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

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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

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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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tnte '.elicit c uittvli ijnijiUicnij .lUNIUIUi Page Fourteen We started our freshman year with the election of officers: Jim Stack as president; Dorothy Bruchner, vice-president; Adele Eichhorn, secretary; and June Poe, treasurer. The main social event was the Hallowe’en dance. Our sophomore year saw Jim Goforth as president, Arthur Larson as vice president, Evelyn Clark as secretary, and Bill Shaffer as treasurer. The social events of that year included the St. Patrick’s Day Dance, and the Valentine Dance, which was slightly profitable. Fin row: E. Matthews, H. Morrow, J. Krueger, R. Tucker. J. Kcrczman, L. Poling, C. Miller, J. Morrison, I. Baldauf, B. Magioudis. Second rou: F. Arvidson, M. Damcron, P. Robinson, B. Ban aski, A. Lewis, C. Crawford, W. Wysong, V. Sol I or s, A. Eichhorn, E. Clark, B. Tobcy. Third rou : D. Nabhan, J. Evans, M. McGrcw, M. Kozderka, F. Poc, M. Daugherty, K. Morgavan, M. Nash, P. Lock, B. Fields. Fourth ran : Miss Cochrane, S. Pavich, D. Bowers, P. Jones, R. Horfenberg, L. Poling, Miss Huber, D. Irwin, A. Haines, H. Hoeckelberg, B. Miller, Mrs. Strong. Fifth row: R. Harper. C. Renz, B. Dunivan, L. Dahl, A. Ralph, E. Humphrey, A. Larson, J. Goforth. Sixth row: T. Rebeck, R. Grcmbowicz, M. Thews. J. Hamilton, R. Cox, R. Skogseth, S. Calaway, R. Gardner, Seventh row: W. Monahan ,A. Iddings, J. Stack, M. Wolt, R. Gibson. In our present year Charles Crawford was elected president; Alice Lewis, vice president; Barbara Banaski, secretary; and Walton Wysong, treasurer. After a dull beginning, a renaissance-swept the class, fostered by the May Dance. The juniors went to work and accomplished their goal, They had good decorations and excellent refreshments. The junior class appears to have an intelligent group—there were seventeen who passed the test making them eligible for three-and-a-half-year graduation.