Anacortes High School - Rhododendron Yearbook (Anacortes, WA)

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SENIORS £ William Suryan. Don Kenoyer.... Maxcine Baxter. . Mildred Erickson Miss Burpee...... ..........President .....Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer .....Representative ............Advisor Nine Class Colors. Enrollment . . Blue and White ... .Seventy-Five

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 RHODODENDRON 1934 £ Senior Class History The height of their present ambitions reached, after laboring through twelve grades, sixty-five seniors tripped across the stage to receive their diplomas the evening of May 31, 1934. The class started in September, 1922, at the Nelson and Whitney schools .... Time and grades flew by, and under the direction of Mrs. Brock- man, of the Whitney school, “Hansel and Gretel. in which Beth England and Eldon Davis took the leads, was produced. In 1926, a new Whitney building was built, and we found a struggling ambitious group coping with penmanship and spelling. In 1930, four seniors won honors in the W. C. T. U. contest: Beth England, Donald Kenoyer, Bob Palmer, and Barbara Sackett. In June, 1930, with Bill Wells and Bob Newell giving the salutatory and valedictory, one-half of the crowning triumph was realized when 122 students graduated into the senior high school building, the new Anacortes High School. Class of ‘34 was the first to go clear through die school. Of those 122 graduates only 63 are left to take final honors, fifteen of them having taken marriage vows, the others going to work. As sophomores, a big send off was made when Don Kenoyer won the third place in the state track meet at Pullman. As first fiddler in the Northwest Orchestra group, Lawrence Seitz attended the conference for three days, and now Lawrence is the first violinist (and also saxophonist) in the senior orchestra, better known as the Melodians. He also plays first fiddle in the high school orchestra. In October, Maxcine Baxter, Girls’ Club president, represented Anacortes at the University of Washington Leadership Conference, while at the same time, Editor Murl Miller, and Business Manager, Byron Norman, of this year's Rhododendron, attended the Journalism Conference. The seniors wish to have Miss Burpee know how much her kind guidance and cooperation have been appreciated. It was through her help and endeavorers that the senior play, “Peter Pops In,” was such a success, and the senior ball, given on May 18, with the Revellers playing. And thus the curtain falls on another group. The stage is cleared for the class of ’35. Flight

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% RHODODENDRON 1934 £ Grand Honor Roll CLASS OF 1934 Name Course Average Robert Mei.vin Newell Scientific 95.70' William V. Wells Language 94.80'' Lloyd Hansen Scientific 92.40'; Ruth Lundberg Secretarial 91.20' Melvin Williams Scientific 91.20' Murl Miller Scientific 90.46' Eldon Davis Manual Arts 90.30'' Jeannette Wilson Scientific 90.30' Byron Norman Scientific 90.00' VALEDICTORIAN “Yessir, in spite of the four long years of depression in the United States, my grades seem to have acted contrary to stock market tactics, so here I am, on top of the roost,” explained Valedictorian Robert Melvin Newell. But, there’s more than just that “snap-of-the-finger” attitude Bob takes when asked how he managed to acquire his high marks throughout three years of senior high shool work, which were crowded with many other outside activities. We’ll wager that the same arm that carried the school books home every night will some day be supporting the law books of a prominent lawyer named Robert M. Newell. SALUTATORIAN Industrious, ambitious, tactful, diligent: such words indicate the presence of William V. Wells, salutatorian of the Class of 1934. “Yes, I’ve burned my share of ‘midnight oil’ in preparing my •essons during the past three years,” admitted Bill as he visioned the dozens of pencils, pens, and sheets of paper that he had worn out in preparing the grades that earned him the salutatorianship of his class. Some day, the “midnight oil” which William will be burning will not be in an incandescent, but in the engines of a powerful naval cruiser, which Captain Wells will command. So, with the Class of 1934 supplying two men like these to the world, our country will be assured of a statesman capable of starting a war, and a sailor capable of fighting it for him. Ten