North Coventry High School - Torch Yearbook (Pottstown, PA)

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Class Poem . . . The hour has come for the Class of Fifty-Three To leave Norco's portals foreverg And, with a sense of being free, Our bonds with Norco High we must sever. We'll miss the chatter and the echoing Of merry voices in the long, dim hall. We'll hear no more the bells with their shrill ring, As to duty patrol boys they do call. We thank the teachers who have guided us: And, in our small, inadequate Way, Weld like to apologize for all the fuss We might have caused our teachers every day. Our studies often seemed to be a strain, The foolish, lazy ones by the wayside fell. But now we know 'twas all for us to gain, Some learning that would serve our future well. Now at this moment that we all must leave, Consider our motto and you will not grieve Like the atom are we- Small, mighty, and free' May these words ever an inspiration be. SHIRLEY KELLAR

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Wandering Thru Washington The bright sunny day we left . . . waiting in the buses for 'tDuke Kinckiner and K'Della Miller . . . the excitement when the buses pulled away . . . the fashion shows put on by Bill Collins and Mary Ann Kocur . . . janet Weiss, Margarete Suchomel, and Ruth Leyrer trying to sleep . . . arriving at the hotel and receiving the keys to our rooms . . . getting on some comfortable clothes and eating our first meal at the hotel . . . Thea-Mae Phillips gracefully falling up the steps in the dining room . . . early telephone calls from the down- stairs desk . . . the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier . . . the midnight cruise . . . a few lucky CPD girls that got sailors . . . Paul Pentz, Ed John, Ernest Kully, and Rodney McMullen taking K'basketball lessons on the boat . . . the shooting exhibition at the F. B. I. Build- ing . . . the beautiful sights at Mount Vernon . . . George Washington's grave . . . the tire- some task of climbing the Washington Monu- ment . . . the beautiful Lincoln and jefferson Memorials . . . the wonder of the Capitol and the White House . . . All that money at the mint . . . saying Nbeansll for the photographer when we got our class picture taken on the Capitol lawn . . . the coin collections, air- planes, ships, and clothing on display at the Smithsonian Institute . . . everyone trying to relax on the way home . . . sticking lollipops in the mouths of sleeping boys and girls . . . Larry Porter complaining about how hungry he was . . . stopping at the Oxford Post House for a fine dinner . . . North Coventry High School looking better to us than ever before. THROUGH THE GIRLS' GOGGLES Lila Ritchie eating candy through the veil of her hat . . . Ruth Leyrer's broken camera . . . giving Patsy Loughin a ride on the mat- tress while she was sleeping , . . pillovw fights in Room 316 . . . Mary Ann sleeping in the bottom drawer of the bureau . . . the pajama parade . . . the Hood caused by a leaky faucet . . . room service for Cokes . . . hair-setting party in Room 318 . . . Shirley McGowan falling on a broken bed in Teresa Brower and Ann Reinstein's room . . . Harriet Det- wiler's cold shower in the middle of the night . . . Shirley Kellar losing a very important item . . . Lila searching frantically for a lost picture . . . Agnes Barlas losing her wallet on the boat . . . stopping the bus in front of the Austrian Embassy for Margarete to take a picture . . . Patsy, Irmgard Drenckhahn, Barbara Cressman, and Margarete watching a handsome stranger in the room across from theirs . . . Irmgard eating in time to music . . . Thea-Mae getting her head caught under the mattress While trying to fix a broken bed . . . Mary Ann and Jean Brower tearing apart the beds in Agnes, Ruth, and Barbara Wells' room . . . Jeanette Smith making timel' with one of the fellows . . . Doris Sears losing her shoes on the boat . . . Shirley McGowan lis- tening to hillbillies on the radio at 5:30 in the morning Chow could she get up that early?J . . . K'Corky getting lost on the free night. A BOY'S EYE VIEW Feeling slightly warm in their Sunday clothes . . . having a good time in their hotel rooms . . . Lowell Fries jumping from balcony to balcony on the fifth floor . . . Bombarding cars and pedestrians with water balloons from their windows . . . Larry and Charlie Smith playing football in the hall . . . Rodney, Elmer Baker, Collins, Charlie, Blackie'l Batdorf, Larry, and Jack Eachus playing cards at 2:30 in the morning . . . waiting anxiously for the pajama parade . . . Paul asking a taxi driver directions to the hotel . . . Charlie and Larry getting their picture taken in pajamas . . . John Petrick sandwiching Collins between two mattresses and sitting on them. .L4A,..........T...