Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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Senior Class Poem Accept, Alma Mater, Our humble thanksgiving For filling our schooldays With rare joys of living. We thank thee for counsel, So learned and prudent; For teaching; and guidance, Provided each student. We thank thee for friendships. For memories we’ll treasure; Elation in victory; For joys without measure. We thank thee for wisdom; Attainment of knowledge, That helps to prepare us For tasks of life's college. We thank thee for honor, The challenge to duty, Awakening within us The essence of beauty. We thank thee for culture And social environments; Foundations well-builded To meet life's requirements. We thank thee for solace In hours of our sadness; For untold rejoicing In periods of gladness. For friends and companions So loyal and true. We give hearty thanks, Alma Mater, to you. 29

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Walsh, William Student Council 12; Vice President Student Council 12; Honor Society 11, 12; Vice Presi-d nt Honor Society 12; Tattler Staff 12; Intramural Basketball 11. Whipple, Dale Band 10, 11, 12. Whitney, George Honor Society 11, 12; Spanish Club 11, 12; Tattler Staff 12; Business Manager Tattler Staff 12; Senior Play 12. Yates, Lois Latin Club 11; Library Staff 11, 12; Concessions 10. Wood, Warren Tattler Staff 12; Senior Play Stage Manager Woodworth, George 12; Trumpet Staff 11. NO PICTURES: Richard Campbell, Shirley Giles, Donald Laitinen, Charles Lyon, John Moross, Robert Moross, Rjfcert Silanpaa. 28

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Senior Class History We. the graduating class of 1948. are leaving to the future classes of Conneaut Senior High School, a record of which we can be justly proud. If they desire to follow our example, we feel certain that the fame of our school will crow nobly and spread widely throughout the years. We have set the pace; follow, if you will. In 1945, we entered C. H. S. s hallowed halls of learning as a humble, almost terrified, group of “cookies.” who were soon made aware of their low station by being initiated into the high school student body at the Senior-Sophomore Party. As we recall that party (and who can forget it?), it was an exhibition of senior cruelty meted out to helpless “cookies”; however, both classes united in having a wonderful time before the evening came to a close. With conditions restored to normalcy again, we elected a very fine group of class officers: William Simpson. President; Lura Lovell, Vice-President; Peggy Gaugh, Secretary; and Joan Hershey, Treasurer. The sophomores that year were reluctant to engage in much activity, so the year passed rather quietly. The Student Council members were Billie Chor-penning. Paul Dombroski, and Glenna Ocshier. Our helpful class adviser was Miss Gladys Bigler. Re-entering school in 1946 as juniors, we chose Paul Dombroski as our President, Leo Cifelli as Vice-President, Peegy Gaugh as Secretary, and Marlowe Christopher as Treasurer. Miss Kennedy was the adviser, who guided these officers and the class through a significant year. Charles Sayre. Billie Chorpenning, and Margaret Jackson were our Student Council representatives. We were responsible for the Junior-Senior Prom that year and executed that responsibility commendably. As we recall the event we can visualize the hall, decorated to resemble a ship: the name of this mythical vessel was the V. R. Henry, in honor of Principal Henry, who retired from school that year. Our final year in C. H. S. has been the most glorious of all. We made a good start by electing Leo Cifelli as class President. George Needham as Vice-President, Joanne Maney as Secretary, and Lura Lovell as Treasurer. The members of the student governing body this year have been Billie Chorpenning, Joanne Delanty. Paul Dombroski, Joanne Rositer, William Walsh and Lura Lovell. The Chestnut Hunt, a traditional social event of previous senior classes of Conneaut High School, was held at Cherry Hill. As everyone expected, not a single chestnut was discovered in the day’s zealous search for those almost extinct nuts. Before the close of the day some of us almost became extinct, too. (No, it wasn’t food poisoning, for the faculty guests survived the feast.) Much food, many wholesome games, pranks, and attempts to lose oneself in the cherry grove brought great enjoyment and exciting exhaustion to everyone present. The “cookie” initiation somewhat later was fun for everyone, exceot the “cookies.” Our sophomore friends were compelled to wear their weird costumes during classes, as well as at the party, and to obey the seniors commands or suffer severe penalties. What commands! What penalties! We refer you to the sophomores surviving the ordeal, for an accurate account of this Senior-Sophomore Party. The custom of having a Homecoming game with a Queen and her Court presiding was first instituted when we were sophomores. That year Joanne Keating was the sophomore member of the Court; in the junior year Betty Peck and Pat Hecken-dorn were chosen to preside as Court attendants: and in the senior year, tall blonde Glenna Ocshier was Queen, with seniors Betty Peck and Dora Faye Bacon elected to her Court. The annual senior play, entitled “Here Come the Brides,” was presented under the direction of Miss Gravette. It was a comedy truly deserving of the name, and we proudly name the cast who displayed their histronic ability so well: Richard Taggart. Herbert Frietsch. Joanne Delanty, Marlowe Christopher, Joanne Keating. George Whitney. Joanne Rositer. Alice Ahlberg, Joanne Maney, Carol Herb and Mary Brown. Betty Peck was prompter, while Warren Wood and Norman Grose were stage-hands. Last fall. Conneaut’s Trojans adorned themselves with glory in football fame by winninc the Lake Shore League Championship for the first time in many year . Thr e-year lettermen were William Simpson, Leo Mucci, and Paul Dombroski. L°o Cifelli. Harold Hoyt, Donald Laine, Charles Lyon, George Needham, and Ricb rH Soares were two-year lettermen. As a ‘junior, Bill Simpson was selected as right guard on the All-League Second Team, while Paul Dombroski received honorable mention. As seniors. Bill Simpson, Leo Mucci, and Paul Dombroski had been 30