Sewickley High School - Sewickley Yearbook (Herminie, PA)

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We are graduating! Are we happyl Are we sad? Look into the faces of the Seniors and you will find both happiness and sadness. We are happy now because now we may go on with plans we have had since we started high school. Many of us will go on to college: others wilf find the jobs they have always wanted. Some of us will join with many others in direct service to our nation as she calls on us to show the strength of our devotion to the ideals of democracy. Our hearts are filled with sorrow when we think of leaving behind us the glorious days of high school. We know that older folks think of school days as the happiest years of life, and we hesitate to go. ln looking back over the years we remem- ber our timid, half-frightened selves as we started eighth grade. But gradually we learned the rules and mastered the strangeness of the large building. The strange faces soon became familiar new friends, and before we knew it we were really enjoying ourselves. We entered into the many activities, sold tickets for plays, and faithfully supported the football and basket- ball teams. When we returned to school for our ninth year, we felt more important. We had many friends and knew our way around though a few of us still found it hard to follow schedules. We were freshmen now, not mere eighth graders. Ou'r classes were larger and there were many new faces among us. We rushed into the host of new subjects with hope and despair. But all too soon the year had ended. The future looked bright though because the next year we were to begin our first year in Senior High. ln our Sophomore year we began to realize how important school was to us. We took a greater interest in our work and tried hard to uphold the standards of our school. The sub- jects we chose meant a lot because they showed we were determined to carry out our ambitions. Our junior year will always be a happy memory to us. We discovered that many of us were in favor of changing the style of the The Class History school ring, and the new pattern was a big success. Of course, we will never forget the junior Prom. We worked hard in planning it, making money to finance it, and finally, decorat- ing the gym for the occasion. The Seniors were guests, and everyone had an enjoyable time. More than ever before, we buckled down to hard work, for we were approaching our last year in high school. After years of hard work, we are Seniors at last. This year seems a special year to be Seniors since we have the privilege of being the twenty-fifth class to graduate from Sewickley High School, this building. Our Senior year has been different from all the others that we can recall. This year, which is always the most special year of one's life, was a year of responsibility, of leadership, a year marked by memorable things. It was the year of evaluation. All the preliminary work, with which our business group helped a great deal, made us somewhat tense with the thought of it. But our fears were groundless because we were just visited by a group of very nice repre- sentatives from other schools. And then, there have been so many things to remind us that we are Seniors: official positions, special' calls for service, increasing self confidence, pictures for the yearbook, name cards, announcements, caps and gowns .... All these occurrences only reminded us of the short time we had left in our school. Through this, our Senior year, we have gone ahead with our plans for the years outside of Sewihi. We have waited to be Seniors, but now we are unhappy in the thought that we are leaving behind forever the wonderful days of high school. Many things will be forgotten, but others we will always carry with us. How could we ever forget the fun, the hard work, our teachers, and friends that have been made a part of us through years of contact? Wherever we go or whatever we do, Sewihi will always have a special place in our hearts. L. C., '51 Twenty-three

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The Ring

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The Prophecy As I wander through the Hall of Fame, in the year of l96I, 1 wonder how many, if any, of my acquaintances will take their place among the notables there. I thought back on my high-school days-the Class of '5l! Yes, we were a good class, and had many possi- bilities. That line of thought prompted me to investigate the paths my fellow class-mates had followed through life. Certainly you remember Helen Shadduclg and Barbara Suchy. I understand they are quite a success with their S.S.A.S.U.C.Y.A. which stands for Shadduck 8: Suchy's Art Studio for Up 6: Coming Young Artists. And Norwood Nelson is the official tester for the Beauty Rest Mattresses. And of course, every- one by now knows that Wanda Walters is famous as the jirst person to make a book out of a movie. Looking over the field of music I find that several of my classmates have gained recogni- tion in that art. Aldene Weaver has received the highest praise for her latest composition, an opera entitled BE BOP in F Minor, Opus 5 I ,324. And here is news you never expected to hear about Phyllis Brancato. She is now the featured singer in the Diamond Horse- shoe. Two girls from our class are in the Band of. America: lvancy Vercesi playing the bell lyre, and Dolores Mcf.'oy playing the clarinet. If you've been to the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom lately, you can fully appreciate the wonderful dance band they have, starring Robert jones and his Magic Sax. A new western musical, Betsy Get Your Cat, writ- ten by Patricia Smith and produced by mil- lionaire play-boy William McCormick, is still the rave of Broadway, after playing for three consecutive years. In this musical, Betsy H017- man is the singing star, with john Mccandless, production manager, and Clara Maruca, head of the make-up department. By the way, Albert Bruno is the understudy for Burt Lancaster in the movies, and Al has a promising career ahead of him as a teen-ager's movie idol. A taxi service exclusively between Sewick- ley and Coraopolis is now operated by Patrick Devine. It runs through the new tunnel under the Ohio River, which was designed and built by fRaymondl Pflugh Engineering Company, especially for him. In the field of politics we find Richard Brown, Democratic Mayor of Pittsburgh and Edward Farrington, the newly elected Sheriff of Allegheny County, with Robert Broomfelrl as their campaign manager. Their pictures have been scattered over the front page of the Pitts- burgh Press, by the Head Photgrapher, Bar- bara Toia. Also in politics is Carol Stroh, Congresswoman for the Thirteenth District. And Donald Bengele is acting as Goodwill Ambassador between Sewickley and Leetsdale. There seems to be great rivalry between our classmates. Lacy Rich is military instructor at West Point while james Aslfenase is teaching maneuvers at Annapolis. Cochran Fleming and Richard Blosser are bitter rivals in the grocery business-Cochran being manager of Sun Super Market and Dick, manager of Stevenson's. On the other hand there are a great many partnerships among our former class-mates. You certainly remember the two girls who worked so industriously selling candy back in Sewihi days-they have now risen to great heights. They are Barbara Ingram and Karen Hunt, co- owners of the largest candy company on the North American continent. No doubt you've heard of the fRuthJ Turner 81 Ueannettej Waite Travel Service-a very exclusive agency which arranges trips near and abroad. Margaret Williams and Sally Shaw are famous in the Ohio River Valley as Social Workers. A new system of short-hand has been devised by Delauriese Williams: at the end of three years your speed is guaranteed at one hundred words per minute. I always expected this piece of news: Francis Guthrie has invented a new material that glows in the dark to be used exclusively for socks. The Book of the Month Club is simply going wild about a new joke book, Like It or Lump It, written by Wil- liam Dads. Quite a few from our class have gone into the professional field. Mary Rose Vescio, chief of staff at the Mayo Clinic, has just won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of the cure for the common cold. With her we find Karen lttel and Dorothy Kaput, Superintendents of Nurses. Another Nobel Prize winner is Esther Wood- ley, an astronomer, who has just discovered four new planets. The current headlines featured in all the papers in the U. S. are of Ann Marie Malade who just returned from Russia after psycho- analyzing Stalin, and the spectacular news that Arlene Asan and Norman Whittaker have just disproved E.instein's Theory of Relativity. We can't help but remember from P.O.D. class how Ross Damaso always ridiculed the female sex. I could hardly believe my ears when Twenty-four