Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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 Our Dream Come True The New Gym Our new gym has been the dream of the community for the past 20 years and it is almost unbelievable that we now have it at last, and one of the biggest one in Eastern Oregon. The members of the school board, Joe Middleton, Joe Ramos and Murl Berry, spent much tine and effort towards putting the bond across to the people, which was for the total sum of $29,672. A day was set aside for the people of the community to vote for the bond issue, and when the votes were counted there were 121 for and 11 against the gym. Brick Esselstyn was the building super-, visor and purchasing agent for the materials and Harold Crawford of Walla walla was the architect. Most of us remember the first game in our new gym against Stanfield, which was a one-sided victory for Echo. We are planning to paint a large cougar on the front of the gym, and our goal for next year will be stage curtains and cyclo-rama, and a parking place will be made. The community also has found the gym to be very accommodating for more room at concerts, and things we couldn't have before we had the new gym. Echo has now become a stopping place for all kinds of traveling performances.