Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY—CONTINUED Time marches and having completed two years of high school we took up our upperclassmen duties. Proceeding on our merry way to be juniors we chose our officers: president, Don Sutphin and secretary, Ruth Jenkins and our advisor Miss Glenerva Harnsburg. One of our main duties was putting on a class play. We chose “Hillbilly Ccuitship.” Leads were played by Walter Smith, Betty Sumerlin, Phyllis Roush and Harold Ray. Mrs. Marcia Wells directed them through a smash hit. Living up to the play’s theme the usherettes wore jeans and plaid shirts. We gave our junior and senior banquet early in January because “Red” Wise, “Whitey” Barge It, Wildred Lucas and Don Linn were leaving for the serivee. Our prom followed in April. With aid of Mr. Schroeder’s mops and brooms we cleaned the gym floor. Everyone that attended enjoyed dancing to “Rudies” orchestra. Seniors gave us a return party at Bandon for the prom. Bonnie was chosen outstanding girl in athletics and her name was put on the cup. We received the interclass cup for another year. As seniors we moved in to a changing atmosphere, losing Mr. L. P. Linn, principal for twenty years and Mr. D. W. Norton taking his position. Writh Harold Ray, president and Audrey Goodman, secretary, we started out our last year. Many Things were obtained such as: the public address system and flood lights for our football field and to offset this debt a carnival was put on raising an amount over $1,000. Senior play, “Strike Three” and the leading characters Harold Ray, Walter Smith, Donna Ward and Pat Guerin directed by Phil Ryan was a great success. The halls of the old alma mater were deserter! of seniors one fine morning when we took our skip day to Lake Cleawox. With plenty to eat and to drink we had a very enjoyable time. We were given a banquet and prom by the juniors. W’e enjoyed ourselves very much knowing it would be the last time we could be at this event. We were a very happy bunch of seniors when we won the interclass cup for the fourth year in a row. And then commencement and we received our diplomas making us no longer students of the M itle Point High School but alumni instead. We bid farewell to our alma mater and wish everyone the good times that we enjoyed. SENIOR PROPHECY Harold Ray, a noted scientist, has taken up rosidence on the moon to get away from the hordes of females after him. He is very busy working on a theory to explode Newton’s law of gravitation, but this evening he is feeling a trifle lonely, so he turns on his little pocket-sized “whoosis” and trains it on the class of ’46. This is what he sees: The Gilded Lillie (Glenda) is currently starred as a hula-dancer at the Stork Club. Rosalie Titus, who manages a mansion and six children with one hand, has completed another best seller, “A Tree Grows in Myrtle Point.” Mis. Donna Beaverbrook, wife of the well-known millionaire-aviator, is vacationing at the summer home of her sister-in-law, Mary Anne Lucas. Madam Crawford has been acclaimed for her artistic ability; she is running Varga out of business with her Crawford boys. Bonnie Wise owns and operates the Wisehound Bus Lines which travel between Bridge and Remote. Snake-hips Ward is training pythons at the Bronx Zoo, while Ella Jean Edwards is lion-tamer there. Audrey Goodman, Dunn, Higgenbottom, Brown, Bebeniski, Lemon—gay divorcee—has purchased a space ship to pursue the man in the moon. Shifty-eyed Smith has done another embezzlement on W’all Street. He is spending his vacation at his summer home, Alcatraz, while his moll, Alma Thomas, patiently bakes him pies with files in them. So far, not even his personality smile has gotten one through. Dr. Callie Smith (different Smith) is head mortician at the Myrtle Point mortuary. She offers to emblam any of the class of ’46 at half-price. Professor Guerin is teaching World and American History at Columbia Art School. Among her

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ADDITIONAL GRADUATES A number of hoys left school during the past four years in order to enter the armed forces and serve their country. Because of the type of training tfley received wh ile in the service, or the examinations they have passed since their return, the following boys are being issued diplomas with this class of 1946: Earl E. Adams Milton Milford Amlin Arthur Edward Brotton Hugh A. Brown William S. Brown Harold Thomas Caffey Hubert Wayne Deaver Robert Lee Dunn Delmar Greer Denver Greer William Earl Johnson Elton K. Mayse Max H. Hoerster Clifford Payton, Jr. Lavarre G. Ramey William Edward Sempert Delbert D. Sutphin Edna M. Woodward Lee Zinn SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Remember walking through those huge doors in 1942 around the 14th of September, those leering faces, some you knew and some you didn’t? All morning you were kicking yourself to get where you wanted to go and yet when you got there you didn’t know whether you wanted to stay. You weie so green you found some one you knew and hung on. You stood at the bottom of the main stairs and pretty soon one of those mighty Seniors told you Mr. Linn would tell you what to do in the gym. We were from all such places as Sitkum, Gravelford, Lee. Gaylord, Bridge and Myrtle Point Junior High. After the first month of wandering around and doing everything wrong we were finally initiated and became full fledged members of the Myrtle Point High School. Remember they even had reporters from the Myrtle Leaf: Ann Weekly and Martha Evans. Badly beaten in the first event of the year, the Tug of-War with Sophomores we got very wet. With our yell leaders, “Liz” and Don wc took third place in the yell-contest. Our class president was Walter Smith and our class secretary Mavis Greer, our advisor was Ted Kirsh. They carried us through a very successful year although we did have several ups and downs. Walter took fiist in extemporous speaking contest delighting us very much. Helen Hilabold was chosen outstanding freshman girl by the Girls League. Dick Barker took the cup for outstanding freshman boy in band. Girls were also awarded the G. A. A. Cup for being outsanding in athletics. The annual picnic of the school was given up because of war time gas rationing and the buses couldn’t get the gas needed. The school was not to be disappointed. We had a “Campus Luncheon” and had plenty to eat. We weie entertained by a fashion parade by the senior boys. Remember the bathing suits, tennis rackets, and dresses they borrowed for the girls? In spite of being under dogs we walked off with Interclass cup, taking it from the class of ‘45, who had it the previous year. Thus ended a very happy year, and we looked forward to three years more of the same. Coming back and being more accustomed to our surroundings we started a very uneventful year. With Walter Smith as president and Elizabeth Peaison as secretary and our advisor was Miss Bennington. We were victorious over the freshman in the Tug-of-War. Taking out our hard feelings lsft over from the year before, we initiated thoroughly a very green bunch of fieshmen. Some of the low-down tricks we played were to give egg shampoos to Red Brown’s curly locks. Some freshies got sore knees and dirty noses from rolling onions across the gym floor. We were rewarded for our efforts by a return party by the freshmen. Being allowed to come in foimals for first time many of our girls attended the Junior Prom with bashful beaus who were stiffnecked and wore their father’s best tie. Awards we:e presented at the end of the year giving for the second time the girls, the Athletic Cup, and also the interclass cup for the second time.

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SENIOR PROPHECY—CONTINUED more promising: students is Mr. (Jess) Dunning:, while at the foot of the class is stationed Mr. (Dallas) Norton. Paderewski Weekly (Slick) is light-fingering a bazooka in Spike Jones' orchestra. Rockefeller Wool ridge, diamond magnate, has purchased the Hope diamond for his fan-dar.cer fiancee, Vernice Stock. Roy Anderson and Glen Daniels are sultans in Arabia, competing with each other to have the larger harems (consisting of blonds). Mildred Northrup is selling sea shells down by the sea shore. Nobel Peace prize winner, Betty Zumwalt, is working on a scientific plan of painless fly killing; her assistant, Everett Culver (Ceep), is working on a scientific system to trap women. Phyllis Roush, with her two able assistants, Betty Warren and Carol Huntley, are doing well in their newspaper “ Yesterday’s News.” They really cooperate; Carol sees that everyone pays promptly, Phyllis takes care of the “ Advice to the Lovelorn ” column, and Betty edits the ‘‘Births and Deaths” column. Albert (and Ruthie) Moore are on a rabbit farm in the wilds of Coos County, raising ducks. Hazel Oberman, psychiatrist, and her assistant. Nadine Owen, are looking into the suspicious case of Frank Blakely—who claims he is a rabbit. Gene Wells is a hermit, living in a tree. Theron Morris and Kenneth King, midgets in a side show, are worrying about women, naturally. Elizabeth Daniels, national Shetland pony racer, is holding a serious conference with her veterinarian, Aura Lee Sheedy, on hoof and mouth diseases. Don Sutphin, coach at Yale, and Joe Nichols, coach at Vassar. are having words over the legality of the last game—Joe said Don poisoned his main string. Wanda Hoffman Labert is running a kindergarten for backward goldfish. Elizabeth Pearson, sensational career woman, is selling lemonade at her roadside stand. Her dishwasher is Billy Belloni—gotta support her husband somehow. Harrison Floyd is—could it be—yes, fishing, or is it duck hunting? Donna Jean Taylor and her trained toe dancers Lee ‘‘Twinkletoes” Morris, Hobart “Zorina” Smith, Earl “Leadleg” Shiltz, Dick “Bubbles” McAllister, Red Wise, and Glen “Gaydog” Jenkins, are putting on their act (on a tight-rope wire) over Niagara Falls. Pam Evans, the executive type, is giving dictation to her pretty and able secretary, Fred Yarbough. Harold sighs, flips off the “ whoosis,” and goes back to his scientific study of the Varga girls. SENIOR WILL We, the class of ‘46, being of sound body and mind (paid advertisement) do hereby bequeath in bulk form our following possessions to our dear friends: ARTICLE 1 To the Juniors we leave our seats in assembly, gum parking places, and the title of “Kings of of the School”—maybe their heads are too big for the crown though. ARTICLE 2 To the teachers we leave the memories of our smiling faces, our brilliant minds, and coopeiative nature. ARTICLE 3 To the school as a “hole”—we leave it that way! ARTICLE 4 We would like to leave the following but find it impossible: Bigger lockers, a new' modern gym, overstuffed chairs for all the rooms, Mtrnday as a rest day to recuperate from the weekend, entertaining assemblies, air conditioning for Mrs. Wells’ room, well equipped game room, and a new set of jokes for all the teachers.