Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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Iincipa s essa e The admInIstratIon views with satIsfactIon many of the accomplishments of the past months of work now nearly completed Medford SenIor HIgh School has offered an opportunlty for each student to buIld a solid foundatlon for Immedlate wartlme s rvlce and also a well balanced cItIzen shIp In a natron faced wIth the world s problems of tomorrow More Important than FGTFOSDGCTIOH however IS the survey of what we hope to achIeve Educatlon IS saId to be the sum total of life s expenences a contInuous process from the time of bIrth untIl death The small part of a lIfetIme spent In high school IS of vItal Importance The serlousness of the tlmes has done much to promote serious thInkIng among the molorlty of the young p ople of this group and to strengthen theIr d ter mInatIon to avall thems Ives of the advantag s al hand The possession of a high school diplonea is a matter of greater consequence now than ever before DaIly requests are receIved from former students now In the armed forces who have drop ped school before graduatlng for InformatIon on how they mIght qualIfy for a hIgh school dIploma From a standpoInt of patrlotlsm students owe It to themselves and to their country to remaIn ID school and to use theIr time whIle In high school to the very best advantage Never before In the his tory of our country has there been a greater need for cItIzens with abIlIty to thlnk clearly and act wisely The fate of tomorrow s world wIll be In th hands of todays hIgh school students lt wIll b theIr big opportunlty to prove to a war weary world that thIs present war has not been fought In vain Lester D Harris 8 lt IS dIffIcult for me to wrIte thIs farewell, because there IS so much l would lIke to say and so lIttle that l can put Into words First I want to state that this has been one of the best years of my IIf The school year was really an active one d SDITE necessary dIffIcultIes caused by wortIme shortag s Student cooperatIon wIth Student Coun cIl and faculty was especially encouraging cours there were the usual organIzatIon problems at the b gInnIng but once we got started every thlng worked out fIne SInce there were fewer seniors In school b cause of th draft many more responsIbIlItIes were delegated to underclassmen who really turned out splendld work The Sophomore Class that came over this year was exceptionally large and mem b rs were Immedlately glven theIr full share of dutI s All of them came through wIth the right kInd of product General partI IpatIon In school OCTIVITIES and sports was also good and the outlook IS even b tter for the comlng years Last fall Medford HIgh pro du ed a football t am that won State Champion shIp laurels This added another great achieve school ln WOI'l4II'lQ for the school and the student body one grows to love and cherlsh the memories of all th y repres nt lt IS with more than a lIttle r gret that l say farewell to these ln closIng l want to thank th admInIstratIon the faculty and th entIre student body for their fIne COODGFOTIOH and to say that l feel both proud and fortunate to have b en a m mber of Medford High School John Bullock Presldents arewe I l . l - 1 ' e. - A , S . V . . . . e . ' A - A ' ' ' . Of 3 . . c, by E S , - . ' . . ed e . . . . I . Q A A , , . e . - . . - T ' 3 T . ' I , ' Q I C ' S - In the years Oheod of us. ment to the long list of athletic triumphs of our - - - - I . . . . . I . . . . ' , . . ' 3 f' 9 I ' ' ' . . ' 5 K A ' , ' ' ' ' ' 2 1 1 S S - ' ' . ' e e ' ' - - . ' .A e e ' . I - ' 1 . . . , . - X 7 .5 n , . , D

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Graduating Class ssl l945 DEAN SHELDON PHYLLIS WHITLOCK VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY BILL HEDRICK BUD CAHILL TREASURER CLASS RE REsEN'rA1'svE DELPHIE MYERS LELAND MENTZER ADVISER ADVISER The Sensor Class has been successful sn every way despste the fact that many of sts most actsve members left to enter some branch of the armed forces Thss very war conscsous class also had a large enrollment of sts boys sn the aeronautscs class and other courses related to war actsvstses Class offscers Marvsn Doty Dean Sheldon Phyllss Whstlock Bsll H e d r s c k Bud Cahsll and Hortense Jennsngs wsth the sensor counselors Mrs Delphsa Myers and Mr Leland Mentzer deserve much prasse for thss years smooth runnsng sensor class lO MARVIN DOTY PRESIDENT Sensor students who held smportant offsces sn the student government were A S B pressdent Johnny Bullock Vsce pressdent Dsck Fawcett sec retary Max1neMcKsnney bussness manager Elmer Kyle and treasurer Nancy Swem Larry Hayes headed the Boys League wsth the asssstance of Dsck Fawcett Charles Jones and Bsll Eatherton Sensor offscers of the Gsrls League were vsce press dent Vonnse Moore and secretary Dorothy Han son Torch Honor chose four sensors as offscers of the socsety These were Gerald Pence pressdent treasurer and Nancy Swem keeper of the psns Offscers of Hs Y were all sensors and sncluded Al ton Hayes Earl Bradfssh Jack Thompson Larry Hayes and Bsll Patton Another s hool organsza tson whsch was headed by a sensor was the G A A and sts pressdent was Msldred Shellabarger Ruby Graham and Aletha Emersck served as secretary and actsvsty chasrman respectsvely for the G A A Donna Dawes fslled the offsce of secretary of th Spanssh Club and several other sensors helped mak thss organszatson successful The newly organszed Drama Club boasted many talented sensor memb rs sts pressdent was Bsll Hedrsck and sts secretary treasurer was Regsna Smsth Wsth the help of other sensors Bsll saw that the group fulfslled sts purpose of provsdsng a number of good entertasnments for the student per formances Sensors also partscspated actsvely sn the debate and radso fselds Elasne Walker was edstor sn chsef of the Hs Tsmes and Regsna Smsth was bussness manager CH X 2 , s E E l ' 1 . . . ' , I ' .1 ' I 2 1 I , A f's'fs ' ss ' . 1 1 I ' 1 K - - - 1 , - - '- P I I 1 1 ' ' . . 3 , -' g Elmer Kyle, vsce - pressdentg Ferney McKsbben, 2 I - I . ' I I . , . : - . , 9 . - ' ' 9 ' ll A Il - ' D , ' ' . . . . V I . . . I. . I - I ' , I . , I I . . . . .- . , I . U , . .