St Wendelin High School - Foslin Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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CHRISTMAS PAGEANT Angels lrearl: Nancy Howbert, Margaret Howard, Nancy Shock, Geraldine Boff, Jane Lichtle, Noreta Weber. Front row: Shirley Frankart, Eugene Reinhart, Willis Droll, Thomas Lonsway, Gary Zimmer- man. Janet Goshe, William Bodart, Tom McLaughlin, James Utrioinen, Ronald Huss, John Walter. AS TIME MARCHES ON lations to her proud parents. Miss Mary Kay Macken of Notre Dame Col- lege, Cleveland, initiated our junior and senior girls into college life by means of a very inform- ative lecture and colorful slides. Nursing as a Vocation was Sister Mary Caroline's subject when she, in company with Alice Lichtle and Lynn Faber in the nurses uni- form of Mercy Hospital, Toledo, spoke to our girls on October 30. After a nine year intermission, the Wendelette again made its debute with flying colors on Octo- ber 3l. That same day the count of the ballots in a straw vote revealed that the students gave Ike an edge of 87-66 over Stevenson. The Catholic magazine drive closed Novem- ber 3, with the freshman girls in the lead. Re- turns were used for the School Band. Mr. Richards, from the Auto-Lite, demon- strated to the senior boys the gay ninety type of spark plugs vs. the modern resistor type. Coins, large and small, flew in all directions during the senior-sophomore mission party, No- vember l4. Result: The missions were SISO to the good. Bus loads of children from nearby towns came to Fostoria, November 20, and, together with St. Wendelin Grade and High Schools, packed the theater for the movie, The Miracle of Fatima. Midnight oil was burning all over town as the students prepared for the second six-weeks tests November l9-2l. Open House, November Zl, brought par- ents and friends to school to see and hear. Rev. C. W. Scheib conducted the students an- nual Retreat the three days preceding Thanks- giving. On December 3 Louis Nye took a solo flight from the bumper of Kimmet's car. Result: Two days in the hospital. DECEMBER 4-lO-sad days for Fostoria. Our excellent Pastor, Father Kirsch, became ill on the 4th and died two days later. Funeral services were held on the lOth, with our Most Reverend Bishop George J. Rehring offering the solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass. Monsignor Max J. Walz, a life-long friend of Father Kirsch, de- livered the sermon. concluded on page 62, 21

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STUDENT COUNCIL Standing: Nancy Moran, James Frankart, Rosanne Welly, Kathleen Scharf, David Miller, Gerard Lonsway, Eugene Brickner, Nancy l-lowbert, Thomas Abowd, Joanne Reiter, Sue Ann Sullivan, Rosema ry Marks. Seated: William Park, John Blaser, William Bodart, Shirley Emerine, Elaine Miller, Robert Hunt, Dean Sheibley, Ann Marie Witmore, John Seever, Barbara Karcher, Jean Ze-yen. AS TIME MARCHES ON September 3, l952 started the Countyline Street parade of eager teenagers back to school again. The enrollment figures reached an all- time high of l80. The preview game, September 5, in which the Mohawks got off to a good start, opened the athletic and social events of the school year. Both grade and high schools enjoyed a happy free day while their teachers attended a diocesan meeting at Toledo, September l2. Hat dogl The new CYO season was initiated with a wiener roast in Gray's park on the l5th lwith the new officers presiding.l The l6th set off with a bang the Wendelette and Foslin Ad Drive. On that some day, the Kiwanis Club sponsored a steak fry for the foot- ball team. The Ad campaign closed on the 24th, leaving o 2-day breather before the subscription crusade opened. Two hundred seventeen soldiers of Christ were inducted into the l.ord's Army on September 28 when our Most Reverend Bishop George J. Reh- ring administered the Sacrament of Confirma- tion here. 20 All forms of dancing were attempted at the CYO deanery party here, October 3. Many learned to schottische that night. October 7 was marked by headaches and cramming in preparation for the first six week tests October 8-l0. Since Columbus' landing was on Sunday this year, the event was celebrated the following day, October l3. An extraordinarily successful, Wendelette- Foslin subscription campaign closed on the l4th. Wendelettes 380, Foslins 350. Formal initiation of the freshies took place October l5. Once again, October l6, the S.W.H. salesmen hit the road in behalf of the Catholic Magazine drive. Fathers Wilson and Keller from the Mission Office in Toledo, gave us some first hand inform- ation, October 20, on the customs and tradi- tions of our black brethren on the other side of the globe. Happy Birthday, October 26, to Coach Her- man's new little Janine Marie, and congratu-

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AMERICAN LEGION ESSAY WINNERS The Need For a Strong American Democracy was this year's subject of the essays which won distinction for the group pictured here. Standing: Thomas Abowd, Germaine Brickner, Elaine Miller, Russell Kahman, Dean Sheibley, Ruth Ardner. Seated: John Seever, Eugene Brickner, James l.aJune. JANUARY I6 Welcome, Father Ruffing, to our city. The School Band has fin- ished playing--Father Rafting is about to enter the Rectory Os St. Wendelin's new Pastor. 'Twas a BIG day for alll