Oakland High School - Acorn Yearbook (Oakland, OR)

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We, the willing Seniors, will will our willing ability to help any willing Junior who will will a will next year. e the Seniors will our ability to get along with everyone to the Sophomoris e the Seniors will our citizenship grades as a whole to the Freshmen in hoaes that they will cherish them as we have 4. the Sen1o1s will to the students of this h1gh school past present and future the vlvld memory of the Class of '53 May we never be forgotten Snnnor Glass Drophecg Last night just before retiring I ate an extra large serving of filet mignon and as a result I had a fantastic dream In my dream I went hurtlmg through space and landed in Spain where I saw DORA WOLFORD teaching health in a mental institution She told me in her spare time she was writing poetry and love songs The next person I saw was IOYCE FERGUSON making her first million Alaska on a cotton plantation She plans to start another one in Iceland next year After tossmg and turning a bit I continued my dream and saw DONNA LEE in a rest home readmg books to keep her mind on the Beahm Her only explanation for being there was The government should simplify its income tax forms MILDRED SEEHAWER I walked with her to her studio The Bouncing Balloon Ballet School Upon entering I saw many famous people The next thing I saw left me a little bewildered It was an English professor who looked half starved When I came closer I recognized him as JERRY BLAYLOCK After talking with him for awhile I found out the reasons for his being so thin One reason was that he was working 18 to 19 hours a day but the main reason was that he ate only bread and water as he spent the rest of his money buying classics for himself The next person I saw was CORKY NIMOCKS in India selling flowers to tht natives When I asked him why he was selling flowers he said Because Im manager of the No Socks baseball team and need the money to buy them socks After seeing MARGIE BURPEE flying her F' 81 Mustang over the Hot Foot Desert in Lower Slobovia I got up and took a dose of bicarbonate of soda I returned to bed hoping for undisturbed sleep but the dream continued She was a sky writel and her duty was to adxertist Pepsi Cola but naturally Margie likes to C1 cate humor thus the finished product is Aloc Ispep 14 W f A A . ' V. .. . 1 a W y Y . , V. . .. hx . Y 1 D 1 . I -A We, ' '. , 1 ' '. ' 5 Q ,. C e v y 'f N V V V t , '. Q . 5 . . in I .'. ' ' . , - . ' 7. . . 1 1 ll ll a 1 I vu . . . . ll The scene changed and I walked down a street in London, where I mei . . 1, . . 'A 5 1 ' , .. . . r Y . I . . , , . . ' , . x , , . D 4- Q n . , . 4 . 1 . yr 1 . . - - I ' - .3 V 1 . 1 i ,. . -A . . , . . X A V 2 .- I V A . . L . D .5 S , . . .- .I l.

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Sennnrflass 315111 Louis Anderson will my ability to be quiet to Barbara Cordon Betty Babcock will my long fingernails to John Anderson and my musxcal talr Tom Bean I Lyle Beecroft will my popularity with the teachers to Billy Spencer lerry Blaylock do will and bequeath my ability to sleep in class to Nxla Barrett and rny perfect attendance record to Charles Howard I Margie Burpee do will and bequeath my old jokes to Nila Barrett who could use. some different onesl and my ambition to become a midget race car driver to Orxal Allen I Carmen Cmgcade will my ability to run around in the halls without a hall pass to Billie Rae Sowell and my annual headaches to Norma Jean Wilcox I Larry Cole will my ab1l1ty to write descriptions to Eddie Finnell I Faye Copeland will my long black ha1r to Barbara Cole and my enjoyment of classical music to B111 Moss I Joyce Ferguson will rny job as paper edltor to whoever wants it and my typing eraser to Mr Beck I Kenneth Henry will my ability to have the hottest machine at school to Allen Kendall and Eddie Finnell also my ability to get along in health class to James Brown I Pauletta Holder will my ability to walk alone to Karen Roberson I Darlene Lee Cook will my ability to fuush school while staying home to Shirley Crockett and my ability to play the trombone to Gary Hubbard I Donna Lee will my ability to get along with Doug to Nlla Barrett and Allen Kendall and my height to Gary Hubbard I James Moss will all my citizenship grades to Norma Jean Wilcox I Walter Nimocks will 50 pounds to Charles Howard and my ability to always get my English work book done early to Gary Bullock I Mildred Seehavxcr will my black eyes to Bernie Cingcade and my health book to Alta Jean Cildersleeve May she make better use of it than I I Alice Spencer will and bequeath my quiet ways and m1ld disposition to Don Loper and my ability to usually be on time to school to my sisters June and Joan I Dora Wolford will my health grades to Marlyn Seehauer my business law notes to Doug Beahm and to Dorothy Wolford I leave my social economics book 0' G I, . 1 r . . . . A I . Il 1. , . . . 1 S K . mt to . I . I V. . . Q I 5 2 I., Gerald Hall, will my ability to get to school every day to Bernie Cingcade. - 1. . , , ' . 0

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Next I was s ated 1n Madlson Square Garden where I was watchmg the w orld famous Redhead basketball team The wl11SY1G' b1PW and bUbSf1tute LYLF BEFCROFT entered the galne As lf that wasn t bad enough there was GERALD HALL ln Afrlca runmng the Musty Mummy Museum I could not help feellng that the carefree Gerald was a 11ttle out of place ln an em lronment of shurnken heads and prehlstorlc skeletons Then I trayeled to a clrcus where I saw LOUIS ANDERSON worlung as a barker ln a s1de show He IS practlclng to become a l1on tamer My sleep became eyen more dlsturbed when I waw JAMES MOSS a confirmed bachelor a famous ladles halr stylxst on Flfth Axenue ln New York In despalr I swltched on the llght and read a few chapters ID my b ok I Vas a Penthouse Sleepwalker I must haxe dozed off for my subconsclous mlnd flltted to Germany where LARRY COL' was wrltlng lns new best seller Who Stole the Mlnk Stole? I then took a qulck tr1p to gay Pans where I saw a fashxon show Afterwards I was xntroduced to some of the models and d1scoyered PAULETTE HOLDER was one of tnem Then I saw ALICE SPENCER auctlornng tobacco IH the deep South She olans on uslng the money to build a bubble gum txre factory Into VIEVV next came BETTY BABCOCK She was spendrng her tlme ln the Ozark Mountalns dolng nothlng In the near future she hopes to be able to take a xacahon ln F1ord1a My mmd must have been ln a turrroll for ln nuy dream I seemed to be ln grocery store owned by DARLENE COOK and her husband Wayne They told me they were selllng out because thelr klds were eat1ng up all the proflts Whlle I was ln the grocery store I bought a paper and there on the front page was a pxcture of KENNETH HENRY He had just returned from the moon Accordlng to the wrltmg under the plcture he plans to move there for good unless he can get an apartment 1n the next couple of days You w1l1 never guess where I found myself next I was an Mexlco and there was CARMEN CINGCADE selllng coconuts She had f1nal1y gotten out of the state f Oregon The last person I remember seelng before the dreams left me to peaceful slumber was FAYE COPELAND a slnglng star wlth a lull bllly band She hopes to get her horse into the act soon , Se ' ' , . , ' V. I lt YV , , . ' f . ' , - I - .. S . . ' a I Y . . . ! 5K . . ' . . . - . . . - ' ' , . , . . . . 4. 5 , . . . . , , W . . . I i . ' X I 1 0 l iii-1-.F . h ' f f -, V V . . . I . . ., . , I -v W -4- .M . . Y . . I i , . 1 . . X . . . . , a . . 7 D ! . . 1 I . o : - - .