Holiday on the Hill

It's a muggy, late-summer day with dew points in the high 70s, so the perfect thing to do in such miserable conditions is to sift through old Echoes looking for "cool" articles.  I found one!  On Dec. 21, 1960, the front page of our newspaper was devoted to all things Christmas.  Apparently our class caught the seasonal spirit big time.  I particularly enjoyed the expository piece above the masthead about the legend of the holly and the ivy and Phyllis Keltgen's visual interpretation of the legend along the left side of the page.
Besides Phyllis, other classmates getting ink on this page were: Mary Jenson, Patricia Dumont, Helen McCloskey, Karen Baynes, Sue Krenik, Marlys Koehler, Joyce Reinhart, Joan Engel, Veronica Schoch, Sue Bohrer, Ann Groh, Sharon Rollings, Maria Latessa, Mary Carr, Sharon Zachman, Mary Lou Gatzmeyer, Mary  White and Judy Krueger.
Another article not visible on the accompanying image tells of a field trip by Glee Club students, including two octettes [sic], to KEYC-TV where they performed "a special selection of Christmas songs."  Also, both the Glee Club and Orchestra recorded a number of songs at the radio station KYSM to aid "in promoting better Christmas spirit."  The octets included seniors Lucy Forster, Jeanne Cuddy, Mary Ellen Goettl, Kathleen Ruddy, JoAnn Johnson, Diane Sterner and Kathleen Bach.