Lackawanna
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Central High
School WWII Memorial Book (1949)
- In 1949, Scranton commercial artist, Elizabeth E. Arthur
(1878-1966), lettered and illustrated a memorial book honoring 124
students from Central High School in Scranton who died in World War
II. The book includes fifteen pages listing the names of men
who, as a group, represented all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Students from Central commissioned the book, the only one of its kind.
It was displayed in the Vine St. school following the war.
- On the cover is a circular, blue-green “marbled”
emblem. Lettered on the outer circle is: CENTRAL
HIGH SCHOOL, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. SCRANTON CHS is on the
shield, at center. Below the shield is Central High School’s
Latin motto: RECTUM PROPTER
SESE - Right, For Right’s Sake
- On the first page is a dedication, lettered in pencil and
black ink and illuminated in gold: In Memory of Those
Students Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in World War II – Central High
School - Presented by the Classes of
1943-1944-1945-1946-1947-1948 - E. Arthur. On the last page
is the monogram CHS, lettered in gold.
- All names are lettered in Old English, thin-bodied and
delicately drawn. Each initial letter is enlarged,
illuminated in gold and decorated in a unique pastel color.
- On each page, using a pencil, the artist drew small
military scenes (planes, infantry, artillery) in open space in the
bottom right corner and along the right border, sometimes recessed
behind lettered names.
- About the Artist: Elizabeth E. Arthur was born in
Manhattan and raised in the Green Ridge section of Scranton. She was a
student at the International Correspondence Schools (I. C. S.), where
she learned design, lettering, illustration and engrossing.
In the 1920s and 30s she worked as a designer for Eureka Specialty
Printing Co., where she lettered and illustrated brochures and
advertising materials. Later in her career, she worked for the Scranton
Public Library as a commercial artist. In 1916, she was commissioned by
The Scranton Republican to illustrate the cover of the paper’s magazine
commemorating Scranton’s Semi-Centennial. Elizabeth Arthur’s pen and
brushwork show the influence of P. W. Costello (1866-1935), Scranton
designer, engrosser and illustrator, who taught correspondence art
courses from his downtown studio.
Complete Scans of the Scranton Central High School Students Who Died in
WWII
Links to, and descriptions of, the individual pages:
Page 1
Dedication Page
Page 2
Alfred Abramowitz, Forest Kilmer Ames, John W. Andrews, Robert Baker,
William T. Baker John Bartron, Edward H. Beavers, Arthur
Beddoe
Page 3
William K. Bender, Irwin Berman, Paul W. Bielfeldt, Jerome P. Boland,
Joseph Francis Bonin, Oliver William Brown, Edward P. Clark, Irving L.
Cohen
Page 4
Thomas J. Comerford, Edmund P. Connors, Jr., John J. Corrigan, James
Francis Costello, Robert J. Coxe, William Craven, Jr., George H. Davis, Thomas Allen Davis
Page 5
Robert G. Derwent, Neil C. Donovan, Joseph H. Eisner, James Earl Evans,
Edwin R. Everett, Robert G. Fenstermacher, William John Fitzpatrick,
Thomas Fogerty
Page 6
Robert G. Derwent, Neil C. Donovan, Joseph H. Eisner, James
Earl Evans, Edwin R. Everett, Robert G. Fenstermacher, William John
Fitzpatrick, Thomas Fogerty
Page 7
Vincent Frattali, Edward S. Garbach, John J. Gerrity, John J. Gibbons,
Harold Gilloegly, Edwin Glatz, Peter F. Godwin, Manuel D. Golnick
Page 8
Wilson A. Goodall, Frank Joseph Haggerty, Robert A. Harrison, William
R. Hawkins, William C. Hetler, Merritt Butler Hixon, Gerald Paul
Hopkins, John D. Houck, Eugene B. Haggerty
Page 9
John J. Hughes, Robert Jeffreys, John E. Jenkins, Thomas P. Jennings,
William Jones, Ernest Jovanelly, Barton J. Judge, Jr., William F. Kane,
Stephen Kohut
Page 10
Leon Kaplan, Cyril Kennedy, William Kilensky, John J. King, Paul Irving
Kleinschrodt, Frank A. Kominowski, William Leaver, David Samuel
Lefkowitz, Stanley J. Lewonczyk
Page 11
Henry I. Levy, Bart J. Lippolis, Paul Loftus, Robert Long, Salvatore Manno, John
Edward McCormick, Jerome James McDonnell, Ralph John McNulty, Casimir
C. Manka
Page 12
Francis Merrick, Robert Ernest Moessner, Melvin E. Murphy, Francis
Navas, Fred Navas, Edmund Nawrocki, Robert L. Nealon, William Nealon
Page 13
Philip John Newland, Irving A. Nudelman, Chester W. Nyoz, James M.
Oakes, William O’Connell, James J. O’Donnell, John Robert O’Malley,
Raymond A. Pachucki
Page 14
Edwin Lorenzo Partridge, Erwin Perlin, Jerome Piven, John Pliske,
Richard Delbert Polley, Jack E. Powell, Thomas F. Rawson, Aldo
Ricciardiello
Page 15
John M. Robertson, Daniel J. Rosar, James Valentine Rose,
Andrew M. Savage, Angelo A. Scacchitti, Fred Charles Schillinger,
Leonard Schnessel, Joseph G. Sensi
Page 16
Herbert S. Shaver, Robert Shotton, Irving Emerson Silverstein, Edmund
M. Switala, Walter Skibinski, Philip Slocum, Griffin D. Smith, Robert
C. Snyder
Page 17
Eugene T. Tannler, Felix F. Vogrin, Thomas Joseph Watson, Harold M.
Weinberg, Robert Wertzberger, William R.
West, Evan E. Williams, Herbert S. Yolles
Page 18
CHS Monogram
Images and information
contributed by: Thomas W. Costello, March 2016
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