Sullivan Highland High School - Libros de Memorias Yearbook (Sonestown, PA)

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450112015 Front row: Ioan Fiester, Jane Smith, Beatrice Cox, Ruth Botsford, Nancy Smith, Helen Phillips, Joyce Phillips, Bemadine Phillips. Back row: Sidney Bigger, Benjamin Lauxenson, Dene Andrews, Harley Marcey, James Hunter, Donald Collins.

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fleas Hkfaly We began our high school career in September, 1949. There were twenty of us, including Sidney Bigger, John Golder, James Hunter. George Hurst, Ben Laurenson, Harley Marcey, Richard Phillips, Howard Sanders, James Wertman, Ruth Botsford, Janet Confer, Beatrice Cox, Bessie Edkin, Joan Fiester, Bemadine Phillips, Helen Phillips, Joyce Phillips, Jane Smith, Nancy Smith, and Carol Wrede. During the year we lost Bessie Edkin and gained Dene Andrews and Helen Dieffenbach, ending the year with a total of 21. As we started our second year as high school students we were very noisy but not very ambitious. We found that we had to work as hard in high school as we did in the grades. During the year we lost Carol Wrede and gained Donald Collins, leaving us with 21 to start our Junior year. Our next year was highlighted by the Junior-Senior Prom held May 2, in the high school auditorium. Our class party was held at Trout Pond on May 21. Janet Confer, Helen Dieffenbach, John Golder, George Hurst, Howard Sanders, and James Wertman departed during this year. Our Senior year started September 7, 1952 with 15 students. In November the class put on its play Stranger in the Night, under the direction of Mr. Stan and Mr. Yaudes. At the beginning of the year Richard Phillips dropped out. The class of 54 sponsored the Junior Prom on May 1, 1953. Plans have been completed for the commencement program and also the trip to Washington. flax.-r C2661 Jane Smith - wills her bashful ways to Elizabeth Shultz. Benjamin Laurenson - wills his ability to get along with teachers to the whole school. Joyce Phillips - wills her diamond ring to Miss Sprout. Dene Andrews - wills his ability to confuse teachers to Chester Myers. Helen Phillips - wills her sane and expert driving to the bus drivers. Donald Collins - wills his ability to stay in class to Wayne Gavitt. Joan Fiester - wills her soprano voice to Mr. Yaudes. James Hunter - wills his ability to drive Genevieve to Dick Bender. Beatrice Cox - wills her dancing ability to Miss Edmunds. Harley Marcey - wills his height to Dale Phillips. Nancy Smith - wills her ability to get things done to the Junior Class. Sidney Bigger - wills his love for girls to Kenny Hunter. Bernadine Phillips - wills her housekeeping duties to Anne Krause. Ruth Botsford - wills her cheerfulness to anyone who has the blues.

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flaiievy I have been thinking about graduation so much the last few weeks that I had a dream last night in which I saw all the members of my class as they will be twenty years from now. In my dream Sonestown had become a thriving metropolis because of the oil which had been discovered in our area, and all my classmates had prospered. I learned all about my friends because my dream showed two men standing in front of a large building that had Sonestown Modern Department Store written across the front, and they discussed all the people who had been in school with them. These are the things they said: The fellow who operates the street cleaning machine had his leg broken when his wife, the former Helen Phillips, backed their car out of the garage and knocked him over a stone wall. Ioan Fiester married a doctor and is seen almost daily driving through town in a new Cadillac convertible. Nancy Smith is now operating a business school in the upper three floors of one of our new buildings. Jim Hunter is a man of leisure now that he owns two oil wells. When he isn't de- positing his money in the bank, he just loafs around in the shade. During the winter he loafs around in the shade in some warmer climate. Joyce Phillips Barto travels all over the country, and takes her ten kids with her. Everytime they do settle down in a home, the increases in the family cause things to get so crowded they have to move. Ben Laurenson doesn't live in our area anymore. He has a one htmdred thousand acre cattle ranch in Texas, and spends all his time there. I-Ie is quite famous down there since the time he stopped a big cattle stampede just by singing. They say that when Ben started to yodel the cattle stopped in their tracks and began to cry. Dene Andrews is known as Hot Rod Harry because he is seen day and night speeding over the countryside in a souped-up Rolls Royce. Beatrice Cox has a beauty parlor with sixteen operators working for her. She ran the place herself before the big boom. Bemadine Phillips owns the biggest self-service laundry in the county. She has fifteen washers working steadily every day. Donald Collins is the principal ofthe new North Mountain High School. Jane Smith has several oil wells too. She struts around town in a mink coat no matter what the temperature is. Ruth Botsford isn't too successful in her work as a nurse at the new Slippery Oil plant. It seems that she faints everytime she sees blood. The two men who were talking in my dream were Sidney Bigger and Harley Marcey. Sonny owns the department store that they are standing by, and Harley operates the restaurant called Ptomaine Heaven' which is well known all over the East Coast.