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

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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

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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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PROMOTERS of the LEAGUE of the SACRED HEART CHAPEL PERSONNEL Upper picture-Gerald Shultz, JoAnn Gillig, Shirley Fronkort, Julie Weim- erskirch, Eugene Reinhort, Jerry Weber. Lower picture-Orgcnists: Therese Kiebel, Ann Marie Wifmore, Teresa Peluso. Sacristans: Joanne Miller, Joanne Reiter.