Leetsdale High School - Leet Yearbook (Leetsdale, PA)

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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.

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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.M, 5, V Charles Setar, Coach John Caldwell, Roland Hoffmaster Martha Agnes Thornburg, Coach Rose Demestichas , Eleanor Kay Hutchison FORENSIC CONTESTS Each year the Leetsdale High School enters the different forensic contests: music, debates, orations, and Shakespearean readings. In the declamation contest Roland Hoffmaster represented Leetsdale. Eleanor Kay Hutchison entered the poetry reading contest. Millicent Freeman entered the piano solo contest, placing fifth. Charles Setar, entering for the first time, won second place in the section in thecon- test for trombone solos. Martha Agnes Thornburg won Leetsdale's highest honor by winning first place in Alle- gheny County in the Shakespearean reading contests.