Leetsdale High School - Leet Yearbook (Leetsdale, PA)

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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.

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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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w l Y PATROL Three years ago Mr. Snoke appointed a group of boys to guard the safety of the students who walked along the heavily trafficked Beaver Road to their homes after school. The appointments have reoccured throughout the years. The group of senior high school boys pictured above includes those students who stood on duty, rain or shine, during the current school year. They are, reading left to right: William Dempsey, James Barnhart, George Kuzma, Joseph Bena, Kenneth Beebe, Andrew Kuzma, Frank O'Lear, Leonard Prus, Paul Feduska, Andrew Feduska, Jack Syka, James Besong, George Martin, Mr. Snoke, the sponsor, and Alvin Prus. LEETSDALE HIGH WEEKLY CContinuedD U Following are all the past editors and business managers of the Leetsdale High WEEKLYL WEEKLY staff holds a luncheon in honor of the outgoing staff. Miss Anna 1927 1928, Dorothy McKee, Editor, Eldon Gilbert, Business Manager 1928 1929, Lucy MacEwing, Editor, Francis Campbell, Business Manager 1929 1930, Ruth Fair, Editor- Jack.Reno, Business Manager 1930 1931, Elsie Kriever, Editor, James Loughman, Business Manager 1931 1932, Virginia Mather, Editor, William Renner, Business Manager 1932 1933, Marian Hull, Editor, Earl Gosnell, Business Manager 1933 1934, Eleanor Mae Campbell, Editor, Mike Kuzma, Business Manager 1934 1935, Rita Krane, Editor, Oliver Witherspoon, Business Manager 1935 1936, Mary Annette Pierce, Editor, Nick Hrenkevich, Business Manager 1936 1937, Betty Springer, Editor, Charles Krane, Business Manager 1937-1938, Esther Undercoffler, Editor, Andrew Kuzma, Business Manager Each year the Jane Phillips, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reporter, spoke to the staff members at the lun- nheon held on April fourth this year, and later to the whole student body.