Blend High School - Memories Yearbook (Blend, IL)

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 Maxima Historia Omnium Temporum By Margaret Lesko At last our “big day” came when early in September, 1942, we entered the portals of this institution as “Green Freshmen.” How well our eighth-grade grad- uation colors of green and white suited us! There is an old school tradition of initiating Freshmen boys, and our class was no exception. Some of the upper-classmen wanted to improve the custom by ini- tiating the girls, too; but somehow they never got around to doing it, and we didn’t complain. After a week or so of losing ourselves between classes (just to amuse our upper-classmen) we were able to find our way around school as well as any old, experienced senior. Approximately one-fourth of our class was on the honor roll during this first year, and we proudly state that we have been able to keep this record all through our high school days. The person who is valedictorian this year can really be thought of as a “pillar of intelligence.” Since we were only Freshmen, our athletes didn’t make the first team in any sports, but they did partake in Freshman-Sophomore meets with other schools. A foundation was thus started for the winning teams that we now have. Another event which will always be remembered was the Junior play, “Mystery in the Library,” which was sponsored by Miss Toigo and Mr. Sciarra. This was just another factor which proves that the B. T. H. S. produces some very talented people. Not only was the acting superb, but the sound effects and lighting were also very effective. Much to our regret school was over in May and because of the war, we couldn’t charter a bus to take us on a class picnic. But the summer passed quickly and the next fall we were back at school as Sophmores. During our Sophmore year the girls in Miss Gaydos’ clothing class formed a sewing club, The Society of Sewers, more commonly known as the S. O. S. The membership included the present clothing class (Sophomores for the most part) and all other B. T. H. S. students who had taken clothing. Aside from the forming of this club, our school days were spent in routine ways. The basketball, football, and track teams did very well again that year, and a few more tropies were added to our collection. As it is traditional to have a Junior-Senior banquet in the middle of May and to have Sophomores serve, most of us were looking forward to this event in antic- ipation and some of us were fortunate enough to be chosen to serve. Not to be out-done by the Juniors, those Sophomores in Mr. Kasenga’s Latin classes decided to give a farewell banquet in his honor. The class tried to exercise what they had learned during the year by giving speeches in Latin. And then the S. O. S., thinking it was time for a social event, gave a very enjoyable pot-luck supper. Thus our Sophomore year came to a close, but since most of the boys could drive cars by this time, the class had a picnic, which was enjoyed by all. The Junior year was a busy year for most of us. The first few weeks of school our class started to make money for the banquet by selling subscriptions to magazines. We had two teams which were captained by Margaret Lesko and Ed- die Ruffatto with Margie’s team winning by a very small margin. We sold $725.25 worth of magazine subscriptions, giving us a net profit of $274.73. Bill Berutti and Eleanor Denny received prizes for being the two leading salesmen, and all who sold subscriptions attended a show at the expense of the Curtis Publishing Company. We had more than enough money to put on a banquet with the money we received from the sales, but our ambitious class decided to give a play. Thanks to