Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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We Labored and Learned JUNIOR CLASS NEWS Nine Juniors come flying up the stairs with the thought thot offer two years of striving, they were ot lost upper-classmen A meeting wos colled to elect class officers They were os follows: President ........................... Donald Reese Vice-President Homer Bowman Secretory-Treasurer.................... Mary White Class Advisor Miss Eotwell Just offer we hod settled down to our hoppy thoughts of returning to school, here came flying in, our class rings They are beautifully engraved in rose ond white gold with a background of yellow gold Everyone wos well pleosed We end this happy school yeor with the thoughts of coming back next year os seniors SOPHOMORE CLASS NEWS The Sophomore class elected the following officers ot their first meeting President............................. Kaye McAtee Vice-President Adell Graham Secretory-Treasurer ................... Barbara Vohs Mrs. Wilkerson wos our class advisor About the most fun we hod all year was when we had the odvantoge to moke the Freshmen come to school all dressed for initiation At noon we marched them through town and thot evening gave them a deligtfhul party, which was enjoyed by all, even the Freshmen Hallowe'en night they gave us o return party, attended by the whole high school A good time wos enjoyed by all We end our yeor with the thoughts of coming back next yeor as upper-classmen.

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George DeLop, our cooch, hoodies the boys' physicol educotion closses in oil grades, ond teoches sociol studies in high school He is o graduote of Woshmgton Stote College ond hos tought two yeors in Echo A groduote of University of Konsos, Mrs Wilkerson teoches history ond English classes in high school This is her first year in high school ofter teoching in the grades here lost yeor Teoching science ond mathematics is Miss Eotwell, graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University, who hos been here for the post two years The sixth ond eighth grade teacher, Mrs Moreland, olso teoches commerciol subiects m high school She is a groduote of Oregon College of Educotion, and s teoching her fourth year in Echo Mrs. Laird, fourth ond fifth grade teacher, graduated from Mr Angel Normal She also teaches girls' physical education to oil closses During her teoching career she has tought five different years m Echo Mrs Weltzin graduated from Eostern Oregon College of Educotion and is teaching her first year in Echo in the seventh grade Mrs McElroy, groduote of Eastern Illinois Stote College, teoches the first grade This is her fourth in Echo In the second ond third grare room is Mrs Bennett, teoching her second yeor here She is o araduote of Nebraska Normal Training School, ond hos credits in Eastern Oregon College of Education ond University of Oregon

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FRESHMAN CLASS NEWS ly Mary White September second found fifteen little freshmen standing oround, not knowing just what to do next, but we soon found out when we sow the sophomores coming after us with those big paddles They even mode us come to school dressed os everything from 'hullo hullo boys to bobies, including farmers, girls in long underwear, convicts, boys as cowgirls. South Sea Islanders, bathing beouties, sondmen, Indians, Negro women, boys os backward girls, and above all o bride ond groom They even gave us a nice walk from the slaughter house bock in, very nice of them we oil soy We hod our first class meeting ond chose the following officers President ........................Swede Romos Vice-President Billy Spann Secretary-Treasurer Charlotte Laughlin Our able class odvisor is Cooch DeLap SIXTH AND EIGHTH GRADES There were 14 eighth graders and 20 seventh grode students to begin the year Donald Meyers and Dar-lyne Saures left us early in the year Fred Wilson, on eighth groder, transferred from Pendleton in March The seventh grode moved to o separate room early m the year The sixth grode |Oined us We hod fun at our Christmas, Valentine, ond Eoster parties The boys hove token bosket doII, baseball, boxing, footboil, trock, ond tennis The girls tumble, play volleyball, basketball, tennis, bodminton, softball We hove three sixth groders in the Junior Pep Club Joonne Ramos, an eighth groder, is in the Senior Pep Club Mrs Moreland has been a swell teocher ond we wish we could corry her into the high school with us