West High School - Westward Ho Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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june class N scholastic achievements, dramatics, athletics, clubs, music and High Times, the june class of about 250 members set the pace for their fellow Wfestians. After adjusting ourselves to Senior High surroundings, we immediately became interested in many and varied activities and began to pull together as a class unit. We chose for our first class president, Roger McKenna, who was also president of the German club, a state wide poetry reader, expert golfer, and Hi-Y president. Reginald Nelson had the honor of being elected to the presidency in both the junior and Senior years. Shirley Ann Blakely, winner of the Shaw Prize, was the first girl to take over the helm of the student council presidency. She was aided by Mary Jane Samp, vice-president. Sue Hadley, president of the Girls' Club, was efficiently assisted by Betty Lou Woollen, Ardis Bancroft, Gloria VVahl, Betty Blankinship, and Mary Charlotte Stoll, as Secretary, Treasurer, and committee chairmen respectively. Phillip Hendrickson, who sponsored the Ping Pong tourna- ment was president of the Dramatics club as well as the Nature club in his Senior year. Don Burrowbridge and Beverly Bliss shared the French club offices. Arvin Weinstein, a state wide poetry reader and winner of the Shaw Prize, shared the German club Vice-presidency with john Clark. David Perlman, Sergeant of the band, was the capable leader of the Music and Chemistry clubs. As seniors Kathleen Kennedy and Elizabeth Davis assumed the duties of managing the school paper as co-editors of the High- Times. lvan Lusk served as Feature editor, and many of the staff members were in this class group. Elizabeth also was the vice-president of the Girls' club in her Junior year. Ill the dramatics field we have many stars, some of whom sparkled in Seven Keys to Baldpate, I'll Leave It to You, A Kiss for Cinderella, The New Poor, and The Goose Hangs High. john Clark, Ardis Bancroft,, Hugh Rundell, Mary Charlotte Stoll, Marylin Sanders, Bob Little, Mary Jane Samp, Mary Frances O'Malley, Alphilda Brostrum, Roy Lange, jerome Coe, and Betty Blankinship played prominent roles. Many were the members of the make-up crew, prompters, and general stage hands that made these plays a success. Helen jane Dinsmore, Betty Lou Woollen, and Hugh Rundell, as well as the A Cappella supporting cast were notable choristers in both school programs and The Mikado and farther back Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance. Dick Garner, Roger Lescohier, and George Schafer, an accomplished arranger and composer, were only a few of the many members of our class who were outstanding in band and orchestra. We'll always remember Paul Murphy, Bill Marling, Don Pfahler, Bob Main, Eddie Agner, Bob Wirka, and Dick Dobson, our harrassed manager, who comprised that smoothly working outfit that shone in both the Big Eight basketball contests and the state meet. Bill Neff, Harold McMahon, and others will be remembered for their fine work in football in their senior year. Finally after three years of work sugar-coated with pleasure, june 18th, the day of days came, and Roger McKenna as Vale- dictorian, Sue Hadley as Salutatorian, and Jerome Coe as Class Orator delivered their splendid orations and we found ourselves graduated. Always we shall have many fond memories of West and from time to time come back to catch some of the youthful enthusiasm lingering there. page five