Saltsburg High School - La Saltianna Yearbook (Saltsburg, PA)

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(Hlasis Mtora ! Janet Conn, 1 Scene—A living room in a home. Time is ♦ evening. Lights are turned low. Mother sits ♦ reading. Sonny boy sits in a low chair near ! a floor lamp reading a book. t Sonny Boy—Bending over book and spell- ♦ ing, S-E-N-I-O-R.” Say, mother, what's a 1 S-E-N-I-O-R? Is it something good to eat? | Or maybe it’s a bear. ♦ Mother— No, no, Sonny Boy. Seniors are ♦ not bears; they are people. People just like ! you and me. ♦ Sonny Boy— People. Say, mother, this ♦ story must be about Seniors. Here's a picture ♦ of one of them at school. They look just like f this picture. Mother, read to me about | Seniors. I Mother, reading— Once upon a time, a 1 long, long time ago, nearly 12 years ago, there j were some little boys and girls. These little ♦ boys and girls did not go to school as you and ! I do. They were not old enough to go to J school. But they wanted to go to school. So ♦ their papas and mamas told them that when + they were six years old they could go to school. So, one day all of them were six years old. ♦ When the school bell rang in the fall of the ♦ year these little boys and girls started off to school, with their books and tablets. They went to the Saltsburg School and the name of their teacher was Miss McQuaid. Of course, these little boys couldn’t read. They couldr’t write either. But their teacher told them if they would try hard and study well, that some day when they got bigger they could go to high school. The little boys and girls wanted to go ; to high school and play basketball, and be in plays, so they studied for eight long years. Then one day their teacher told them that they J were ready for high school. But all of the lit- ♦ tie boys and girls who started to school ♦ weren’t ready for high school. Some of them J had not studied as hard as they should. Some ♦ had moved away from town, and some other ♦ little boys and girls had moved in to take their ! places. So of all the little boys and girls left J to go to high school there were: Gladys Allen- ♦ baugh, Sarah Ameno, Ward Brown, Geneva I Cash, Ruth Cochran, Janet Conn, George Cun-J kleman, Gladys Dawson, Dorothy Drummond, ♦ Elmer Duke, Eva Dunn, Clifford Fishel, Carl Fletcher, Ernest Fletcher, Larue Flick, Edwin J Franklin, Christy Greece, June Hilty, Richard J Hogue, Anna Keeley, Melissa Kennedy, Myron ♦ Kiebler, Olive Kinter, McKay Lytle, Gilbert » Maguire, Mary Marsaln, Harry Momberger, J Thelma McCracken, Dannie McDivitt, Robert ♦ McKelvey, Irene McLaughlin, Duane Palmo, ♦ Charles Pendlyshok, John Rupert, Mary Sher- May 25, 1933 lock, Esther Shirley, Dorothy Shupe, Charlotte Smith, Mabel Stine, Sarah Stockdale, Irma Waddle, Thelma Waddle, Mary Ellen Walters and James Wilson. Well, when these boys and girls came to high school, they found a lot of other boys and girls who were older than they were. Some of them seemed to know so much more than others. They paraded around looking dignified, and sort of lordly like. Now the little boys and girls found out that these people had been in high school a long time. Some of their teachers told them that if they would work hard for four years they would know a lot, too. There were so many boys and girls in high school that they gave our group a special name. They called them Freshmen. The Freshmen found high school so much different from grade school. There were not so many subjects to study; but they were so much harder. There was one subject that was the queerest thing. If you didn’t know what it was about, you just said, Let X be it.’ Then finally you knew what the answer was, even though you didn’t know what is was all about. There were other subjects very different like Latin and Sicence. Afterwhile the Freshmen found out that another school year had passed. After vacation when they went back to school they weren’t Freshmen anymore but they were Sophomores. Being a Sophomore was just like being a Freshman, only different. A Sophomore thinks he knows so much more than a green, awkward Freshman, only he doesn’t. He just thinks he does. So our little boys and girls weren’t little any more; but they were grown-up Sophomores. Well, they had some other funny things to study. They bisected angles and dissected frogs; but bisecting an angle and dissecting a frog are just as different as eating toadstools and mushrooms. They were glad they had studied hard when they were little as their teacher had told them to. so they could go to high school. For if they had not gone to high school they wouldn’t have had that never-to-be-forgotten trip to Pittsburgh. On this trip they were conducted through the Museum and Zoo by Mr. McMillen and Miss Carson. Not one of the party was lost. Then there was that exciting time when Esther Shirley decided to end her school days and enter the stormy sea of Matrimony, and Gladys Dawson followed her example. Then school was out again and the boys and girls went home to play. No, they didn’t go home to play this summer, for they were M ♦♦ Page Ten 19 3 3