Froebel High School - Steel Dust Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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★ ★ ★ The Junior Class EDWARD LEVENDA Vice-president

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GEORGE VULICH Basketball 8v-4v IRENE WIELGUS Alpha G. A. A., Business Club EVA WOJCIEHOWSKI LUDWIG YELUSICH Alpha G. A. A. Publication Football 3v-4v, Chmn., F. B. C., Orchestra, Physics Business Club A DIPLOMA IS YOUR PASSPORT Pomp and Circumstance is playing. You are just starting down the aisle in Memorial. In a little while you will be given your diploma and thus “officially” become a member of society. What does all this mean? Where have all those four years of high school gone to? What has happened in all that time?-Gosh! how tempus does fugit! Then you get to thinking. Gee! Remember how proud you were when you became a Freshman—how eagerly you looked forward to four years in high school? How conscientiously you did your homework—well, for the first few weeks, anyhow!-Bugs and Biology, Equations and Algebra, and Grammar (ugh!) and English! You helped sell green St. Patrick bows, too. Shucks! If you didn’t wear at least eight bows you weren’t considered a fellow Frosh! Remember those Freshman matinee dances you went to?-Remember how all the boys were worried” about the “walls”?—But they finally “loosened up” and soon all you could hear was “one, two, one,-two” as the girls tried to teach the boys to “trip the light fantastic.” Ha! It’s a good thing shoes weren’t rationed that year! You’re halfway down the aisle now. Look! There’s your kid brother, a Sopho¬ more, waving at you. What did you do as a Sophomore?-You sold Easter Eggs of course-and weren’t Andrew Morales and Helen Wajagich king and queen? And say! Remember the Hallowe’en dance you helped put over? Remember the sore thumbs you all had from “hammeritis”? Not braggin’, of course, but your Sophomore class was the first one to sponsor an evening dance—oh well, I guess it just comes natural! Hey! This was the year our basketball team went down- state, wasn t it? But I guess a state championship “just wasn’t in the books” for us that year. Anyhow, you did have a lot of fun at Dairy Rich after the Sectionals Regionals, and Semi-Finals!! You ve almost reached the stage now—It won’t be long. Remember last year, when you were a Junior, you kept thinking, “Gee, that’ll be me marching down the aisle next year. Gosh! So many things happened that year. Perhaps the most important was the rationing of sugar. Remember how proud you felt when you helped at school because you were “doing your share.” Didn’t you enjoy the Junior play, “Old Yellow House,” that your class gave? Mrs. Burton directed it- remember? And remember the dance your class and the Seniors gave together in February? Its theme was “Navy Blue” and-why are you smiling so?-Aha! I’ll bet you had a good time afterwards! You’re on the stage now and waiting for the signal to be seated. Gee! I hope that coke doesn’t get hot before you get a chance to drink it!—or shouldn’t I have said that?—. There’s Mr. Nuzum giving his speech. He became principal of Froebel when you were a Senior—remember? And gee! this was the year Richie passed away. He was “tops”—you won’t ever forget how swell he was. But Fate’s funny that way. You did more rationing this year for canned goods—in fact, it was so important that school was out for three days. You had another “unexpected holiday” when the janitors went on strike—remember? And say! the draft really affected you Seniors — especially the Girls! Talk about a manpower shortage! Your class did its bit for the war effort in the Essay Contest it sponsored. The winning essays were placed in the school War Log and the winners received book- of-the-month club selections as prizes. Well, the last speech is over and you’re getting ready to walk across the stage for your diploma. You shake hands with Mr. Nuzum as he congratulates you, and you walk back to your seat. What’s that queer sensation coming over you?—as if you are somebody really important! Then you smile. Of course. You are now “officially” a member of society. Gee! It’s funny what a piece of paper can do—. 18

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