St Johns High School - Torch Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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DOREEN PELZNER . . . The girl with the Dentine smile and the gift of gab. Our vivacious Sarah Berhardt can usually be found giving advice to the lovelorn. Where does all your knowledge originate? Like her favourite song, she’s truly “Wunderbar.” JACKIE RACHLIN . . . Here is the boy with the highest average, and his Maths marks certainly show us why. Besides scholastic ability, Jackie likes basketball, ice-skating and roller-skating. SIDNEY RADINOVSKY . . . “Shike,” and ardent chess, curling and snooker player would give you the shirt off his back — if he wore one. Shike’s sense of humour keeps the class in stitches. He is one of our few good mathematicians. ARNOLD SAPER . . . Our admirable president for the first term and creditable school council member. He does so well in chemistry because his favorite metal is “sil”ver. DOLORES SCHNOOR . . . Quiet, blue-eyed Dolores, an import from Dauphin, cheers us with her smile and friendly greeting. Conscientious and competent, she is everybody’s pal. LEAH SELCHEN . . . Came home from Calgary to the tune of “Sam Song.” The class really appreciated her bout with laryn¬ gitis. Has one ardent edmirer of her wit — herself. Kidding aside, we really like this good n atured gal. HARRY SHAPIRO . . . Harry’s favorite saying is “detail, details, mere details. A budding basketball star, he takes pride in his “Y” games. Can be seen playing rugby on the front lawn after four. EVELYN SHAW . . . Sweet and petite, our Evelyn followed in Shirley’s footsteps by leaving school before Christmas. Good luck, Evie! OSCAR SILVER . . . Alias the brute, Oscar is Mr. Beer’s favourite victim. He believes it should be a man’s world, but considers him¬ self a lady’s man. What a complicated Life you must lead, Oscar! ZELMA SIRULNIKOFF . . . Petite and neat is definitely all reet. That’s our Zelma who lives up to the saying, “Good things come in small packages.” Our vice-president is always thinking of her Saturday night dates. ROMAN SOBLE . . . This lad is one of the quieter members of our class. Roman is one of the last race of students who always has his homework done, even if it takes most of his lunch hour. He enjoys gazing at the fairer sex from a safe distance. ZENON SYRNICK . . . Silent Syrnick, our cute late-room rep. Here is a fellow who really knows what he’s talking about if and when he says anything. One of our few lovers of chess, “Zeke” does alright despite the absence of his other half, Ed. PEARL WINGERAK . . . Pearl, our quiet lass from Saskatchewan, is one of the few girls who excels in maths. Her cheerful giggle as she helps us with our maths is a delight to all. Keep up all the good work, Pearl! AARON WOLFSON . . . The man who is always on the go in study period. Miss Ross moves him from his secluded back seat to a secluded front seat. Spends his time arguing the latest chem and maths problems with Jackie. Favorite expression: “It’s a snap.” PEGGY BAKALINSKY . . . Our little sparkplug keeps us in sus- pence (pardon the play). She lent us her home for the room social (silly girl). “Don’t worry, Peggy, we’ll give it back one of these days.”

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SHEPPY ADLER . . . Another silent man of the room—but you should see him on a basketball floor. One of the better students, “Shep” is a swell guy to have around. GRETA BUHR . . . Our pretty, Dutch Greta, so good-natured and gentle she hasn’t the heart to hit a helpless alarm clock. This German scholar occupies herself smiling and cringing at the antics of a certain “brute.” WANDA CLEE . . . Our hard-working secretary stands on her hands as well as on her feet. Behind those pretty eyes lurks a brain which makes Wanda a room thirty-seven rarity—a clever, competent girl. JOHN CONDRA . . . The politician of room thirty-seven. He’s always busy running conventions, directing meetings, or going to parliament sessions. John is always to be seen with his beam¬ ing smile. DOUGLAS CRONE . . . This big bundle of joy is our import from Regina. Besides playing rugby, our husky red-head knows all the answers in history and is a gallant Cameron Highlander sergeant. Doug is a swell guy and will go far. SAUL EPSTEIN . . . One of the brighter students of the class, can usually be heard sensibly advising the girls to go off to “Success.” From what we gather, he believes a woman’s place is in the home. GERRY GOLDENBERG . . . “Goldy” is another basketball whiz who also handles a pretty good “cue.” A prompter in the opera, Gerry is an excellent student and plans to take up engineering. NORMAN GOLTZMAN . . . Half of the Goltzman-Kogan duo, Norm is Miss Ross’s favorite student. Can be heard constantly saying “But Miss Ross.” He played Ko-Ko in the opera and since he began going to eight-thirty rehearsals, Norm is always seen rising sh-“irley.” MANFRED GUMPRICH ... A strong but definitely not silent type. “Fredy’s” good nature and equally good humor have won him friends throughout the third floor. A good tumbler and basketball player, he also passes his German. HAROLD KARP . . . Here’s a good sport and a good student, star¬ ring in composition and maths. Maybe that’s because he is one of the few sensible fellows in our room who does his homework. Harold is also an active chess participant. RANDY KLASSEN . . . Randy will go a long way with his gift of painting. Besides this wonderful attribute, our president does alright in school, academically. Randy did all the art work for this annual. ALVIN KOGAN . . . “Kog” would come to school on horseback if he could. A lover of the violin, he sits in school all day and “fiddles” around. He hates to be left alone and because of this he loves “Frans” very much. RUTH LEB . . . First term secretary who was one of the roving kind. She left Peg during the Christmas holidays for Chicago. Our sole female contribution to the operetta, reaffirms the adage that, “Quality makes quantity.” Finds an uncle in the class very helpful. ESTELLE LENNETT . . . Sugar’s varied collection of sweaters makes her our unanimous choice for 37’s morale builder and sweater queen. Star of the room basketball team and steller player on the volleyball team, Sugar also has time for the numerous men in her life. ELVIN LINDER . . . This happy-go-lucky guy does much of his sleeping at school. At our daily chess tournaments he is an ardent player who can always be heard saying impatiently, “your deal, I mean your move.”

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CLARA BARYLUK . . . Our sweater girl has so many sweaters she can’t decide which one to wear so she wears a blouse. Before she leaves for Toronto, Clara would like to announce that rumours of a romance with Mr. Manishen have no foundation. There’s nothing but the French language between them. TANNIS BASS . . . Brown-eyed Tannis is always getting in and out of trouble. She is the poet laureate of our room since she is always writing poetry. As a helpful suggestion we think she should put more fire into her poems (or vice versa). IVAN BILASH . . . Here is a real brain who’s so busy learning that we’re beginning to hate him. Always seen with Joe, Eddie and Steve. EDWARD BLAZEWICZ . . No one ever suffered from insanity in Eddie’s family because they all enjoyed it. Joking aside, Ed kept us in constant laughter with his refreshing and original supply of humour. He also was president of the wrestling club. SANDRA BRODSKY . . . Sandra is always slipping into the room at about 9:05. She is one of those girls who seems to be able to work hard and still have lots of time for play. She is a favorite with all of us. DAVID BROWN . . . “Deedie” was elected as the school sweater king and performed capably on the rugby team, the Hawks’ juvenile hockey team and on the room basketball team. To add to this, he was on Eaton’s Junior Executive and still had time to get good marks. BARRY CAPLAN . . . “Beryl” is our well dressed man who claims he has a suit for every day of the week (and you can see it anytime). He is always ready with some witty remark to brighten up the day for us. OREST CHAYKOWSKY . . . Leading scorer on the school’s senior basketball team, Chick still had enough energy to help lead our team to the senior inter-room championship. He gets good marks and gives the girls a break too. (Eh, Eileen!) DAVID COHEN ... As Room 38’s philosopher, Dave helped make our school days more cheerful with his moralizings. He had a lead in the opera and was one of the better students in the room. Also school valedictorian. EDWARD GERSHFIELD . . . Eddie is our class secretary and was continuously bothering us for money for one thing or an¬ other. He had high marks and was always ready to help anyone with a problem. SHULAMIS GORELICK . . . Shulamis never let play interfere with her school work. Her sparkling personality is tops with us. Although she is quiet, she can still take a joke with the rest of us. ANNE HENDERSON . . . Our import from Lord Selkirk, Ann is the pianist of our room and we may add, a very good one too. She sang in the opera and got top marks in school. ARLENE HERSHBERG . . . Known as “Oscar” by her friends, Arlene is patiently waiting for the day when Mort returns from L.A. A member of the Torch staff, she is very seldom seen without Phyllis and Ruth. JOE JACOBSON . . . Our room president for the second terms, Joe tried hard to keep us in our places — we said tried. Maths, genius, Joe always looks for the hardest way out. CAROLE KANCHIER . . . Carole is one of the track and field artists of our room and is also a star figure skater. She has a good sense of humor and is also a good student. GORDON KNELLER . . . “Bert” tries hard in Maths, but has resigned himself to the fact that he’d better pass Grade XI maths, first. Fun and a great wit make him one of our favourites.