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

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LOIS KREBES is the proprietress of Chicago’s Last Liquor Store. She can’t figure out who’s drinking up all the profits. JOHN MACK LOCKHART is just “rolling them in the isles” in the New York Opera House where he is starring as prima ballerina in the Ballet Russc. BETTY LARSON and her Turnipseeed are married and have quite a garden. HAROLD LUNDSTROM now has his own little restaurant affectionately called “Duff's Beanery”. Weaver’s beating a path to his door. For the last ten years Miss Studebaker has been begging VERLIE MX’ALLISTER to come back and advise her. but VERLIE is too busy writing her Advice to the Lovelorn Column. CLINTON MILLER has a collection of 125 neck ties . . . . you guessed it, he wears them all at once. PAT McGOUGH is still knitting the sweater that she started for Joyce Hinchman the year she graduated. Sine Mr. Doig has a fond affection for LAWRENCE QUIGLEY, he left him Spratts in his will. MARTHA MOORE has finally worked her way up to head jerk at Hooks. PATTI RYAN, after deciding to marry her red-headed fellow, has four little ones named: Fuschia, Pink, Red Jr., and th youngest .... Vermillion. LOIS REGEL missed graduation and after ten years she still hasn’t made it. Her only explanation was, “I simply can’t find my powder base.” Aften ten years GLENN SPRINGMANN finally bought some rope to tic his loafers on with. GLEN I HORN TON, with all his experience in speaking, has started a filibuster in the Senate. Girls! Girls! Girls! Twenty — count them! Twenty! SIDNEY TUCKER, is now on tour with his gorgeous bevy of glamorous girls. After ten years EILEEN SANDERSON’S hair has finally reached shoulder length. Women arc flocking to Marshall Fields Men’s store. Why? Because EUGENE VASUSKY has a job modeling basketball socks. Could it be his legs they’re interested in? I)E LORES SEIBERT has finally attained her chief goal in life. She models gym shoes in Gary’s Goshawfullest Store. LOIS STEIN HOFF has patented her old idea of her “slick-it-back-with-gooey-and-tie-a-ribbon-around-my-braidcd-horsc’s-taiT hair do. There is a great liquor shortage in the states as JIMMY WEAVER is still trying to drown his troubles in drink. BARBARA STINSON reviews movies over the radio on a program sposnored by “The Potomac Blue Beans.” NANCY WACHTER has created a funny paper character called “Gooey Louie” . . . (of Walgreens). PEGGY WESTERGREN has taken Bernice Hmura into her art school . . . for obvious reasons. HELEN TINXIAN is now singing with her husband’s band in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Act 1 Scene 2 STUDENT GOVERNMENT - The function, they tell us, of a play’s first act is to acquaint the audience with the major characters and the problems which they face. Scene 1 has, accordingly, brought us up to date on the story of the class of ‘47, and has expressed some of its philosophy. A brief interlude has shown us a good many folks around school in their lighter moments, and we find ourselves now at the beginning of ’47 ... . ready to face the challenges it presents .... We see a class in session, organized as a court to enforce the traffic regulations that have been worked out . . . Yes, there seem to be problems to face. How? Who? A giant spotlight comes into focus and picks out a group sitting around a table; it is the Common Council. Who arc they? What are they discussing. . . It seems that at the beginning of the school year, Mr. Reid proposed to the students a new form of student government to be drawn up after the Mayor-Council type of city government. This plan of student leadership was readily adopted by the students, and soon an election of officers was in progress. The officers elected were as follows: Dick Erlandson. Mayor: John Lockhart, Judge; and Lois Regel. Clerk of the Court, with the common council recruited from the upper six grades. All the students also were organized as boards, practically coinciding with their register classes, and assigned various duties, such as managing the school’s Fire Department and 'Traffic Court, and carrying out a Children’s Morality Code. We realize, of course, that our goal of good conduct on the part of each individual student at Wirt has been slow under this plan the first year, but we hope that in future years it will effectively work toward the achievement of this goal. Page Sixteen Judge not the play before the play is done; Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene. Frances Ouarles - - SOCIAL COMMITTEE The Spotlight shifts and falls on another table, whose members reflect another mood. They are contemplating an adequate social program for Wirt. Hut the quite placid atmosphere is broken: Ann Peterson declares, “It didn’t work.” M rs. Wechsler states, “It was a waste.” Bob Dunivan shouts, “We will have to change it” Right there and then the plan for reorganizing the Social Committee was born. According to the new plan the big dances were to be handled by the Social Committee, and given in the honor of the various high-school classes. For example, the Halloween Dame on November 1 was dedicated to the Freshman Class and the money made from it went to that group. Committees for the dance, however, were drawn from the entire student body, headed by Social Committee members: Seniors: Bob Dunivan, Patti Ryan. Juniors: Marjorie Owen, John Schcck. Sophomores: Barbara Allen, Don Smith. Freshmen: Ann Peterson, Henry Overbeck. It is spring time now, and problems that seemed so hard arc in the past .... “Oh boy, says Marge, “Remember the Junior Stork Club dance? The decorations were just like a night club.” “I’ll never forget those candy girls,” booms Johnny. ('I'his dance honored the seniors, and the entertainment was the best to be had.) “Well, speaking of dances, what about the Pan-American dance? We even had a bull-fight at that!” “The best dances, though,” insists Barbara, “were the last two; the much-looked-forward-to Prom and the Senior Farewell. Don’t you think so, Smitty? The spotlight fades............and the curtain falls.