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

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29. ALFRED BRASCHOS is .in usher at the Grand, and 40, still doesn’t know his way around. By now we wonder if it’s intentional or otherwise. 30. BOB OWEN is a reporter for the GARY POST 41. TRIBUNE. The society page and gossip column really keep him busy. 31. JIM McGREW is a promoter of used cars and makes 42. lots of profits—for everyone else. 32. EVELYN HERRICK is a nurse at Methodist Hospital. Her favorite habit is describing in detail a 43. juicy operation while at the supper table. This always increases appetites. 33. RAY LUSTGARTEN, after five years of starring in the Metropolitan, has come back to Gary to make his 44. debut at the Ship ’. 34. Since DICK KOEN has always been one of the brighter students in all of his acadcmit subjects, he has secured 45. a steady job with the Quiz Kids. 35. JANICE CRAWFORD is living a pleasant life with 46. her hubbie, eleven small children, two dogs, five kittens and eight goldfish, in a two-room cottage on North 47. Lake Street. They’re thinking of taking in boarders. 36. BENNY HOFFMAN is a research chemist. At present he is working out a problem that has been puzzling 48. men for centuries—namely, the formula for water. 37. JAMES STIMSON has his own radio program, called ‘'Uncle Jimmy’s Juvenile Delinquents”, sponsored by slower-burning Mary Wanna Cigarettes. 49 38. BILL LUSTGARTEN, who has been married and divorced only twelve times, has taken Mr. Anthony’s place on the air and offers excellent advice on how to make the perfect marriage. 39. PHYLLIS HUGHES, who ha, always been one of the 11 quietest and best-behaved girls in school, has started a Purity League of Innocence. RALPH BOHMAN is a amous designer of women's clothes. He got his first ideas from pictures of pin-up girls in the Navy barracks. ROLAND PETERSON has published several pamphlet on Flirtations and Pursuit of Women, preferably female. THEODORE NABHAN is still in study hall where he fell asleep reading a comic book the last day of school. I he name of it was Wonder Woman . BESSIE MAGIOUDIS has a day nursery and reads stories from her own book entitled Aunt Bessie’s Bed Time Tales, derived from the works of Guy Dc Maupassant. HELYN HOECKELBERG is assistant band master at Wirt. She makes all the woodwind instruments in her father’s lumberyard. EVELYN CLARK is currently touring the Belgian Congo with her Brooklyn version of Bizet’s Habanera”. BOO TS EICHHORN is in charge of Chicago’s service men centers. Oh, brother, what service! BOB HOFFENBERG is playing himself in a screen production of his autobiography, which he is also producing, directing, and designing the costumes for. MR. COONS is lecturing around the country on man’s evolution. His theory that man descended from apes and will go to the dogs, has practically been proved by research at Wirt School. MISS MINNIEAR, using her home cc. training as a basis, is head of the Garbage Collection Department in the Calumet area. MRS. GRIFFITH can still be found in the Band office cleaning out her desk drawers. THIS SEEMS SOMEWHAT QUEER AND UNBELIEVABLE, REMEMBER THE CRYSTAL WAS MADE fN JAPAN

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uell to oris crly in- lity ncs un- to of to ny- to do son—as if he needed it. 28. JUNE POE leaves her temper tantrums to Joan Morrison. 29. ROLAND PETERSON leaves his clarinet to Jack Kelley. 30. GERALDINE NASON leaves to Prances Arvidson her ability to get things done. 31. JIM ST1MSON leaves Sears and Roebuck’s filling station to some other equally unambitious character. 32. DOROTHY BRUCHNER leaves her shorthand ability to anyone who thinks he could possibly get a war job on the strength of it. 33. WALLY KENNEDY leaves his car for Lois Poling, so she can make a quick get-away. 34. EVELYN CLARK leaves to Charmainc Kennedy her yearning for bull sessions”. 35. BILL SHAFFER leaves to Zombie Sollors his long wind in the mile run. 36. BARBARA SMITH leaves her first-aid training to Mrs. Griffith, so that when her car breaks down she’ll know how to fix it. 37. BOB HOFFENBERG leaves to Bob Gunderson his ability to annoy people. 38. FRED TRASK leaves his collection of absentee ex cuses to Barbara Conway. 39. BESSIE MAGIOUDIS leaves to Leonard Sullivan her collection of jokes, old and new, mostly old. 40. GENE WEIGER leaves his fiendish schemes to Gene Goforth. 41. DON CARLSON leaves to Bob Harbaugh his ability to talk fast. 42. ADELE EICHORN leaves her sweet, childlike face to iMyron Wolt. 43. BOB OWEN leaves his quiet and shy way to Bob Roupe. 44. JIM GOFORTH leaves his good looks to Sidney Tucker. ar- 45. HELYN HOECKELBERG leaves school to take up her career at Santa-Anita. 46. ARTHUR HAINES leaves his understanding of Economics to Rosemary Tucker. 47. JAMES MeGREW leaves his technique of blushing to Pauline Robinson. 48. MRS. GRIFFITH leaves her popularity to everyone. There is enough for all. 49. MR. COONS leaves his stories about Charlie’ to Dave Irwin. 50 MISS MINNIEAR leaves if her one and only comes home before September. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT WE SAW IN OUR CRYSTAL BALL: 1. BUDY HEATER is professor of Civics and Economics at Vassar and is really exasperated at the loafers in his class. 2. MITZIE KAMPF has just published her tenth and latest volume on the subject Technique of Men . It has taken some brave studying, but never call Mitzie a quitter. 3. DAVE ERLANDSON is owner of Lakeview Dairy and has developed a process for dehydrating cows for fresh milk. It works too!!!! 4. EILEEN NASON is still talking about the time she spent in the Navy in 1955. She worked as a permanent Wave in a barbershop at Great Lakes. 5. ARTHUR HAINES is a bone-specialist at Mayo Clinic and takes home spare parts for his own use. 6. BETTY GRAY, whose professional name is Liz Klutz, is a very busy Powers model. Her working hours are nine to twelve with three hours olf for lunch.

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Class This is it; twelve years of studying are behind you— Twelve years of laughing, joking, and of not taking anything too seriously. So now it has come to an ending and it is time to say adieu. A new life is beginning. To each and every one of you it means a new start, A new life challenging. Will you take this life as a sculptor might take a piece of clay And mold it into something that is filled with the music of beauty and love Poem Containing no harsh lines or unharmonious notes to betray— A piece holding such a wealth of simplicity and beauty That all may hear its story and be enriched by it— A life that shall ever be a joy to live—never a duty? This is something that each and every one of you must decide alone— For it is your life, and you are the sculptor grown. You have the sculptor's fine, strong hands— You have his much needed skill . . . And may you have his will. Barbara Smith Page Thirteen