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

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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

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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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LIBRARY CLUB The Library Club is the oldest club in the school. The books were catalogued in 1931 by Miss Hain and members of her English Classes, with the assistance of Mr. Klopp and members of the Library Club of Robesonia. This same year Miss Hain organized the Library Club, the purpose of which is to furnish librarians for the circulation of the books. In September, 1937, Mrs. Kline became its Adviser. At that time there were one thousand three hundred and nine volumes in the library. From that year to the present four hundred and fifty-nine books, of which seventy-three were added in 1948-49, brings the total to one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven volunes. Of these four hundred . and fifty-nine books, one hundred and thirty-two were gifts of the students, faculty, and friends of the schoolg two hundred and fifty-nine were purchased by our School Board out of the book fundg and sixty-eight' were purchased, through dues paid for overdue books, by the Library Club. Y-TEEN CLUB Y-Teen Club was organized February 4, 1947, with Mrs. Henne as Adviser. It is a high school branch of the Reading Y. W. C. A., and its purpose is to develop citizenship, and the ideal of service to school and community among the girls of the Senior High School. World fellowship is stressed. SENIOR SPORTS CLUB When club activity was organized generally throughout the high school, Mr. Moyer sponsored the Senior Sports Club: its purpose is to make money for the baseball team and for equipment. A Dart game was purchased for winter activity in the basement. ' JUNIOR SPORTS CLUB Seventh and eighth grade boys were organized by Mr. Kaiser in a club to develop intramural sports: baseball and touch football were played, and a Dart game was placed in the basement for winter activity. . - HOBBY CLUB Miss Riegel organized the Hobby Club in mid-1947 for girls who were interested in making practical things. g VARIETY CLUB The Variety Club is made up of ninth grade pupils with Mr. Burkhart as Adviser. Special interests within the group furnish activity. THE ' 'PENNGUINN In March, 1947, the Juniors fC1ass of '48D, with funds from their own treasury, financ- ed a commercially mimeographed school magazine named The Pennguin, with the hope that enough interest would be stirred to continue a school publication. The Class of '47 gave the money to buy a printing machine for carrying on a school paper. This year's class has published quarterly issues of the school newspaper, which we consider more practical in serving the best interests of the school, than would a school magazine. THE PENNANT ' The Forty--niners found the necessary amount of 'gold' to back a dream of every small school - a year book. Plans were made to edit such a publication at a minimum of cost, in hopes that the tradition could be carried on. The name PENNANT was chosen by the faculty from a list submitted by the faculty-appointed staff. Patrons and subscrip- tions were solicited to defray part of the cost. SAFETY PATROL In the fall of 1946-47, a Safety Patrol group was organized with the backing of the Reading A. A. A. Clubg it is in action on the highway and on the buses. MONITOR SYSTEM Early in the 1948-49 term, the faculty assisted in the organization of a Monitor System: Mr. Kaiser was appointed director of the group. The faculty and monitors com- prise the court when trials are necessary. Hall traffic regulations have eliminated unnecessary noise and confusion. E ' Z4