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

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Jack Gleason left at the close of the year to Join the Navy. We were sorry to loose him-, but Uncle 3am came fli»st. Zane Crawford also left, us at the close of this year. In the fall of . 45 we started again with the en- rollment of- twenty-one cheerful Seniors. It wasn't long until one of our boys left for the Navy. We were also sorry to lose Glen Chandler. James.Beals also moved to San Diego about the middle of the year. At. the end of the first semester, Mary Lou Dickens dropped out to go to college at La Grande, and started studying to be a teacher. Ilene Pied joined us in our Senior year. She has been with us several other years for only short stays. In December we put on the play,- Wt ’'OTHER-IN-LA’.'. The play cast enjoyed a wonderful evening at the home of Dessie Butler after the play, and she served delicious refreshments. Hazel Cunningham and Joyce Trowbridge each earned letters for four years. Patty Lou Elliott is also a letter girl. There are also others who are coming in this year to the Lettergirl organization. At the early part of our Senior year we took our Senior Sneak, which was a trip to Strawberry Lake. With snow on the mountains and a chilly wind blowing, we stayed close to the fire most of the time. Vs had fun and plenty to eat. Rowing the leaky boats an.i bailing the water out, was the thing that occupied the most of the time.' The Juniors entertained us with the Prom on the 22nd of March and the Banquet followed later on April 12. Seniors who helped with the program were Helen r.osley and Dessie Dell Butler with the class will; Ilazel Cunningham with the History, and Ted Livingston, Ilene Plea, and Joyce ■Trowbridge, the Prophesy. The Seniors of 46 are sorry to be leaviri ; dear old Grant High. We hope that the Seniors next year will have, as much fun as we have had during our years here. Son» of us may not have been here all four year?, but I know we have all appreciated the years we have had to- gether. Hazel Cunningham

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’ CLASS HISTORY In the year of 19A,2t twenty eight enthusiastic Freshmen entered Grant Union High School, not knowing whet they were feeing, or they-probably wouldn’t have started» We had fun through that year. The initiation was the main event of the year» Joyce Trowbridge was elected President and led us through the Freshmen activities. , In ’£3 we started again, but with something else in mind, that was to give the Freshmen some of what ws got when we were Freshmen, It was a great disappointment be- cause we couldn’t initiate them like we ware initiated» We started out with twenty students, a few weeks after school was on its way, Dsssie Dell Butler transfer- red from Pendleton and Robert Francis from Idaho, Kenneth Roberts dropped out about the.half of the yeer because of illness» Jack Gleason was again elected president of the class» As juniors we looked back on the memories of the years before» V7e ordered our class rings in November, which we did not receive until the lpst part of the school year» The Junior .Class play CUSTER’S LAST STAND was one of the successful events of the year for us» The feast consisted of Jack Gleason, Dsssie Dell Duties'v Glen Chaud lar, Zane Crawford, Betty-Welch. Helen Mosely, Patty Lou Elliott, Mery Lou Dickens, Joyce Trowbridge, Wade Officer, Ted Livingston snd Hazel Cunningham» The Junior Senior banquet was another big event of the year» Cpl» Pete Baucum, who wa3 fortunate enough to be back from over seas was with us and his graduating . class» Other guests were the faculty and the school board members» . In April the ;Jun5.ors again entertained th$ Seniors with the, Prom in . the Grant Union Gymnasium» We had lost one of our -class members by this time, Gloria LeRoy» Herbert McGetrick from Mt» Vernon; Betty Welch from the Boise Academy, Charley Belcher, and Roger Sodax-stedt from Springfield joined us» Yfe were happy to have these students added to our class»

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CLASS POJt: BY THE SEA Down by the rocky shore of the sea Where the breakers dash and roar; It was there that I used to sit and dream And watch the seagulls soar. It was there that in the springtime I used to go down to the beachr It was there that I used to go fishing .And I always expected a cratch. Every day now I can hear the sea And the gull. If I listen right well And at night there are other strange sounds mixed in I can hear then from my barbed-wire cell. For I am a prisoner of war in Japan And, Oh how I long for the day When I am taken back to my little home In the good old 7. S. A. I will walk again down to the sea And watch the breakers roll in I will walk in gardens by my little house, So glad to be home again. I will watch again the seaguls soar. And the fish jumping out of each wave: And if I look toward the village I can see our flag Flying over the home of the brave. Now and then a plane flies across And it s3ar s the duck from their bowers And I bless the day that I was borm in this land This beautiful, fre9 land of ours. Clifford Belcher