exhibttioia � j. un ; verwlu In ng ami wa al ruled by a bi(i number. who departed aril pleated ami who had rup.yed thi entire program CMRI: mm ..at mini bkit tin - --c l-ng drwkr. ami friend and gladne«« inert --« ith a new and unwonted cheer hen thrrr joy in tlic Vy, let earth kn«iw ix. sigh. In th h--b.it ilay • ( the year. An Mumiiii� '’25 Obeying Inctroctiom In hngbab. S|nulli wa rralinr ami • tumM.nc alone Minn hr hci-tatol mt the «. rd “tiar ae . nininr , prompted Min Nantuh N’.i nsiniHe. 'Har iur. Spmclli. bar-iw .-ntM timtl exclaimed Mi t Kanriah. ' li .n. won. nv.” vetprd Spin Hi mlnriMy. WE WISH YOU A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR VOL. 111. MUNHALL. PA.. DECEMBER. 1925 Number 3 MERRY CHRISTMAS BOOST! THE ANNUAI BOOST! ANNUAL WORK IS WELL UNDER WAY Thi ywr’l Annual to be the g •IMtOSTTIIK ANN! l. Tb every -.mIc about it. fur upon the rr.� «r failin' I ihU year A In urnktuking tb' ptibliii School i� attempting to |erf«r la� t � � year Whether •� rv hundred «f dollar Mill lie u � U • f the Mudcnt U«|y whether th I'pon tbeir ability to Cooperate depend the future of our Anti T'n Am i.il Mill ' • iih ptll.ltklicd b a high � rho | u the ai • • ! • - -i V-ur. .1' I Hi,1 |� «WtilVt tb ' endeavor of any .t e M'ltted alike It will, though, lie jhi! • « u the nutoiu of all high I ! !• M. . tl l!:ik IV . A Munb.itl Sv ...1 ■ M .n.l «- il.mg for ,i. ,.J. . ,N a„.! ' ■� • ► I I I for. ; , • II ••Hi. t |o J.. th larnc Piet 'AorVi n the (aelijrc hi already begun the SfM RTuU|i having lie,,, altift !) nor t lh ngraver . Other group and efot. ire l� m: taken daily Miner l'-1-eland ha. Keen named a B |� � hnt editor with KoaaM Ll � yd � ' k unl and union ' having any | ieturr%, hand them t� one « f thexe Im ' ilanrl in -- t y-u ran tin.I . the picture drpartment i� ..nr of the inml iriiii runit J the Vnnual. Theme T ‘hv ’ I- t th. nnu.il ha been derided upon arv! th - art 1 tl. i ri. •- ..1 th. -1. d f rt w rk i II I.. I.. «ut ■! - A Name The ci nte� t f r an appropriate her (band M- rct of name have t� e thi itatf hat been unable to rSixw Watvh for tb amamix'Tncnl of th lubnntted it. f r t . them guci the gr picture in th I. -k rul a free • jty ot t ART EXHIBITION- 11 t|h an art ex ■f the High w..« at! ARE YOU OBSERVING THESE HALL RULES n t nail in .re than tn‘o •� t � to; at fountain- during . , 4 '■ '■ up ilair for g n? ii| only down -.1 air • fra d � wi only. I , m.t run thru igh th- hall l!e in yotrr claxuimm wh n the ring ■' I1 • .'I .oil. I. ..II n. . t, ■ rt-' ..|i •• i- 'I ter are •rtjly minor I fling which ked to rJ ; but, rrmetnlter. ttle things that Count LL-KNOXVILLE DEBATE fueulay. fkrenifier 15. .Minthnll it dettatliig M on f..� the I 'th 1'ni.in High of Knovvilte. .lie f in .tu ri ? I.. .|. i..I i •olwtl l' s all' :ihl pa« uli ir|i‘-i f� i building rul upkeep of nier. h .nt pin rim- ’ Th.- team thi� year - Coachnf liy Mr Paget, ini.tnj.tor ..f Kngliah I ni«rtity f Pittkl.orgh anil f.-rmri .k-ltatr roach f N'or h«' tern I'mvcr •ity II' hak be.-I. Morking hard M.ith the iiimiber of the iK-hat-ng Clnfi in an effort I prmhtc n aii ning team. Ttir two wh � ar. t- drfiate it krv..v l ut It •� probable flat Burton Gil.hint aivl K. iiakl l.hod will make in lN trail With 1-1: sir Itvkr a« alternate. Mu ill-all i al .( cndcavrring t v-curr Irhat. with other ich.«d� fur the tnemlM-ri of the Debating lliil NOTICE. JUNIORS! I wl� h to fake the i ije.rtunity to thank the very few luniora for what they did to make thi icMic of The Murvhikho a tmi'cu nal t« ccruure th t larg. m.M'.rity who helped not at -II. Much of the material which wa« ha ink'd ill by the Junior wit either of no alu«- or h id to l e rewritten The Junior - will hare � improve j greatly if they with to make next vrar‘� Munhbko a uerea I hope th S Jph un wr� and Freah-•tiro wi!l l e In-nefitted to th- luniora- miatakri ami haml n mMlerix'l win. h will make th next i «r of The Ifuu It - k ■ a thing f which they Can be tvoud of Ye E fiior. Snphomorn and Frnhmen take no tice. You will ha e charge of the next i� � oe of The Munhiako. Sixty-four I JrfunhisKo The Honor Roll The Honor Roll is the outcome of a principle, namely: to recognize excellence in school and to reward this excellence in some definite way. It has always been the custom to reward proficiency, whether in athletics or scholastic ability. It is no more than right to award those who have worked exceptionally well by something more than a diploma. That is the reason the Honor Roll system has been installed in Munhall. It started in nineteen twenty-two and we are proud to say that the Honor Roll is functioning more than ever and that it has more names on the list every month. The roll, made up at the end of each report period, contains the names of all students whose period average of all studies is ninety per cent of above, providing no grade is below eighty per cent. The roll is posted on the main bulletin board and in all report rooms. This is done to encourage those who are lagging behind. Should a student’s name appear on the Honor Roll for six periods, he is given a gold pin and if it appears on the Honor Roil five times he is given a silver pin. Both are worth working for and should be kept as incentives to greater things. Those whose names have appeared on the Roll during the present school year are: SENIORS Albert Frantz Mildred Keltz Iszella Bell Alice Himes Ruth Hager Celia Carpe Alice Roberts Mildred Wagner Harry Welsh Ralph Zimmerman Sara Hamilton JUNIORS Jean Boot Milton Goldman Isobel Wozniak Florence Rydzesky Milan Kovalik Ellen O’Neil SOPHOMORES Bernice Jones FRESHMAN Margaret Barnes Margaret Bertram Lauretta Bowers Anna Cristofik Donald Zimmerman Bella Burechson James Redshaw James Mooney Grace Matthews Sixty-five JrfunhisKo ANNUAL STAFF ..............Editor-in-Chief ...Assistant Editor-in-Chief ..........Business Manager Assistant Business Manager .......Advertising Manager ...................Art Editor .......Assistant Art Editor ............Activities Editor ...Assistant Activities Editor ..............Athletic Editor ..............Athletic Editor ..............Snapshot Editor ...Assistant Snapshot Editor ..........Senior Class Editor ..........Junior Class Editor ...Sophomore Class Editor .......Freshman Class Editor ..............Calendar Editor ..................Joke Editor ...............Faculty Editor Albert Frantz ... Alice Roberts ... Burton Gilchrist Charles Spinelli... Harry Welsh ..... Forrest Critchlow Charles Altman . Iszella Bell .... Celia Carpe ..... John Mathieson . Florence Taylor . Elmer Copeland Ronald Lloyd .... Mildred Keltz ... Irene Busch .... Eoma Burnham . Grace Mathews . Charles Tierney Mary King ...... Alice Himes Sixty-six unhisKo On Leaving Munhall Our ship is ready, All hands steady; The wind is right. We sail to-night. The sails are hung; A song is sung. The song of Life, so free, Expressing hope for life to be. The port: “Good day,” We’re on our way To sail the boundless sea, And end; where shall it be? When waves beat high, And storms are nigh; Grasp them with steady hand— The helm, and stand. Courage ever, Backward never; Looking to the fore, Steadfastly evermore. When shore is won, And day is done. If done your best, Then glady rest. If the storms too highly beat, Never fear complete defeat; For if at your post you sink You are far nearer than you think. —RONALD LLOYD. Sixty-ciffht Music, that which charms the soul, has made rapid strides in our nation in recent years. The schools are taking more interest in music than ever before. Munhall has been very fortunate because the school board has provided a Supervisor of Music who devotes her whole time to the study of music, both vocal and instrumental. We say Munhall schools have been fortunate because a great number of schools have instructors who devote part time or who teach connectedly; for instance, music and art. The supervisors that have been at Munhall have been those of the most efficient type and whose results have proven their ability. Music is taken up in the grades as well as in the high school. There is in connection with the music in the high school an orchestra consisting of sixteen pieces. There are two Freshmen-Sophomore choruses each having about thirty-five members, also a Junior-Senior chorus of approximately seventy-five members. Music is an elective study in the high school and about one-half of the students enrolled take advantage of this privilege. The music which has been furnished by the orchestra and various choruses during the past two years, also the operettas “Bulbul” and “Sylvia” were successful because of the capable leadership of our present supervisor, Miss Helen E. Beltz. Sixty-nine J U XI OR - S ENI OR CHORUS Edith James Burton Gilchrist Mary Laird Mildred Kelt . Edwin Schuette Katherine Watson Alice Himes Donald Price Mildred Pearson Hazel Strang Charles Tierney Margaret Lamont Margaret Ruff Charles Altman Bernice Natcher Ursula Higgins Andrew Suhoza Grace Moore Mary King Albert Schermer Dorothy Laird Flossie Taylor William Price Hilda Cox Celia Saron Anthony Spinelli Ruth Muir Emilie Mihok Virgil Thompson Elsie Lacey Regina Keizler Thomas Gaither Henry Pearson Mildred Wagner Earnest McShane Plarry Daibler Helen Svjantek Joe King Joe Guiney Thelma Howell Ella Wertz Fred Williams Anna Hunter Viola Swenson John Laird Sara Hamilton Ruth Griffin John Stevens Gladys Carr Jean Boot Elmer Copeland Alice Roberts Irene Busch John Brownlee Louise Sherwin Florence Rydzesky John Hickey Ruth Daibler Dorothy Eakman Fred Stewart Velma Smith Isobel Wozniak Rav Rutter Elsie Graves Olive Davis Merrill Horner Susan Anderson Gladys Hutchins Ethel Gribble Charles Spinelli Anna Mitchell Curtis Bunch Seventy unhisKo FRESHMAN-SOPHOMORE CHORUS Margaret McDonald Thelma Patterson Mary Russell Helen James Louise Lewelyn Agnes Kushner Evelyn Tray Bernice Jones Ellen O’Neil Grace McCague Margaret Roberts Mary O’Toole Hester Slater Rhoda Thomas Oda Jackson Pearl Rushe Dorothy Schuman William Martin Albert Perhack Chalmer Gifford Walter Jones Francis Sevcra Thomas McAteer Edward Patnik Ursula Hasnauer Grace Whetstone Eoma Burnham Mildred Calvin Dorothy McWhorter Dorothy Fawcett Ellen Thompson Mable Anderson Anna Gribble Sara Hayden Anna Cristofik Margaret Rosenbaum Genevieve Bochie Eleanor Pfeifer Ada Gaither Ruth Thompson Kenneth Davis James Redshaw James Mooney Otto Mock Kenneth O’Neil Neyman Murray Harry Rutter Richard Reinerth Paige McAdoo Mildred Miskovitch Jean Carr Frances Moore „ f Seventy-one OPERETTA NOTES “SYLVIA ACT I Sylvia, tired of her betrothed wanders into the hayfield where she overhears Betty bemoaning her fate and wishing she were engaged to marry a nobleman instead of William. Sylvia suggests that, as they each envy the other her lot. they exchange places for the rest of the day, that Sylvia masquerades as the farmer’s daughter and Betty as the maid of honor to the Queen. Betty tells of a flower called Cupid's Eye”, which would blind the poet and the farmer to the fact that such an exchange has been made and the two girls set off to find the magic flower and change costumes. In the meantime. Betty's companions, who had left her in the hay-field. return to find her. They meet the farm lads on their way to the plough field and half promise to meet them at the stile on their way from work. A cloud appears in the sky, which throws them into great consterna tion as they fear rain, and when Prince Tobbytum appears they besiege him to know what the weather will he. Indignantly, he informs them who he is and they apologize. Pic accepts their apology and offers them the privilege of kissing his cheek. They pretend to accept hut instead dance about him. pelting him with flowers until he escapes. Sylvia and Betty return, dressed in each other's clothes and with the magic flower in their possession, Betty successfully fools DeLacey and Sylvia as successfully fools William. DeLacey and Betty set forth to stroll through the woods and lanes and William drags Sylvia off to help him weed the potato patch. Robin sounds the dinner horn and the haymakers return to the hayfield to spend the noonday hour. ACT II Toward the close of the afternoon, the haymakers rest from their toil and stroll to and fro in the cool of the day. The farmer’s daughters set forth oh their walk to the stile. Sylvia, worn out with her experiences of the afternoon, returns to the field, and Betty rushes in, having run away from DeLacey and a bull. l ach girl declares that hereafter she will he content with her own lot and will not envy the other. They retire to change dresses and to set off in search of the poet and farmer. Unfortunately, their prank is likely to have serious consequences, for Lady Arabella saw Sylvia carried over the brook by the farmer and the Lady Arminta saw DeLacey and Betty walking arm in arm. and this news is imparted to Prince Tobbytum, who resolves to expose the Lady Sylvia that night before the assembled Court. V illiam. accompanied by the farmer's daughters and farm lads is searching for Betty, and he runs into DeLacey who is looking for Sylvia. The two men are about to come to blows when Sylvia and Betty separate them. The Ladies Arabella and Araminta, thinking it possible they may have been mistaken, ask the prince not to mention what they have told him. Prince Tobbytum tries to make mischief but is foiled. A song of greeting to the harvest moon, rising over the treetops, ends the evening, and all wend their wav homeward. Scvcnty-txvo 1926 unhisKo CAST OF CHARACTERS Sir Bertram DeLacey—The Court Poet Prince Tobbytuni—A Man of Consequence William—An Honest Farmer ................. Robin—A Country Lad ...................... Sylvia—Betrothed to DeLacey .............. Betty—Betrothed to William................ Arabella—Lady in Waiting at Court ........ Araminta—Her Sister ...................... Polly—Friend of Betty .................... Molly- Friend of Betty ........... Dolly—Friend of Bettv .................... Charles Spinelli Ray Rutter Henry Pearson ....John Hickey Louise Sherwin Alice Roberts Isobel Wozniak Irene Busch Jean Boot .Thelma Howell Mildred Calvin FARM LADS AND HAYMAKERS Thomas Gaither Emro Laczko Joseph Guiney Merrill Horner John Laird John Stevens Hal Williams Ernest McShane Edwin Schuctte Charles Tierney Donald Price John Hickey Kenneth O’Neil Chalmers Gifford Elmer Copeland Edith Janies Ursula Higgins Florence Taylor Helen Svjantek Rhoda Thomas Frances Moore Bernice Jones Margaret McDonald Seventy-three unhisKo ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLIN Beson Tarr Curtis Bench Andrew Kondis Michael Timko SECOND VIOLIN Paul Crawford Paige McAdoo Mary Kemp Kazmere Mihaleck Alfred Jones Charles Espy VIOLA Viola Swanson CELLO Milton Goldman DRUMS Otto Mock PIANO Margaret Natcher BELLS Walter Jones Seventy-four Introduction To Drama Drama is a representation of human action and characters, which by impersonation is presented by actors before an audience. The drama is divided into two classic departments: tragedy and comedy, both of which have been handed down to us from earliest times by the Greeks. The tragedy deals with serious themes and portrays the sufferings of humanity, while comedy deals with the follies and absurdities of the ridiculous and its purpose is for entertainment. Both tragedy and comedy originated with the worship of Dionysus for whom festivals were held in Attica. The Athenian tragedy and comedy were not for entertainment alone, but were religious affairs. In a short time the drama fell into decline and the stage was used for pantomines and dancers. With the decline of Rome theatre, there was a long period of darkness in the history of the drama. New forms arose having their origin in the services of the church. All the chief events of the life of Christ were commemorated on certain days by the presentation of a play. These were removed from the church and were performed by secular actors and presented in the language of the people. There were three forms of the medieval drama: mystery plays, miracle plays, and morality plays. The comedy was an evolution from the morality plays and the main influence toward it came from imitation of the classics. Shakespeare is acknowledged to be the greatest dramatic genius that the world has produced and this fact has been proved for his plays are still acted upon the stage to-day. The Driflna of Munltall High School has met with such success that it must not be passed by without special mention. Before audiences overcrowding the auditorium, our students have shown their talent and skill in acting. Operettas and plays furnish the best kinds of amusements and the Munhall public has always had an opportunity to obtain excellent entertainment in our auditorium. Not only have our achievements pleased the public but they have equally amused the students during chapel exercises. The students of each reporting room in the high school are given an opportunity to demonstrate their skill by presenting programs in Assembly. The chief object in this is to permit our talented pupils to show their ability. Much of our success has been due to the efforts of Miss Beltz, Miss Nannah, Miss Guincy and Miss Adams, who coached our plays. ?a 6 Seventy-five THE CAST OF “THE HAPPY MEDIUM” Charles Altman Burton Gilchrist Alice Roberts Harold Applegate, a lawyer Arthur Nichol, a newspaper reporter Elvina Joy. a stenographer “The Happy Medium”, a comedy of irrepressible youth and high spirits. James Madison, was presented bv three members of the Senior class on Friday evening, October 2. The play, taken as a dramatic work, is eminently worth while. It has a good plot, fine character delineation, lively conversation, -and continued interest. There are portions of it. notably the scene with Charles Altman, the scheming romancer, and Alice Roberts, his stenographer, which continually hold one’s interest. The plot of The Happy Medium is clever. The young lawyer and romancer owes his pretty secretary eight weeks wages. He is unable to pay the money so lie decides to marry her and thus keep her salary in the family. In the meantime, a newspaper reporter. Arthur Nichol. unexpectedly arrives and the lawyer, at first, thinks him to be a sheriff. The lawyer asks the reporter to hide behind a screen and when his stenographer enters, lie should look at her through the screen to see if he approves of her appearance. If he likes her appearance, he should rap once, but if he does not he should rap twice. Arthur agrees to this and hides behind the screen. Finally Miss Joy, the secretary, enters and Arthur raps once. When Arthur steps from behind the screen lie immediately falls in love with Miss Joy and she in turn falls in love with him. The lawyer tells many tales about Mr. Nichol. but Miss Joy is moved by none of these complaints and decides to marry Mr. Nichol. The scene ends with Miss Joy and Mr. Nichol very happy but the lawyer is very sad and heart-broken. The comedy was so well received by the audience that it was reproduced on Nov. 6. ?26 Seventy-six unhisKo Henrietta Brewster Florence Taylor Stephen Brewster Burton Gilchrist Mabel, Henrietta’s sister Edith James “Suppressed Desires” is a delightful play, written by Susan Glaspell in collaboration with George Cram Cook. Henrietta, wife of Stephen Brewster, is very much interested in psychoanalysis. She nearly drives her husband frantic by awakening him in the middle of the night to tell him her dreams. Mable, sister of Henrietta, is very much excited over her own dreams. For three nights in succession she dreamed that she had turned into a hen. Henrietta tries to interpret her dream, but finally, finding it impossible, sends Mable to her professor who interprets dreams. The professor interprets Mabel's dream saying that she is in love with Stephen and the only way to establish peace in her mind is to marry him for her dreaming that she was a hen corresponded to the last half of Stephen’s name. Step-hen. Since Stephen had strange dreams he also pays the professor a visit and relates his dreams to him. The professor interprets them all to the amazement of Stephen. The next morning Mable repeated the professor’s interpretation to Henrietta. Stephen enters the room and exglajms that he thinks the professor has wonderful ability. Henrietta, upon hearing this, becomes hysterical and tells Stephen that he may leave her and marry Mable if he chooses. She also claims that she will speak no more of psycho-anal vsis. Stephen is some delighted to think that at last he might have some rest. Mabel returns to her husband and Stephen and Henrietta are happily reunited. Seventy-seven a unhisKo Senior Play Notes ‘.‘COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN In an old Virginia home the four Daingerfield children are trying to make both ends meet while their mother and father are traveling abroad for the father's health. Olivia, next to the youngest of the family, (Luella Jackson) has persuaded the rest to rent the old homestead to a Yankee millionaire for six weeks for five thousand dollars. All would have been well had not the Yankee millionaire positively refused to have any colored servants about the place. But he did, so servants from Washington were arranged for and then at the last minute failed to appear. At the end of their wits the rest of the Daingerefild children are about to give up when Olivia saves the plan by suggesting that they themselves take the places of the servants until another group from Washington is secured. At first there is opposition from everyone. Randy Weeks, their friend and agent. (Alan Eliot) included; but finally through Livy’s pleading, they consent and undertake to learn their parts. Paul, the oldest one. (Burton Girchrist) is Smithfield. the butler; Charlie (Charles Altman) is Brindlebury, the useful boy; Bess is Araminta. the maid, and Livy is Jane-Ellen. the cook. All goes well until Burton Crane, the Yankee millionaire, (Ronald Lloyd) allows one of his guests, Mrs. Faulkner (Celia Saron), to interview the servants. She says very bluntly just what she thinks of them and thus gains their ill-will. Of course trouble follows: Charles catches Mrs. Faulkner’s brother, Tucker (Albert Frantz), trying to make love to Jane-Ellen and calls him an “old chimpanzee”; the result is he is fired.. Through mere chance Bess has a hat. the dead spit of one of Cora’s, Mrs. Faulkener’s daughter (Alice Zoe Himes), and Mrs. Faulkener sees her wearing it. Naturally she claims it and demands that Bess be dismissed. However Cora appears wearing her hat and then Bess tells Mrs. Faulkener just what she thinks of her. So Bess is discharged. Paul tries to get Charlie back into the house as a substitute servant and Crane finds it our and fires him. thus leaving Jane-Ellen as the only remaining servant. Thomas Leliferts (Thomas Gaither), self-named poet and secret sweetheart of Cora, steals into the kitchen to give a letter to the cook for Cora. However he hears someone coming and fearing discovery by Mrs. Faulkener. hides in the kitchen cupboard. The someone happens to be Mandy, Livy’s colored mammy, (Louise Sherwin) who ventures into the house to see Livy and is hidden by her in the same cupboard as Lefferts has chosen. When Mrs. Faulkener on visiting the kitchen finds them there she decides to leave. Finding his holiday turning out so badly and half guessing who Jane-Ellen really is Crane threatens to break his lease. He really loves Jane-Ellen but is afraid she doesn't return his love. He is just about to leave when he discovers that she cares for him. and then—well, then they “lived happily ever after.” 19 2,6 Seventy-eight unhisKo ...Luella Jackson ...Alice Roberts .....Celia Saron Alice Zoe Himes Louise Sherwin Ronald Lloyd Thomas Gaither ...Albert Frantz Burton Gilchrist Charles Altman ....Alan Elliott Margaret Ruff Regina Keizler Farrest Woodside John Mathieson Forrest Critchlow COACH Francis E. Nannah ASSISTANT COACHES Mildred E. Guinev Mr. Sam McClatchey Seventy-nine JrfunhisKo Eighty Assembly Plays TAINT MY FAULT One of the most entertaining Assembly programs of this year was presented by the Sophomores of Room 11. The plot of “Tain’t My Fault is clever and was well worked out by the cast. Thelma McClatchey, as Klsic Morton, the star pupil of Mine de Kalb’s Hoarding School for Girls, is the only one who knows anything of her father who had hidden away from newspaper reporters since he was concerned in a Wall Street deal. Kdgar Pearson, as Jimmie the newspaper reporter, disguises himself as a girl and obtains the required information from Klsic. but he reveals nothing to the newspapers for he likes her too well. Ellen O’Neil, as Nettie, the new pupil, was planning to elope with Tom (Jack McGill) and it was in her clothes that Jimmie had dressed with the assistance of Jerry (Thomas McAtecr) the boy of all work who always declared “Tain’t My Fault.” Mary Laird as Madame de Kalb was a rather severe mistress but later she consented to the marriage of Tom and Nettie with Jimmie and Elsie as best man and bride’s maid. STATION W-H-O-T With little static and everything perfect to a T, Station W-H-O-T gave its first and last program to the perplexed students of Munhall. The station was a success from the start because of the policy of Room 18 to contract for only the best talent. Mr. Charles J. Spinelli. famous tenor and orator, undertook to the the announcer. His perfect enunciation and unusual wit won for him the announcership of Station W-H-O-T. The Agony Four’’ was chosen as the best quartette and they certainly lived up to their name, tor their rendition of The Farmer”, was usually good—Guinev. Tierney, Hickey and Spinelli were the song birds. Milton Goldman, Beson Tarr, Virgil Thompson. Andrew Sohoza, and Ruth Griffin, played several operatic selections of which “How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning”, won great praise. Another artist was Mine. Potash, whose concert in B flat, “I Can Wash the Dishes”, was excellent. In concluding, Irene Busch entertained the Freshies with a bed time story. THE SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving is celebrated in ail parts of the country and has been made a legal holiday by a Proclamation from the President. It is always celebrated by appropriate exercises, in all schools and most churches but at this time we are interested in the manners by which the Freshmen of Room twenty-two celebrated the day. The entertainment was given in Assembly and represented a model school which was presenting its Thanksgiving exercises. This program consisted of several speeches. When the Frost is on the Pumpkin , by James Whitcomb Riley, was recited by one of the members of the class. Why the Turkey Gobbles,” was an exceptionally interesting Indian legend and is believed to have been told to Captain John Smith when he came to Virginia. A song entitled. “The Spirit of Thanksgiving”, was then sung by the class. This concluded the pleasing program given by Miss Albright’s reporting room, the Friday before Thanksgiving. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Before the Christmas holidays Miss Blank’s room entertained in chapel with a Christmas program. Christmas carols were sung by a group of girls and boys and there were a few Wise Cracks , by James Redshaw. George McGill, and Albert Ruhsch. After a violin solo by Kazmere Micholik, Ina Muir gave an exhibition of a sword dance. The dance was so interesting and cleverly done that the audience would not be content with only one performance, and as an encore she danced the Highland Fling. The story of Tiny Tim in Dickens’ Christmas Carol was read by James Redshaw. Although many had read the story before, everyone listened eagerly and all hearts went out in sympathy for Tiny Tim. (MunhisKo ROOM 14’s PROGRAM On October 23, Room 14 gave its chapel program which was a howling success. The plot of the playlctte was simply that of the girls at a Hoarding School having one of their nightly revels when they are caught by the Dean. During the course of the play we noticed that Milly Pearson made a pretty bad thing of golf but she didn’t know what kind of a spectacle she really was from her appearance when trying to wield a golf club. Dot placed a thumb tack where M illy was going to sit and to our distress she sal and sat until the middle of the play. Isobel made a fine Dean, but she forgot her spectacles and her kirt was slightly crooked. Everything was a success on account of Peg’s ability as a Ukist and she saved the day. The Bible reading was well done, but Bernice seemed to have an attack of stage fright. EETHER OR EYTHER The play. “Ecther or Evther” was a decided success when given in Assembly on the twelfth of February. Eight Freshmen made up the cast. The idea of the play was to convey to the minds of the students how trifles are often the cause of serious misunderstandings. A young couple arc celebrating the marriage anniversary and are waiting for their parents. The husband. Mr. Turlington. Jr., is reading aloud a selection from Ruskin to his wife and they begin to quarrel over the pronunciation of the word either. When their parents arrive they too begin to quarrel. They finally come to their senses when the mistress and maid faint. They finally compromise when Simpson, the butler, announces that dinner is served. Those taking part in the play were: Jack Speidel, Dorothy Shuman. Russell Brethold, Ruth Thompson. Michael Timko, Pearl Rushe, Jean Pollock, Steven Vadasz. ROOM 13 ENTERTAINS On Friday. March 12. Room 13 presented its program in Chapel. The entertainment was of a scientific nature sprinkled with music. Michael Timko played two violin selections and Catherine Cardwell sang two solos. Jack Spiedal and Jack Finlavson performed an experiment with a bell jar and air pump proving that air has pressure. Spiedal did all the work while Finlavson did all the talking. Park Lyle made a fire extinguisher and demonstrated its value while Beson Tarr exploded gunpowder by means of an electric spark. He had great difficulty in causing the powder to ignite and everyone termed him joke”, but after several attempts, the audience finally noticed a spark and afterwards a great flame. It had worked at last and the famous Beson won great praise for his performance, after Mr. Hackett, sitting on the font row, had nearly laughed his sides sore. CHEMISTRY CLASSES ENTERTAIN On February 26. the chemistry classes gave us a demonstrajion of what they had learned. Charles Spinclli demonstrated the properties of oxygen by thrusting a burning splint into a jar filled with this gas. and burned phosphorus, sulphur, and charcoal in the oxygen. All these proved that oxygen supports combustion. Ralph Zimmerman told the properties of hydrogen and explained how it is collected. He showed the action of sodium on water, thrust a burning splint into a jar of hydrogen and it exploded while the flame collected and burned around the mouth of the bottle. Albert Frantz showed the action of bases and acids on red and blue litmus paper, an acid turning the blue paper red and a base turning the red litmus blue. John Hornak and Andrew Suhoza explained why the colors on a whilring machne produce gray when whirled about, result produced by an electrosatic machine and described and produced lights in Geislcr Tubes. At the conclusion of the program Louise Sherwin sang two solos. The program of the play, The Last Day of School”, given by Room 21. follows: Piano Solo .....................................................Catherine Cosgrove Pirates ................................................................Boys of 21 Charleston Contest ............................Lauretta Bowers and Kenneth Davis Song, Freshie .................................................Girls of 21 like Chorus and Song....................................................Boys of 21 Solo ...............................................................Helen Cloonan ?26 Eighty-tty o £ I unhisKo CLUBS Clubs had their origin in English coffee-houses and taverns and they were social gatherings whose purpose it was to discuss affairs of the day and to create a greater interest in literature, science, etc. High school clubs are formed chiefly for the same purpose; that of bringing about a greater interest in the subject of the class by which it is formed and to promote sociability'. The clubs of Munhall High School are numerous: The Senior French Club of forty members, the Commercial Club of forty-eight members, the Art Club composed of sixteen girls, the Debating Club, consisting of eight members, the Bowling Club consists of eighteen members, and the Chess and Checkers Club consisting of ten members. The clubs of the school this year have functioned better than ever before. They have had a larger enrollment, conducted more meetings, and social gatherings, and have proved themselves more beneficial. Two new clubs were formed in the high school this year, namely: The Art Club, and the Chess and Checker Club. ?26 Eighty-tliroe THE ART CLUB The officers of the club are: Alice Roberts ............................................ President Mildred Wagner ............................................Secretary Margaret Ruff ............................................ Treasurer Miss Anna Johnston...........................................Sponsor At the chapel period on a Wednesday in November the girls of the Junior and Senior art classes, composed of sixteen girls, organized an Art Club, under the supervision of Miss Johnston, in Room twelve. This has been one of the most active clubs in the high school and it has done some real work. Its purpose is to increase the interest of the members in art and to appreciate its value. Besides, studying the old masterpieces, color schemes, etc., the girls have done fine work in painting scenes from real life and from copies. In November the members of the club visited the International Art Exhibition at the Carnegie Library and attended the lecture on art given by Mr. Certissoz. On December third, an art exhbition. arranged for the club members, was held in Room twelve and a program presented in the auditorium. Each member told of the art of different countries and these reports were illustrated by means of lantern slides. The exhibition was an overwhelming success and was well received by the public. The proceeds were used for buying pictures for the high school. Mrs. McCracken, a most interesting speaker from the Carnegie’s Institute was obtained by the club to speak in assembly. She told about her trip to Egypt which was illustrated by means of colored slides on the screen. ROLL Alice Himes Thelma Patterson Margaret Dedik Alice Roberts Celia Carpe Mildred Keltz Margaret Ruff Gladys Hutchins Iszella Bell Mildred Wagner Thelma Howell Anna Mitchell Katherine Watson Elsie Graves Ruth Hager Velma Smith Eighty-four Debating Club OFFICERS Burton Gilchrist .......................................President Albert Frantz ............................Secretary and Treasurer ROLL Butron Gilchrist Mildred Keltz Albert Frantz Ronald Lloyd Florence Taylor John Hickey Alice Roberts Emil Punzack After going to the semi-finals last year in the Allegheny County Debating League. Munhall looked forward to great things in debating this year, despite the fact that she was without the services of one member of last year’s successful team. The debating club, from which the team is picked, met and organized early in October, officers were chosen and plans for the season were discussed. Later at another meeting the question as chosen by the league was read and tentative teams were chosen. During this time, however, no steps to provide a coach had been taken, so that the club was hampered in its preparation by lack of guidance. It was not until three weeks before the first debate that a coach was provided and then it was too late for the team to make adequate preparation to meet a team of any ability. However, the coach. Mr. R. V. Paget, an instructor in the University of Pittsburgh, quickly selected his teams and work was begun. Debates were rapidly shaped and Munhall went to Knoxville to meet a team of unknown ability. Munhall having the affirmative side of the question : ‘‘Resolved That the L . S. Should Pay Subsidies for the Establishment of a U. S. Merchant Marine.” Munhall was represented by Burton Gilchrist and Ronald Lloyd. Knoxville proved to have an unusually strong team and Munhall was defeated by a two to one vote of the judges. This defeat eliminated Munhall from further competition and so her debating season ended. Next year we hope to be in the field again with a strong team as there was plenty of of good material in the club that will still be in school next fall. With them rests the debating honor of Munhall. Eighty-five Commercial Club M iss Co wen Miss Briggs President ... Secretary ... Treasurer ... .........Typewriting Commercial Subjects ......Alice Roberts ....Mildred Pearson ....Mildred Wagner ROLL OF MEMBERS 1 )ot Laird Kitty Watson Mary Laird Edith James Burton Gilchrist John Stevens Elsie Lacey Mary Louise O’Toole Olive Davis Eleanor Thompson Thelma McClatchey Fred Stewart Henry Pearson Harrison Anderson Thomas Smelscer Otto Moch Hazel Strang Margaret Ruff Alice Himes Emilie Mihok Celia Carpe Jean Boot Ethel Cribble Isobel Wozniak Dorothy Eakman Hilda Hepps Celia Saron Regina Kiezler Bernice Natcher Florence Taylor Mary King Irene Busch Helen Svjantck Helen Zamborsky Elizabeth Alexander Sara Hamilton Anna Hunter Gladys Carr Milton Goldman Andrew Suhoza Ruth Diabler Susan Anderson Alice Roberts Ella Wertz Ruth Griffin Thelma Doyle Grace Moore Margaret Lamont Eighty-six unhisKo Senior French Club Le Cerclc Francais a etc organise cet an par Mademoiselle Mildred E. Guiney, professeur de francais. Ee cercle se compose de quarante-cinq eleves des classes superieures de francais qui se reunissent le mercredi deux fois par mois. On presente beaucoup de programmes interessants auxquels chaque membre participe. Les eleves ont appris plusieurs nouvelles chansons fran-caises. On aimc surtout a chanter La Marseillaise et J’ai du Bon Tabac. Les jeux qu’on joue sont divertissants aussi bien qu'instructifs. En jouant on peut augmenter son vocabulaire d’une maniere facile. A tine reunion du crecle on a oflfert un prix a l’eleve qui pouvait repro-duire le mieux une histoire lue en francais. On a expose plusieurs fois des verres et des images des scenes de France. On aime surtout a regarder les images des edifices celebres du pays. On peut reconnaitre Notre Dame de Paris, la cathedrale d’Amiens, le Louvre, le palias de Versailles, et beaucoup d’autres batiments. Le programme le plus interessant de 1’annee etait le discours de Mademoiselle Beatrice Young, professeur de francais et d’espagnol a Funiversitc de Pittsburgh. Mademoiselle Young vient de completer un tour du monde, et elle a choisi com me titre de son discours Des ecoles que j’ai visitees pendant mon tour du monde. Ses description du voyage etaient excellentes. On espere qu’elle rancontera encore une fois ses experiences. Junior French Club Le but du cercle francais qui se compose de quarante eleves de la premiere annee de francais est d’acquerir une idee de la vie des Francais et de suppleer ainsi ce qu’on apprend dans la classe. On joue des jeux simples mais amusants; on chante de petites chansons francaises; on lit des histoires; on apprend des poemes; on discute les habitudes, les costumes, la vie des Francais; et an essaie de parlcr francais—mais on trouve cela tres difficile. Les programmes de ce cercle sont moins compliques que ceux des eleves de la seconde annee de francais. mais ils sont aussi divertissants et aussi in-structifs. ? 26 Eighty-seven unhisKo Senior French Club OFFICIKRS President M. Albert Frantz Vice President M. Burton Gilchrist Seretaire .....................................M. Harry Welsh Commission Mile. Alice Zoe Himes, Mile. Mildred Kelt ., M. Ralph Zimmerman MEM HR ICS Luella Jackson Edith James Andrew Kondis Regina Keizler Mildred Kelt Augustlea Laney Ronald Lloyd Earnest McShane Emilie Mihok Francis O’Toole Alice Roberts Celia Baron Edward Schuette Louise Sherwin Velina Smith Anthony Spinelli Helen Svjantek Beson Tarr Florence Taylor Virgil Thompson Charles Tierney Mildred Wagner Harry Welsh Ralph Ximmerma Charles Spinelli Susan Anderson lszella Bell Celia Carpe Forest Critchlow Ruth Daibler Albert Frantz Thomas Gaither Burton Gilchrist Ruth Hager Ursula Higgins Alice Zoe Himes Thelma Howell John Hornack Eighty-eight • unhisKo Junior French Class OFFICIERS President .......................................M. Joe Guiney Vice President ..............................Mile. Ruth Griffin Secretaire M. Merle Horner Commission Mile. Margaret Lamont, Mile. Bernice Xatcher. M. John Hickey Catherine Cardwell Howard Coley Elmer Copeland Hilda Cox Reid Crawford Harold Davis Olive Davis Burton Gilchrist Ruth Griffin Joe Guiney John Hickey Merrill Horner Gladys Hutchins Robert Morgan Ruth Muir Bernice Natcher Francis O’Toole Henry Pearson Mildred Pearson Alex Penetek Emil Punzak Max Pearl man Viola Swenson Virgil Thompson Merle Williams Jsobel Wozniak Albert Jackson Matthew Kearns Frank Kennedy Joe Kushner Elsie Lacey Dorothea Laird Gerald Laird John Laird Margaret Lamont Daniel Maczko John Mathieson Grace Moore Eighty-nine unhisKo The History Clubs The History Clubs—seven in number—were organized at the beginning of the second semester. The purpose is mainly to promote an interest in current events connected with history, and to stimulate an interest in the work by having outside material hearing on the work in hand, brought to the attention of the class. One period a week is given to this work—at which time the officers of the club take charge. Each club has elected a president, and secretary, several of the groups have vice presidents. One club has a critic. The terms of office range from four to six weeks. Committees drew up constitutions for the clubs and in some classes—program committees make out the programs and name the speakers. In some cases the committee assigns the topic or subject for discussion. The programs have been varied, including newspaper articles touching state, national and international events; Magazine Articles, and debates. The latter were on the subjects: Capital Punishments’ and Student Government”. Special programs were given in honor of Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthday. During Boost Pittsburgh Week” one ol the clubs gave a program concerning the city. Two of the Sophomore clubs are planning short plays or pageants based on history. The members of the Freshman clubs have done some splendid work—they seem to be more interested in reporting on persons and events connected with their history than in Current Events. Two out of four of the Sophomore clubs have chosen names: The Spontaneous Dozen’’, and the “Perpetual Motion Club”. The officers in the Sophomore Clubs for the first term were: THE FRESHMEN CLUB OFFICERS: Presidents— Joseph Cloonan Elizabeth Price Margaret Bertram Vice Presidents— Gustave Magnuson Earl Cribble Secretaries— James Redshaw Walter Jones Loretta Bowers Sam ('.lick Presidents— James Bridges Margaret Natchcr Ellen O’Neil Harry Daiblcr V. President— Ursula Hasnauer (Only one club elected a Vice President) Secretaries— Harry Rutter Elizabeth Alexander Grace McCaguc Elizabeth Garland THE CHESS AND CHECKER CLUB Ages ago in the prisons of Persia and other countries with a dramatic setting behind them, the people played not the thrilling games of bravery and chivalry but the socalled meek games of checkers and chess. These games were begun hundreds of years ago in Asia but later between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, the royalty of Europe started its practice .only to have a lapse of its popularity. In later years, beginning with the seventeenth century, and up to the preesnt day. the games were taken up by a hundred small groups of men gathered around the stove of the old store in the town that is the socalled one horse town. This was, however, not the last step. It has found its way into Munhall High School but it will not lose its popularity in the high school as it did among the ancient peoples. With two efficient directors, namely: R. J. Hackett and Gerald Laird we are certain that these games will live in M unhall. BOWLING Besides basketball, football, and track. Munhall has a sport that the faculty considers better than those already named because they themselves compete against the students. The league consists of six teams among which is very much rivalry, although there is very fine sportsmanship shown. A team consisting of Charles Spinelli, Anthony Spinelh. Kenneth I hompson. V irgil Thompson, and Charles Altman was picked to bowl against the crack team from our rivals. Homestead. The agreement was that the team that had the most points at the end of the three games would win. After much excitement. Munhall defeated Homestead by 187 points. .... , At the end of the season the winning team received a silver cup. I his was presented bv Sam Brown of the Capitol Bowling Alleys. 192 6 Ninety Hall Committee ROLL Albert Frantz Charles Spinel 1 i John Mathieson Ralph Zimmerman Raymond Rutter Virgil Thompson This committee is a mystery to some students. They wonder why the boys are stationed at certain poistions in the halls. This fact may be evidenced by observing such students passing through the corridors. In the school the government is carried on by the students and a Student Council is elected for each school term. This hall committee was appointed by the Student Council for the purpose of conducting the student traffic. A great many citizens of our student government do not need such committees because they understand the purpose and “do in co-operation”. But there is always a part of the notorious eight per cent of the group who need someone to watch over them. This is the purpose of the committee. Remarks showing how the eight per cent conduct themselves may be heard by any observer. An example of such is: A young student came running through the hall until he was stopped by the committeeman at that point .and he cried in surprise: “Oh, I didn’t think you were there; I didn’t see you.” If such action goes on the student government cannot be a real success. The committee is not there for the purpose of ordering the students about but to watch just the eight per cent. If the students abide by the rules enacted by the Student Council the hall committee could be abolished. It is the duty of every loyal student to aid in the conducting of student affairs. Co-operation on the part of the student is greatly appreciated by the committee. Ninety-one The Subscription Contest W hen the class of 1926 decided to publish an annual, it realized the various things which had to be done, to make an annual a success. Money had to be raised, pictures had to be taken, drawings had to be made, and many other things had to be done. The staff was then chosen and they began immediately to do these things. All the pictures vere taken as soon as possible so as to assure engraving in time for printing. In their efforts to raise money, the staff put on several movie entertainments which were well received by the public and which greatly contributed to the financial part of the publication. Advertisements were secured from the surrounding business men and these also swelled the treasury. The art editors worked faithfully for several months to make the drawings necessary for the book. The various other editors worked on their material and handed in excellent writeups. Along about the middle of February, a subscription contest opened which held the center of attraction until March first. Prizes were offered to each room attaining a hundred per cent. Several rooms fought hard for first place and finally room twenty-five succeeded in gaining the contest honor. This room deserves much praise for coming in first in the contest for it was they who also won the Munhisko subscription contest. The winning room is composed of Sophomores who should be a great value to the high school before their graduation day comes. Room twenty-one. a Freshman room, finished second after a steady climb. Another Sophomore room. Room eleven, captured third place. 'incty-thrcc Ninety-five ATHLETICS “Men of muscle, grinding onward For our honor, and their own; Worthy friends and worthy foemen, Who are often too unknown.” ATHLETICS Among the events which will be remembered long after all else is forgotten are those occasions which require the energies in one great effort to defeat a worthy rival on the gridiron or the floor. These are the times when we do, in fact, put our Alma Mater before all else; those are the times when we feel our unity and community of purpose, when we feel our strength and “glory in it . The results of fruitful study may bring their laurels and the tricks of the class room will no doubt linger long and fast in our minds, but standing above all will be the memories of those times when we were with our high school, seated on the bleachers and cheering our team to victory—those times when class spirit and all else are laid aside and all minds have only one thought, that of a great pride and glory in our own. The question always arises whether athletics interfere or should interfere with studies. Athletics ought to interfere with studies, and so that the protest will not be too great we will add conversely, studies ought to interfere with athletics. More energy should be put to the educating of athletes and more energy in turn to the athleticing of the grinds and bookworms and not have highly specialized groups of learned students and other highly specialized groups of mere athletes. If our ideal was to prevent athletics from interfering with studies we ought to have our baseball games in summer, our football during a long Thanksgiving vacation, and basketball after commencement. But that is not our ideal. The value of athletics is that they offer a legitimate change from studies, both for the players and spectators, just as studies offer a legitimate change from athletics. The best condition certainly is wholesome alternation every day between strenuous intellectual work and strenuous physical work of some kind. Each is a reaction after the other, so you approximate the normal idea in which work is a pleasure and you may derive pleasure from your work. Too often it happens that athletics as present do not interfere with studies at all. because the athlete is not doing enough studying to interfere with his athletic pursuits. It is sometimes said that whatever is worth doing is worth doing as well as it can be done, but high school athletics are not worth being done so well that the fever for efficiency drives out the joy of the game. Never play a game that you can't afford to lose, and then play as though you couldn’t afford to lose, is a good rule to follow, and if followed will take much of the sting out of defeat and destroy much of the zest of winning. When you play a game that you cannot afford to lose, it is war, not sport. Football is a major sport in all high schools and should at all times receive due support. Whether the team wins or loses most or all of the games is no reason for slack-in ro-o norat inn or laxitv in spirit. Our football team made a record of which it can unhisfco Boys’ Basketball James Bridges Harry Daiblcr Joseph King John Mathieson H. D. Smith ... Sam Hughes .... John Hornak Kenneth Thompson Emerson Mathieson ..............Manager ................Coach ..............Trainer BASKET BALE SCORES Eat robe—14 M. H. S.—22 Etna—30 M. H. S.—16 Eat robe—25 M. H. S.—22 ... Swissvale—16 M. H. S.—15 Norwin—32 M. H. S.—28 ._. Norvvin—41 M. H. S.—12 Turtle Creek Union—25 M. H. S.—27 1 Hicjuesne—10 M. H. S—15 1 Uiqucsne—38 M. H. S.—31 Etna—37 M. H. S.—24 Rankin—25 M. H. S.—28 N. Braddock—43 M. H. S.—10 N. Braddock—35 M. H. S.—15 Turtle Creek Union—62 M. H. S.—13 Braddock—33 M. H. S.—17 Braddock—49 M. H. S.—13 Homestead—35 M. IE S.—13 .... Homestead—37 M. H. S.—16 leannette—17 M. H. S.—17 leannette—32 M. H. S.—17 Avalon—30 One Hundred One unhisKo Boys’ Inter-Class Basketball Although the inter-class basket ball league was won by the Seniors, it was not decided until they defeated the Freshmen. More enthusiasm was shown this year by the four classes toward inter-class basket ball than ever before. About twenty-five members of the Freshmen class tried out for their team. Although small, they showed plenty of spirit. The Sophomores had about a dozen while the Juniors and Seniors had about eight or ten each. The'league opened with the decisive victory of the Juniors over the Seniors. The Seniors seemed to be lost without Virgil Thompson, who was put out of the game in the first quarter for personal fouls. Mathieson, scoring sixteen points for the Seniors, was their leader. Pearlman and Laczko were leaders for the Juniors. In the second game of the league, the Freshmen defeated the Sophomores by one point. Although the Sophs had twice as many field goals as the underclassmen they were decidedly off in their foul shooting. The next game between the Juniors and Freshmen was a walk away for the Juniors. In a very close game between the Seniors and the Sophs, the Seniors came out victorious. The Seniors had a wide margin till the last few moments of play when the Sophs put in some very difficult shots. In the next game the Freshmen were defeated by the Seniors in an interesting game. In the last game of the first half of the league, the Juniors defeated the Sophs in a very fast game. At the beginning of the second half of the league schedule the Seniors put a clamp on the Juniors by defeating them by one point. This left the two teams tide for first place. The Sophs defeated the Freshmen in a game featured by close guarding of both teams. The Freshies accomplished the unexpetced when they handed the strong Junior team a decisive beating. In the following game the Seniors defeated the Sophs in a listless game featured only by the Sophs spurt in the the second half. In the final game of the season the Freshies fell before the Seniors in a hard fought game. This victory netted the Seniors the inter- class championship. Following are the scores of the Inter-class games: Juniors—42 Freshmen—25 Juniors—.56 Seniors—29 Sophomores—27 Seniors—27 ___________ Freshmen—25 Juniors—37 —--------- Sophomores—23 ... Seniors—29 Sophomores—24 Freshmen—16 One Hundred Two Seniors—15 Freshmen—14 Juniors—26 Freshmen—24 Seniors—21 Seniors—25 Kathryn Watson Isobel Wozinak Mary King Alice Roberts Edith James Miss Sara Adams Margaret Ruff Florence Taylor Helen Svjantek Mildred Pearson Thelma Doyle Elsie Lacey Viola Swenson Margaret Lamont Grace McCague •lien O’Neil Coach Manager SCORES Edge wood—15 East Pittsburgh—21 North Braddock—43 Homestead—H Swissvale—36 North Braddock—26 Edgewood—29 M unhall—46 M unhall—50 M unhall—18 ..........Homestead—17 M unhall—28 ... Wcstinghousc Tech— 9 M unhall—35 ......_.. Swissvale—33 Munhall—36 Braddock—18 Munhall—72 ........... Braddock— 9 ?2 6 One Hundred Three unhisKo Girls’ Inter-Class Basketball The inter-class teams were very good this year. As most of the players had had previous experience, the games were very interesting. The Freshies were so good that they weren't content just playing class games, but traveled to Braddock where they defeated the Braddock Junior girls. They were coached by Edith James, guard on the Varsity, and poor Edie surely had her hands full at handling such a team. The team was made up of a bunch of self-named professionals, namely: Elenore Pfeifer, captain; Florence Huffiragel, Dorothy Faucett. Helen Cloonan, Betty Price. Wilda Laird, Ada Gaither, Dorothy Schuman, Hilda Albrecht, and Helen Wiedeli. On the Sophomore team were Thelma Doyle, Mildred Calvin, Violette Cline, Eoma Burnham, Ella Wertz, Ursula Hasner, Grace Whetstone, Grace McCague. captain, and Ellen O'Neil. They really looked like the Varsity themselves on the floor, because so many of them played for the Varsity. The only difference was their queer habit of crying every time they lost a game, and the coach, Isobel Wozniak, just couldn't stop them. Then next came the Juniors who had the material and ability, but acted as though they couldn't get started in most of their games. However, they played exceptionally well when they beat the Sophomores in the extra period game. They resembled the Varsity in the fact that they were slow to start hut went like whirlwinds after they finally got started. They were coached by Floss Taylor and those that made up the team were: Irene Busch, captain: Ethel Gribhle. Mary Laird. Viola Swenson, Bernice Natcher, Catherine Cardwell. Elsie Lacey, and Margaret LaMonte. Last, but not least, comes Alice Roberts' Seniors. She had great difficulty in scraping up a team, as five Seniors were represented on the Varsity six. but however, they overcame these obstacles and showed up very well in all their games. They consisted of: Emilie Mihok, Ruth Hager, Velma Smith. Alice Himes, Regina Keizler, Mildred Keltz, and Celia Carpe. The scores for the games were: GIRLS' INTER-CLASS BASKETBALL SCORES Freshmen .......................... 21 Freshmen .......................... 9 Juniors ...........................12 Juniors ........................... 7 Freshmen .......................... 27 Freshmen ......................... 18 Sophomores ........................ 17 Sophomores ....................... 22 Freshmen ....................... 20 Freshmen ....................... 18 Juniors ......................... 10 Juniors .......................... 18 Seniors ............................. 9 Seniors ............................. 7 Sophomores .......................... 10 Sophomores .......................... 14 Juniors ............................. 9 Juniors ............................. 6 Seniors ............................. 15 Seniors ............................. 6 Sophomores ......................... 14 Sophomores ......................... 20 Seniors ............................. 7 Seniors ............................. 10 � 26 One Hundred Four One Hundred Six One Hundred Sexett COMMENCEMENT ‘The play is done, the curtain drops, Slow jolling to the prompter’s bell; A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell.” JrfunhisKo History of the Class of 1926 The class of '26 entered Munhall High School in 1922 as the largest class that had yet been enrolled. It numbered one hundred and twelve. Altho about half of the class has fallen by the wayside, it will go out, nevertheless, as the largest graduating class in the history of the school. In our Freshman year our class was not organized, as is the custom. We had only four of our number on the Honor Roll for the first period, but from then on the number increased so that we have had more on the roll than any other class. We organized our class in our Sophomore year with Edith James as President. In this year we made ourselves known. We seemed to have an unlucky habit of getting into trouble. We are always doing something original, for instance—putting up a class flag—which did not always meet with the approval of the faculty. For a leader in our Junior year we had William Price. In this year our debating record is something to be proud of since two members of our class represented Munhall in the Allegheny County League. One of the high lights in our Junior year was the banquet we gave to the Senior class. Our class, however, showed its true worth in our last year at Munhall. We had led in scholarship and activities in other years, but at no time had we accomplished as much as in our Senior year. Much credit is due our president. Harry Welsh, who led our class successfully in our last year. At a meeting at the beginning of the year, we decided to publish an annual. This meant pledging ourselves for a year of hard work which our class has carried through creditably we hope. We have done away with precedent and have taken up many new ideas and plans. We decided not to have a Baccalaureate Service and to have the class itself provide the Commencement program, thus doing away with the dry speakers of former years. The class had a class night which was something new at Munhall and which has proved a great success. It was the last time that the class of '26 got together for an all around good time. In this last year many of the members of our class showed that they had ability in another line, namely. Drama. It was necessary to raise the money for our annual so our class gave a number of moving picture entertainments and short plays. These were evidently liked by the people of Munhall if we can judge by the numbers that attended them. The last dramatic production given by the class was the Senior play, “Come Out of the Kitchen”, which was voted a great success. Now the time is approaching when we will be leaving this institution of learning, wiser than when we entered. We could not leave, however, without first thanking the teachers for the instruction and help they have given us. We realize how greatly indebted we are to them and especially to our former principal. Mr. McCrcady, and to our present principal, Mr. Wherry, who have given us high ideals and have tried so hard to show us that fair play counts more than victory. Some of us will enter institutions of higher learning: others will not; but whatever walks of life we travel, we shall be the better for the teachings and high ideals instilled in us at “dear old Munhall”. MILDRED KELTZ. 26 One Hundred Nine Class Pessimist, ’26 Ye gods and little fishes, commencement has come at last. After four long years of hard grind (and not a bit of appreciation for it) we are finally leaving this place, surrounded by four walls, which they call a High School. We have elected a Student Council. but a lot of use we’re getting out of it. We have to have teachers piping in at every study-period and imagine it, even at every recitation—as if students having gone to school for twelve or thirteen years, at the least, are not old enough to take care of themselves and have complete charge of a classroom. As for the faculty, why no adjective can describe their lack of knowledge. For instance, a Freshman asked Mr. Leith the other day how to spell Euphrates, (meaning, of course, the river) and he answered: “What do you think you’ve taken this course for if it isn’t to learn how to spell the names of ancient kings?” Now can you feature that? A Freshman comes to this place with some brains anyhow and the faculty knocks it out from the start. And the cruelty of some of the teachers should be reported at once to the “Humane Society.” It’s a disgrace, a sin: why it’s perfectly outrageous to say the least. Mr. Wherry and Mr. Klingcnsmith deliberately encourage unhuman treatment to poor defenseless animals and reptiles. They make us poor over-worked students cut them up and cut out their insides, just to satisfy their curiosity and see what they are made of. You can readily depend upon it. that they would be the first to complain if these conditions were reversed. Why, under the shining canopies, de we need music and art teachers? There are some students that know all there is to know in the realms of music. Why at the rate lie is going, Chuck Spinelli will soon have all Europe at his feet. In “Sylvia” he surely made more than one fair maiden’s heart beat. And there is no doubt whatever that Louise Shcrwin will be a second “Galli-Curci”. Surely the artistic instinct is shown in the students in their remarkable decorations on their slickers and books. This foreign language stuff is the bunk. I’ll say. Can you imagine Miss Guincy trying to pump into our heads those awful French verbs? They might be all right for one who intends to be “un professeur de francais . but for a class whose ideals probably do not aspire to anything greater than ditch digging or garbage collecting—I’d say it was a sort of useless, wouldn’t you? Then along comes Miss Albright with those heroic tales of Caesar, Vergil, etc. Surely she doesn’t expect any of 11s to follow in their footsteps. does she? It’s hard enough for some of that Latin crowd to “ride through those books let alone read about those brave deeds and then try to perform them. The idea of expecting us to get to school at 8:30, why it’s ridiculous, and then only an hour and a quarter for lunch, how on earth do they expect 11s to get any sleep? Speaking of time, they surely do rave if we are not on time at every session and at every class. Why just a few weeks ago. Floss was sent home for coming after school had begun. She really wasn’t very late, she only missed the first two periods of the afternoon. There’s no wonder we get disgusted, is there? In Room 17, when some of the Seniors proceed to converse with their friends. Mr. Walbert tells them to be quiet and merely blames it on the weather. Some of the former think that he should recognize their oratorial genius and encourage their talent along this line. The football team was awful; they only won one game and that was more luck than anything else. Some one happened to kick Spin, while he was holding the ball, and he thought he had been jabbed with a pitchfork, so he started to run and made a touchdown. ?26 One Hundred Ten unhisKo The basket ball team was no better. They only won one game and haven’t gotten over it yet. The players are so unmanageable that they have had three captains in one season. Can you imagine a team like that? The girls ‘have a little better record in basket ball than the fellows.' We have to give them credit for winning a few games at home anyway. I suppose though that about half of the school would like to see them lose a few games, so they would not be so conceited. It’s really disgusting the way the letter-men go around with their heads up in the air. They seem to have the idea that they arc the best players in the state. What an illusion! Nevertheless we must also give them credit for being able to retain one captain during a season. They might just as well not have one though, for instead of being a strict adherent to training rules herself, she is just the opposite. The night before a game one can usually sec most of the players piling into a Buick and Stude- bakcr and the captain is right in the midst. One really doesn’t know what this younger generation is coming to. The fellows are not college unless their trousers arc so wide that they do not move unless they take two steps. The girls are even worse. They have no modesty at all. They go around with bared knees and short skirts in the depth of winter. Is there any wonder they are always sick? The school itself is nothing more than a place for love-making. At an hour of the day one can see these love-sick couples strolling through the halls arm in arm. What an example to set for the Kreshies! Speaking of Kreshies. I wonder if they need any examples. The manner in which some of them cake on cosmetics should be looked after by some of the parents. The majority of them make a complete change of their faces at the end of every period. Oh, woman, vanity surely is thy name! We have to admit though that you do have a fair basket ball team. But what does that mean? Some team has to win all the games, so it might as well be yours. These movies which the Seniors hold are getting absolutely rank. One comes to spend an enjoyable evening, but instead all he gets is a few rolls of film (usually about 10 years old) and then about an hour for stretching. These evenings do give one an excellent opportunity for sleeping though, and quite a number of our patrons use it as such. Don’t they, Bernice? So many of our female students have the idea that Munhall is a beauty parlor and they surely make use of it. Whether they arc in class or out—it makes no difference. Velma, for instance, has manicured her nails so often that we are afraid she might lose them. That surely would be a calamity, wouldn’t it. Velma? Then some of them have the impression that bobbed hair is childish, and have made varied attempts to find a more stylish coiffure. But according to Celia and Regina there hasn’t been much success in these lines. I haven’t the slightest doubt, when I say that there will certainly be some professional crooks leaving our class. Why it’s an every day occurrence for a girl to steal another’s heart from some one else. Alice, please don’t blush. I haven’t mentioned any names as yet. I really can not understand some people’s susceptibility to blush, can you Bud? Oh, Heavens, Kitty and Milly are at it now. In closing there are only a few words which I should like to say: I hope that you under-classmen will not have to stand for what we did and take what we did. Learn by experience my friends, fight for vour rights. A few resolutions, similar to the following would not be inopportune at this time: 1. Adjust the school term to each individual wishes. 2. Permit students to eat during study periods and on special occasions, in classes. 3. Allow five dances each month, and make them invitation affairs to the faculty. 4. Abolish such foolishness as French and Chemistry themes. I?2 6 One Hundred Eleven unhisKo The Optimist About this time of the year it is customary tor the Seniors to contort their usually happy physiognomies into the appearance of utter dejection and to begin their annual report, to themselves and others, of how terribly sorrowful they are because of leaving the protection of their good old Alma Mater. Not only the Seniors, but everyone, directly or indirectly concerned, seem to think it absolutely in order for a good old fashioned lamentation. All of this, mind you. when not one of the aforesaid Seniors would voluntarily offer to remain under the direction of their Alma Mater for another year. Strange is it not when you consider how. when we were in grammar school and the term had just ended, we used to gleefully shout: No more pencils, no more books, etc.” Is there any reason therefore that we should be any less happy now? I think not and I also believe that the class of 1926 recognizes this fact; for no matter how tenderly we regard our school, we realize that in graduating we enter an ever larger field of education and service. In fact it is, and should be. the teachers and instructors, who are the disappointed individuals in this institution. The very thought of having such a crowd of good, upstanding. scholarly young people leaving their companionship is a bitter cup, which they would gladly have pass from their lips. But be that as it may. the fact remains that the members of the class of 1926 go now to take their place in the world. A place for which we have long hoped and carefully prepared. Speak to any member of the class and you will find that he would not exchange the past four years for any other four year per.od of his young life. This indicates as it seems to that the scholastic, athletic and social life of Munhall is one hundred per cent efficient. One has only to enter the library and notice the many rows of books collected there, to realize the first of these three virtues of our school. Open any one of these books carefully, blowing away the dust thereon and you will find works dealing with even the most profound philosophy. The teaching staff in Munhall is excellent: in fact we are rather ashamed to confess that our school has a monopoly on the good teachers of this state. Merely pass along the lower corridor of the main building and the athletic ability of our school will instantly dawn upon you. On each side of the hallway are large cases displaying trophies, which were placed there through the united effort of the physical heroes of our school. Some people consistently remind us that the athletic ability of Munhall is declining. To those people I would like to say that there are at least two perfectly good reasons for what seems to be inability on the part of our athletes, hirst, considering the scholastic ability and the past athletic glory of Munhall. it is only fair to let the less talented schools have a chance to exercise their own petty abilities. Second, the Golden Rule, and thus they do unto other schools what they would have other schools do unto them if they were in a similar position of inferiority. Then consider, for a moment, the social life of the school. Munhall abounds in clubs 19 26 One Hundred Twelve unhisKo and organizations. Many of the clubs are known well throughout the school, and add much to its social life. Possibly one of the best known clubs ever organized in this school was the well known Four O’clock Club, which functioned some one or two years ago and which was well attended at each of its regular meetings. Walk into Room 17 almost any evening after school, and you will find quite a few students busily engaged in the gentle art of assimilating poetry. This club is known as the T. S. R. C. or the Tardy Scholars Recitation Club. And so I could go on and on. but let us suffice with saying that when a better social life is developed Munhall will develop it. Viewed from across the historic Monongahela Valley. Munhall High School reflects the impression of all these qualities, and more. Arising, as it does, head and shoulders above the beautiful community from which it takes its name, it gives the impression of humble dignity and durability. The campus of Munhall, while it is not covered with low bending trees, silvery lakes, and such, has a beauty all its own. It is neat, clean and useful, comparing favorably with the attitude of the students. It stands, as do these students for purity without excessive purity, for truth without sham, for usefulness rather than ornamentation alone. The north portion of the building is constructed along lines similar to that of ancient Greek architecture; and is unexcelled except, perhaps, by the Parthenon at Athens. The interior makes ever a better impression for the very atmosphere reflects the spirit of study and thought. After passing four years in such virtuous and rare environment we arrived at the point, at which you see us today, the graduating class of 1926. Considering the excellent past record that this class has written for itself on the annals of this institution, considering the present ennobling situation, I believe that the prospects for the future are very high indeed, therefore I predict once and for all. that this class will be successful to an extent far greater than any class previous or subsequent to the twenty-sixers. Tonight the Senior Class of 1926 stands at the posterior gate of its high school career. A gate that leads into a new and strange land, a land laden with rich possibilities in the eduactional, social and commercial life; the vistas of which become ever more beautiful as we progress. The goals of life lie before us, and we may choose our own way of reaching the goal we have set for ourselves .or we may choose not to reach a goal at all. Let us, however, as we engage ourselves in this new life and strive to reach that ever elusive goal, remember our school and the many bounteous advantages we received there. Remember our watchword, INDUSTRY, Seniors and then we can joyfully shout to the rest of the world, “Excuse Our Dust”. RONALD LLOYD. ’26 1920 Inc Hundred Thirteen Last Will and Testament of the Senior Class of 1926 Be it remembered that we, the Senior Class of 1926 of Munhall High School, Pennsylvania, being of sound mind and clear memory (Alas: this surely is quite contrary to the opinion of our dear school teachers) of good standing, do make, and publish, and declare this as our last Will and Testament, hereby revoking any will previously made. 1st. To Mr. Wherry we leave our appreciation and good will for all that he has done for us, throughout our four years in Munhall High School. 2nd. To Mr. Walbert we bequeath our best wishes nad thank him for keeping a stern paternal hand over us during our last year. 3rd. To Miss Albright we leave all our well worn Vergil books and we sincerely hope that the following classes appreciate your work and get as much enjoyment from your work as we did. 4th. To Mr. Klingensmith we leave the birds, the trees ,the squirrels and nuts. 5th. To Mrs. Clarke we leave the sole power of colecting in. all over due library books. 6th. To Mr. Hackett we bequeath (in a pitiful state) all our laboratory instruments. 7th. To Miss Nannah we leave all the English literature books which we have waded through without a groan. 8th. To Miss Adams we leave all the dumb bells. 9th.—To Mr. Smith we bequeath as material for the team, the Freshies. 10th. To Miss Beltz we bequeath happiness and luck for her new profession. 11th. To Miss Cowen we leave all the wrecked typewriters. 12th. To Miss Guiney we leave heart salve to mend her broken heart. (It was broken on account of the Seniors’ French pronunciation). 13th. To Miss Lincoln we leave memories of the eighth period study class. 14th. To Miss Lysle we bequeath all the pots and pans. 15th. To Miss Johnston we leave all our art impediments. 16th. To Miss Blank we bequeath the whole Senior Class best regard for bringing us together in our Junior year. 1unhisKo 17th. To Miss Smith we leave all our History knowledge. 18th. To all the Faculty in general, we leave our lasting gratitude for the 70's and zeros that they gave us, as we sojourned through the High School. 19th. To all the organizations we leave our sincere hope for your future success. 20th. To the Juniors we leave our Senior Dignity, and the task for setting the Example for the lower classmen, our school spirit, and the text books we have studied thoroughly. (Believe it or not). 21st. To the Athletic organizations we bequeath our most sincere wish that success will be yours in the future. 22nd. Individually we leave the following: Alice Roberts, Mary King. Edith James, and Helen Svvantek leave their positions on the basket ball team to be filled. Albert Frantz leaves the joh of Editor-in-Chief. to anyone who thinks he is capable of editing an Annual. Peg Ruff bequeaths her popularity to any smiling Junior girl. Cecelia Saron leaves her make-up to no one in particular. Augustine Laney leaves his quietness to Elmer Copeland. Butron Gilchrist leaves his oratory power to some of the Juniors. (It comes in very handy in all your class work). Louise Sherwin bequeaths her voice to the chorus. Mildred Keltz leaves her Latin knowledge to the Freshies. Flossie Taylor bequeaths Ray Rutter to the Junior girls. All the Seniors bequeath, in good condition, Room 17, where dearest memories will be formed, and kept forever. We hereby appoint ourselves to wit. the Class of 1926 as chief executors of this, our last Will and Testament. In witness, whereof, we, the Class of 1926, herewith subscribe our Clover Seal, the twenty-fifth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. WE CLASS OF 1926: WITNESS TIME HISTORY One Hundred Fifteen My sixtieth birthday and here I am alone with my thoughts. My companion has gone out for a drive and I must amuse myself for an hour or two. I think I will read to pass the time. Let me see, there is “Mankind at the Cross-roads’ , but that is too heavy, then there is “Origin of the Species”, by Darwin, but that is too scientific. There are also “Stoddard’s Lectures”, but they are too old. Why what is this little book tucked away among these large volumes! Oh, it is my Diary for 1940. I think I 11 read it. as it just suits my mood. JAN 1. 1940—I am spending the week-end with Burton and Hazel Gilchrist. Burton is a distinguished lawyer here in Florida. I think a great deal of his success is due to the practice he got in debating at Munhall. We arc going to hear the opera “Faust”, in which Louise Shcrwin takes the part of Marguerite. Louise is one of the prima donnas of the world. JAN 2, 1940—Louise certainly did well last night. I am sure she reached the height of her fame. I met Margaret Ruff who is the secretary of Harry Welsh, the president of the largest bank in Florida. Margaret is to be married in a month to one of her old time sweethearts. MAR. 15, 1940—Mildred arrived today for a two weeks visit. Mildred is an instructor in Thiel College. MAR. 29. 1940— Mildred just left today for Greenville, where she will resume her work, after her furious round of gaiety. We were on the go all the time she was here. One night we went to see a play which was written by A. E. Thomas, and who should be playing in it. but Florence Taylor and Edith James. They got their start from “Suppressed Desires”, which was given when they were Seniors at Munhall Hi. APRIL 30. 1940—I attended a teachers’ convention yesterday and one of the speakers was Iszella Bell, who is the principal of one of the Pittsburgh High Schools. I also met Celia Carpe, Regina Reizler and Helen Svjantek who are teachers. MAY 15, 1940—Alice Roberts who is an instructor of English in Allegheny College went to New York with me last week. One day we attended a fashion show held by one of the leading modistes of the city. We found out when we arrived at the store that the proprietresses are Mary King and Ursula Higgins. Two of their designers are Eniilie Mihok and Cecelia Saron. Another day. as we were walking up Broadway, we learned, by a brilliantly lighted sign, that the Schuette Pharmacy was within. Attracted by the name we went in and whom did we see but Edwin Schuette and Antony Spinelli. Schuette and Spinelli arc partners and own one of the most flourishing pharmacies on Broadway. MAY 30, 1940—1 attended a Republican convention today and found to my surprise that a number of my former classmates are prominent political leadres. Virgel Thompson, Charles Tierney, Ernest McShane, and Albert Schermer were some of the speakers. All are prosperous lawyers. I!) 26 One Hundred Sixteen JUNK 16, 1940—1 read in the paper today that a very wonderful operation had been performed by Dr. Charles Altman and Dr. William Price. These two are quite famous surgeons. I also read in a medical magazine that Andrew Suhoza is a famous bloodless surgeon in the United States. JUNE 17, 1940—I made a visit to the Homestead Steel Works and found that Albert Frantz is the chief electrical engineer and Ronald Lloyd and John Hornak are assistant electrical engineers. I also found that Forrest Critchlow is the chief mechanical engineer and that Alan Elliot and Thomas Gaither are civil engineers in the same mill. Farrcst Woodside is the general superintendent of the Homestead plant. JUNE 18, 1940—This morning I made a visit to the Iowa School at Monesscn and there I found Sue Anderson Ruth Daiblcr, Thelma Howell as teachers and Ruth Hager the principal. I had a letter from Mildred Wagner today and she is spending her honeymoon abroad. JUNE 25. 1940—Went shopping with Sara Hamilton today. Sara is the private secretary of Joseph King, one of the Pennsylvania senators. She told me that Ann Hunter was the social secretary of the President’s wife and that Gladys Carr was the secretary of Charles Spinelli, one of the senators from Ohio. Margaret Dedik is employed in the government service. We happened to drop into the Yohe Drug Store and met Donald Price who is a pharmacist there. Don said he had seen Ralph Zimmerman yesterday and that Ralph was an aviator. He also told me that Andrew Kondis and Augustlee Laney and Beson Tarr were all officers in the American army. SEPT. 15. 1940—Just home from Europe where Luella Jackson and I spent our vacation. Luella is the principal of one of Pittsburgh's largest public schools. SEPT. 1, 1940—Went to see a game of the World Series today. Pittsburgh won the series but how could they help it with John Mathieson as manager. One of the policemen who kept order at the game was Francis O’Toole. SEPT.30. 1940—I read in the paper today that Velma Smith, a teacher in the Wilbur-..force School in Ohio received her A. M. degree. I also read that Elsie Graves is a secretary in the Hampton School, Virginia. ALICE ZOE One Hundred Seventeen funhisKo Class Poem If this were all of life we’ll know Of these few brief years of school, How foolish would our struggle seem If school, were only school. Imagine, if you can, a life That ends in just twelve years. How pitiful its joys would seem, How idle all its tears. How purposeless the strife would be, If there were nothing more. If there were not a plan to serve, No future place to struggle for. How aimless all the goals would seem, For which we bravely try. If everything would end right here, In this, OUR MUNHALU HIGH. Yet there is something after all, Beyond this toil of years, Our school days have not been in vain. We need not have our fears. What our future holds we cannot see, But, our ambitions we possess. With this we know, we've been admitted, Through the Gateway to Success. One Hundred Eighteen n 26 RUTH DAIBI.KR. ? High School Chorus Harry Welsh, Pres. Senior Class Albert Frantz ...... Iszella Bell Forrest Critchlow Music America Invocation Music Address Our Aims Our Faculty .... Our Equipment Our Student Body ........................................... Florence Taylor Vocal Solo .................................................. Louise Sherwin Our Student Government Ralph Zimmerman Our Program of Studies ......................................Mildred Keltz Our Clubs ....................................................Celia Saron Our Athletics .............................................John Hornak High School String Sextette Our Publications .........................................Alice Roberts Our Needs ...............................................Burton Gilchrist This Year and Next Presentation of Diplomas.......C. M. Johnstone, Pres. Board of Education Presentation of Scholarships and Awards C. R. Stone, District Supt. Alma Mater ........................................................ Assembly Music .............................................High School Orchestra 192 6 One Hundred Nineteen ft HATCH ’Mid the hills of Pennsylvania, At the gateway of the West, Stands our dear old Munhall High School Loved by all of us the best. Gathered round her stately portals, Sweetest memories ever cling. Of the days when dear old Munhall Sheltered us beneath her wing. SHI Old Munhall, dear old Munhall, Often we have heard thy praise; Often cheered with waving banners, In our dear old Munhall days. Still wc love the dear old Munhall, We, thy loyal sons and true, Here’s a cheer and then another, Dear old Munhall. here’s to you. One Hundred Twenty School Calendar AUGUST 31—F'irst day of School. Special Note: Mr. Hackett gave his classes night work. SEPTEMBER 1—Coach Smith holds his first football practice. Sixty boys reported. SEPTEMBER 2—First REAL practice. SEPTEMBER A—First Senior High School Assembly. Mr. Wherry welcomes the Freshmen. SEPTEMBER 7—Labor Day. (No school). (No Nothing). SEPTEMBER 8—Munhisko staff meeting. First definite plans for paper made—a very best paper. SEPTEMBER 9—First General Asemblv. Reverend McFarland spoke on “How to Achieve Our Goal”. Have you achieved yours? SEPTEMBER 10—Juinor Class held meeting and chose its class ring. SEPTEMBER 11—Munhisko Staff opens subscription contest. SEPTEMBER 16—Reverend Griffin spoke on How to Make a Life”. SEPTEMBER 18—Cheer leaders “strut their stuff’ ’and the students choose for the best. SEPTEMBER 21—Student ticket sale begins. Did you support your school affairs? SEPTEMBER 22—Senior Class made plans for weiner roast. SEPTEMBER 23—Mr. Hunsberger, Chief Scout Executive of Homestead District, gives very inteersting talk to the students on Nature”. SEPTEMBER 2A—Victrola records for typewriting arrived and arc tried out. Dancing instead of typewriting. SEPTEMBER 25—First efforts of Munhisko staff go to press. OCTOBER OCTOBER 3—Our football team played Swissvale at home. OCTOBER 7—Reverend Waters spoke to the student body. His interesting topic, “Prepare to Meet Thy God , was appreciated by all. OCTOBER 9—Avalon discovered pretty good defense when they met our team today. OCTOBER 14—Seniors decide to have an Annual. Do in Co-operation, Munhall. OCTOBER 20—First Lecture Course entertainment, presenting Holland Bell Ringers. OCTOBER 23—Munhall travels to Clairton. THE ONE WE ONE. OCTOBER 27—Seniors have pictures taken for Annual. Vanity shows itself. OCTOBER 28— Nomination for Student Council held. OCTOBER 30—Sophomores Hallowe’en party. ?26 ffdCMO -li One Hundred Tzccnty-one XOVKMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 3—Traffic cops like their jobs. They leave classes early enough. 6—M unhaH’s eleven met Pitcairn team. 9—Noise in great volume issues forth from Room 5. first period. 12— Ostrander Travelogue pleases. Egypt is interesting. 13— Room 18 gave a radio program in chapel. Lots of static. 16— Munhisko Staff went to Pitt. 17— Room 17 went to the Davis en masse . 18— Seniors held a Cafeteria. Schermer spends a quarter. 20—Room 22 gave a Thanksgiving Program in Chapel. 30—Report cards out. Tearing of hair, gnashing of teeth, a few smiles. DECEMBER Miss Guiney thinks he DECEMBER 2—First day of the Art Exhibit in Room 12. DECEMBER 6—Forrest Critchlow took an afternoon off and went in town to see Santa Claus. DECEMBER 14—Ralph Bingham Satisfies. DECEMBER 16—First night of operetta, Sylvia. DECEMBER 17—Second night of same. DECEMBER—Christmas vacation begins at 3:25. Juniors hold party in Gym. JANUARY JANUARY—4—Xmas vacation is over. Visions of semester exams. JANUARY 5—Basket ball starts. We played Norwin. JANUARY 6—Daibler lost Peg’s powder puff. JANUARY 7—A. J. Spinclli thought he knew his French lesson. would make a good short story writer. JANUARY 8—Play Duquesne. Lose. JANUARY 9—Saturday. What do you expect? JANUARY 12—Played Etna. Lost. JANUARY 11—Ambrose made lightning and Matty got shocked. JANUARY 14—Another day. JANUARY 18—Schermer came on time to school. JANUARY 20—Subscription contest for the Annual starts with a bang. JANUARY 21—Senior class movie and play for benefit of the Annual. Second semester begins. JANUARY 26—Our second team heat Homestead. Three cheers. JANUARY 27—Senior Cafeteria. More shekels for the Annual. JANUARY 29—The Floyds entertain. Pearson stars. FEBRUARY One Hundred Tiecnts-two FEBRUARY 8— Beilhartz astonished us with his quick changes. FEBRUARY 11—Lincoln—copy his character. FEBRUARY 13—No school. FEBRUARY 14—When hearts arc trump. Freshies have valentine box. FEBRUARY 22— Who cut that cherry tree? MARCH MARCH 1—Evans, distinguished Welsh orator entertained students and parents. MARCH 2—Schermer knew his oil well today, so Mr. Hackett says”. MARCH 3—Juniors held class meeting to choose flowers and colors for their belittled class”. J IunhisKo MARCH 5—Beatrice Yound told of her experiences in traveling around the world. MARCH 9—The Hunchback of Notre Dame was shown in our auditorium. MARCH 10—The Seniors played the Sophomores in our Gym. The Seniors trimmed them cutting their ears close. MARCH 11—Juniors hold cafeteria. (Some dogs). MARCH 12—Police squad receive their authority (tin badges). MARCH 16—School Board plans for new school. MARCH 17—Show your Irish today. MARCH 18—Spinelli goes to Pittsburgh to get a new Easter outfit. MARCH 19—Seniors visit Juvenile Court. MARCH 22—Track candidates reported for first practice. MARCH 23—Seniors win the inter-class basket ball tournament by defeating the Freshmen. MARCH 24—Senior class visits Pittsburgh School for the Blind. MARCH 26—Movie: The Iron Horse shown to benefit annual school banquet. MARCH 27—Annual goes to press. MARCH 29—The Adanac Male Quartette entertained Munhall School District. MARCH 31—Mayor Hackett demanded the Senior Chemistry Lab. Books to be up for Inspection. APRIL 1—Who got fooled? APRIL APRIL 2-5—No school. APRIL 6—G. D. D.’s put on Radio Program. APRIL 8—The Annual School Banquet. APRIL 7—Liquid Air Experiment. APRIL 9—Movie: The Four Seasons. APRIL 14—Yellowstone National Park pictures shown during chapel period. APRIL 16—Come Out of the Kitchen—Senior Class play; best ever. APRIL 20—Report Cards. Good Grief! APRIL 27—Full moon. Is that all? APRIL 28—Movies: From Trees to Tribune—story of a modern newspaper. APRIL 29—The twenty-ninth day of the fourth month—remember that. APRIL 30—Last day of the month. MAY MAY 1—All the Seniors dress up for May-day and attend the Inter-Borough Track Meet. MAY 4—Seniors all present and on time second time this year. MAY 5—Kid day. Seniors bring back fond reminiscences of childhood days. MAY 6—Senior Exams. Seniors try to recall things they never knew MAY 7—Ditto. MAY 8—Carnegie Track Meet. MAY 8-15—General revival of learning for exams. MAY 15—W. P. I. A. L. Meet. MAY 17-18—High School Exams. MAY 21 Last chapel of year. The Seniors hand over implements of torture to Juniors. MAY 22—University of Pittsburgh Meet. MAY 24—Class Meet. MAY 25—Reception of graduates by School Board. MAY 26—Commencement. MAY 27—Picnic. Albert Frantz fell off the Merry-Go-Round. MAY 28—Return to school for report cards. Last Day—To Seniors—Good-bye, Forever. One Hundred Twcntx-thrce unhisKo Big Boy Blue The little tin Ford is covered with dust, But proud and stern she stands; The dinged old can is red with rust And to steer it would take ten hands. Time was when the little Ford was new, And Lizzie was puffing fair; And that was the time when our Big Boy Blue Wrecked her and put her there. “Now don’t rattle until I come,” he said, “And don't you make any noise!” So hobbling off to his hospital bed. He developed a disfigured poise; And as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Big Boy Blue— Oh! The tears are many, the years are long, But the little tin Ford is true! Ah. faithful to Big Boy Blue she stands Lizzie in the same old place, Awaiting the touch of the junk man’s hand's— The can that won the race; And she wonders, as waiting the long years through Expecting much needed repair. What has become of our Big Boy Blue. One Hundred Twenty-four One Hundred Twenty-five HUMOR c'Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe’s cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek.” One Hundred Twenty-six It you can’t take a joke, If you can’t smile. Turn over this page And groan awhile. “Those high school girls should make wonderful firemen”. “Why?” “Because they’ve had so much experience in rolling hose”. Gilchrist—“What’s that you say, there ain’t no Jews in Alaska”. Schermer—“That’s what I heard”. Gilchrist—“Well who’s this guy Ice Berg? You wouldn’t call him an Episcopalian’ To the Teachers: Teachee, teachee. All day teachee. Night markee papers. Nerves all creepee. No one kissee No one huggee: Poor old maidee No one lovee. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE By the shores of Cuticura. By the shining Sunkist waters. Lived the Prophalectic Chiclet, Danderine, old Helmar’s daughter. She was loved by Instant Postum. Son of Piedmont and Victrola. Kin apparent to the Mazda, Of the tribe of Coca-Cola. Thru the forest strolled the lovers. Woods untrod by Ford or Saxon. “Oh mu lovely little Beechnut”, Were the burning words of Postum “No Pyrene can quench my fire, Though I know you’re still a Miss, For by Pcpsodcnt desire Is to marry you Djer-Kiss . After Jessie had been to hoarding school for a few weeks she began to sign her letters “Jessica . Her brother. Lacetious Thomas, wrote her in reply: Dear Jessica: Dadica and Mamica have gone to visit Aunt Lizzica. Uncle Samica doesn’t know whether to buy a Fordica or a Chevica. The old cowica had a calfica and I was going to call it Nellica. but I changed it to Jimica because it was a bullica. Your brother, Tomica. For good there is eternal bliss For bad. eternal blisters. 1920 THE STENOG’S VACATION My tYpust is on hor vacution. My tupists gwan fpr a week; My typudt us in hwr vsearion. Wgile thse da nm kews plsy hude and seej One Hundred Twenty-seven The Senior Class Ro(a)ster Name Wants To Be Is Our Opinion Weakness Charles Altman Doctor Iszella Bell Helpful Celia Carpe Bright Gladys Carr Big Forrest Critchlow An Artist Ruth Daibler Reserved Margaret Dedik A Stenog. Allan Elliot A Man Albert Frantz An Editor Thomas Gaither Collegiate Burton Gilchrist Great Elsie Graves Nice Ruth Hager Something Sara Hamilton An old maid I’rsula Higgins Somebody Alice Himes Everv Teacher’s 1 John Hornak An Athlete Thelma Howell Bell of Whitaker Anna Hunter A Wife Luella Jackson Miss Mock Edith Janies Popular Regina Keizler A Chemist Andrew Kondis Left Alone August lee Laney Quiet Ronald Lloyd A Debator John Mathicson A Shiek Ernest McShanc In Demand Emilie Mihok Too M uch Francis O’Toole A Con Donald Price Left Alone William Price A Nuisance Alice Roberts Margaret Ruff Celia Saron AII ert Schermer Andrew Suhoza Edwin Schuette Louise Shcrwin Anthony Spinelli Charles Spinelli Hazel Strang He'en Svjantek Beson Tarr F|orence Taylor Virgil Thompson Charles Tierney Mildred Wagner Harry Welsh Ralph Zimmerman Mary King Joe King Mildred Keltz Susan Anderson Forrest Woodside Velma Smith Likeable A Vamp An Actress A Tightwad Funny A Druggist A Singer A Gentleman A Slick Stuck l. p A B. B. Player A Fidler Mrs. Rutter A Truant A Frenchic Mrs. Lanyon A Lady’s Man Hot Stuff Exclusive Fast Smart Tommy's Fashion Plate Learned Not Much Less Edie James In the Road Bum Writing Annual (Material) Good Looking Poor Talking A Shrimp Nut Ced Shorthand A Loafer 5 Doing Nothing A Howling Success Fair Ray Parsons n’t Much I’ll Bite Pickels A Pest Worse Childish Tricks A Poor Excuse Less Than That Nebbing A Curiosity To Be Pitied Girls? n’t Censored Hot Air Successful Not Formed ( assing A Blank Rotten A1 Frantz A Success R. S. V. P. Wild Parties Stuck Up Not Much Lcs Homines Successful A Pest Miss Nannah A Failure Nothing Chemistry A Flop Vetoed Boys Jrs. ? Absent Lazy Sinning Runtish N ice Mockic Sloppy Ha! Ha! Tardiness A Fake The Sweetest of Them All Her Mouth Bashful Shy S. O. L. Exams. Bright Flirting A Punk Nothing Blushing A Flop Pitiful A Soph. Out of Luck Tut-Tut I’ll Bite Too Little Irish Somewhat A Howling Success Too Emotional Daiblcr’s Rotten That A Nuisance A Loafer A Gossip Far From It A Joke Gillie’s A Farce A Bust A Spoiled Kid A Bum Funny Going To A Small Town boy Entertaining A Soot” Enretard A Gossiper Making Headway Bonehead Just So Least Good Chance Tame L’n Bon Mot Love-sick Dizzy Noisy Reserved Punk Hopeful Nebby Erased Huh! Far Gone Pending A Hick Cute ? Hopeless Mon Dieu Snobbish Harmless A Baloney Ha! Ha! It's Enough Reconsidered Gone Goffy Too Bad Brains Too Tired Mischief Harrison Killing Time Charlestoning Everything Tricks Cigarettes Necking the Teacher Raising Cain Latin Business Mgrr. Looking Wise Chai el Experiments Sucf Hookic Miss Guiney Scandal Anything Women Being in the Road You’ns and ain't Gabbing leafing in hall Freshie girls That's It 192 6 One Hundred Twenty-eight unhisKo ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Munhisko Staff is greatly indebted to the firms who are advertised in this book. Without their support and co-operation this Munhisko could not have been published and the Staff wishes to acknowledge and thank them for this co-operation. One Hundred Twenty-nine UPPER HALL Youth Is Bargain Time For Life Insurance Life Insurance is one matter upon which young men and women should heed experience. Delay in examining its possibilities and cost are expensive. Sooner or later comes the realization that Life Insurance is one of the basic factors of success and happiness. Equal in importance to a careful study of the many advantages of Life Insurance, is the selection of a Company. “THE EQUITABLE” is a company which can be selected in youth with certainty that the years will will justify its choice. A chat with an Equitable representative is time well spent. His knowledge is specific. His desire to serve is real. Homestead, Pa 223 W. 9th Avenue Representing THE EDWARD A. WOODS COMPANY General Agent THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY of The United States One Hundred Thirty r j win FOR THE LATEST IN HOME FURNISHINGS, REMEMBER STEELES On Our Large Display Floors We Have Assembled a Beautiful Display of Living Room, Bed Room, and Dining Room FURNITURE J.C. RHODES NEBO BROS. Homestead’s Reliable Jeweler Domestic and Builders’ Hardware, Stoves, Ranges, Cutlery, CASH OR CREDIT Paints, Oils and Glass One Price Sheet Metal Work Slate, Tile, and Composition Stahl Theatre Building Roofing 244 E. 8th Ave. HOMESTEAD, PA. Teacher—Have you done your Pupil—No; it’s too cold. outside reading? For A Full Line f OF Stationery, Magazines, Sporting Goods, Leather Goods, Pipes, Cigars and Novelties, for Every Holiday, as Well as a Full Line of Dennison’s Crepe Paper and Wax, go to McCOINEQLV’S Eighth Avenue One Hundred Thirty-two Cakes Our Specialty is Baking All Kinds of Buns and Cakes For School Entertainments Homestead Baking Co, 229-237 Seventh Avenue Phone 1236 f Father—Well, Harold, what do you like best in school? Son—Coinin’ Home. S. H. Gillen M. W. Coulter HALF BROS. Gillen Coulter “Happy Home Furnishers” Furnishing Homestead Homes AMBULANCE SERVICE for Over a Quarter Century FUNERAL DIRECTORS WOMAN’S SHOP—2nd Floor Exclusive Garments for Wo- Bell Phone 1031 Homestead men, Misses’ and Children 322 East 8th Avenue Electric Sweepers and Washers HOMESTEAD, PA. 120-122 E. 8th Ave. 19 26 One Hundred Thirty-three INSURANCE EDWARD M. COX MUNHALL, PA. W. J. COSGROVE BRICK, CUT STONE and CONCRETE WORK 1218 Louise St. Phone 1604 The largest room and least occupied is at-the-top. We Move A Zaugg Transfer Company NYTHING NYTIME NYWHERE 1309 Louise Street Phone Homestead 1608-R Munhall, Pa. For the man or woman—Bowling is one of the most healthful of indoor recreations. It exercises every muscle in the body, teaches one to be accurate ,and develops a resolute control of the arms and legs. It is helpful in aiding digestion—relives sluggishness and stimulates mentally as well as physically CAPITOL BOWLING ALLEY 327 E Eighth Ave, HSTD One Hundred Thirty-fo l?2.( H. G. PATTERSON the WINCff£5T£R store FURNITURE, CARPETS, HARDWARE Roofing and Gas Fitting a Specialty 948 Eighth Avenue MUNHALL, PA. Be Satisfied With What You Buy— A GAINADAY WASHER A UTENCO IRONER Get Them From Crouch Electric Appliance Co. 605 Amity Street Every character is bankrupt unless it possesses the grace of gratitude. FOR GRADUATION GET A STUDEBAKER M ervis Motor Sales Phone 1708 420 E. 8th Ave. Homestead, Pa. M. A. SHUSTER Otic Hundred Thirty-five The Homestead Park Land Company 807 Amity Street REAL ESTATE INSURANCE Owners of HomeSlead Park F. B. WOODWARD, President HARRY E. McWHINNEY, Vice President and Solicitor HARRY J. DAIBLER, Secretary GEORGE JACOBS, Treasurer FRED J. HAHN, Assistant Treasurer and Manager “Say.” whispered the fraction to the mixed number at the Number Ball, “is my numerator on straight?” Compliments of the Homestead Park Garage Hudson-Essex Sales and Service Also Dealers in Automobile Accessories Storage and Repairs GROVER C. COX, Prop. Phone 1563-R Homestead Main Street Homestead COMPLIMENTS OF DR. CHARLES A. WOOD One Hundred Thirty-six 192b GOOD LUCK TO THE CLASS OF ’26 Compliments of VICTORS Jewelers and Brokers Square Deal Berkeley m DIAMONDS 229 E. 8th Ave. and HOMESTEAD, PA. FINE JEWELRY Miss Albright—Charles, write “seven miles” in Latin. Charles—I’m sorry, but I haven’t enough paper. COMPLIMENTS OF f Vogel Bros Company Meats and Groceries Shop At Vogel’s 713 East Eighth Ave. HOMESTEAD One Hundred Thirty-seven DAIRY LUNCH 241 East Eighth Avenue HOMESTEAD, PA. lACKSON’C COMPLIMENTS OF Better Furniture Your Favorite Credit Store SMYTHE’S Complete Home Outfitters DRUG STORE 504 Eighth Ave., Munhall, Pa. A Dollar SAVED is a W. R. Smythe, Ph.G. Dollar EARNED At Jackson’S Cor. 8th. Ave. and Ann St. HOMESTEAD, PA. One Hundred Thirty-eight It- -tf CHAS. E. BONSER MEATS, FISH, GROCERIES, PRODUCE, NOTIONS, DRY GOODS Trade at our store and try to get the mysterious key which wins a White Enamel Kitchen Cabinet Free. Our merchandise doesn’t come back, but our customers do. TWIN SHIRTS—MADE TO MEASURE SHOES Phone HSTD 1642J 130 Whitaker St. COMPLIMENTS OF Ben Little SHOE STORE COMPLIMENTS of JOHN F. TAYLOR 210 E. 8th Ave., near Amity St. Homestead, Pa. Emil Rebele Fred Rebele The Axthelm Electric Co. ELECTRICIANS AND CONTRACTORS 209-211 Fourth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa, ELECTRICAL WIRING and Bell Phone REPAIRS OF ALL KINDS 3418 Court One Hundred Thirty-nine VflRTH KOVARVT 11 COMPANY John W. Bainbridge Individual Exquisite Toiletries NOTARY PUBLIC Bunte-Norris-Johnston Candies REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE MORTGAGES SODA GRILL 212 E. 8th Ave. Homestead 815 Amity Street Phone 1376 Homestead, Pa. The silliest thing in life is for one to imagine that everybody has it in for him. ROBERT Y. STRANG CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY Estimates Furnished Promptly Phone Homestead 0687 One Hundred Forty ? 26 JrfunhisKo The Neilson Bureau 722 Highland Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. Lecturers, Concerts, Musicals, Readers and Dramatic Interpreters Entertainers, Magicians and Play Companies SERVES:—Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and District of Columbia BLUE BOOK OF LECTURE CELEBRITIES FREE UPON REQUEST First—Are those high school students? Second—They go to high school, if that’s what you mean. FRED WEIBELT COMPLIMENTS Fresh and Smoked Meats Boucher’s Staple and Fancy Groceries Pharmacy 171 Cherry St. WHITAKER, PA. Cor. 8th Ave. and Ammon St. Phone Homestead 2202 HOMESTEAD, PA. 19 26 One Hundred Forty- Compliments of W.J. CADDY SON Dealers in Meats and Groceries Phone Homestead 1671 1611 Andrew St. NOROSKI BROS. Fresh and Smoked Meats Phone Homestead 1690 805 Ravine Street Bradley Knit Wear Sweaters Lumber Jackets Bathing Suits Quality a Tradition JOHN FORBES SON 135-137 E. 8th Ave. Homestead Smart Accessories Gloves Handkerchiefs Umbrellas Hand Bags cn 2 OS Ui H H Ou U! y 5 w H H D O 2 X 0 0 2 H m x 1 o CO m Samson had the right idea about advertising. He took two columns and brought down the house. ‘Say It With Flowers” ‘The Gift With a Soul” ELiCKER STRONG FLORISTS 322 East Eighth Avenue HOMESTEAD, PA. One Hundred Forty-two GO SWIMMING Get one of our Eugene permanent waves and be able to go in bathing and come oui with curly hair. Our method is a guaranteed success. Your hair does not kink, frizzle or string. Try our hair and be satisfied with your looks. Latest styles at your demand The Schilling Beauty Shoppe 208 East Eighth Avenue HOMESTEAD, PA. Basement f I Compliment of the 0 0 PRESCRIPTIONS Strand Recreation Sick Room Needs Bowling and Billiard Parlor SiQcmiM CUT RATE DRUGGIST CANDIES 337-341 E. 8th Avenue CIGARS HOMESTEAD, PA. Second Floor 0 C3 Age and her little brother will always tell on a girl. CLIFF J. RYAN EXCLUSIVE MILLINERY MODERATELY PRICED School and College Jeweler MULDOWNEY’S Compliments m MRS. M. MORRISON Notions, Groceries and HERFF-JONES CO. Confections Hazel 5484-J 18th and Andrew Streets 19 26 One Hundred Fotlytlu f AUTHORIZED AGENT FOR BALDWIN PIANOS Charles B. Archer VIOLIN TEACHER Box 16, Homestead, Pa. Phone Homestead 2370J Piano Tuning, Voicing Action Regulating Drop a Postal and I will call Charges Reasonable—Expert Work Guaranteed—Highest Recommendations THOMAS LAIRD FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES -MEATS 1379 Mifflin Street HOMESTEAD Phone 2313-J First Pupil—Did you get the second question in Caesar? Second Pupil—No. First Pupil—How far were you from the right answer? Second Pupil—Four seats. Phone 2164 JOS. HALLIDAY CLEANING - DYEING - PRESSING “We know how to do it” 814 Amity Street HOMESTEAD, PA. THE V. H. SCHULZ DAIRY CO. FOR SERVICE AND QUALITY” Three Phones One Hundred Forty-four 19 26 Photos In This Annual WERE MADE IN HOMESTEAD BY THE Fisher Studio PHONE HOMESTEAD 2300-R 330 E. 8th AYE. JrfunhisKo BEAVER PRINTING CO. --- GREENVILLE, PA.--1 PRINTING BOOK-BINDING Blank Books and Loose Leaf Forms Edition Printing and Binding COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL ANNUALS CATALOGUES Each Month The Beaver Printing Company Prints More than 50 Publications-Church, School, Secular For Estimates, Mail Us Your Specifications or Make an Appointment PACKARD AVE. Tel. 95 GREENVILLE, PA. One Hundred Forty six