Leetsdale High School - Leet Yearbook (Leetsdale, PA)

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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.

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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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95 -,. -5-. V Y Qyglxxi- Mr. Paul Wohlgemuth william McClick James Besong Paul Feduska Anna Vitale Esther Undercoffler Josephine Cicconi Jane Thompson DEBATE Last year Mr. Snoke organized and coached the first Leetsdale High School debating team since 1952. The affirmative team consisted of Elsie Graebner and Charlotte Plun- kett with Catherine Kelly as alternate. The negative side was made up of Mary Feduska and Esther Undercoffler with Anita Turek as alternate. The schools they debated were Sewickley, Aspinwall, Coraopolis, and East McKeesport. This yearfs debating team is composed of James Besong and Paul Feduska with William McGlick and Josephine Cicconi as alternates on the affirmative, and Jane Thompson and Esther Undercoffler with Anna Vitale as alternate on the negative. The members were chosen from the debating club and were coached by Mr. Wohlgemuth. The schools they debated this season were Ben Avon, Coraopolis, Aspinwall, Edgewood, West View, and Etna. The question for debate was nResolved: that the several states should adopt a unicameral system of legislation.n