Shafter High School - Laurion Yearbook (Shafter, CA)

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SOPHOMORE CLASS First Semester Second Semester BILL PEAK ' President HERBERT NEUMAN ARTHUR WITTENBURG Vice Presfdeilf IIONNA LATTA ELEANOR JANES Secretary-Treasu1'er LORAINE FULFER BARBARA CALDWELL Class Reporter BARBARA CALDWELL School started off with a splash in the mud-hole for the sophomores. The initiation for the greenhorn freshmen turned the sophomores rather black. You could hardly blame them thoughg there are so few in the class, and thirteen against twenty-five looks rather like Ethiopia against Italy. Paul Van Gorkom took the banner and glory as the speed king in the freshman-sophomore mile-run and also broke the record for the 75-yard dash in 8.4 seconds, in a meet in which our friends, Wasco, and other schools competed. He ran in the cross-country run at Taft and beat the Fresno County champion by one foot. Elsie, the flame of the class, really made a sweet, lovable, lisping little girl in the student body play. The sophomores have had two boys on the agriculture judging team, Victor Voth and Herbert Neuman. This team took many cups and ribbons at the State Fair and finished second. Victor won a gold medal for being highest of all competitors in the contest, and Herbert also brought home ribbons. The sophomore class started the practice of picking and ordering their junior rings. The class appreciates the spirit in which Mr. Arnold has cooperated with the class and helped to promote all of its activities. PAGE SIXTEEN

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I JUNIOR CLASS PT6Sid6llt ----- TOMMY DORRIS Vice President - - JACK WHITE Secretary - ROSIE UNRUH Treasurer - LEWIS EDWARDS Program Chairman - - MYRON JANZEN The junior class has been quite active this year. They started out by winning the Student-Body-Card Campaign. This class is the first in Shafter High School to have 100 per cent student-body membership. In the latter part of October they had a party carrying out the Ha11owe'en theme. In the next month they selected and ordered their junior class rings which have, so far, been the best in the school. In March, in harmony with the spirit of the year, the girls invited the boys to a leap- year party. In the latter part of the month they chose a play, Campus Quarantine and, after the cast was chosen, practice began. Four of the cast for the student body play were juniors. About the same time the interclass track meet was held, and the junions came out ahead. Then, too, Jack White, the high-stepper of the school, won the junior-senior cross-country run. The boys have taken a large part in all of the school sports. Towards the last of the school year the class carried out the tradition. of a junior-senior banquet. This event will long be remembered by both classes. The class thanks Mr. Porterfield, the adviser, for his help and interest in class activity. They are also indebted to Miss Goode, their play director, for her patience and good work in coaching The Campus Quar- antinef' PAGE FIFTEEN

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I I T FRESHMAN CLHSS President ---- MARVIN POTTER Vice President MARY HELEN CONNELL Secretary - LEOLA KIRSCHENMANN Treasurer ----- DONALD KLEIWER The class of '39 has spent its first year in Shafter High-and a profitable and pleasant year it has been. They were warmly received by the student body and are proud that they are the largest class in the history of the school. On initiation day the class-uprooting the tradition of frightened, weak-kneed freshmen-immersed the sophomores in their own mud and tied them with their own ropes. And throughout the eight months which have followed they beleive they have set high standards in work and play for future classes to strive to attain. In sports the freshmen held their own successfully. Football and basket ball brought out some enthusiastic and very promising material, and in interclass track the frosh bowed only to the mighty juniors. The class is well represented on the honor roll and in musical activities and will certainly take a very prominent part in all activities in the years to come. The outstanding class activities of the year, undertaken with the assistance of Mr. Emrick, the adviser, were the hilarious assembly program and-long deferred but all the more appreciated-the party given to the juniors. who won the campaign for student-body dues. PAGE SEVEN TEEN