Williamsport High School - La Memoire Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

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Sincere Devotion The responsibility of advising and guiding the Class of 1970 was invested for three years in Mrs. Joann Ertel. To our class, she has given generously of her time as a planner and as a coordinator. The suc- cess with which our class has met the challenges and responsibilities of high school life is due in a large part to Mrs. Ertel. In our sophomore year, Mrs. Ertel formed and supervised the dues, color, and welfare committees. junior activities such as cap and gown distribution for the seniors and providing ushers for graduation were other areas in which Mrs. Ertel provided advice and helpful criticism. As seniors, with her help, we worked hard to make our play, our prom, and the class movie memorable events. Mrs. Ertel was born in Williamsport and was a graduate of Williamsport High School. In school she was active on the Billtown Banner staff and in the band. One of her accomplishments was her participa- tion in District and All-State Band. After graduation she attended Pennsylvania State University, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in home economics. She then taught at Loyalsock High School until 1965 when she began teaching sewing and nutri- tion at Williamsport High School. Mrs. Ertel's husband, james, is a teacher at jackson Elementary School and shares her interest in antique collecting. Mr. Ertel collects antique phonographs and record players, one dating back to 1900. Mrs. Ertel also collects antique sewing machines, her oldest acquisition an 1859 model. Although Mrs. Ertel has been busy with her teach- ing, homemaking, and antique collecting, she has always given her time to our class to make our years at high school productive and promising ones. We pay tribute to her guidance and direction by dedicat- ing to her the 1970 LA MEMOIRE. - iw A rf Q- 4 Q' iiieiyi , ...L 5' A A - Mr. and Mrs. Ertel, both avid antique collectorsfproudly display their valuable antique phonograph. In her home economics class, Mrs. Ertel teaches her students the essentials of kitchen cleanliness as well as the art of good cooking.

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Class of 1970 Served With ef m WW' 'wwmww' 1 4, L' V ik A' ':,.- A MRS JOANN ERTEL

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With Confidence, Determination, Early in our youth, each of us realizes that there is a struggle to exist, a problem of physical survival which is common to all living things. As we grow older, our thoughts reach further to a second kind of survival, a social and cultural survival, which is de- pendent upon the way in which we shape our lives to live with our families, our friends, and the people of our country and the world. The third kind of sur- vival we recognize only through self-realization. It is an inner-survival, a moral and spiritual survival, a survival which determines if there will be any sur- vival at all. As Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher writes: Survival is not so much our struggle against nature, not our struggle to live well with our fellowmen, ultimately it is the struggle within ourselves-our determina- tion, our courage, our inner strength and our faith in God that will bring us through. The purpose of education is to prepare students to be better and responsible future citizens. The areas of survival already have been encountered-vicariously or empirically-through the various activities of school life either curricular or extracurricular. The function of the school has been to guide the students through and to these various areas of survival-hope- fully without too much of a struggle-to fortify them with learning and experience to meet the future. Our lives, then, have been a constant progression of encounters with these areas of survival. Without these encounters and without this education, there is no progression, no moving forward. Moving forward, therefore, is the theme for our 1970 LAMEMOIRE. We have chosen the theme in refiection of the educational opportunities provided by the school district in preparing us for the future. Also, the theme is appropriate at a time when we are progressing not only on a local level with our new high school but also on a much larger scale with the first man walking on the moon. The theme, moreover, recognizes the advancement of LA MEMOIRE into its second half-century of publication, continuing fifty years of tradition but at the same time moving for- ward with innovation as an underlying factor. LA MEMOIRE is the link between the graduate and the school, between the lessons of survival and the actual moving forward into life. The cover, designed by Rose Marie Nau, symbolizes students going for- ward into the future, with others, yet as individuals. With a sound introduction to the problems of sur- vival, there can be no other direction in which to go.