Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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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

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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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S cl 8 a f Tattler cf .f f vs at Earl Sommers Irene Sobieniak Academic General Fasces Club 3, 4 Hi Y 2, 3, 4 Honor Soc. 4 Virginia Stachowicz Lester Stram General General Zetalethean Soc. 4 Fasces 2, 3 French Club 2, 3, 4 Freie Bahn 2, 3, 4 International Club 3,4 Alchemist 4 As? '57 X I as W in , Fred Spencer General Track 3, 4 Minnie Solomon General French Club 2, 3, 4 International Club 3, 4 Jane Staiger Academic Victor Stelzer Industrial Arts Zetalethean 2, 3, 4 Electrical Soc. 1,2,3,4 2, Tattler Staff L. T. G. 2, 3, 4 3, 4 Auto Club 4 A Senior's Diary fir-. Edward Stager Commercial Tennis 2, 4 Mary Jane Stayler Gene 'al L. T. G, 4 S , X 9 gg Mary Splitt General Steve Szachta Commerical Visual Ed. Soc. 2 and realized that this was the time to show what they could do. Talents heretofore unknown were brushed up and worn proudly like a new hat. There were various committees to work on, and everyone strove for a position so he could help to do something for his class. Unrecognized were recognized through scholastic achievements, social achievements, for some nice piece of work in school or out. It was a year of glory for most, but some were quite rudely shocked. Vanity and covetous desire sprang up in the least expected places and people. Individualism seemed the vital essential, and this led to disaster for some. This is what the notes in my diary combined to show for this year, and they truly show that we were egotistical. Next year, the last, is now in the ofling. E Self-assuredness is the senior theme. Uncertainty is gone, cockiness has been wholly discarded and we now realize what a change we have gone through in the three years previous. We are now cogs, springs, and a mass of fine works in the mechanism of a smoothly working watch. Our guiders have rewound us time in and time out, parts were changed or substituted, the works had to be cleaned and oiled, skilled workmen watched over the work and carefully fitted in the parts un- til the mechanism now is sure, steady, and deliberate. A few months have passed and we are asking ourselves this question. What has happened to the 1 .,.,A .V Q L5 A Stanley Szczechowski Gertrude Stephan Commercial General Freie Bahn 2 Alchemist Society 4 2 ., -4 aff, v f fafffrffwil l fl H 'K C . I 3 A A ,gi ' i i '. 'N ' it '57 A I Walter Szychowski Lucie Stipes Charles Thomas Mary Stopa Industrial Arts General Industrial Arts General Auto. Club Zetalethean Soc.2, 3, 4 Pica Club 2, 3, 4 Soc. Science Club 3 L. T. G. 3, 4 Girls W Club 2, 3, 4 Tattler Staff 4 Saga Staff 4