Walnut Hills High School - Remembrancer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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of The Junior Chorus ond song in The spring concerf. We con never forgeT The doy when we come To school only To see The lofTy seniors, our idols, dressed os bobies! We woTched Their onfics wiTh omusemenf ond wondered when The Time would come when we would hove such fun. As The end of The yeor opprooched, we wor- ried noT only obouT possing The dreoded exoms, buT olso obouT choosing freshmen closs officers, our firsT high school elecTion. In beTween work- ing moTh problems ond TronsloTing Lofin we de- liberoTed The subiecf. AfTer giving The moTTer due considerofion, we elecfed Jerry Schworfz os our presidenf, ond Jim Kelly, Borboro Geisf, ond Bernice Werfheim os vice-presidenf, secrefory, ond Treosurer respecTively. Then, picking repre- senToTives for The Senior STudenT Council, we reolized The responsibilify To be vesfed in These people ond Tried To choose wisely. Our decision wos Helen ColverT, Borboro GeisT, Borboro Joffe, Jim Kelly, ond DoTTy Spencer. Qur coreer compleTed os lower school sTu- denTs, we onTicipoTed our freshmon yeor wiTh confidence. Ninth grade As freshmen, we felT for The firsT Time ThoT we were porT of This greoT working orgonizoTion which is our school. We hod chosen our own subjecfs ond were inviTed To oTTend oll The vor- ious club meeTings. The Dromofic Club opened iTs porTols To us, ond our closs provided The sec- ond Ieod, HorrieT STornbock, in The Junior Dro- moTic ploy, Junior Miss. Also in iT were bud- ding Thespions Bill Willioms and Phyllis Shopiro. RTA s i i - in Q B A BX A y 'A ' , fir -I yxx - TFT .. l gy X J T X C T R-4 ..? 1? This yeor we were looking forword To The Wol- nuTs of '45 for we knew ThoT our closs wos con- TribuTing To This producfion wiTh Dick Bouer's Top doncing solo os well os Ken MiTchell's singing in The boys' singing ond doncing chorus. Signs of fuTure oThleTic success could be seen when Tony Troberf wolked off wiTh mony owords for his greof obiliTy in Tennis. Ted Price olso showed promise of The neTs. On The junior swim Teom Jerry Schworfz, Fronk Lozorus, ond l-loword Gershon were showing Their obiliTy. Alreody G.A.A. emblem winners were Pof Wolloce, lvlyrTle Irwin, Jeon Ellingfon, l-lelen Colverf, ond Lois Croig. Our closs olso hod iTs shore of broins This yeor. Heoding The closs wos Roberf Birkmeier, who wos oworded The Merconfile Librory cord. ln generol, very few freshmen Try ouT for The Rodio Guild. l-lowever, This yeor on ospiring member ond successful scripf wriTer in The guild wos Borboro Joffee. ln music we were now eligible for The Fresh- mon Choir ond Glee Club. l-low well, Too, we remember Ivlrs. lVlurphy's impossioned dicTum ThoT, if she heord once more Toreodor, Toreo- dor, don'T spif on The floor-, The closs would spend some Time offer school! lvlusic mokers in The Bond were C5ilberT Russok ond Williom Hoerr. John Zeigler, onofher member of our closs, song wiTh A Coppello Choir. As freshmen we olso felT our responsibilifies os cifizens of The school ond soughT To prepore ourselves for The Time we would help moke our noTion's lows. We chose Rosemory Donner, Borboro GeisT, Ken lvlifchell, Tom Brunsmon, Bill Willioms, ond DoTTy Spencer To The Senior STudenT Council for The nexT yeor. This wos iusT The beginning. There were mony in our closs wiTh reol conTribuTions To moke who hod noT yeT mode Their oppeoronce. BuT we os freshmen were esToblishing o sTrong fooT- hold in Wolnuf l-lills, olfhough our besT wos yeT oheod of us. gen flz grade WiTh The opening of school in Sepfember of T945 we begon our TenTh grode. Our closs hod o chonce To do iTs shore Toword beTTering The welfore of The school when Dr. Senger colled on members of The Sophomore l-li-Y To fill in for The greofly deplefed Troffic squod. We never did geT used To The ideo of seeing so mony boys of our closs os policemen in The middle of The sTreeT. In every field we were beginning To moke The closs of '48 known. Some of our boys hod o chonce To see The B. A. Prom os woiTers under The choirmonship of Hodge Morkgrof. Fronk Lo-

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676144 .Hiaiory Seven lf: grade As we look over our high school coreer, we remember The Trioils of our effie yeor. On our firsT doy, os we enTered The lorge ciudiforium for our progrom ossignmenfs, The new surroundings lefT us feeling losT ond be- wildered. Difficulfies orose os we c1TTempTed To find our rooms in ci school so much lorger Thom our previous one. We worried ThoT we would be punished for coming loTe To closs. Of course, The upperclossmen odded To our dilemmo by jokingly Telling us To Toke The elevofor of The end of The holl. We remember how smcill we felT oT The shouTs of Effie, Effie! During The second week of school moTTers im- proved when oll The girls were enTerToiined by Their senior Big Sisfers of The Trodifionol wel- come porfy. Here The girls hod on chonce To be- come c1cguciinTed wiTh noT only The members of Their own closs, buT also The oufsfcinding senior girls, who olmused Them wiTh The plciy, The LighThouse Keeper's Dc1ughTer, os well os num- erous gomes. LoTer in The yeor The boys hod This some experience when The Big Brofhers were orgonized. AlThough oT firsT we hod ci hord Time, iTwc1sn'T long before we felT we were os much oi porT of Wolnuf Hills ds The seniors. One of The firsT members of our closs To show ouTsTonding TolenT wos BeTTy Vorkony, who Thc1T yecir ployed o pi- cino solo wiTh The Cincinnofi Symphony Orches- Tro. lvlony of The girls become cicTive in Girls' Leogue ond, for Their progrdm, gove ci soifire of The seniors. When The Girl Reserves ond The Girls' Leogue colloborofed in eorly spring To give ci foishion show, The girls disployed Their glomor. ln oiThleTics our girls were ocfive in G.A.A. The boys pdrTicipoTed in infromurol foofbdll, The junior high home rooms compefing for The chcimpionship won by 235. Then when winTer come infromurol boskefboll Took The boys inTo The gym where such fuTure sToirs os Ted Price, Mel Fisher, ond Don Trifschler ployed Their firsT gomes. Some of our ouTsTonding sTudenTs were elecfed To Junior STudenT Council. Among These were Johnny Zeigler, secreTory, Sue Heilbrun, Ken lvlifchell, ond Sue Rubel. AnoTher ocTiviTy in which dll of us porTicipc1Ted wos The Junior Chorus, which cippeored in The spring concerT. As The yeor come To o close, we looked for- word To The Time when we would no longer be The youngesT closs in The school. gljgllfll grade When of losT we become eighfh groders we felT superior To The effies ond, oilfhough we re- membered oll Too well our feelings os new sTu- denfs, we Too conTribuTed To Their misery. More of us enTered inTo The cicTiviTies open To The lower school. The high offices of The Junior STudenT Council were now held by our closs- mofes, os Jim Kelly ond Ken Mifchell were elecfed presidenT ond vice-presidenT, respec- Tively. jj, , T T531 T T' l' kv? As confidenT e-floTs we ThoughT ThoT no one could surposs eiTher us or our school, buT we were soon disillusioned. How well oll of us re- member The crushing defeoT we suffered of The honds of The WiThrow foofboll Teom, 50-Ol And in The firsT double-heoder in which our Teom hod porTicipoTedl However, os consolcifion, we won The ciTy swimming chcimpionship, In The G.A.A. Helen ColverT's Teom won The volleyboll Tournomenf. Buf ogoin our pride suf- fered oi shoTTering blow os The effies Triumphed over our girls in swimming. AT This Time The woir wos oT iTs pecik, ond we felT our responsibilify. We divided our Time ond efforTs omong Russion wor relief, Red Cross drives, ond The collecTing of scrop iron. ln mony insfonces we broughf in more moigozines Thcin The seniors ond were one hundred per cenf in olmosf dll wor sfomp soles. When The Girls' Leogue ond Girl Reserves ogoin gove or sTyle show, even more of our friends porficipofed. Becouse They enjoyed lvlrs. Murphy's music closses, more of our clossmofes become members

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zorus olreody heoded The odverTising sToTT of The I2emembroncer. Sophomore Alon Trovis wos The only member of our closs To eorn his TooTboll leTTer. AlThough we won buT Tour oT our Ten TooTboll gomes, we Triumphed gloriously over our TrodiTionoil rivol, WiThrow. Few will TorgeT The double line we mode Through which The Tedm possed, cheered on To The losT gome oT The seoson. Our boskeT- boll ond swimming Teoms copped ciTy chompion- ships. BZ XXV! ly ,li l X 'ff T' -5- 2 Yi if is J 4. S . mv Q? -QF r 1' Our chief conTribuTion To The sociol life of The school wos The sophomore donce held in The spring. ATTer such suggesTions os The Lirpo Leop lApril spelled bcickwcirdsl, The Sopho Swing, ond The April Fools, we ogreed To coll The donce The Blossom Bounce . Gur choirmon, Frcink Lozorus, spenT mony horried hours wondering wheTher or noT The donce ocTuolly would Toke ploce, os so mony diTTiculTies occurred To upseT our core- Tully loid plons. None of us will TorgeT The doy ThoT, To publi- cize The evenT, our commiTTee wos supposed To presenT o skiT oT The close of ossembly. Every doy Tor oi week we hod procTiced, cmd, Tor ci wonder, we knew our pc1rTs perTecTly. Tense wiTh onTicipoTion, we woiTed Tor our big momenT To orrive. The speoker finished, we were recidy To go when, To our horror, The curToin closed in our Toces. We hod been TorgoTTen! Dick Wolf worked like mod os consTrucTion choirmon, ond we were well pleosed wiTh his re- sulTs. From April 26, The donce wos posTponed To Moy 3, buT oT losT The greoT doy orrived. To our c1sTonishmenT, The donce wds ci success. We were Thoroughly proud, since Tew WolnuT Hills donces in The posT, oTher Thon The B. A. Prom, were so well oTTended. GT course, we hed such drowing cords os The Melody Monglersf' George Thompson's mogiccil TolenTs, Bob Heid- enreich's iiTTerbugging, ond BeTTy Vorkony's pi- ono ploying. We sTrove To moke our donce on ouTsTonding evenT, ond our eTTorTs were re- wcirded by The donce's becoming o TrodiTion. As o closs, we were beginning To hiT our sTride The spring oT '-46. ffeuenfh grade SepTember 8, T9-46, we begon our junior yeor wiTh ci renewed zeol ond ci resolve To work horder ond moke This our besT yeor. Mony of us Took porT in TooTbc1ll, boskeTboll, ond dll oTher sporTs. Alon Trovis wos on inTe- grol porT of The vc1rsiTy TooTboll squod, ond Mel Fisher ond John STevenson begon To show much promise os coming boskeTboll sTors. Rich Holler wos cilso o viTol member of The swimming Teom. An excimple of our high scholorship wos The TocT ThoT TwenTy-one members mode The highesT possible score in The Ohio SToTe ApTiTude TesT. Junior heolTh exolminoTions, greoTly Teored, come wiTh GcTober. Seniors, old in The woys oT The evenT, whispered inTo our eors horrible Toles oT The reveloTions oT The ossembly, rigid physi- col exominoTions, ond blood TesTs ciT which ouT leosT hcilf The pupils olwoys ToinTed. We shivered in drecud c1T The ThoughT, buT The whole Thing Turned ouT To be noT neorly so bod os we hod c:nTicipoTed. In TocT, since we were dismissed from our cldsses, we roTher looked Torwoird To The physicols . Our mosT glowing success of The yeor wos The PeonuTs of '47 . Under The direcTion of John Zeigler ond Ken MiTchell, The show now be- come o TrodiTion. The Bowery Bc1bes provided mony loughs, os did The humor of Amiel Wohl ond Pierre Keck. The pony ond horse choruses odded much To The show, ond The Girls' Sex- TeTTe, Borbershop Quc1rTeTTe, ond The singing choruses bolonced The producTion wiTh Their ren- diTion of Doncing in The Dork ond The Whole World ls Singing My Song . The mogic of George Thompson ond BeTTy Vorkony's nimble- fingered rendiTion of Deep Purple showed The wide scope of our TolenTs. We spenT mony long hours during The ChrisTmos holidoys reheorsing Tor The PeonuTs , ond The presenTc1Tion of Jonu- ory 9 proved ThoT our eTTorTs had noT been in voin. In The WolnuTs of '47 we olso shone. STor- ring in The conTinuiTy, which wos wriTTen in porT by Lindo BeTTmon, were BeTTy Ann Dovis, George Thompson, Tulone lTkoTT, ond HorrieT STornboch.