Penn Township High School - Penn Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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BASEBALL TEAM FIRST Row: Ke,-mit Bglfhgger, Stanley Schade. Edwin Roth, Kervin Kline, Harold Luckenbill. . I sEcoND Row: David Levering- Cu-roll Svvder- William Tfouunm- Wlmm' w'5 THIRD ROW: Karl Lewis, Donald Spohn, Clarence Hoy. Arlan Wagner. Mr- MOYGY- Coach. . SPORTS AT PENN HIGH Three different sports have been played at Penn High: volleyball, basketball. and baseball: the only one that survived is baseball. The first sport team was volleyball, under the direction of Mr. Burkhart back in 1919, and lasted about ten years. The only opponent played was Bethel High School. Basketball was begun in 1929 and ended in 1930. The games were played in the pavilion in the park. Non-league games were played. Opposing teams were West Leesport, Wernersville, and Ontelaunee. In 1919, a baseball team was organized. Until 1930 all games played were non- league. During those years teams from Bethel, Robesonia, Wernersville, and other small local clubs were the opponents. ln 1930 Penn High School joined the Western Division. The first league team was composed of the following men: Daniel Bagenstose, Clifford Kline, Ralph Kline, Grant Reber, Samuel Wilhelm. Edgar Miller, Carl Fidler, John Dunkelberger, and Carl Anspach: the last mention- ed gave his life for his country in the Italian campaign of the last war. He was the first alumnus of Penn High to make the supreme sacrifice. and the Bernville Legionaires have named their organization the Carl Anspach Post. The record of the first year of league baseball was six wins and four losses. The last three years Penn High has finished second in division standings with the record of seven wins and three losses. Penn High won the divisional champion- ship in the years 1936, 1939, and 1942. Mr. Francis H. Moyer, affectionately known as Pop, has been the coach throughout the history of Penn High baseball. When Bernville joined the Western Division, the league consisted of six teams: Shillington. Robesonia, Wyomissing. Sinking Spring, Womelsdorf, and Bernville. Today the league consists of Wernersville, Robesonia, Sinking Spring, Womelsdorf, Bethel, and Bernville. Seniors who will play their 'last year' are Kermit Balthaser. Edwin Roth, Clarence Hoy, William Troutrnan, and Stanley Schade. Z0

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FIRST ROW: Stanley Schade. Anna Spatz, Joanne Messner, Earl Graeff. SECOND ROW: Franklin Bubenmoyer, Anna Mae Zimmerman, Eugene Brightbill. Jeanette Wolfskill, Irene Reppert, Annamae Graeff. Loretta Yeager Joyce Zerbe, Gladys Endy, Patricia Pfautz, Patricia Gehris. William Yeich, Jean Luckenbill, Gerald Greim. THIRD ROW: Fern Kissling, Mary Ann Klopfenstein, Emily Ann Streaker. Ruth Yeager, Phyllis Wolfskill, Mary Ann Schlappich, Leon Schock, Roy Bubbenmoyer, Charles Klopp, Carroll Snyder. FOURTH ROW: Robert Lengel, Edna Messner, Mr. Sharman, Jay Dreihelbis. Vernon Reppert, Edward Burkhart, John Messner, William Troutman, Clarence Hoy. Arlan Wagner. MUSICAL ACTIVITIES With the coming of the Class of '49, a new era began in the musical history of Penn High School. Mr. Charles W. Sharman entered with ua. and from our group chose Joanna Messner, William Troutman, Carroll Snyder, and Kermit Balthaaer to play the piano, alto horn, and trumpet in the newly-organized orchestra. He also organized a Glee Club, in which most of our girls participated. Both groups took part in the Spring Concert and the Commencement of 1945 -46. During our Sophomore year, mixed choruses were organized, which sang in assembly at Sinking Spring High School. The orchestra was continued and appear-- ed in joint concert with the choruses in the spring of 1946-47, and if Commencement. Early in our Junior year a band was organized in which four instruments were played by Juniors. By spring concert time the band had thirty-two members which played, then, and at our Commencement. This band also marched in the Bicentennial Parade in Reading and in the Memorial Day Parade in Bernville. During vacation the band played at four picnics and in one Vesper service in the park. - It was at this time that the Band Boosters' Club was organized among the patrons and friends of the school: they were very active and by the time school opened in 1948, they were in a position to order forty hand uniforms. These were worn for the first time in the Jack Frost Frolic at Robesonia, when the third prize of ten dollars was awarded to the Penn Township High School Band. The band's next appearance in uniform was in the Armistice Day Parade in Reading. Joint band concerts with Sinking Spring High School Band were played there and in the Bernville Community Hall on January Z0 and 27 respectively, and fea- tured seventy-five players. Our own band will present a concert in the Spring. The combined choruses presented an operetta, Crocodile Island, on January. 13. Seven Seniors had leading roles in this production. It was the first high school operetta presentation since the war. A Spring Concert for both choruses will be presented. and they will appear, with the band, at Commencement this year. ZZ