McKees Rocks High School - Roxian Yearbook (McKees Rocks, PA)

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 1939 14. Seniors notified they will not liave yearbook. 10. Regis O ' Brien and Nickie Wargo defeat all comers and win tlieir Diamond Belts. 18. 21. 51. Movies sliown in Auditorium cost 10c. The movies starred the Rox Hi students. Some hams! Freshie Dance. Some fancy stepping seen. E.xtra paper out. Kordyak loses c|uarter of a pound. 10. 14. 18. 20. 21. 24. )- 10. 21. 24. 28. FEBRUARY Annual Spring Dance hold. Rox beats Carnegie. Hearts fluttering throughout the school as it is X ' alenline s Day. Dittmer is rumored to be in love. Ro.x beats Crafton. Big game with Stowe. Just a practice game as Rox wins. 40-21. Seniors notified that they will have yearbook. Rox beats Cory. We ' re in the Sec- tion 8 playoffs! Three-way tie! Big Pep Sleeting! Rox to play Mt. Lebanon for Section 8 title. Yippie ! ! ! Were in the ' .r l.. .L. race. Rox beats Mt. Lebanon at Pitt Stadium. Fryz is hero. MARCH Washington beats Rox in elimina- tions. One consolation, however. Frvz is still here. Joe Simko acting up again, then is floored. Ah ! ! ! First day of Spring ! ! ! Boy. those snowballs are flying right and left. Hi- gives play in assembly. Buck Fall stars. Seniors go to courthouse. Wochko almost locked up by mis- take. Hi- ' i ' swimming party. The boys put the fish to shame. APRIL 5. Senior Play tryouts for Shooting High . Large turnout. 6. Senior Class Play Cast announced. 14. Room 6 starts Police Gazette on blackboard. Palkot sued for libel by Quillen, Richardson, etc. MAY 2. Ray Lyons deep in thought as to whether he will take a girl to the Prom or whether to chisel in by selling pop. 3. Concert. Herrlv hits sour note again. 15. Hi-Y Social Party at Y.M.C.A. Girls prove to be better swimmers than boys. 14. Ray Chew gets student for his Get- A-Phvsique-f uick Course. Robert Hall. ' m. Junior Prom. Gala event. Zeke Roscoe checks up and attends the dance. Finds it (the dance) very interesting. 25. Matinee for Shooting High ' . By this time, it looks as if Harry Slecko. otherwise known as Hero . is deeply infatuated by presence of his leading lady. ' iola Stewart. 20. Last performance of Shooting High ' . By this lime, the cast is ready to go into the fruit and vegetable business. 51. Gus Mitchell pulls wisecrack in geometry class to put grand finis to the month of May. JUNE 2. Baccalaureate Services held in audi- torium. We have a miniature flood. 5. Zmayuska at last decides to ask Wench to the Prom. 9. Here at last ! ! ! The Senior Prom! Seniors paint the town red. 1 5. Commencement. The diplomas, after four hard (???) years. Senior Class adopts new class song. Little Man. What Now? 15. Kenn - vood. And so the curtain falls on our school life. THE ROX AN Page Titirty three

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 1939 13 SEPTEMBER First day of school. School is again over-run hy thrilled Freshmen. School really begins. Teachers hand out the first nightwork assignments. Election of Junior Class Officers. Election for Senior Class Officers held again. 16. First football game. Monessen swamps us 52-7. 23. Rox beats Rankin 8-0. Cadroz. Sliwka. and Chips go to Kon-O- Kvvee. We take another one on the chin 30. 9. 11. 21. 26. 28. De Seni Da Every boy who was never at a dance before learned to dance. Ask Brick- ler if vou doubt it. OCTOBER The fateful day. Rox beats Coni-. 12-7. Rudy Michalism rushed to hospital after making low tackle. Rudy Michalism passed away. No school. Students attend funeral. First tea dance of the year sponsored by the Debate Club. Miss Watson again has to corral the backward underclassmen to get them to dance. The Hi-Y goes to Observatory to see stars, taking Roxettes with them. Joe Zmayuska gives occupants of his car a hair-raising ride. Tryouts for Junior Play start. Hams seen in every corner of auditorium reciting Shakespeare s speeches. Sophomore Dance! Cadroz per- suades Mr. Sporcic to let him dance vith Mrs. Sporcic. 31. Halloween! Students receive the pictures they took three weeks ago. What faces! Class Play Cast picked. The lucky ones seen in hallways with cases of enlarged craniums. NOVEMBER Publicity stunt for Junior Class Play in assembly. Most informal assembly ever seen. Boys heckled performers. National Education Week starts. 8. Paul Kuzmich gets mumps — Bill NIaglieri gets lead in Junior Play. 9. Mixed Chorus sings in assembly. Oh. yea, to-day is Patron s Day. Journalism Class interviews the visitors. Some fun. 10. Last assembly program for Educa- tion Week— Horace Mann . Per- formers talk behind curtain and screens. Screens save James Riordan. 11. No school — Armistice Day. 18. Junior Dance. Private rather than outside. Name cards come in. Joe Lanza swamped iiy underclassmen for his cards. 23. Hip. hip. ho ray! Half day school. Thanksgiving holiday. DECEMBER 8. First night for ' Wedding Spells ' . Attendance approximately 700. 9. Wedding Spells a success! Over 900 people attend second night. Crouch proves himself a quite cap- able actor. 13. First basketball game. Rox beats Neville. -14-33. 15. Rox beats Trinity. 40-26. Miss Magealson s partv for the Thespian s Guild. 24. Miss Haser s chorus goes Christmas caroling. Herrly proves a valuable singer. JANUARY I. . h! 1939. Happy New Year! Only about six months of school. 3. Back to school again. Everyone sits in classes looking back on Christmas holiday. Mt. Lebanon beats Rox, 49-25. ' 3. John Petro makes his debut on radio, giving Jack Benny a scare. All in all. Petro has thirty-four words on the whole program. 6. Mr. Kiselicia says good-bye to Mc- Kees Rocks High School as he leaves for Harrisburg for an accounting job. 9. Mr. Levy takes over Mr. Kiselicia ' s position as Business Manager. lfle lirlv liro

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I960 -- LOOKING AHEAD -- I960 Flash! Leo K% ateinik, a hermit, gets his hrst hair cut from Ray Anderson, the expensive barber. A chewing gum factory succeeds because of the expert wrapping of Vera Kadoycis. Helen Luke helps Andrew Alexsevich with dinner dishes. Accidently hurt while picketing in a steel mill. Warren Bracken loses his teeth and Dr. Enid Hewlett attends the case with the aid of Nurse Schiralli. Rex Daum, owner of a well-equipped poultry farm, visits his neighbor. Earl Rupert and wife. Helen Cigoi. Lillian Haupt teaches Joe Cunningham how to dance the long forgotten big Apple. I V I Prima Donna. Zawalen. sails to Europe with the steel magnate, Joe Zmayuska. In Joe Lanza ' s circus. Anna Mae Chmelynski is the star, a tack swallower. Olive Flynn and Berta McConnell. professional dancers, complete their tour of the United States. In , |urphy ' s five and ten cent store Jane t ursi receives a wage increase as a demonstrator, and Ruth Fabian becomes the head candy seller. Wihna Mink assists Pearson as two popular fruit vendors. America again wins the Nobel Prize, and the award goes to the famous novelist. Elizabeth Meyers. Raymond Chew, an expert entomologist, makes Frank Brickler ' s farm productive again. Henry Cerceo. owner of a Dude Ranch, hires Elmer Krause as a cowboy. Tfie Waldorf has for its main feature Eugene Kurtz ' s band with Pearl Hathaway as soloist. Charles Wochko is another Jack Benny and Genevieve Skowron. Mary Livingston. Martin Richardson possesses the habits of Tony Galento. From the Reno Dispatch we learn that Mayme Hartnett becomes a resident. Viola Stewart is in charge of ticket sales for the dance held by the Ladies Auxiliary. As head janitor at the William Penn. Charles Kuzma sings continuously. Arthur Fogdt now sells mimeograph machines to the Rox Rocket. As owner of a chain of theaters. Reed Hewlett remodels the McKee. Ethel Willig. chairman of a barn dance, receives a trial permanent wave from operator Jean Persuitti. Mary Elizabeth Beck reminds Mr. Ritenour (as a secretary should) that there is a teacher ' s meeting today. We wonder why Madeline Gareis visits a certain milk company so many times a week. Robert Hahn finally joins the cavalry. In the police station is Steve Karaman. who awaits trial, because he climbed the fence to see a free baseball game. Andrew Hopper operates the best hot-dog stand in the state. John Budal finally completes a course in soda jerking. In charge of a girls scout camp is Margaret Sasarad. Emilv Werlinich is decorating the home of the wealthy widow. Amelia Slago. Snyder Moving Co. moves all of Countess Senia s furniture to South America. Ray I yons marries for the sixth time. Robert Schramm and Ray Yost are in charge of a gasoline station. Harry Stecko steps into the shoes of Clark Gable. The Robson and Way Detective Bureau tracks down the wrong man. Frances Zilak. a petite girl scout, sends her clothes to the Winter Cleaning Co. To buy the best furniture visit Aronson ' s Two by Five Co. Robert Brownley goes to court and has his name changed to Fauntleroy Brownley by Attorney O Keefe for a small fee of a grand. Selling a loaf of bread for one cent is no easv job says Donald Thompson. As a grade school teacher. Mildred Frazier does well. In ( harge of a tra pl bureau are two girls who believe in staying at home, and they are Ann Michalism and Helen Swadlo. Viola Tomko is learning how lo rut meat. The Einstein who says that two plus two are six is Bill Sliwka. ' (i(jt ' I hilly our