Highline High School - Pirates Log Yearbook (Burien, WA)

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Row 1 fTOPJ: Neiswender, Lande. Row 2: Fields, Latourette. Row 3: Raines, Brown, Morris. good- ye ow With their dreams of Class Day and Commencement now a near reality, Highline Seniors could be seen walking dazedly down the halls singing and repeating, It canlt be true, this can't be true g but they soon realized it actually was, as graduation plans moved ever rapidly ahead. Two revolutionary changes were considered as spring drew near, and March was to see decisions reached in regard to both proposed changes. Not now were the Senior girls to look forward to soft, billowy formals, nor the boys to new suits for graduation, but all envisaged truly attractive royal blue caps and gowns. This was decided because of present wartime conditions and the seeming folly of the girls' buying formals, shoes, and accessories for this one occasion and the boys' buying new suits, when shortly after graduation they would no doubt be but another link in the chain of Uncle Sam's fighting men. This was not the only change to be put into eifect, for even more at variance to Highline's custom it was decided that Baccalaureate and Commencement exercises should not this year be held on two separate occasions, but should be combined into one program to be held June 6, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Ed Klosterman was selected as chairman of Commencement, with Pat Morrissey acting as cofchairman. The Four Freedoms was the topic chosen for discussion by the Commencement speakers+Patty Latourette and Phil Lande, chosen by the class, and Bobbe Lee Fields and Chet Neiswender, selected by the faculty. Patty was to speak on Freedom from Want , Phil, on Freedom of Speech , Bobbe, on Freedom from Fear , and Chet, on Freedom of Religion. Nellie jo Morris carried away top honors of the class as valedictorian, while Nancee Raines and Deldee Brown shared honors as salutatorians. Class Day was ably planned and directed by the Senior Class president, Keith Hamilton, who acted as Master of Ceremonies at the program held on Friday, June 4. The Class History was handled by Pauline Inglebritson, the Class Prophecy by Patty Latourette, and the Class Will by Kathleen Kessler and Chet Neiswender. Thus another group of teen age boys and girls complete their twelve long and arduous years of schoolingffleaving to face a world far different from that faced by graduating seniors two years ago. To enter college or a war job---this question now had to be decided by many of the girls, while many of the boys knew that Uncle Sam would soon be calling them away to help him maintain the Four Freedoms and all for which America stands.

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is - eva Kenneth Anderson, vicefpresident: Emeline Price, secretaryftreas' urer Keith Hamilton, president: Mr. Trowbridge, head adviser, ailing Un Life is just u Bowl of Cherries would not exactly describe the conditions existing for the '43 class at Highline or for the present ycar's graduating class in any high school. Because of adverse conditions caused by our country's entrance into the world wide conflict and struggle to preserve our democracy, the schools throughout the nation have naturally been forced to give up many of the activities they have enjoyed in the past. Never before in the history of our country has a high school class gone through its senior year and graduated under conditions such as those which exist at the present time. The lack of help in all industries and the demand for the services of boys and girls of high school age, coupled with the excessively high wages being paid, has made it diiiicult for students to keep their interests in the school. This trend of events decreased the number of seniors in attendance this year, the class having diminished from 200 in September to approximately 140, who will finish at the end of the school year. Many of the boys enrolled in the VI Navy training program earlier in the year, and in April another group took the test sponsored jointly by the Army and Navy in schools throughout the United States. Their grades on this test will determine whether they will be selected for oflicers' training when they are inducted into the armed forces. During the spring months the boys have succeeded in carrying on the tradition of careful supervision of the Senior Park, and the recent benches placed there will remain a mute testimony of the work of a valiant few. As the annual goes to press, the class is looking forward to the one social event of the yearf the dance at the Spanish Castle planned for june 4. Many other social events were necessarily curtailed by the advent of gas rationing and the restrictions placed on night gatherings by the civil defense authorities. Despite these handicaps the class officers, Keith Hamilton, presidentg Kenneth Anderson, vicefpresidentg Emeline Price, secretary, and Donald Barclay, treasurer, performed the duties of their oflices eommendably and attempted, along with the rest of the class, to destroy the reputation that was created last year when the class staged the junior Skit. The perpetrators of that epic have yet to see its acceptance in the world of drahmer as a truly great work of art. The Senior Class advisers-W Mrs. Davis, Mr. Asbury, Miss Rohowits, Mr. Motteler, and Mr. Trowbridge, head adviserfegave unsefishly of their time in guiding the various home rooms through four years of scholastic activityffnot unmixed with the growing pains of the 'teen age and the turbulence of the war years.