Madison High School - Federalist Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Two Deserving, Retiring Teachers Receive' M s 5 i Mr. and Mrs. Marineau have two boys, both of whom were outstanding athletes. Tom, the elder, graduated from OSU where he also obtained his Masters Degree and is now Teaching Princi- pal at linnton Elementary School. Nick, the younger son, also attended OSU and graduated from the Oregon Dental School and now prac- tices dentistry in Portland. Fred Marineau was born in Mason, Wisconsin in 1897. He attended high school at Couer d'Alene, Idaho, where he played in all four sports and had the honor of being elected captain of three major sports in his senior year. After high school he served in the Army during World War I, much of which was overseas with the 146th Field Artillery. When once more a civilian he attended the University of Idaho, where he played basket- ball, baseball and was assistant frosh coach during his junior and senior years. His graduate work was done at the University of Oregon. Mr. Marineau's history is one of championship teams and long stays wherever he coached. He began his career in Weiser, Idaho, and was also at Rupert and Nampa, Idaho, where he had two state titles. He came to Portland in 1936 and was assigned to Benson as Head Coach in three major sports. Fred's best team of that period was the 1940 football team which tied Jeff and Grant for the City Champion- ship. In 1941 Mr. Marineau served in World War II entering as a Cap- tain of the 32nd Special Service Company attached to the 9th Air Force in England. After D-Day he went to France with his company and transferred to Athletic Division General Headquarters in Paris. He was promoted to Major in charge of all requisitioning and distrib- uting of athletic equipment to troops in the European Theatre of Operation. After being released from the Army again, he returned to Benson as track coach, Director of Athletics, and physical education instructor. Mr. Marineau was a regular contributor to the Coaching Journal magazine and invented a jumping and vaulting standard now used throughout the Portland school system. He had a part in bringing about many improvements in the P.E. department, including a revision of the plan for teaching health on a half-year everyday basis, the in- stallation of the fold-a-way bleacher seats in the gymnasium, and the addition of young instructors who are efficient and energetic. In 1957, Mr. Marineau transferred to Madison High School and has been very happy there in his assignment as Physical Education Director. Upon retirement he expects to do a lot of fishing and hunting. time out for a Husky Mr. Marineau picture during his busy basketball career with the Idaho Vandals. 4 Dressed in his best suit with his hair slicked down, Lefty poses for a picture in his early teens.

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Dedication From Federalist Staff Mrs. Mariorie McDonald has had many great achievementsp she not only taught Russian, but she also taught latin in 1921. ln 1924 when Mrs. McDonald returned to Portland she was asked to substitute at Washington, where she stayed for 33 years. Until 1944 Mrs. McDonald taught only shorthand and typing. lf Mrs. Mc- Donald's deeds in the past are any indication of future accomplishments she may well become another Michelangelo. An interesting and imusual teaching career of 43 years ends this June with the retirement of Mrs. Marjorie McDonald, Madi- son's Russian language teacher. Born Marjorie Campbell in Akron, Indiana, 65 years ago, Mrs. McDonald came to Portland with her parents in 1912 and has lived in the house they purchased ever since then. The house may seem large for one person now but she had five brothers and sisters. In 1915 Mrs. McDonald entered Reed College. She spent three years at Reed but graduated from the University of Oregon in 1919 with a B.A. in English. During this senior year she was interscholastic women's singles tennis champion. The year 1943 was a turning point in Mrs. McDonald's' life in more than one way. In February of that year, Mrs. McDanald and her husband heard a speaker on Russia and were so enthralled that they decided to study the language, hoping to visit the U.S.S.R. someday. But in July of the same year Mr. McDonald died suddenly. ' But Mrs. McDonald did continue study and in September, 1943, she was hired by the Soviet government to teach some of the 300 members of the Russian Trade Commission to speak Eng- lish. In 1944 with the beginning of a Russian class at Washington Mrs. McDonald became the first high school Russian teacher in the United States. 1 In 1949 Mrs. McDonald took a pshychological test offered her by a friend, the results: You think the door is locked but it is only closed. Mrs. McDonald opened this door and began to travel. The same year she went to Australia. In 1954 she took a leave of absence and studied at the University of London and in 1959 she made her first trip to Russia. ' These are past experiences. What will be her future ones? Plans include a final trip to Russia. Substitute teaching is a pos- sibility. During the past few years Mrs. McDonald has beglm painting. Sometimes she copies works and sometimes she does her own creative work. Ret1.u'n to art school is in her plans. Margie was only six months old when this picture was taken on a barreled chair with tassels, a family favorite. At eighteen Mrs. McDonald was a fashion- able miss decked out in her Easter best. She is shown with an armful of roses from her family's garden.