Port Allegany Union High School - Tiger Lily Yearbook (Port Allegany, PA)

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Senior Honors and Awards National Honor Society Lorraine Klesa Mina Bailey Esther Mannnig Helen Smith Dorothy Hughes Curtis Publishing Company Certificates Helen Smith Lydia Zlobec Frederick Anderson Peggy Rumsey Naoma Bergholtz Herbert Burr Nancy Cray Joyce Babola Janet Marvin Margie Ford Molly Perkins McKean County Music Festival GLEE CLUB Helen Smith Edward Palm Molly Perkins Harry Robbins Margie Ford Jerry Rumsey BAND Jerry Rumsey Dorothy Hughes Nancy Cray Margie Ford Florence Johnson Rotary Math Prize Announced at Commencement English Award CPresented by Mr. john Pfeil, Jr.j Announced at Commencement Twenty-five

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Class Histor Forty one green Sophomores peer wonderingly around as they enter Senior High. If they have any ideas of running the show these ambitions are soon banished as the Seniors take the iledglings down a notch. The Seniors are pretty good artists and the Sophs begin to take on the appearances of green-eyed monsters and Draculas. Initiation ends with the Seniors giving a peace offering in the form of a dance in honor of the full- fledged Sophs. From then on things run smoothly. Winter, spring, and the Hop. Hustle, worry, bustle, and flurry. Then they are Juniors. One more step taken. juniors are the ones who sit back and watch the world go by. Nothing much turns up until they honor the Seniors with the Prom. More headaches than were expected. They decorate the gym in the Old South manner. Watermelons, top hats, sunbonnets, and pickaninnies adorn the walls. Then like the swish of an even- ing gown, it is over, and they trudge on, still striving for the goal. Seniors at long last. It took twelve years to climb the ladder to the top and nothing will stop them now. Seniors are busy people. Pictures are taken, name cards ordered, concerts sponsored, dances arranged, and the Tiger Lily painted. Spring comes early to disillusion everybody. Spring fever spreads fast and vacant seats appear. When the first good weather puts in an appearance, it inspires everyone and some people have to get out in the sun and let off a little steam. Trees bud, grass shoots up, flowers bloom, birds come back, and spring envelopes all. What a glorious feeling it is to watch nature come to life. Sudden life is also trans- fused into the Seniors as they see graduation loom up in front of them. A surge of excitement sweeps through them as they suddenly realize that high school is soon to become a thing of the past. The days begin to drop off one by one. Exams are taken, there are rehearsals for the coming event, and then, suddenly, it is all over. It happened fast and painlessly. They walk out with a sense of freedom, tingled faintly with sadness. Finis coronat opus. Twenty four

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Twenty-six Review Of Assembl Programs The first of our entertainments presented by the Antrim Bureau was on September 24th. Mr. jesse P. Robertson enlightened us as to the song hits of 1945 B.C. He was fobed in a Palestinian costume and played various ancient instruments including a silver trumpet, long-necked flute, and tinkling cymbals. On October 26, the Bentley Trio presented us with various arrangements on a marimba xylophone and a rack of milk bottles. The show's ingenue gave an imitation of Armita from Hollywood in a dance from South of the Border. Our next program was on December 18th, presented by the Lewis Players, a man and woman, who, with the assistance of two local students, gave a thrilling but educational playlet on an F.B.I. case concerning German espionage. The Hugo Brandt Concert Party, presented also to the local people, included a colatura soprano, contralto, and Mr. Brandt, pianist. There was a group of numbers and a playlet entitled Monlight Sonata, based on the life of Beethoven. Bertrand Shurtleff, a wrestler, was our next entertainer. He spoke on the trick of amusing people and remaining unharmed. In the last of the series put on by the Antrim Bureau we had A1 Priddy, known as The Sage of the Circus, who gave us a talk on Can Animals Think? Also included in our Assembly Programs was a series of lectures sponsored by the Rotary Club. It was a forum of the Institute of International Understanding, the general theme being steps toward World Stability. The lirst and principal speaker was Don Bolt, whose subject was Maintaining World Trade and a High Standard of Living. He had served in both World Wars. The next in the series was Gerhart H. Segar, whose topic was That Man Hitler. He had been a prisoner of war in Germany so his information was first hand. Our third speaker was Hugh C. Stuntz, who lectured on South America. He had just returned from there where he had been teaching. ' I The fourth and last in the series was Newton H. Bell who'related some of his per- sonal experiences during the war. He had many narrow escapes from death which made very good listening. i