Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Senior-sponsored Sock Hop Keeping in touch with the started the year’s social fes- Senior bulletin board, tivities. SENIOR HISTORY Everybody had fun at the I unior-Senior Dance. The Reflector picture staff, trying hard to make up their minds. Goodbye. That word can make one either happy or sad. In our case it’s both: sad because we are leaving our high school days behind forever, parting with friends and classmates whom we’ve been with since we can remember, and even our teachers, whom we forgive for all the work they’ve caused us; happy because we are starting on a new path, which holds many surprises and adventures in store, and because we’ve finally reached the goal we’ve been striving toward for four long, but wonderful years. Our freshman year brings us back to 1944-45, our picnic at Sheridan beach when we just about froze to death, those ‘’after school” parties, and the assembly we gave for the sophomores. We elected Delores Miller as president of our class with Dan Lynch as vice president, Monica Bodnar as secretary, and Bob Krauel as treasurer. We closed our freshman year with the Freshman Prom. Our prom! Oh, we didn’t wear formals, but we did have corsages. After all, we had three more years to go and had plenty of time for formals and tuxedos. We were just bc- Mi» Marie Grccnwald, Senior class sponsor ginning!! After surviving our first year of high school, we came back for another try at our second, holding the title of Sopho- mores. This year we had our picnic in Whiting Park along with juniors and seniors. Deciding on blue jeans and sloppy shirts we held a Hallowe’en party, where we all had a swell time in an informal way. We mustn’t forget our Sophomore prom, “Fantasy in Blue”, nor our officers for that year: presi- dent, Bob Strisko; vice president, Beth Spurrier; secretary, Bob Harr; and treasurer, Marcella Portman. GREEN AND POWERS Attorneys

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Today, in 1948, a modern Whiting High graduates over one hundred students a year. A staff of teachers, ten times that of ’98, gives the students of this generation the education they need to meet the complex problems of this scientific age. Students can now receive training of vocational, cultural, or even domestic value in classrooms and laboratories equipped with modern educational devices and machines.

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Our junior year began with ordering our class rings. We reached into the grab-bag for a ten-cent gift at our class Christmas party, and we had a wonderful time at the Junior-Senior Picnic, eating to our hearts’ content and beating the seniors in a fair (?) game of baseball. Our officers this year were: Alfy Pilarcik, president; Jimmy Broderick, vice president; Gene Law- ton, secretary; Harold Gurevitz, treasurer. Since our class was sponsoring the Junior-Senior Prom this year, were busy planning. We called it Heavenly we Dreams” and decorated it in exactly that way. The big night finally came and went, and then school was over for that year with three down and only one more to go. Senior claw officer : Thcrcsc Ostrowski, treasurer George Corman, president; Dan Lynch, vice president Joan Shcpton, secretary. Our Senior and final year was the happiest, yet the saddest year we spent in our Alma Mater. Though we’re leaving, we’ll forever keep the memories of Bums’ Day, the Junior- Senior Picnic and dance, the prom, and other parties and dances in our memories, also Class Night and Commencement, when we cried and laughed together. More than ever before we began looking toward the future. To guide us through our last year we had as class officers: George Corman, president; Dan Lynch, vice president; Joan Shepton, sec- retary; and Therese Ostrowski, treasurer. So to Whiting High School we say good- bye. There’s no more time and we must leave. To Miss Marie Greenwald, our class sponsor, who guided us through our four years of high school, who so sweetly helped us in so many ways, all we can say . „ is thanks — thanks a million, and The senior-beaded I at Her came out punctually with the good-bye. We’ll never forget you. school news. The jokes s, showing, their worst, on Bums’ Day. final preparations for the A gab session at the Junior- biggest Jay in any senior’s Senior Picnic. school life—graduation. NORTHERN INDIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY Protect Precious Eyesight with Plenty of Good Light”