Los Molinos High School - Cinders Yearbook (Los Molinos, CA)

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pf Life of Leisure! ORE HOW Baby Face A Snow White 20. Lois Mattoon 21. JoAnn Duenow 22. Ruth Bangs 23. Clyde Bryan 24. Peggy Van Dyke FROM FRIGHTENED FRESHMEN TO SOPHISTICATED SENIORS Arriving at Los Molinos high on an early morning in September, 1949, were thirty-five innocent freshmen from Vina, Los Molinos, Tehama, El Camino, and Gerber. The girls were ordered to turn their dresses wrong side out, wear only one shoe, and use no makeup or bobby pins for the remainder of the day. The boys were rushed behind the gym and told to turn their jeans inside out. They then played leap frog through the hall of the main building. Thoughts of another day such as this filled their hearts with fear. On the buses the next morning were girls wearing levis, shirts, tin cans around their necks, and hair in ten pigtails. The boys, their pants rolled to their knees and makeup smeared on their faces, shined shoes all day. Robert Frembling, principal, scheduled the Freshman Reception for Wednesday night. Attired in short dresses resembling baby clothes, the girls played hop scotch while the boys, in short pants, played leap frog. Individual comical stunts were performed by the babies before the captious eyes ofthe seniors. Mrs. Bertha King and Mr. Frank Adams acted as advisors for the freshmen. Six periods a day were held with class study periods twice a month. Margot Spillane, president the first semester, turned the gavel over to Ken Weisgram the second half. During the summer months six members of the class moved from this area. However, eight students joined the group raising the enrollment to thirty-seven. John C. Lucas, principal, who took over in 1950, reorganized the schedule to allow a study hall once a day for each student. A hayride was the main event of the sophomore year. The party rode to Thomes Creek on two hay wagons and were chaperoned by Mrs. Bertha King and Mr. Merle Carneggie, advisors. Clyde Bryan was chosen for the first semester president. Colin Greenlaw was prexy for the spring session. The year of 1951 brought a brighter outlook to the class of '53. As juniors they were now in the group of upper classmen. A loss of eight students and a gain of four gave the class thirty-three members. with Mr, Merle Carneggie and Mr. John Tissot as advisors, the juniors chose Margot Spillane president for the fall term. Custom at Los Molinos high decrees that the juniors stage a banquet each year in honor of the graduating class. In order to raise money for the big event, the first project was a food sale followed a few H10IlIhS later by a skating party. In the fall a costume Hobo party was held on the school premises. Permission was granted by John C. Lucas, prin- cipal, to build a bonfire, and the group sat around it and ate stew from tin cans. Charles Krahenbuhl was crowned Hobo King for having the best costume. Under the leadership of Colin Greenlaw the banquet came off per sche- dule the night of May 6, 1952. The annex of the Tremont Hotel in Red Bluff was rented and a turkey dinner was served to approximately sixty-five guests. With the advent of September 1952 twenty-seven seniors began their last year in high school under the guid- ance of Erle I. Allen, principal. Lois Mattoon replaced Harold Ross at the half as president. The class presented three one-act plays, A Girl in Every Port, Thanks Awfully, and House of Greed, April 24 and 25, directed by Mrs. Bertha King, advisor. Nineteen of the twenty-seven graduates remained together throughout the four years at Los Molinos high. From the nineteen, Betty Conner, Lois Mattoon, Margot Spillane, Myrna Smith, and Charles Grider were enrolled and graduated from the local grammar school.

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Top row, left to right: Mike Hoskins, Beth Brovsm, Martha Briggs, Nancy Stahl, Betty Gray, Judy Bangs, Pat Gimb- lin, Myrna Andersen, Joy Sharp, Eleanor Hisken, Don Cluff. Second row: Fred Bailey, Dan Rice, Francis Early, Jim Adams, Billy Youles, Melvin Christophersen. Bottom row: Jerry Boggs, Don Vinther, Bob Swan, Gerald Stephens, Jerry Tennison, Dwight Frame. IUNIORS , co R 9 A 4 ggu, x ,ggi 5 iii Bl Q' 12, - M First Semester President Second Semester President