Sewickley High School - Sewickley Yearbook (Herminie, PA)

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I found out that he was now Dean of Women at Vassar College. You remember how well Susan Holzcr dressed in our high-school days. She is now buyer for The Career Girl Shop, in Joseph Horne Co., in Pittsburgh. And Frances Poor is now cheer-leading instructor at Notre Dame. One of her good friends, Adesso Gustafson, is now residing in Winterhaven, Florida, where she is teaching baton-twirling. Dee won the National Baton Twirling Championship in l953. You remember the wonderful spaghetti dinners Rose Marie Damaso's mother used to make. Rose Marie is certainly following in her foot-steps in that she is now owner of a large string of restaurants, called the Spaghetti Inn. Let's look at the entertainment field and see whom we can find. First we see Rowena Brad- ley as a high ranking trapeze artist. Edith Davis, former roller skating star, is now an instructor for the nation's future stars. And of course you've all seen Mary Lou Robinson on T. V. She is the greatest comedienne to hit television since its birth. And also on television are Franklin and john Smith, nationally known magicians, currently starring on The Toast of the Town. I understand that Barbara Porter now has five boys--whom William M cllvain is coaching for a basketball team. She says she would like a sixth--after all, a basketball team does need a manager. Certainly you all remember how much Rose Ellen Mendicino hated gym class back in high school days. Strange as it may seem, she is now physical ed. instructor at Avalon High School. And of course you know that William Knox is the recent winner of the National Open Golf Championship. We can't help but rejoice with james Toward, coach of University of Michigan, whose team recently won the Rose Bowl Championship for the third time with a score of 49-0. james Curcio is now training to enter the Olympics. We all wish him the best of luck in his forthcoming attempt at pole-vaulting. You all remember when Bertland Shurtleff came to high school to speak to us about whestling. Well, Charles Tracey certain- ly took his lecture to heart, because he is now gaining national recognition in the Held of wrestling. The rifle expert, james Winters, has just won the National Marksmanship Award in sharpshooting. The class sportswoman, jac Davies, has really come up in the world. She is now trainer of the Kentucky Derby's winners. Our faithful rider of the Aleppo Township The Prophecy bus back in school days, Beverly Bovill, is the owner of the Bus Lines now being used in New York. And even before we were out of high school, we knew what jacquelyn Heaslett would do after graduation, and of course we were right. She is now Secretary-Treasurer of Robert's Broom Company. Betty Baumgartel, the cat-lover, is the Superintendent of a Cat Hospital in Pittsburgh, while john Dean is a manufacturer of Men's Sport Clothes. We had several girls in our class ambitious to become secretariesg they have fulfilled these ambitions. Lois Cook is the Secretary to the United States Representative to the United Nations. And jean Cook, who is President of a secretarial college, finds her system of teach- ing business courses is a big success. Barbara Cook, who pursued a classmate for an eight cent debt from Freshman clear to Senior year, is now Treasurer of the Mellon National Bank System. john Donnan, auto mechanic, has just been employed by Dorothy Schneider, the first woman daredevil driver, to keep her car in tip-top condi- tion for the Indianapolis Races. Two large car firms, Mercury and Buick, are seeking Nancy Van Arsdel, the country's foremost automobile designer. The Sewickley Bowling Center is under new ownership. Edward Ott is the new proprietor. Roy Henderson's name is nationally known be- cause of the apples he ships to all parts of the country from his orchards in Oregon. When we eat a steak dinner, it could be from cattle raised by George jones on his ranch out West. john Petty has taken James Melton's place as a collector of old cars. Cloria Allen, who has her father's interest in planes, has just invented a new type of jet plane which can be used for commercial use. I read in the fashion news that Constance Seagren has just returned from Paris where she sold Hve of her new dress designs to the world renowned Fath. In the papers we see where Elizabeth Allen has taken Earl Wilson's place in writing about Broadway and its followers in the column entitled It Happened Last Night. Looking over the list of achievements of my former classmates, I realize that we have come a long way since high school. Few of us had definite plans for life and now look where we are! The goals that we strove for in Sewihi, and the guidance we received there seem pre- sented to us as an important milestone along the path of life. Twenty-five

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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

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The Class of IQS2 Looking back on this our Junior year, we had that we may well be proud of our achieve- ments and accomplishments. We have under- taken many projects such as selling Sewihi bookcovers, conducting the fashion show, a card party and, our biggest project of all, the junior Prom. They have all been successful. We were well represented in the activities of basketball, football, track, music, drama and chess. Our girls' basketball team won the bas- ketball championship for the second time in spite of strong competition, and our boys helped make our varsity basketball team one of the best. We have a very musically inclined class, and many are also great drama students. All our time has not been solely devoted to activities, for we have endeavored to hold high the torch of knowledge as our long honor roll will testify. A great amount of knowledge has been gained from our home room teachers, Mr. Rineer, Mr. Mowry, and Mrs. Smith, who have given of their time and patience to aid us. Now that our junior year is past we feel that we shall never forget the year when we took part in so many activities. We are looking forward to our Senior year as the one in which we will pledge ourselves to uphold the stand- ards of Sewihi and set new and higher goals for our higher school. M.D., '52 FIRST PICTURE First Row: Heywood Ballard, Dorothy Gurgovits, James Dunn, Mollie Devine, Henry Ammon, Margery Geiger, John Gamiber. Second Row: William Cannister. Lois Jean Cook, Margaret Fluskey, Constance Calloway, June Cook, Norma Astorino, Yolanda Falvo, Albert Buckley. Third Row: Richard Dods. Carol Lee Campbell, Bernice Cook, Henry Barrett, Barbara Burckart. Nancy Gourley, James Evans. Fourth Row: Harry Clifford, William Frischemeier, Frank Brand, Jack Budkey. James Gariti. Missing from the picture: Martha Baker, Carol Davis. SECOND PICTURE Firsg Row: Byron I-Iarriger, Nancy Hoover, Richard Lohnes. Mary Jane McDonald, Richard McPherson. Patty Johns, Thomas Nelson. Second Row: Leota Minnemeyer, Joan Hawes, Florence Litzinger, William Martin, Margaret Meikle, Nancy Heigl, Third Row: Vincent Lupinacci, Sidney McFarland, William Harris, Noble McCreary, David Murdock. William Moisey. Fourth Row: Allan Larson, Frank McLaughlin, Whitney Leschine, Frank Liffert, Jay Haffey. THIRD PICTURE First Row: Kevin Ott, Iona Sneed, Robert Sohn, Cleo Schwartz, Alfred Wharton, Patricia Whitfield, Tony Yanckello. Second Row: Charles Wharton, Carole Seagren, Shirley Snyder, Terry Poor. Mary Vander- vort, Irlys Rea. Dolores Sarson, Robert Vish, John Raso. Third Row: Louis Pleuchel, Jadoree Oldmixon, Hilda Polizotto, Dorothy Toia, Matthew Powner. Fourth Row: Ernest Vandervort. Ben Pierce. Sam Pisano, James Tyler. Dennis Shaw. Missing from the picture: Albert Shannon, James Wigton. Twenty-six