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( lads J lstot V As we walk along the road to success, we come to a stair- way . . ., the stairway to our diploma! This stairway has lout steps, and they are four very important steps. Our class oHicers were Pete Meszaros, president; Bill Forrest, vice-president; Pat Aftowski, secretary; Pat Michalski, treasurer: and Ronnie Meert, historian. STEP ONE. Freshman Year. Our freshman year started in the fall of 1949. Our class enrolled the first freshmen ever to come from Wilson. As freshmen will be freshmen, we were all very timid until our party in October. After we became better acquainted, we elected Dan Morozowski as our president. We had our first experience with the voting machine in doing so. Ouf freshman basketball team won for the first time the city tourney. Our representatives in the spring musical, Calendar Revue were Sheila Howe, Pat Aftowski, and Tom Plonski in name parts. At the end of the year Ronnie Meert and Dolores Popielski received the D. A. R. Citizenship Awards. And so we made our first step. Senior presidents of our school clubs were Bob LeeVan, Hi-Y; Janet Runnels, Library Club; Theresa Lewis, Panda Club; Sheila Howe and Tom Plonski, Glee Club; Fred McGrew, Cadet Teach- ers; Steve Kosanovich, Student Council; and Pat Michalski, Girls ' Ushers ' Club. Mary Lou Pietrzak was selected as editor of our yearbook. In the fall Dolores Szymanowski was chosen Queen of the Washington-Riley Roundup. On har court were Pat Michalski, Rita Bryda, Loretta Korpal, Mary lane Osowski, Dolores Frasz, Roselle Meszaros, Marilyn Buckner, Sheila Howe, and Barbara Nitka. STEP TWO. Sophomore Year. We ' re now on our way up — the second step. Added to the faculty this fall were two male teachers, Mr. Lawecki and Mr. Miller. With Don Czajkowski as president. Bob LeeVan as vice-president, Rita Witucki as secre- tary, and Dolores Haluda as treasurer, we kept our stride. Pat Aftowski played the lead in the Glee Club musical, The Rose of Algeria , with Tom Plonski and Tom Hubbard playing name parts. Our second step was in the bag . The Junior Rotarians and Kiwanis members were Pete Meszaros, Bill Forrest, Bill Van Koskey, Tom Hubbard, Ronnie Meert, and Jerome Kazmierczak. The senior production this year was The Song of Berna- dette . The double cast consisted of twenty-eight girls and four- teen boys, with Janet Runnels ond Tressie True taking the leads. STEP THREE. Junior Year. As we returned from our vaca- tion, we had a big (6 ' 5 plus) surprise ... a new principal. FeeUng a bit on the important side now, we were anxious to see what the situation would be with the new principal, Mr. McNamara. Dan Morozowski was our president, with Theresa Lewis, Janet Runnels, Don Czajkowski, and Pat Van Putte holding the remaining offices. In the spring our class gave Meet Corliss Archer , its first production as a class. The double cast consisted of eight boys and sixteen girls. Another first for our class was the Senior-Junior Prom. It was held May 15 at the Progress Club and Dick Strike furnished the music. Dolores Szymanowski and Pete Meszaros were chosen as our princess and prince and Audrey Abraham, Tressie True, and Pat Solmos were on the junior court. Some members of our class took part in the Glee Club production. At the end of the year Mary Jane Osowski was named as the editor of the Hatchet. We set a new precedent by receiving our class rings in the spring. This gave a spark to the end of our third year in high school. STEP FOUR. Senior Year. Our final year in high school! Being seniors, we were the leaders of the school. Under our Co- captains, seniors Bill Forrest and Bob Niespodziany, our football team c?rp(ured the State Football Championship. In basketball, with cc Jin senior Jim Easton, we won the City Championship for the ,flrst time. George Niver, swimming captain; Bob LeeVan, basCB captain; and track co-captains Bill Elmore and Steve our teams to respectable seasons in their Seskej Tjtseniois, Jed ou I6spec(hre nfts. L ■ The Glee Club this year gave The College Widow as its annual production. Playing the leads were Pat Aftowski and Sylvia Wachowiak, with Tom Plonski, Fred McGrew. Bill Van Koskey, Victor Gary, Mary Ann Meszaros, and Beverly Laisure playing name parts. The Senior Varsity Cheerleaders were Mary Ann Meszaros, Pat Zalas, Joan Poznanski, Tressie True, June Urbanski, and Carol Wentland. The scholastic leaders of the 1954 graduating class were named in the spring. The Valedictorian ond Salutatorian are Sheila Howe and Tom Plonski, respectively. Other seniors brought honor to themselves and Washington. Tom Hubbard received an NROTC Scholarship which he will use at Purdue and Steve Piacsek won the St. Joseph Valley Notre Dame Club four-year scholarship to Notre Dame. This completes the stair-way and our struggle to the top! Our years in Washington High School will never be forgotten. They have been years of accomplishment for all of us who are graduating. With the accomplishments we have mastered, we intend in the future, to make our community a better place to live in for you and us. Our school spirit, our good times to- gether, and our countless hours of study were not ir vain. As a class we will not be together again after we receive our diplomas at graduation, but the spirit that rried us through tugh school will never leave us as we stw Sj procei Evej Qnwatd. ' n -
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cJ ast l Uiil and esu amen I WE, THE CLASS OF 19S4. being of sound mind and body, knowing that we will never enter Washington High School as students again, wish to dispose of our cherished schooJ-day pos- sessions. Therefore, we have devised this as our our last will and testament. 1, PAT MICHALSKI, will my ability to take gym three times a week, in my senior year, to any underclassmen who likes it that well ... I, ED KOPCZYNSKI, will to Ron Paszek my habit of taking my gym clothes home to be washed only once a semester. I, GRACE LANDMAN, will my speed in typing and posUng the Daily Hatchet, to my sister Dorothy ... 1, DON CZAJKOWSKI, will my abihty to type thirty words a minute to George Cooper. I, LORETTA KORPAL, will my ability to iorgive and iorget. to Joe Lyczynski, who finds it difficult. I, JIM EASTON, will to George Hill my ability to keep a girlfriend and to play basketball without getting angry . . . We, JOHN CHISZAR, OLIVERN GOUR, FRANK LINNER. and DICK THEO- DOROFF, will to any underclassman our ability to play cards — yet stay friends ... I, FRANK SLABY, will my ability to get along with Mr. Brady to Bob Rogers, who doesn ' t. I. JOAN ARCH, will my success in surviving Robbie ' s corny jokes to anyone who thinks he can ... I. MARILYN BUCKNER, will my job in Mr. Robinson ' s room to Dick Fuessel. who enjoys it so much ... I, ROSELLE MESZAROS, will my front seat in social hving class to anyone who can stand it for eighteen weeks. I, THERESA LEWIS, will to Pearl Chambers and Denoris Brown my ability to argue and disagree and still get along: and my stolen lunches to anyone who thinks he can get them from Joe Brazier ... I, ALEXANDRIA JANISZEWSKI, will my enormous appetite to Poncho , who needs the weight. I, TOM HUBBARD, will the rattles in my ' 41 Studebaker to Kosie, who thinks he has none in his . . . I, MARVIN KAFKA, being of sound mind (I hope) do hereby will my Ford to anyone who can keep it running, and my ability to get in trouble in civics class to any junior who thinks he has a drag with Mr. Robinson . . . I, GEORGE NIVER, give to Bob Rogers and Don Kindt, the back seat of my car, for they have had the most fun in it ... I, MARSHA SMITH, will to my brother, Steven, the Ford (which will soon be his, anyway) to drive to school when he is old enough ... I, MAX PEHLKE, will my little green Chevie to any- one who can keep it shined up. I, MARY JANE OSOWSKI, will the grooming of my hair, cut like a boy ' s, to any junior girl who thinks she can afford it ... I, JOAN NOWAK, will Jitty long hair to my cousin Evelyn Kazmier- czak ... I, ED NYARI, will my curly hair and big blue eyes to Ony undetoldfssnMUV ,Mvho can use them. -N . f- . We, JJOSB-KMjjjkR and LEROY RANSCHAERT, will our ability :?■ to avoid going steady through high school to any underclassman who wants to try it. We, BARBARA NITKA and RICHARD HORVATH, will our ability to hght and still get along to Barbara Borowski and Bill Phillips, who can ' t seem to , . . I, PAT CHMIEL, will my ability to go steady four times within one semester with the same boy. to any crazy mixed-up kid ... I, LUCILLE CROWELL. will to any junior girl my ability to hook a man the first night and not have an argument within the first two months ... I, AUDREY ABRAHAM, will my ability to go steady and still make good grades, to my sister Arlene, who hasn ' t accomplished either yet ... I, ROBERT BAJER. will my ability to go steady with the cutest of all sopho- mores, Roxanna Ellis, to anyone who can get himself a cute girl as last as I did . . . I, DOROTHY LICHKAY, will to my sister Betty, my ability to find a man and go steady for two years without breaking up. We, SHIRLEY HECKMAN and FRANCES PLUMMER, will our ability to fight with our men and still get along, to any under- classman who thinks she can. It ' s easy, once you learn how . . . I, SHIRLEY ANN O ' CHAP, will my ability to go steady for two years and break up as many times as I have to any underclass- man who thinks she can do it. I. FRED McGREW. will my locker and lock (which has kept my lunch safe for three years) to Ronald Buzzy Szabo to keep him safe from the girls ... I. BILL VAN KOSKY. will my ability al- ways to snag a locker all to myself to any underclassman (who is tired of being squeezed by two or three others) who can dis- cover my method ... We, JOHN GRIFFIN, BILL THOMPSON, and JOHN WELLS, will our locker to anyone who has the courage to try to clean it up . . . We, AL BAJER and JOHN DOMBROWSKI, will our locker to anyone that can put it together. I, ROBERT NIESPODZIANY, will to Matt Jackowiak, the honor of being captain of a championship football team ... I, STEVE RZEPNICKI. will my football jersey to Gene Lectanski. who. I hope, can do better than I ... I, JOHN KOLACZ, will my size fourteen football shoes to my brother Frank. I, JANET RUNNELLS, will my success to not get caught skipping, to my sister, Barbara, who is a freshman and already has one chalked up . . . We, JOYCE JAWORSKI and MARILYN WOLT- MAN, will to Janine Woltman, our ability to cross the street for potato chips without getting detention , . . We, STEVE MOLEN- DA and FRANK NAGY, will our ability to skip classes without being caught to any underclassman who wants it. I, LARRY BANICKI, will my music ability and jazz trumpet play. ' ing to Dan Kieffer ... I, BARBARA SZYNSKI, will to any band member, my ability to take about (en cuts and still stay in band. ... I, MARGIE DRZEWIECKI, will my ability to stay in the band lour years and not be able to play a clarinet, to anyone vho can fake out as well as I can. I, MAXINE WOLFF, will my giades to my brother Decn, so he ij
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