Wilkinsburg High School - Annual Yearbook (Wilkinsburg, PA)

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election was followed by the first junior so- cial function of the year, the Class Tea. And as usual mothers and parents met to discuss junior's and Sis's improvement over that of the previous year. With the tea and the election a part of the past now, we juniors were looking forward to the near future when we were to play an important part in the history of Wilkinsburg High. Our am- bitious class was to be recorded as the first one to obtain our senior rings at the end of our junior year through the cooperation of our class and the help of our principal, Mr. Carson, who had just returned from service. With the support of Miss Wischmeyer, we brought back the old tradition of having a junior Prom, UThe Carnival. For the first time in twenty-five years, a Wilkinsburg High School basketball team won the sec- tion title. We juniors were particularly proud of Alex jaffurs, Bud Betts, Ralph Tielsch, and Dave Liptak, who helped at- tain this goal. Accomplishing many of our aims, we were willing for our junior year to come to a close only because the next year would be the year of all years, when we would be the sophisticated seniors. 'ASOPHISTICATED SENlORS, -What a feel- ing we possessed that morning we climbed the high school steps. Were we actually seniors now? But this year every election, tea, football game, basketball game, and chapel program was met with a different outlook by us seniors, for everything we did we knew would be for the last time. We knew that if we were to contribute anything more to the betterment and enjoyment of our school, we would have to do it this year. Our senior chapel programs and our athletic teams showed the school what talent this class of ours possessed. But all too quickly we are nearing the close of three years which will always be something special to us. As we leave Wilkinsburg High School, we will have the memory of the activities and the people that have molded our char- acters and of the high school which has giv- en us so much during the most impression- able part of our lives. We've had our suc- cesses and failures, won friends and lost some, learned a little, forgotten a little, but we seniors still maintain that high school is the nicest thing that ever happened to us. NANCY WESTON, Historian Mary and Beverly try out the new loom . . . Faster, faster . . . Remember that sharp, penetrating odor of HCL . . . Filling out schedule sheets . . . Those pesky book reports. .l95i4W4WHW29fMW9iW-QQVLW- -'fif' Wwdlwfla f H l 5 'V f-71 'K1'fYVfLfiL1WYWW '

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I SENIORS f Q-W Theresa Bonacci, Richard Frankenburg, Ralph Neilander, Wesley Siebert, Nancy Weston. CLASS HISTORY 'lMIGHTY MITESD,-Aft6I nine long years of wishing and with our parents hopefully praying, we hesitantly ascended the steps of Dear Qld High, on a bright September morning of 1945. We were officially sopho- mores! Soon after the election of our class officers, our first big social event was to follow--the Sophomore Tea. Here the par- ents and teachers became acquainted for the first time. Learning of Iunior's and Sis's grades, some parents left very much 'Aen- lightened with their children's prospects, while other parents just left. We competed with the seniors and juniors in the annual contest of selling tickets for the fall play, HArsenic and Old Lace. After the final tally was made, the Activities' Trophy was awarded to the Mighty Mitesf' the sopho- mores. Decidedly new to us was the dancing President .....,..,..... X41 I 0 64X ...........,.,.,......Wesley Siebert Vice President ...,......,.......... Ralph Neilander Secretary .....,,.......,.................. Theresa Bonacci Treasurer ........ Dick Frankenburg Historian ...,,..,....,,. .. ,............ Nancy Weston in the gymnasium during lunch hour. The monotony of the mornings was soon forgot- ten when we set our feet to the sweet strains of the juke box. Every activity of the year was met with exuberance by the sophomore class because we Hsophiesn in our short while here had grown very much attached to the school, the faculty, and our fellow classmates. We thought that high school was just about the nicest thing that ever happened to us. But soon our first year came to a close and with it went the teasing, the sitting on the Ushelff' and that bewilder- ment which only a sophomore can possess. We were well prepared to begin the follow- ing year as the greatest Hbackbonen ever. IoI.LY IuN1oRs -We started the first post-war year of our school life fully pre- pared for the events ahead of us. Our fall

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SENIOR LEADERS ANNE ELLIOTT Editor of Annual RALPH NIELANDER Vice President of Senior Class Jw -gl' xx N'WW1 X N PJ ff X331 X' X xii CARROL CHAPMAN President of Student Council ARTHUR BETTS Captain of Basketball Team