Wasco Union High School - Wasconian Yearbook (Wasco, CA)

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The type ot building, the mode of transportation, the style of clothing, the array of social events - each endured its own time and crumbled into the enfolding dust of history. is s. An early mode of transportation, familiar to Wasco's first inhabitants, was Mr. Cormack's ice wagon. 1890's 1893 1897 1900 1904 1905 Land purchase from Marshal V. Hartranft of Los Angeles Oct. 11 - a S4000 bond election for erection of per- manent school building - all 10 votes in favor Small school called Delta lat corner of Wasco-Pond Road and Kimberlina Santa Fe Railway through Wasco - first finger of civilization Town originally named Dewey and then Deweyville in honor of Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay Name changed to Wasco after tribe of Indians when dis- covered there was another Deweyville Combined Delta-Shamrock School - 5 pupils Town population 16 First game of baseball played in spring-W. G. McCombs pitched Marcia Albert and David Tracy admire the 'modern lines of his 1965 Mustang. ,amwtnmmnm

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V I Z a I -4- . f mf-fcjuc My i ,Erik fp ff? 'sew scent W ,QW tjmwxf 1 iam af Mrftt X P ff' A :ZX W 7: oN -new r Scrum dk ,ji ii 0 ff' J Jag Doo XPQWOUJVD ' S i I L Aft ore than titty years ago. a people came to this very J af beneath an eternal rainbow ot human emotions. tollowing 970' sf . an untading star ot hope. And now. titty years ot evolution ' msg, W. . WW have passed. an evolution which wrought change upon change. For they were a people with eyes upon a star. a people with hopes and dreams ot a land transtormed-a desert ot weary brown becoming an oasis ot ioytul green. Ah. yes, once this barren land stretched tar beneath its celestial canopy . . . the sun. the stars, the moon its only light. Beneath their glimmer, nature's iaclcrabbits scurried treely upon the calm and barren land. Nature's maiesty re- mained unchallenged. ' And then. in covered wagons. on horseback and on toot. came men pushing westward. seeking such a land whose tar- stretching plain spoke ot treedom. But the land was arid and forbidding. Many. disheartened. unwilling to struggle against Nature. turned away. But there were those who accepted the challenge. those who stayed-the pioneers. They pitched their tents in this torbidden place. this rabbit kingdom. and determined it to be their home. l-lere man and Nature were pitted against each other in desperate struggle. By sunlight. by candlelight. by lantern. the people built and rebuilt-always with eyes upon that same untading star that had been their guide.

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Parked along Wasco's main street in 1911 were horses, buggies and early versions of the automobile igfyfiif if? we Jejfyf QV, Q tg? They toiled and they wept: some cursed and some bent their heads in prayer. Together man and woman by the sweat ot' their brows made homes - with logs. with labor, with love. And in those humble homes they taught their children endurance and reverence. womanhood and manhood: a girl was taught to be a woman. a boy to be a man. Qgfgs VL?2?V?fzsff And though those pioneers continually struggled against the adversity ot the land. the eternal rainbow ot human emotions remained. In their homes upon this desert land. the pioneers - man. woman. child - laughed and cried, loved and hated. prayed and cursed. braved and feared. With thanktul hearts in the midst ot wilderness. they added a one-room school. From these meager beginnings-from these pioneers. guided by an untading star, sheltered by an eternal rainbow- a community. a school evolved.