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

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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.

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Martha Stinnett, Therese Miller, Janet Hadlock, Jo Ella Tiger, Jeauneta Marks and Gene Hogan, song and yell leaders of 1956, exemplify the transformation in clothing styles. These, the pioneers, were not dismayed by the challenge of an untamed land. With eyes upon a star. they fought and they struggled . . . to achieve a dream-the dream of a land transformed. The earth is no longer barren but bountiful: the desert. no longer repulsive but enveloping. For man foiled long. but within him always was a sustaining hope. The challenge of the desert was met: a land was transformed. Man. with his eyes upon the star. lived each day an un- written saga. Each day brought a new challenge. Man, the builder. the dreamer, built and tore down and built up again. l-le was pitted against Nature. Much there was that succumbed to the arm of history. Clarence Annin, Glenn Compton and Ivan Stone dress as country folk on Rube Day at Wasco High, 1921. One of the countless fads introduced by the fashion industry is this ensemble worn by Gail F ries. ,www