Ridley Park High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Ridley Park, PA)

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oun bomb The School Hoard consists of five very conscientious members. ith their help and concern our school has advanced and prospered to a great extent. Mrs. Edith Zarr, president of the school l oard was a teacher herself. She attended Bloomsburg Teachers College and taught school in Hazeltown, East Orange and Irvington. Serving on the School Hoard for 17 years has acquainted her with many of us. Mr. Williard Dennison has served for six year on the School Board. He is a supervisor in Baldwin, Lima and Hamilton Corporation, but he finds time for his hobby of photography. Mr. Earl Blanton has been on the School Board for four years. He is very interested in sports. One of his pleasures is an invigorating bowling game. Mr. Blanton is the Foundry Superintendent at Atlantic Steel, Inc., and has attended Temple University Night School. Mr. David Getty also has served four years on the School Board. He works as a supervisor at General Electric Company. Singing in the Eventude Choir occupies his spare time. Mr. William Kice, has served for three years on our School Board. His field of work is merchandising and advertising and he has attended lemple University and Charles Morris Price Advertising School. He has lived in Ridley Park 31 years and previously attended Ridley Park High School. The Class of 1960 wishes to express its gratitude to a great and helpful School Board. Mr. William Rice, Mr. Earl Blanton, Mrs. Edith Zarr (President), Mr. Williard Dennison, Mr. David Getty.

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OUR PRINCIPALS One of the current television celebrities devotes a part of the time of his program to what he calls “That Wonderful Year.” Song hits and happenings of historical interest of a given year become an interesting, amusing, and often informative part of his show. You who graduate in 1960 may find that your year of graduation is a Wonderful Year. Whether or not 1960 turns out to lx? wonderful, it will, in a sense, be unusual. It is a “zero” year, a year that marks the beginning of a decade. In the past, decades have been named to describe their character and to designate the kind of years they contained. Reference is often made to the Roaring Twenties when people rushed madly to the “bust” of 1929. The Thirties followed with their panic, despair, and financial chaos. The Forties were important years for the members of your class. It was in this decade that you were born. The Forties were war years with air raid drills, civil defense, feverish war preparation, . . . fighting. These were the Feverish, Feuding Forties. The Fifties brought you to school with all its pleasures and its problems, its opportunities and its responsibilities. Did you handle them well? If you did you may enter the Sixties with a degree of confidence and jHiise. The decade that lies ahead will challenge all who are privileged to live it through. Many problems await solution in spite of. probably because of the rapid scientific and technological advances of our times. We shoot for the moon hut fail to live peaceably with our fellowmen on earth. In the midst of abundance people go hungry and surpluses waste. Ethical teachings are insistent yet jx-ople continue to sell their honor and reputation for questionable gain. “Payola and “Fixed Quiz” become ugly terms of our times. These are sad commentaries on these recent years. May the Sixties be better. Let us hope they may be the Serious Sixties ... a period when each by thoughtful and serious effort may strive to make his world a lx-tter one. Only bv this way of life can the greatest inner satisfaction and jxrsonal happiness lx1 attained. Only this pattern of conduct will enable this class to reunite in 1970 for the traditional tenth year reunion with assurance that the 60’s will have lie Sensible. Mr. J. Layton Moore. . . School Principal.

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OUR FACULTY Irs. Elizabeth Z. Albert English Pennsylvania State University Traveling and studying Early American literature are Sirs. Al- bert's hobbies. Because of ill- ness, she was replaced in Febru- ary by Mrs. Natalie H. Topiol. Mr. Robert Artz Commercial Susquehanna University Mr. Artz does a great amount of singing and his special in- terest is interpational, current events. Hi Miss Sigrun Bassoe Physical Education Temple University Outside of sports. Miss Bas- soe’s greatest interest is travel. She has traveled through all but six of our states and through France, England. Denmark, and Sweden ‘ Mrs. Doris P. Bell Reading, English Muskingum College Although Mrs. Bell is a new member of our teaching staff, she is not new to Ridley Park, because she lias lived here for twenty-eight years. In college she majored in French, and minored in Spanish. Mr. Richard Bell Industrial Arts Carnegie Institute of Technology Mr. Bell has lived in Ridley Park for 28 years and has three sons who have graduated from R.P.H.S. During the summer months he operates I ake Pau- pac Club, a resort in the Pocono Mountains. Mr. Michael Bernot Mathematics, Social Studies Bloomsburg State Teachers College Mr. Bernot, father of three pre-school age children, is cur rently studying for an advanced degree in history. He enjoys reading and sports. Miss Eleanore B. Combs College of In college F in violin. Hyr skating and to Europe for t visit her many. There she speak German. ent Ger- Mrs. Grace Bogard Home Economics Drexel Institute of Technology Mrs. Bogard’s interests aren't confined to teaching home mak- ing. Mountain climbing, camp- ing. photography, and sailing capture much of her time. Mr. John Boyd Social Studies Heidelberg College While serving in the war Mr. Boyd enjoyed visiting the schools in many foreign coun- tries. When not teaching World History his main interest is sports. Mrs. Mabel Bullock Guidance Counselor University of Pennsylvania Mrs. Bullock’s main interest lies in young people. She has a family of four, plus finding time for such hobbies as music, sports, and reading.