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. . . RICHARD PUSZTAI - Football I, 2, 3, 4: Track 2: Hi-Y: Engineers' Club - Understlldying Gorgeous George . . . JOAN REBICS - Glee Club 3: Band I: G.A.A.: Y-Teens I: Panda Club - Chief horal designer on ChIcago's GoId Coast . . . SYLVIA RYBICKI - Glae Club 2, 3, 4 - Head typlst at Studebaker's . . . SHIRLEY RZESZEWSKI- Yearbook Staff: Hatchet Staff: National Honor So- ciety: Almost Eighteen : CIemantine : Student Council 4 - A research chemist for Bendlx Prod- ucts. HELEN SCHOFIELD-Glaen Club I, 3, 4 - His- tory teacher at I. U .... LAVODA SCHOFIELD- Band I, 2, 3: Glee Club I, 2, 3: G.A.A. I: Mi- kado : Panda 4: Clementine - Attending the Chlcago School of Nursing . . . RICHARD SCHULTZ - AImost Eighteen : Football Manager 3, 4: Clementine : Stage Crew 3, 4 - Has Invented a new electric shaver that needs no electricity . . . RICHARD SIDERITS - Football I, 2, 3, 4: Hi-Y 3, 4: Engineers' Club 2, 3, 4 - Owner of a million dollar record collection. CAMILLE SKUBISZEWSKI - Glee Club I, 2, 3: Calendar Review : Y-Teens I, 2: Panda Club - The dental hygienist every dentist wants . . . LEO- NARD SOMMER - Football I, 2, 3, 4: Track I, 2: Basketball I - Favorite Northem Indiana referee. . . . GERALD STAJKOWSKI - Class Secretary 2, 4: Almost Eighteen : Baseball I, 2, 3, 4: Basket- ball I, 2: Football I, 4: CIamantine : Stage Crew-Succeeding Phll Cavaretta of the Chicago Cubs . . . JOHN SZYMCZAK - Almost Eighteen committee: Track I, 2: Band I, 2: Engineers' Club- A big executive . . . FRANK TABERSKI - Band I, 2, 3, 4: Baseball I, 2: Basketball I, 2 - Superin- tendent at Kingan's . . . PATRICIA THEODOROFF - National Honor Society: Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: AI- most Eigl1teen : Ushers' Club 3, 4: G.A.A. I, 2: Y- Teens I: Panda Club: Hatchet Staff: Yearbook Statt: The' Class of 1953 Clementine - President of Theodorolt's Founda- tlons Inc. THOMAS TRZASKOWSKI - Basketball I, 2: En- gineers' Club: Baseball I, 2 - Interpreter for the United Nations . . . RENE VAN DE VELDE - Base- ball I,: Football I: Swimming 4 - Taking his father's place at the bike shop . . . DANIEL VAN LAKE - Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: Mikado : Engi- neers' Club: HR Secretary 3: HR Treasurer 4 - Has iust won an academy award for one of his pictures at MGM . . . RENE VAN PARYS - Class Historian 3, 4: Glee Club 2, 3, 4: Operators' Club 2, 3, 4: Almost Eighteen : CIementine - Head comedian on Jackie GIeason's TV show . . . DANIEL VERHEYE - Football I - Champion Bel- gian bowler . . . ROBERT WASOWSKI - Band I: Hi-Y: Engineers' Club 3, 4: Basketball I: Track 3, 4 - Won the last Olympic mile. ERNIE WAWRZYNIAK - Glee Club 4: Hi-Y 4 - Still working for a living . . . PATRICIA WELLS- Class Treasurer 3: Student Council Secretary 3: President 4: Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: Rose ot Al- geria : Clementine : Almost Eighteen : An Evening ot Music - Latest quiz kid choice as the teacher of the year . . . CASIMER WESOLEK - Latin Club I: Hi-Y 2: Stage Crew 3, 4 - Physics teacher at WHS . . . RALPH WIERZBINSKI - Glee Club I, 2. 3, 4: Football 4: Baseball 2, 3: Hi-Y 4: Rose of Algerian: An Evening ot Music - Still working his way through college . . . MARY JO WINKLER - Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: G.A.A. I: Yell Club 2 - Operating a school for depressed sten- ographers . . . RITA WROBLEWSKI - Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: Almost Eighteen committee: Mika- do : Y-Teens I, 2: Panda Club: Queen's Court - Raising a family . . . HAZLEEN YOUNG - Glee Club 2, 3, 4: G.A.A. Library Club 2 - Still tennis champion. JANET ZAROBINSKI - Band I, 2, 3, 41 G.A.A. 2: Y-Teens I: Glee Club I - Head of KraSge'S de- partment store . . . DENNIS ZAWIERUCHA - Ring Committee 4: Baseball I: Football I: Basket- ball I, Track 4 - raking me easy . . . .lol-In ZROBEK - Baseball 3, 4: Football I: Basketball I - Head choreographer for Warner Brothers studio. . . . ESTHER ZYWERT - Glee Club I. 2. 3. 4: Mikado : Y-Teens I-Running Vic's Super Market. -:::Q:::- WASHINGTON EVER GLORIOUS Washington to thee we sing, Praised be thy name Grant to us leadership, true worth, Our aim. Ours is the spirit strong, Our hearts with love atlame: All honor to thee we bring, Fair Washington. -2.- May we with courage strong, Each year renew Our 'iaith in that treedom Our toretathers knew. Loud let our anthem ring, And shouts with glad acclaim: All honor, Oh Washington, To thy fair name. WASHINGTON SCHOOL SONG Washington High School, Hats ott to thee! To our colors, true we shall ever be: Firm and strong, united are we! Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, for our Washington High.
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MARION JAGMIN - Baseball I, 2, 3: Football I, 2: Engineers' Club - Doling out shoes to Marine recruits . . . JOHN JARONIK - Band I, 2, 3, 4: Hi-Y - New history teacher at W. H. S .... DONALD JERZAK - Baseball 3: Football I - In- ventor of a new stay-awake pill . . . LEONARD JURGONSKI - Football I, 2, 3, 4: Track l, 2, 3, 4 - New truant ofiicer for school city . . . LEO- NARD KANCZUZEWSKI - Clementine : Hi-Y: Almost Eighteen : Cross Country: Swimming 4 - South Bend's perennial mayor . . . RITA KANEA - Glee Club l, 2, 3: G.A.A.: Y-Teens: Yearbook Statt: Panda Club - Assistant to a well-known photog- rapher in town . . . JAMES KISH - Clementine : Football I, 2, 3, 4: Almost Eighteen - Kiddin' his way at Studebal:er's. GEORGIANA KLOSINSKI - Clementine : AI- most Eighteen : Panda Club: Queen's Court -- Head air stewardess for T.W.A .... YOLANDA KOLLER - Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: Everyman : G.A.A.: An Evening ot Music - Head consultant at the Associates . . . GEORGE KOVATCH - Class president 4: Baseball I. 2, 3, 4: Basketball I, 2, 3, 4: Kiwanis Representative 4 - Succeeded George Mikan . . . EUGENE KRYCH - Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: Track I: Football I: Engineers' Club - The model husband of the year . . . PATRICIA KURDYC5 - Glee Club I, 2, 3: Rose ot Algeria : Clem- entine : Calendar Review : Everyman : Panda Club: Y-Teens - Model for John Robert Powers. . . . VIRGINIA KUS2 - Class vice-president 3: Hatchet Editor: National Honor Society: Glee Club I, 2, 3, 4: Rose ot Algerian: CIementine : Calendar Review : Mikado : Everyman : Ushers' Club: Panda Club: Y-Teens l: Robertsons' Teen-Age Board: An Evening ot Music - New editor of the South Bend Tribune . . . JO ANN LACH - Student Council 2, 3, 4: Clementine : Ushers' Club: Panda Club: G.A.A.: Almost Eighteen : National Honor The Class of 1953 Its Past and Its Future Society -- New owner of Lach's bowling aliey . . . NANCY LANDUiT - National Honor Society: G. A.A.: Glee Club I: Yearbook Statt: Student Coun- cil I - Director of school clerks for S. B. School City . . . ROBERT LECHTANSKI - Student Coun- cil: Faotball: Glee Club: Hi-Y: Track: Stage Crew- National Executive Secretary of the Bachelor Club of America. EUGENE LEKARCZYK - Band I - New manager of the South Bend Blue Sox ...- JOAN LEKAE- CZYK - National Honor Society: Hatchet Staff 3. 41 GIGS Club I, 2, 3, 4: Ushers' Club, president 4: Panda Club: Student Council 4: Y-Teens I - One of the ten best dressed women in the U. S .... MARY ELIZABETH LEWIS - Library Club: Glee Club l, 2, 3, 4: Calendar Review : G.A.A.: Y. Teens 2: Panda Club - Now in the emergency ward where she sees some of her friends that have been driving too fast . . . MARY ANN LICHKAY - Glen Club 2, 3, 4: G.A.A. I: Panda Club: Hatchet Statit: Library Club 2, 3, 4 - Heads the Little Folks' Shop . . . CARL LIPINSKI - Baseball 3. 4: Hi-Y: Engineers' Club. ROBERT LISENKO - Football: Baseball: Basket- ball: Engineers' Club 4 - Sleeping his way at Studebaker's . . . JOAN LUCZYK - Glee Club I. 2, 3, 41 Almost Eightec-n : G.A,A.: Y-Teens I, 2 - A career girl . . . BARBARA LUKAVICH - Panda Club: Almost Eigl1teen : Clementine - A child psychologist . . . DOLORES MANTEI - Student Council 2: Glee Club I, 2: Calendar Re. view : Panda Club: Clementine - A buyer for a big department store in Wisconsin. BILL MARVIN - Glee Club I: Hi-Y - A bllSlneSS elteolltive . . . ELEANOR McCLONE - Glee Club I, 2, 3: G.A.A. 2, 3: Panda Club - Has a nursery school of her own . . , SHIRLEY MESZAROS -- Glee Club 2, 3, 4: Panda Club: Hatchet Statt: Queen's Court: Library Club I, 2 - Personnel Di- rector at Wilson Brother's Factory . . . MARY MIKC - G.A.A. I, 2, 3, 4: Yearbook Statt - Head of Physical Ed department of school city. . . . RONALD MILEWSKI - Basketball I, 2: Base- ball I, 2: Football 1, 2, 3. 4: Stage Crew: Ensi- neers' Club - King of the Hoboes . . . BUDDY MOORE - Engineers' Club 41 Ffloiball I- 25 Bas' ketbell I, 2: Track I: Stage Crew - Director of the Buddy Buy a Poppy Drive . . . LORRAINE MYNSBERGE - Glee Club 2, 3. 4: Hatchet Stott: Y-Teens I, 2: Clementine : Panda Club vice presi- dent - Writes a new love-lorn column . . . SYLVIA NOWAK - Glee Club 2, 3, 4: Rose at Algerian: Almost Eighteen : Everyman : Y-Teens I: Clem- entine Yearbook Siatt: Calendar Review : Panda Club - New York Times roving reporter -- last seen in Timbuctoo. Annum: onzsci-eowsxl-e-lee Club 2, 3: Cal- endar Review : Panda Club -- Made her name re- decorating the White House . . . NANCY PACZ- Kowsru - ole.. Club I, 2, 3, 4: Almost easin- een : Clementine : Queen's Court - TeaCl18S kindergarten and tirst grade at Muessel School . . . JAMES PASMAN - Football Manager 2, 3. -IZ Baseball 2, 3, 41 ENQIUGSVS' Club: Cleme ilne i Almost Eighteenu: Stage Crew - Is now another Errol Flynn . . . MICHAEL PEL! - Baseball 2 - Still reading up on Civics . . . JOSEPH PAPCZYN- SKI - Baseball 4: Hi-Y: Engineers' Club - Head Studebaker salesman in the Belgian Congo. MARGARET PLENCNER-Glee Club I, 2, 3: Cal- endar Review : Rose ot Algerian: Evoryman I Y-Teens I: Panda Club: Yearbook Stott - Happily married . . . ROBERT PIENIAZKIEWICZ -- Glee Club l, 3, 4: Football I, 2, 3, 4: Evoryman : Rose ot Algeria - Entertaining in a night club in Hawaii . . . JOHN POLONKA - Baseball I: Bas- ketball I: Football I, 2: vice-president I: Engi- neers' Club - One of the highest paid crooners.
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The Last ill and Testament of the Class of 1953 We, lhe members ol lhe Class ol I953 ol Washinglon High School, realizing lhal al Iasl our happy days wilhin lhese walls are drawing lo an end and recognizing lhal, individually and severally, we have numerous skills, lalenls, and possessions which will be useless in our nexl lile, do herewilh underlake lo dispose ol lhem lo lhose underclassmen for whom, we iudge, lhey are besl suiled. We urge each recipienl ol a gill lo cherish il well and use il kindly. We, Josephine Chrapliwy and Maureen Arnold, will nolhing lo nobody because everylhing we have we need . . . I. Ralph Wierzbinski, will my abilily in physics class lo Eugene Rysdorl, who seemed lo have none . . . We, Alex lenlio, Jim Pasman, and George Kovalcli, will our seals in I23 and our line relalions wilh Miss Marlindale, lo any underclassman. I, Dick Pusllai, will Joe Kosakiewicz, my loolball iersey No. l5, and hope he has beller luck lhan I did . . . I, Tom Traslkawski, of sound mind and body, will Sleve Zipper Rzepnicki my arl maslerpieces . . . I, Shirley Meslaras, will lo my sisler MiMi all my prayers lhal she may lind one, and only one, sleady boy friend. We. Joe Papczynslii and Eugene Krych, will our crib-boy iob io any lwo boys who lhink lhey can hold il as long as we have . . . We, Pal Kllrdys. Marline Fuessel. and Joan Leliarcxylr, will lhe excilemenl of our ou+side aclivilies lo Jim Krall, Bill Phillips, and Gilberl Sullivan, who, we are sure, can make lhe mosl ol any silualion . . . I, Frances Howell, will lo my sisler Mildred my abilily lo gel lo school on lime. I, Jaan Lach, will my hall chair lo my niece, Joio Paprocki . . . I, Bar- bara Carler, will Bill Howell lo Willa Gilkey and Sarah Miller . . . We, Nancy Paclkavlski and Gladys Badawski, will our abilily lo argue and slill gel along lor lwo years lo Red and Frasz , who can'l . . . I, Richard Hallgllel, will my abilily lo lake a song lo Buzzy , who plays slraighl music only. I, Lavada Schaield, will by abilily lo linish school wilhoul skipping lo any underclassman who lhinks he can do so . . . We, Rila Kania, Nancy Landllil. and Mary Miko, will our abilily lo comb our hair in I5 minules, lo Cookie , who usually needs an hour lo do il. I, Par Theadarai. will my abilily lo sludy lo my brolher, Dick, who will need il nexl year . . . I, Francis Haafh, will my l935 Plymoulh lo my brolher - if il will run lhal long . . . I, Kathleen Cavinder, will lo Lor- raine Madison, my abilily lo wrile my own excuses and nol gel caughl . . . I, Georgianna Klasinskl, will lo Lorella Korpal my abilily lo sfill know how lo drive aller laking Mr. Redling's course. I, Carl Lipinski, will my glasses lo Bob Lee Van, so he can see lhe bas- kel . . . I, Helen Schaield, will my abilily lo linish school wiihoul being in delenlion lo any underclassman . . . We, Rene Van Parys and Lewis Ericson. will our good looks and various remarkable lalenls lo lhose underclassman who are deserving ol lhem . . . I, Eleanor MCCIGIIE, will my locker lo my sis, and her live playmales. The number is 230: Keep il in peppy conglilion, Kiddies! I Richard Deguch, will my abilily lo knock down hurdles lo any under- classman who is willing lo break his fool . . . I, Mary Ann Lichkay, will lo my sisler, Dol, all my hopes lhal she doesn'l beal me lo lhe allar . . . I, Tom Bllrlynski, will my blush lo any underclassman who wanls il. I, Hazleen Yeung, will my abilily lo skip school lo Versena and Kalh- leen, who can use il if lhey wanl lo . . . I, Bah Lisenka, will lo Brb Nies- podziany a ring, so he can gel married . . . We, Jim Kish anal Richard Schultz will lo whoever wanls lhem our hall passes. I, Virginia Arelr, will my sell-conlrol lo Richard Pfekarsk' . . . I, Mary Lewis, will lo Louise Dobbs my abilily lo gel up al 7:30 anal slill gel 'io school on lime . . . I, Pal Boosi. will my abilily lo go sleady anzl siill be lhe biggesl llirl, lo Dolores Frasz, who seems lo gel caughl. I, Joyce Hines, will my abilily lo go sleady wilh one person lor lhree year: lo my brolher, Norman, who can'l seem lo slick wilh one girl for a week . . . I, Yolanda Koller, will my abilily lo pass all lhe courses in high school lo Rila Balukiewicz . . . We, Joan Lllczyk and Janel Zarob'nski, will our abilily lo gel away wilh lhings, lo lhe underclassman who clon'l know lhe lricks of Iile yel. We, Mary Jo Winkler and Esther Zywerr, will our happy mood in shorl- hand class lo any sad-sack who could use il . . . I, Camille Skubiszewski will all my rides home every Thursday lrom Sl. Casimir's dances lo Ann Tolh . . . I, Joan Rebics. will my neal locker lo Lucille Cr.well. Din'i' sland loo close when you open lhe door! I, Margie Plencner, will my abilily lo go sleady for lhrec years lo any underclassman who would like lo lry il . . . I, Dennis Zawierucha, will my lasl name lc Leonard Jones . . . We, Adele Orlechowtki and Rita Wroblew-
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