Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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I S ag Cl f Tattler ' 0 img Ei. af .-Z Q. as W xy Q3 f , s 'Ki Q l r r A , . ':'L r , : , c 'F 'S Q Q up f S ul I Zbl . , gf' , 3 gif ' ijt. . I J ., ,r John Revenaugh Edith Polito Wallace Rewicki Julia Pollock Gene Roman Helen Radecki General Commercial Industrial Arts Commercial General Commercial L. T. G. 3, 4 Visual Ed. Soc. 2 Machinists Club 2,3,4 Tattler Staff 3, 4 Football 2, 3, 4 Girls' Ath. Lea 1 3 4 Nat. Honor Soc. 2 L. T. G. 3, 4 Girls' W Club 3 4 Periclean Soc. 4 L. T. G. 3, 4 Eleanor Ray Frank Rutkowski John Rober Leona Raymond Edwin Rober Audrey Reiger Commercial Commercial' Industrial Arts Commercial General General Girls' Ath. Lea. 4 Soc. Science Club 3, 4 Quill and Dagger 3, 4 Hi-Y 3, 4 Saga Staff L. T. G. 4 Electrical 1, 2 Track 3, 4 Sr. Friendship Club 4 A A L1 f A Senior's Diary , Q R More of self-assurance and less of uncertainty was the air which I found prevailing on my return to the second year. I felt that a gener- al readjustment was taking place, which I shall here try to note as my observations became clearer and keener. The readjustment was being carried out in a manner which seemed to show that the enrolled knew more of what they wanted and needed and were more intent on obtaining it. Some of the serious and dignified became disillusioned, lax, and indifferent. A few of the frivo- lous and childish had decided to turn over a new leaf and were seriously intent on making a success of school this time. The majority of the affected had not yet been struck with a force momentous enough to know that they were on the wrong road to popularity and were becoming more pro- voking and unbearable. A slight percentage of these had had it knocked out of them and were seri- ously concentrating on becoming simple and good mixers, and these found. that people were more than willing to have them join their circles. A few of these sophisticates had suffered their jolts so severely that already they had given up and had willingly converted themselves into the type who wished to quit when the time came. Those who had been placed in the group of being forced to go on with school, the malcontents, had already dropped from the progression, or were making it terribly hard for others until their time came to leave. Circumstances had so changed for quite a number that they had now become part of that poor groping class which was still trying to find the far distant shining light. The clowns were still acting foolish and seemed destined to continue doing so. Some of us wished that there were a way of .f z ,r ' ' .2 ,,: I 4- . Louis Sackmann Grace Reinbolt Alfred Samborn Helen Sankowski Ben Schall Lillian Schneider General Commercial Academic Commercial General General Glee Club 1, 2 Soc. Science Club 3,4 Spanish 1, 2, 3, 4 Latin Club 1, 2, 3 Library Asso. 4 L. T. G. 4 German Club 3, 4 Peiuper 3, 4 German Club 4 Soc. Science Club 3, 4 Girls' Ath. Lea 4

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Saga fr Tattler f' 0 Chester Pawelczak Catherine Orth Richard Pease Ruth Paisie Melvin Prond Gladys Paulsen Commercial Commercial General General Industrial Arts General Basketball 3, 4 Art Klan 2, 3 Glee Club 3, 4 Zetalethean Soc. 3, 4 Engineering Soc. 4, Art Klan 2, 4 Quill and Dagger 3, 4 Alchemist Soc. 4 Spanish Club 2, 3, 4 German 2 5 Gretchen Paulsen Elmer Pegorsch Margaret Paulsen Theo. Perlinski Virginia Pawlicki Paul Piotrowski General General General Industrial Arts General Academic Periclean Soc. 2, 3, 4 Pica Club 1, 2 Periclean Soc. 2, 3, 4 Electrical Soc. Girls' Ath. Leax Sr. Hi-Y 4 Aviation Soc. 1, 2, 3, 4 Aviation Soc. 1, 2, 3, 4 Art Klan 1, 2, 3, 4 Art Klan 1, 2, 3, 4 -.. A Senior's Diary of utilizing their existence to the greatest extent and considered their work and the people working with them before succumbing to the farce disease of the aforementioned. An insignificant feeling which coveted recognition prompted another class to try acting the fool or clown. This group sooner or later found itself out with the school in general, for they were the murderers of desirable good humor. The sophisticated, those who attempted to carry themselves with an important and knowing air, were the next to come under the distinguishing pen. These attempted to imitate the serious and dignified by putting on the high and lofty aten foot pole attitude, the ritz in other words. The only compensation for their pains was that everyone thought them affected. This next group can be fond in any large organization. The principals in this gathering are the grudgers of any society. They were just waiting for their sixteenth year so that they could quit what to them was a horrible, forced existence. Pity was the feeling provoked by these. They were those who hadn't the means to get straightened out and who go through the year with a feeling of wandering and bewilderment. The members of this group were the poor and needy, the undernourished, and the mentally diseased. Lastly, the superfical. They worried about clothes and personal appearance, and if they failed to attract the attention and admiration of their opposites, then their school existence was a flop , and they turned to unsavory activities. .1094 N ,. .Q ' Solomon Rappaport Margaret Perry Raymond Rasch Mary Pettee Bill Ray Gertrude Pioterek General Academic General General General General Peuiper 3, 4 Orchestra 3, 4 Faces 2 Class Pres. 2 Home Economics Track 4 Zetalethean Soc. 2 Quill and Dagger 3, 4

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pk Milton Schmidt General Pica Club 3, 4 Dorothy Skeldon Commercial Saga 6 Tattler ' 0 SUT' Virginia Schuster , 'F ! 5 fm: 5' Gp 5 I 14 fm ,. I Q Q James Sfaelos Theresa Siemierocki Sam Schall Stephania Sitko General Ind. Arts General Academic Commercial Zetalethan Lit. Soc. 2,3 Football 4 La Cercle Francais 2,3, 4 Tattler Staff 2, 3, 4 Cheer Leader 2, 3 Peiuper Club 3, 4 Senior Class Reporter Tumbling 1, 2, 3, 4 National Honor Soc. 3, 4 William Shames Alma Lou Skinner James Shemas Florence Skrocki Elmer Shortt General Academic General Commercial Industrial Arts French Club 2, 3, 4 French Club 2, 3, 4 Tattler Staff 3, 4 Municipal Club Quill and Dagger 3 4 Electrical l, 2 Zetalethean 3, 4 International Soc. Science Club 3 Little Theater Guild 3 4, L. T. G. Track 4 A Senior's Diary pinching them into reality. Those stylish ones were still in style and were ever continuing to practice their wily lures on the innocent and gullible. The year ended thus. Readjustments had been made, the approaching year was apprehended with relish by the sanely wise and with distaste and displeasure by the must-go-ons. At last! Our time has come. Soon we'll be seniors. We'll soon be the pride and joy of Woodward. Why shouldn't we be cocky and overbearing? We no longer have to look up to the upper-classmen with a woe-begone, abused, awed, or admiring gaze. No sir! Let the lower classmen look up to us now. I too was caught up in this contagious disease which took the incoming junior class by storm. The cocky became cockier, the meek and mute became alive and exaggerated in their new-found glory, the would-be comics became more exasperating, and new hopes and illusions came in by the bushel. The idlers became enthused. Now that I'm a full-fledged junior, they said, I must prove my worth? Then grades began to bolster, the old gloomy books were attacked with a vim and vigor and became shiny and worn from use by people urged on by the desire to excel, by a desire to show that we have a right to our cockiness. The quitters quit, and when they did, it was with snap, the workers worked with zeal, the showy dressers dressed with pomp and ceremony, the get-for-nothings shirked or got for nothing without half trying, and I must sorrowfully add that the forgotten who had tollook on with hope and regret were almost entirely neglected, and yet a few began to shine, A ,,,.. in is 1 .: '-'VXA QM ff Q..- 'UN fi rt 2 Q ., -5 -.., ,, lb 56 .4 LeRoy Shrider Bette Jayne Slavin Louis Sieczkowski Nellabell Slater Herbert Sodd Helen Smolinski Industrial Arts Commercial Industrial Arts Commercial General Commercial Engineering 3, 4 Girls' UW Club 3, 4 Auto Club 1, 2, 3, 4 Pica 2 Municipal Club Machine Shop 3, 4 Girls' Ath. Lea. 3, 4 Hi-Y Sr. Friendship Club 4