Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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HILIGHTS RECALLED BY SENIORS 191 ill I 11 1II pW®! Tkj » Wfj! I fLL L Caught after one of their meetings, from left to right, are the hard-working officers of the class of ' 61; President, Joey Leahy; Finally we ' re seniors . . . Yes, at last we ex¬ claimed last tall ... It hardly seemed possible that the four years were almost completed . . . Graduation just around the corner . . . Four years of building floats . . . making lasting friendships . . . pulling together in class projects . . . being a part of A.H.S. . . . the first class to go all four years in the new high school. Wasn ' t it fun! Green freshmen . . . carrying those schedules around from class to class . . . and that first frosh yell in pep assembly. Homecoming . . . and the first of our four second place awards for our float Around the World with Music. Island in the Sun . . . our frosh frolic . . . for some, also our first date. That sophomore year . . . we felt so big . . . we di¬ rected the freshmen to classes. Remember the work parties for our float How Time Flies . . . and our sec¬ ond second award. New academic experiences . . . bi¬ Vice-President, Paul Soderman; Secretary, Faith Mattila; Treasurer, Dennis Stephens; and Sergeant-at-arms, Eric Hauke. ology . . . Julius Caesar . . . United Nations notebooks. Our interpretation of The Land of Oz , the soph hop. What do you know, we ' re upper-classmen! This year brought . . . debates in U.S. history . . . chemistry . . . speech . . . service club . . . honor societies. We were proud of our homecoming float, Holland Hello . . . our junior prom, Sleepy Lagoon . . . and our first three-act play, Ladies of the Jury. This is Mr. Skaggs speaking ... the pep assembly will be in the auditorium . . . seniors may now leave . . . How fast this last year has gone . . . Homecoming with its Mardi Gr as theme and our Showboat float the never-to-be-forgotten senior ball, Wonderland by Night . . . and Mother Was a Freshman , our play. As the last weeks whizzed past . . . festivities honors . . . class picnic . . . baccalaureate . . . and finally graduation . . . made us realize that we would now be Astoria High graduates. 24

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CONDUCT STUDENT GOVERNM ENT Performing the duties of standing committee chairmen for student council are: FIRST ROW, S. Foster, M. Jacobson, K. Johansen, B. Wesche, J. Marsh, and J. leahy; SECOND ROW, J. Reith, A. Alt- heide, V. Fowler, J. Utti, G. Oja, and P. Soderman. The inter-club council is comprised of all A.H.S. club presidents, who are co¬ ordinating the activities of their organ¬ izations to carry out projects for school improvement. The council, which had been discontinued since 1955, was re¬ vived this year in hopes that by working together, the clubs could accomplish more. Members of the inter-club council are: SEATED, J. Wesley, M. Jacobson, M. Davis, M. Halderman, adviser; S. Esko, K. Hellberg, J. Bay,- STANDING, L. Theil, W. Snell, W. Lovell, J. Huhtala, P. Sloan, B. Wesche, M. Pollard, J. Browning, G. Oja, and B. Winters.

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SENIORS CHRISTI ADAMS Latin Club 1,2; Camera Club 1,2,3; Science Club 2; Spanish Club 3,4; IRL 3,4; Library Club 3; Radio Club 3, Secretary 4; Math Club 3; French Club 4. ANN ALTHEIDE French Club, Vice President 1,2; Junior Honor Society 2,3,4. Astor Post 2, As¬ sistant Editor 3, Editor 4; Library Club 2,3; Exchange Student-Germany 3; Junior Play; Forensic Club 3,4 ; Quill Scroll 3, President 4; Honor Society 3,4; Student Council 3,4; Latin Club Presi¬ dent 4; Service Club 4. RAY BASEL Wrestling 2. JUDITH BENSON Frosh Rally, J.V. Rally 2, Pepsters 3,4; Latin Club 1; Junior Play; Forensic Club 3; Senior Ball Queen 4. RONALD BIDDLE Football 1,2,3,4; Student Council 1,4; Baseball 2; Wrestling 2; Forensic Club 3; A Club 3,4 ; Track 3,4; Basketball 3; Senior Play. TED AIKEN Football 1,2,3,4; Golf 1,2,3,4; A Club 2,3,4; Student Council 3; Spanish Club 3; Library Club 4. GENE BAKANEN Football 1,2; French Club 3,4. JAN BAY Latin Club 2,3; Service Club 3, Presi¬ dent 4; Inter-Club Council 4; Senior Play. PAUL BERG Football 1,2,3,4; Basketball Manager 1; Golf 1,2,3,4; Latin Club 1,2; A Club 2,3,4; Varsity Rally 3; Senior Play. NANCY BLUM Fisherette 1,2; Latin Club 1. KENNETH BOCK JEFFERY BOLSTEAD Band 1,2,3,4 ; Science Club 2. Booster Boys 2,3; D.E. Club 3,4. J.D