Two hours. That's my limit. Two hours is the maximum amount of time I can spend scanning before I just can't stand the monotony any more. I put my favorite music on, I give myself a nice little treat to munch on, but by the time two hours have elapsed I'm too restless to sit still. Today I scanned for 2 hours and 20 minutes straight and the last 20 minutes were sheer agony.The project today was scanning the 1947 Beacon. The title page reads,
BEACON
The Second Year Book
of
Montgomery Township
High School
1947
Arcadia, Pennsylvania
The Second Year Book
of
Montgomery Township
High School
1947
Arcadia, Pennsylvania
The book is 80 pages of black and white photos and text including pictures of the staff, senior students (all 38 of them), a class history for each grade (9-12), group shots of the 3rd-12th grade classes, as well as of the senior play participants, the orchestra, Future Farmers of America group, the F.H.A. Club (I have no idea what that was), the cheerleaders and football team, the basketball team, a school calendar, the honor roll, a page of "school yells", and few pages of the cute stuff... senior nicknames and ambitions, favorite songs, and a "popularity poll". And of course there were several pages of advertisements from local sponsors and merchants.
When I was about 3/4 of the way through scanning the book it occurred to me that I could have been smarter about this. I could have taken a digital photo of each page and been done in a fraction of the time. It worked well when I photographed the Assumption Parish jubilee books a while back. Now why didn't I think of that sooner?!?
Anyway, here's a list of the members of the Senior Class, the Faculty, and the Boardof Education pictured in the book.
Senior Class(as presented) | |
| Gaither Sheesley | Florence Bartlebaugh |
| Geraldine Hadden | William Smith |
| Guy Mumau | Mary Watral |
| Leonard Gramley | Bernice Woodruff |
| Ellen Webster | John Wolfe |
| Donald Dishong | Dorothy Prushnok |
| William Cessna | Annabelle Lechnor |
| Josephine Matko | James Hevner |
| Norman Carlson | Jenny Freno |
| Andrew Woytek | Daisy Richard |
| Jeanne Kidder | Joseph Mehalic |
| John Moyer | Theresa Biroscak |
| Edward Kobilis | Mary Lou Davis |
| Ruth Deyarmin | Henry Dudek |
| Harrmon Phillips | Maurice Crosmun |
| Theodore Bathurst | Mike Soltis |
| Vlady Meterko | Harry Lee Gromley |
| Peter Benzie | Joseph Fitzgerald |
| Gene Fitzgerald | Eugene Rairigh |
| Faculty | |
| Lynn K. Smith | George A. Rickard |
| Paul R. Blose | Ida M. Miles |
| Rebecca H. Kirkland | Helen Corbett |
| Joseph J. Sutila | James E. Baldacchino |
| Dorothy R. Weezorak | John G. Zaffuta |
| Board of Education | |
| Elmer H. Smith | H.D. Rairigh |
| H. I. Myers | A.R. Wanchisn |
| H.N. O'Harrah | |
