Tolleston High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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REMINISCING Yes, it seems only yesterday when we were freshmen starting off to school with great ambitions and big ideas. Remember how proud we were that first day to come home with algebra and biology books tucked under our arms. How smug we were when our mothers remarked how well we were doing in high school! Retelling myths in freshman English was a chore, but when we actually got down to work, some of our compositions turned out to be big hits with Mrs. Wendt. She even considered giving us A's on our papers. Well-not all of us were quite that fortunate. Before we knew it, the big event of our freshman year was at hand. The Freshman Frolic was the reason for the buzzing at the girls' lockers. Should we wear skirts and sweaters or really dress up? Then we were at the party-all of the girls in one corner and the boys in another! Of course we topped off the evening with sundaes at the Dari-Maid. Our sophomore year rolled around in no time at all and we were planning the Sophomore Hop. Members of the Latin Club were making arrangements for the trip to the Shades, in Indiana, not the Underworld! Some of us squeezed in right beside the seniors and participated in one of our best operettas, The Forest Prince. Do you remember the big romances that started to bloom? My, how sweet the girls looked with stardust in their eyes and their faces all aglow! Spring was in the air. Our junior year added nostalgic memories. We began to realize that life is real, life is earnest and we had a future to plan for. Still we had super times. Do you remember the R.O.T.C. and the Booster Club dances? We were trying to jitterbug like some of the contortionists we had seen in the movies-oh well, all of us could waltz. We really made use of that talent at the Military Ball and the lunior-Senior Prom. Our senior year arrived. War had changed many of our plans and curtailed some of our fun but we combined work with pleasure. During the save-paper drive we elected Patty Brownell queen of the paper dolls and had a Paper Doll Dance. We ate a little less candy and chewed a little less gum so we could buy war stamps every Wednesday. English compositions became letters to Tolleston boys in service. Naturally we had to have a Sadie Hawkins dance and a Military Ball and Prom. How thrilled we were to march with our escorts in the Grand March. Yes, some of the Marys and Bettys were deprived of the last dance because their loes and lohns were somewhere in a training camp or even in actual combat. Commencement days drew near. At out lunior-Senior Farewell we were presented with a plaque inscribed with the Marine Corps insignia and the words To the Class of 1944 from Brice Gonzalez. We missed him most then. Several of our senior boys missed the thrill of marching to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance across the stage to grasp-a little awkwardly-their diplomas. Max Slatton and lames Whittaker were already in the Navy, Harold Brown and Charles Price were serving in the Marine Corps, Chris Kaletta, Richard Lawrence, Tony Rose, and William Schlegel were away in the army. They received their diplomas in absentia while the rest of us selfconsciously and even tearfully greeted our friends and relatives waiting to congratulate us. Now that our high school days are over we realize how much we shall miss our classes and teachers, our parties, hay rides, football and basketball games, evenings spent dancing or sipping cokes at the Dari-all of us there together. Nothing can ever take the place of those memorable days, and we shall cherish them forever. Gloria Powers President of the Class of 1944

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