Patterson Township High School - Breeze Yearbook (Patterson Township, PA)

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2362928 Cjfcwa ,Maforg In September of 19143 we started our very first year of school. It was quite a joyous occasion for most although a few of us cried. Due to our large class ffiftyl, we were placed in two rooms with Miss Braden and Miss Blagg CMrs. Ayersl teaching. We soon learned to work and play together, and settled down for the long struggle ahead. when second grade began we found ourselves separated with Miss Dietrick Obs. Hoffman! and Mrs. Ayers. In the second year we started having trouble---pencils were lost and paddlings began. We also found that we must have arithmetic and many other things in order to get to third grade. fx 1 jwgj 4' Third grade was entirely different from first or second grade. We were consolidated into one classroom for the first time. That was the year Nelson Beck took one of the Grieder twin's lunch bucket and the other win began to cry. There were a few love affairs 5 one of them was Donny Snowden and Marjorie Bureau. Our new subjects in the fourth grade included gym and library. Burt Garmen started the year on the wrong foot by accidentaluy hitting Mrs. Marconda on the head with an eraser. We went to canteen for the first time. Fifth grade passed very quickly with Mr. Powliske, the shop teacher, as our homeroom teacher. We made bird houses and also tried to conduct cases in our own make believe court room. In our final elementary year Miss Smith CMrs. Kilpatrickj caught David Seman signing his own excuse cards. That was also the yearaRosenary long and Jim Bischoff fainted while being given infantile paralysis shots. we were quite excited to be seventh graders. Mrs. Heckerman was our home room teacher. Shop, home economics, and segregated gym classes were added to the scheduJ.e. The extra curicular activities included dramatics, cheerleaders, basketball, chorus and a trip to Pittsburgh to see the play Brigadoon. There were a few other things such as having some tadpole eggs--which never did hatch. i