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

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Twelfth Grade if SPONSORS ' 401 William Morris 402 Mary Shelgren 403 Lewis Simmons 404 Frances Ceaser 405 George Dunleavy 406 Doris Book 407 James Ertel 408 Charlene Turner 409 Allene Gayles 410 Lyn Willis 1971 CLASS OFFICERS PRESIDENT Toni Mansfield VICE PRESIDENT Nancy Tuerff SECRETARY Gail Baker TREASURER Mark Gibson HISTORIAN Chris Shanahan

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Class of 1971 In the fall of 1965 some 400 plus Class of 71-ers entered the hallowed halls of Wirt, embarking ui)on our six year social and book learning endeavors. For the first few years we remained divided — Marquette against Nobel against Aetna — each believing them- selves to be supreme. Seventh Grade brought about our first class elec- tions, Karen Thanos doing the Big B , Wirt-A-Go-Go, Mc Vout, and Vinci; Hobbs kicking his wa ' to victory in Florida. I don ' t think many of the girls missed that. Eighth grade was a bit more chaotic with the notori- ous girl fights. For a while the Aetna bus was rated X — for adult audiences only. And so we plunged on into the beginning of our first high school year. As freshmen, we joined G.A.A., Pep Club, and started participating in sports. Already as freshmen we were looking forward to being SENIORS so we could get in free to the G.A.A. Pizza Party. Guys started earning points for their coveted letter jackets, and girls began learning cheers and the splits. Our Freshman year was also an experience with Miss Elliott and the ODYSSEY as well as Mrs. Nelson and Math I-X. Our first experience with the SNOW BALL and KING QUEEN was a good one for every one but one unfortunate girl who fell down the stairs while admiring her first flowers. There seemed to be more freshman couples at the SNOW BALL than the KING QUEEN. 11mm! Wonder why! At the (md of the year we elected class officers, and for the first time in a long while a GIRL headed our class. This proved to be a signal for female leadership in the class of seventy one. (Early women ' s lib ' P) Our sophomore year was one of unprecedented success. Already the Junior girls hated the sopho- mores for dating their gu s. We sponsored a dance that raked in a profit of over $300, and sold l)lue sweat shirts to the kids at school. Halloween was riotous that year! How many times did you get smashed with an egg? On and up we climbed toward being u[)per classmen as we ordered our class rings — oval, rec- tangular, or collegiate st le. We started our junior year off with a hang at 1 iome- coming. That year ' s seniors were defijated in i! ' er - activity. Girl ' s football, pie sMling, even floats, ()u name it, we won it. No one cm forget iiOWL ' EM OVER, KNOCK ' EM FLAT . Our junior year was an exciting one for the kids who got iheir (lri ' (;r ' s li- censes. It took us a while to master the ait of cruis- ing anti radio blasting. Frank-N-Slein became one of our favorite placess. The Luck of the Leprechauns was one of our class ' best effoi ' ts, even if Dolly Mul- loy didn ' t like the favors and Nanci Lebo didn ' t win Hair . We got our first laste of how neat it would be to graduate at the senior ' s graduation part . To- ward the end of the year wt; all began to look forward to our own senior year. Our long awaited senior yeai ' finalK c:ame and most of us found oursehes with lots of spare lime and nothing to do. Many of us were in school only until twelve or one o ' clock. However we found time to work on our float for our last homecoming. Sandy ' s garage harbored our float again and once more it was one of the best. Lynne OREO Orton put our class ,ihead by winning the pie eating contest. .At our last (j.A.A. Pizza Part , we took ad ' antag(; of not having to |)ay and arri ' ed earh enough to devour thirty pizzas in thirty seconds. Poor Mr. Meneakis came to lak(! |uc- tures and arrived 13 seconds too late to g(!l any pizza or pictures. This was the year that The Phimtom Toilet ravaged the Mill(;r-Aetna Area. Financiallx ' , our TURKET TROT was a flop, hut was fun for the ones who dressed up and acted just lik(! senior girls. As the year wore on, the seniors got used to th(;ir skinny green lockers. Even the bo s began to look natural hanging around Room 21,t ev(!r morning. We all began to look forward to graduation . . . S.NOW- FLAKES KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD, skiing, bas- ketball homecoming, EMERALD CITY, Baccalaure- ate, and finalK Commencfjmenl. Every one of us will rememhiu- all that neat stuff that went on in our high school.