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

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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

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FIRST ROW: SENIOR CHORUS . Loretta Wolf, Betty Parker, Jean Luckenbill, Jane Troutman, Janice Sheidy, Gladys Balthaser, Annamae Dreibelbis, Phyllis LaFollette, Laura Kulp, Irene Sonon. SECOND ROW: Edna Messner, Annamae Bond, June Keppley, Loretta Yeager, Faye THIRD ROW: Reifsnyder, Betty Schlappich, Geraldine Luckenbill. Janet Spatz, Mildred Ebersole, Mary Long, Evelyn Riegel. Helen Ernst, Anna Spatz, Anna Mae Zimmerman, Jeanette Wolfskill. Doris Balthaser, Irene Balthaser, Gloria Balthaser, Kathryn Bagenstose, Grace Katzaman, Ethyl Hoffman. FOURTH ROW: Mr. Sharrnan, Director: Kervin Kline, Eugene Kramer, Clarence Hoy, Edward Burkhart, Herbert Schlappich, Wilmer Dreibelbis. Joanna Messner, Helen Boltz, Fern Kissling, Patricia Pfautz, Lois Fisher, Daisy Loose, Helen Lengel, Robert Lengel, Carroll Snyder, John Messner, Stanley Schade, Kermit Balthaser. FIRST ROW: SECOND ROW: THIRD ROW: FOURTH ROW: FIFTH ROW: JUNIOR CHORUS Eugene LaFo1lette, Eugene Brightbill, Clark Snyder, Jay Dreibelbis, Bruce Stamm, William Spatz. Donald Strausser, Francis Underkofler, William Klopfenstein, John Bogert, Larry Sheidy, William Yeich, Earl Graeff, Claude Ohlinger. Dorothy Long, Joan Bogert, Anna Mae Graeff, Marylee Gehris. Ruth Schlappich, Martha Lou Hess, Mary Zartman, Shirley Reber, Shirley Reppert. ' Ruth Moyer, Ruth Yeager, Mary Yeich, Helen Kiebach, Irene Ruppert, June Stump, Gladys Endy, Joyce Zerbe, Annamae Correll, Fern Berger, Arlene Endy. Mary Ann Klopfenstein, Sara Kramer, Margaret Spatz, Lillian Symanowiscz, Frances Kline, Mary Ann Schlappich, Marian Luckenbill Marie Webber, Grace Oxenreider, Phyllis Miller. Mr. Sharman. Directory Patricia Piautz, Gloria Dries, Patricia Braithewaite, Elsie Katzaman, Gloria Tobias. 2.3