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

Page 29 text:

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...

Page 28 text:

CAPITAL CAMERA ' 1' Af T3 -ax L nxt' BK S' 6 I Z

Page 30 text:

Philadelphia . . One rainy day in the middle of November, 1952, the Seniors traveled by bus to Phila- delphia to tour the Franklin Institute. Upon arriving we went directly to the au- ditorium where we were amazed at the experi- ments performed by a clever Italian chemist. We were bewildered as we examined the room of optical illusions. Some of the weight- conscious girls got an uneasy feeling when they saw themselves in the convex-concave mirror, appearing as they would if they weighed approximately 250 pounds or more. After lunch the students were thrilled when everyone was permitted to operate the controls of a locomotive. While waiting to go to the Westinghouse show we met a former North Coventry faculty member, Mr. Paolantonio, who seemed happy to see us once more. At the show the students were informed about the fundamentals of color television and were much impressed by its possibilities. Last and perhaps the most enjoyable was the show in the planetarium, which is a large circular room having a dome shaped ceiling. As the universe was projected upon the ceil- ing, Professor Fisher lectured on the positions of the heavenly bodies of our universe. He gave the history of the telescope and told aboutlthe men associated with this instrument, who had contributed to the development of this graphic means of informing the public about the heavens. We sang, laughed, and joked on the home- ward bus trip and arrived in North Coventry with the feeling that we had spent a profitable and entertaining day. The seniors continued their travels in the City of Brotherly Love on December 10, with Mr. Grim, Mr. Copeland, and Mr. Brey as our chaperones. Our first stop was at Inde- pendence Hall, where our impatient guide lifted his hat and said Now, seniors, every time one of us started to talk. -- Eating lunch at the automat was a new and exciting experience for some of us, but we all enjoyed the delicious food that came out in response to the click of our money. Our next stopping place was Christ Church, where we saw the pew in which George and Martha Washington and Betsy Ross used to sit. Here also was the oldest baptismal font in America. All church furnishings were au- thentic pre-Revolutionary pieces, some were actually used in Christ Church in those early times. From Christ Church we walked through Elfreth Alley, the oldest and narrowest street in Philadelphia, to the Betsy Ross House, where many of us bought souvenirs. The Inquirer Building was the next point of interest. We were impressed by the beauti- ful executive offices and by the general air of quiet efficiency, as everywhere there were evi- dences of preparation for the busy time in the evening when the paper would go to press. Our more artistic pupils enjoyed the art room. We were all fascinated by the incoming news on the teletype. Our guide proudly showed us a new and expensive piece of machinery which prints roto-comics by a process that prints all colors at one time. We were left to do as we wished for about two hours, and so we took individual tours of john Wanamaker's-some shopping, others just looking. Some of our boys went to see Santa Claus, who was not very enthusiastic about such big children, and refused to let them sit on his knee to be photographed. We admired the beautiful decorations and enjoyed the carol singing, led by several girls in beau- tiful old-fashioned gowns. Our strenuous day made us hungry, but we remedied that matter by eating at Wanamaker's Lunch Counter. About 5:30 we came together at Philadel- phia's famous rendezvous, the 'fEagle , and started on our homeward journey, full of Christmas spirit and good cheer. We sang merrily all the way home, returning to Norco about seven-thirty.