Benson Polytechnic High School - BluePrint Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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OUR NEYV BUILDING On the preceding page is a picture of a dream come true. For years Benson has been badly in need of an auditorium. Holding assemblies in thc gym was very inconvenient because the chairs and the platform had to be put up for each occasion, and then they had to be removed before the gym classes could be resumed. Our senior classes have had to present their plays at other schools, but now they can present them here where they will feel at homeg and when the plays are given here, the lower classmcn feel that it is really an event of their own school. and many more of them attend. For years Mr. Cleveland has done all he possibly could to help Benson get its auditorium, the Tech Pep has contributed its shareg so has everyone else who is at all interested in Benson. We students, who have had to sit in the uncomfortable chairs in the gym, have waited patiently for Benson's dream to come true. We seniors regret that we must leave just as Benson gets its new auditorium, but we are grateful that we were able to present our class play here, and that we have the honor of being the first class to hc graduated in the new building. The auditorium is so well built for the reproduction of sound pictures that the Western Electric agents asked if they might use the building in which to demonstrate their equipment to prospective customers. As far as we know our sound equipment was the first to be purchased from the VVestern Electric Company, the hundreds of other theaters equipped with VVestern Electric apparatus having been allowed only to lease theirs. The radio broadcasting studio, another important feature. was designed by the same firm that designed the Junior N. B. C. studio in New York. And as we all have seen, our cafeteria is an fine as any. The third picture is a view of our new stockroom under construction. The rest of the school having far outgrown the old stockroom, the large addition was necessary. The new section is providedx with several modern features, one of which is a separate room in which to store paper. A sep- arate room is necessary for the proper storage of paper because the tem- perature must he constant and the humidity quite high. Another feature is the new incinerator with the chute opening into the hall wall, making it quite handy for the janitor. An additional point is the systematic arrange- ment of the many supplies for the various departments of the school, thus making it easier for Mr. Teats and Mr. Braddock to till the many orders that come to them. Benson has grown by leaps and bounds during the last year, but it has not become too large for the ever-increasing number of students and probably never will. Those of us who expect to come back and visit Benson in years to come hope to see the dingy portables, which now mar the campus, replaced by permanent brick structures, and as the dream of the former graduates came true, we believe tllat in a comparatively short time our vision will be realized. PAGP 29

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PAGE 30 MEMORIES That fire there on the hearth is cheerful, its crackle has a friendly tone, and its glowing coals present a multitude of pretty pictures . . . It is good to sit before an open fire and ponder. The flickering flames stir up memories, which rise, like the wisps of smoke, and hover vaguely, uncertainly about. Memories . . . what memories the fire incites! Memories of former acquaintances, former pleasures, school days . . . They take us back and make us school-boys again . . . That was a long time ago. We all left school, and became separated from one another, to live our own lives. What bond is th,ere between us but these remembrances? We enjoyed experiences and acquaintances which we do not wish to lose. They are memories . . . like smoke . . . drifting gently, slowly along. Out of the dim haze of the intervening years step listlessly the companions of our youth. They file by, bringing with them from the dark recesses of the mind the recollections which we associate with them . . . Here comes Roland Westcrman, arriving at school for once before 8:35, looking rather sleepy, however, they simply wouldn't let him sleep in the library yester- day . . . Fred Itasor, technically known as a math shark . . . Jack Criswell, the burn-'em-up boy on the baseball tqcam . . . Ed Gross, thc violinist, he mouths the hanrl's big bass horn quite efficiently, too . . . Tom Telford, the hick sheriff from Boring, by cracky . . . Robert Edson, who brags, for some reason or other, on the girls at Grant . . . Berton Bailey, the boy who coolly wards off all queries by say- ing that he didn't study the lesson. But we know better . . . those scholarship awards and all that, you know . . . Clarence Benson, the blond exponent of the grappling' art . . . Beryl Evans and Louie Costley, the Mutt and Jeff of Benson Tech, although hardly as quarrelsome as the originals . . . Harry Fosbury: l1e's the lad who's perfectly at home in the air. No not an aviator or a bird . . . merely Benson's champ pole-vanlter . . . George Goldsmith, wrestler and terror of the gridiron . . . Domenico Caseiato, a curly-headed, bespectacled little fellow who, they say, skipped the last six grades of grammar school to graduate in June '31 . . . Dave Cox, who seems to he an all-round athlete . . . Cliff Holmes, the prominent class president with the six dollar smile . . . Telore Abendroth, just a great big boy with Freshie characteristics . . . Barney Woldt, 74- inches of bone and gristle: It is said that he once played basketball for Benson . . . VValt Sutherman, a wrestler with an enviable reputation .... Tack Davidson, Don Bernard, and Russell Dick: the three musketeers . . . Ed Beck, golfer and baseball player from the Print Shop . . . Harry Scott, the boy who plays the piano and yearns for tl1e sea . . . Beppe Natta, only too willing to watch others do chemistry experiments . . . Mark Wood- ruff, who always eats his lunch before the third period, his clever and well-written stories cover up this fault, however . . . Lowell Gault, we read of him in the papers . . . Carl Boehme, the teachers just can't give him anything but E's . . . Walt Chung, the smiling ex-basketball player . . .Morris Friedman, the business man of the class . . . Stanley Hall, who seems never to be doing anything worth-while, but insists on cutting up, and concocting foul chemical odors in the lab .... Don Vaughan, the tennis expert, and out-door enthusiast . . . Raymond Griese, the wise-cracking electrical engineer, and devout radio nut . . . Elwyn White Ley has the same interests as Griescg outside of that, we know of no other eccentricities . . . Llewelyn Jones, football player, and the Executive Board's chief arguer . . . Randall Dicus who knows how to read poetry . . . Kenneth Hubler, the fighting brick in the football team's forward wall . . . Lester Shuholm, who frequently propounds some theory in Science class, bringing great joy to White Ley . . . Stan Rolfsness, the popular letterman who looks so innocent, and has a weakness for certain Irish lasses . . . Clifford Noeller, the class play's handsome leading man . . . Milton Fein- berg, who maintains the latest style by crawling around on the Gas Engine shop flour with unprotected cords . . . The fire burns low, the flames leap no more, and coals only flicker and glow in their nest of gray ashes. The smoke is gone, with it goes our memories, silently, gently, reality is with us again . . . We wonder what it was we were thinking about . . . -VERNE WEBER