Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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Class of '47 One bright sunshiny morning in 1935, Kenneth Jordan, Eugene Berry, and Helen Brommell walked up the steps to grade school. It was their first year and it would be four years before anyone would join them. In the first of the fifth grade they got company. Dale Wilson, who hod been going to Shenendoah, Iowa, joined their daily class and their after-school tomfoolery. The next year Doris Rauch joined their company. She had been going to Alpine school and Pine City school before coming here. In the eighth grade Ethel Crow joined them in their classes. She went to The Dalles the first four years, Birkenfield the fifth year and Rathdrum, -Idaho, the sixth and seventh.before here. In their freshman year they were joined by Patty Finch, who had gone eight years to Pine City. In their Junior year Junior IcVicker came to stand up with them for their motto, Carry On . He attended in Payette, Idaho, then Hermiston, Umatilla, and back to Hermiston for sophomore year. In their senior year they were surprised to find they had a war veteran in their class. This was Clyde Nofsinger, who left them in the month of April to go to a higher school of education. The senior year of these students was a very prosperous and happy one. Between all the fights, thrills, chills, and school teachers, they had quite a time. On December 29th, 1946, eight seniors boys and girls and Bill Bohms and his wife left Echo at about 6:00 A. la. Destination -Lehman Springs. Purpose - Senior Sneak. They stayed there three days, and had three days of the best times in their life. Later on they had a short vacation in going to Pendleton to have their pictures taken. The seniors leave high school with feelings of sorrow; This is what should be said, but personally I don't believe there is one of them that is sorry.

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Class Prophecy Tima-----1975 Place On a rock in Mars. Introduction ----- A middle aged man is sitting on a rock in Mars, looking into a machine that has many dials and buttons. He seems to be talking to himself, so let's listen in and see what we may hear. First as I gaze into my atomic microvisioner, I see Doris in New York. I look deeper and find that she is seated, playing a piano, at the Stork Club. She has made a new gadget which she calls a stand, that holds her trumpet in position so that she can play it while beating out the boogie. Kenny, who says, Just anything for the little woman, has learned to play the drums. Little Junior seems to have inherited a great deal of musical talent, being accomplished on the bass horn, bull fiddle and Jew's harp. My gaze shifts to the Grand Canyon and I see someone sitting on a rock. At closer view, I find that it is Clyde sitting at the edge of his air field. He has completed the jet belt” and no longer has to walk. He scoffs when he thinks of the belt that made Buck Rogers so proud in the old days. Clyde is still unmarried, but has promised to make any woman who can successfully fly to Mars and back, sole heir to his airfield. So far no one has been able to do this, although, of course, many have tried to win this grand prize. In the fracas, I lost control of my atomic micro-visioner and I find it visioning a scene in Belgian Congo. As strange as it may seem, I find Ethel there trying to teach the natives tumbling. She doesn't seem to get along very well though; for one thing, she can't understand them and another, they can't understand her. Oh, yes, while Burl isn’t busy keeping house for the Mrs., he is teaching their family of boys to play football. Of course they won't play the peanut game their daddy used to play. There are too many of them. They're all big time stuff - eleven-man you know. I next look down into Madison Square Garden and see a fight to the finish - man vs. horse. When the horse becomes tired, the rider finishes his act by leaping to the ground and shouldering the horse and dashing around the arena. Dale and Darkey get quite an applause for this stunt, and the judges proclaim him the greatest bucking buckaroo of all time. Dale also has a trick-riding act that causes quite a sensation. He holds a glass of water in each hand and puts one on each foot. Although Dale