Spring City High School - Pirate Log Yearbook (Spring City, PA)

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Jnfuuzaat lvfzgnniq- ' Well, folks, here's Father Time, the mythi- cal reporter, to tell you what's happened to the Class of '49. Says Ma to Father Time the other day, Pa, it's time to check on .the 1949 Class of Spring City High School. They have been on their own long enough, now we should see what's happened to them. As Ma and Pa went up to the roof to check on their space rocket, they found Richard Slifer and Bruce Tiffany bent over the motor making all necessary adjustments for a trip to the moon. They had decided that Ioan Bickhart would pilot the rocket. I think that here an explanation should be made. Some years after the class had been graduated, a method was found to charge the planets with heat and air, so that they would be conditioned for human habi- tation, though in doing this some of the sun's energy was lost. lt was the duty of Ma and Pa Time to make journeys to the sun, now and then, to investigate, recharge, and crank it. Since it was about time for an inspection tour, they decided to combine business with pleasure and, on the way home from the sun, stop at the various planets where mem- bers of the Class of '49 lived. So they set off and journeyed along through space. Finally they arrived and completed their task on the sung then they set out to visit the planets. The first planet visited was Mercury where Marguerite Noel had journeyed to work as a secretary along about 1969 when the trav- eling bug hit her. Gerald Moeller was the only doctor on Mercury with a thriving busi- ness, while Phil Carl was president of the alumni society and was doing a capable job, as usual. Here Ken Weber directed and played in his own dance band for which Betty Catt was the singer. lean Gumma had majored in social studies while in col- 1.1 9 I Forty legeg later hearing of the poor social condi- tions on Mercury, she came and did a fine job. Both Pat Haller and Mabel Neil were sec- retaries for a large firm that exported star fragments. Albert Carl was the proud owner of The Rockets -his own baseball club. Venus was the next stop. The three dash- ing secretaries for the Venus Roses on the Rockies' Perfume Company were Pauline Beitler, Nancy Fry, and Io McCormick. The same company employed Ieanette Stipa, ac- countant, and Ruth Mitchell, telephone op- erator. Loren Guss, a famous surgeon, was instrumental in building a hospitalg the con- tractor on the job was Artie Miller. Robert Blauser was the photographer for all the local high schools, his newly-employed effi- cient secretary was Nancy Diemer. Speeding and weaving through outer space, dodging meteorites all the while, the space ship aimed toward Mars. Artie Stone had a large pig farm here and exported salted, curly tails to earth. Betsy Godshall had an R.N. after her name, while Ianet Hyden was redecorating the interior of the hospital where she worked. Dorothy Wenger was the directress of admissions at the same hospital. Blanche Collopy owned a self- service market and employed Dorothy Pow- ell as her cashier. Fred Hurlock, that guard- ian of law and order since high school days, had charge of the National Guard of Mars. Donald Buckwalter owned a garage where Hazel Hacker had painted murals on its sliding doors. Iupiter, king of the planets, was the scene of varied activities. Here Russell Funder- white and Robert Keeley were engaged in scientific satellite sunflower farming for the government. Edward Davis was building a bridge from jupiter to one of its moons to facilitate atom-car travel. Helen Roden- berry, lean Hoffert, and Betty Eckenrode were script girls for the Iupiter Movie Com- pany, which was filming at that time, Duel

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JM fDff.2fsf- ' in the Moon. Bernice Grubb owned a large, modern beauty shop where Iean Schaeffer was her manicurist. Anne Neborak was English teacher and librarian in the local high school where she was acquiring the reputation of a stern teacher who took radar slingshots from her pupils. Ma and Pa Time were pleased with the Saturn residents. The Saturnia Business School was run by Marilyn Hyden for those who were interested in learning to write shorthand the Saturn way. Caroline Kern and Gloria Harris were teachers at the school. In the office Nancy Long was foundg she was busily looking out the window at Verna Platt's Asteroid Beauty Salon. The building was rapidly being completed by contractor Bill Christman. Edee Young was the attractive interior decorator employed. Patrons, while their hair was drying, would be entertained by Richard Lightcap's latest arrangement of Saturnia Blues on the Cornet. Iack Cullum toted milk bottles for a dairy on Milky Way Lane. Mary Rohr- bach was employed there washing the star- dust off the equipment. The occupants of Uranus, the next stop, seemed to have an eye for business. ,Vir- ginia Root and Elaine Saylor worked here for the Inter-Planetry Telephone Company, communication center for the solar system. Pat O'Conner was hostess for the Uranius Comet Line, flying from Earth to Pluto to Uranus. Ronald Elliott baked and sold equi- librium cream puffs for the Starlight Bakery. Emily Henry worked as a make-up artist in a charm school. Bob Miller's contracting firm had just completed the Meteor Mer- chants' Mart. Engineer Charles Finkbiner spent his spare moments on his beautiful farm where he raised thoroughbred horses and Great Danes. The head of the Heavenly Business School was Dolly Tyson. Allen Mc- Intyre had built up a solar system-wide cli- entele for his flourishing insurance business. On the seventh planet, Neptune, the Times were drowsily welcomed by Iohn Sypherd who wrote a newspaper column, Advice to the Sleepless. Phyllis Rosen and Edna Mae Lustig were script girls for the local radio- television station, doing special broadcasts to the recently discovered second moon of the Earth. Dick Mull had pitched a streak of six no-hit games for the Neptunites' Ball Club, which had just won the Solar Series. Also in the field of sports was lim Rentschler who managed and played with a profession- al basketball team. Iim Dell was head coach at Neptune Planet College, he was very proud of his winning teams. Also on the fac- ulty was Nancy Witt, who taught music and directed the college band, orchestra, and glee clubs. Clarence Smith operated a ga- rage and rocket repair shop, he intended to enlarge his business to include space ships. The last visit was to Pluto where Barbara Witt was employed as a laboratory techni- cian, in her spare time she wrote stories and cared for a family of fourteen children. Rob- ert Stierly, a successful farmer, supplied most of the food for Red Heart, the capital city of Pluto, where Raymond Szymkiewicz taught agriculture in the Red Heart Senior High School. Mary and Pat Sellers owned and operated Pluto's leading radio and tele- vision station. Mary handled all literary workg Pat was dramatic director. Herbert Mosteller owned a Sea Food Market and flew to Earth once a month for lobsters and crabs. Marion Webster taught commercial subjects in Red Heart Senior High School. Here james Reinmuth served as Secretary of War, appointed by the president of Pluto. Vaughn Parfitt was the leading engineer for the project, Pluto-to-Earth by Tight Rope. So Ma and Pa, highly pleased with the results of their trip, catapulted to Earth and stepped on the bare, lonely ruins of Spring City High School and a deserted Earth. -Barbara and Nancy Witt Forty -one