Swoyersville High School 1946 Yearbook (Swoyersville, PA) - Full Access

Senior Class History It was on a September morning, almost four years ago that the good ship "The Class of Nineten Hundred and Forty-Six" set sail on her journey to the SEA OF KNOWLEDGE. Though inexperienced in the ways of high school conduct, we resolved to try our most to gain this KNOWLEDGE. We learned much in that first year. Our adolescent minds matured easily. For nine months we lay at anchor at this port. Then, being satisfied that we had learned all there was to be taught here, our ship sailed on to the next port called SOPHOMORE HARBOR. Here we became acquainted with many new ideas. Commercial and Academic classes began to bke shape. Then, too, boys entered the fields of sports and the girls became ac– tive socially. Three months of sailing brought us to our next stopping place, and we became JUNIORS. This was a period of much learning. We encountered new subjects. Our athletes be– came prominent. Music, art, cheerleading, and clubs of all kinds flourished. We were well represented in these extra-curricubr ac· tivities. For the first time we participated in the annual Junior and Senior affairs-the Banquet and Prom. In no time at all, we reached our destina– tion- the SENIOR YEAR. Now, we, who for the past three years had been follower~ ~2 as under-classmen bec.:tme leaders here at Swoyerville High School. This, our last year, has been a busy one, both in work and in recreation. We had been forced to complete our journey without eight of our shipmates who had left us to serve Uncle Sam. We are justly proud ol t hem. One of the high lights of our Senior Year was the "Welcome Home Minstrel." For the first time in our school's history the Minstrel cast was given the honor o: performing again under the auspices of the Kiwanis Club of Kingston and Fot·ty Fort. This affair was a huge success. Other spotlight affairs were the Junior– Senior prom and banquet. The seas over which we traveled have not always been as calm and untroubled as we would h.:tve wished them to be, but we feel that any hardships and storms we might have encountered will prove worth while in the years to come. Our high school journey is at an end. With the class history we feel that we are open– in gthc pages of memory to a new chapter We realize too, that our school days were merely preparations for this Chapter-Life. And with the help of God we are deter– mined that our motto, "Followers today– LeJders Tomorrow," wil1 become a reality. VoLUME VI, No. 1.