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Smedley Junior High School: Class of 1954

Smedley Junior High School


 Faculty |  Class Officers  |  Organizations  |  Class Poem   |  Class Members

Many thanks to Herb Grubb for typing and sharing the following:
Faculty: Principal – Joseph M. Joseph

 

English Department

Hattie Manson

Margaret Craig

Clement Davinci

Margaret George 

Helen Hubbard

Rose Membrino

Dorothy Rhoades

Anne Stein 

Thomas Gartside



Mathematics Department

Eleanor Tomlinson

Dorothy Burke

Arnold Estis 

David Kudish

Jane Sarnocinski

Florence Senkowsky



Social Studies Department

Erma McCleery

Constance Bowen

John Claypool

Pasquale Cosenza

Ethel Eachus 

Thomas McKinney 

Leone Strunpf



Practicing Arts Department

Roscoe Ridenour

Arthur Walker

Walter Omier

Allen Shaw

Lillian Murray

Dorothy Smith

Jean Connors

Stanley Whary

Roberta Magargee – Business Training



Science and Health Department

Robert Lomax

Floyd Kerr

Gabriel Damico

Glenn Miller

Cristine Lowros

Jane Bowall



Music and Guidance Department

Donald Hetrick

Margot Richter

Elinor Cox – Girls’ Guidance

Wesley Rhoades – Boys’ Guidance

Elva Pennington – Librarian
Class Officers President – Edward Abrams

Secretary – Dorothy McCullough

Treasurer – Lawrence Wood
Organizations The 1954 Annual Staff

Editor-in-Chief – Eileen Todd

Business Editor – Nancy Smith

Circulation Editor – John Vankoski

Girls’ Sports Editor – Judie Burnett

Boys; Sports Editor – Michael Sapovits

Associate Editors – Rhoda Barnard 

Nancy Baron 

Ruth Collins

Jane Hiestand

Bruce Mailman

Betsy McKinney

Iris Radell 

Lynne Smith 

Stanley Wishner

Advisors – Dorothy Rhoades

Margaret George



Ninth Grade Model Congress

Parliamentarian – Ernest Crystle

Editor-in-Chief of Annual – Eileen Todd

Editor-in-Chief of Spotlight – Irene Shumaker

Chaplain – Bob Danaker 

Master Sergeant-at-Arms – Bob Conley

Senators – Raymond Ayers

Rhoda Barnard

Barbara Bowen

Louis Perrotta 

Nancy Smith

Bob Meyers

Isabel Scott

David Rago

Irma Davis




Sword Society

President – Ruth Collins

Vice President – Lynne Smith

Secretary – Rosalie Levenstein

Treasurer – Jane Hiestand

Advisor – Elinor D. Cox




Sword Council – Ninth Grade

Eileen Todd

Nancy Smith

Catherine Tomasco

Jo Ann Abrams

Laura Jordan

Madeline Jenkins 

Sue Worrell

Barbara Bowen

Brenda Edmonds 

Dorothy Cassidy




Cheerleaders – Ninth Grade

Captain – Rosalie Levenstein

Co-Captain – Marion Truax

Jane Heistand

Lynne Smith 

Earlene Bardsley 

Dot McCullough

Joan Moore

Ruth Collins 

Iris Radell 

Jo Ann Brooks
Class Poem Class Poem by Arlene Tyndall 9-2


We pupils entered Smedley,
Three short years ago.
Many filled with happiness, 
Many filled with woe.


Not knowing what we’d have to face,
We stepped into these walls.
All of us then settled down, 
Within its study halls.


We learned about democracy,
And also right from wrong,
We also learned that life was work
And not all play and song.


To some school may be just all work
To others just something to do,
To me it’s something priceless,
And it should mean the same to you.


Some think that school is just a grind,
But in future years to come,
Most of us will realize
That school was always fun.


We thought that some of the teachers were very mean,
To make us study hard,
To other students they might seem
Just like a prison guard.


But now as we’re departing,
We have a heavy heart,
Because too late we realize,
We loved Smedley from the start.


We’ll miss it during coming years,
And wish that we were here.
Then, my friends, we’ll realize,
To our hearts it was always dear.
Class Members · Edward Abrams

· Jo Ann Abrams

· Joe Abrams

· Lawrence Abrams

· Betty Agnew

· John Anderson

· Carmen Aponte

· Angelene Arcucci

· Leonard Arcus

· Pat Arcus

· Ethel Ashbridge

· Marie Asteris

· Raymond Ayers

· Earlene Bardsley

· Rhoda Barnard

· James Barcus

· Nancy Lee Baron

· John Barone

· Nick Barone

· June Benson

· Robert Carpenter

· Sandra Carr

· Dorothy Cassidy

· Alyce Chandler

· Foster Chandler

· Thomas Ciancia

· Sandra Cline

· Suzanne Cohen

· Ruth Collins

· Robert Conley

· Albert Cook

· Darleen Cope

· Bernice Cornell

· Anna Christopher

· Ernest Crystle 

· Jeanette Cummiskey

· Robert Dannaker

· John Danos

· Regina Danos

· Frank Davis

· Irma Davis

· John Davis

· Joyce Davis

· Richard Demkin

· John Dennis

· Loretta DePompeo

· Mary Ann DiSimone

· Ronald Dick

· Dan Dixon

· Larry Dodds

· Norman Downes

· David Elmer Dunn

· James D. Edelblute

· Brenda Edmunds

· Ruth N. Elliot

· John Joseph Ellis

· Marie E. Ernest

· Mary Jon Espy

· Dave Reese Esrey

· Philip Michael Ewaka

Jacqueline Fiorucci

· Robert Fleish

· Maude Fleming

· Gertrude Fraily 

· Authur Frater

· Barbara Furdyna

· James Gallagher

· Dorothy Gartside

· Francis Gebhart

· Howard Gibbs

· Albert Gillespie

· David Gluck

· Richard Goodwin

· Robert Grange

· Nelson Gray

· Otto Greenleaf

· Judith Gruebel

· Sara Griffith

· John Garret

· Herbert Grubb

· Patricia Gruska

· Wilma Guise

· Emil Haas

· Howard Hall

· Gearldine Haney

· Joan Harding

· Gertrue Hazzard

· James Henderson

· Jane Hiestand

· Hazel Hollar

· Doris Holston

· Paul Hudak

· David Hughes

· James Hughes

· Peter Huntley

· Vincent Iacono

· Art Jackson

· Charles Jackson

· Kathleen Jenkins

· Madeline Ann Jenkins

· Joseph L. Jennings

· Kay F. Johnson

· Ruth B. Johnson

· Kenneth W. Jones

· Laura Mae Jordan

· Peter M. Joseph

· John C. Kane

· Tommy L. Keenan

· Bill Kilpatrick

· Laurene King

· Holly Kinsler

· William Kinsler

· Theresa Kolinsky

· Catherine Kuc

· Carolyn Kushto

· Leon Kwiatkowski

· Claire LaChance

· Elaine Lambert

· Richard Laube

· Richard Lehr 

· Ronald Lehr

· Pat Lesicko

· Rosalie Levenstein

· John Lewis

· Margaret Little

· James Logan

· Doretha Loper

· Leroy Loper

· Richard Loveland

· Hazel Low

· Margie Lowe

· Kathleen Lykens

· Richard Macneilly

· Bruce Mailman

· Frank Mansley

· Virginia Marley

· Robert Martin

· Elaine Massey

· Fayette Matthews

· James McCann

· Nancy McCann

· Dorothy McCullough

· Betsy McKinney

· Margaret McNeal

· Judith Messick

· Alice Minchella

· Myron Miner

· Curtis Mireider 

· William Mitchell

· Marshall Moody

· Joan Moore

· Richard Moore

· Harry Moorehead

· Florence Morgan

· Betsy Morris

· Betty Morris

· Geraldine Mower

· Alan Much

· George Munce

· Robert Myers

· Joseph Nichols

· Patricia Oaks

· Frances Owsiany

· Paricia Paulley

· Louis Perrota

· Elenor Petrilla

· Nancy Pontillo

· Patricia Poole

· Patricia Porter

· Clifford Pulcher

· John Quigley

· Iris Radell

· Albert Rago

· Curtis Rathbone

· Joan Redden

· Bill Reid

· Carol Reilly

· Lee Reynolds

· Robert Rhodes

· Lottie Ricketts

· Gerald Riddle

· George Rigby

· Catherine Riggins

· Betty Lou Ripps

· Theodore Rodgers

· Ramon Rosado

· Kenneth Rose

· Richard Rose

· Alan Rosenthal

· Norman Ross

· Judy Roth

· Michael Sapovits

· Walter Sammons

· Jean Sargent

· Charles Sawicki

· Alice Shott

· Kenneth Schlotzhauer

· William Schuler

· Clara Scott

· Isabell Scott

· Barbara Scull

· Dallas Searcy

· Ramona Seaman

· Doris Sheerer

· Howard Shoemaker

· Irene Shumaker

· Richard Simmonds

· Herman Simpson

· William Slavinski

· Lynne Smith

· Nancy Smith

· Patricia Smith

· Harry Snyder

· Robert Stark

· Harold Stern

· Jean Stoop

· Jerry Streetie

· Anna Suchin

· Jack Suda

· Regina Swanger

· Robert Sykes

· Susan Tarkington

· Judith Taylor

· Francis Tercha

· Thomas Tercha

· Rose Tilghman

· Roy Timms

· Richard Toanone

· Eileen Todd

· Catherine Tomasco

· Tomasa Torres

· Barbara Trabbold

· Frances Trippet

· Marion Truax

· Patrick Turk

· Arlene Tyndall

· Lois Urian

· John Van Kowski

· Susan Vogel

· Mike Voutsakis

· Agnes Walters

· James Walton

· Florence Watson

· Albert Warburton

· Ruth Ward

· Marcia Warden

· Barbara Weldon

· Thomas Whiteford

· Mary Jane Williams

· Ronald Williams

· Ruth Williams

· Barbara Wilson

· Stanley Wishner

· Bonnie Wood

· Lawrence Wood

· Sue Worrall

· Ralph Worrilow

· Judy Woyda

· June Wright

· John Wujick



· Maureen Rumford

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