Swatara High School - Yearbook (Oberlin, PA)

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SEPTEMBER School opens 4 freshly painted. Football season starts with a big bang. Band takes rust off instruments. Cheerleaders get voices in shape. School organizations start rolling. NOVEMBER Seniors present their class play. Football team has great success - champions of the Lower Susquehanna Conference. Thanksgiving assembly is given and then a delightful two-clay holi- day. JANUARY A new year begins. School work piles up. A lot of big tests are given. Oh, it's so cold on January mornings! Colly - report cards again. MARCH New hall system is tried out. Boy's basketball team loses first play-off game. Girls come out on top in Conference. Band, Clee Club and Choruses put on hlusic Festival. Track and baseball practice starts. MAY Juniors hold a marvelous prom for seniors. Everyone is studying for final exams. Seniors get filled to the brim at their banquet. Baccalaur- eate service is really impresf sive. The Year in Brie OCTOBER Committee selects TV set won by magazine campaign. Annual bazaar meets with huge success. October gifts - Hrst report cards for the year, two days vacation for County Institute. Seniors celebrate Halloween by touring a haunted house. DECEMBER Many Christmas gift huddles. School is beauti- fully decorated on Christ- mas theme. Tree-lighting ceremony is held in the rain. Cala Christmas pro- gram is presented, and then off we go for an enjoyable holiday. FEBRUARY Vllashington has another birthday. Basketball team has a tough schedule. Dances are held on stage at noon time. VVon't spring ever come? APRIL 'lunior class play goes over big. Annual Easter assembly is presented. Sen- iors are rushing to get im- portant matters taken care of. Epidemic of spring fever sweeps STHS. JUNE Final report cards come out f- ugh! Commencement exercises held in high school auditorium. School closes - paint is now a little soiled. 5

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Calendar of Events ..... Dedication and Theme Administration and Faculty CLASS OF 1954 Class History .... Seniors ...... Swatter Stall . . . Whois Wlio . Class Will .... UNDERCLASSMEN Class of l955 .... Class of l956 .... Class of l957 .... Class of 1958 .... ACTIVITIES Student Council ..... National Honor Society Chess 8z Checkers .... Band ........ 4 Table of Content! . . 5 Choruses and Clec Club - - 6 Crade School Band . . . . . 7 Ili-Y and Tri-l li-Y . . i Athletic Organizations Art Club .... . . . 1 13 Librarians . H 16 Cheerleaders . as H 24 ATHLETICS .. 26 Football ,........ Boys' Basketball Truck ..,...... . . . 28 Baseball . . , . . 29 lloclaey ..... . . . , . . 30 Cirlsr' Basketball . . . . . 31 SPECIAL EVENTS Class Plays .... .. 34 Christmas Prog 1'zi1 n . .. 35 juni cz1'f Senior Prom . . 35 Music Festival . . . . . . 36 hlay Day . . .

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Li e in Szmfazm Towmbgb just as life at Swatara Township High School is only a fragment of life in general, so this yearbook is only a fragment of life at Swatara. VVe know that our book can show our yearis activities only partially anti im- perfectly, we also know that what we learn in high school about life is not the whole picture. Swatara Township, itself, is just a small piece of America, but in many ways it is typical of the whole Country. The residents of Swatara may live in close-built communities or solitary farms: they work at all kinds of jobs, they are people with all sorts of backgrounds and ambitions. Yet they are all Americans living and working harmoniously in a tiny segment of the Unitecl States. The 1954 Swozttei' is our attempt to holtl up to view, not only life at STHS, but also the broader aspects of living in Swatara Township. Dedication The 195-I Szmttei' is cletlicatetl to the people of Sxvatara Vliownship -the people who build the homes, roacls, churches and schools, who raise crops in Swatarais fertile soil, who serve the community through their business establishments: who labor in Swatarais industries: who fish her streams, roam her hills, and call Swatara Township their home.