Washington High School - Memory Lane Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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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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( 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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cJLait lAJill and Testament can get through high school in four years, because with his pres- ent ones, he ' ll never make it ... I, GLADELL REED, will my ability in civics to my sister, Ruth, so she can do as I did and not fail the subject ... I, GENE SLABY, will ray ability to make good grades to Norman Nijak, who doesn ' t seem to have any ... I, PEARLENE MELTON, will to my brother. Bob. my ability to grad- uate from Washington ... I, BOB LEE VAN, will my ability to get four A ' s in my senior year to Tom Lukaszewski who needs them very badly ... I, GERALD SOBCZAK, will to Mike Wegen- ka, my ability to make six projects in machine shop and still get an F ... I, EARLENE WEST, will my ability to finish high school without failing a required course to any interested fresh- man ... 1, RITA PRZYBYSZ, will my success in passing to my brother, Ray, who is having a hard time ... I, HAROLD HICKS, will my knowledge of southern Illinois to any underclassman who wants it ... I, URSULA WOODARD, will my ability never to study and still pass, to Marquita Alexander and Joe Woodard. I. MARY LOU PIETRZAK, will my skill in driving to anyone who has parents with nerves strong enough to take it. I, BILL ELMORE, will to fcy brother, Dave, my spot on Coach Holley ' s bench. May he never sit there as long as I did . . . I, BILL FORREST, will to any Washington high-jumper, my luck to hit a cross-bar, watch it jump around crazily, and then settle back on the standards as though never hit. We, the cheerleaders, MARY ANN MESZAROS, JOAN POZNAN- SKI, TRESSIE TRUE, JUNE URBANSKI, CAROL WENTLAND, and PAT ZALAS, will our luck to get two new sets of uniforms in the same year to some of our successors ... I, GEORGIANNA MAC KOWIAK, will my twirling uniform and baton to my unnamed successor, and hope she has as much fun as I have had . . . I. PAT AFTOWSKI, will my love for red, to Marlene Meert, who seems to like it also. I, CHARLES DALTON, will to anyone who wants to take a chance, my efforts to go hunting every year (1 almost got away with it). ... I, STEVE KOSANOVICH. will my ability to roam the halls and get out of class at all hours of the day, to Ron Meiszberg and Dick Thompson ... I, JEROME KAZMIERCZAK, will my luck never to be in detention to Dan Gawenda. I, JEANETTE HORVATH, will my love of every minute in school, to Mary Ann Horvath, who hasn ' t any ... I, STEVE BOSKEY, will to Joe Lyczynski all the fun I have had at the school dances. ... I, SUE CARROLL, will my happy days in my senior year to any underclassman. I, DAVE WITUCKI, will to any underclassman my ability to gel up at 00 and still moke it to school ... I, MARY ANN STEP- NIEWSIfl will my daily promptness to my cousin Dorothy ... I, VIRGIL MbORE, will my ability to come to school five days a week, to Johi? ' feetliel. )oi5Ie I, DOLOftarRASZ.fcrill my half bottle of Light and Bright to Rosie Van feter . . . VERSENA WATSON, will to Christine r Harris and Anna Bethel my notebook decorated with Ernie Stokes ' and John Coleman ' s names ... I, DAN BONEK, will my fountain pen to Darlene Olden, who needs it ... I, ELIZABETH MNICHOW- SKI, will the silver dollar on the chain around my neck, to any underclassman who is as broke as I am and still not spend it ... I, PAT WASIELEWSKI, will my ever beloved bus card to any underclassman who can put it together and use it. I. RONNIE MEERT, will anything I haven ' t got to anyone who is crazy enough to try to take it ... I, PHIL BERNDT, will to Bugsy Meszaros my ability, which sometimes even I don ' t know whether I have any or not . . . We, DON GRAYKOWSKI, JACK KOVACH, and ARLENE TOTH, will nothing to nobody, because we haven ' t anything anybody wants. I, MARY ANN CZAJKOWSKl, will my job in the Guidance office to anyone who thinks he can handle it ... I, PAT BEJMA, will my cadet teaching job to any underclassman who thinks he can control a group of freshman girls. I, BERNADINE WEST, will all my good luck to Jackie Wilson and George Hill so they can solve their love problems ... I, BAR- BARA VAN SANT, will to Mary Jane Slaby, my luck to work at Notre Dame ... I, GERALD UJDAK, will my shoulder fracture with the excuses it got me to any young deserving junior who wants it. We, PAT SOLMOS and CAROL WENTLAND, will our ability to talk slowly and distinctly to Bob Otolski and John Solmos ... I, MARCIA RADECKI, will my collection of nicknames to anyone who wants it ... I, TOM PLONSKI, do hereby leave my cookie- duster to my brother Matt, because he likes to spend so much time with the cookies . . . We, SHIRLEY EWING and EMMA LOU LANDOW, will the third wall in social living class to any underclassman who has the courage to find out what the secret is, I, DAN MOROZOWSKI, will my supercolossal singing voice to Jim Rogacki, who has none of his own . . . We, VICTOR GARY and BOB MOLNAR, being of sound minds and bodies, will our luck to be in every event in Glee Club to any underclassman who is willing to try. I, DOLORES HALUDA, will my laugh to anyone who can try it without laying eggs ... I, NORMAN HINES, will my habit of going out every night to have fun, to my brother Terry, who stays home too much , . . I, DICK PIEKARSKI, will my ability to instigate coke parties in Miss Halnon ' s Enghsh class to any junior who thinks it ' s easy. Finally, we, THE SENIORS, will to our successors, the class of 1955, all the joys, sorrows, honors, privileges, and responsibilities that we have had in the past years and wish them happiness and good luck in their senior year. This is our last will and Jesta- raent — in witness whereof, we affix our signature. THE CLASS OF ' 54 -. ' . By BILL FORRESf.Presidenf ' JOAN POZNAN Ja-W ; Chaaman