Morenci High School - Copper Cat Yearbook (Morenci, AZ)

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The air was littered with equations gence of the artistic streak in our books, chalk, and numbers. versatile group. Jim Allan created a sensation with his famous master- In the eighth grade we learned piece, the durm fiend . This that even we had constitutional little fellow became the mascot of rights. Ur. Poe probably thought the class. His round figure still we asserted them a bit violently. adorns many a desk, wall, and book. Since Morenci grew v ith the outbreak of war, we added to our class population accordingly. There were George and Bill Cooper, Donald Douthitt, Peggy Lucero, and Evert Simons. Freshmen! We had crossed an- other threshold! We went all the way through grammar school and junior high only to suffer scorch- ing indignities imposed on us by the sophomores. We carried their books, cleaned the football field, and collected scrap metal. Helen Johnson, Si pi Chavez, Clyde McAdams, and Jasper Lawson, (bless his soul) joined us in time for our graduation from the ninth grade. White shirts, ties, polish- ed, scrubbed, and sophisticated hair-dos . Some of us haven't been so well-polished, scrubbed , and be-decked since that great day. We looked forward to senior high as being a new deal in life. As sophomores we heckled the freshmen, bored the juniors, and finally imitated the Greeks and went classic. We presented a cul- tural assembly in Greek mythology. Our glorious Venus (Dorothy Licano) entered the great hal of Jupiter (Cothy) and Juno (Helen Johnson) with an air of delicate beauty, when off fell the sheet wound a- round her that was intended to be a main portion of her classic cos- tume. Nancy Nelson and Bob Wasson, came that year and furnished the talent needed for Diana and Merc- ury. Nellie Pena were added to our This brings -senior year. Roy Van Cleve are our Through the years classmates. Out but 29 left. The seniors the leadership of and Jack Dawkins list that year. us up to our Archer and Carmen latest additions, we lost many of 60 there are prospered under Mrs. Kleinman. This year several of our boys had a sudden out burst of childish- ness and were seen playing with mechanical toys----even our class president had a little mechanical racer that was the envy of his friends. In our serious moments we've been kept quite busy with Riveter assignments. Annual write-ups, participation in sports, the junior-senior play, to say nothing of having the fundamentals of American literature and the principles of Americanism poured successfully into our heads by Miss Vandaveer and Miss Lindeman respec- tively. Well, there it is. We've done our part in making this school what it is (Oh, brother'.). We're step- ping out into the world to try out what we're supposed to know. We'll always cherish fond recollections of our years in Morenci schools. Adi os i Our Junior year saw the omer-