Cottonwood High School - Prado Populus Yearbook (Cottonwood, ID)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY A bright sunshiny day in early September nineteen hundred and forty-six, twenty students, striving for gold, started their voyage through the halls of C. H. S. With picks and shovels divided among us and supplies packed on our backs we started digging. At our first camp meeting we elected Lewis Bonham, President, Mary O'Neil, Vice President, Rita Ann Rohwein, Secretary, Patsy Suhr, Treasurer. To hold our rights a little more we elected Mary jo Tacke and Clinton Schnider for our Council Members. Everything went very smoothly until September 23rd, when the older seekers de- cided that they had to have a little entertainment. Because they had more experience than we, they started dressing us in costumes and told us things to do, this lasted until September 26th. Gold seekers, in need of entertainment, started giving pep dances. In half a year, with the permission of Mr. McKay, our advisor, we had another camp meeting, at which we elected Mary jo Tacke, President, Fred Seubert, Vice President, Peggy Wynn, Secretary, Donna jean Tacke Treasurer, and Rita Ann Rohwein and Robert Duclos, Council Members. A swell idea came to these students and on April 11th it sprang, the freshman hop which was enjoyed by the public. And on May 18th we finished our first year with a picnic. Our goal, still for gold, with fifteen seekers left from the original twenty. Mr. Torgerson, our advisor, tried to trace them. He found that Joanne Lightfield went to Spokane, jack Hasenoerhl, Greencreek, Peggy Wynn, Grangeville, Mary jo Tacke, St. Gertrude's Academy, and Lewis Bonham, Lewiston. Another camp meeting was found necessary so on September 9, 1947, we elected the following officers: Bob Duclos, President, Don Spencer, Vice President, Clinton Schnider, Secretary, Rita Ann Rohwein, Treasurer, Shirley Dixon and Fred Seubert, Council Members. Another little question that was discussed was what to do about those newcomers, a year behind us. Wanting some fun and excitement, we planned a little program for them to do, to which they gave their consent without any argument. In late january, we elected Delbert Nuzoll, President, Fred Funke, Vice Presi- dent, Dorothy Sudkamp, Secretary, Mary O'Neil, Treasurer, and Dick Forsrnan and Harold Schacher, Council Members. On May 17th we had Class Night for the Seniors. This ended our second year as gold seekers.

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Now it was September 1948, and to our surprise we found two new faces, one was Walter Ford, and the other, Joanne Lightfield. To our dismay Shirley Dixon went to Texas, and Mary O'Neil, not knowing gold had already been found there, went to California to discover her fortune. Dorothy Sudkamp left for the Academy, and Dick Forsman and Harold Schacher struck oil instead of a gold mine. For the following half year we elected Rita Ann Rohwein, President, Clinton Schnider, Vice President, Joanne Lightfield, Secretary-Treasurer, Walter Ford and Fred Funke, Council Members. The matter of class rings came up in the middle of October. Gold was almost struck, at least we could wear it now which made us very proud of ourselves. Another meeting in January found Clinton Schnider, President, Don Spencer, Vice President, Joanne Lightfield, Secretary, Rita Ann Rohwein, Treasurer, Don Spencer and Norma Jungert, Council Members. Walter Ford was missing from our class now. Then May 6th came around, which was Prom time. In An Old-Fashioned Garden was our theme. We closed the year with the annual school picnic which led us to a little stream not too far from our camp. Our advisor, Mr. Torgerson, didn't find fishing very good but everyone always knows how the big ones get away. Dig on class of SO , never give up. We'll strike gold soon. In 1949 Mrs. Buettner became our advisor, Bob Duclos, President, Don Spencer Vice President, Donna Tacke, Secretary, Clinton Schnider, Treasurer, Mary O'Neil and Dawn Huntley, Council Members. Don Simon, Mary O'Neil, and Dawn Huntley joined us, which made us fourteen. On a foggy Thursday night, September 29th, the entire class started for the old rock which they had long protected for this occasion. With red and white paint and some paint brushes, we left emblems which would identify us in the future. We , hope everyone saw our masterpieces while they lasted. As usual the Juniors had to be their repulsive selves and smear our four-day-old letters. But we didn't give up, for on Halloween night we Seniors went out again, and a little more success- fully this time, to paint our letters on the other side of the road where they stayed. QWe hope.j Events during our last semester at C. H. S. were, the traditional, Senior Sneak, Baccalaureate, Class Night, Graduation, and last but not least, the school picnic. Gold is found! It's not the kind of gold which can be bought or sold, but it's our wealth in Spirit, Character, Ability, and Sincerity. ,