Philadelphia High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Philadelphia, NY)

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1 , , 5 U Ll In the September of 1947 our class as Freshmen finally became a unit. My, how big we thought we were! heads joined our class that year, namely, Belva Hall. Bennett McDonald and Floyd Longmore also year but soon left us. Before long June loomed The two red- Fikes and Sally joined us that before us and we were ready with the passing of all our tests we found that to enter our second year of high school. During our Sophomore year we found that High School was not so easy as everyone expected it would be. We lost two more of our class, Louis Loomis and Ruth Diehl. This dwindled us down to fourteen. In our Junior year, the fun began again. We were organized as a class with Grant Hall as President, Belva Fikes as Treasurer, and Marilyn Watson as Secretary. Then we started our activities. We sold candy and we had a dinner for the Chamber of Commerce. The latter was a huge success. In the The thought activity we paper drive. projects we September of l95O we again came back to school. of being seniors was new and exciting. The first had to earn money for our trip to New York was a Next came a game party. In addition to these sold candy and paid dues, Before we knew what was happening midterm exams were upon us. From then on we began to count the weeks till graduation. Frequently we had to stop counting and take time to sell more candy, have an auction, and another paper drive. Also during the year as English projects, we edited the nQuacker Quacker' and the nBlue and GoldCV In the end came graduation, Uthe fruit of all our toils.n Shall we ever forget our shaking knees as we made our speeches and rose to receive our diplomasg shall we ever forget the joy mingled with sadness after commencement as we looked at the students we left behind, or the wonderful trip to New York? No, we shall never forget these things. Nor shall we forget Rhiladelphia High School and its teachers who helped us con- stantly. But most of all we shall always remember each other.

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MISS IWEUIIHEN time sure flies! Here it is nineteen sixty six, and it seems only yesterday that fourteen proud, but scared, little Sen- iorsu marched upon the stage of the auditorium of Philadelphia High School for the graduation exercises of the Class of 1951. That was a class to rememberll We quarreled and made up, we shared the victories of our teams as well as the bitter defeats, we earned our class money to- gether, and mixed pleasure with work. Last of all, we stuck to- gether during our thrilling but frightening graduation, and shared the greatest, never to be forgotten, class trip to New York City in June. As the class of 1951 of Philadelphia High School we had fun which we will never forget, and we hope we will never be entirely forgotten by our teachers and fellow students. Now, fifteen years later, I, Lucy Carnevale, having been voted nAuthor of the Yearuam stopping in New York on my personal appearance tour. I occupy a room in the great Taft Hotel. Let me relate some of my experiences while staying here. I first journeyed to Coney Island and as I passed the grand- stand, the harker was announcing, uCome right in, ladies and gentlemen, and see Lucky Slim Lawler perform his dare-devil antic's.u Could this be the same Slim with whom I went to school? Much to my surprise, I found it was he. It was very thrilling to watch him. I found out that he had taken HLucky Teeter'sN place. I saw a tall red headed man coming toward me. He started asking me questions and I then knew it was Wayne Watson. He told me he was a football coach at Harvard and that he was spending his vacation ujust touring.H He also told me that his good friend Dick Graves had finally married and was Coach at Cornell. I left Coney Island and proceeded to the Stork Club. Here I found a seat and guess who was at the next table? It was the former Sally Ball with hor wealthy husband. As I started to leave the Club, a man in uniform came toward me. It was none other than David Penhallow who was now a five star General. We both decided to go to Greenwich Village and here we saw many kinds of places. Among these was a photography shop which attracted our attention because the sign on the window said, HEelva Fikes, Photographer.H We both wondered if this could be the Belva.Fikos that we knew. Me entered the shop and surely enough tnere was Belva. She was very glad to see us and sne said that Marilyn Watson was her Secretary. nelva called Marilyn into ner office and we all had a long chat. Marilyn told me that Nancy Keller, my old school mate, was working in the Adirondack Mountains as a forest ranger and that sae also doubled as a housewife. I knew it, I knew itll David left, but before I had to leave belva told me that Agnes Miller lived two olocks from her snoog so I decided