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

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N I IIIPQ' l i ,ss has ,W . , I I 6, ul K' 4 A K. diese f K . 'K --,- A. -Q f Q ' , - - L3 x : K - if .. 3... we , - r -. w r AQIV i r This is rural Wosco in the good ole summer time - 1908 style! George W. McCouslond fproprietorl, Fronk L. Beckwith -- Al- though it's hordly the super supermarket we know today, this was modern shopping ci few yeors back. The type of building. the mode of trans- portation. the style ot clothing, the orroy ot sociol events - eoch endured its own time and crumbled into the entolding dust ot history. All ports of the lond - ot Nature - ore tron- sient: all ore slaves of time. And in time mon himself becomes its slove. l-le, too, fades from the fast revolving earth. Mon the dreomer, mon the builder, mon the shoper and molcer. he. too. is dismissed. For new events demand new faces. A new mon comes - with new icleos, new inventions. new dreams. Yes, even the toces change in the shodow ot time. The chonging pioneers met the challenges ot Nature.

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3 Even the faces change in the shadow of time 1935 Science building constructed - Enrollment 347 1942 Enrollment 429 - drop in normal increase due to U.S. entrance in World War ll M 1952 Severe earthquake 1953 Band and library buildings constructed 1958 Quake-damaged gym rebuilt 1959 Administration building constructed 1966 Enrollment 875 Athletic contests offer excitement for Wasco High students. The highlight of social events for many years has been the annual Snowball formal dance.

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And then came the challenge of wars, the great wars, and man was pitted against man. A somber figure o'ershadowed this earth. The sky was so blackened by the soot of war, of hate. of fear that the star of hope seemed to fade from view. Men. boys. women within this desert oasis came from their homes, their iobs. their schools to face this newest challenge. They fought: they struggled: they died. The clamor, the heartbreak of war was felt as never before. Where once there were riches. now there were hate and tears. For some there was the physi- ge .-sw. I y cal pain of battle: for others there was the emotional pain of a son killed. Man was not fighting against Nature but against himself. Compassion and reason were buried somewhere beneath the ashes of atomic ruin. Man the builder. the dreamer, was became man the destroyer. l-le need no longer fear Nature: now he must fear himself - within his grasp was the power to destroy all that he held, dear. the world and all that lived upon it. Finally . . . peace. A new and terrifying experience had become part of the unwritten saga of man.