Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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%e Class 955 Left to Right: President Gil Mortcllo; Vice-president June Mills; Secretory Beverly Bortko; Treosurer Shirley Rhinchort. £eniol Glass Histoi j By Williom Manchester Dear Lemo: To add another exhilerating chapter to the continuous story of Ashtabula High School, we, the Senior Class of 1955, wish to present you with the record of our final achievements. You've seen our one big happy family of 208 in our staunch determination to offer Bula maximum support. A Midsummer Night's Dream, the first Shakespeorean drama presented by ony high school in this area, was given as our Senior Class ploy. We know. Lemo, you'll never forget the campaign rally before elections. R. A Boll's election board composed of Ronald Allen, Bert Carlisle, John Holliday, Ann Minwegen, and clerk Kay Whalen deserve praise for their participation in school government. Applying the principles of democracy, we elected Gilbert Martello, president; June Mills, vice-president; Beverly Bartko, secretary; and Shirley Rhinehart, treasurer. Cosie Patrick headed the Senate with Bradley Carleton, Lillian Sposito, ond Gilbert Martello, as vice-president, secretary, and treosurer respectively. Other homeroom presidents, Gerald DeGennaro. Gary Johnson, and Jack Zo- back were our representatives in the Senate. The Big Seven homerooms chose as their veeps Beverly Bartko, Beverly Eighmy, Ray Kovacs, John Martello, Jerry Richards, Don Streichcr, ond James Wel-ton. Performing clerical tasks each morning were secretaries Eleanor Brown, Marilyn Greene, Barbara Luce, JoAnn Martino, Shirley Rhinehart, Pot Stanberry, and Kay Whalen. Influential sales talks were given by treasurers Catharine Browckay, Carol Hampton, Moxine Levin, Terry Moisio, Louise Penna, Doug Stoneman, and Joe Zoblisein. Leading the Class with 4.00 or perfect A averages were Lois Mills and Kay Whalen, who will make valedictory speeches at Commencement. Also upholding Bula's scholastic reputation were John Halliday and Peter Bab-cox who placed fourth and seventh, respectively, in the County in the Ohio State scholorshsip test. Seniors receiving honorable mention in the County were Bert Carlisle, Ronald Allen, Judy Loose, Steve Helmeci, Dovid Louis, Beth Tiffner, Kay (Continued on page 31)