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

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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.

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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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As regulars in The pony chorus were DoTTy Spen- cer, MargiT Friedlander, Jean EllingTon, and MargareT STayTon. In The girls' singing chorus were Barbara Jaffe, Irmgard Kroeger, Helen CalverT MyrTIe Irwin, and Jo Pease. In The boys' singing and dancing choruses were Dick Bauer, Ken MiTchelI, Bill Williams, Amiel Wohl, and John Zeigler. TweIfTh NighT was The annual Shakespear- ean producTion puT on aT WalnuT Hills This year. Sam Davies and George Haynes of our class were parT of The casT. Mr. STewarT, aT The annual Shakespearean banaueT, Took The unprece- denTed sTep of offering To whoever idenTified a few lines he quoTed from one of Shakespeare's plays, a free lunch wiTh Miss LoTze in The faculTy Iunchroom. Sam Davies received The honor by Telephoning Mr. STewarT aT his home afTer The banauef and sTaTing The answer. Our spring play, The Bluebird, while by no means a producT of our own class, displayed The TalenTs of many of our members, noT only in The spoTlighT buT also offsTage. The play was given Twice, an unusual occurrence in The annals of WalnuT Hills' dramaTic hisTory: a regular Friday evening performance and a maTinee The Thurs- day before, To which members of The sevenTh and eighTh grades of oTher schools and of Wal- nuT Hills were especially inviTed. WiTh so many characTers symbolic of various elemenfs of na- Ture, amusing evenTs were bound To happen backsTage. Eddie Minor's face was red when, in answer To Miss BelIvilIe's quesTion, Is The Ass here? , he had To confess ThaT iT was he. The ChaTTerbox VarieTy Show, which was produced This year, offered To members of every grade a chance To display Their abiliTies. The PeanuTs of '46 and acTs from The sevenTh and eighTh grade as well as TalenT from our class were included. The ChaTTerbox raised The money iT needed, buT The fun we had would have amply compensaTed our efforTs in any evenT. Supervised by iTs PresidenT, John Zeigler, The Junior Hi-Y gave a Dinosaur Dance in April. The unusual feaTure of This dance was The aTmos- phere of prehisforic Times, compleTe wiTh mon- sTers, dinosaurs, caves, live cave men, and oTher fugiTives from The Cenozoic Age. High-lighTing The evening was The music of Johnny CIark's fif- Teen-piece band. WiTh The coming of spring, all of us began looking forward To The B. A. Prom, which, for The firsT Time, we were permiTTed To aTTend. Dick Schwab was seIecTed To be junior chairman of The affair, and DoTTy Spencer and Barbara GeisT headed commiTTees. Ever since The sevenTh grade we had anTicipaTed This May when we could join in This dance as privileged upper- classmen, We were noT disappoinTed, The prom of I947 lived up To our expecTaTions. Our gym was magically Transformed. Circus was The Theme, and The moTif was carried ouT by The gayly colored side-show painTings of faT women and Thin men, sword swallowers and snake charmers. Even in The choosing of The queen The circus paTTern was used wiTh a wheel of forTune spinning unTil iT poinfed To The lucky winner. Then The perfecT nighT did noT end for all wiTh The end of The dance, parTies aT The homes of several sTudenTs kepT The enTerTainmenT going. As graduaTion approached, The iunior girls as well as The seniors were anxious and an- Ticipafory. The seniors were, of course, waiTing for The faTeful day when To The music of Pomp and CircumsTance They would march down The aisle. The junior girls, Too, were hoping To march down The aisle as members of The TradiTionaI Daisy Chain. Chosen on The basis of personal appearance and refinemenT by Miss Clarke and her Senior Council, Ten girls lead The procession carrying The chain of fern. IT was universally agreed ThaT The girls chosen merifed The honor of boTh counTs. They were Rosemary Danner, BeTTy Ann Davis, Jean EIlingTon, MargiT Fried- Iander, Joan Gradison, Joan Henke, Jane Long- naker, Jeannine McCue, Lois Ann Pfau, and Nancy Sebasfian. ,W If Mfd S Q lliif f' I' T' S y si eg Q5 ,S f as X - Eg .5 X Big Sisfers and Big Brofhers for The nexT year were chosen as were officers for The class and The various publicaTions. WiTh ThaT we prepared To Take on The responsibiliTies and privileges ThaT go wiTh The TiTle Senior . This sums up The firsT five years of our school hisTory. Our lasT year is recorded here for all To see. IT is a record of fun and enioymenT, buT ThaT is noT all. IT is a record of high school achievemenT, which will noT end unTil The sTrains of Pomp and CircumsTance play ouT our year and ring in commencemenT. CommencemenT is beginning, and we The class of T948 are ready now To begin The shaping of The fuTure, our fu- Ture and ThaT of our world.