David B Oliver High School - Omicron Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE OMICRON RUSSELL BITTNER Bety Hi-Y IO: Senior Hi-Y II, I2: Traffic Squad IO, II, I2: Movie Club IO: Varsity Band IO: Home Room Sergeant-at-Arms IO, II: Treasurer I2: Chaplain of Senior Hi-Y II. Russ . . . John Morrow . . . tuture aeronautical engineer . . . tries to play trumpet! . . . tootball, basketball, hockey, baseball . . . Be it ever so humble, there's no place! . . . Bob Hope, Charley Shavers, Eddie Condon, Otto, Dale entertain . . . tavors aeronautics with Mr. Farrell . . . hates squares, conceited people . . . cute 5'l brownette lL.Y.l . . . flying low in a brown Olds or grey Plymouth . . . seen with Don, Jack, Jim, Otto. , MILDRED M. BLISTAN Pan American Club IO: Go-To-College 'Club IO: O. E. Club II: Home Room Reporter I2: Treasurer I2. Sweet Millie . . . laughed in trom Horace Mann . . . a private secretary . . . keeping a diary . . . tootball, basketball, bowling, ice skating . . . Always happy, always gay, always tossing cares away! . . . swoons at Frankie, Bob Walker, Van . . . tavors shorthand with Mr. Baumgarten . . . hates conceited people, rainy days . . . tall, blond, athletic lM.F.l . . . gabbing with Barb . . . seen with Barb, Helen, Edna, Mary, Dolores. CHARLES BOEHMER Chemistry Club I2: Home Room Vice President I2. Brilliant Charlie . . . brains ot the class from Samuel Hamilton . . . wants to do Screwball research . . . busy keeping away trom women . . . enjoys hunting . . . Perseverance generates success! . . . laughs at Bob Hope, Laurel and Hardy . . . collects cosmic rays . . . ta-vors physics and chemistry . . . despises love movies . . . Carnegie Tech . . . ideal is tall, thin and gruesome . . . T , pals qyrh with home room boys. I Joi-IN DloKsoN BoLToN, JR. f A Beta Hi-Y IO: Em-Rich Chorus IO: Spanish Club II, I2: Dancing Club II: Go-To-College Club IO: Variety Chorus I2: Social I Committee I2: Omicron Staff I2: Home Room Vice President IO, I2: Sergeant of Spanish Club I2. Dick . . . socialite from John Morrow . . . a tuture commercial artist . . . classical records, reading, bridge . . . 3:I5 at Oxies . . . Absence makes the heart grow tonder--, perhaps tor some other chaps! . . . Carmen Cavellero, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Tierney, Ballintine . . . must be a good dancer with personality . . . she's tall l5'5 l blonde lC.P.l . . . singe with Bill, Ed, Don . . . dislikes mayonaise and cokes . . . seen with the Kiddie's . DONALD GENE BOOK Basketball Squad IO, II, I2: Omicron Sta'FF I2: Beta Hi-Y IO, II: Senior Hi-Y II, I2: Traffic Squad I2: President of Student Body I2: Home Room President Il: Sergeant-at-Arms of Hi-Y IO, II: Chaplain II: Reporter I2. Don . . . hooked in from Spencer. W. Va. via J. M. S. . . . basketball with Hi-Y team, tootball, baseball, tiddleywinks . . . Crosby, Hope, Ed and Pat, Otto, Dreier . . . aero with Mr. Farrell . . . member ot C. S. A .... U. S. Naval Air Corp I ! ! . . . blonde or brunette with personality . . . knows Dick Horn I I I . . . Ioats with O.K., R.B., E.D., E.C.. W.L., B.C., J.H., J.J., L.H. JAMES A. BRAUN Varsity Band II, I2: Senior Orchestra IO, II, I2: Em-Rich Orchestra IO: AI-Jean Orchestra Il: Variety Jazz Band II, I2. I Jim . . . hep cat 'from John Morrow . . . to live' in California . . . collecting IOOO-dollar bills, dented tenders . . . Women are the root ot all evil! . . . entertained by Woodrow Herman, Stanley y Kenten, Bing, Wally Lash . . . Hamp's Boogie on the piano . . . pals with Bob, Jack. Smitty, Harry and 'first lunch gang. I Page Sixteen

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CLASS OF JUNE, I946 UWARDA JEAN BAUST I Varsity Band IO, II: Leaders 'Club I2. Wardy . . . came trom Linwood via McNaugher . . . to play drums in Phil Spitalny's Orchestra . . . playing with Shallmar Melodiars . . . bowling, skating . . . claims, Don't take lite too seriously, you never get out alive . . . tall, blond, blue-eyes IR. M.l . . . enjoys night snacks . . . seen with D.D., E,T., L.D., A.L.l-I., J.S., J.C., T.P.S. girls. FRANCES E. BELANCIC Em-Rich Choral Club IO: Oliver 'Choir IO, II, I2: Oliver Varieties II, l2: Class Play IZ: Home Room Reporter I2. I-lappy-go-lucky Franny . . . Mclieesport via Conroy . . . to harmonize on C.B.S. with Julie . . . classical records, writing poetry . . . basketball, country hiking . . . Let's get primitive! . . . enjoys quarteting with Julie, Frank, and Ed: tenors, Ed's jokes . . . O.E. with E.A.M. rates high . . . Art Institute . . . haunts the halls with Julie and l-larold W. ? 7 ? . . 4 never without Julie . . . pals with l-loney, Gilda, Audrey Armstrong. FRANCES B. BENDEKOVICH Go-To-College Club IO: Dancing Club IO: Oral English Club II. Ben . . . Manchester via Conroy . . . tuture nurse, basketball, tootball, badminton, skating, volleyball . . . I-le who laughs last, didn't get it! . . . admires Van, Esther Williams, Eve, Joan Davis . . . likes chemistry, study periods, shuns conceited people, bags, brownies . . . he must have blue eyes, nice hair . . . seen with Virginia, Rosie, Vern, Evelyn, Peewee, Gilda, I-Ioney, Dolores, Jo. J I NORMAN F. BENZ. JR. y Cheerleaders IO, II: Ensemble Orchestra I2: Variety Jazz Band ii IZ: Varsity Band II, l2: Captain ot Cheerleaders II: Reporter of ' Chemistry Club II: Home Room President IO: Social Chairman II. Norm . . . stomped in trom Columbus . . . a criminologist and musician ot a hep aggregation . . . music, dancing, girls . . . 'iWork tascinates me: l could sit and watch it all dayl . . . Red Skelton, Jimmy Dorsey, Miss Ecke . . . band with Maestro rates . . .dislikes work, sloppy girls . . . 5' 4 blue eyes, personality lG.B.j . . . likes chewing gum . . . seen with Johnny, Costa, Donny, Jimmy, Bernie and Gerry. DONALD M. BILBY Varsity Band IO, Il, I2: Home Room Treasurer IO. Don . . . sent by Mary J. Cowley . . . likes to collect stamps, be jack ot all trades . . . swimming, tootball, baseball . . . Silence is golden! . . . laughs at Danny Kaye, Bob Hope and Benz . . . tavors math with Trussel, English with Kiskadden, nuts to know-it-alls . . . small brunette with a sweet personality . . . arguing with Mr. Trussel . . . pals with Benz, Levis, band class boys. , RUTH A. BIRKHOLZ Smiling, pleasant Birk . . . l-lalls Grove via Columbus . . . to be a successful housewite . . . swimming, bowling, volleyball . . . lt you must disagree, be pleasant about it! . . . Gregory Peck, Jeanne Crain, Marie , Murphey Glamour Girls . . . sewing with Miss Cushwa, Espanol con Senorita . . . dislikes hats, snobs, and baby-talk . . . 6 Ill Brown-haired, blue-eyed R.W.O. . . . seeg with Marie, Betty, Moody, Bobbie, l-lotte, Audrey, Chris, Rose, F . Page Fitteen

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CLASS OF JUNE, i946 ROBERT JAMES BRAUN I Chorus Club IZ: Hi-Y II, IZ: Dancing Club II: Traffic Squad IZ: Football Il, IZ: Baseball IZ: Treasurer IZ: Vice President IO: Sergeant-atfArms IO. Bob . . . St. Andrews . . . to own a pin-ball machine . . .. football, baseball, basketball, swimming . . . Take lite's burdens with a smile! . . . listens to Spike Jones, Bing Crosby, June Allyson . . . gym with Pete rates . . . dislikes people with no sensayuma. haircuts . . . 5'4 blue-eyed brunette lP.C.H.l . . . advises on Tom's troubles . . . seen with Lou, Larry, Frank, Tom, Paul, Rich, Pat. SHIRLEY CATHERINE BRENDEL Sanitation Squad IO, IZ: AlaJean Chorus II: Senior Girls Leader Club II: Go-To-College Club I0, II: Oliver Choir IZ: Oil -Painting Club IZ: Home Room Vice-President II. Fascinating Shirley . . . J. M. S .... commercial artist . . . putterin' with Hawk, dancing, cokes at Okies , painting . . . Art is Power . . . Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Illinois Jacquet. Charlie Parker tor time kicks . . . detests squares, stones . . . Hood College . . . he's strictly out ot this world-in China-lA. S. C.l . . . tenor sax, Sinatra, Senorita tascinate . . . Sigma Iota Chi, Hawk, Lou. DOUGLAS L. BRUCE Beta Hi-Y I0, II: Senior Hi-Y II, IZ: Cheerleader II: Round Table 'Club II: Home Room Treasurer I0, II. King . . . came from McNaugher . . . to become a M. D. . . . new clothes . . . swimming, boxing. dancing rate . . . Decide not rashly: the decision made can never be recalled . . . Rocks to Lionel Hampton and Lena Hornel . I. . favors type with Miss Hill . . . dislikes loud girls . . . Pitt . . . medium height and lovely . . . enjoys breakfast in bed . . . seen with the print shop gang. I ROSE, MARIE LBRUNNER I Variety Chorus :Club II, IZ: Go-To-College Club IZ. Rosite . . , from St. Leo . . . longs to be a vocalist or J model . . . skating, dancing, photography . . . Be yourself . . . Alice, first lunch gang. CHARLENE BURKE Dancing Club IO: Monday Choir Club IZ. Anna Lee, Loie, and Big House gang. CHARLOTTE BURNS Arms. . . . nuts to snobby girls, homework, rainy days Millie, Lou, and W. M. N. lot course . i 7 I swoons at Frankie , Sammy Kaye, Cornel Wilde, Perry Como, Jo Statlord-Espanol . . . anything with Miss Kiskadden . . . dislikes conceited people, homework . . . tall. dark, nice personality- hubba, hubba . . . always singing . . . seen with Betty, Ruth, Ann, John Morrow . . . to be a :hair stylist . . . collecting Harrison's jokes . . . bowling, skating, ping-pong with friend Dave . . . Patience has its value! . . . Bing, Anna Lee, Loie, David A. Reconnu . . . anything with Miss Clayton . . . hates jealous, bleached blondes . . . tall. clark with a sensayuma . . . likes drinking orange pop from school fountains, nutty people . . . inseparable from Band Club IO, II, IZ: Home Room Vice-President, Sergeant-ab Sweet Char . . . Manchester via Conroy . . to be a private secretary . . . collecting-iiust collecting I I I . . . baseball, football, bowling . . . Love 'em all, but marry one! . . . Alan Ladd, Archie I . . . he is 5'8 , black wavy hair, brown eyes . . . seen with Gig, Barb, I l Page Seventeen