Sinking Spring High School - Imago Yearbook (Sinking Spring, PA)

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for classes the next day with never a sign of a stomach ache, the case remains unsolved. Because of this incident we abandoned the idea of raising money until the fall of 1936. Another weiner roast started our social life in 1936-37. This time we held it at Newmanstown and after the usual festivities and gay times, we returned home in cheerful spirits and with lean appetites. We held another class meeting and later hearing the financial report, we learned that we must do something in order to enrich our treasury. We held movies at different intervals and realized a nice profit which helped increase our funds considerably. January 3, 1937 should be a memorable day for our class for it was then we selected our class motto Now we embark; where do we anchor?” The last affair on our spring 1937 calendar was the class picnic at Wisser’s bungalow along the Manatawny Creek. School days being over and every sign of spring in the air made all jolly and gay. All kinds of games and an endless supply of good lunch were enjoyed by all. A tired lot we were when we reached home. After many well wishes and hopes of seeing every one of our classmates back for the next year, we turned our thoughts to our summer vacation. When we resumed our studies in the fall of 1937, we found there was a big change in our faculty. Our new and able teachers being Miss Parnell, Miss Bastian. Miss Erb and Miss Yost who along with the other faculty members have helped us pass thru our hardest year in school. At the start of our Junior year we discovered that a large number had dropped from our rolls for various reasons. The remaining ones vouched to carry on and at our first meeting we decided to have a cake sale at the Village Market. This was a real success and helped to expand our treasury. A Saint Valentine’s dance was our next affair. In April 1938 we had our Spring Hop. Instead of having an orchestra we decided to have a Magnetic Pick-up machine. This netted us a nice profit. Up to this time we displayed our tact in every conceivable manner relative to school activities with the sole exception of our ability as stage artists. On April 27 under the supervision of our dramatic coach. Miss Parnell, we rendered a play entitled The Spanish Onion.” Unlike the acrid title, this play was rather palatable. The house was filled to capacity and we made a commendable showing of our artistic talent. As we entered our final year which, at the end in all certainty, has its heart-aches and sorrows, we made the dolesome discovery that our former Supervising principal. Mr. Steckel, was no longer a member of our faculty. His cheerful greetings and ever-present smile have been missed by all. Our new principal was by no means a stranger to us. for Mr. Merkel, our science teacher and able class adviser throughout most of our High School days was promoted to this office. He has done more than his alotted share in order that we might be able to achieve our goal. Two new and very capable faculty members. Mr. Bright and Mr. Bonnett, came into our midst. This, our Senior year was full of bustle. The social activities began with a doggie roast in September at Binkley’s bungalow. Our annual Hallowe'en dance was held in October. The class functions were held to a minimum. We did not fail, however, to present another very successful class play Welcome Home.” In December we introduced something new in the school to raise money. This was a Turkey raffle which (Continued on Page 48)

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A TRIP THROUGH HISTORY’S PAGES As the pendulum of the clock slowly yet surely ticks away the remaining minutes of our senior year, we know it is a certainty that our High School days are ebbing. However sad this fact is, we must not fail to recall and review the more jovial moments we experienced during the course of our stay at our Alma Mater. In the fall of 1927 we, a group of wild-eyed, perplexed and wandering waifs, to our utmost dissatisfaction, assembled in the study hall where we were greeted by our principal and teachers who assigned us to the rooms where we were to begin our school career. Little did we realize then, what tireless effort must be put forth in order to gain our aim or objective. Our first few years, or perhaps all of the years in grade school, seem to be very vague in our memories for these years were void of the good times we were to have later on. It was not until our first year of Junior High that we took school life seriously. We were then a group of forty pupils who marshalled our forces to strive and subsequently conquer all the studies and duties which would undoubtedly come during the rest of our sojuorn in school. At our first class meeting in September 1934. we decided to have a doggie roast with the customary “side dishes of corn, cider, and marshmallows. The teachers were our guests as well as our chaperones. A fine time was had by all. On October 28 we held our first Hallowen'en masquerade party. The Darwin theory prevailed among all of us after wt watched the boys climbing and clambering around the barn on Walter Mogel's farm where we held the affair. In our freshman year, 1935-36, we set out with lofty ideals. We organized our class and elected officers. The major and perhaps the most conflicting problem of our first class meeting was the selection of our class colors. After innumerable suggestions and a like amount of arguments, we decided that the class colors should be Royal Blue and White. At our next regular meeting we had the problem of selecting a class flower confront us. There were forty students and an equal number of suggestions. For a time it appeared as if we would have a “mixed bouquet” but after considerable controversy and debating the class finally took a vote and decided that the class flower should be an American Beauty Rose. During this year we had our first real fun as a group or class. We held numerous functions. We had a Hallowe'en party and a Saint Valentine s dance. The outstanding affair was a doggie roast at Binkley's bungalow. We were again chaperoned by some of our teachers who also ably assisted us in the preparation for the affair. As was the custom, the cider and eats had vanished from sight long before our appetites were appeased. It was then that we gained an enviable reputation as a mixed chorus. Our most able narrators related ghost stories until we felt quite sure the bungalow and surrounding grounds were haunted. As all good things must come to an end, we returned home. In March 1936. we had our first taste of financial defeat. After much preparation we conducted an egg sale which was not up to expectations financially. Some of us seemed to think that the “official tasters” were responsible for this profitless undertaking but since every one reported

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CLASS WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Class of 1939 of the Sinking Spring High School, of the Borough of Sinking Spring, of the County of Berks and the State of Pennsylvania, being physically fit, morally responsible, and mentally alert, do hereby declare, make, and publish this our Last Will and Testament in manner and form as follows: First—We command that all our obligations be met and fulfilled satisfactorily immediately upon our departure. Second—We give and bequeath to the Junior Class our faculty of conducting affairs with the least pretension possible, and in addition, our ability to work in harmony. Third—We give and bequeath to the Sophomore Class our instinctive dignity and also our dramatic genius. Fourth—Feme Bechtel, the artist of the class, bequeaths to Lester Bohn the ability to accomplish an oil painting which may be placed in a famous Art Gallery. Fifth—Mary Louise Brubaker bequeaths her ability to take shorthand and like it to Minnie Stiely, Sixth—Dorothy Burgner, the studious pupil of the class, bequeaths her ability to become an efficient laboratory technician to Virginia Baum. Seventh—June Hafer, the talker of our class, bequeaths her ability to read her required Reading Circle Books to John Ludwig. She also gives her Presidency of the Athletic Council to Elaine Fox. Eighth—Edna Harpel. the gigglebox of the class, bequeaths her ability to laugh away her troubles to Betty Hoffert. Ninth—Marian Harpel. the Arena Garden Special, bequeaths her ability to skate to Mary Hartman. Tenth—Louise Heffelfinger. the girl who wants to own a trailer, bequeaths to Catherine Dunkelberger her bookkeeping ability. Eleventh—William Hertzog, the Mortician of the class, bequeaths to Edwin Foret his ability to set up a Chemistry experiment without a failure. Twelfth—Warren Long, the geometric wizard of the Senior Class, bequeaths to William Koch his ability to work Plane and Solid Geometry whenever necessary. Thirteenth—Grace Lutz. Miss Taciturn of the cla s. bequeaths to Jeanne Greath her power to retain absolute silence no matter what occurs. Fourteenth—Mary McCloy bequeaths her ability to accomplish a high athletic record in running to Anna Wartluft. Fifteenth—Walter Mogel bequeaths his agricultural ability to Billy Spatz and also his athletic ability to Edwin Wessner. Sixteenth—James Mosteller. known as Sonny Boy” to most of us. bequeaths his ability to win the fairer sex through his persuasive manner to Quinton Haag. Seventeenth—Louisa Royer, the seamstress of the class, bequeaths to Betty Weidman the ability to sew.