Smithsburg High School - Leopard Yearbook (Smithsburg, MD)

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AS WILL and TESTAME We, the Senior Class of '54 of Smithsburg High School, being of sound mind and disposing memory, on leaving this institution of higher learning, do hereby make known our last will and testament to take effect after graduation. Ellen We hereby bequeath our following possessions to wit: Judy Miller's wavy bangs to Joan Fellows. Andy Stott1emyer's tallness to John Brown. Mary Eccord's ways with teachers to Peggy Butterbaugh. Bill Reecher's clowning ways to Bill Benchoff. Margaret Myer's tomboy ways to Pat Switzer. Louise Burger's ability to hold one man to Shirley Fritz. Jeanette Gardenhour's studious ways to Dian Harbaugh. Peggy Smith's bubbling laughter and blue eyes to Ruth Johnson. Shirley Cowan's naturally dark hair to Gail Shockey. Eleanor Potts' glasses to Kenny Munson and Tommy Norton, to share and share alike. Sherry Keane's skating ability to Linda Pryor. Jack Cline's art ability to Joe Bayer. Ronald Trostle's red hair to Merle McCleaf. Irene Stuller's outspoken ways to Doris Deal. Shirley Harbaugh's height to Jo Ann Lewis, Trenton Schroyer's size 13 shoes to Billy West, Gary Kennedy's curly hair to Le Roy Bender. Shirley Ruths' rosy cheeks to Jeanne Bushey. June Wolfe's serious manner to Rosalie Brown. Nancy Sanbower's happy love life to Pat Guild. Anna Hartle's, Madeline Kelbaugh's, and Patsy Huntsberry's athletic ability to Bonnie Bow- man and Rosalie Leather. Kenny Holloway's winning smile to Tommy Huntzberry. Sarah S1ick's knack for tardiness to Janice Wolf. Gerald Dea1's sideburns to Harold Eckstine. John Benchoffs car troubles to Richard Flohr. Harry Morningstar's police escapades to Dick Bachtell. Martha Stuller's quiet ways to Erma Wade. Janet Davis' even personality to Marlin Brown. Janet Flaugher's man getting ways to Judy Benchoff, Norma Frey's ways of hooking school without getting caught to Martha Keefer. Dick Smith's feminine loyalty to Bobby Kennedy. Larry Kendall's money to Gerald Leather. George Hosfe1d's shortness to Raymond Slick, Marcia Smith's carefree ways to Doris Bachtell. To all Juniors we bequeath our schemes, disagreements, dignity, and our homeroom. To the faculty we will our ability to understand future Seniors. We now appoint, in the presence of the following witnesses: Alexander, president of the class of 1955, legal executer of the sacred document, MJ Witnesses: Nancy.fSanbowerJ Brown Gerald Deal, President Madeline Kelbaugh Class of 1954 'I'

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B Ill TORY After a very trying week of arranging schedules we settled down to elect class officers: President, Gerald Deal: Vice-President, Richard Smithg Secretary, Nancy fsanbowerj Browng and Treasurer, Marcia Smith. In a homeroom meeting we chose red and white for our class colors and the carnation as our flower. Our motto was Not at the top but climbing. During the year,some of us had opportunities to visit in various places. In October, Eleanor Potts represented our school at the Maryland All-State Chorus in Baltimore. Gerald Deal attended the Maryland Association of Student Councils in Bethesda, Sarah Slick, Shirley Ruths, Marcia Smith, Shirley Cowan, and Eleanor Potts had the pleasure of visiting the State Teachers Colleges at Frostburg and Towson. Larry Kendall and Andy Stottlemyer spent their Christmas vacation in Florida. Shirley Cowan and John Benchoff attended a yearbook staff meeting in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. A new interest was aroused when our journalism class started publishing a monthly paper called Sidelines . For the first time in the history of our school the yearbook staff put out a bound annual. Bad luck befell a few of our classmates. Trenton Schroyer received a serious arm injury which prohibited him from playing in several basketball games. Janet Flaugher spilled boiling water on her foot and suffered third degree burns, Patsy Huntsberry had a badly sprained foot and later suffered 'a serious infection. Then there was the usual epidemic of colds and viruses. but none of them proved too serious. V During the year I remember that wedding bells chimed for three of our girls. Peggy Smith became Mrs. Gary Harbaughg Nancy Sanbower, Mrs. Donald E. Browng Marcia Smith, Mrs. Dorsey C. Pike. We lost Shirley Harbaugh, who moved with her family to New Jersey. Throughout the year many of us were engaged in extra-curricular activities, including varsity and intra-mural sports. There was the Hallowe'en Party at the Community Hall, the Sophomore Dance in November, and the Junior Dance in February. The outstanding spring dance was the Junior-Senior Prom which was a gala affair. Some of us helped to fry peanuts and solicit the community for cakes, pies, and candy for the big sale sponsored by the Yearbook Staff at the Market House in Hagerstown. At the Lions Club Minstrel and Variety, one of our girls, Judy Miller, was crowned queen. Many of us made our debut on the stage when we presented our class play in the late spring. The many little events preparatory for graduation were each mastered in their turn. Name cards and announcements were selected early in the year. We had conferences with our principal and guidance counselor about what we expected to do upon graduation. We planned our graduation music and selected our minister to deliver the sermon. On Class Day we presented a resume of our school life. Then we practiced receiving our diplomas. At last the year drew to a close. I remember well how we marched down the aisle wearing our caps and gowns to listen to the sermon, and then commencement followed. As we passed through sturdy doors of S.H.S. with our diplomas, we realized that we were no longer seniors but alumni of '54. CLASS FLOWER - CARNATION

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