Vernonia High School - Memolog Yearbook (Vernonia, OR)

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IMS £Ik The senior class of 1945 started on its journey of schooling twelve long years ago with two classes in the Washington Grade School. For eight years they studied hard and dreamed of the day they would be in high school. n alt Finally the great day, September 8, 1941, came and this large class of seventy-nine entered the halls of V. H. S. From that day on, their aim was to make a good name for the class. As their leader this first year, they chose Max Millis. Their sophomore year was also a profitable one with Dan Rollins as president. Although smaller in number than the previous year—sixty-one—they were still the largest class in school. In 1943 they started out with about fifty members with Marvin Turner to lead them. This year was packed full of activities for the ambitious juniors. One of their main events was the junior play, Blythe Spirit , said to be the best play given by Vernonia High. Another feather in the caps of the juniors was the annual prom. The theme was a night club with a tropical atmosphere and the crowd was record-breaking. The juniors closed their third year of high school anxiously awaiting the next year to strive for even greater achievements. At the beginning of school in '44, the new senior class began its YjLp a v? f final year in high school, one destined to be the greatest and most spectacular in its career. Glenn Justice was chosen as president with Lloyd Stuve,vice-president; Dan Rollins, socrotaryjHelen Fowler, treasurer. Many seniors turned out for both football and basketball and the teams were composed largely of seniors. Several were injured during games and practice and v;ere not able to finish out the season. During the year, several of the boys joined the service—Jimmy Johns,Glenn Justice, and Max Millis—leaving behind a class of thirty-one members. Because some of the boys were leaving, the class banquet was given on February 22. The decorations were in the class colors of yellow and green, and the yellow rdse which was the class flower, was featured. On April 13, the annual class'play was given. It was entitled Letters to Lucerne and the cast was composed of Marge Lolley, Helen Fowler, Douglas Culbertson, Marvin Turner, Ruth Hausler, Dorothy Sasse, Phyllis Bonsilaw, June McDonald, Vona Weidman, and Florence Berger. Reverend Livingstone presented the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, May 20. Graduation exercises were scheduled for May 23 with Tommie Lou Holcomb -as valedictorian and Phyllis Bonsilaw salutatorian. Dr. D. V. Poling of the Oregon Staoe System of Higher Education was the speaker of the evening. V.rith the motto, Behind us the past, around us the present, before us the future , in mind the senior class of ’45 bade farev.rell to V. H. S. on May 23 with vivid determination to climb even higher on the ladder of success that they first stepped upon twelve long years ago.

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