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

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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

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