McKinley High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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CHAPTER Ill-SepT. I94I -June I942. Umph, Umph, now we were upper classmenl WhaT an evenTTul year ThaT was! Our new coach, Mr. Novak, was busy during The auTumn season breaking in a varsiTy soccer Team. OuT- sTanding among The booTers were Jodie Green, Bernard Welch, Phil Cornacchio, and Dick Fair- Tield. When The baskeTball season Took The spoTlighT several oT our classmaTes advanced Towards The TirsT sTring. Came Spring, and wiTh iT baseball. McKinley puT a Team on The diamond aTTer a 27-year lull. Phil Cornacchio and Ward Fisher were chosen as managers. OuTside The sporTs world There was greaT acTiviTy in club circles. Josephine Camille was salTing away money Tor us as head oT The bank. Leona Adams was elecTed presidenT OT The STudenT council. Ward Fisher was vice-presidenT, Sam lvluscarello, SgT. aT Arms, and Colleen Kelly, recording secreTary. Remember how The S.G. A. worked ThaT semesTer? IT puT on The skaTing parTies and cake drives, and whaT a laugh we had Trom iTs Free AcTiviTy wiTh a mock invasion oT McKinley by Nazi para- Troopers. More oT our class members Took over imporTanT oT'Fices when Bessie Gouzeas became presidenT oT The G. A. A., DoroThy Kalopeses, vice-presidenT, Mercedes Folkers, hike leader, and Takouye Eshkonian. assisTanT hike leader. Many OT The girls earned Their major lvl. and sTarTed work Towards Their chevrons. A new sTaTT Took over The O. 81 B., among whom were Leonore PeTTenon, Leona Nomellini, Leona Adams, and Ward Fisher. By This Time, life was Tairly whiz- zing along and Then, Booml The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor. Ever since ThaT December 7 we've been working harder Than ever. Our class has done much To beTTer The school's war eTTorT and we pledge To keep This up aTTer graduaTion. Things became more serious and wiTh The summer vacaTion many oT us Took iobs in war planTs. CHAPTER IV-SepT. l942 - June I943. Finally, a Senior! We sTarTed This lasT year Tull oT energy and have accomplished much To round ouT our high school careers. Richard FairTield was made Fire ChieT and on The squad were Dan Jenero, ChrisT Demos, Louis Chechapolous, and Carmen STompanoTo. As capTain oT The hall guards, Tony Grande has had able assisTanTs in Russel NicalleTTi and Tom McCollum. Heading The O. 84 B. sTaTi was Leanore PeTTenon and filling her previous iob as News EdiTor was DoroThy Krueger. ln The sporTs world Benny Di Francisco held The limelighT as one OT The ciTy's highesT baskeTball scorers. Dan Jenero, Tony Grande and a Tew oTher players kepT The Junior and Senior Teams 'acTive. LaTe in The semesTer a sTrong B. A.A. under The presidency OT Phil Cornacchio sTarTed an acTive program oT inTra-mural aThleTics. IT Tinally looked as Though we had a permanenT coach when anoTher man named Novak came To McKinley. Our Senior elecTions were held early in The semesTer. Ward Fisher was elecTed presidenT, Leona Adams, vice-presidenT, Elaine Barber, secreTary, and Dick FairTield, SgT. aT Arms. TabulaTion oT The voTes also showed DoroThy Kalopeses, ..L14,-..g..- M.,

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Cfaaa .J4145f0ry l-lisTory, according To The dicTionary, is a narraTion oT TacTs and evenTs arranged chronologically wiTh Their cause and eTTecT. Four years ago in X. SepTember, l939, marked The beginning oT The hisTory oT whaT was desTined 'XX f To become an acTive and hard working class oT sTudenTs. f KTM CHAPTER I-SepT. I939 - June l940 A Freshman aT lasT! WhaT puzzling days Those were Tor some oT us, geTTing losT in The halls, looking Tor The elevaTor and whaT noT. This was mainly a year of adiusTmenT and inTroducTion To The various clubs and acTivi- Ties oT The school. Some oT The old O. 8: B.'s record a Tew oT The more sTudious among us on The l-lonor Roll, among whom were l-lelen Campbell, Emil l-lerich, Bessie Demerouka, Jordanka AnTonoTF, Colleen Kelly, and VicTor Odierno. In Those good old days when we had a TooTball Team Max Figler and Lowell Davis could be seen Tossing The pigskin around. Who would have guessed ThaT in a Tew shorT years boTh would be in The U. S. Marines geTTing Their share oT acTion aT Guadalcanal and oTher Tar places. By The end of June, T940 mosT oT Europe was aT war. And ThaT marked The end oT our Freshman year. CHAPTER ll-SepT. l940 - June I94I. GeTTing up in The world, we were now Sophomoresl Yes, wo were growing up and could now laugh aT Those silly li++le Freshies. A greaT many oT us sTarTed opening our eyes, noTicing The many opporTuniTies all around us, boTh scholasTic and in The Tield oT service. The Girl Re- serves had a Sophomore as presidenT in The person of Leona Adams. Several Sophomore boys sTarTed The McKinley l-li-Y. And aT The end oT The year Bessie Gouzeas was elecTed hike leader and Elaine Barber SecreTary-Treasurer of The G. A.A. Dick FairTield, Tony Grande and oThers puT on spikes and Turned ouT Tor Spring baseball TryouTs, Carmen STompanoTo and William Froe- lich were making a name Tor Themselves over aT Cregier by Taking parT in Their acTiviTies. Mr. Willinganz came To McKinley ThaT year and RoberT Baggs, Essie Pyle, Judy Velazquez, Carrol Green, Ed BroadhursT and oThers were preparing To serve under him in The band and orchesTra. AnoTher newcomer To McKinley was Miss Quinn, our presenT principal. Many oT The Sophomore boys were becoming inTeresTed in sporTs and Division 308 Took The Junior Cage Crown. When The summer vacaTion sTarTed many sTudenTs were loaTh To leave school and The new duTies They had been elecTed To TulTill. 7.7, ,?...-41.444, Y ,

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hislorian, Thelma Herring, prophef, Joe Tesoro, pianisl, Talcouye Eshlconian, execulrix, Lorraine lv1cMillian, poet and BeH'e Davis, vocalisi. So much for fhe chronological arrangemeni of facls and evenls which, alihough incomplefe, gives a general idea of lhe official accomplishmenfs of ihe class of '43. CAUSES AND EFFECTS The preceding pages 'rouch +he highlighls of our class hisfory. Unrecorded are many ex+ra ac+ivi+ies such as radio program parficipaiion, arfendance a+ convenrions, special assemblies and numerous oiher worihwhile proiecls in which class members havelalcen parl' unselfishly wi+h no fhoughf of personal credi+. Time oulside of school hours and even sums of money have been gladly speni by many s+uden'rs in an efforl ro serve McKinley. Why? an oulsider mighi aslc. The answer is 'rhar fhe Class of '43 loves McKinley and, +rue To ihe school creed, really aims 'ro +ransmi+ 'rhis school grealer, belfer and more beau+iful ihan i+ was 'rransmified 'ro us. ln brief, The cause of our e1CFor+ is a irue, love for McKinley and we hope lhe effeci will be 'ro inspire and encourage our lower classmen +0 a grealer effori in scholarship and service. Thus our high school hisiory ends and wifhoui being unduly boasiful if may be frulhfully said Thai we are as fine a group oi graduales as could be found anywhere. 3 .r i 4 9-1 ,Y A L