Plum Senior High School - Criterion Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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SE IUH IIALE ll!-IH UF '45 - '45 September 4th-Oh, my! Work begins once more. September 7th-First football game. Oakmont's Acorns were mighty oaks. October l6th-l7th-Lights, cameras, and no action-as Seniors pose for pictures. November 29th-Four days of perfect bliss- and turkey. Thanksgiving vacation begins. December 7th-Ioe Barrymore and Lois Cornell have leads as Seniors present Spring Fever. December Zlst-We put on our best bibs and tuckers for the Christmas Ball. Ianuary 2nd--With resolutions and report cards we bravely face '46. Ianuary Zlst-22nd- Dake and Wayne con- template suicide as exams begin. Ianuary 24th--Oh! Safely through half a year. February 8th-The long awaited results. Seniors' poses were pretty! March 8th-We flock to see Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. April 5th-The Varsity Club presents its annual minstrel. Oh, Iohnny how you can sing! May 3rd-White shoes and no hats as the Spring Festival comes around. May 8th--Some fun! Seniors take over and teacher gets a day off. May 10th-Oh! and ah! and roses for the hap- piest night in the year- The Iunior Prom. May 13th-Graduation night around the cor- ner-if we get through Senior exams. May 16th-Seniors let down their hair for Senior Class Day. May l7th-Um, um-the banquet! May 19th-Baccalaureate services. May Zlst-Tears are shed as the Class of '46 says goodbye to old Plum High. SENIOR CLASS I tremble as I stand before my class assembled here: It isn't that I'm afraid, for there's nothing much to fear, But still within my being there is something tugs my heart. I tremble for tonight the class of forty-six must part. We've fussed about our petty little lessons o'er and oe'er, We felt we could not get our French, and History was a bore: And English-my, that Shakespeare stuff did surely drive us crazy. And as we went to shorthand class. our heads grew thick and hazy. But now as we look back along the aisle of high school days, We wonder why we took those things in such tormenting ways For after all we found the things that proved the most worthwhile, Were those that for attainment, hard work must beguile. I like to look ahead, and in my own mind behold, The pictures of my classmates as they strive upwards towards some goal, For I see in that great picture every student plays his part As in school-days, those who dawdle, those who work from morn till dark. Each one of us is master of his own and lorother's fate, But no one has the keeping of the parting at the gateg Yet we're always fellow students to the very end of time, So don't forget the horizon always widens as we climb. -NAoMi Ewmc Twenty Eight

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WALLBY, Hnnnr Harry . . . Football, Science Club, gays' Chorus, Annual Staff , 4. With his camera, he walks the grounds Each day snapping pic- tures and making his rounds. Wnxwx, Rmmom: Dake . . . Basketball, I. 2, Varsity 3, 4, l ootba1l,'I. V. l, Z, Varsity 3, 4, Track 1, 2, 3, Varsity Club 3, 4, Pub- SE IIIHS 1!14B Wrmnsncrn, Rin Hit . . . Girls' Leaders Club 3, 4, Baxketbal 3, 4. Basketball is tops' with this senior gal She's so friendly and everyone's pal. Wou-':, Doms Dot . . . Publicity Club 1, 2, 3, Girls' Chorus 1, 4. Doris is a character never - - - in doubt gigs Cllyfcg' Pxssgggtz' Ot what in the world to Home Room President 2, 3, talk about- Class President Whether the going was easy or all uphill Ray's athletic prowess never tailed to thrill. 'th 7f'f PLLYL1'lyN'c1ub, 'iifl-ISL, Football, Basketball, Home Room Vice President 2, 3. 4 -rf Cook collected, and veryg distant Handsome and thoughtful every instant. Nonmm Bossrar ALSTON MCDONALD ,, lor-In Hrzncsc 'Kr xl N We are proud to welcome these boys to the graduating class of 1946. They are former members of the armed forces Wo have finished their credits and are graduating with our W., q Twenty Seven

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CLASS PHW PHEIIY Today, along with Lorraine Stotler, Editor of the Iune Henry Iournal, and Harry Walley. famed photographer, your correspondent had the pleasure of accompanying Governor Iohn Sheba. Senator Leicht, Secretary of Agricul- ture Bob Repp and their respective secretaries lean Ferguson, Elmira Potochnik and Ann Bre- vinsky to Plum Highlands, the newest most modern model community in Pennsylvania for a series of conferences and the dedication of its million dollar Civic Center. We arrived at ten o'clock in a helicopter piloted by Ioe O'Block, chief pilot for the Boggs and Fleming Handy Helicopter Lines. As we landed at the Butler terminal named in honor of Tom Butler, the internationally known aviator, the Governor's party was met by Mayor Henry Pawlik, County Commissioner Bill Farneth, President of the Women's Civic League, Iune Doak, and the youthful business tycoon, Andy Kaminsky. The Governor was then led by a motor es- cort headed by Chief of Police, Bill Spisak and Police Captain Iames Szuch down Fifth Avenue, past the Art and Science Building to the City Hall. The former building many of you will recall as the one where the world renowned physicist Andy Herceg, the equally famous aeronautical engineer Melvin Lux aided by assistants Iune Doak and Herman Muko, designed the first rocket ship capable of reaching the moon. Also in this building are the studios of those celebrated ultra- modernistic artists Elaine George, Helen Duran and Ida Daugherty. Upon their arrival at the City Hall, the Governor and Senator Leicht promptly went into a private conference with a group of distinguished businessmen and women includ- ing Iohn Bentz, Romona Duffey, Stella Ben- dick, Pat Barnes, Amelia Pivic and Russel Mc- Donald, President of the Chamber of Com- merce and labor leaders Harry Gaul, Vincent Skerl and Ioe Kukulski. The members of this conference were facilitated in their efforts by the noted economist Ed Bochman and his able staff of secretaries and statisticians Isabel Cline, Eleanor Farabaugh, Anna O'Block, Imogene Lipovitch and Virginia Favero. Simul- taneously, the Secretary of Agriculture, Bob Repp consulted privately with Ed O'Block, County Agriculture Agent and Auro Testa, Harvey Richardson and Henry Borish, leaders of the Progressive Farmers Union on the soil erosion problem. Immediately following the adjournment of these conferences, the Governor and his party retired to the Lillian Stadol Hotel to prepare for the banquet and dedication ceremonies which were to be held in the Civic Center. The Civic Center was designed by that brilliant architect, Frank Zucco. The funds for the erection of this magnificent structure were obtained by the people of Plum Highlands from various benefits which they held. Such celebrities as the popular comedienne Io Io Faix, movie stars Dorothy Snyder and Betty Goss, all who have at one time or another lived in Plum Highlands, contributed their time and energies toward this cause as also did Louise Schwab, the movie magnate. sr v At seven o'clock a municipal limousine conveyed the Governor and his party to the Civic Center. The banquet was a splendid affair. The menu, prepared by those illustrious chefs, Lavinia Simpson, Bertha Meyers, Pauline Galamoff and Alva Elliott, was delicious as few banquet menus are. The dedication program proved to be quite impressive with the Governor delivering a stirring speech. Included among those who took part in the program were Audrey Stoehr, the concert pianist who has just recently fin- ished scoring a brilliant success at Carnegie Music Hall and Iames Roberts the actor who last year received the Academy Award for his portrayel of Henry VIII. This program launched Plum Highlands on its way to be- coming an outstanding modern community. Twenty Nine