Newport High School - Bruin Yearbook (Newport, WA)

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for our Junior Prom. We considered many and various themes, and with a desire to make our prom entirely origie nal--getting away from the usual custom of decorating to represent A country--we struck upon the idea of rainbows to represent our ideals and ambitions. Thus, we trans- formed the hall into an informal garden after a rain with a beautiful rainbow above it? The excellent music we pro- vided was only one of the mary things that went to make the Prom a grand success, The remainder of our time was taken up with decorating for the Class of 35's Baccalaure- ate and Com encoment Exercises. Does it seem possible that we--those mischievous Freshies of 1930--are new the graduating Seniors? Well, we are! This, our .last year, has been a very successful one all the way around. Of course, first camo the question of worthy class officers, When the meeting was called to order by our Junior c1ass'Prosident and nominations were opened for class advisor,' there was just one unanimous shout, that of Mr, Waller, The question was settled then and there, and he very kindly accepted the responsi- bility. Quintin Field was elected Presidentg Elzena Reidt Vice President: Eleanor Shumway, Secretaryg Shirlie Sluss- er, Treasurerg and Bob Zumwaltg Student Council Represent- ativo, Late 'in November we presented our Senior Play WLady of the Mon,U which was, if'anything, even more suecessfull than our Junior Play. Mr. Waller very ably coached the play cast to perfection and to him is owed most of the credit for the brilliant success of the play, To live' up to our name of a poppy class and clever entertainers, we finished up this year with a grand Senior Balls , Small green airplanes were hung from the ceiling to look as though they were flying above the dancers, and a large silver plane was hung in the very center of the hall Colored flood lights provided the only lighting, which was Very effective, ' A short program was presented during intermission nd

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g mgst everyone entered into the hilarious 'game of Air- plane, which consisted of donning helmet, goggles, and flying down to the end of the line with a parachute. Now, as we stop to look back over the last four years we realize that these' have probably been the happiest years we shall ever know, Although we may have caused our teachers much undue trouble and worry we feel that they will not soon forget us--nor we them. Unruly as we were at times, we did appreciate their patience and efforts to impart to us that knowledge so necessary to our success in lifes Looking through the class roll we find some interest- ing facts. Three girls and three boys of this graduatimg class have gone through their entire twelve years of school together. They are: Shirlie Slusser, Elzena Reidt Frances Smith, Leslie Dunwoodie, Leland Tallman, and Quin- tin Field. y We find many of our boys have been outstanding in at- h etics, and other members of the class outstandingin other activities. k This Annual, we leave as our last tribute to Newport High School, carrying it on as the class before us hoped we would, and'as we hope the classes to follow us will. In later years, when we all shall have parted and gone our sezapate ways, this book will probably be one of our dear es possessions which we shall occasionally look through to refresh our memories of the happiest days in our life,

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hay are? that of being the largest, the dumbest, and the mast mischievous class in the history of the high school. wb hope by now that we have lived down all three to some extent. ', Our first year was so full of excitement and activity it fairly flow by and we suddenly awoke one lazy fall morn ing to find ourselves sophomores. In the first two class meetings of the year we elect- ed the following officers: 'Mr. Mathews, advisory Alfred -Lear, Prcsidontg Jack Littooy, 'Vice Prcsidentg Cleo Leon- ard, Sccretaryg Shirlic Slusser, Troasurcrg and Alma Lin- den, Student Council Representative. A weiner roast was almost the only exciting event of this'year--outside of the numerous pie and candy sales we gave, always bearing the thought in mind of the wonderful Prom we would give as Juniors. L And Juniors we were, almost without realizing it, However, many of the girls will long remember those deli- cate operations performed on frogs etc. in Biology class. Many a fair maiden who formerly feared worms, learned that they were nothing more than a group of wiggling segments-- perfectly harmless. ' We chose for officers our Junior year: Miss Patter- son, adviserg Cleo Leonard, Prcsidcntg George Breton, Vice Presidentg Buck Shumway, Secrctaryg Elzena Reidt, Treasur- erg Gordon Graupner, Sargeant-at-arms--lto keep him so busy keeping others out of mischief he wouldn't have time to get into it'himselfDg and Cleo Leonard, Student Council Representative. At the beginning of this year, the Class of 1955 asked us to assist them in buying some new scenery for our plays which we did gladly. At last our chance had come to display our ability as .dramatists.. Many weeks were spent in the careful selec- tion of a play, and after five weeks' of steady practice under the direction of Miss Patterson, we presented--very successfully--nThe Yellow Shadow,H a murder mystery. ,Im- mediately after finishing our play, we set in motion plans