La Grande High School - Mimir Yearbook (La Grande, OR)

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GIRLS’ LEAGUE EXEC. COMMITTEE The members of the Girls' League Executive Com- mittee, put into office by vote, led the girls in school activities such as parties, dances. Mothers' Teas, com- piling of a Service Roll, All-Girls' Assembly, and junior Red Cross work. TIGER KNIGHTS The Tiger Knights is a service organization of L. H. S. composed of boys who take tickets and guard the gates at functions given by the L. H. S. students.

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HOME EC CLUB The Homemaking Club of the La Grande Union High School has as members the girls who have taken at least one year of home economics and who have been accepted by the members of the club. The aim of the Homemaking Club girl is to better the home, the school and the community. Among the activities of the club are the formal initiation, the mother-daughter tea, and other teas and parties. GIRLS’ LETTER CLUB To become a member a girl must earn fifty points in athletics. Points are awarded for after-school sports managed by the club and sports outside of school. One hundred points entitle a girl to a sweater with one stripe. Officers for this year are: Juanita Westenskow, president; Louise Fehrman, vice-president; Alice Weimer, secretary-treasurer; Juanita Roe, head of sports; Reva Fulp, sergeant-at-arms. Some of the activities of the association this year have included sponsoring noon dances and a paper drive. Through the cooperation of the members, successful sales have been held, the proceeds of which are to be used for initiation, letters, and the annual party at the close of the activities of letter club.

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CLASS PROPHECY Laughter, bright lights, and pretty clothes are the dominant factors at Charles Snyder's white marble mansion in Los Angeles on this cold evening of December 22, 1954. We have arrived early for Charlie s birthday party so we watch the other guests enter in all their finery and soon renew old acquaintances. Being the owner of Snyder's Snuggies Co., Ducky has many friends with whom we are not familiar but there are a few faces that we recognize from ten years ago. They are our former classmates of '44, when we were graduated from that little red brick school building.in La Grande. Now they are spread all over the world. We must stop reminiscing now, for a familiar figure just drawled her way into the living room. It is none other than that cute little blonde, Roberta Jordahl, who is posing for lingerie advertisements at Snider's Snuggies Co. Employed under the same firm is Hazel Trollinger. She is Charlie's private secretary. The photographic engineer and editor of the Men's Monthly Magazine from Ohio, Steve Kinzel, is also here glorying in his latest invention. From Hollywood is the Gremlin Glasses model, Bonnie Hesse, displaying a new pair. Orpha Berry is here at the party. She is a secretary in Warner Brothers' Studio in Hollywood and seems to have a hankering for a screen test. Bemeva Chadwick is another '44 alumna. She has a contract with M. G. M. and is giving Jane Withers some stiff competition. Walt Disney is getting old and feeble but one of his main stay decorators, Margaret McLean, helps him along and keeps him informed on modem developments in his field. The most exciting moment is here at last and Steve presents Charles with a little present. From the yards of pretty string and paper emerges the gift, and before us shines Steve's latest invention— a world television machine. Acting like a kid at Christmas time, Charles eagerly experiments with the switches and dials. The machine begins to hum and the little white screen blurs, then clears, and before us lies a familiar scene. Why, it's La Grande! someone whispers excitedly. Oddly enough, the red brick building pic- tured on the screen is the high school from which we were graduated ten years ago. The picture of the school immediately brings back all those memories that were entering our minds earlier in the evening and everyone is in favor of checking up on our classmates. The dial is turned and the school vanishes. In its place is a little home with a large backyard and a peaceful little family. Here Golden is teaching a little red-haired Yeske to operate a helicopter and Norma looks on proudly. Again we turn the dial and our scene is shifted to the Carter farm. Iris Mae seems to be doing well, instructing girls how to stay single in her Old Maids' Seminary. This is where June Carpenter should be instead of sitting on her parents' front porch, still wondering if she will always be an old maid. Her example should work wonders for Iris. George Tiss, after studying at Harvard for eight years, is now a professor at La Grande's Harvard on the hill. La Grande is still the scene. Jerry Bingner, owner of Joel's Grocery, still has Morehead than brains. We now look at the farms in the Grande Ronde valley and on one we see Richard Taylor batching, and seeming to enjoy it, but we wonder . . . Farther north, near Elgin, Angela Donohue is spading her garden. A few miles from town we find the residence of that famous rancher, Jerry Cook; but who hasn't heard of him? Cook's beef is of world-wide fame. Incidentally, he is also Island City's gun-toting constable. Those beautiful Blue Mountains are a view we can't afford to miss before returning to La Grande's center. Even here we find an alumnus and this one is LeRoy Bushman, one of the best hunters of the day, on the claim that he has staked out for himself. The walls of his cabin are filled with deer-homs, guns, and other hunters' trophies. We now look down the main drag of La Grande. There are several thriving businessmen here. Dick (Sloppy) Farris has taken over Ager's Photography Shop. Bob Goss, taking time off from trying to defrost the North Pole, has taken on a new partnership with some one by the name of Smith. We can't see what kind of a partnership it is but we know Smith from way back. Howard not only is in business with Bob but is also good sports-headline material as a star basketball player on the Tiger Grads' team, composed of La Grande townsmen.