Dixon High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Dixon, CA)

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JAMFS SEYMAN A very popular lad is Jim, Ambitious, industrious, wiseg s the smartest boy in the senior c He' la In his hands the school money lies. AHL Enviable nose and eyes and mouth, That's what P. K.'s features boast. She's a capable and a clever girlg Of friends she has a host. JAMES PARSONS Junior's our business manager, An industrious boy is he. He's renouned as e speaker, a scout, an actor. ' He's a good salesman, you must agree. MARGUERITE REIMERS An ambitious girl is Marguerite, Responsible for these verses you jeer. She earned two orators medals, a C. S. pin And often on the stage did appear. GLASS OF '37 This is the end of the class of '37, Whose membership is twenty-nineg Inch member of lhich is an outstanding person, ' And destined to succeed in his line. Ghczntzclcer

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X i l if cfusnnswirr ll! Here's a very witty boy 1 H With a very charming smile: The way he handles a football proves L . He's an athlete worth while. 1 GENEVIEVE JOHNSON E Sweet Genevieve is a tiny lass, ' Being but five feet tall, X But when it comes to sewing, - Genevieve tops them all. 3 7 IRVING mimics of our senior class and well-liked lad. mark as a drametist, playing, he's far from b The president Is a cheerful He's made his And at tennis- NAIDA RITCHEY A music lover if there ever was one And a good m sician as well. She should be a perfect secretary, For she, like the daisies, won't tell. EEIWOOD NORTON boy is he, e little shy. slowly driving a A quiet, modest Fun-loving, but You can see him little Ford, Behind which no dust does fly, . YQ G H Q n ti Q fc e r E ad

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Wi' A' Q h Q ,Q U -- I Q f L-LL.x. amson Hssmrf We thought that we would be terribly glad, when our graduation day. would come, but now that it is really approaching we are growing the least bit pessimistic-Q-mlife might not contain the variety and fun which high school has held for us the last four years. No need for getting so dramatic, but as a group, the Class of '57 has really had a good time, not only socially but the boys have distinguished the class and themselves by developing into outstanding athletes. Everything has a beginning, so we begin this history with us as thirty-one aspiring freshmen entering high school on the opening day. On that day, we all took our initiation in noble fashion. Aside from having to wear a necktio for the next six weeks, our only other odd punishment, and our first duty as high school students, was to clean up after the watermelon feed. QWe were certainly starting out in glory.l Then, the upper :lassmen took pity on us when they saw how awkwardly we fthe few that attempted it! danced, and they gave us lessons. By the time the Freshmen Reception rolled around, we felt quite sophisticated but we fstill only a few that attempted itl couldn't dance very well. This issue was forgotten when the football and basketball seasons called to our manly and athletically inclined boys. A little later and for a third time, we were given a chance to dance and show off, but this time we were giving it ourselves as a return to the student body for the dances and parties they had given us: In the remaining days of that school year we acted as Nservsntsh to our Wsuperior students,N but we didn't let the monniker Nfroshn interfere with our good times. A NEW LEASE ON LIFE! It was our turn to torment the incoming fresh- men. But! Our attitudes and intentions were promptly changed when it was announced that there could be no man-handling or msuling of the freshmen.' Instead, we had to content ourselves with painting their faces and making them take castor.oilr No such a fast start as sophomores, but we had the idea that now as we were a little higher in the world, we'could relax, and relax we did, some of us going e little too far and relaxing in our studies. We spent the rest of the year quietly, our only social venture being a pay dance at the close of the football season. The title 'junior' became ours in the third year. With it came dignity and industry, and we prepared to do big things ---- principally a Junior Prom. First, we had'to improve our financial standing, and this we did by selling peanuts at the football games, selling hot dogs at the basketball games, and violating tradition by combining with the sophs and having a carnival instead of the annu l Junior Night at the Dixon Theatre. We were the first class to undertake such an affair, and I think we started something. What a carnival lacks in dignity it compen- sates for in little round figures. As a result we could now seriously plan for the Prom. A Hawaiian Island scene was our motif. For four weeks, boys and girls alike spent their spare time in the basement making leis and dance programs. For one more week, we spent our nights and afternoons in the gym decorating ---- Ngrowingu palm trees, Wgrowingn Ba- nana trees, and constructing the Nmasterpiecen ---- a large bamboo hut, complete to the palm thatched roof. In it we served the refreshments. A successful Prom was the object of our prayers the night before, and they were answered because it was one of the best the'school has ever had, even though we lost a few dollars on the venture. So, was the climax of our third year reached and passed. We then began thinking of summer vacation and the one year of school left.