Grant Union High School - Prospector Yearbook (John Day, OR)

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 NORPINE KELLER—Norene is usually busily traveling somewhere, but whether it’s to class or to the theatre where she takes tickets, you always see her beautiful red hair first. She is very busi- ness-like, but when she turns on that gige-le she doesn’t seem so brusque. We'll remember her as one of Grant's steadies except for the first semester of this year, when she started to school at Milwaukie, Oregon. It just wasn't natural around here til she buzzed back to warble in the Glee Club and to blow through that, fasoinating slush-pump of hers.

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ball season, Holland stands out as the most pioturesque .figure While stalking up and down the line and roaring at his teammateq he more than once put fire into a mediocre g8me. He’s always good-natured and full of mischevious pranks which (he says) are of the most innocent intentions» MARGARHT FRANCIS—A Grant High Student for only her Senior year— is this transfer from New Meadows, Idaho. She is very well liked by her friends„ and we wish she could have been here much longer. History class benefits greatly from her sane views which deal mainly with ’why women should have a more direct say in the Uc S» government”. She has her eyes on Cadet Nurses Training after school is out. We will remember her for her performance in M a and My Shedov. and her lively attitude around school. BILL KELLY— There’s something about a guy over six feet, and Kelly certainly seemed to prove that. Bashful Bill’s” first years here were quiet and uneventful, but as he became a Senior, something happened The girls decided he was the one they'd been waiting for, and the Coach decided he belonged on the basketball team. Kelly decided this was definitely the break in his favor; went to work, and was the fourth one chosen on the All-State” at Salem. Scarcely a month before school closed, he enlisted in the U„ S, Navy, and we had to bid him goodbye .lust as we were get- ting acquainted. ROSS SJTITH—Gangling Blimp”, moves slowly around the halls with a pre-flight book under his arm, and an intellectual gleam in his eye. Three years ago thi3 would have spelled disaster, but not anymore. With an eye to the future, which may hold a job for Ross in the Army as well as many other boys, he is preparing himself for whatever he may meet. But he’s sure to do a fine job whether for Unole Sari, or on that ranch where he hands out”, down the river. BILL SMITH— The wisest cracker in school was Bill. He was a familiar figure breezing down the hail3 and going to town In the Mood on a dance-floor, or even blowing his brains out on his ever-present sax. He was a graduating Junior, but left school after mid-term, to become one of the much admired Naval Air Cadets. This makes Bill a perfect speciman, no less, as the Naval Air Corps won’t take them any other way. So good luck Smith t ’ EVELYN BROCK—When she goes dragging that devastatin’ suthun accent behind her, Li’l Daisy Mae will leave a gap that can never be filled. Though she has spent three of her high school years at Grant. it’s still you-all and ah’11 be ’» Her laugh is the best and we love to get her plumb tickled”„ Scarlett O’Hara was never like this—Evelyn will always be our favorite suthun gal”. (continued on back of page)

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CLASS HISTORY We the anticipatory graduates of 1944 have met here in the great institution of Grant Hi to reminise on the past and plan for the future o As hashful downtrodden Freshmen, we certainly have stuck through to the end. and are only mere ske3.etor's of the thirty-nine whc started» Freshman week was one of continued torment, and extensive were the sighs which issued from our hearts when It had ended, Our scholastic achievements were somewhat hampered du6 to our inferiority.. Yet, we were represented in the Lettergirls by Mildred Blackburn; on the Annual Staff by Jack Cosad; in theG.ee Club by ten members;' and in the Band by twelve members.. luring the year Sararose Davis transferred from Spokane- Ten of our original number never returned for the Sophmcre year; al- though several new members brought the enrollment to thirty-six. We were reticent Sophomores, so we took out our heated revenge on the poor Freshmen. While we were Sophomores Dale Ray and Ted Hinshaw were in the wchool play THE CAMPBELLS APE COMING. Eight of us graduating Seniors were in the Band in our Sophomore year; four girls wore letters and seven boys were Lettermen. Our teachers had changed. Mr. Wright was still our Principal; Mrs. Driskill, who had taken a sudden liking to a domestic life was replaced by Miss Reith; Mrs.Dotts waa. replaced by Mrs Romig Mr Wolpert and Mrs Dickens were with us until Mr V olpert joined the service; Mr„.Rix also left for the Air Corps before the year was completed. Kenneth Shideler J.eft Just before the Sophomore year was over, and Evelyn Brock left for Kentucky for her Junior year, as Marge Mathewson Joined our merry group. Thus our Junior year enrolled twenty-eight happy upper classmen, This proved to be the most eventful year of our school. Three flourishing Juniors helped the Carnival staff in the fall of the year. Early in January the Junior-Senior banquet was a splendid affair. The Junior Varieties was featured to sponsor the Junior-Senior Prom inclu- ded a one-act play HIS FIRST GIRL by a complete Junior cast. Stanley Phillips had the recognition of an All-Star on the district tournament team. £