Wooster High School - General Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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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

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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 . X Page Twentyffouvj MARIAN ROHR Let me live in a housc by the side of the road and he a friend to man. Reading club l: G. A. A. l ,2, 3, 4: Basketball l: Hiking and Biking 2: Bowling 2. 3: Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: General advertising staff 2, 3, 4: Choir 3: Ping pong l: Hockey 3: Latin club 2: German club 3. 4. ELSIE ROCK We who are small in stature are not necessarily little in mind. Girl Reserve 4. LOUISE ROUCH l am here, but few know it. Home Economics club 2: Scratch and Scribble club 3, 4. WEBSTER RUSSELL He's rusting on his laurels. N. F. L. l, 2, 3, 4: Soc and Buskin 2, 3, play cast 2: -Iunto 2: HifY 2, 3, 4, treasurer 3: Swimming l, 2. 3: Latin club l, 2: Spanish club 3, 4, treasurer 4, social chairman 4: General stall' 2, 3. feature editor 3: N. F. L. district oratory 4: Prom committee chairman 3: Debate 4: Humorous declamation 2, 3: Extcmporaneous 4: Thespian 2. 3: Speech club l, 2. CARL SAUNDERS Take things as they be 'Thats my philosophy No use to holler, mope, or fuss lf they was changed, they might be wuss. Basketball l, 2: Latin club l: Football 2, 3, 4: Hi-Y 2, 3: Boys' 2, 3, 4: Swimming ll Baseball l. JACQUELINE SCI-IAFER If she will she will, you may depend on it. If she won't .she wont so there's an end on it, Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: G. A. A. l, 2, 3, 4: Basketball l, allfstar l: Recreational swimming l: Ping pong 1, 3, 4: Baseball l, 4: Scratch and Scribblc club 3, 4. ALVIN SCHREINER Pack up yoiw troubles in your old kit bag and smile . Basketball 4. ELIZABETH SCOTT Wlien fun and duty clash, Let duty go to smash. Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4: G. A. A. I, 2, 3, 4, jr. sports board I, vice' president l: Soccer 1, 2, all'star l, 2: Baseball 1, 2, allfstar l, 2: Swim' ming 1, 2, allfstar l, 2: Recreational swimming l, 2: Ping pong l, 2: Prom committee 3: Latin club l: Freshman speech l. PATRICIA YOUNG She doesnt just wall: she grauitates. Girl Reserves 2, 4: G. A. A. l, 2, 3, 4: Buckeye club 3: Latin club 2: Bowling 3, 4, NYDA SHEARER Be silent and safe -- silence never betrays you. Glee club 2, 3, 4, contest 2: Ensemble 2, 3, 4, contest 2: Choir 1, 3, 4: Operetta 1, 3, 4: Home Economics club 2, 3, 4, secretary 3, program chairman 4: Girl Reserves 3, 4. MARY ELIZABETH SHOOLROY Few things are impossible to skill and diligence. Student Senate 1, 3, social chairman 31 National Honor Society 3, 4: Soc and Buskin 3, 4, play cast 3, 4, stage crew 3: Thespian 4: Girls' 3, 4, junior W lg G. A. A. 1, 2, 3, 4, sports board 2, 3, 4, social chairman 3: Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4, all-star 1, 2, 3, 4, captain 4: Baseball l, 2, allfstar l, 2: Soccer 1, 2, 3, 4, all'star l, 2, 3, 4: Hockey 2, 3, 4, allfstar 4: Bowling 2: Ping pong 1, 2, 3, 4: Recreaf tional swimming 2: Senior life saving 3: Volleyball 2: Tennis 2: Leaders' club 3, 4: ,lunior G. A. A. sports board advisor 4: Glass social chairman 3, Prom chairman 3: Latin club 1, 2: Spanish club 3, 4, program chairman 3: Interclub council 2: General business stall' I, 2, 4: Annual stall 4: Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4, cabinet 3, 4, financial chairman 3, program chairman 4: Attendent to Home Coming Queen 4: Board of Control 3. MARVIN SHREVE A mind of your own is worth four of those of your friends. Band l, 2, 3, 4, contest l, 2: Orchestral 2, contest 2: Operetta 2: HifY 3, 4: Latin club 2: Rifle club 4: Dance orchestra l. 2, 3, 4: Track l.