Theresa High School - Blue Banner Yearbook (Theresa, NY)

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 Ardis V icks (Verna Kingston) Ardie, one of the five brun- ettes in the class, is five feet three and her 120 lbs. is distributed beautifully. She is well-known for her lovely sinline voice. Throughout the four years of high school she has been very active: glee club, assemblies, commencement, two operettas, band. She was secretary ofthe Athletic Council for two years and an honorary member for onq president of the Freshmen and Junior classes, co-candy mana- ger, and sports editor for the PACEMAKER. She played Helen” in Old Snoopy. ’Then asked how she liked be- ing a senior, Ardie declared, It's the most wonderful year in high school. Her plans for her future in- volve a period of two years in a telegraph office or defense plant followed by a course in beauty operating. (She plans her own shop.) In my old age statistics show that I shall be a wife;«which suits me fine since I've always pictured old lace by the fireside. She went on, I remember the fun Verna and I had fixing the broken basket of candy and how angry I became when someone dug up the bottom candy bar after I had just finished re- arranging the basket and how the mice consumed our peanuts and a couple Milky faysI (They were my favorite too.) Oh, and the difficulty I had getting rid of the pencils I Those war time erasers I Remember Car- thage tournament in our junior year? Me with a tray of hot dogs on my head and a pail of pop in my hand screaming, Hot dogs 1 Cold Pop! Ardie has filed her will: To Lyle Huddleston, I will my voice—with a masculine touch. To Mary Manning goes my good times and my ability to get around. To Betty Tilley goes ray radio experience and to Ginny Ryan my dancing ability. To the new cheerleaders goes ny experience of four years and to all the lonely gals go my old flames. - ■ - -

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Arlene Stewart (Helen Hamilton) Yes, said Arlene when the ;enorter asked her how it felt to be a senior. It seems swell to be a senior, but it makes me feel sad to think my school days are over. 'Then asked about her activ- ities during her four years of high school she hesitated and then replied with a smile, Oh a few of them were: playing on the basket ball team and serv- ing on various committees. I was a AH member, assistant ad- vertising manager of the year book. Arlene recalled that Helen and she had served cocoa and doughnuts at ball games. Oh! what fun we had, though some of it was a military sec- ret! This interviewer followed her about her boudoir and ask- ed her this question. What she expected to do after being graduated? Well, as my plans arc rather indefinite I cannot sa.y for sure but I think I’ll go to Florida and take up ra- dio work. year. The P, T. A. sponsored this program and hired the senior girls,I’m sorry to say, to carry out the project. This took two periods. You can im- agine how our school work suf- fered ! On the average the food was not bad. At first it was fun, but after the third week, boy, did we ever get sick of +hir! It was a dreadful bother. No, peeling potatoes for a mill a day was not so much fun as we thought at first. We were ve- ry glad when the last week of our work came. Ten years from now just tune in to XWU and hear the most famous child adviser in Ameri- ca, Arlene Stewart! ’.Then asked about her most remembered project she answer- ed with a laugh, The hot lunch program wo did in our senior