Attica High School - Torch Yearbook (Attica, NY)

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enictr Class We, the SENIOR CLASS of nineteen hundred and forty-six of ATTICA HIGH SCHOOL, Town of Attica, County of Wyoming, State of New York, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make, ordain, publish and declare this to be our last WILL and TESTAMENT in the manner and form following: FIRST: We bequeath our success and happiness to future senior classes and direct that they shall pay all our just debts. We devise and bequeath unto the following, or their heirs and assigns, the following as stated: To the School: Some grass to keep off of. To the President of the Class of ’47: All June’s headaches. To Mrs. Ranger: A good long vacation to forget the nightmare of Senior Class advisorship. To John Powers’ Agency: Honey Shreder. To the Faculty: A return ticket to A.H.S. To Jean Zink: Hazel’s idea of sticking to one man. To the Cheerleaders: Some new and peppy cheers. To Walt Disney: Rae Leyden’s artistry. To All Girls: Our senior Casanova, Paul Krotz. To Bun Heebner: Anthony Wind’s violin. To Mrs. Barnes: A Rita who would always get to school on time. To Next Year’s Basketball Team: Bob Nordin’s green wool socks. To Miss McCarthy: Another Jimmy Parsons for the leading man in her plays. To the Book of Famous Quotations: Joe Gaffney’s favorite expressions: Hardships” and No percentage in that.” To Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra: Milford and his boogie woogie. To the New Principal: Another senior class like ours. To Joe Dunham: Bert George and Paski’s way with women. To the Petries: A longer driveway. To Mrs. Runvik: A big trap to put out in front of the pool room. To Junior Girls: Ginny Sturrock’s love for Buicks. To John Melville: Ann Tretter’s smile. This is our last WILL. We give, bequeath and devise to the Class of ’47 in complete and perfect ownership; all our rights and property of every kind and nature, whether real, personal or mixed, wherever bonded, and giving the above mentioned its seizin thereof except for the property in the foregoing list which goes with the legal titls to the designated persons. THE CLASS OF 1946 Page 24 Signed and Sealed: June, 1946.

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SENIOR HISTORY Four short years ago we came to school on a September morning and happily went up four flights of stairs to meet our first thrill—Freshman Homeroom. At our first class meeting we chose a fine set of officers who led us with great ability. They were: Phyllis Reed, President; Janet Strobel, Vice-President; Ann Tretter, Treasurer; Virginia Sturrock, Secretary, and Leo Reding and Marie Smith, Boy and Girl Representatives. Miss McCoord, Miss Richardson, and Mr. Carl were our able advisors. Our sophomore year started off with a bang! Our very able officers-elect were Rita Barnes, President; Lois Richter, Vice-President; Phyllis Reed, Secretary; Rae Leyden, Treasurer, and Marilyn Allen and Paul Krotz, Girl and Boy Representatives. Under the capable leadership of Mrs. Pierce and Mr. Cogger we held a very successful Victory Dance, Variety Assembly, and a Spring Dance. These two dances helped us start a good treasury for our Junior year. With complete confidence we started our Junior year at A.H.S. with Mrs Sands as our ambitious advisor. One reason for our successful year was our competent leaders. They were: President, Milford Fargo; Joe Ann Inglis, Vice-President; Secretary, Shirley Aldrich; Treasurer, Richard Walsh; Boy and Girl Representatives, James Pasnewski and Rita Barnes. Our Junior Prom swung through four happy hours with the Campus Cheers from Alfred University. Our play, Miss Smarty,” under the fine direction of Miss McCarthy was of course a success! Next on the agenda came our Junior-Senior Banquet, which we all enjoyed thanks to Rev. Robert Spears’ wonderful address. With three years of hoping, hard work, and good guidance, we found ourselves Seniors! With the usual sensible judgment we elected Richard Holbrook, President; June Youngs, Vice-President; Phyllis Reed, Secretary; Ruth Van Son, Treasurer, and Milford Fargo and Rita Barnes, Boy and Girl Representatives. During January our President, Dick Holbrook, left for Navy Air Cadet service, and June Youngs became our highest official. James Parsons filled her former office as Vice-President. Our activities for the year were: Hallowe’en Square Dance, Senior Ball with Bill Bird, Fashion Show, and our Minstrel Show, the last two of which were huge successes. A bake sale and the sale of candy also boosted our budget to face the Detroit trip. As this goes to press we are looking forward to Class Night, graduation, and above all, our boat trip to Detroit. Page 23

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PERSONALITIES Name Usually Found Ability Can You Imagine Ruth Abbey Rather Quiet Drawing Flying an airplane Shirley Aldrich Jerking Sodas Sarcasm In a leopard skin Betty Jane Abendschein With Bob Being Nice Being a wrestler Lillian Aylsworth Sugar Bowl Basketball Riding an elephant Beverly Ames With Loie Ruthie Being Happy Being Fat Rita Barnes At Square Dances Making Noise Being on Time Caroline Charles With the Big Three Helping People Being Serious John Craig At Home Shyness Being a Wolf Leo Dumke With Freshman Girls Drawing Acting his age Jean Eastman Talking with B. Head Smiling Without a fracture Willy Elsanker Trying to make life easier Laughing A Preacher Milford Fargo At the piano Anything Flunking Raymond Fisher Being late for class Dealing Not tormenting C.D.M. Leo Fugle Wandering Around Doing Errands A Basso Profundo Joseph Gaffney Can’t Ever Tell That Line Without a harem James Geise With Sarah Hunting Missing a square dance Robert George Where he shouldn’t be Cutting Meat Driving sanely Margaret Heintz Out of School Looking Neat Working Robert Head In Mischief Trapping Awake in classes Richard Hoffmeister Kicking Around Getting in the way On the bench Richard Holbrook At Suess’s Making Friends Without his little Ford Joe Ann Inglis Going Steady Dancing Staying with one man Betty Jaeckle In Cowlesville Getting in Trouble Not missing her bus Paul Krotz Raising Cain Finding the good spots A Prohibitionist Rae Leyden In a Fog Her Wit Not drawing in English Doris Lippold In Eley’s Studebaker Creating Coiffures Getting in early Donald May Bowling Excuses In the Army Gifford Maxon Following Women Loafing With his English done Hazel Nevinger With Charlie Getting her man An Old Maid Robert Nordin On Genesee St. Dozing Without Flynn James Pasnewski Where there are girls Getting attention Being quiet Beatrice Petrie In the Dodge Being true Without Kirk James Parsons That’s a good question Getting girls Being lonely Mary Lou Kadice Writing letters Being quiet Without her work done Phyllis Reed Looking for the mail Avoiding school Not looking cute Lois Richter Welcoming Dick home Entertainment Growing up Audrey Ripstein With her man Shorthand Without her rock Donald Rudolph On the Farm Milking cows As a city slicker Lola Rykert On her bike Having crushes Wife of Art” Robert Sangbush Making it a threesome Tumbling Minus Mona Frances Schiller At Johns Being smart Home on a Saturday night Helen Shreder On a date Her clothes Staying home nights Florence Siwiec Making friends Singing Ballet dancing Raymond Stroh Asleep Baby Sitting A night watchman Virginia Sturrock In the back booth at Bries Falling in love A hermit Ann Tretter In Lancaster Fickleness Six feet tall Ruth Van Son With D. L. Sweetness Being a burlesque queen Robert Van Valkenburg In his F.F.A. jacket Farming Without Betty Paul Wehner Sitting in front of Embts Being slow Going out for track Elaine Werner Wolfing Taking pictures Being shy Ethelbert West With the gang Driving With a flat tire Arthur Wilson In the office Day-dreaming You tell him Anthony Wind Telling jokes Chemistry problems Being modest Mae Wright At the Frosty Dell Being cute Not singing June Youngs With Caroline Singing Being a red hot mamma Daniel Zehler Smiling Being shy Anything Florence Zymowski In the movies Dancing the polka Shooting crap John Zymowski Connie’s on Sunday night ???????? Going home Page 25