South High School - Southernaire Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Stanley Ziclaskiewicz 3830 E. 53rd St. Honor Study Hall Staff Victory Corps Marilyn Zielinski 7413 Ottawa Rd. Office Assistant Friendship Club Victory Corps Opera Honor Study Hall Staff Carl Zingolc 3412 E. 132nd St. President of Community Service—Victory Corps Manager of Boxing Show Mildred Zolnowski 7213 Indiana Ave. Victory Corps Bowling Club Linn Paul Zook 8200 Vineyard Ave. Scroll and Key Society Student Council National Honor Society Victory Corps Radio Club 12A Commencement Committee Clara Zylko 3095 E. 63rd St. Hall Guard Style Show 24

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Jean Winnicki 3375 E. 70th St. National Honor Society Philalcthcan Society Friendship Club Victory Corps Dolores Wojciechowski 3964 E. 66th St. Victory Corps Leo W'ojtala 6742 Baxter Ave. Student Manager—Basketball Victory Corps Eleanor Helen Wojtas 4107 E. 56th St. Hall Guard Robert Wojtasik 3819 E. 71st St. National Honor Society Scroll and Key Society Radio Club Honor Study Hall Staff Hall Guard Victory Corps 12A Annual Committee Georgine E. Wood 5506 Hampstead Ave. Parma, Ohio Friendship Club 12B Class Treasurer Student Council Beacon Honor Study Hall Staff Frances Wrobleski 7211 Ottawa Rd. Opera ’42 Honor Study Hall Board Hall Guard Whirlo Club Victory Corps Office Assistant Bowling Club Adalin Wycislik 3991 E. 71st St. Friendship Club Opera Victory Corps Philalcthcan Society Charles Vamek 3454 E. 53rd St. Band Clara Zawicki 3592 E. 82nd St. Bottega Art Club Mask and Wig Club Opera Victory Corps Joe Zawicki 3592 E. 82nd St. Victory Corps Zbiggie Zebrowski 6400 Lansing Ave. Wrestling Honor Study Hall Staff Victory Corps Dorothy Zgrabik 4088 E. 76th St. Victory Corps Tea Room Service-Honor Study Hall Staff Bowling Club Leonard Zgrabik 6837 Ottawa Rd. National Honor Society Scroll and Key Society Opera Vocal Ensemble Victory Corps Hall Guard A Cappella Choir 23

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Such Things As Years Are Made Of From the beginning, there was never a question about it. South was our school. Fvery yellow brick of it. It was a constantly changing fabric, a plaid of darkness and gaiety, this background of our high school years. 1940 —Franklin I). Roosevelt, first United States president to be elected to a third term. 1941 -Pearl Harbor. The United States enters the war. 1942— Russia stages a comeback. 1943- -? Around us the world was changing, startlingly, rapidly. Closer still, South High was changing, too. Three years : Nineteen members of the faculty leave, among them our military trio. Mr. Lambert. Miss Schreiber. Coach NVolanski; and the army and navy are the better for the change. Fight new teachers arrive. Not only in the classroom, hut in the library, and in the janitor's office there are new faces. Football seasons come and go. each with its thrills, spills and grid stars; packed stands of loyal rooters and echoing Sis Boom Balts. Basketball! King of winter sports. Capable as they were, the orange and black streaks, with their brilliant team play and fast footwork, set the old gym agog with cheers. But ill fortune does not discriminate, and when the Flyers emerged after the 1943 Senate struggle, it was in second place, and not in the first place which they deserved. Hundreds of Monday mornings passed in classrooms. Scores of radio broadcasts fell upon cars: eager ears, indifferent ears, deaf ears. But there was one Monday morning we marked, and one radio broadcast all heard. It was December 8th and the President of the United States was speaking. The speech was only a matter of minutes, but when his voice died and the air v;i' filled again with silence; we looked out of the window; it was a city at war we saw—a city, a state, and a nation. Soon after there were two eagles in the hall, flanked b long, neat li t of printed names—South's Inns in service. A uniform appeared in the hall, now and then, and old grads came back to shake hands once more before they left to serve the Uncle they would die for. Classes changed swiftly to meet wartime demands. Aeronautics. Blue Print Reading. Measurements, Machine Shop for girls appeared in the curriculum. There were patriotic assemblies and scrap drives. Clubs were disbanded to make room for the nation-wide High School Victory Corps. The country was at war and so was South. Three years. We are not sorry for any part of these that made our school life. What is school life? It is music—an introductory number to life’s melody. It is practice -a carefully planned rehearsal to the greatest of life's plays. It is fabric. The fabric of a coat we have been making and wearing all at once. It is not worn nor threadbare. but just as it is completed it is suddenly outgrown. There remains but one thing more. It must Ik luing away, with a little reluctance and much care, with the knowledge that there will never be another just like it. Phyllis Bardy 25