Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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0| Tilemolies, Qchieoements, Decisions Coach R. A. Ball again molded a prosperous track team in the Spring. Spring training also found baseball on the agenda as Coach George Guarnieri discovered senior mocemen, Richard Ackley, Bill Adams, Jim Baron, Dana Forinosh, Anthony Savarise, Jack Wade, and Ronald Westfall on the Panther squad. Skillfully guiding their respective clubs to new heights in their positions as prexies were Jim Boron, Spanish; Peter Ducro, Junior Red Cross; Phyllis Gilbert, FHA; La Rita Harris, Sketchers; Sherrill Hayes, Dramotic and Thespians; Carol Jeffers, French; Stanley Lackey, a Cappella choir; Steve Patrick, D-Ed; Robert Ray, Auto Mechanics; Richard Rubly, Latin; Marguerite Skullman, Vocational Commercial; Phyllis Truesdell, Junior-Senior Y-Teens; Bill Venditti, Marching Band; Ronald Westfall, Panther Hi-Y; and Anna-belle Whalen, Girls' Recreation. Displaying their scholastic ability in the General Scholarship Tests taken in February, Richard Ackley, Clarence Corbin, Ronald Cook, Francis Halligon, Bernhard Hanhi-lammi, Nancy Headley, Anton Micksch, Ronald Westfall, Annabelle Whalen, and Charles Wiedman received honorable mention for placing in the upper 25 per cent of the contestants in Ashtabula county. Distributing DARTS and handling finances in admirable fashion during the first semester were treasurers, Donald Bell, Evangeline Chekouras, Kothleen Field, Pat Mc-Cluskey, Budd Penna, and Marguerite Skullmon. Equolly capable during the second semester were newcomers, Leona DiGiacomo, Tom Ducro. Sue Mackenzie, and Marvin Shick. Steering the bi-weekly publication. The DART, through 18 hectic issues were Co-editors Annobelle Whalen ond Charles Wiedman, with Business Manager Gloria Cifelli. Yes, the time has come when a senior wishes he were still a green sophomore Nevertheless, with an enviable record of glorious achievements behind, the class of 1950 is embarking on the perilous journey termed life . With memories of those pep assemblies, athletic contests, the Senior play, the class picnic, the Senior Prom looming high in our minds, it is with deep emotion that we terminate our final year at AHS. Yes, it all seems as though it were only yesterday! nineteen

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Glass 950 Hocks Back l{f on jeal By Annabcllc Whalen SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Lett to riqht: C Karlen Wiedmon. Jock Wodc. Richard Mollick. Dona Fori00vh As the class of 1950 wend their way proudly toward that select circle to receive their diplomas, a multitude of thoughts will probably sweep through their minds. For here, clad in the coveted cop and gown, they have approached the climax of one of the richest periods in life and are prepared to seek the varied opportunities of a modern world. The fleeting moments of those by-gone school days are being sadly replaced with a mature and rational outlook toward the future. With one lost pause let us look back over o year filled with pleasant memories, distinctive achievements, and momentous decisions. The advent of the biting Fall atmosphere found a determined band of Golden Panthers romping through a glorious season in true fashion to chalk up another successful gridiron record. After the fury and enthusiasm had settled following the Painesville fracos, Coach George Guarnieri discovered that Senior Lettermen Richard Ackley, George Colucci, Francis DiPietro, Peter Ducro, Dale Kaiser, Richard Mollick, Jack Wade, Ronald Weiss, Honorary Captain Ronald Westfall, Charles Wiedman, and Manager Richard Rubly had terminated a highly-touted pigskin campaign in the runner-up position in the Lake Shore league. Adding royalty and sparkling brilliance to the Erie East tilt, the squad chose Mary Sullivan to reiqn majestically with her court, Bertine Baker, Joanne Cozadd, Carol Jeffers, Barbara Maudsley, and Joan Reed, over the grid tussle. Enthusiastically instilling a competitive spirit of sportsmanship into spectators were Senior Cheerleaders Evelyn Baker, Marguerite Skullman, Shirley Soderman, Shirley Watson. With attention focused on elections, seniors named Janice Coonev, Edward Loeffel, and Robert Rav as first-semester representatives to the Senate, presided over by Ronald Westfall, president; Dale Kaiser, vice-president; and Jim Baron, secretary-treasurer. With the same seniors as representatives during the succeeding term, the Senate had at its helm Dale Kaiser, Jim Baron, and Janice Cooney in the positions of president, vice-president. and secretarv-treasurer, respectively. Trekking to the polls, seniors further proved that the woman's place is in the home. Dominating the academic and social life at AHS by virtue of their election victories were Richord Mollick, president; Charles Wiedman, vice-president; Jack Wade, secretory; and Dana Forinash, treasurer. Rinoing down the curtain on a meritorious cage season under the quidance of Coach R. A. Ball, senior hoopsters, Richard Acklev, Francis DiPietro, Dale Kaiser, Richord Mollick, Robert Notarianni, Ronald Westfall, Charles Wiedman, and manager, Charles Tod-Der, oroved to be a powerful varsity aggregation as they tied for second place in the Lake Shore League. With the return of senior thinclads, Peter Ducro. Dale Kaiser, Edward Loeffel, Richard Mollick, Jim Robinson, and Ronald Westfall, and the addition of Manager Tom Ducro, eighteen

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 RICHARD HAROLD ACKLEY—Brains and Brawn . . . Shadowed by B. B. . . . PHYLLIS JEAN ADAMS—Piccolo Pete . . . Tickler of the ivories . . . WILLIAM DUDLEY ADAMS— Future Detroit Tiger . . . Mischievous glance . . . ROSE MARIE ALTOMARE—Football program magnet . . . To be or not to be (in school) . . . ALB IN J. ANDERSON—Don Cupid himself . . . Finest lizzy in Bula's parking lot. SYLVIA CAROLYN ANDERSON—Unsurpassed wit . . . Sugor Bowl fan . . . DONNA MAE ANDREWS—Complexion of peaches and cream . . . Neat fashions . . . MARGERY JANE ARNOLD— Dear hunter . . . Makin' whoopee . . . VERA LOUISE BABCOCK—Grocerette . . . Always a grin . . . BERTINE MARIE BAKER—'Round her neck she wears Dick's trophies . . . Daddy, got a dime? EVELYN MAE BAKER - Oh, you beautiful doll . . . With o sophisticated air . . . JAMES GREGORY BARON—Chem brain . . . Speller supreme . . . DONALD ERNEST BARTRAM— DART'S shutterbug deluxe . . . Don't rush me . . . DONALD DUANE BELL — Love 'em and leave 'em . . . Well-known host . . . CONSTANTINE JACK BELLIOS . . . Fast talker . . . Future haberdasher. twenty