Fort Bragg High School - Breath of Ocean Yearbook (Fort Bragg, CA)

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Kindergarten, 1947 Under the patient direction of Mrs. Winn we take our first faltering steps up the awesome ladder of learning. The newness and the strangeness wears OH' as the days pass and we learn each other's first names. We take naps on little blankets and don our smocks to proudly paint our First masterpieces. First Grade, 1948 We are trying our best to learn to read, to draw a house, to print our names, to count to one hundred, and to raise our hands when we want to talk. We get to be in the big annual Christmas Play, The Toy Shop. We appear as clowns, tin soldiers, a train, and penquins. Wayne Sousa, David Lotten, and Lloyd Dahl are three of the seven dwarfs. We are very important. Second Grade, 1949 Having spent two whole years at school we are beginning to feel very much at home. Richard Petersen, Steve Vaughn, and Bob Clark have distinguished themselves by hanging Jimmy Fairall on a cloakroom hook. Poor Cowboy Billy Hohman made the mistake of taking off his beautiful cowboy boots at school. It took the teacher to get them back on. Strains of Bossy Cow', and 'Tm a Little Teapotn are sung to the key of Mrs. Hornzee's pitchpipe. Third Grade, 1950 We have moved up the hall and are studying Indians and learning our times tables. Everyone waits for recess to play the exciting new catching and kissing game. Judy Luoma is queen of our May Day Pageant, complete with Maypoles and dancing. Fourth grade fiesta.

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LEM E. WOOTTEN General Lem Sure he's a gallant gentleman. Rejoined us in our senior year from Laramie, Wyoming . . . tall and good looking . . . likes to fish and hunt. PATRICIA MAE WUORI Business Patty Mae This world belongs to the energeticfl Gay personality . . . has a good time all the time . . . plans to go to a busi- ness college. FHA lg Howl l,4g GAA 23,45 Pep Club lg Prom Committee 3.

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Fourth Grade, 1951 This should be a memorable year. We have started folk dancing and have learned Teddy Bears' Picnicf' Mrs. Rowe's class has brought a successful end to their study of Mexico with a genuine, colorful Mexican Fiesta. Naughty Willie Frassi was sent to the cloakroom and was so silent we thought he was sick. Unfortu- nately he was quietly eating everyone's cold lunch. Fifth Grade, 1952 Here we are way up in the fifth grade. We are studying colonial history. Mrs. Methlan's room begins to look like a pioneer home as students bring early American relics to decorate the room. The girls spend recess re-enacting Nancy Drew mysteries while the boys crouch tensely around marble rings. Mike Sedgwick never plays marbles with Tony Engel that Richard Petersen doesn't stomp his marbles into the dirt. if , ...ts Young love. Fifth grade recess. Sixth Grade, 1953 Time marches on and we are at the top of the bottom half. We are all studying South American and Hawaii. The boys taste the thrill of power as they take their turns on traffic duty. Thirty of us have had to go to Noyo School because of the classroom shortage. Mrs. Woodward is kept busy patrolling the hedge dur- ing Noyo recesses. Back at the big school Mrs. Grundman's radio program is highlighted by Gerald Gonsalves' vocal cords. June at last and our first formal graduation. Seventh Grade, 1954 Confusionl Locker numbers and combinations, changing class- rooms, so many teachers, room numbers, homerooms, Wee Girls and Vagabonds - but weire learning fast. Bobanne Bainbridge got carried away reporting on her appendectomy for Mr, Carras science class. Mr. Carr gets carried away assigning punishment for talking 5 Roger Peirce has written miles and miles of sentences. Mr. Erwin is making sure that we never in our lives forget Pen- rodf' Mr. Moore told his homeroom that they could have a meet- ing as long as they had something worth discussing - the meetings lasted 2M days! Eighth Grade, 1955 Older and wiser we stare and smirk at the seventh graders as they 'rush frantically about in their First days of junior High. Mr. Chastain is endeavoring to. teach us business arithmetic while Patsy Wuori practices push-ups. We have a running battle among the boys, MaggotsH versus 'gLeeches. Big event of the year is Junior High Field Day. Everyone participates in sack races, relays, and baseball and basketball throws. Challenge of the year - to memorize the preamble of the Constitution for Mrs. Lo- gan's social studies class. 50 Girls, and Boys' State - Bobanne and Melvin.