Washington Park High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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PRGLGG IT was The besT OT Times: iT was The worsT OT Times. STudenTs empTied The biTTer dregs OT liTe and kepT on smiling smiles ThaT kepT Their sorrowed hearTs alive-sorrowed because OT Their inabiliTy To TighT againsT The demons OT magniTudinous hardships. . STudenTs were Torced To carry heavy loads OT books home. NighTs meanT Tor dancing, daTes, and Tun were spenT mulling over a geomeTry Theorem, a gerund, a book reporT, a hisTory Topic, a shorThand TranscripTion. The suspense each Tive weeks when They prayed They'd caTch The mailman and The delinguenT beTore Their parenTs did: The shocks and disappOinTmenTs received each Ten weeks aTTer a fearful glance aT The reporT card: seeing an F insTead OT The G or G+ hoped Tor: The cramming and wor- rying Tor The semesTer exams, deTrimenTal To The fingernails and saniTy OT The sTudenTs: The checking and rechecking OT crediTs when iT seemed as if graduaTion would be posTponed Tor The lack OT a lone crediT-These were gen- uine hardships. djs 1 W , STill iT was The besT OT Times. EnrollmenT in The Tall and The meeTing OT old Triends aTTer a Ten weeks' period OT absence: club meeTings and programs To be aTTended To: elecTion OT oTTicers and leaders: assemblies, varying Trom local TalenT To Alaskan mailmen: TooTball and baskeTball games wiTh The glorious Teeling ThaT comes aTTer a vicTory: The Park-l-lorlick Teuds where Teeling runs high and may The besT man win: club parTies and school dances where one meeTs his lor herl laTesT S. P.: candy sales where a club puTs TorTh iTs greaTesT eTTorT To raise money: elecTion OT class oTTicers and plans Tor graduaTion: Tinally The greaT day-graduaTion -when sTudenTs sToOd on The Threshold OT LiTe Trying To raise The misTy curTain OT FuTure To see whaT lay beyond-These were hearTening loys. ThaT was I936. Now in i966 we have liTTed ThaT curTain ThirTy years. lT is noT The FuTure ThaT appeals To us mosT now-iT is The PasT ThaT sTirs The emoTions in our being. So, as we head Tor The greaTesT l-lomecoming Day OT all, The Park-l-lorlick Game OT l966, Ie+ us noT blame our silly senTimenTaliTy Tor The Teelings aroused in us. LeT us blame The PasT and The game, buT enioy iT and our reminiscences To The brim-now and Torever.

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.. . gg MV A, Mary E. Pugh, Social Science considerafe Olivia Baker, Commercial impressive J. E. LaBonde, lnclusirial Aris earnesl' Alia E. Laub. Language amicable L. G. Berven. Music-Science paiieni Gerirude R. Simmons, English fluenf Louise M. Collier, English energeiic Laura DuFour, Social Science cordial A. A. Worun, Science sysiemafic , Lillian Case, English-Journalism clever Florence Pennefeaiher, Commercial sagacious Willard J. Iselin, Social Science loquacious Lillian Tomelc, Language demure Lillian J. Jones, Librarian deliberaie Erwin Wall, Commercial iolly

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SENIORS' PLAY Back Row: Clair Glines, James Poulson, Jolmn Medzis, Marion l-lislop, LeRoy l-linze, William l-lall, Harrison Wurz. Fronl Row: Alex Temmer, Clarence Zenz, Dorollwy Kroulik, Palricia Townsend, Nancy Smader, James Russel. LeRoy l-linze, l-larrison Wurz, Pairicia Town- send, Marion l-lislop, Clarence Zens, Alex Temmer. Marion l-lislop, LeRoy l-linze, Palricia Townsend, James Russel. orncmas 523 Genevieve Dedericlm. lreasurerg LeRoy May, f J' fx, vice president Marlin Clancy, secrelary, Ed- X if win Roloerfs, president X 'fix QW