Leetsdale High School - Leet Yearbook (Leetsdale, PA)

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L , HI-Y Members, reading left to right: John Everette, Thomas Marek, James Besong, Melvin Gaughenbaugh, Andrew Feduska, William Dempsey, Leonard Prus, Alvin Prus, Guido Scimio, James Barnhart, Frank Melnick, George Martin, Walter Mitsak, Mike Pcsyolar, Otto Rapp, Walter Lauxen, Mr. Waugaman, William Kellinger, Jack Davis, and Frank 0'Lear. ' WTO create, maintain, and extend through-out the school and community, high standards of Christian character and to stand together for the four-square development of clean speech, clean sports, clean scholarship, and clean liv1ng.n Officers of 1956-57 Officers of 1937-38 Andrew Mitsak President Frank 0'Lear Robert Hinds Vice-President James Barnhart Frank 0'Lear Secretary-Treasurer James Besong James Ponticello Sergeant-At-Arms Thomas Marek Chaplain John Everette The Sewickley Hi-Y journeyed down to Leetsdale to initiate our chapter into its worth-while organization. Blindfolded, the boys stood in silence while a voice from the darkness told them of Christ and His teachings. Suddenly the blindfolds were removed and they gazed upon the symbol of the Hi-Y triangle and cross. But this year the initiating was done by Leetsdale's Hi-Y boys. The fun began when new members were taken for an airplane ride and told to step off into space. The boys finally came down to earth and started to help the club advance. The Clean-up Campaign was headed by the Hi-Y. Posters were made which helped much to guide the students of L. H. S. in keeping their school clean. The weekly meetings offered devotions, socials, discussions, business meetings, and entertainment by speakers who had seen different parts of the world. The chorus is in good voice today and it should be,for the Hi-Y boys are helping out. The high tenor voice you hear belongs to the sponsor, Mr. Waugaman, who also got the boys to help get the track team in shape. The Clean-up Campaign was another big event of the year. The boys went out and cleaned up, for part of their motto is clean speech, clean sports, clean scholarship, and clean living.

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GIRL RESERVES Members Officers Alice Breck Betty Boggs Barbara Crowe Mae DeVries June Donlin Millicent Freeman Elsie Graebner Betty Hinds Mary Hopta Catherine Kelly Gertrude Lacher Cecilia Merdes Catherine Merriman Margaret Moskorisin Eileen Noland Margaret Pahach Nellie Peel Frances Ponticello Alberta Pirkheim Charlotte Plunkett Mary Louise Roman Betty Rowe Nevada Rosenberger Josephine Suto Matilda Suto Doris Trondle Esther Undercoffler Ann Veloski Freda Wohlgemuth Ann Scimio Esther Weaver Katherine Walter President ---------- Elsie Graebner Vice President ---- Catherine Kelly Secretary -------- Freda Wohlgemuth Assistant Secretary-Margaret Pahach Treasurer ----- Esther Undercoffler SPOIISOTS Miss Mildred Vargo Miss Barbara Yoakum February 29, 1937, marked the day of the first meeting for thirty six senior high school sponsors girls who were interested in becoming members of the Girl Reserves. The first were Miss Marjorie Smiley and Miss Rose Demestichas, whose duties were transferred later in the year to Liss Jane Anderson. Officers selected were Betty Springer, Presidentg Undercoffler, Vice Presidentg and Freda Wohlgemuth, Secretary. As established Esther in the constitution, the club took the name of the Leetsdale Girls'Leaders Club until the YWCA found it advisable to recognize it as a Girl Reserves Club. This year recognition services were performed by the Sewickley club on the fourth of April when the girls officially became members of the Girl Reserves. Many worthy projects were carried out by the clubg it sponsored and prepared the football banquet held December sixteenth in honor of twenty-eight football men and cheerleaders. Guest speakers at the banquet were Edward Baker, of Carnegie Tech, and John Michelosen, Don Hensley, and George Delich of the University of Pittsburgh. Several socials, one featuring a WPA orchestra and held in honor of the basketball team March fifteenth, were also sponsored. An assembly and club party completed the activities of the club for the year.

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LEETSDALE HIGH WEEKLY Published weekly by the students of the Leetsdale Junior and Senior High School, Leetsdale, Pennsylvania. Price ---- two cents per copy, fifty cents per year, and 'thirty cents per SSL!leSt6I' Q Assistant Editors Editorial Staff - Business Manager Assistant Busines Business Staff -- Boys' Sports ---- Girls' Sports --- STAFF OF 1957 - 1938 Editor-in-Chief - Catherine Kelly Andrew Feduska Mary Louise Roman Millicent Freeman Leonard Prus ---- Andrew Kuzma s Manager - Kenneth Beebe ---------- Charles Wilson George Martin Alvin Prus Melvin Gaughenbaugh ------------- Joseph Bena Mary Jane Solito ----- Esther Undercoffler Art Editor --------- Assistant Art Editor Art Staff ---------- Personal Editors --- Exchange Editor ---- Fashion Editor ----- Charlotte Plunkett ---- Dorothy McCliok ----- Marian Wightman Helen Matzkanitz William McClick ------ Elsie Graebner Jane Thompson --------- Betty Hinds ----- Dorothy McClick Sponsors ---------------- -- Alfred Creese Rose Demestichas Virginia Mather Mary Louise York Ten years ago, at the suggestion of Mr. Creese, a group of seniors met to publish the first newspaper in our school. The earnest cooperation, tireless ambition, and genuine talent of these students, together with the wholehearted support of their sponsors, Mr. Creese and Miss Frazier, made this project a success from its very beginning. Each year the WEEKLY has shown improvement. This year, on its tenth anniversary, it won third place for mimeographed papers in the Pennsylvania School Press Association Con. test. The first staff consisted of the following students: Editor-in-Chief, Dorothy McKeeg Assistant Editors, Lucy MacEwing, Nellie Baird, Business Manager, Eldon Gilbert, Assist- ant LanagSrS,George Link, Theodore Schneider, and George Robinson, Reporters, Josephine Bauer, Lillian Bajsec, Tony Ponticello, and Florence Runovitz. Upon the resignation of Miss Frazier, the former Miss Hazel Holt CMrs. Paul Turner! performed the duties of literary sponsor, at present,'the literary staff is sponsored by Miss Virginia Mather, a former editor, and Miss Rose Demestichas. Miss Mary Louise York supervises the typing staff. Mr. Creese has served as business staff advisor during the entire history of the paper.