Imbler High School - Golden Reveries Yearbook (Imbler, OR)

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Page 16 Sports were organized and played, such as basketball and volleyball. Various clubs added to the entertainment of all. With few exceptions passports were issued for the next tour to Senior Haven, under the guidance of Superintendent Wilfred Burgess. The next September our group embarked upon the last year of its tour in the good ship Imbler High. As our ship put off from shore, three others also left. One was being filled with small timid boys and girls bound for Freshman Land; another with a noisy bunch off for Sophomore Isle; another was being filled with self-important youths and maidens off for Junior Continent. The conductor explained that the members of our group had at one time been like each of the other groups, but that seemed impossible. At this point, our conductor, Mr. Burgess, decided to travel a new route. Mr. Albert Hopkins, our new superintendent, agreed to guide the ship Imbler High through the rest of the voyage. On landing at Senior Haven we were given quite a choice of places to explore. New delights met us on every hand. Pleasures such as we had never dreamed were ours. All too soon the year passed, and the conductor called us together for the last time, telling us we must hasten on to make room for others, and embark on the sea of life, choosing our own ship which we must sail for ourselves. And we were left tearfully on the shore watching the ship Imbler High, fade away in the distance, with only memories and our diploma to recall the glad days aboard the good ship Imbler High School.

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Paqe 15 SENIOR CLASS HISTORY On a morning in September in the year 1938, a group of boys and girls gathered in the imbler high school to embark on a four-year voyage to distant lands of strange and wondrous sights and experiences. This voyage was to be a personally conducted tour in charge of Superintendent James Bushong assisted by Wilfred Burgess. The tour included first a nine months stay in Freshman land. None in the tour had ever visited this land before but had had reports of its green fields and delicious foods from other travelers who had oner voyaged there. During our stay we became acquainted with the wonders of mathematics and a few became so entangled in its intricacies that they never emerged, but were lost completely, and never rejoined the party. Others spent much of their time in English groves where they made the acquaintance of masters of eloquence, and were treated to feasts of roots, diagrams, verses, and book reports. Many entered Orientation and enjoyed the peculiar delights to be found there . A few were lost in the traffic rules and regulations, and had to remain two years before they found their way out. Some were charmed with the delights of general science mountains, although a few of the weaker ones never succeeded in surmounting all these barriers. All were required to explore citizenship caverns and this proved not too difficult for most. Many enjoyed every hour of their stay and roamed among these treasure places and were allowed to have for the taking all the jems. jewels, or tools they found and desired there. The conductor of the tour wisely supervised our recreation and protected us from occasional attacks of noisy creatures called sophomores who invaded freshman land. At the end of the nine months sojourn, passports were issued to enable us t » leave on the next cruise which was to Sophomore Island. After a summer a somewhat smaller group assembled to embark for the lark on Sophomore Island. The conductor of this trip was Miss Annie Newberg. Man of the assistants on this tour were the same as those who had looked after our need in Freshman Land. Our band of students landed at the island filled w'ith enthusiasm. Some hastened to scale typing heights and found there pleasures of sight and intellect, although a few did not like the rough going and deserted the group at the first opportunity. Many found keen pleasure in digging into the historic mounds, and found there the records of the lives of many great men. All of the group were forced to take a sail on English Lake and to take frequent plunges into Oral Bay. A few of the more active occasionally tried to sneak across the narrow channel to Freshman Land and annoy the natives there, but the conductor quickly quelled these attempts. The assistant was always complaining of the atmosphere of Sophomore Island which always seemed to affect the inhabitants with a form of hysteria wfhich manifested itself in the victim by much shouting, laughing, and whispering. The victim was never conscious of these manifestations in himself until he had left the island when the disease disappeared. The assistant also always complained that the travelers were more interested in themselves than in the treasures to be found on the island. A few liked the island so well that they were granted a permit to remain for a second season. A few remained in the employ of a Mr. Caesar who hired them to build a bridge for him. Our next tour w as to Junior Continent. We had no sooner landed there than the travelers began to complain of crowded conditions. The conductor, Joe Johnson, explained that conditions were not really more crowded than they had been, but that everyone who reached Junior Land is afflicted with a form of consciousness of increased size and importance; but this is apparent only to the traveler himself, and passes away as soon as he leaves Junior Land. Various localities were explored on this continent—English Heights, Mathematics Depths, and bottomless History Pits.

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CLASS WILL Paqe 17 The memliers of the Senior Class of the Imbler High School. being of unsound mind, of weak heart, and having hut a few short hours to dwell among the horrors of the trials and tribulations of our high school days, and being on the verge of departing for realms unknown, do make, publish, and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking any wills heretofore made by us any time we may have chanced to lx in our right minds. Article One Having spent all of our money on Senior Class rings, pins, commencement invitations, and rental of graduation gowns, we are in bankrupt circumstances. We earnestly pray that we shall have enough friends left to take care of all our debts. Article Two To the members of the faculty in general we will our penmanship ability in order that they may learn in recording grades the lower line should not lx left off the printed form of the capital E. Article Three—To the student body as a whole we leave an automatic electrical machine which is guaranteed to write any and every type of excuse which will pass the scrutinizing eye of our superintendent. Mr. Hopkins. With the use of these machines it will be possible to cut classes and by pressing the proper lever you will receive an excuse which states that you were unable to lx in school the previous day due to a severe case of small pox. Article Tour—To Mr. Albert Hopkins, our superintendent, our newest edition of our textbook entitled. How To Run The All American Playhouse.” Article Five—To Mrs. Vernal Shoemaker, our English instructor, our well worn copy of “True Romances.” Article Six—To Mr. Ross Brown, our Agraculture instructor, a bottle of hair restorer that he may be relieved of all the hair left caused by his worries concerning our welfare. Article Seven—To Mrs. Robert Poucher, our best cookbook. Article Eight To Mr. Loren Blanchard, our music instructor, we will all of our well worn flats and hope that he again can bring them up to “B” natural. Article Nine—We had intended to leave all our brains and knowledge to the Freshmen of next year, hut on second thought, realizing the Sophomores would treat them rough at the beginning of another term, we have decided to place them in safekeeping and so request that they lx left to the Juniors. Article Ten -In our private bank lx x located in the fire box of the furnace and safely guarded by the janitor will be found a secret formula for a special brand of chewing gum. This gum has the special characteristic of suddenly disappearing when inquisitive faculty members get too inquisitive. This formula is willed to the care of the Sophomore Class. Article Eleven Our seats in assembly are willed and bequeathed to the Freshmen in order that they may use them to full advantage as we have. Article Twelve—Last but not least we will and bequeath our knowledge that we have attained, and ability to get along to the next year Senior class. We as individuals will the following: I. Stan Rhoads, will my big brown eyes to Shirley Martin, in the hopes that they won’t fight with her red hair. I. Sylva Mae Pratt, will my interest in the Marines to Jessie Gillham. in hopes she will get to go to California. I. Tom Kimbley, will my cow milking ability to Aria Lanman. 1. Violette Chase, will my witty sayings to Shirley Hibberd. in hopes she will get as much enjoyment out of them as I have. 1, Tom Ragsdale, will my beautiful curly red locks to anyone who needs them. I am going to join the camouflage department. 1. Wanda Sanderson, will my quiet ways to Marie Cleaver. 1. Bill Furman, will my athletic prowess together with all my medals to Duane Schwebke. I. Wanda Tucker, will my saucy Irish temper to Shirley Vee Wilson, in hopes she never has as much cause to use it as I have. I, Olin Hopkins, will my stubborness to Pete Havekost. I. Leatha Kimbley, will my ticket selling ability to Jack Burton, hoping that hr can at least sell one more than I did. I. Gene Garrett, do hereby will mv ability to bluff to Kenneth Rollins. Signed: SENIOR CLASS Witnessed: STANLEY RHOADS, Class President WANDA SANDERSON, ('lass Secretary.