Boardman High School - Crier Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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Glam On a fateful September morning in 1936, members of the Class of '49 looked around with wide-eyed stares and saw before them the build- ing in which they were to spend most of their next twelve years, the classmates with whom they were destined to share their secrets, and the teachers by whom many doors of knowledge were to be opened. That it was a privilege to enter this house of learning, however, was doubted by some-especially poor little Ralph VVolf. He just cried and cried. Not overly inspired by the prospect of school work, he wanted to go home! Embarrassing episodes occurred with astonishing regularity in the second grade, but LaDona Garver remembers the one that topped them all! My, that little boy was so-o-o-o friendly, wasn't he? Yes, Cupid was busy already. His arrows flew thick and fast. Whoops-bull's eye! Kenny Wilson and Phyllis Williams were such a cute couple. Ain't love grand? - In the fourth grade Marilyn Schrack gained her first taste of fame when she was proclaimed champion jacks player of Miss Riley's room. The only reason her arch rival Ardeth Carlson ever won a game iso Miss Schrack asserts? was that she had an unfair advantage-her fingers were longer! Fifth grader Virginia Biggins painfully found one day that even play time could hold hidden dangers. Being sent home from school with a gleaming shiner acquired during a fast and furious game of Red Rover was far from her idea of fun. H-m-m .... or was it? Remember how excited all the sixth grade girls were when they discovered the handsome new boy in Miss Buchanan's room? Yes, Jack Collier certainly did create a sensation. How does he do it? gloomily muttered his envious male contemporaries. Another September and the Class of '49 reached seventh grade. How proud everyone was to be in Junior High at last! Changing classes was considered oh, so very grown-up. Who will ever forget the hikes through Mill Creek Park the seventh graders used to take? What if they did limp home on painfully tender feet? They always had a wonderful time. Inspired by the Lily Whitersl' of comic strip renown, a new club was organized among the girls and called the Coal Blackersf' One requirement for membership was the wearing of unmated socks. The girls caused many an onlooker to stop and stare when they donned their colorful but confusing footwear and bravely entered classes. Bob Lackey won distinction in the eighth grade by receiving the top score in the county on the State Test. Jim Randall followed him in second place. I September arrived again, and the Class of '49 entered high school. Instead of wearing the confused and bewildered expressions by which average fresmen are customarily detected, however, this class fairly radiated poise, confidence, and intelligence. The fact that Margaret Fiffick fell off her seat in 300 Study Hall the first day is merely the exception which proves the rule! Before we knew it, our Freshman year was only a memory, and we were sophisticated, worldly-wise sophomores. Jean Ann Preston, a new arrival from Canfield, devised a clever new way to add variety to classroom activities. She had great fun drawing lovely chalk designs on the classroom floors. Certain of the teachers, however, found it 26

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gfzalefwf fad lfzeifz qecmgi al' Baaacfman Kenneth Wilson Life of every party . . . keeps Strouss's on the ball . L . English class joker . . 4. snappiest tailoring we've seen yet. Senior P 1 a y Com-mittee, Class Treasurer 23 Class Ex- ecutive Committee 4g Track 15 Cross Country 13 Band lg Or- chestra 1g Monitor System 3g Honor Roll 4. Charles Winkle Chuck . . . a man's man, and a woman's too . . . that devilish look in his eyes! . . . inveterate teaser . . . our fighting fullback . . . Wink . . . free and easy manner. Football 1, 2, 3, 43 Basket- ball 1, 2, 3, 45 Track 1, 2, 3, 43 Baseball 4, Band 1, 2, 33 Orchestra 35 Spartan Club 3. is Marjorie Wylie Always last, but never least . . quiet . . . considerate . . . a super- duner seamstress. F. H. A. 2, 3, 43 Y-Teens lg G. A. A. 1. , Dorothy Winters Ambitious . . . sports fan . . . ball- room belle . . . Dot . . . warm and gay. Chagrin Falls 15 Bugle Staff 45 F. H. A. 2, 33 Y-Teens 2, 43 Monitor System 4. Ralph Wolf Another one of the pack! . . . pleasant . . . jovial . . . subtle humor . . . dependable and sincere. . A Wim? Outside Circle: K. Wilson, R. Lackey, J. Slough, N. zz-if Front: N. MacDonald, E. Smith. Nichol. H. Heintzelman. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Center: O. Burr. 25

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difficult to appreciate her efforts and consequently this entertaining pass-time was sorrowfully abandoned. 1948! Already we were real upper-classmen. As juniors we clearly manifested our native ability by engineering one of the best Junior-Senior proms ever attended at Boardman. Those who helped transform the gym into a rainbow-hued wonderland will never forget the tense moments when it was feared that there would not be enough material and equipment to finish the work. Norman Nichol, class presi- dent, grew quite hoarse repeatedly reminding everyone to save the crepe paper and hunt for the nails. Never to be forgotten are some of the accidents that marked the last-minute preparations. Betty Lee Buchanan literally fell through the floor when she tried to climb the steps to the throne and found to her embarrassment that they were only imitation. September again. The Class of '49 had come a long Way, for now at last We were seniors beginning the very last of twelve years of train- ing and study at Boardman School. Money, money, money! Starting with the profits from the senior play When I Was Green, the class gathered more and more money into its treasury until it was one of the largest any senior class had ever had at Boardman. The class officers who were responsible for this happy state of affairs will certainly make good business men some day. Many entertaining assemblies were enjoyed during the year, but the favorite entertainer of George Findlay and Chuck Conway was the magician who transferred a card from under Chuck's foot to the inside of another deck which George was holding tightly in his hand. The look of bewildered amazement on Georgeis face was almost more enter- taining than the trick itself. Remember how John Slough, Chuck Winkle, and Bill Lathom got tired of walking in the normal way and decided to try crutches for a while? There were so many invalids limping around the halls that confused visitors sometimes thought they had wandered into a hospital convalescent ward. Late in the year when the results from the Senior State Scholarship tests were in, the Class of '49 again came out on top. Jim Randall won first place in the countyg Bob Lackey, second, and Phyllis Williams, a very close third-the same trio who had won honors for Boardman in the eighth grade. Altogether, the scores were the highest ever made by any senior class at- tending this high school. As the year drew to a close, how busy we all were! Thinking of things to write on senior pictures kept many occupied far into the wee hours of the night. Finally, after final exams and Commence- ment, uncertain whether to be sorry or glad, the Class of '49 said good-bye to many happy mem- ories and prepared to set out into the wide world ahead. They knew that the time spent within the walls of Boardman had indeed been worth while and that during the last twelve years, they had been well trained to meet the future with strength and confidence. They had dis- covered much and had forgotten much, but never, never, they knew, would they part with E the golden memory of their priceless school days. U 27