Gridley High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Gridley, CA)

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t 'KiacC' - - - 5J Spring Officers — Standing, left to right: Wallace Guilford, president; Carole Moore, sec- retary; Ramona Borrowman, vice president. Seated: Jay Adams, yell leader. Fall Officers — Left to right: Jack Brumley, president; Bet- ty Carender, secretary; Vergil Owen, vice president; Maxine Morris, yell leader. Our advisers, Mrs. Campos and Mr. Vaughn, get together. A HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS By Alan McGie Congratulations, fellow grads! Some of us finally made it! That sheepskin we hold in our hands may look rather moth-eaten in passing years, but right now it looks like chinchilla. Well! Well! There’s Ray Rogers and Jack Brumley—haven’t seen them since Mr. Hills got ’em back in the fall of ’47. We entered the “01’ Brain Fractory” four years ago, most of us at the advanced age of 13, as green as all other freshmen since the beginning of time. We were soon turned lobster red (the correct shade for lipstick that year) and began to find out that Mr. McGie and Mrs. Sligar must not have taught us anything after all. How- ever, we were too busy to give that much thought because of hockey, football, basketball, band, and dancing. Remember the autumn leaves at the Freshman Reception? Now there’s a face that looks familiar. Oh, it’s Don Manes— must have sold his cows to Diann. Going back to our sophomore year! We didn’t know our own strength. We soon found out, though. We got a chance to pay back those puny freshmen for everything those massive and muscle- bound juniors had tried on us the year before. We did pretty well, too. After all, wasn’t “Windy Moore on our side? That was also the year Arthur Baker got the slightly cockeyed look from sucking eggs for the Spanish Fiesta while the rest of us practiced up on the Mexican shuffle. By the way, did anyone ever learn to “habla Espanol? Oh, yes, and it was in biology that Mr. Morris peeked out from behind the pickled specimens and glee- fully showed us how to dissect a grasshopper while the girls turned green. No wonder we all grabbed an old butterfly net and a can of cyanide and hit for the hills. Somebody must have joined the Navy in the summer of ’49 because, as “Hot Lips Guilford piped us over the side that fall, there weren’t so many of us as there once had been. A kind of my- opia had struck those remaining, too. The only thing that looks good to a junior girl suffering from myopia is a college man in a red convertible while “inversely (as Mr. Vaughn would say) those freshman babes were looking better every day to the boy with the “Boogie cut. Well, if it isn’t Maxine and Betty! Where have you been keeping yourselves? Texas? In the senior year we found out we did not know the English language. We struggled for months with English X. P.S.—Jack Neeley finally made it. Evelyn had to drive Ron to school every day after Mr. W’lcox showed us that pile of bodies in the corner. Lillian developed a neroxide glow and learned to hum “Some Day My Prince Will Come.” The boys all developed an Old Crow glow. That Slagle had more to sell than meets the eye. Molly and Dale were still the handsomest couple in the city library and Frankie and Vergil waltzed up to the old hitching post. Ken crowned Richard and Janice one night that year. Alan grew to be a man about town in a yellow jeep draped with girls. Several senior boys learned how to act. LaWanda and Nita knew how alreadv. Jay Adams learned to fasten his ears back with scotch tape, so he wouldn’t take off while skiing, and we all learned that there are more problems in life than Senior Problems ever heard of. Even Frank Britton learn- ed you can’t grow a beard on imagination alone. Some of the seniors spent February that year marooned in the hills reading “Snowbound. while Betty and Elliot polished up their CSF life mem- bership pins. So here we go, kicked into the cold world by old Alma Mater. Hey, Mom. stop scrubbing behind my ears with that sheepskin! It’s dry back there!

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 ALAN MALLORY McGIE Liberal Arts Course; Football B Team 1. 2. Varsity 3; Baseball 1; Track 3. A Team; Tennis 3, 4. A Team; Block G 3. 4; Speech Arts Club 4; Speech Arts Plays 4, Span- ish Club 1, 2; Student Body Presi- dent 4; Senior Play 4. ZOE EILLEEN THOMPSON Business Course; FHA 2; Band Club 4; Bulldog Flash Staff 3; Art Club 2; Senior Play 4. SHARON KAY DAVIS Transfer from Durham 4; Business Course; FHA. 1. 3. 4. Art Club 2. ALAN WEAVER Transfer from Yuba City 4; Industrial Arts Course. ARTHUR L BAKER Liberal Arts Course. Band Club 1. 2. 3. 4. Speech Arts Club 2. 4; Speech Arts Plays 2. 4. Spanish Fiesta 1, 2 .3. 4; Orland Solo Contest, sec- ond place; Senior Play. SARA MARIE ESPANA Business Course; Girls Sports 2, 3, 4; Circle G 2, 3, 4, Band Club 2. 3. 4; Span- ish Club 1. 2. 3. 4; Art Club 4; Class Secretary 1; Span- ish Club Vice President 3. RUTH MAY Transfer from Placerville 1; Business Course; Girls' Sports 1, 2 .3. 4; FHA. 1, 2. 3. 4. DAI E DWIGHT BECK Transfer from Twenty-n ne Palms; Engineer- ing Course; Fco bell 2, 3; Basketbell 2 Track 2. 3; Tennis 2, 3, 4; Block G 3. 4 Band Club 3. 4, Band Club Prer.idmt 4 Spanish Club 2 .3, 4. Historian cf Spanish Club 3; Class President 2; Dance Band 3. 4 OF MOST SERVICE TO HER SCHOOL— That's Molly Moon, according to a poll taken in the Senior Class. She was also chosen DAR. representative by the senior and faculty. T A ft S SENIORS tv