Klamath Union High School - El Rodeo Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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wb! I-IEPTAD, I933 IlQw VALEDICTORY DEAR TEACHERS, FRIENDS, AND PARENTS: Tonight we have come to one of the greatest points in our lives. Until now, each of our lives has been carefully watched and guided by those older and more experienced than we. We have drifted along, taking happiness and success as it came, with nothing to cause us really large troubles or cares. Life is more serious now, though full of beauty and joy where we search for it. Our life journey is like a trip from a small mountain stream, bubbling over with carefree delight. Later it widens into a river which gradually leads to the ocean. We have come to a place where our life ships, which have sailed in a small tributary of their own, join the great fleet of ships where the river widens and merges into a much larger and more turbulent current of living. At last we are fully launched on the river of life in our ship of fate, with a dazzling sun of suc- cess gleaming brightly ahead like molten gold over the ocean of fulfilled hopes to beckon us onward to the end of our journey. In this river, we are now about to cruise, there are numerous dangers and rapids with which to cope which must be met with all the strategy and strength it is possible to summon in order to reach our destination safely. Many times we shall struggle from a whirlpool of despair and failure only to find ourselves confronted by a huge boulder of disaster but with grim determination, we mark these carefully on our chart of experience, regain courage and push onward. There will be opportunities to meet unforefoold experiences and adventures which will make our workaday world colorful and dispense with any dull drab color which might become apparent from our loss of ship school mates. Still it is a beautiful -thought to carry with us that we are not leaving friends and good times only to be left in a vast desolation but are entering a fuller life with new friends, new interests in life, and new aims to be attained. We must not look backward with regret and a feeling of a great loss at what we are leaving behind but must keep our eyes always on the goal to prevent our courage from lagging and the steady onwardness of our course from being disrupted. At times our dependable craft may become stalled by still waters or dense fogs of doubt completely enshrouding usg but a small tang of the salty air, wafted to us on a breeze should spur us on to complete our undertaking. At last we hope to glide into the ocean and behold the sun in majestic glory ahead, when we shall realize the stupenduousness of the task we have attempted. Though we shall have successfully gained one goal our journey will not be ended. We shall have reached the sun of achievement and the ocean of life only to find each new breaker more enticing and an unlimitable scope of oppor- tunity gleaming on the crest of each new wave--something to be coveted and conquered. Thus, as the never ceasing waves confront us, we realize our life work is never ended until we are called to eternity. Our little boat must be launched and come safely to its destination in order to start on another more important and hazardous journey. My dear friends, this night is the launching of that shipg an event to be folded in lavender and laid away among our most cherished memories. I thank you. Irene Hayes, Merrill High School. C163

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m HEPTAD,19sa lm CLASS OFFICERS FORT KLAMATH Juniors President: Norman Wimer Class motto: :'We paddle our own canoe. Class flower: Golden rod Class colors: Purple and gold Sophomores Freshmen President: Herbert Edwards President: Albert Bricco KENO Juniors President: Zelda Young Secretary-Treasurer: Delores Hamilton Vice president: Portia McKeen Class motto: Don't be a piece of driftwood-swim. Class flower: Pink rose buds Class colors: Grey and old rose Sophomores President: Dan Cross Secretary-Treasurer: Gerald Brlngle , Vice president: Virginia Turnbaugh Freshmen President: Ivie Lee Powell Secretary: Charles McKeen Vice president: John Barger Treasurer: Lydia Gay Class motto: Success in action. Class flower: Manzinita and lilacs Class colors: Blue and gold MERRILL Juniors President: Geraldine Fotheringham Secretary-Treasurer: He1enWolfe President President President President President: Vice president: Pearl Beasley Class motto: 'Hitch your wagon to a star. Class colors: Turquoise blue and silver . Sophomores Mona Faus Secretary-Treasurer: Louise Haskins Class motto: A live wire never gets stepped on. Class colors: Pink and silver Freshmen Arthur Brown Secretary-Treasurer: Eloise Craig Vice president: Joyce Whitlatch Class motto: We live to learn and learn to live. Class colors: Green and White BONANZA Juniors Gladys Daniel Secretary-Treasurer: Clyde Vinson Class motto: May our friendships last forever. Class colors: Rose and grey Sophomores Tom Bray Secretary-Treasurer: Virginia Monroe Vice president: Ernest Breithaupt Class motto: Love, Labor, Laugh. Class colors: Blue and white Freshmen Elinor Bruner Secretary-Treasurer: Hazel Loomis Class motto: Watch your opportunity. Class colors: Rose and blue. C151

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