Vernonia High School - Memolog Yearbook (Vernonia, OR)

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She has fulfilled her lifelong ambition and has become the twentieth wife of Tommy Manville. They tell me the last one even lasted 59 seconds, Robert Falconer is foreman of the Vernonia-Banks Road Construction Company, He is working for the state repairing the road he burned up during his senior year. Melvin Snook is running stiff competition with Frank Sinatra, Those Bow ties of Melvin's really lay those teen-agers in the aisles. Dorothy Rose seems to be doing a fine job of combining two occupations,, First, she is married to Draino Greenwood and has a moderate family of ten lit Lie girls. Second, she is head saleswoman for a leading diaper manufacturing company. Never one to be outdone, Loren Dodge and Snooks Tisdale are mar-« ried and living in Texas where they have plenty of room for their own eleven man football team. Dick Wagner,lived up to our expectations and became a star basketball player and is now coach of V. i , S. Jack Buell has become a great poet, and is well known for that lovely verse, Oh, darling your teeth look so white, hock them and let's go out tonight, which always brings a tear to each and every eye. Mary Coyle is living in Montana and is owner of one of the largest ranches in the United States, Owen East is employed as foreman o f this ranch and we hear she really orders him around. Our sweet lit.le Hilder Sundquist is pushing Gene Krupa right off his pedestal. ytyf but she can swing those sticks around and make the sweetest music. She gets paid $1,000 a night, which isn't bad for a beginner. Sammy Davis has made wonderful progress with his greatest ambition. He owns a string of service stations from Birkenfeld to Hollywood. He is kept quite busy hopping from one place to another trying to get Hilder to give up her career. Have you heard about Betty DeHart? I forget what she calls herself now, but you probably know her as the Hubba, Hubba girl. She dyed her hair black and put cn a sarong and-------well 1 She is moving Dorothy Lamour right out of pictures. She is really quite a sensation in Hollywood, Jack Riley is playing the leading role in Lost Weekend and in his spare time, is employed at Joe's Flapjack Inn. A gob popped up and swept Jean McDonald off her feet. They eloped and are now living at Seaside raising little waves'. Our ex-student body prexy, Ralph Keasey, turned out to be a kleptomaniac and got a life sentence. We always wondered what happened to our skip-day money„ Mary Pat Caton is kept quite busy as chief bouncer at the Cherokee Club in Portlando Dorothy Ann Hogberg is the only casualty on our list. She tried very hard to be a singer, but one night at the Diamond Horseshoe she blew a lung while singing Oh Johnny. Now the only other thing she can do is to take one of the jobs offered her by R„ K. 0., Mc G. M., and Universal. Isn't it a shame, and our record was so good. This brings to a close our 15 minute broadcast of outstanding personalities in the news.

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cmzz o A A ■ - • 00. V V 3 • • ii - -9 -if V 1 Mighty oaks from little acorns grow as was the case of the Senior Class of ’46, For eight years the class grew and prospered under the tree of education. The prospect of high school encouraged them to work harder and look forward to the day when graduation would unlock the hitherto forbidden gates of high school. In September ’42 a memorable event occurred, for it was then that fifty-four students entered the halls of dear oldV.H.S. to go down in its history as a very successful class. The future looked unusually promising for this group—the class of 46. The class gallantly endured the torture of initiation as dished out by the sophomores,emerging full-fledged freshmen with the resolve that the next year's class would stand trial as they did. With Jack Riley as president, the class sped through a year of high schooling and finished the term off with a party, and a dance t o the theme of Merry-go-round. Each year seemed to be more active for the group and their activities increased greatly the junior year, with a series of outstanding events. First on the list ivas a dance welcoming Clatskanie after a basketball game. A class party was held in the fall. The Juniors then gave the play Charley's Aunt which proved to be a well-performed comedy. Jack Riley won honorable mention in the dramatic award for his portrayal of the aunt. The Annual Junior Prom was given by the Class of '46 on April 26,. 1945, in the gym, accented by the theme of Ship Ahoy, To carry out the ship scene, a Seabee Orchestra was engaged for the evening The gym was attractively decorated as a ship deck with a gangplank as the entrance, a mast and crows nest in the center, a ships' service bar, and the orchestral platform and deck were roped off in regular ship fashion. Entertainment highlighted the evening, making the Prom even more enjoyable to the many people in attendance. The Class of '46 was a leader in track. As juniors, Ralph Keasey and Loren Dodge won the privilege to enter in the State Meet, To complete this prosperous year, the juniors had a well-deserved picnic at Roamers' Rest near Tigard, where they danced, went boating and played ball. In the evening the class went to a show at Hillsboro. Only twenty-six students returned to finish their high school education, which was a large decrease from the fifty-four that began as freshmen. Loren Dodge was elected president for the year.