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

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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

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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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