Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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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

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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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S a g a Tattler th. 'J hge 3 I mx Edward Warchol Helen Swaya Elmer Truss Theresa Sutter Arthur VanWormer Frances Szenderski Industrial Arts General General Commercial General Commercial Electrical Soc. International 2, 3 Renaissance Municipal Club Quill and Dagger 4 Girls, Ath. Lea 3 4 Tattler Staff Engineering Soc. 4 Girls' WH Club 3 4 National Honor Soc. Honor Soc. 4 Estella Taylor Charles Wachtell Stella Taylor Wilbert Wagner Maurice Terry Ted Walczak Commercial General Commercial General Commercial General Girls Ath Lea. Hi-Y 3, 4 L. T. G. 2, 3, 4 Hi-Y 2, 3, 4 Soc. Science Club 3 Soc. Science Club 3 4 Football 2,4 Salesmanship Club 3 Fasces 2, 3, 4 Alchemist Band 1, 2, 3, 4 A Senior's Diary glory which we attached to this year and which lingered only so short a space? And we find the answer in this realization. For some, the termination of this year means the complete termination of school life forever, the termination of a life which up to now we had not so greatly appreciated and loved for its inno- cent beauty and golden opportunities. The end means that they will have to go out into the world and drudge and toil or shirk and flop, according to what offers. Some anticipate the oncoming years, for they are assured of an advanced education and a profession. The shirkers realize that they have wasted four richly-laden years and vainly hope for a chance to relive them. Thoughts now turn to the Senior Prom and the best friend, boy or girl. With almost unbearable anticipation, we look forward to, and with sweet regret we think of the preparations for the impres- sive baccalaureate and commencement exercises. True, there is still much joy and happiness abounding, but the thoughts enumerated here have sobered us until We think on things We say or do before effecting. This is the reason for our sure- footedness. Thus I end my tale of four years. I do not even slightly entertain the hope that others will profit by this, for I myself, even though I was aware of my own faults and shortcomings, did not change many of them. We must live and learn. These classes of people Will come and go and their attitudes will be the same. The generations are just one revolving circle which year after year brings the same problems. Each year will face through the same setbacks and adjustments, the students will feel the same as we have felt when they realize the beautiful friendships and rich contacts they are leaving behind, and know that they must soon attempt the unknown. ---Meyer Davis. fs r fa ir r 1 .:- an A i .1-WSW Vincent Weisenberger Esther Topp Philip Weiss Sylvena Truno Robert Werner Grace VanNess General Commercial General General General General Auto. Club Sr. Friendship 3,4 French 2, 3, 4 Girls' Ath. Lea. Hi-Y 4 Spanish Club 1, 2 International 3, 4 Sr. Friendship 1, 2 Zetalethean Soc. 3, 4 Peiuper 3, 4