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

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X THK YKAK Senior Glass History nintcen hundred thirty-nine into the portals of Klamath Union | high school stepped a new crop of freshmen. These were the future hope of K. U. II. S. This class of freshmen amounted to tin mere total of 325. Imagine .‘125 rooks all in one hunch! For a few years all would be serene from these freshmen, but just give them time. Their senior year would he the year to take all the glory. In their first year of school this class of rooks took things rather slowly for a while hut gradually worked their way to tin top of the list headed pep. Many of the freshmen hoys participated in athletics, which is the main foundation and function of Klamath union and several were on the football team of that year. In the year of '40 when the 1 1 Rodeo came out they were given this to go by: Keep up the way that you started out and you will make a name and a place for yourselves.” Now let’s take a look at the rooks who are now sophomores. This year the class gave out with more pep and enthusiasm than perhaps any other class in tin school. Now this class of last year’s rookies were really going places and doing things. The members of this class were active in the assembly committee, the social committee, honor society, musical department and all the various clubs throughout the school. Several members of the class were on tin- football squad of that year. They included Hill Christensen. Allen Cline and Neil Mayfield. Others were still playing on the Wildcat team to go into tin Pelican squad at some future date. Jim Bocchi was the only member of the class of ’43 who was playing on the Pelican basketball team when the team took third place in the state tournament. The junior Pelicans, however, consisted of many boys from this class who would be next year’s main string. All in all. the sophomore class of this year had important members in almost every branch of student activity. As juniors in the year 42 they performed the traditional Junior class amateur show and with the money that they received from this they gave the Junior-Senior prom which was a huge success. This Junior class will In remembered for their industry and interest in cooperating fully with the entire student body in all of its undertakings. Also as in previous years, starting when they first entered high school, they were included in the many busy activities which come with school life. On the Pelican football squad for that year we find that it included seventeen of the boys from the Junior class. Members of the Junior class included on the team were Phil Hlohm. Hol Brown, manager; Dick C'ada. Bill Christiansen. Allen Cline. Keith Coddington. Ralph Foster. Floyd Hunsaker. Jimmie Keenan, manager: Don Mast. Neil Mayfield, Arnold Selby. Roland Tutor, Bernard Vaillaneour. Richard Vaillancour and Marvin Watson. These players returned to make greater triumphs in their senior year than had ever happened during their school life. Taking the lead for the Juniors on the Pelican basketball squad of 12 were Jim Bocchi. Jim Cox. Fee Hunter. Ralph Foster and Aldo Bellotti. Not much has been said in this brief history of the class of ’43 about the girls, but you can be assured that they were as active as the boys of this class. Let’s look quickly as to just what they -were doing while the boys were winning numerous victories on the football turf and basketball court. We find the girls active in all of the various clubs and class throughout the school. The music department, the journalism department, and the commercial department were filled with the

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Front row. left to ri lil: Ilex Yoiimk. Jim t'omlrey. Jim t’ox. AMo Rellotti. Wilbur Weleh. Mark row: Jim Hooehl. Don Hix«ers. .Manager l)»-nn FitZK ral l. Coach Wayne Scott. Ralph Foster. The Pelican’s ’42-13 basketball season turned out to he as successful as the football season. Coach Glenn Scott lead them on to the top of the ladder of success to he state basketball champions for the first time in the history of the Pelicans. They were very well trained for their first game of the season with Weed. California. The score was Pelicans 52, Weed 2 1. The Big Bills’’ won their next two games with Grants Pass in Pelican Court, first game Pelicans 42, Grants Pass 36; second game Pelicans 34. Grants Pass 25. Their fourth game was played with Albany and it was the first game of the season that the Pelicans lost. Albany 32, Pelicans 26. When the Pelicans played the next two games with Redmond they were hack on the winning side again, first game Klamath IS. Redmond 17; second game Klamath 41), Redmond 12. and they stayed on that side when they played Lake-view 58-37. Then they went off to Grants Pass to win again 32-28. But their luck changed with Medford, the score being Medford 43. Pelicans 37. Then they fell back to winning again and won both games with Ashland 30-29 and 35-27. Then the K. I . 11. S. “Big Bills” kept up a long winning spell and won the last seven games before the state tournament. The first two of these games were played with Bend, first game Klamath 50. Bend 29; second game Klamath 56. (('ontinned on page 26)

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girls eager to learn and to work in order to get ahead. Various clubs, committees and pep squads such as the Pep Peppers were well furnished with enthusiasm from this Junior class. Now the class of rooks arc seniors, the graduating class of 1 51. I his year was the best and most active year this class has yet experienced. After many years of hard work to gain it they became state champions in the final playoffs of the state tournament. Not only that but they came out the victorious winner of the state basketball tournament at Salem. It was not only the players who turned out the victory in many cases but the whole school. Even though the students were not able to attend the games this year as they had done in the past, they were behind the team all their might. One of the things which seems fitting to mention in this history is the fact that our team defeated Medford for the first time in many years to win the state football championship. This year’s team consisted of nineteen juniors, sixteen seniors and there were even two sophomores who had a chance to play on the winning team of 43. 1 he plavers on this winning team are too numerous to mention in this history but the name of each can be found below the football picture in this book. Basketball was also a victorious year for the Pelican team. They traveled to Salem to take their chance at the state tournament and came back the winner over all other schools in the state. In the senior year the girls also took the lead in activities. Among these were Nadine Palmerton as editor of the school paper, the Krater; Mary Landry as president of the Pep Peppers; Joanne Hamilton, president of the Girl’s League, and Dorothy Davis as secretary-treasurer of the student body. Officers of the freshman class were: President. Mickey Butler; vice presi- dent. Adelia Robin; secretary-treasurer. Dick Cada; yell leader. Clifford Phillips. In the sophomore year: President, Orlie Kennerly; vice president, Jim Boeehi; secretary treasurer, Phil Blohm; yell leader, Edrie Smith; song leader, Ralph Foster. In the junior year of high school the class officers were Bill Burness, president; Dick Cada, vice president; Joanne Hamilton, secretary-treasurer; Jim Noel, veil leader. In the year of ’43 when this class became seniors in K. U. II. S. the officers were: Ralph Foster, president; Don Mast, vice president; Dorothy Davis, secretary-treasurer, and Bob Brown, yell leader. Time marches on. Wc find the rook class of 39 now the mighty senior class of ’43. Time passes quickly. If one took a hurried look into the past they would find many things undone and many things which were left undone still waiting for completion. Traditions are one of these things. Traditions must be upheld if the school is to carry on and become better and more substantial in its ways. So into a new world of activities steps another senior class. Some into the unknown curriculum of the modern world. Some are going to fight for the very thing which we have enjoved throughout our span as school children. Some will come back to earrv on where they left off. and others will never come back, but those who do not return will know that those who do will endeavor to keep our nation free from want, fear, and destruction. This senior class will graduate from K. l II. S. into a world of opportunities and thev will see before them a better chance to improve themselves. In the classes all over the nation that are graduating the hope of a better America is found. These are the future presidents, preachers, doctors, lawyers, and common laborers. These are the people who will decide whether America remains the free nation of today or the aggressed nation of tomorrow.