Trafford High School - Reflector Yearbook (Trafford, PA)

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A814 we lfU8lf'8 y0lfLlfLg Top: Cute Twinsg Shy Lolo! ls that all Joan? Woodgie's bear! Rosie Posie. Beaming Betty! Second Row: Going shopping, Elly? Big Bob? Bashful Patty! Tcmce's school's out smile. Jolly Dolly! Third Row: Dot playing Little Mama. Scratch harder, Barry! Pensive Patty. Fourth Row: Poor Babe! How did those Juniors get on our page? Sad Sack Jimmy! Chache's first pose! Bottom: More Juniors! Happy Pooner? Betty's friends. Girls, Charles was born with a permanent wave. Tru- die's bangs.

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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.

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lfmior 5 cmd Seated-J. Vecchio, B. Vecchio, C. Del Rosso, E. J. Bruno, C. Cornock, F. Morrow, M. Cardiff, A. Morocco J. Karr, R. Holland, M. Boyd, N. McKee Siclnding-F, Surmocz, R. Drokulic, A, Zigolrovich, E. Krupar, B. Gulloro, M. Sfakor. Seated-C. Copets, P. Koin, M. Schopp, E. Volcouri, B. Peacock, R. Scales, R. Dumm, V. Bonde, B. Mikon, l.. Glasgow. Standing-E. Louderback, F. Comp, R. Groth, K. Schneider, M. Peirovich, D. Fabyonic, J. Beck, D. Divens, C. Bussurd. 24