Richland High School - Portal Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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HARVEY SHULL-Another of our good looking Senior boys MELVIN STULL-Quiet . . . a good bet for a high grade in . . . nice build . . . the blond girls of this school seem to any subject . . . easy going until . . . good prospects as a attract him . . . especially one Mardell. future farmer . . . in fact he's one now . . . FFA. MARY SIPEfNo bigger than a minute . . . sweet as sugar GEORGE TESH-A regular guy . . . always cheerful . . . . . . Dick knows . . . cheerleader . . . everyone thinks even in enemy territory . . . but we'lI miss him from the Honey's swell . . . school? . . . she likes it but doesn't team . . . so will the team . . . everybody's friend. say so. EDITH SMITH-Tall, with a swell personality . . . pet pastime? ROBERT VALENTINE-Swell personality . . . if you're not . . . doing her bookkeeping . . . thinks shorthand is as hard Sonny's friend it isn't his fault . . . an asset to the Senior to understand as heiroglyphics. class . . . can he roller skate? . . . yes, sir! BETTY LOU SPEICHER- Spike is always ready with a ioke ALYCE VITZENTY-One swell girl . . . brains . . . she has . . . really likes baseball . . . as for studies . , . they're her share . . . hear someone singing? . . , that's Alyce . . . one big headache . . . unless you study. you can always have fun when she's around. WILLIAM STRAUB- Peppy . . . sportive . . . has a smile GAIL WAGNER-A dainty small fry . . . dark, wavy hair . . . for everyone . . . is kept busy thinking up excuses . . . our hard-working PORTAL editor . . . still finds time to do for being absent. assignments . . . usually tops the honor roll. REBECCA STRONG-Pretty brunette . . . tall . . . always WILLIAM WIRE-Another redhead Senior . . . with a ten-shade pleasant . . . ambition? . . . nurse . . . has her fingers blush . . . Looks. dancing ability, Bill has both . . . crossed . . . friendly with everyone, including Bill. always adds to the fun . . . of others . . . Becky adds A to his fun. Shull E. Smith Straub Stull Valentine Wagner Sips Speicher Strong Tesh Vitzenty Wire OUR REGARDS TO THE FACULTY. Twenty-two

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CLASS FLOWER. Roberts Schellhomer Shatter Rodgers Sedlmeyer Shomo RUTH JEAN ROBERTS- Becky's constant shadow . . . attract- ive . . . yes sir! . . . pastime? . . . writing to Bob . . . excellent swimmer . . . can't wait until school's out. JACK RODGERS-Red hair . . . but not the usual temper that goes with it . . . an asset to the orchestra . . . enjoys parties . . . ready for anything . . . buy your PORTAL now. DOLORES SCHELLHAMMER-Cute Senior . . . has an outfit for every occasion . . . likes boys . . . girls, too . . . commend- able qualities . . . she hopes to be a teacher. BERNARD SEDLMEYER-A sports enthusiast . . . oh, those blue eyes! . . . Buzz sticks with the fellows . . . goes all out for fun. SARAH JANE SHAFFER-Craves social lile . . . advocates a no-homework policy . . . pretty as they come . . . popular with the boys. HAROLD SHOMO-One type of dry humor . . . full ol devilish innocence . . . main diversion? . . . cooking up new excuses for the some offense . . . unprepared lessons. . . . ill FHCE lHE lHUlilll When the eighth grader is promoted to high school, he is confronted with the problem of select- ing a course best suited to him. lt is at this time that a student should attempt to decide what he would like to do after high school is over. lf he is able to make a wise decision, his high school course can be planned to his greatest advantage. The academic course should, of course, be pursued by one who aspires to a higher education, the commercial course should be selected by one who plans a business career, and the agricultural course for the future farm-er. For the one who does not intend to enter a vocation requiring special training, the general course will serve him well. V Twenty-one

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Well, Class ot l948, we did it! Here we are AS WE WERE BEFORE CLASS POEM My fear in youth: that life was as a poet Implied it was: roads crossing in a wood- And I might take the wrong one or wrong turning, And so could not come out the way I should, Might never quite develop, having failed To drink some joyous elixir of life, Or not grow wise, because my luck detourecl The common lot, its sorrow and its strife. But like tomatoes picked when they are green Or winter pears and apples on the shelves, Mellowing though cut off from sun and rain, We bear the cause of ripeness in ourselves. Like passengers on ships that sail the seas, We may stop off at various ports of call, And be the richer for our souvenirs, Or stay on boardg but still the ship will reach A common destination for us all. -Margery Mansfield. disgusted manner, These Freshmenl It made me participating in our own commencement exercises. lt's much diFlerent from being down in the audience. The salutaforian and the valedictorian are about to give their addresses. l really should be listening, but my thoughts keep drifting back ,... I remember our Eighth Grade Commencement exercises here in the same auditorium. That doesn't seem four years ago. How excited we were to be entering high school at lastl The summer wore away. How proud we were to be Freshmen, at least until we found out what being a freshman meant. We were shunned, ignored, and pushed to the side. Frequently we heard some lofty Senior, for apparently no reason at all, exclaim in a thoroughly angry then, but remember those hrst days of school? We entered the wrong rooms, banged doors, bumped people, ran down halls, and never, never apologized. You know how the freshmen this year behaved? Well, we were like that. That year the boys were in Mrs. Dyer's home room, No. lO7, and the girls were in Room lO2 with Mr. Wissler. We occupied the side seats in the auditorium, and we were the last to enter the gymnasium for basketball games. Our class could boast of seven who had won American Legion Awards. Violet Baumgardner and Marlin Miller were so honored from the Geistown building, Alyce Vitzenty and Wilbert King from Mine 37, Lelah Gearhart who had moved to Rich- Twenty-three