Donora High School - Dragon Yearbook (Donora, PA)

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Anchors Away some dictation from Dr. John Law, who hand- les the x-ray machine superbly. Dentist, Mary Ann Schmitt, is conversing with Mary jane Digger Rabe, who is under contract with the S. S. Dragon in case anything should go wrong. Can you hear the discussion from the ship's Board Room? By the sound of Anne Pellicci- one, President of the AI. C. C., this trip must be rather expensive. It seems as though Evelyn Gonzales has just finished her report and Helen Couser, Dolores Gerbasi and Margie Saxon have talked it over and are a little dub- ious over what should be done about it. Nothing can stop Gail Nash and Ev Vojtas from being late for dinner this evening . . . they're pressing their party clothes now! We all seem a bit wilted. Let's stop at the PX for awhile and have some refreshments. Rose Fronzaglio, Rebecca Panos and Ellen Fowler are selling cokes. What's this? Ed Kustron sell- ing homemade custard pies and James Strain, drumming up business for him. Here come a group of boys. Sam Barbour must be through trimming them up. Their haircuts are pretty sharp! ' We are summoned by our guide to continue with the tour, It's getting hot, hot, hotl No. it's no fire, it's just the boiler room. After we stumble our way through stacks of boxes and crates and plow our way through oceans and oceans of paper, we finally arrive at the boiler where jim Coulson, John Mitchell. and james Calzacorto, our strongmen, are shoveling coal into the firebox. Frank Puia and Manuel Yoco- lano seem to be having a little trouble with the valves. Wait! There go Leo DiBiasi and Bern Adamek to the rescue. All is well againl Now on to the stock room. Kenny Marshall and Chuck Barton are supervising the assort- ment of dishes by Don Wilson and Angel Fer- nandez. Oops, there goes a saucer. QIt's flying, toolj Hugh Couser leaps into the air . . . gloves it with one hand to save the day for the crew. We follow the twisting corridors and arrive at the brig. No hurrying necessary. We'll just stroll through. Lookl Who's this? Why, it's Bob Pastor and Emil Matsko! Now what could these two law abiding citizens be dong here, of all places? 0h, there's john Sento and Andy Sento in Cell 2 entertaining stowaways Paul Chanko and George Polonoli with the newest in jitter- bug steps as Lee Coughenour hums an appro- priate tune, Oh Happy Day. We're told that, It's in the Book for din- ner, so we rush off to get on our best bib and tucker for the occasion. We can be sure that -lack just, Art Brown, and Russell White will appear in the latest fashion and probably start a new fad of their own while they're at it. At the dining room door, pretty hostesses Pat Alcott and Marge Malaski greet us and show us to our tables, while busy waitresses- Mary Rose Moschini and Collette Gedeon- serve us with water and give us menus. Flo M itro comes to take our orders and assures us that the main course is food and plenty of it. Emma Wilson, helping us to get our food spread out in a tempting fashion, is nearly knocked over by Herb Allen and Don Comp- ton getting ready to supply the guests with some after-dinner corn. Gloria Kostella, Gloria Tokay, and Irene Wehousie try, with a few interruptions, to continue the show and bring us a few selected favorites of the day. Pat Bartley sits down at the piano . . . a hushed silence falls over the crowd . . . she raises her fingers, ready to play, and . . . Bang! The doors fly open and in comes Edith Kas- pick! just call her the late Miss Kaspickf' Versatile Romeo, Art Hayes, in his inimit- able fashion, gives his rendition of the top hit of the day, jesse Gonzalez following, adds to the flavor of the dinner with some South American Rhythms. The orchestra under the direction of Jay Siren played a fanfare. Then the spotlight focused on featured vocalist Enery Lopez as she sang. Sam Simpson, Cutie Murray and Dave Koskoski did a musical trio. Intruding sounds from hot rods being tuned up by Dune Russell, junior Evans, Dale Cardis and Ronnie Pacy blended with the music. Martin Valko's solo was followed by high step- pers janet Ritchie and Char Robson who in- troduced a very special guest for the evening. The one . . . the only . . . Billy Eckstine of the year, Jerry Burns. After the swooners were dragged off the floor, Jerry favored us with a few songs. Before floor show time, the orches- tra settled down and we got up to dance. Sud- denly we realized that no boys were around and then we saw why. Vinnie Valeri had asked one of the girls to dance and all the boys were standing around admiring his unusual way of dancing. After we had danced awhile, our mascot high stepper, Marlene Amatangelo, announced that it was time for the floor show. Tonight, the great stargazer, Don Iczkowski presented the review Gazing at the Stars with the help of Frank Muziani and the Astronomy Club. Eddie Lario, Bob Bowen and Bob Mona leave their hidden portholes and go down the gangplank as our trip is completed and we reach our port of Graduation.

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X SENIOR B0 RD. MANUEL YOCOLANO PAULINE YUSCHAK ALFRED ZYGA MANUEL F YOCOLANO PAULINE MARIE YUSCHAK lover of h1ll bxllv music has got the gitar Ummmm . . . those bright flashing eyes . . . Polly craze black wavy han drives a sleek black is famous for her I don't agree, and her chic ca 1 true gentlenmn well liked by all. wardrobe . . . unmistakable giggle . . . talkative . . . on the beam with the opposite sex. ALFRED M ZYGA Sort of an amateur Willie Hoppe . . . real cute dimples tall, dark, and handsome type . . . liggte or Zlgn . . . just won't give the girls a break Sixth Street gang . . . boisterous. Zin illllrmnriann THOMAS BERNARD MCDUNN, JR. On August 20, 1952 Thomas B. McDunn, Jrfs soul re- turned to God. The son of Tom and Catherine O'Boyle McDunn, Tommy was born on March 22, 1935. He started his school days at St. Charles Parochial School, continued his education at Doxtora junior High School and would have been a senior in the high school. A well-liked clever lad with an Irish wit and an enjoyable vocal talent Tom's memory will long be cherished by his classmates. llrquirarat in Marr! 43

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Wave of Education Envelops Juniors J unior il'RllDY SUPP S.-XM PERRY . ,. NIICLYIN REPKX , , . , EDITH RONI.-XNTINO .. As the waves of education lapped against the speeding S. S. Dragon the juniors aboard gathered arotmd the rail to picture in the changing swirling waters the school events of their eleven years. The tttrbtilency of the whirlpool was rem- iniscent of those early jtinior high days with new schedules, activities. teachers-the excite- ment of May Crowning. the Legion Award selection of Carl lfetkenhour and Marianne Krajnik and the promotion exercises which sent them along a few more knots in their educational jottrney. See the huge roller coming in! How like the newness which engulfed the cubs or sopho- mores as they strove to move along through tenth year with whole-hearted enthusiasm over contributing Trudy Supp and Edith Roman- tino as cheerleaders and sponsoring a big noisy class party as part of the social calendar of the school year. As the ship sailed into calmer waters the assured self-possession that was theirs as jun- iors became apparent. lVith several campaign- ing for class offices the juniors had the thrill of indicating their preference by electing Sam Uflicers Treasurer , ,. President .. Vice-President . ,. ,, Secretary Perry, president: Melvin Repka, vice-presi- dent: secretary Edith Romantino and Trudy Supp, treasurer. Under the leadership of these officers junior Tea Dances were sponsored, and the junior-Senior Prom was enjoyed with true class pride as the junior officers led the Grand March. When the winds ruffled the sea in their journey the sound and fury of the exhilarating waves carried back echoes of a boisterous excit- ing evening when homerooms vied with each other in competitive games at the annual Class Party. Breezes blew sounds of l,i'l Abners Qas Bill Isaacs, Chuck Vaira, Carl Fetkenhourj running from their Daisy Maes fI.orraine Duda, Marcine Doyle and Joanne Adamuskoj at the Sadie Hawkins Day Dance and in the splash of the water resounded the applause heaped upon the all junior cast in its first dramatic venture. As the ship drops anchor to discharge sen- iors of the farewell evem of accepting the pick and the lamp as symbols of seniority for the approaching lap of the journey terminate junior day dreaming and emphasizes the prac- ticality of their responsibilities.