Wyomissing Area High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wyomissing, PA)

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Confemir ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER . . Views THE FALL EVENTS . . . Community Interest Faculty-In Menloriam- Underclassmen-Extracurricular Activities-Soccer THE WINTER EVENTS ..... Extracurricular Activities-Winter Carnival-Basketball THE SPRING EVENTS .... Extracurricular Activities-Service Awards,-Traclc,-fTennis,-1 Graduation ONE DAY IN JUNE . . Seniors COLOPHON PATRONS . . . . Page 6 Page l 3 Page 49 Page 79 Page 98 Page I2-I Page 125

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Member of NATIONAL SCHQLASTIC PRESS ASSQCIATION Price One Dollar

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As this book was being formed, our Country became involved in the worst war which has ever been waged by mankind. All the peoples of the earth, wherever or whoever they may be, have become victims of circumstance. tighting for the preserva- tion or acquisition of those fundamental rights which are the inalienable heritage of every human being. Yet amid all this tumuit, terror, and bloodshed, life had to go on as usual. As fail passed into winter, and winter in turn became spring, our school slowly but inexorably felt, as did the rest of the world, the iniiuence of war. There crept into the program of the schooi year many indications of the national emergency. symbols which testified to the increasing manifestation of the desire of the student body to do their part in order that they might assure their liberties. Thus, this record of the class of nineteen hundred and forty-two is divided into three sections: fait, Winter, and spring. During each of these seasons awareness of the national crisis increased. Yet in this ac- count of our years at Wyomissing High School we have tried to show, not the in- escapable iniiuence of war, but that of those activities and customs which have rendered our years in school so unforget- Six table. in each section of the book are shown examples of scholastic life, extra-curricular activities, and athletic achievements asso- ciated with that time of year. True. it was sometimes necessary to picture year-round activities as pertaining to one specific sea- son, but when such a condition was neces- sitated, we attempted to portray that activ- ity during that season which best typified it, or during that season when it engaged in a particularly outstanding activity. We felt that in thus departing from the stand- ard set-up of dividing the book into cteariy defined sections of athletics, underciass- men, faculty, extra-curricular activities, curriculum subjects, and seniors, we would be able to present a clearer, more composite picture of all that occurs between June and September of each school year. as the student himself knows it. This year, for the tirst time in over a quarter of a century, those ten months did not end in June with the secure prospect of another such year in the fail, for the country was at war. But aithough ati dreams for the future disappeared. Vvyo- missing High School was secure in the knowledge that through the uncertain fait, harrowing winter and doubtful spring, it had done its part, by contributing to the national emergency ati of its faith and support.