Trafford High School - Reflector Yearbook (Trafford, PA)

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enior 6761.55 19.-0,9 ec? Barry Brickel and Frances Leffler are happily married and Barry is now part-owner of Joe's Poolroom. Rose Bucar is now dean of the Robert Morris Business School. John Caruso and Gene Yanaso have a profit- able grave digging business and also run a gas station on the side. Betty Cavalancia has become a registered nurse and will continue her education. Leonard Colangelo has made another success- ful movie called Vee Three and I and is at the present time a French professor in the University of Southern California. Dolly Czapor is the head nurse at Braddock General Hospital. She hopes in the fu- ture to travel with the Navy as a nurse. Mike DiCesare is now living in Florida and has the largest Mercury Garage in the United states. Roland Dobos has opened his School of Danc- ing in Pittsburgh. Patty Erwin, a Powers Model, has recently been voted one of the IO Best Dressed Women in the United States. Dorothy Fedor is now an F. B. I. Agent working in Paris. Joe Frydrych has retired from coaching and has settled down with Julie Ann. Jim Furimsky, the American Ambassador to China, has come back to the United States to marry Nadine. Caroline Gornick has now been promoted from Father Gillen's secretary to private secretary for the Bishop. Joann Gotch Chache and her barber hus- band Myrrl are living in Pitcairn where MyrrI's shop is located. John Hartzer is now appearing at the Copa for a 3 day engagement. His latest smash hit is Get Off The Stove Grampa, You Are Too Old To Ride The Range. Donald Hopkins Toad , the French Hairdress- er, has just opened a Beauty Salon in Pittsburgh. Janet lovino, the editor of The Daily Worker, has just resigned to make a happy home for Bill Noll. Chuck Jones, better known as Space Cadet has just made the first successful flight to the Moon. Kenneth Lowell Thomas Kinley has taken over Jackie GIeason's TV program. Eddie Krcelic is the head of the Mathematics Department in Nome, Alaska. Bob Mathias has recently been appointed to the position of head basketball coach for Duquesne. Gertrude Meager is working in a children's home of which she will soon become the head nurse. Mary Lou and Duane are living very happily in their beautiful new home. Betty Jane Petrina has taken over her father's job of driving a truck for the Vienna Bak- ing Company. Pat Prines, now married to James Wracker, has settled down on their ranch in Colo- rado, with their three children. The United States has just appointed Eleanor Radosh os Good Will Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Dennis Robinson opened an Industrial Arts School and is happily married to Dolores Fedor. Loretta Vaccaro has just opened an Interior Decorating establishment. She is doing very well as many interiors need decor- ating. John Venturo Pooner has taken over his uncIe's business. , John Vuick Babe has finally found steady employment at the Unemployment Office. Jim Walko now owns his own chain of drug stores stretching from Cavitt Avenue to Fifth Street. I.ois Wanner Woodgie is private secretary for Pederson's Enterprise. The dreams of Dot Wislocky and her husband have come true. They have'moved into a beautiful new home in California. Joan Zentner and I.es have started a taxi ser- vice from Trafford to McKeesport.

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enior CXQ65 We, the Class of 1954, being of sound mind and body do make hereby our last will and testament. To our Parents we leave our appreciation for their devotion, patience, and care through our childhood and youth. To the Board of Education we leave our grati- tude for the many hours which they spent without remuneration in the interest of public education. To our Administrators we leave our apologies for all the trouble which we caused them. To our faculty we leave our humble appreciation for their helpful guid- ance and friendly advice. To the student body we leave our sincere hope that they will more willingly accept the advice which we thought we were too sophisticated to listen to. And we do further make these individual bequests to our several schoolmates: Bob Mathias leaves Mr. Trembath his long legs to use as he wills. Barry Brickel leaves his 5:00 o'clock shadow to Fred Surmacz. Rose Bucar leaves her position as senior class treasurer to anyone who is dumb enough to take it. John Caruso leaves his '37 Plymouth to Mr. Kenyon. Len Colangelo finally has an excuse to leave. Dolly Czapor leaves her love to Buddy. Mike DiCesare leaves his speed to Miss Bierer. Roland Dobos leaves his beautiful black locks to Wimpy Mahr. Pat Erwin leaves Mr. Schrock in peace. Dolores Fedor leaves her continuous chatter to Joan Vince. Dorothy Fedor leaves her ability to twirl a baton to Bobby Peacock. Caroline Gornick leaves her long blond hair to Miss Comfort. Chache Gotch leaves her gift of gab to Dolores Cunningham. John Hartzer leaves his knock-knock iokes to Miss Shaulis. Toad Hopkins leaves to buy a violin. Joe Frydrych leaves his football ability to Robert Scales. Jim Furimsky leaves his love for crew cuts to Tom Zimmerman. Jan Iovino leaves her ulcer to Mr. Robinson. Ed Krcelic leaves his knowledge of math to Bobby Caruso. Tance Leffler leaves her height to Joanne Law- rence. Betty Jane Petrina leaves her clumsiness to Helen Serfling. Pat Prines leaves her beautiful black hair to Rosemarie Kuchta. LoLo Vaccaro leaves her wise cracks to one of Mr. Miller's wise guys. Trudy Meager leaves her home making ability to Dorothy Draganac. Mary Lou Merritts leaves her quietness to Tootsie Traficante. Betty Cavalancia leaves her legal absence slips to Lucille Cush. Pooner Ventura leaves Mr. Miller on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Jim Walko leaves his baby face to Mock. Babe Vuick leaves his cigarette butts to some- one who is too poor to buy them. Woodgie Wanner leaves her freckles to Norma Jean Bradley. Dottie Jean Wislocky leaves her loud laugh to Jean Migiera. Joni Zentner leaves her pleasing personality to Mr. Carnack. Elly Radosh leaves her long hike from Black- burn to Nancy McKee. Buck Jones leaves his commercial ability to Jim Franey. Denny Robinson leaves his cool wardrobe to all the crazy cats. Gene Yanaso leaves his love for academic work to Ruth Dumm. Beans Kinley leaves his warm bed to get his diploma.

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lContinued from page 141 romances that happened over the Christmas holidays, name- ly: .lan and Paul, Woodgie and Ron, and Chache and Myrll. O, those guys from Pitcairn! At midterm we lost one of our most popular boys, Walter Trkula, to Penn Township. Walter was better known as Bunny to most of us. Toward the end of January we started an all out drive to raise money. In this we returned to the old stand-by--selling magazines. Our new student, Chuck Jones, came through with flying colors by selling the most subscriptions. We all aimed for that turkey dinner but iust never reached it: however, we sure can't forget the times we had going from door to door selling subscrip- tions. Take notice, underclassmen. Watch out for those doors! Some of us still have old battle wounds from those evenings when we tried to get more sales by not taking no for on answer. Use a different approach. After sell- ing these magazines we found that we still weren't quite the millionaires we expected to be, although we had been moderately successful. As the old year drifted slowly out, January popped up much too fast. It was that dreaded time again. What a way to start the new year! MID TERM EXAMS! Many times the thought popped into our minds, I wonder if there are going to be any exemptions. To our dismay we found out that only students with all S's would be exempted. The air was filled with tension but after the tests we dis- covered that it wasn't so bad after all. No one was afraid to take his report card home. As Tommy reported: All those 'saucy sophs' passed their mid-term exams. February found us a little wiser and quite a little hap- pier. After all, who wouldn't be relieved after those tests! Only four more months as sophomores. Individual pictures were taken to appear in the yearbook. Can we ever forget those mugs! Many of us thought they were pictures prepared for the Rogues' Gallery that had been mixed up with ours. Our classes were always kept alive by those ever- ioking four: Kinley, Colangelo, Hartzer, and Hopkins. Mr. Kenyon's English class was the scene of our greatest merry- making: for in that class, during these last months, we had Shakespeare's immortal Julius Caesar. Can't you iust picture Beans Kinley as Ol Juli , Hartzer as Brutus, Pete as handsome Antony, and Hopkins as the lean and hungry Cassius! We still hear those lines, Friends, Romans, Coun- trymen , and Oh pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth . Those boys sure added color to this seeming'y drab play. later all of us agreed we really enioyed Julius Caesar and would never forget it. At the beginning of our English II year we thought we had gained a new student, for one day Mr. Kenyon was handing out test papers and called out the name Eric Frydrych . The whisper went 'round, Who is Eric? Well, Joe, as you know, has the nickname of EARS and Mr. Ken- yon thought it looked like Eric. That is why Frydrych 'has never used his nickname on papers since: he's probab'y just allergic to the name Eric. He was always the first to laugh at Mr. Kenyon's iokes even when they weren't verv funny, and when he started to laugh everyone else laughed too. The streets were always cleared when Joe started his old dilapidated car. You could hear that thing coming a mile away. May soon crept up. These days were always bury, in fact so busy that we were almost lost in the shuffle. The Queen's court turned out to be one of the shortest courts in Trafford's history. Sophomores contributed to this cou't by electing Dolores Czapor and Frances Leffier as attend- ants. The girls chose green as the color of their gowns and they carried red roses. Then the annual school picnic was held May 23, at Kennywood. After Kennywood we all settled down to take exams. When greeted with our report cards some of us smiled and others looked surprised and exclaimed, Whew, I passed! Ill After a too short summer we found ourselves back in school as Jolly Juniors . But we really weren't so iolly for during the late summer we lost one of our best friends, Don Lintner, known to all of us as Bull . Don died after an appendectomy. As usual we elected class officers: Joe Frydrych, presi- dent, Dolly Czapor, vice-president: Loretta Vaccaro, secre- tary and mistress of our books: Rose Bucar, treasurer. First on the agenda was the Junior Class Play. What a scream! That's not an exaggeration: for how could we forget that hideous hanging head of Jan's and her blood- curdling scream? Joe Frydrych almost proved to himself that he was a mad man with a bloody hatchet, while Lois Wanner and Mike Di Cesare really played their part to the hilt. The prom was our next problem. Committees were chosen early in the year. ln a comparatively short time the theme was decided upon: a Mexican Fiesta . Our Mr. Heaps helped us with a new idea, an all-night prom. The MEN-ABOUT-TOWN supplied the music for dancing. After dancing various activities were offered, even swim- ming. In the early morning a few of the mothers cooked a breakfast for us. All in all it was really a big success. ln athletics we held our place contributing to football Ears , Beans , Toad , Rollo , Hartzer, DiCesare, Den- ny, Boody , and Furimsky. ln basketball our players were our own Bob Mathias , Len Colangelo, and James Furimsky. Our royalty this year were: King and Queen of Hearts, Bob Mathias and Betty Petrina: and Junior Class Attend- ants for May Day, Rose Bucar and Betty Petrina. ln science we had three mad chemists: Jim Walko, John Hartzer, and Toad Hopkins. Those stink bombs were the most to say the Ieast . Poor Mr. Miller! Maybe now he'll be able to figure out why some of their experiments wouldn't work. Some of those new found formulae were really gaseous. Whew! After May Day and the Prom another tragedy struck our class. An excellent student and a best friend of many, Jackie Pratt was killed in an automobile accident. IV After three wonderful years, that really didn't drag, we became the Super Seniors of '54 . Our old stand-by, Joe Frydrych was re-elected president: vice-president, James Walko: secretary, Pat Prines: and once more for a third term, Rose Bucar as treasurer. This year, the year book was our biggest problem. Betty Petrina and Loretta Vaccaro were co-editors. We were then sure that the year book would come out on time. The Senior Class Play, Take Your Medicine was quite a hit. Len Colangelo as Henry K. Dodson really proved to all that he was a stuffy old bank president. Johnny Hartzer was as funny as ever as Mr. Puckett. The nurses, who looked so neat in their white uniforms, were Dolly Czapor, Jan lovino, and Rose Bucar. Caroline Gor- nick played the part of Miss Holt the head nurseg she really surprised everyone by being mean and cross. Chuck Jones played the part of Dr. Jackson, a college professor mis- taken for a surgeon. His girl friend, niece of the bank president, was played by Betty Petrina. The maniac Di Cesare, orderly Kinley, visitors to Miss Finkeldink lloretta Vaccaroj played by .loan Zentner and Joann Gotch to- gether with Dotty Wislocky as Dodie, a terribly mixed up student nurse, rounded out a very excellent performance. All in all, perhaps that trip to Torrance and the State Police Barracks which we made earier in the year were aood training for the manhandling some of these characters had to take. Another highlight of the year was the Seventh Annual Burnt Corkers' Minstrel. Len Colangelo was really a hit as End Man. We'll never forget the antics of J. C. Hartzer and Mike DiCesare who were also End Men. Our own Jim Walko was not only handsome as lnterlocutor, but also very capable. The school elected Betty Jane Petrina as May Queen and we chose Patty Prines and Lois Wanner for her at- tendants. With May Day over and the Prom , and with graduation approaching we bring to a close our wonderful school days-some glad, others sad: but we still remem- ber what we did, saw, and heard. We even remember our briefs for Miss Bierer that we disliked so much. Just a few things we'd like to say: some of us wasted time in school: let our difficulties be o lesson for some of you other students. Get everything you can out of those four years, don't gripe when it's time to do some work. We know you won't be sorry.