Southwestern High School - Prospector Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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iiAlumni Anticsii -as Published By TOM MCNAMARA, STEWART CANFIELD, i The Detroit Worldts Fair, under the direction of Ernest Molnar, Charles McCloy, and Richard Kehyian, will feature Eddie Luke, world champion high diver, and Eleanor Sczesny, Charlotte Robbins, and Gloria Vinton, leading women divers. Deep in politics are Governor Ralph Miller and his assistants, Hubert Lorincz and Bernard McDermott. By the way, Evelyn McCraw is Secretary of State. Get that new automobile from Melbourne Maureris and Mike Witowichis Auto Sales Company. Southwestern Sweetshop, the meeting place of the 01d gang, is now in the hands of Steve Kantos, Joe Krsa, and Jack Matthews. Ellen Walush, Edna Wischer, Betty Wassell, Juanita Webb, and Esther Spaven mix the sodas. Elmer Vargo, Ed Maczkowski, and Joe Tokarcyk head the list of old grads who went on to college. Mary Louise Langley, Alice Baronian, and Ruth Mohr are seniors at Wellesley. Herb Stephens, Lawrence Moebs, and Joe KramarCZyk will run for mayor of Detroit. Their opponents are Ed Jevizian and A1 Merrow. 8-9-10! Youire out! Melvin Strutz .is the heavyweight boxing champion of the worldehis excellent managers are Joe Pressotto and Warren Saltzer. i Yes, he is still running. This time Wally Germain is a candidate for Secretary of State. His opponents are Steve Buda and Bill Baker. Joe Bak, Paul Berrow, Tom Colucci, and Edward Bartlett operate a glass diamond factory in Morocco. Itis Mars, no, its JupitereJames Dawson, Joe Sadzikowski, and Warren Corliss, famed scientists, have left on a stratosphereiiight. Theyire off!!! Arish Moushegian owns the Old Nagii race horse farm. His best jockeys are Harold Smith, Earl Bushway, and Wilson Clemens. Bill Besse, Ralph Kuslits, Vic Andrews, and George Hotfman have opened a dude ranch in Grand Central Park, New York. Willard Perkins, Francis Rhames, Bob Gairdner, Peter Rembiesa, and Alex Csorgo have established the Rapid Transit Mail Systemethey furnish every postman a pair of roller skates. Balbina Cieslowski, Jane Czerwinski, Jeanne Kirk, Grace Kirschke, Ruth Garske, Georginia Frasier, and Clara Frys are modeling those mix-tem-matchJem suits designed by Betty McCutcheon and Elizabeth Poczik. Frances Litchford, Virginia Boyle, and Phyllis Farnsworth are painting stage settings for Hollywood. After discovering that we are behind the time schedule, Peggy Hyde, Adeline Zielke, June Pageau, Della Moss, and Pearl Basse are attempting to revise the calendar. Elizabeth Kehetian, Elizabeth Anderson, Shirley Aramian, Gladys Darin, and Clara Andreolli are the vocalists for the Presidents Ball at the White House. Helen Ferguson, Evelyn Harris, Edith Hansen, and Marion Geisler are operating a florist shop at Louisville, Kentucky. Maxine Biddle, Wilma Adamson, Mary Lindquist, and Brooxie Arnold are America,s leading criminologists. Millicent Blair, Muriel Fulton, and Dora Mae Domke are competing in the annual Dogpatch County Pie Contest. Freda Lander, Emma Veenstra, and Gizella Nemeth are still the best customers that the Southwestern sweet shop ever had. Heading the local Civic Pride Association is Elmer Bigush. Helping him obtain a more beautiful city aree Bernie Bielas, Isabel Dahlke, Ruth Mahs, Irene Wajay, and Joe D,Avanzo. We found Don Flanders, Bob Gabler, and Bill Cooper riding the escalators in Ray Raftaryis department store. ttLook what journalism and R. O. T. C. did for mei', says Dick Borgers, foreign war correspondent, as he dives into an open shelI-hole. Frank Cumpf, famous author, has written a book called How to get through Southwestern in less than five years? Albino Gonan has built a model air plane, which he claims has reached the moon. He has sent A1 Polyak and Joe Pajtli, famous test pilots, up there to prove his claim. At the Julius Drotos Department Store, Bob Bosse and Jack Rowse will be glad to sell any of their classmates a new hat. Stewart Canneld, bat-boy for the Tigers, is going to retire and start a lumber company with the bats he has salvaged. Chuck Brooks and Ernie Bachand are filling the shoes of Nick Altrock and A1 Schact, baseball clowns. As a sideline they operate a fruit market, supplied by the fruit which mysteriously gathers on the held after their act. Mary Hagen, Lucille Guetschaw, Mary Gregosky, and Betty Greenwald are court st'enographers. Florence Creteaux, Sadie Darvishian, Eleanor Dezsi, Olga Dmitruchina, and Eleanor Federspiel are appearing for a return music engagement at the Statler. Doris Scherf, Rose Turek, Constance Turek, Irene Millard, Edna Missell, and Martha Mitoray are newspaper reporters. Kathleen Petrosky, Doris Schatzlein, Mary Scagnetti, and Wanda Price are doctors at the Delray Hospital. Elizabeth Shovoly, Mary Sestak, Irene Theresa Toth, Goldie Petro, and Sophie Nemeth have organized a stratosphere flight to study the mountains on the moon. Mary Novak, Betty Sturgell, Lillian Szlagor, Alice Thrun, and Arshalous Torosian are flying around the world on their new airplane, the tiArctic Clipper? Muriel Mick, Judith Mulhern, Helen Mumaw, Sarah Napolitan, Lorraine Schmidt, and Marguerite Schwartz are stenographers in the White House. Ann Moore, Bernadene Morgan, Ethel Sinak, Mary Shirtz, and Stella Skotzki are conductors for the D. S. R. C Helen Vereb, Alice Verskaitis, Ruby Vickers, and Shirley Warner are testing cars for the Packard Motor Car ompany. Page Twenty-four

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We Give-You Take We, William Jbara, Ed Jevizian, and Richard Jones, do will and bequeath our old neckties t0 Harland Ander- son, Andrew Andonian, and Edward Barancek. We, Sara Arevigian, Helen Bago, and Viola Balogh, do will and bequeath our purple lipstick to Julianne Bar- nosky, Eunice Draper, and Agnes Gaggini. We, Minnie Albrecht, Mary Filo, Helen Rose Nagy, and Wanda Price, do hereby will and bequeath our unde- veloped business sense to Delia. Lister and Alice Anderson. We, Theresa Contino, Burr Leaman, Mary Lupone, and Jack Merkel, do hereby will and bequeath our carefree dispositions to Charles Giss and Mary Szemardi. We, Mary Matash, Ruth Garske, Warren Saltzer, Martha Jane Landrigan, and William Baker, do hereby will and bequeath our unused tunnel passes to Lola Sowell and Edward Sitkauskas. We, Richard McPhee, Violet Kaloz, Evelyn Reilly, Rina ZaiTerani, and Steve Kantos, do hereby will and bequeath our inability to spell correctly to Frank Szluk and Ida Mercurio. We, Georgina Frasier, Donna McLeod, Ellen Walush, Mary Shirtz, and Dolores Bagozzi, do hereby will and bequeath, to Juanita Parvin and Rose Siroonian, our lively school spirit. We, Raymond Kers, Geza Magusin, Seymour Sobole, and Ray Raftery, do hereby will and bequeath our yen for publicity to Steve Surmanian. We, Clara Andreolli, Jean Witz, Lillian Szlagor, Wilma Ruehle, Lucy Persello, and Sophie N-emeth, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to play ball to Katherine Steele and Nancy Napolitan. We, Juanita Poole, Muriel Mick, Mary Novak, Edna Wischer, and Marie Pagogna, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to do the family shopping to Gelio DaPra and Rhodyene Rhodes. We, Frank Listello, Gizella Nemeth, Roberta Stevens, Frank Yuhas, and Goldie Petro, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to win friends and induence people to Virginia Robertson and Emma Molnar. We, Mary Jane Mickie, Doris Schatzlein, and Arshalous Torosian, do hereby will and bequeath our ttgone- with-the-wind hair styles to Gail Turner. We, Andrew Prohownik, Ernest Bachand, Margarite Martinez, and Herbert Wissman, do hereby will and be- queath our school-girl complexions to James Pilchak and Harry Charlske. We, Ethel Sinak, Mary Ann Yeglic, Betty McLaughlin, Joe Siemietkowski, and Stanley Zyla, do hereby will and bequeath our hero-worship of the ttLone Ranger to Shirley Stabnau and Leo Klaus. We, Helen Meszaros, Ida Peterson, Dolores White, Margaret Schwartz, and Madie Bennett, do hereby will and bequeath the stir we create when leaving the building at lunch time to Helen Sarkis and Patricia OtC0nnor. We, Jack Ogden, Julius Nemeth, Lottie BiesLBernadine Au h, Harry Wojciechowski, and William Besse, do hereby will and bequeath our caps and gowns t Teddy Dlugosngellie Sagripanti, and Heinz Muller. We, Anna Der Vartanian, Joe Sadzikowski, lizabeth Ber s, Irene Barath, and Frank Burhop, do hereby will and bequeath our craving for sunshine during spring vacation to Mildred Wilmot and Hector Brabant. We, Jack Rowse, Gordon Rogers, Grace Kirschke, and A1 Klingensmith, do hereby will and bequeath our Latin books to Hugh Franks and Martin Predmesky. We, Louis Veresh, Joe Zmudka, Mike Witowich, and Clarence Perry, do hereby will and bequeath our geo- metrical minds tcurvesd to Otto Stout. We, Florence Creteaux, 'Ruth Mahs, Elizabeth Horvath, Kathleen Petrosky, Ida Torvik, and Josephine Rydzon, do hereby Will and bequeath our ability to boil water without burning it to Joseph Sopko and Amelia Pelle- grlnon. We, Norman Kleiner, Lidio Santilli, Walter Winkler, Helen Penjin, Antoinette Nappo, and Eileen Metty, do hereby will and bequeath our reserved seats at the theatre on school days to Bill Stebbins, William Pustelnik, and William Brainard. We, Steve Sinkovich and William Wilks, do hereby will and bequeath our excuses to Bernard Seleskey. We, Eleanor Orlando, Lorranie Schmidt, Robert Trominski, Robert Gavan, Esther Spaven, and Joe Pressotto, do hereby will and bequeath our unused school books to Edward Leschner, Helen Kortze, and Walter Sipta. We, Rose Soter, Charles Russell, Helen Vereb, and Brooxie Arnold, do hereby will and bequeath our habit of enjoying a nickelodian at someone elsets expense to Satenig Manoian, Jack Stahley, and Harold Anderson. We, Edward Kusak, Juanita Webb, Mary Sestak, Agnes Brownlie, and Ernest Megysi, do hereby will and bequeath our tit-tat-toe records to Ethel Kulcsar, Alex Ossian, and Carl Cheske. We, Yolanda Barazsu, Mary Kalajian, Alice Baronian, John Kozel, and Joe Tokarczyk, do hereby will and bequeath our odd sense of humor to Evelyn Kainz, Andy Petro, and Ernest Lehoczky. We, Mary Gregosky, Anne Laurain, Anne Kirelius, and Henry Haskins, do hereby will and bequeath our Share of the spring house-cleaning to James Hahn, Ernest Grosos, and Marie Eidt. We, Peggy Hyde, Jacob Krzisnik, Ruth Jacobs, and Alvin Merrow, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to bribe the younger generation to Charles Helwig, Raymond Mukri, and Lilian Jeremias. We, Laura Hedgcock, Gizella Keleman, and Leonard Rosenthal, do hereby will and bequeath our unfaithful locker partners to Mary Koloian, Theodore Morits, and George Ossian. We, Marion Geisler, Bette Greenwald, Betty Wassell, and Stella Skotzki, do hereby will and bequeath our roller skates to Rose Houroian, Alexander Markyvech, and George Gresko. We, Frances Rhames, S'tanley Borowski, Ann Seleski, and Alice Verskaitis, do hereby will and bequeath our Hshare-and-share-alike', dispositions to Herbert Honer and Frank Eatough. We, Mary Tyrie, Virginia Solary, and William Politz, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to make ,a good impression to Lino Martinez, Andrew Andonian, and William Koloian. We, Mary Scagnetti, Emma Veenstra, Margaret Trapper, J. W. Ellis, and Helen Hozsa, do hereby will and bequeath our favorite saying, tTll do it tomorrowK to Lloyd Harriman, Michael Mudrick, and John Dakesian. We, Anne Sagripanti, Constance Turek, and William Nemeth, do hereby will and bequeath our passion for mystery stories to Donald McLaughlin, Grace Buckshi, and Herman Laorno. We, Blanche Leknovich, Betty Mackey, Martha Mitoray, Margaret Papp, and Freda Lander, do hereby will and bequeath our pipe dreams of fame in Hollywood to Helen Bakucz, Genevieve Hoenicke, Lois McKenzie, and Muriel Holtz. We, Clifford Peterson, Robert Rissman, and Herbert Stephens, do hereby will and bequeath our ability to make and break dates with a flourish to Frank Grunas, Walter Mlostek, and Reginald Lezuch. We, June Pageau, Frank Lada, Betty Sturgell, and Ralph Kuslits, do hereby will and bequeath our positions as Senior Class Lawyers to anyone in the 12B class who will take itewith pleasure! Page Twenty-three

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in the Prospector, A.D. 1950 MILDRED ARNOLD and GRACE SHORKEY. J ohn Flaherty is an eye-ear-nose-and-throat specialist. Chalk up a bullls eyeehere come Darl Bowman and Bill Gniewek, captains of the riiie team at West Point. They always get their maneArt Bailey and Bob Rissman are Mounties of the great Northwest. Bob Caven has the whole world at his feetehe has replaced Stokowski as leader of a prominent symphony orchestra. Evelyn Ormiston, Marjorie Marsh, Louise Fassett, Maude Gosline, Virginia Pearce, and Virginia Phelps are playing in the orchestra. They call Lidio Santilli ttThe boy wonder at the wheelil; he won the five-hundred-mile race at Indianapolis. Cliiford Peterson and Andy Prohownik have their picture in all the streetcars and busesethey pose for Arrow collar ads. Sophie Dudek, Ann Dzialowski, Elna Engel, Mildred Boston, Evelyn Conard, Teresa Contino, and Alyce Faull are stewardesses on American transport planes. Violet Hartunian, Elizabeth Horvath, Isabel Kalajian, and Blanche Leknovich are parachute jumpers. The HBest Dress Shopli of New York is owned by Lois Wegner and managed by the two Horvath girls, Jennie and Margaret. Their models are Helen Hozsa, Mary Kalajian, and Violet Kaloz. The best-dressed women of 1945 are Gizella Kelemen, Helen Kochevar, Mary Ann Yeglic, and Mary Tyrie. Leading parts in a New York musical comedy have been assigned to Helen Kovach, Eileen Metty, and An- toinette Nappo. Successful business women are Truman Nichols, Olive OhS, Margaret O,Leary, Lottie Bies, and Eleanor Boduck, personnel managers at Kresgeis. Marie Pagogna, Roberta Stevens, and Margaret Trapper have written best-sellers in the world of fiction. Shirley Wickman, J ean Witz, Irene Wolvovits, and Rina Zafferani are the leading women architects of the city. Kathryn Zellar, Gladys Zimmerly, Wilma Ruehle, and Mary Rossetto are campaigning for the election of Dora Pearson, as Secretary of Labor. ' Betty Rauch, Virginia Quandt, Lucy Puskas, Evelyn Reilly, Kathryn Roach, and Marie Robinson are American buyers in France. Johnie Lee Wood, Josephine Rydzon, Anne Sagripanti, Claire Roland, and Lois Root are employment man- agers at Hudsonls. They fly through the air with the greatest of ease-vBruno Gutt, Frank Gabli, Webster Salsbury, and Joe Hagan are trapeze artists in the Shrine Circus. If you Visit Warsaw tiUl, in Poland, you will hnd Angelo Guerriero teaching athletics. In Molarville, Mississippi, you will find Chuck Russell, Frank Dzialowski, and Bob Bracken, leading dentists. To avoid competition, Jack Powser and Frank Gahry own an ice-cream parlor sixty miles north of the North Pole. Their high-pressure salesmen are Dick Getz, Ed Cicotte, John Dudash, and Peter Ferlejowski. Jack Goldie claims the world high-jumping record. Stanley Borowski has challenged his title. Tom Armstrong is creating a smashing sensation on Broadway with his interpretation of Hamlet? On the supporting cast are Eleanor Orlando, Juanita Poole, Betty Popovics, Virginia Pratt, Audra Wylie, and Mil- dred Yurick. Those master chemists, Edmund Moorehead and Richard Edgar, have discovered a substance which Will dis- solve anything-their next step is to find something that will hold it. Jack Ogden is in Hollywood giving tap lessons to Mary Lupone, Mary Jane Mickie, Shirley Shepperd, Lor- raine Boss, and Elizabeth Beres. ttTramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching! J. W. Ellis, Lindo Muzzin, and Bob Hoag are the new scout masters at Camp tiTenderfootP Harold Cousino and Bill Geiger operate a new parking lot in the Sahara Desert. Zoli Ferency, New Yorkls fiery district attorney, is campaigning for governorehis opponent is George Ganos. News Flash! !! In a special mile race today, Frank Lada ran a dead heat with Glen Cunningham, the Kansas flyer. Tom Hagen and Miller ran a close third and fourth. ' After coaching the Prospector basketball squad to ten city championships, Jack Oke has been elected president of the F.B.F.I.O.B.B.P.-tFederal Bureau for Improvement of Better Basketball PlayersJ Broadcasting daily over station W-H-E-N are Hank Haskins, Bruno Sella, Seymour Sobole, Marjorie Kanyar, Betty Roselle, and Aileen Miller. Dick Jones, Bob Trominski, and Norm Kleiner will soon end their search for the Lost Horizon. Harry Kuschel, the Waldorf-Astoria manager, had as his guests recently Ed Kusak, Ralph Keteian, and Harry Todeschini. Crime doesnit pay? Not with local policemen like Louis Hoenicke, A1 Klingensmith, John Kozel, and Frank Lesniak. Among Detroitis most efficient policewomen are Elizabeth Kearon and Vanetta Schultz. Theresa Hornyak and Yvonne Matthews are beauty operators in Florida. The Fox Theater is now featuring Ye Olde Time Dance Team, Helen Rose Nagy and Doris Mollenkopf, in a two-week engagement. Jeanne Bedding and Irene Schneider are managing a boarding house in Florida for eX-Southwestern students. Helen Meszaros, Gloria Holtz, and Eileen Hamilton are conducting a chewing-gum contest at Dogpatch County Home. Minnie Albrecht, Magdalen Andrich, Sara Arevigian, Helen Bago, and Viola Balogh are writers for the Liberty Magazine. Helen Rose Nagy, Jean McKanna, Mary Kovach, Mary Ellen McKaig, and Mary Matash are saving refriger- ator prices by managing their own grocery stores in Alaska. Clarence Perry has invented a periscope that Will enable pedestrians and motorists to see around corners. Frank Burhop and Bill Nemeth are rolling in dough, and can easily be called the cityis biggest loafers. Their bakery shop is in the center of Delray Heights. Ed Pilarz and Bill Politz have been appointed forest rangers in Clark Park. Leonard Rosenthal and Robert Brice are leading a rather quiet lifeeas firemen at the Peerless Portland Cement Works. tContimzed on Page 440 Page Twenty-fwe