Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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STUDENT LEHIJEHS A. S. B. PRESIDENT DARREL MONTEITH A. s. B. vlcs-PRESIDENT A. s. B. SECRETARY DON FAWCETT NATALIE PARKER A. s. s. -nznsunza ncaa uma A. s. s. susmzss Mnucsx JOYCE u'rz ELLIS MCCURLEY DAVID DAWSON AW., ' .if 9 A. S. B. TECHNICIAN CRATER EDITOR HI-TIMES EDITOR JACK MOFFAT SHIRLEY WEISENBURGER CHUCK BRALEY 'I'I

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SlUllElll lIllUlllIll 9 Students of Medford high are very fortunate in having an administration which believes in self- government by the student body. To carry out this plan, there is a guiding group called Student Council, composed of student leaders chosen by popular vote, lt is the business of this group to out- line plans and activities and to initiate necessary legislation, This it does at its regular meetings in room lO every Monday morning during activity period. During the past year the principal aim of the Council has been cooperation with the war effort. With this in mind, one of its first acts was dis- pensing with the annual bon-fire, which heretofore had consumed much scrap material. Later, the annual noise parade became a scrap parade. This scrap drive netted twenty tons, with the senior class leading in scrap collection, the FCA. in noise, and the Pep team in advertising. The next all-school drive was the key kam- paign, supplementing the national drive. Sixty pounds of keys were collected. Juniors took first place in this, with sophomores, then seniors fol- lowing. ln cooperation with the national book drive, the high school collected l,5OO books, more than two-thirds of all those collected in Medford. The juniors again won the contest and were guests at a dance sponsored by the losing seniors and sophomores. Besides the Council's war work, it planned and carried through several other interesting activities. The first dance of the year was sponsored by the Student Council, this was after the Medford- Eureka football tilt. A fall theme was used, with traditional black cats, ghosts, cornstalks, and scare- crows decorating the bays' gym for the affair. An- other feature sponsored by the Council was the appearance of Lee Grabel, magician, and Happy, the ventriloquist, who were co-starred to entertain the student body at a general pay assembly. The Council sponsored a va r i e ty show in December, with talent from each class being used. Bob Davis acted as master of ceremonies for this. Noon dancing each Wednesday with music by the Tornado Ten was arranged by the Council, as well as school dances after home basketball games. Several other activities had been tentatively sched- uled by this group when the Crater went to press Members of the Council this year were: presi- dent, Darrel Monteith, vice-president, Don Fawcett, secretary, Natalie Parker, treasurer, Joyce Utz, business manager, David Dawson, Hi-Times editor, Chuck Braley, Crater editor, Shirley Weisenburger, Boys' league president, Bill Bayliss, junior class president, Ray Casebeer, sophomore class presi- dent, Earl Barnhart, senior class representative, Alice Day, junior class representative, Leigh Eden, sophomore class representative, Glen Kircher, and student technician, Jack Moffat. Adviser to this group is Principal Leonard B. Mayfield. il it -WWTF I - Yi 9

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did you ever notice... 0 that BOB DAVIS walked exactly like Spencer Tracy . . . how wonderful BETTIE VINCENT looked in kelly green sweaters . . . how infectious BUD VANDER MARK'S laugh was . . . how April-ish BARBARA INSKEEP looked with daisies in her pigtails . . . LOUIE POWELL'S eye-lashes . . . how well the nickname FLIP fitted her. . . how much fun ELWOOD HEDBURG was . . . that there as something Lana Turner-ish about NANC Le' LIOTT . . . that ELLIS MCCURLEY very definitely had assets other than intelligence . . . what a very nice voice VIRGINIA HAYES had , . . CLAYTON ANDERSON . . . what truly remarkable eyes CON- NIE WARREN had . . . that there was something almost sinister about LEO MIKSCHE-until he smiled . . . PAT BALLANTYNE'S engagingly dif- ferent speech mannerisms . , . that no matter where she sang JEAN MORAN made it sound like a top-flight Broadway show . . . how terribly and sincerely proud we all were of our boys that en- listed-and of all who will serve in some way, if not that way . . . that CAROL HARTER wrote prize- winning poetry . . . LEE CHASE'S own particular and killing brand of humor . . . HAL ADAMS' really outstanding football playing . . . JUNE JARMlN'S honest and ever-present friendliness . . . the unique and amazing, found-only-in-high-school, phenomenon that was BILL VAN DYKE . . . BETTY LATHAM'S figure . . . that high school never 12 could have gone 'round without people who worked hard and seldom got thanked-for instance: SHIR- LEY WEISENBURGER, L O R R A I N E GLEASON, JACK MOFFAT . . . AL WElR'S smile . . that JERRILEE LOVEJOY looked slightly but decidedly Madeline Carroll-ish . . . JACK KRESSE without his key-chain a-swing . . . the indefatigable EVA HEDRlCK'S laugh . . . that, after all is said and done, DAN GRAHAM and BETTE ROSE were the perfect couple . . . that we had girls who were both beautiful and brainy, and boys who were athletes as well as students, disproving, to our credit, an old theory . . . that the faculty were people, and awfully nice people . . . the swish with which NATALIE PARKER wore her clothes and hair and rifles . . . that MARY LOU LYMAN was as grand and square as her name . . . ALICE DAY'S striking beauty . . . the way BRUFF MCELHOSE moved his head instead of his hands when he talked . . . that JOHN LONG and HERB EDWARDS were really swell guys without making a lot of ruckus about it . , . likewise GENE RAE and KENNY JONES .. . AND HAVE YOU NOTICED . . . that my nostalgia has been showing . . . maybe because these high school days have been so priceless . . . perhaps because they happen just once . . . or that they are doubly dear because of the war and all. At any rate, to most of us, graduation is bitter- sweet.