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

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La t Will and Te tament I, FRANCES URBAN, will to anyone who thinks he needs one, a mother as helpful and understanding as mine . . . I, FRANKLIN FLOWERS, will my success in going home second hour for coffee every day and not getting caught to Charles Youts, who always fails . . . I, CAROL TETZLAFF, will to any underclassman my ability to put up with someone like Pauline Smithley three years and not crack under the strain . . , I, MARY ANN WASOWSKI. will my ability to survive Mr. Covert's home room without being used as a specimen, to any freshman lucky enough to get in his home room . . . I, MARY IO WENINGER, will my ability to graduate an honor student and not miss a bit of fun. to any freshman who would like to try . . . We, RITA PLENCNER and DARLENE OLDEN, will our ability to get along with Mr. Covert to Iackie Olden and Pat Iozwiak. I. IIM NORTHRUP, will my inability to understand women to any underclassman who is dumb enough to accept it . . . I. MIKE WEGENKA, will to my sister, Carol, who is coming here in the fall, all the fun I had in my four years at Washington . . . I, MIKE MONDOVICS, will my football ability to Frank Glon. who, I think, will be a tough cookie . . . I, GEORGE HILL, will my basketball talents to Iames Carnes . . . We, MARCIA PAS- KELL and HATTIE ELLIS, will our success at shorthand to Rosa Walker and Mable Alford . . . I, SARAH MILLER, will my front seat in social living class to anyone who can stand it . . . I, MARGUERITE WATSON, will my friendship with Mr. Covert and Miss Murphy to anyone who earns it. I, ANDY PIKUZA, will my ability to get along with Mr. Nowicki to Tom Lynch, who can't . . . We. ELEANOR IACHIMIAK and CHRISTINE KAZMIERCZAK, will our bookkeeping books to any- one who can understand bookkeeping . . . I, MARLENE MEERT. will all the fun I had at Washington, to my sister, Kathleen, and hope she has even more . . . I, GENE CHLEBOWSKI, will my long legs to any freshman who wants them . . . We, DOLORES ASZKLAR and MARY IO WANTUCH, will our skill in slipping in late every morning and not getting caught to any underclassman who thinks he can do it . . . I, HELEN GENTRY, will my lip- stick, mirror, and comb, to Beatrice Davis, who needs them. I, ARDELL NEELY, will my ability to graduate to Iohn Wills, who is having trouble . . . I, SALLY ALBERT, will my capacity to stay with a trombone for four years to anyone who has strength enough in his right arm to work the slide . . . I, SANDY HECK. will to Marlene Michalski, my ability to go steady for two years with the same boy without breaking up . . . I, EVELYN KAZMIERCZAK, will my art talent to anyone who can use it . . . We, DAN KIEFFER and BUZZ SZABO, will our ability to satisfy the hearts of fair young maidens CAdams, Washington, St. Iosephl to Ervin Lodyga, who has none . . . I, RICHARD DE GRAEVE, will my ability to take tumbling in gym and come through without a scratch - almost, to anyone willing to try. I. ANN MURRAY, will my cheers for Michigan City to my brother . . . I, BARBARA STEPHENS, will my Bible, which I have carried to school every day for two years, to Kathryn Smith . . . I, PAULINE REITER, will my eraser to anyone who has the time to pick the pieces out of the typewriter. tIt's number 14, in case you're interested.l . . . I, VIRGINIA SIKORSKI, will to my brother my ambition to earn fifty credits in four years - I missed it by half a credit, but you had better make it just thirty-two . . . I, PAT PARSELL, will my knowledge of how to come in at 8:15 and still not be late to whoever thinks he can do it . . . I, MARY IANE BOTOS, will my long hair to Angie Kania, who is trying to grow Some. I, IOAN GALVAS. will my brains to Ervin Lodyga, who thinks he knows everything . . . We, IOHN SOLMOS and BOB OTOL- SKI, will our good looks and various other talents to those under- classmen deserving of them . . . We, AUDREY DE COOK and MAUREEN MADAR, will our height to any underclassman who thinks it's easy to grow 59 inches in eighteen years . . . I. CLYDE AUSTIN, will to my brothers lim and Clarence my track shoes and hope they use them as I did . . . We, RAY CZAR- NECKI and VIC KASZNIA, will our locker tmice and alll to any freshman who can keep pests out. Our new profession is pro- fessional mice-catchers . . . I, GLENNADINE HERMAN, will my first name to any underclassman who won't tire of spelling and pronouncing it for other people. I, EVELYN VAUGHN, will my ability to get a nice boy like Iune, who takes me home from school every afternoon, to any underclassman who walks . . . I, DON IOZWIAK, will my luck to any underclassman to win money from the girls and never collect . . . I, ESTELLA AUSTIN, will my luck at getting to Cen- tral on time everyday to anyone who can chase the bus as I have . . . I, MARCIA PLENCNER, will my ability to take wood- work and not know how to make anything in wood, to any girl daring enough to try it . . . I, DOROTHY FLOWERS, will my ability to avoid going steady my four years in high school to my sister Shirley . . . I, BEVERLY WRIGHT, will my skill in taking dictation in long hand and transcribing it to Carol Mitchell. who needs it. We, RONNIE KOVATCH and SHARON MOON, will our success at going steady for a year to Don Kindt and Sharon Heckman. who don't seem to be able to . . . I, NANCY NITKA, will my Cupid's bow and arrow to anyone who is a better shot than I . . . I, DONALD WROBLEWSKI, will to any seventh hour man of this noble institution my luck to go through it without being detained after school forcibly . . . I, BOB TURCZYSKI, will to Gene Lechtanski my luck to play on a championship football team . . . I, MARY FORRAY, being of weak mind and body from starvation, will my locker, which I shall fill with lunches. to the guys in machine shop who always got my lunch before I did. I don't want them to starve after I leave . . . I, DOROTHY CAPERS, will to Ruth Reed the ability to finish high school. I, IOAN SCHWEIGER will and bequeath my daily apple to Ron Steiner who thinks he needs it . . . I, BOBBIE KIMBLE. will my ability to be in all Glee Club productions for four years to Walt Malone, who can't seem to get in any . . . I, SUE BARTOK, will my Hollywood talent to anyone there who might need it to win an Oscar! ln closing, we, the seniors of 1955, will all our talents and team spirit to the future generations of Washington High School in the hopes that you will use them wisely and set an even better example than we have tried to set. With proper witness hereof. we affix our signature. THE CLASS OF 1955.

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La t Will iItfLTe tament WE, THE CLASS OF 1955, being of sound minds and bodies at the writing of this will, recognizing our various skills, talents, and possessions which will be of little or no use to us in our later life, do hereby make the following bequests, de- claring this to be our last will and testament. I, SHELIA BRANTLEY, will my record of staying warm on a trip to the All-City Prom in an unheated car in 14 degrees below zero. to any underclassman who wants it . . . I, HELEN DOMNANO- VICH, will my talking habits to any underclassman who thinks the teacher will let him get by with it . . . I, CAROLYN FILCHAK, will my success in resisting temptations to go steady, dating five fellows at one time, and still retaining my sanity to any under- classman . . . I, IOSEPHINE MOLNAR, will my Molnar strut to any freshman who thinks she can handle it for four years . . . We, EVA MAE PAVICH and MARILYN ZIMMERMAN, will our ability to quarrel but stay buddies for four years, to any under- classman who is willing to try . . . I, PEARL CHAMBERS, will to Rebecca Murphy the desire to participate in Glee Club . . . I, STELLA WITUCKI, will my success in escaping poor-work slips to any underclassman who needs it. We, MATT IACKOWIAK and DICK DERING, will our ability to talk German and still not get confused to any underclassman who takes Spanish . . . I, CAROL GRZESKOWIAK, will to my brother Tom, my ability to take the teasing, kidding, and nicknames I have for four years because he can't . . . I, RITA BALUKIEWICZ, will to anyone my ability to give Mr. Redling ulcers in drivers' training class . . . We, PAULINE SMITHLEY and IACKIE STEIN- HOFER, will our shorthand notes to any underclassman who thinks he can read them . . . I, PAT BELAKOVICH, will my pa- tience and seat in social living class to Sylvia Zarobinski . . . I, ROGER ROSS, will back to my parents their car, which they almost forgot thev owned. I, NORM NIIAK, will my distinguished seat in Mr. Robinson's home room to any freshman who can stand it . . . I, ART WIDAWSKI, will all the fun I have had in high school and the wonderful understanding teachers to all you underclassmen . . . I, ROSEMARY TALBOOM, will my toleration for the name Red and my long hair for three years to lolo Paprocki. I'm sure you can manage that, can't you? We, RON PASZEK and DICK FUESSEL, the center and guard for the Hawks , will our talents to the future basketball teams of Washington . . . I, DON OGOREK, will to any underclassman my record for getting to school on time every day of the school year . . . I, IAMES CROSIAR, being ol sound body and weak mind, will to Robert Zmudzinski my tennis skill. Please, Bob, use it wisely . . . We, IACQUELINE TOBOLSKI and IOSEPH KOZA- KIEWICZ, will our capacity to go steady, break up. and make up to any underclassmen who think it's fun . . . We, IACKI WEILER and MARTY INGLE, will our back booth at Trudy's to Ianie and Virg. Hope they have more luck in it than we did . . . I, LYDIA VARGO, will my success at going steady for two and hall years without breaking up once to any underclassman who can't succeed. I, BETTY LOU TOMCZAK, will to some future freshman my seat in Mr. Covert's room and hope that he learns to like him as well as I do . . . We, BOB DHAEZE, RAY CZARNECKI, DICK FREE- MAN, MIKE WEGENKA, IOHN MARKIEWICZ, DICK DE GRAVE, will our capacity to make Mr. Barnbrook, co-op teacher at Cen- tral, angry by being late and doing nothing to any underclass- man who can get away with it . . . I, ANN RAFALSKI, will my choir loft seat in Mr. Lewinski's class to anyone who wants it . .. I, MARTHA KAFKA. will my success to get through Mr. Robin- son's social living course, and retain the desire to get married to any unsuspecting underclassman . . . We, RON MOLENDA and FRANK LEBIEDZINSKI, will our ability to get up at 8:00 and still get to school on time to any underclassman who thinks he can do it . . . I, DANIEL BURZYNSKI, will to any junior my ability to take two all-girl classes. You'll be sorry! I, DARLENE DERANEK, will my height to any underclassman who needs it . . . We, MARY ANN LESNIEWICZ and RITA KWASNESKI, will our old faithful black suede shoes, that rarely got us to school on time and often got us tardy slips, to Pat Grabarek and Barbara Sparazynski, who seem to have more faithful ones . . . I, RICHARD LENCZOWSKI, will my lonely tenor seat in Glee Club to Richard Lodyga, who, I'm sure, will enjoy it . . . We. DICK THOMPSON and RON MEISZBERG, .be- ing of sound bodies but weak minds, will our numerous. and abundant abilities, both physical and mental, and our overflowing talents to any ingenious underclassman who can carry on with these outstanding fundamentals, and may they be as Great as we . . . We, DON GRAY and MIKE VARGO, will our Linco bottles to Gil Fujawa, who needs them . . . I, GEORGE COOPER, will my ability to get along with Mr. Stilson to any underclass- man who may need it. I. IOHN MARKIEWICZ, will my originality at excuses for coming in late mornings, to any underclassman, who has none . . . I. MARY ANN LUKACS, will my ability to be confused and still understand Mr. Guin in Spanish class to Loretta Nalepinski . . . We, DENORIS BROWN and MARGIE HAGENIERS, will all our notes in Miss Fortin's third hour study hall to Iack Duftin, who is the note carrier . . . I, EVAN ALBERT, will my ability to do nothing in woodshop and get a good grade to little Kozy, who has none . . . I, IACQUELINE WILSON, will to Betty Fox my ability to go steady with one boy . . . We, DAN GAWENDA and RON ANDRZEIEWSKI, being of sound body and mind, will our ability not to go with girls through our four years of high school to anybody who wants it. I, IIM SINKIEWICZ, will my ability to talk in classes and not get caught to my brother Tom, who can't . . . I, BETTY MCCLONE, will all the extra credits I've made in my senior year to Don Wesolowski. I hope he won't need them . . . I, RAY BOGUCKI, will my success for seven semesters to escape breaking a ma- chine in machine shop to any underclassman who wants it. tHad a lot of close callsll I. IIM ROGACKI, will my success in getting along with that Big Hunky, Ron Meiszberg, for four years even though I'm a little Polak , to anyone . . . We, GARFIELD HUBBARD and ED WATHEN, will our locker to Charles Walker, if he can find the time to clean it . . . I, MATTIE GILKEY, will to Marquita Alex- ander my ability to walk down the halls and be seen, not heard. for just one year . . . I, MARY IANE SLABY, will my ability to hang around with Mishawaka girls for four years and still be faithful to good old Washington to anyone willing to try . . . I, AGNES PRIKOSOVITS, will my black umbrella to my sister Betty because she always seems to get caught in the biggest splash . . . I, EVELYN SZYMCZYK, will my luck to go home fifth and sixth hour to Dorothy Chmiel, if Mr. MacNamara will give her his permission.

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The Washington High School Graduates' Pledge iriri' I pledge myself To accept the duties and responsibilities imposed upon me citizen: GSU To use all the facilities which this free country has given me for continuing to grow in mind and spirit: To participate honorably in the civic life of our nation: Never to discriminate against any man because of his race, his creed, or his color and to oppose all who do so: To worship God as my conscience dictates: To honor and defend my country with my faith, my work, and my life: And to strive for the peace and welfare of all human kind. This I pledge to you, my parents, my teachers, my community, who have made it possible for me to enjoy the privileges of a land in which these ideals are upheld. I pledge it so that my generation and my posterity may keep marching EVER 0NWAltll n American