Newport High School - Bruin Yearbook (Newport, WA)

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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

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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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CLASS HISTORY In the fall of 1950, fifty-five mischeivous freshmen attended their first student assembly as members of News port High School. It was an eventful day indeed! We were welcomed by Mr. Waller, given instructions concerning location of classes, and our first taste of the enthusiasm and pep of the high school yells, then were dismissed to bargain for books as best we could and return the next morning ready to work C?D. Most of us, having been in the high school for our eighth grade work, knew our way about the buildingg how- ever,'some had difficulty remembering when to go to which class, thus giving the uppen classmen some opportunity to poke fun at us, under which nrazzingn we stood up bravely. Our eighth grade class pres1dent,,Alma Linden, had guided us so well, to again chose hereto lead us througa our first year in high school. The other officers select- ed wereg Mr. Mathews, adviserg Cleo Leonard, Vice-Presb dcntg George Swenson, Secretaryg Shirlic Slusser, Treas- urorg and Alma Linden, Student Council Representative. This first year was one of constant activity as we were very desirous of earning enough money to give the best Freshmen Party in the history of the high schoolin return for the grand Reception the Student Association had given in our honor at the beginning of the year. By the process of giving pie sales, candy sales, and selling megaphones for football games, we accumulated ape proximately 665.00 which we deemed a sufficient amount to enable us to give a party worthy of our class, conscquest- ly we set the date for Friday, March 15. Since our class colors are green and silver, we cov- ered the ceiling of the gymnasium with fir tree boughs and' hung silver balloons at irregular lengths. The highlights of the evening were the program which preceded the dancing the tasty refreshments and punch, and the distribution of confetti. The undis puted success ofijxzparty well reward ed us for our efforts.- By the end of our freshmen year we had attained three reputations fyou may judge for yourself how creditable