Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 27 CHARACTERISTICS NAME LIKES DISLIKES AMBITIONS Gloria Becker Television Teasing Secretary Gertrude Bednarz Whiton Street An Empty Mailbox Happiness Margaret Carniglia Cokes The Army A Wedding Band Peter Carniglia To Do Errands The Draft Board The Navy Joan Casinghino Jokes Doctors Gym Instructor Arthur Christian Suflield Physics To Graduate William Cuilewicz Howdy-Doody Cafeterias ? ? ? ? ? Maralyn Ciparelli To Laugh Old Maids Joint Bank Account Daniel Colone Fords Bent Fenders To Live It Up Theresa Courtney Gym Excuses Dancing Pink Telephones Gloria Crane Trouble School Just Plain Fun Arthur Dobosz Cars Levies The Service Jane Ann Downes Fun Stories To Stay In Nursing School Margaret Driscoll Sailors Cats Air Force Unlimited Joan English Sweaters Curiosity The Waves Robert English Science Girls Explore The Moon Nancy Fuller Mischief Quietness First Woman President Chester Grabiec Hi-Life Pointed Collars What Ambitions? Rod Greene Sleep Forwardness Idleness Thomas Johnson Le$s Knee Socks Foot Loose And Fancy Free Ann Kennedy Drivers’ Training Monday Morning A Driver ' s License Doris Lanati Basketball Worry A Stenographer Paul Lodola Sparks Macbeth To Outdo Edison James Lownds Music Noise Astronomer Margaret Mayoros Latin ? ? Snakes Nursing Rena Piaggi Life Bermuda Shorts To Stay Single Ronald Pomeroy Class Treasurer Geometry To Save $5,000 Ann Raccone Guess who? Colli’s Food Success Louis Rossi Girls Nobody Mr. America Robert Salvato Art Sadness To Enjoy Life Jean Samplatsky Crazy Otto Lunch Tickets To Buy A Car Wesson Sargent M.I.T. Wise Guys Revolutionize The World Seth Sharp Blue Ribbons? Dryness Not Many! Pat Silk Diamonds Untidiness Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Szepanski To Spank Straight Hair Join The Service Mary Ulitsch To Giggle Unhappiness Never Stop Laughing Ruth Viatukaitus Mary Motorcycles Air Line Hostess Joan Walters People Calmness Secretary Edward Young Permanents Squares Play A Cool Saxaphone Barbara Zitka Convertibles Meanness Housework ? ?

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26 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD WHO ' S WHO Rod Greene. most athletic.Margaret Driscoll James Lownds..most quiet.....Gloria Becker Art Dobosz class dreamers.....Patricia Silk Thomas Szepanski...most co-operative...Nancy Fuller Louis Rossi..—.most happy-go-lucky ...Joan Casinghino Rena Piaggi...most mischievous.Thomas Johnson Robert English--most serious-----Margaret Carniglia Jane Downes...most talkative....-.Ann Kennedy Ronnie Pomeroy.most in love. .Ann Raccone Peter Carniglia.-.most ambitious..Joan Walters Paul Lodola. most reserved -...Doris Lanati Wesson Sargent . most businesslike....Barbara Zitka Arthur Christian.most studious.....Margaret Mayoras Danny Colone...-.most cheerful.-...Maralyn Ciparelli Edward Young- class dressers-Gertrude Bednarz Chester Grabiec. most tardy-.Gloria Crane Theresa Courtney.-.most encouraging....Joan English William Cuilewicz.most attentive....Seth Sharp Robert Salvato. class readers...Jean Samplatsky Ruth Viatukaitis .—class gigglers . Mary Ulitsch

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28 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD Graduation Night Program THE NEED OF ENGINEERS TODAY Members of the Board of Education, Teachers, Parents, and Friends: On behalf of the Class of 1955, I wish to welcome you to our commencement exercises. Also on behalf of the Class, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for your pro¬ viding in this town of Windsor Locks, a modern grammar and high school system. We are just completing that twelve-year course and would like to thank you for making it available to us. Upon completion of this last year of high school, the Class will scatter and its members will go their respective ways; some to college or other institutions of higher learning; some to business; and others into the service of our country. Unfortunately, only a few out of this class of forty are planning to further their formal education. These few will stand up better in competition for positions because modern industry calls for personnel capable of handling complex machines and various other difficult assignments. Only people with such an education can stand up under these conditions. As a basis for my proof I use the following example. In our recent “Career Day - ' exercises, a question was directed to one of the speakers who was the personnel director in one of the local industries. The question was this: Exactly how much chance does an unskilled laborer or a person who has not had any schooling above high school have in industry today? His reply was that in today’s complex, scientific world, the person with advanced schooling has a distinct advantage over one without such schooling. In fact, in many industries, there are very few openings for anyone who is unskilled or unschooled in some particular line. In this day and age, engineering offers the greatest opportunities for advancement, high pay, security and diversification. Statistics show that the greatest per cent of industrial executives were, at one time, trained to be engineers. The demand is becoming greater for engineers of all kinds. This country ' s engineering schools and colleges are producing 17,000 engineers every year, but industry demands 30,000 per year. The resulting deficiency creates situations where-by industries go to colleges and schools to enlist the services of prospective engineers in their senior year instead of waiting for the engineers to come to them. In the recent observance of Engineering Week, radio and television stations aided the various national engineering societies in urging high school students to pursue a career in engineering. They argued that in order to maintain the future defense of our country, many more engineers are needed. For our class motto, we have selected the phrase Forward ever; backward never. This phrase is also applicable to the nation and if the United States is to live up to it, it must have more engineers to keep industry at its high standard. It is this high standard of industry which permits us to hold the top billing of the countries of the world today. Therefore, underclassmen, if you are interested in the engineering field and do well in mathematics and science, it would be wise for you to consult with your guidance director for help in organizing a curriculum which will best prepare you for a college education in the field of engineering. A decision to pursue a profession in engineering will benefit not only you bur your country as well. Wesson Sargent, Salutatorian ' 55