Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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Not every minute of graduation means stiffness and seriousness. Once in awhile someone gets all undone and needs some straightening up. Overlooking the majestic view of Whitehall as seen from the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company building, seniors Karen Semonis and Melody Kosits wait nervously before their interviews. Both girls were employed here under the school work program. Typical Day 24

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Entire Township Has Centralized Post Office on MacArthur Road Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy delivers a speech by standing on a tree stump to persuade citizens to vote for him. Involvement is a key factor in the progress of today’s fast-moving world. An interest in local, state, national, and world affairs is developed through reading journalistic articles and listening to radio and television. More and more high school graduates each year attend colleges and universities. Lehigh County Community College had an enrollment of 500 within its first year of operation. A steel strike in September spread to Pennsylvania from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and New York. Whitehall Township merchants and the state highway department disputed the improvement of conditions on MacArthur Road. Several suggestions were offered in November. In March Whitehall residents received their first mail delivery. A centralized post office was established on MacArthur Road with one zip code for the entire township. Norman Yoder, a Pennsylvania government official, unjustly accused an unnamed western Pennsylvania college of having several students who were blinded by the use of drugs. Area teachers, members of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, marched on the state capitol in Harrisburg March 4 for a pay raise. Dr. Frances Schaeffer was injured at her Allentown home in May when a bomb wrapped in newspaper exploded as she picked it up. News 23

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Student Photographer Discovers %Tzb: - . Senior Prom Queen at the Holiday Inn West. Typical Day Means Weary Night Time and tide wait for no man as the old saying goes. Whitchallites this year through hard work and some leisure conquered the almost impossible task of getting things done on time. From 8:10 in the morning through 3:08 in the afternoon students put forth all their efforts to their ever valuable education. Politics dominated the scene when class and Student Council officers were chosen. Campaign posters covered the walls telling students to vote for the named candidates. “If people thought I was lucky to miss some classes, said Karen Kro- both. yearbook and newspaper photographer, “they should have carried that heavy camera around all day.” Psychedelia pervaded the halls as Ape and the Gorillas advertised their entertainment for Senior Day. Everything from a Chekhov play to a conservation movie gave pupils time to relax after toiling over a test or attempting to obtain correct results in a chemistry experiment. Bells, of course, assumed the duty of informing classes when to begin and end so that industrious scholars could keep the stiff time schedule and not miss the bus home. Typical Day 2s