Lackawanna High School - Lackawannan Yearbook (Lackawanna, NY)

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Defeats in the basketball play-offs at Kenmore, but keep on reading, for we gloriously made up for them before we left school. How much is left unsaid! The few touches do recall the year to you. That's the purpose of this slight account: we feel it helps you to fill it in completely. Iunior Year 1946-47: increasing maturity as new subjects and new knowledge unfold before us. The war is over: the boys are coming back from the services, but it is still an upset, troubled world. Remembrances : Mr. Too1e's fine amateur show at Lincoln Annex-mostly Iunior amateurs. The roller-skate party of the Main Building Iuniors. Lots of fun, and some knew how to skate. Lincoln's stirring Moving-up Day CMay Queen, Flo Poloncarzj: the prom. The enjoyable Iunior Prom at the Main Building. Picnics at Chestnut Ridge-rain but no dampening of spirits. Senior Year: At last we are one class! As in Freshman year, new acquaintances, new faces, as Lincoln and Main Iuniors meet. Late October's Halloween party-a really splendid affair-makes us socially one class. 'Member the football boys' burlesque? As School day follows school day we realize the fleeting time and begin to think of our future. What to do? What field of work to enter? Have these four years-so happy, so care- free, so meaningful-passed so swiftly? D Who can forget the basketball championships at Kenmore High gym, championships we dreamed of winning and finally did, and the assembly honoring the conquerors, and the half-day holiday following? Happy days! And now the years draw to a culminating close. Final examinations and graduation loom: the life for which seriously we have tried to prepare ourselves beckons. Have we helped you to recall your happy many-sided high-school years? SENIOR PLANNING COMMITTEE Row 1: Jeanne Salem, Margaret Delaney, Con- stance Zogaib, Peter Man- cuso, Florence Krasinski, Mary Atansofi, Florence Poloncarz. How 2: Gertrude Rosin- ski, Helen Tutko, Margaret Pahl. Irene Kochiss, Loret- ta Kosuda, Nancy Davis. Patricia Sarach. Row 3: Robert Mokski, Iohn Dolac, Gerald De- Pasquale, Robert Budzyn, Albert Warwick. 13

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS 1. Robert Mokski Vice-President 2. Nancy Davis Secretary 3. Peter Mancuso President 4. Robert Budzyn Treasurer Class of 1948 In short and rapid strokes is pictured here a sketch of the four wonderful years of our high-school life: not a day-by-day account of classroom activities wherein the real purpose of high school-education for life-was accomplished, but a potpourri of nostalgic memories. As the freshman class of 1944-45, We were deployed in three schools - Main Building, Franklin, Lincoln. But in each, September's first school days meant the same: the excite- ment of new routines, new environment, new faces. The opening of school had been delayed for three weeks, we recall, by the raging polio epidemic. Along with the delights of novel school life, quickly in the first weeks we were made to feel the inferiority of a freshman: the sophomores introduced us to many ingenious forms of hazing. We, however, survived and went on to fit ourselves into the high-school pattern, ever strange to grammar-school graduates. . Noteworthy, too, was our first understanding of that ominous word- jug. How familiar it was to become to some of our classmates! The year passed swiftly and excitingly, shortened by the late beginning, and quickie Christmas and Easter vacations. We were maturing in many directions, as new knowledge opened before us. Great and meaningful events, too, occurred-Roosevelt's shocking death in April, 1945, and the end of the European war in May. September, 1946: No longer were We lowly freshies : now a new class of freshmen learned how terrible can be freshman turned sophomores. As we returned to school, great world-shaking events were enacted: the dropping of the first atomic bomb shattered the universe into a new age: V-I day, at last! Touching lightly and in a minor key over the school year: Messrs. Burke and Sabuda one day discovered more complete attendance records could be kept by awaiting the ar- rival of caddies Cnameless herej at the fifth green of Wanakah's golf course. It was the year of the big snow of December: no longer could old-timers tell of bigger ones-there were never any bigger in Western New York's history. Happy result: no school for several days. Unhappy result: no Christmas pageants at Lincoln and the Main Building, so eagerly looked for. 12

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Seniors ALEX. MARY MARY Academic Il silence is really golden. Mary's going to be a pauperf' AMBROSE, DOROTHY DOTTY' ' Secretarial Gracious and sweet, though petite, Here is a person that you would like to meet. ANTONIK. MACKEY MACKEY Social Studies Why take life too seriously? You'll never get out of it alive. ANTONOU, FRANCIS FRANK Science What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. ARONESENO, LAWRENCE LEGS Science Why not let trouble, work and sorrow Hide themselves until tomorrow? ATANSOFF, MARY MARY Science f Honor Student Talented and gay A leader in every way. AUGUSTYNIAK, LOTTIE CHAR' Secretarial One who is popular with girls anc QUYS Is this lass with her blonde haii and brown eyes. BALDASSARI, JULIUS IULlO' Mathematics ln popularity he has scored: By many a maiden he is adored. BARILEC. IOSEPH PATRICK YODl' Machine Shop He's not so bashtul, he's not sc shy: 'Yodi' is a wonderful guy. BARTULA, THERESA TERRY' Secretarial Never sad, always merry, A friend to all is this girl 'Terry'. BASILE, MARY ANN BUTCH' Secretarial A pleasant friend: A truer one is hard to find. BASTY, MARIAN MART Academic i Honor Student Sweeter than the day is long, More enchanting than a lovely song.