Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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SENIORS Pictured above is the Graduation Class of 1912, the smallest class to ever graduate from CHS. The members were Myrtle DeLong, Alta Stanley, Harold Hodge, and Irvin Custer. (The first class graduated in 1910.) In 1917, seven years after the first graduating class, there was a total of 57 alumni of Coquille High School (30 girls and 27 boys). Fifteen of them had gone on to college (of these, 5 went to the University of California at Berkeley, 5 to Oregon Agriculture College, 2 to the University of Oregon, 1 to Willamette, and 1 to law school.) Twenty had remained in Coquille and had a variety of occupations: clerk, saleslady, telephone operator, teacher, cabinet maker, stenographer, confectionist, mill employee, and surveyor, etc. It is possibly a reflection of the times that none of the 10 girls who had married by 1917 had a career in those early years after graduation. However, 4 of the other girls became teachers, 1 went into nursing and 4 went on to college. 12 SENIORS

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Memorial Mark Shields For Mark Smoke wavers upward from a cigarette As Mac Davis soothes the clatter of rain on porch steps. I inhale slowly and desperately try Not to hear you pestering the girl beside you-grin, dimples, and shining eyes. Not to see Senior boys hoisting you shoulder high you smiling warily. Not to smell the scent of farm boy-unwilling ly dressed for school. Not to hear the shouts of teammates-you make another touchdown. Not to see myself laboriously reading hastily done homework-you boast to friends when you get an A. And yet, a second puff, another haze of smoke, Mac Davis says something about words not coming easy-and you impishly shrug your shoulders. I will miss you. Mike Maus Mike Maus would have been a Junior this year. Many students did not know him well because he had just transferred to Coquille High School from McKinleyville High School in California. Moving here in January, he lived with his sister. Besides studying, he worked for his brother-in-law in the roofing business. By working, he earned money so that he could work on his car - a '55 Chevy. Mark Shields, who would have been a Sophomore, was well known by the student body. He spent much time as an athlete by going out for football and track. He also contributed much time and effort in his positions as Student Body President at the Coquille Valley Middle School during his eighth grade year and as Freshman class President last year. Both of these boys died suddenly and unexpectedly during the summer of 1975. They will be missed. Elaine DeBoard MEMORIAL 11

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SENIORS CLASS COLORS. GREY AND GOLD CLASS OFFICERS Will Harrow. President. Ki th Vk i: Pke i Mae Li m». Secretary 1’ki xsi reil iRiOto: - itt nf ftfhntil lit»•, into lit ihool Above is the introductory page for the Senior Class of 1913 taken from the first Laurel. To the left are 3 members out of 13 of the Senior class of 1914. At the top is Clifford Kern. He and his wife still reside in Coquille and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on June 10, 1976. After he left CHS, Mr. Kern worked as a carpenter and helped build the Georgia-Pacific plant here in Coquille. Later he built Douglas Plywood (now Roseberg Lumber.) In the middle is Alice Stanley, who married a Schroeder. At the bottom is Earl Spike” Leslie, who later came back to Coquille High School as a teacher and football coach. He died in 1957 and our athletic field was named after him. SENIORS 13