Wooster High School - General Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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THE GENERAL ANNUALof 1944 Page Twentyftwojl HOWARD MENTZER Never at a loss for a joke he even has them catalogued. DORIS MEIER Hear much, speak lttlle. Latin club l, 2: Spanish club 3, 4: G. A. A. l, 2, 3: Soccer 1: Bowling 2: Orchestra l: Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4, interclub council 4: General stall 4, business staff 4: Annual stall 4. CHESTER MILLER The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Choir l, 2, 3, 4: Baseball 4. HUBERT MYERS The fool doth thunk he is wnse, hut the wise man lqnows himself to he a fool. Spanish club 3, 4. MYRON MILLER As approachable as a subway turnstile. lvlillersburg High School 2, 3: HifY 4. MARGARET MILLER She's very frank -- burns the candor at hoth ends. Orchestra l, 2, 4, state contest 2: Choir 2, 3, 4. state contest 2. Uperetta cast 3: Glee club 3, treasurer 3: Girl Reserves Z, 3. 4, cahinet 4, music chairman 4. Inter-club council 3: Marine room council 3, 4: Latin club l, 2: French cluh 3. 4: Soc and Buskin 2, 3, 4: Thespian 3, 4: Play cast 4, play crew 2, 3, 4. prompter Z: General stall 4: ,Iunto 4: Ensemble 4: Dance band vocalist 4: Prom com- mittee 3: Director freshman play 3: National Honor Society 4. WILSON MILLER It may he that the race is not always to the swift. hut thal's the it ay to het. Swimming l, 2, 3, 4: Hi'Y Z, 3, 4: Latin club I, Z: Intramural swimming 3. RAYMOND MOORE A rtch man is nothing but a poor man with money. F. F. A. I, 2, 3, 4, basketball 3, 4, speech club l, 2, softball 3, 4: Prince of Peace l: ,lunto cluh 43 Choir 3: Baseball 3, 4. IMOGENE MOWRER Silence IS as deep as Elernxtyg Speech is as shallow as Time, JACQUELINE MORRIS She tloesn't enter a room she invades it. Orchestra l, 2, 3. 4: Band 2, 3, 4: Orchestra state contest 2: Band state contest 2: String quintet 3. quartet 3, state contest 3: Operetta orchestra l, 2, 3: Latin cluh 1, 2: French club 3, 4, vice-president 4. social chairman 4: Soc and Buskin 2, 3, 4, stage crew 3, play 2, 4, president 3: Thespian 2, 3, 4: -lunto club 3, 4: G. A. A. l: Girl Reserves Z, 3, 4: Prince of Peace l: lunior McDowell club 2, 3, vice-president 2, secretary 3: National Honor Society 4. JACK MYATT Off again, on again, gone agatn, Flannagan. HARRY MYKRANTZ Gentlemen, I represent the prolctraial. Band l, 2, 3, 4. district band contest l, 2, state band contest 2: F. F. A. l, 2: Kent scholarship team l, 2: National Honor Society 4: Choir 3, 4: Operetta 3, 4.

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THE GENERAL ANNUAL of 1944 JOHN LANDERS, JR. And they hang pictures! HifY 2, 3, 4, interfcluh council 4, president 4: Latin club 1, 2: Swimming team 1, 2: Football 2, 3, 4, letterman 4: Boys' 4: Prom committee 3: Intramural basketball 1, 2, 3, 4: Baseball 4: Junto 4. LAVONNE LEISY If she were paid by the mile, she'Cl be a billionaire. Glee club 1: Choir 3, 4: Operetta 1, 3, 4: General staff 4: Annual staff 4, head typist 4: Buckeye club 1, 2, 3: G. A. A. 1, 2, 3: Soccer 1, 2: Basketball 1, 2: Hiking 2: Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: Scratch and Scribble club 3, 4, secretaryftreasurer 3, 4: Prom committee 3: Na' tional Honor Society 4. . RICHARD LINN Here's to woman: the salt of the earth since Lot's time. Smithville 1: Prom committee 3: Hi-Y 4: Choir 4: Operetta 4. DOROTHY LYTLE Things are never as bad as they seemfthey couldnt be. Girl Reserve 3, 4: Scratch and Scribble club 3, 4: Choir 3, 4: Glee club 2, 3, 4: Operetta 3, 4. FRANK MCCLURE A genius is a soul apart. National Honor Society 3, 4: Football 2, 3, 4: Boys' 4: N. F. L, 1, 2. 3, 4, vicefpresident 4: Soc and Buskin 3, 4: Baseball 3, 4: Student Senate 2, 3: Kent State Scholarship team 2. 3, 4: Operetta 3: Latin club 1, 2: Spanish club 3, 4: HifY Z. 3, 4: Junto 2, 3, 4, viceepresident 4: Debate 1, 2, 3. GORDON McGAW He who sleeps feels not the toothache. HifY 2, 3, 4: Swimming team 2, 3: German club 3, 4: Intramural football 1, 2, 3: Intramural basketball 1, 2, 3: Intramural baseball l, 2, 3: Kent Scholarship team 2, 3: Rifle club 3. NANCY McKEE A cynic is a person whose faulty vision sees things as they are, rather than as they should be. General staff' 3, 4, feature writer 3, 4, social chairman 4: Annual staff 4, editor 4: Girl Reserves 2. 3, 4: Dramatic club 2, 3, 4, play cast 3, 4, one-act play community theatre 3, stage crew 2, 3, 4, student director of one act play 3: Thespian 2, 3, 4, vicefpresident 3, 4: Choir 2, 3, 4: state contest 2: Operetta 3, 4, publicity chairman 3, 4: Latin club 1. 2, 3, 4: French club 3, 4, vicefpresident 3: Humorous reading 2: Prom committee chairman 3: Board of control 4: Na' tional Honor Society 4: Kent Scholarship Team 4. PHYLLIS MCGREW I love life, so I want to live. General staff 2, 3, 4: Glee club 2, 3, 4: Choir 2, 3, 4: Ensemble 2, 3, 4: Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: G. A. A. 1, 3, 4: Bowling 3, 4: Latin club 1, 2: Spanish club 3, 4: Buckeye club 1, 2: Soc and Buskin 2, 3, 4: Thespian 3, 4: Glee club, choir, ensemble, district contest 2: Glee club, choir, ensemble state contest 2: Operetta lead 3, cast 4: Prom committee chairman 3. JOHN McQUIGG Many a young man thinks he is hard boiled when he's really only halffbaked. Hi-Y 2, 3, 4, financial secretary 4: Football 2, 3, 4: Basketball 2, 3: Intramural football 1: Intramural basketball 1, 3: Latin club 2: Boys' W 3, 4: Prom committee chairman 3. ALBERT MANCINI It is better to keep silent and be taken for a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Hi'Y 2. 3, 4: Latin club 1, 2: Baseball 1, 2, 3: Kent scholarship team 3. HERMAN MAYS, JR. As inquisitive as an X-Ray. Hi-Y 4: Rifle club 2, 3: Prom committee 3: Intramural basketball 1, 2. WILLIAM MARTIN He's nice even to people who can't do him a favor. Football 2, 3, 4: Basketball 2, 3: Baseball 3: Boys' 'LW ' 3, 4: Hi'Y 3, 4: Sergeant-at-arms 3: Latin club 1, 2: Student Senate 4, president 4: Junto 4: National Honor Society 4. fPage Twenty-one'l

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THE GENERAL ANNUAL of 1944 ALLAN NEILSON A farmer is a handy man with a sense of humus. Prom committee 3: F. F, A. 1, 2, 3, 4: Rifle club 4. JACK NEELY Navy. Great Lakes Training Station. ARLYN NEISWANDER He bites off more than he can chew and thcn chews it. Band 1, 2, 3, 4, district and state contests 2: Choir 1, 2, 3, 4, district and state contests 2: District solo contest 2: State solo contest Z: District ensemble contest 2: State ensemble contest Z: Clarinet quarf tet Z: HifY 4: Prom committee chairman 3: Class treasurer 4: N. F. L. 4, degree of dsitinction 4: Debate 4: Soc and Buskin Z, 3, 4, play cast 2, 3, 4, student play director 3, stage crew 2, 3, 4: Thespian 3, 4, secretary-treasurer 4: Operetta 1, 3, 4, cast 3, stage crew 3, 4: Latin club 2: French club 3, 4: Annual staff 3, 4, makefup editor 4: General staff 4: Kent scholarship team 4: Speech club 1: Prince of Peace 4: junto club 4: N. F. L. debate team 4, extempore 4, state league team 4, student congress 4, senator 4: Youth Forum com' mittee 4: Junior Kiwanian 4. DALE NIRODE The optimist is often as wrong as the pessimist. but he is far happier. Intramural football 2, 4: Intramural basketball 1, Z, 4: Prom com- mittee 3: National Honor Society 4, DORRIS O'BRIEN Silence is golden. Scratch and Scribble club 3, 4: Baseball 1. NORMA JEAN NORTH Only perfection will do. Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: German club 3, 4: Latin club 2, 3, 4. CHARLES PALMER A trgmpeter pulling notes like taffy into a thin sweet thread of soun . HifY 1, 2, 3, 4: Football 41 Band 1, 2, 3, 4: Dance orchestra 2, 3, 4: Senior orchestra 2, 3: District solo contest 1, 2: State solo contest 1, Z: Latin club 2: French club 33 Boys' Association 4, president 4: Intramural sports 1. PATRICIA PARKINSON The kind of girl who always keeps the plot boiling. Lake Worth, Florida 1, 2: French club 3, 4, president 3: junto 3, 4: Choir 3, 4: Thespian 3. 4: Soc and Buskin 3, 4, play cast 3, 4: General stall' 3, 4: Girl Reserves 3, 4: Speech 4: Interfclub council 4: Kent scholarship team 3: Operetta 3, 4, stage crew 3, cast 4, Prop chairman 43 Cheerleading 4: National Honor Society 4: Prom com' mittee 3: N. F. L. 4. MILTON E. PURDY I never let my studies interfere with my education. F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, treasurer 2, 3. RUTH PERRY A So long as what might have been isn't, why worry about it? MERLE RINARD The only way to have friends is to be one. Football 3, 4: Swimming 2, 3. 4. WINIFRED REID Don't bother meg I'm dizzy. Girls' Glee club 2: Girl Reserve Z: General staff 1, 2: Secretarial club 3. fPage Twentyfthreel