Rhodes High School - Aries Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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GIRLS’ LEADERS Afift Oo BOYS' LEADERS Seventeen i-A

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FACULTY MOMOR SOCIETY Sixteen

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CLASS HISTORY Somewhere in the World February ’46 Dear Mamma Hier and Papa Effron: Colly, it’s only been a week since we've left home, and already we miss you and the rest of the family. Those four years we spent with you were just crammed with experiences which we will never forget. Why. we still remember the cold blistery morning in January '42 when we were left on your doorstep. (just 183 more gray hairs for you.) There were way too many of us for you to care for personally, so you gave the responsibility to Aunt Sorge. Aunt Kenyon, and Uncle Jacobs- (Orchids to our homeroom teachers for their swell care and co-operation.) After the humiliation of being called flats no longer reddened our faces, and the fears of being lost had left us completely, we began to feel at home. The Junior Journal was our main source of 9th grade gossip, slander, and sports. (Ethel Pietsch won the title of editor, but we know the only journalism she did was to staple seven pages together once a month.) As the first year came to a close, we wept farewell tears for our five brothers who left for the West Tech “Workhouse.” Slowly our male population was decreasing. ALONG CAME JONES (Annamae) : Look high! Look high! And you will see. The new sister of our family. The girls were waking up to the fact that if a “man was to be had. track tactics would have to be used. Their skill was tested at a Sadie Hawkins day dance in November.. .Lillian “Moonbeam McSwine Textoris. ve-e-ry short skirt and all, created the Dogpatch atmosphere. (She sure did! And Willy has been her Lil Abner ever since.) The hardwood gym floor became used to the ''lightfooted'' Eleanor Kratky and Carol Prahl as they regularly socked the volley-ball- Marge Say took her bow to a bit of glory as '44 track queen. Our eyes still see the flash of those bright blue and yellow sweaters that were sported every Thursday. Alan Braun. Chuck Haak, Don Eaton, and Hank Stickney had fraternized. Result: Rhoda Hi Y. One sunny fall day a cloud darkened our lives. It was our new sister. Elsie Pyeha. who had come to hang her hat on our family tree. She either knew the right people or had the “nose for news because she held the honors for being the only member of our family on the “Review. “No honor conferred by this school excells that represented by this society. During the 11th and 12th grades the following members of our family were inducted into the National Honor Society: Lil Textoris. Neil Richardson. Ursula Eisner, John Oshchypok, Tom Ziegler. Alan Braun. Bob Schmotzer, Marion Rahlfs, Alice Chaloner. and Bev Brown. (Congrats!) The girls shone in a tax stamp contest, after which the boys threw a party. Some spread! Thanks, fellas! Deloris Bernaur did the honors of track queen attendant for the spring '45 track meet- Uncle Jacobs lent his hand to help us organize, a hand which later came home from a picnic with one broken finger. In the spring of '45 we rushed the time with our formal a bit early. Four girls and seventeen boys (sorry we can't mention their names) decided to seek their fortunes earlier in life, as they left us eighteen weeks early. But still more boys left! V. Buescher. R. Kiehl, W. Block, R. Jordon. K. Farson. F. Cleber. H. Laugesen, R. Olsen. J. Hirt, L. Phillips. J- Sawczak. and K. Paddock marched off under the piercing eye of Mr- Draftboard. Eighteen