South Philadelphia High School - Keepsake Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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4 FOOTBALL Lloyd Eisenberg lohn Sandusky Armand Gasbarro Leonard Bellis BASEBALL Andy Tappaia Ioseph Pirolli BASKETBALL David Fox XCOUNTRY Iohn Vannoni, lr. Linwood Gilmore Shelton Brown GYM Iohn Anello Iohn Severino TRACK A Iohn Vannoni, Ir.

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And What Next. . .? by Slmon Pomerantz What l1es beyond that door? lmmedrately some of Southerns students begm to thmk of a saloon door But let us rlse above such petty rnferences The door I refer to IS the door Cthe front door of coursel of the South Phlla delphra Hrgh Soho l for Boys When I say What hes beyond that door I dont mean the steps Usrng the term frguratrvely most of Southern s students feel the hot breath of the draft board on therr necks and see Uncle Sam w1th a moe khak1 unrform wa1t1ng for measurement Lookmg ahead a lrttle more one may v1s1on one s self bemg grven by the Presldent of the Unrted States Cno less? the medal of honor for personally srnkmg most of the Imperral lap anese Navy Csrx rowboatsl Or 1f you are of a pessrmrstrc turn of mlnd Cone of those cheerful guys who send you the address of a good army tarlor on your brrthdayi you can v1s1on yourself hobblrng home wrth nrne grrls under each arm Wlth nrne grrls who hobbles? Or rf you are one of the lucky ones and are not yet 22 or so by the end of your graduatrng term and are there fore below draft age let one who IS experrenced glve a word of advrce Do not Cunderlme the trmesl walk past any place where you know there 1S a shortage of labor or there IS a srmple srgn readrng Wanted Anythrng male female or otherwrse to occasronally type a letter and answer the mall between servrngs of steak It 1S dangerous to walk past such places Cpartrc ularly rf the owner has had experrence rn captur1ng wrld anrmals such as llons t1gers cats dogs mrce fleas etcl because you may walk 1nto a ortfall be snagged by a hldden lasso or you may be sand bagged black Jacked or Just plarn krdnapped but 1f the man IS a m1ld sort he w1ll walk tone to work for hrm at the paltry sum of 399999999999 etc Cwaste of trme hrttrng nrnes 1S rt not'?l But on the other hand 1f you are workrng on some Job wh1ch rs not a1rectly product1on you w1ll be drafted rnto turnmg out materral for a defense plant such as the Natronal Blrdcage Manufacturers Assn Thrs w1ll be done by the order of the OPA FHA PWA WPA THE ABC and the PPU and of course the rest of the alphabet Now let us look at another srde of the srtuatron the one tw1th the curvesl and drscuss the happy chrldren who possess enough frlthy lucre to go to college tWhat can I be thrnkrng of'?l Many boys w1ll be l8 before they frnrsh college or hrgh school have taken the A12 V 12 tests so that they may frnrsh college and come out wrth two srlver bars Cnot cockta1lJ and a blonde The srtuatron does not look good today for a great many boys who are berng drafted whrle strll rn school rlght rnto the arms not of a blonde but of Uncle Sam Frankly a year or two of physrcal trarnrng w1ll do no one any harm although there are Southern students who say that the1r last name rs Tarzan Cmodest mardensl After the war a great many boys who had no trammg when gomg 1nto the armed forces tand not wrth slmgshots brotherl wrll come out as automobrle speoralrsts radro men plumbers electrlcrans wolves and otherwrse All thrs w1ll be a good thmg for the country but? What goes w1th the femmes? Who makkee the money and get h1m the workkee'? CTh1s 1S not Iapanese but a vanety of Greek Southern slang Frnmsh and Esk1moD Actually all thrs means that rn sprte of the employers promrses to the returmng soldrers the employer w1ll shelve a great number rn favor of cheaper female labor Th1s w1ll create a serrous problem for the Southernrte of the rehabllrtatron era after the war fand we hope the war ends soon? Men and women from the servrces w1ll compete wrth men and women who have never been rn servrce and both of them w1ll compete wrth the sad and lonely college boy and w1th Ye Future Southermte 42 o . , ' I , . . I I I 1 I - , . I I , I I I I I I I I I ' I 4 I I I I - I T out onto the sidewalk Con his knees of coursel and ask you in a beseeching , . , I ' I I I I I I , . 1 ' 1 I , . I I I I I I I I I I I , . . I I I I I I I I I I ,

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FOOTBALL soUTHERN 13 soUTHEAsT 0 The last season of Watchlng a Southern football team as a student passes wrth that team of 43 comrng 1n tled for second place That team wh1ch showed amaz1ng power behmd that 205 pound l1ne agalnst Vlneland and then unfortunately bowed to Brrdgeton rn pre season games came through to play better than average ball We rolled through Franklln to the tune of 13 O on that hot sweltenng October day We were tred when we should have won Wllh Frankford at 66 as the skles let loose Wllh tears toward the end of the game The defendlng champs Northeast came 1n and left Wllh a lucky l3 7 over the Pltt men But the batterlng Rams left that shapeless West Ph1lly f1eld w1th a 12 O vlctory Came Germantown and a lucky 6 O w1n for us That Arm1st1ce Day game wlth Bartrarn started wlth a downpour of snow and ram then cleared up to a sunny afternoon after a 6 6 t1e South Cathollc came to cur spac1cus held only to lose to the count of 13 O The SGUIOTS were represented on that P1tt coached team by Belhs Sand usky Gasbarro and Elsenberg all part of that 205 pound llne r 'E I 44