Maupin High School - Redside Yearbook (Maupin, OR)

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SENIOR. HISTORY This is not a fairy story. It is also not an ancient Greek classic. It is a tale of modern days, of success; if you want to call it that. The hero and heroine are not a dashing, handsome Galahad and beautiful damsel in distress; in fact the characters (The term may be defined any way you wish) are none other than that illustrious group, the members of the class of 19li8, Wasco Union High School. Our story began 'way back (Can you remember?) in September of 19UU• On one fine fall morning we find our heros and oines excitedly and a little hesitantly (They're only human, it says here) entering a large, somber, grey colored building in the pleasant village of Maupin. What? No, it is not a prison, and there are no machine guns guarding all exits'! It's a school. And so it was that Dudley Cox, Bobby Haug, Kenneth McKay, Alden Walters, Bill Walters, Bob Ebbs, Janis Cameron, Helen Crabtree, Betty Davis, Janet Greene, Florence Jones, Vonna Morrow and Velma Savage embarked on their high school careers. They found it to be a little rough sailing for a matter of three days and one night, with a lot of hard knocks here and there-mostly there, right on the southern exposure. Initiation, I thiftk they called it. But, having weathered the storm, our little group soon settled down to such things as studying (They should have), giving teachers a bad time (They shouldn't have), and taking tests (They had to). Now, since they were a righteous and democratic body, proud of their heritage, (And -laybe partly because their advisor, Mrs. Judge, suggested it as the thing to do.), they soon had a meeting and elected officers. Betty Davis was chosen to head the classes activities, assisted by Janis Cameron, Vice-President; Florence Jones, Secretary-Treasurer; Dudley Cox, Sergeant-at-Arms; and Kenneth McKay, Class Representative. Now, of course we might ring in some murders, fires, airplane crashes, and such to liven up the story at this point, but we won't. Since the class of 'U6 consisted during its first year of a quite normal group of high school freshmen, nothing spectacular crossed their uncertain paths, except that Bobby Haug transferred to The Dalles, and the year ended much as it had begun, q ietly. Chapter Two? Oh, yes, it began in the following September (Boy, this month, September must be jinxed!), and in much the same manner as Chapter One. One slight difference; our little band of intellects was now wise to the ways of high school (Or so they thought.), and set forth with every intention of really wowing 'em this year. Under the guiding hand of their new advisor, Mrs. Gagnon, they elected a new comer, Derry Deshazer, to Cowt. A ext T