Newport High School - Bruin Yearbook (Newport, WA)

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SENIOR PICNIC With zealous haste, thirty-eight gay expectant seniors and one junior clambered aboard the huge tklkene bus. Laughing, singing, whistling, these propitious people accented the May 19's early morn ing peace with jocularity and eager anticipation. Scenic Liberty Lake wcs reached just before o riot broke loose in the bus. Naturally, from a long, exciting ride,anyone would feel ready for e day of brisk exercise, so the seniors limbered their mus cles with baseball, swinging, teeter-tottering, boating, ccnoeinggnd sight-seeing tours. A delicious picnic lunch of salads, sandwiches, pork and beans, cake, pickles, and ice orefm rnd punch followed. The sun found its wey through the storm clouds before the afternoon IBS too far advanced, which was most uplifting to the courageous oszuls, who went in swimming. Later in the afternoon the seniors emusedth m selves by riding on the merry-go-round and by playing Wkick the can! The afternoon advanced so very swiftly that it seemed only e brief interlude until an exhausted, though mightily pleased group, again piled into the bus for the adventure-telling home-ward ymnmey.

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NEW BUILDING Last year we had high expectations of being the first elses :to graduate from the new building, but plans for help from the W.P.A.did not come our way. Our class can still have the pleasure of saying Wwe were the last clcss to graduate from the old building.U December 7, 1955, different contracts were awarded to J.T. Helin, General Contractor, 569551355 S. T. Miller, heating and plulbing, 5155955 both of Spokane and Watts Electric Co., 85,5560 Grand Coulsu. The new building is to he completed by August 20, 1956, for the start of the new school year. The new building dimensions will be 149 ft. x 86 ft. It will have withing its wells 15 large class rooms, e library, study hall, superintendent's and principel's offices., writing room, physical ex aminstion room, end two store rooms. Our new building would not be complete without a gymm .or audi torium. The gymnasium will be 50 ft. x 90 ft. with an athletic con test floor of 48 ft. x 80 ft. It will have e balcony of five feet on ell sides with the gymn floor of maple. The auditorium will hnvs an inclined maple floor with e setting capacity of 675. The opera chairs will be used. The stage is 21 ft. x 50 ft. with prosconium arch of 12 ft. x 56 ft. A In the home Ee room, library and corridors the floors will be of firs and overlaid with battleship linoloum. Terrozsa flooring will be used in showers levatorics and stairways. The heating plant will be located in the present building. There will be a tunnel for the pipes running into the new building. The old school building will be used for the grade school. Ne, the class of WSSW, the last class of the old building, wish the best success to succeeding classes in the new building.

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HOBGOBLIN HOUSE Presented by e The Senior Class of 1956 ' Directed by T. C.We11er CHARACTERS Darius Krupp, the old caretaker . . . . Edyrn Jones Miss Priscilla Carter . . . . . . . . . Alice Straight Marian Carter, her niece ....... . . .Jane Tulles Jill Carter, lla:-ien's younger sister. . . . . Jean Uacboneld Fr!-nk Harlow, llerianfs fiance . . . . . . . . .Joe Goodpesture Jack Loring, Ji1l's fiance. . ....... ..... Arne Dahlen Susan Perkins, the 'Henglish '0usekeeperN . . . . Lottie Kickinson Henry Goober, the dsrky fardaner. . . . . . . . . . Glen Oberg Delelsh Herts, the derky cook ..... . . . . . Doris Lear Bluebeard B enson, an escaped maniac. . . . Douglas McLrthur Bill hilkins, his keoper5T.w ..... . . llllis Holcomb The Headless Phantom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edith Storms WHobgoblin Housen, a weird mystery by Jay Tobias 'nfs success fully presented by the senior class this spring as the last ploy eva' present d in the old building by e high school cast. The play was built around the .ghostly mcnisfestctions that haunted WHobgeblin Housen. The theme was the conflicting forces of right versus wrong. This was brought out in the portrayal of gang stars being overtaken by the enforcement of len and order. A tense atmosphere of terror and fear perveded the whole performance. Hidde doors, weird sounds and ghostly figures added reel excitement to the production while moments of rest were fu nished by the nclever dark ies.W All parts were well taken and the play proved a successful fare well performance for the seniors who have had considerable experience in Newport's high school. T The success of the ploy was greatly due to the unfeiling effonz of Ur. Weller.