Education: Horseshoe, 1932, Altoona High School: Altoona, Blair Co, PA - Part II 
- Seniors
 
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Top Row: Yeatts, Walters, Davis, Hofmann, Burket.
Bottom Row: Mattas, Monahan, Rittenhouse, Brubaker.
| President | James Monahan | |
| Vice President | Irma Rittenhouse | |
| Secretary | Delores Mattas | |
| Treasurer | Jane Brubaker | |
| General Chairman | William Davis | 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
William Yeatts Betty Hofmann Betty Davis
Harvey Shaeffer Pearl Walters SOCIAL COMMITTEES
| REFRESHMENT | RECEPTION | DECORATION | ||
| Mae Meese, Chairman Marjory Stephenson Margaret Anderson Ann Rollason Betty Hull Glenn Hoss Hugh Norris Drexel McTavish Ted Gates George Klepser Fred Barry Bill Geesey James Saleme Burt Myers Dorothy Jones Jane Hauler Louise Lee Doric Beattie | 
 | Kenneth Heaps, Chairman Mary McKinney Dorothy Burd Billy Rothert Martha Shaw Howard Brett Donald Fritz Charles Botright Viola Gladfelter Bud Neuwahl | 
 | Sara Louise Levan, Chairman Rosemary Stewart Rose Groban Gladys Gibson Dorothy Fowler Anna Caum Semler Heinsling Kenneth Winters Fay Montgomery Harold Dunlap Bob Kimmel Freda Klein Doris Bollinger Catherine Maricque Luella Hess Lynn Hildabrand Paul Gieg Sara Jane Moses John Ramsey | 
FINANCE Jane Brubaker, Chairman
| Harry Taylor | 
 | Dwight Fickes | 
| Donald Kraft | 
 | Fred Datres | 
| Walter Oswalt | 
 | Anne Hengstler | 
SPONSORS
| Miss Decker, Chairman | 
 | Miss Hedden | 
| Miss Morrison | 
 | Mr. Patrick | 
Senior Class History
  
   s we, 
  who are so soon to leave these halls of learning, look back over the past 
  three years, we feel a soft satisfaction mingled with regretful pain. We are 
  satisfied because we know that we, as a class, have done our best to live up 
  to the traditions of our Alma Mater, and we are regretful that it is over; 
  because never again will we enter the Altoona High School as a part of it, 
  shaping its character as it, shaped ours. As we say farewell, we take a last 
  lingering look over the past.
s we, 
  who are so soon to leave these halls of learning, look back over the past 
  three years, we feel a soft satisfaction mingled with regretful pain. We are 
  satisfied because we know that we, as a class, have done our best to live up 
  to the traditions of our Alma Mater, and we are regretful that it is over; 
  because never again will we enter the Altoona High School as a part of it, 
  shaping its character as it, shaped ours. As we say farewell, we take a last 
  lingering look over the past. 
I
On September 4, 1929, we entered the imposing entrance of A. H. S. in pursuit of wisdom. We tried our best to look sophisticated, but we actually managed to look like a group of prisoners awaiting their sentences. However, after the first confusion of finding rooms, getting schedules arranged correctly, etc., we got along fairly well. Although the upperclassmen razzed us a little, they treated us kindly, and the teachers were always ready to lend a helping hand.
By the time we had learned our way around and were getting down to normal routine, football season started. Our wounded vanity was restored by the excellent sophomore material on the varsity. On November 9th - unforgetable date - we beat Johnstown, and on the following Monday we had the memorable walk-out. Perhaps it was illegal, unruly, and against all rules and regulations, but it will live in our memory long after Latin verbs and geometry rules have passed into oblivion.
Early in December we had our famous bonfire in celebration of our victory over Billtown; and what a business the shoe stores had the next day! Doing snake dances in mud up to one's knees is not particularly good for either shoes or feet. After all this festivity, our spirits were brought down again by the mid-year exams.
With football season, vacation, and mid-year tests over, life was just threatening to become normal when along came the Annual Show. It was a huge success, in which many members of our class took part. After this event, the school days passed quickly until, before we knew it, the final tests were upon us-the finishing touch to the most exciting year we had ever spent.
II
  
  After a happy and (perhaps) a restful vacation, we returned to resume our 
  studies as "Jovial Juniors." Being accustomed to the building now, we had 
  little trouble in following our routines, and we settled down to work and to 
  wait anxiously for football season. We had a successful season although we 
  lost the conference championship to our old enemy - Johnstown. However, we had 
  little time to be depressed. The senior class was organizing, and so we too 
  began to think of class organization. Early in February, we elected for our 
  junior class officers, Harry Taylor, president; Delores Mattas, vice 
  president; Irma Rittenhouse, secretary; and Donald Kraft, treasurer. These 
  capable people led us through a very successful year. We had several 
  successful socials, and a Junior picnic which will be remembered for years. 
  Among, and between these diversions came the annual show in which many members 
  of our class took part. Towards the end of the year the English play, "The 
  Youngest," was produced under the direction of Miss Rodkey, and our vanity 
  swelled to enormous proportions when we discovered that the leading roles were 
  taken by members of our class. After this triumph, we were promptly subdued by 
  the imminence of final exams. With this ordeal over and vacation before us, we 
  again said "au revoir" to our high school until the fall should again bring us 
  to our halls of learning.
  
  III 
  
  In the fall of 1931 we entered our Alma Mater as seniors. Soon after school 
  opened, football season began and our Maroon and White warriors captured the 
  championship of Western Pennsylvania.
  
  A short time after this victory, our class organized, selecting for its 
  officers, James Monahan, president; Irma Rittenhouse, vice president; Delores 
  Mattas, secretary; and Jane Brubaker, treasurer. Along with our socials we had 
  the annual show, a rollicking laugh-fest from beginning to end, the English 
  play, which was as excellent and entertaining as before.
  
  With all these diversions the year went all too quickly until final tests were 
  upon us - the beginning of the end. There followed in quick succession 
  Commencement exercises, the banquet, the picnic - a mixture of tears and smiles 
  and laughs and sighs. At last we said good-bye for the last time to the halls 
  we loved and to the building which meant to us not stone and brick, nor any 
  material thing. To us it meant three happy years of work and play among our 
  friends - years which can never come again.
 
Senior Class Prophecy
  
   LL right, gang, we have some red hot newsy news today; so get busy." This 
  comes from the editor, Sparrow Mannion, of the Daily Astonisher, as he 
  gallantly cheers his staff on to getting the evening issue ready for print.
LL right, gang, we have some red hot newsy news today; so get busy." This 
  comes from the editor, Sparrow Mannion, of the Daily Astonisher, as he 
  gallantly cheers his staff on to getting the evening issue ready for print.
  
  "Kekalos, tell Datres to send a hundred copies to Miss Betty Hogemeyer; her 
  picture is in tonight. She's addressing the Mary Merry Maidens Society on "How 
  to Hold Your Husband."
  
  "The editorial page isn't full. Get Miss Burkhart to review William Van Davis' 
  book My Stage and Screen Success. Say, he's playing opposite Martha Line now 
  in his own play Dilemma. She can get that book at Neuwahl's publishing house 
  or at Taylor and Scholl's stationery store."
  
  "Fix this headline. Yes, you Bill Burns. 'SENATOR McNAUGHTON CREATES SENSATION 
  IN SENATE.'  It sounds like a series of sibilant sounds; and while you're 
  at it, separate the article about President Monahan of the Greasy Oil 
  Corporation and George Kalb, Famous Violinist; they don't go together."
  
  "Hey, here's a snappy article, 'DOLORES MATTAS FAMOUS DANCER KIDNAPPED FROM 
  STAGE. The audience thinking this act was part of the show drowned her screams 
  in applause. Detectives Dwight Fickes and S. J. Moses are hot on the trail.' 
  Stick this on the front page."
  
  "The front page is full, Chief."
  
  "Well, take out the squib about M. Patricia Walter of the Shaner News 
  Syndicate who ran down Walter Oswalt while touring California on a bicycle."
  
  "No, we'd better not cancel that for she was in her Damlier on her way to 
  interview Miss Dorothy Fowler in connection with her latest production, 
  Precious, in which she is co-starring with Tommy Orr."
  
  "All right; here comes Gieg with the material from the telotypewriter. Read it 
  over, Walters."
  
  "O.K.!"
  
  'Mr. Howard Jastin Brett, Ambassador to Italy, spoke yesterday over an 
  international hookup on "How to Masticate Spaghetti."
  
  'Rose Groban, budding young artist, was awarded first prize in the National 
  Art Exhibition for her painting, Cat Eyes. The second place, however, was to 
  go to Sara Haines' Violets or Leroy Hobson's Consolidated Hotdogs.'
  
  'Mr. William Asterbilt Yeatts starts search for his personal butler missing 
  since Thursday. He is said to have run away with Miss Gene Reinheimer, a 
  mannequin at Macy's.'
  
  'Rabbi Samuel Sealfon, formerly of Altoona, but now of Podunk, will speak 
  here. He will be met at the train by a band of Ladies Aiders, headed by Miss 
  Marjory Stephenson and Miss Margaret Anderson.'
  
  'Fred Lafferty took first place and "Sis" Dinges a close second in the Annual 
  Swiss Alp Climbing Race.'
  
  'Donald P. Kraft, bachelor millionaire, bestowed half of his amassed fortune 
  on Miss Dorothy Burd, the brave motherly instigator of the home for homeless 
  cats, for use in her important work.'
  
  'Jean Scads threatened Judge James White with a revolver for supressing her 
  book The Love Life o f Pompey.'
  
  'President of the United States, Carl Etter, presented Congressional Medal to 
  Irma Rittenhouse for flying around the North Pole five hundred times in her 
  auto-gyro without getting dizzy.'
  
  'Famous basketball star, Randall Keller, jumped twenty-five stories from a 
  flaming building into a net held by firemen Andy Muir, Harry Neugebauer, John 
  Blackburn, and Bill Dillon. First aid was rendered by Dr. Kenneth Heaps.'
  
  "There's the phone. That's Miss Gluntz with her report of the typing marathon. 
  Hello! Who? You say Edith Santella wins? Collapses after three weeks without 
  stopping? Martha Brumbaugh came in second? O. K. Now dash over and get some 
  dope on this crash over the Darchof theory between Prof. Carl McVicker, head 
  of the Einstinogical department at Oxford, and Dr. Burt Meyers, professor of 
  analytic geometry at Penn State."
  
  "This article ought to be a feature - 
  
  'Inventor Curtis Beerman innocently started a panic when he walked up the 
  aisle of a lecture room carrying a powerful Guy Anderson magnet with which he 
  intended to demonstrate an experiment to a group of society women interested 
  in physics. When he reached the platform where he was greeted by President 
  Anne Grimshaw, he found his magnet covered with ladies hairpins, and turning 
  to the audience, he was confronted by a group of angry women, hair streaming 
  down their backs. Among the most violent were Misses Marion Hirst, Bertha 
  Boldt, Kathryn Terwilliger, and M. M. Meese.'"
  
  "Somebody write an explanation under this picture The First Lady presenting 
  the prize in the Easter-egg rolling contest."
  
  "All right; what was her name before she was married?"
  
  "Doris Bollinger."
  
  "Miss Bathgate, read me the last column of the back page."
  
  She reads:
  
  'Mr. John W. Welker disappeared suddenly last night. If he does not return 
  soon, his position as overseer of the McTavish Electro-Magnet factories will 
  be given to Mr. Sheldon Clapper. It is rumoured that he joined the Navy, but 
  others believe he eloped with a certain young lady named Schlayer, or Slayer.'
  
  'Suffering from laryngitis, Miss Mary McKinney, local soprano radio star has 
  temporarily withdrawn from the air until she recuperates. Miss Sara Louise 
  Levan is taking her place.'
  
  'Advertisement - Wanted, a wife. I am a middle aged widower with five 
  children, heavy set, black hair tinged with gray, large black eyes. Am well 
  educated and hold the position of President of the Hoss and Buggy airport. 
  Solicit correspondence with view to matrimony. Charles T. Botwright.'
  
  'Misses Geraldine Adams, and Catherine Gallager, French teachers in A. H. S., 
  returned from a trip to Paris where they visited the setting of Victor Hugo's 
  Les Miserables. Monsieur Lynn Hildabrand proved to be their interesting 
  guide.'
  
  'There will be a reunion of the class of 1932 of Altoona High School on next 
  Saturday in the school study hall. The class officers and members of class 
  committee who are residing in this city have complete charge of arrangements. 
  After a business meeting and speeches, a social will ensue. Entertainment will 
  consist of checkers, flinch, chess, and Peter Coddles' trip to New York.'
  
  "All right, send the paper to press."
 
 
Clarence Wolfe
Mary Elizabeth Wright
Dorothy J. Yeater
Walter V. Yeatts
William F. Yeatts
Verna Grace Yingling
Charles E. Young
Helen L. Youngkin
Paul Zeak
Melvin Zeigler
John Zimmerer
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