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

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ACTIVITIES, SPORTS, ACADEMICS, CONTRIBUTE The school will little note or long remember what we said here, but it can never forget what we did here.” With this revised quotation, and in traditional senior supremacy, members of the graduating class of 1962 curtailed their stay at MPHS and embarked into that world unknown. A more extensive range of activities, greater opportunities, broadened concepts, and the challenge for improvement of themselves, the school, and community balanced in the hands of those left behind. The importance of our curriculum, organization affiliations, class unity, and faculty assistance is now self-evident. It was only through these experiences and competent guidance that we, in a body and as individuals, were capable of proficient decisions and judging. As we look back on these years at iMPHS, numerous occasions, both happy and sad, refresh our memories of the good days gone by.” JEANNE THOMPSON, Terry Troxell, Sydney Cushing, and Eovella Noden chat about the day’s activities as they leave school. WORKING diligently on the Bible Club Homecoming RICHARD ARMSTRONG, Dick Down and Paul Franzen float is president, Glen Pounds. imitate MP rally girls at a pep assembly. 4

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Organizations 76 Athletics 106 Advertising 128 Index 139 yet it’s different. In empty hallways, the laughter and confu-learned the principles of democracy — here we became individuals. We were typical all American” teenagers — we dressed alike, wore our hair the same, danced the Twist”, witnessed manned orbital shots, ate pizza pie, put off doing homework, wore short skirts, and observed J.F. Kennedy’s first year in office. Over the years we kept our minds busy acquiring new knowledge about our world, though what the future held for us was unknown. Among our classmates and friends we saw prospective ministers, nurses, homemakers, loggers, and artists. We were individuals; yet, in mass, we composed the student body of Myrtle Point High School. 3

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TO FULL YEAR FOR MPHS STUDENTS, TEACHERS M. P. rally girls stimulate enthusiasm and school spirit during Myrtle Point, Coquille basketball game. HALLOWEEN spooks Doris Schmidt, Don Mast, and Sandra Smith help serve PTSO refreshments at the October meeting. 1962 will be remembered as the year the Bobcats were State A-2 co-champions; rumors of a new high school filled the air; a flu epidemic soared daily absence records above the 100 mark; the grandstands were condemned, snow and freezing weather slowed activities in January; and combined community-school efforts produced the musical, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Coincidental, but what seemed planned, were: fire drills on frosty mornings, fingers still a-sleep during first period typing class, the cafeteria serving your favorite dish when you were absent, a general police warning the one morning you parked on the wrong side of the street, and the assemblies always scheduled during your study hall. IN TIME to come, when we review the past year, we shall see it in the perspective that time brings to us. The implications and culminations of the various memories will have once been known and perhaps forgotten to most of us, but each time we open this book we shall again recall and re-live that wonderful school year 1961-62. 5