William A Wirt High School - Sandscript Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Smiling and helpful; Now and then blue; Humorous and peppy; Kind-hearted and true. Saddles” and slack suits; Uniforms or frocks; Plaid suit and sweater; Nylons or socks. Digging in desk drawers; Filling out reports; Counselling lovers; Active in sports. School proms and dances; Band and P.K.P.; First Aid and Motor Corps; Gary Symphony. EICHHORN ADELE P.K.P. 3; G.A.A. !, 2, 3; Sec. of class 1; Camera club 1; Girls’ conference see. 3; Spanish club see. 3; H.M.S. Pinafore 1. HOFFENBERG ROBERT Football I, 2; Track 1, 2; Band 1, 2, 3; Bugler 1, 2; Ranger 1, 2; Biology club 3; Ensemble 2. MAGIOUDIS BESSIE P.K.P. 3; G.A.A. I, 2, 3; W club 3; Honor Society 3; Student Council 1; Band 1, 2; Spanish club 2, 3. SHAFFER BILL Football I, 2, 3; Track I, 2, 3; Basketball I, 2, 3; Sandscript 4: Shifting Sands editor 4; Class officer I; Camera club 1; letters from Abroad 2; W club 2. HOF.CKI I.BERG HELYN G.A.A. I, 2; Band 1. 2; Shifting Sands 3; Sand-script 3; Sandbur 3. No end of things to do; Worn-out tires; no gas; Senior treasury lacking funds; Study-hall class. Honey to her husband; ‘'Maggie to a few; Peg” to the teachers; Griff to me and you. CLARK EVELYN P.K.P. 3; G.A.A. I, 2, 3; Band I, 2, 3; Class sec. 2; Chorus 1, 3; Spanish club 2; Art club 2; Class play 1. KERFZMAN JOHN Football 1, 2, 3; Track 1, 2, 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Band 1,2; W” club 3; Chorus 1, 2, 3; Art club I, 2,3; Vocal solo contest 1, 2. Page Twelve

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NABHAN THEODORE Football 3, 4; Basketball 1, 3; Track I; Band 1, 2, 3; Chips and Shavings 1; Shifting Sands 4. POLING DORIS P.K.P. 3, 4; G.A.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Chorus 2; Operetta 2; Christmas pageant 2. OWEN ROBERT Basketball I, 2; Track 1, 2; Camera 1; Board of Control I. POE JUNE P.K.P. 3, 4; G.A.A. I. 2, 3, 4; Shifting Sands 3, 4; Sandscript 4; Sandbur 4; Class see. 1; ( lass treas. 2; Letters from Abroad 3; Chorus I. 2, 3; Girls’ conference 3, 4. PETERSON ROLAND Basketball I, 2, 3; Track 1, 2, 3; Band 1, 2. 3, 4 Camera club 2, 3; Vjcc’ pres. band. U.S. Navy SMITH BARBARA P.K.P. 3. 4; G.A.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, vice pres. 4; Shifting Sands 4; Sand-script editor 4; Band 1, 2. 3, 4; W club 3, 4; Spanish club 4; Chairman; Honor society 4; leader at girls’ conference. STIMSON JAMES I'ootball 2, 3, 4; Track 2, 3; Cross country 1; Sandscript 4; Class play 1; Class vice pres. 3; Band I, 3, 4; Chips and Shavings 1. U.S. Merchant Marines. TRASK FRED Hobart High School 1, 2, 3; Sandscript 4; Band 4. SMITH ROSEMARY P.K.P. 3, 4; G.A.A. I, 2, 3. 4. pres. 4; ‘W” club 3, 4; Shifting Sands 4; Sandscript 4; Band I, 2, 3, 4. officer 3; Honor Society 3; Camera club 2; Class sec. 2; Girls’ conference 3; Social comm. 4. WEIGER GENE Basketball 1, 3; Track 2; Cross country I; Shifting Sands 4; Sandscript 4; Chips and Shavings” 1; Band 1, 2; Class play 1; Traffic court 1. Page Eleven

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7. FRED TRASK is chief repair man for trans-Atlantic cables. 8. SHARKY MONTGOMERY runs an exclusive dress shop on Maxwell Street in Chicago. Her merchandise is widely publicized as being: quote hot stuff” unquote. 9. DON CARLSON is sportswriter of MADEMOISELLE and editor-in-chief of CHILD LIFE. 10. BARBARA SMITH, with the help of Roland Peterson, directs the Salvation Army Band at the southwest corner of Eighth and Broadway. 11. KENNETH CANTWELL is a featured dancer in Ballet Russe, currently showing in the spacious club-rooms of the Eta Bita Pie. 12. DORIS POLING, after a brief engagement of 9 years, 11 months, 23 days, 15 hours, 49 minutes, and 4 seconds, has decided to set the date of her wedding to Dick Cox. 13. BOB HOEG is head of the Maternity Ward at Methodist Hospital and spends most of his time taking care of babies (sixteen years old or over). 14. JUNE POE, who is interested in better standards of literature, writes short stories for ESQUIRE and has a serial running in TRUE STORY. 15. WALLACE KENNEDY still gets fifteen cents a day for shovelling coal. He can afford but one meat-ball.” 16. LAURA LEE HOLLINGSWORTH is very well satisfied with a poison-ivy lotion she mixed up in her spare time at home. It’s a mild solution containing H2S04, commonly called sulfuric acid. She still wonders why her big toe disintegrated. 17. MALCOLM HEIDT is still plodding through second-year Spanish so he can go to Minnesota U. It’s much easier since he learned how to swear ... in Spanish. 18. DOROTHY BRUCHNER is head pencil sharpener at the Gary National Bank. We congratulate her as only people with very intelligent minds can cope with such a job. 19. JOHN KEREZMAN is chief cuspidor cleaner at Gene’s and Master of Ceremonies on the side. 20. ALICE ADAMS runs a home for poor run-down Worry Birds, as she is the shining example for all of them. At present she is campaigning for the worldwide title of Miss Worry Bird of 1955 . 21. JAMES GOFORTH has won world-wide fame as comb soloist in Phil Spitanly’s all-girl orchestra. 22. GERALDINE NASON is still studying psychology at Wm. A. Wirt. The faculty make very good guinea pigs. 23. GENE WE1GER has established a co-ed pool-hall across from W.A.W. for the convenience of the students. The girls have become quite adept at putting the boys behind the Eight Ball”. 24. ROSEMARY SMITH is working in the Post Office Department in Washington, D. C. Those floors arc hard 25. BILL SHAFFER has taken Charles Boyer’s place in the movies. What a technique! Need we say more? to scrub, aren’t they, Rosemary? 26. NORMA ALLEN, the well known architect, has turned her attention to the development of a wingless, whecl-lcss motorless airplane. She has original ideas of using rubber bands as horsepower. 27. BERNARD FLOYD, better known as Barney Floyd, has worked his way up to Personal officer in the Spars and takes his job quite seriously. Some of them are hard to get acquainted with. 28. DOROTHY DAUGHERTY is proprietress of a tea room in Indiana Harbor. So far only three people have died of ptomaine poisoning, but she hopes to set a better record in the future.