Westminster High School - Owl Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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def:-t ' Senior Class Officers at right are Donald Pennington. Treasurer, Urban Bowman, Vice Presiclentg Marie Summers, His- torian and Reporter, Roger Wolfe, Presi- dent: Williarxu Taylor, Chaplain: Rae Leppo, Secretary. Zowwi, The Senior Class Board consisted of the Class Officers shown above and one representative from each cf the home- rooms shown at the left. They are joe Shilling, Beverly Ritter, Bill Mann, and Andy Tawney. I I I CLASS OF 1955 SONG Tune: Far Ahore Cayugafr llydlflflf To Wextrrzrrzfter Alma Mater, we do ralye thir 5012 g, Thou h our ala fr here now seem Jhort our 5 irilf llrz er On. 5' J Hall We5tnzirzster.' Hail UVe.rtmimter! Onward we will strive. Hail to thee our Alma Mater, Clan of '55 Though the hellf hare often called af, they will call rzo more, Erfer may her 50125 prefs forward, forward through life'5 tloorf. Hail lVeJtmrrz5ter! Hail Wfeytmirzsterf Orzwarcl we will ftrlre, Hail to thee our Alma Mater, Clays of '55 Written by Doris Ohler, Gene Houck. Beverly Ritter and Paul Bowersox

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-1. , is iz . C 2 Q9 If ' afz.'4e6!cw4af5 SEPTEMBER, 1949. Thats when it started. I-low amazed we were, and baffled. Such a big, new school. Would we ever get used to it? We won- dered how we ever could become a part of it, but we did. After the first few weeks, we knew the whole seventh grade hall, the gym, and the audi- torium. We bought our first subscription to the OWL, joined the band and orchestra, and watched the football, basketball, and baseball teams fighting for 'ol Westminster High. The eighth grade seemed to come and go the fastest. There weren't any new activities to join, and much of our time was spent just learning. Once in the ninth grade, the big-shots of the junior High School, we began to become active. Our first classmates got berths on the junior Varsity Teams. XX7e sang in choral groups, and we were much more a part of the school. And then we were Sophomores. We ate our lunch with the juniors and Seniors, we became members of the clubs in the school, and we organized our class with Ruth Sofinowski as our first president. Our prize invention of the year was the executive board, made up of representatives of each homeroom. In May, when we held our Sophomore I-lop, everyone agreed that it had been the best organized and the prettiest party they'd seen. Before we knew it, we were juniors. We started We take with us memories, knowledge, widened interests and a deeper understanding of this world in which we live. We are proud of our records, proud of our achieve- ments, and proud to claim West- minster High School as our Alma Mater. We leave with the hope that our successors will keep alive the spirit of the Class of 1955. the year with a hot election campaign which saw Andy Tawney become our President. It was our turn to fill the halls with the fragrant odors of chemistry. In sports, the Junior boys became the stars of the teams. In the spring, our class song was written by several juniors, fingers were measured and rings ordered, and we made plans for the junior Prom. Suddenly, at Class Night in june, when we sang our class song, we realized that in one year, we would be the ones to graduate. The summer went fast and we were the Seniors . . . we were the ones to set the examples we were given senior privileges the first to go to lunch and assemblies we became the major leaders in school clubs the senior dramatics classes pre- sented the Bazaar and Christmas plays . . . the OWL Staff was always busy meeting deadlines and find- ing a way to make a larger yearbook for the same price. Roger Wolfe was elected president of the class. Mid-Year's came with all their worries and head- aches, College Entrance Exams, conferences with Mrs. Price, learning to make perfect trial balances, senior pictures, Diversified Occupations, and name cards. And so time flew on to May and the Senior Prom, from the Far East. Then it was june, but after all these years it didn't seem real and we weren't sure we wanted to leave. First came Class Night, then Commencement on June 3, 1955. is I6 5 1

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