Oakridge High School - Warrior Yearbook (Oakridge, OR)

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Page Seven five minutes. It was certainly thrilling! Of course it reminded Georgia and me of the senior play, “Take My Advice.” Stopping at St. Louis, we saw the “St. Louis Cardinals” play a home game and imagine our surprise when Gladys recognized her cousin, Jake h isher, as pitcher! We visited the Ford Factory in Detroit and there we met James Dompier, who had given up his ambition to be a forester and is now working for Ford, who had given him a job, after he won the prize for having the oldest Ford in use. It was the same old “Model-T” he used to drive to school in 1936. Later in New York, I saw four more classmates of ours,—Margaret Fox and Harvine Pope, who appear on the stage as “The Greatest Tap-dancing Team in History—Merial and Elena.” We believe they got their idea from Mr. Sprague, who used to practice tap dancing on the front steps of the High School at Oakridge; Ruth Shepherd, who married a broker who had previous- ly been her employer, and Melvin Spalinger, a saxophonist, who is visiting in New York before continuing his trip around the world with the famous “Lucky Strike Orchestra.” I must confess I can’t quite imagine Bub’s hav- ing the least inclination for music, but who am I to judge! The only sad part of our journey was the finding of Bea Steeprow as a former d'amond smuggler ofT the coast of Florida. She has retired and now owns a small jewelry shop in Miami. We are coming back by motor and expect to see you very soon. Jean Napper. Class Will We, the senior class of 19.36, do bequeath our position as seniors to the junior class, our position as the most intelligent class in O.H.S. to the sopho- more class and our experience to the freshmen class. I, Bea Steeprow, do bequeath my slim figure to Willis Robinson. I, Georgia Smith, do bequeath my basketball position to Milly Jones. I, Ruth Shepherd, do bequeath my position as the next to the most perfect student in Oakridge to Leona Blakely. I, Gladys Fisher, do bequeath my pep and vitality to Ruth Hebert. I, John Burt, do bequeath my inability to get mad to Bett e Jones. I, Harvine Pope, do bequeath my quiet nature to Virginia Morgan. I, James Dompier, do bequeath my ability to drive Model-T Fords to Walter Lyon. I, LeRoy McAtee, do bequeath my salesman ability to Leslie Landford. I, Margaret Fox, do bequeath my blonde curls to Dorothy I, Ruth Miller, do bequeath my acrobatic, basketball I, J. L. Fisher, do bequeath my ability to attract the girls'fcp Phil Din.ick. 1, Bub Spalinger, do bequeath my dark and handsomV ua |p McLarrin. W A ‘ I, Alyce Orr, do bequeath my wisecracking ability io Jpi I, Paula Wilson, do bequeath my giggles to Donna Woodr I, Marjorie Wilkinson, do bequeath my freckles to Maxine Ltfrt 1, Charles Wert, do bequeath my weakness for blondes to Bu' I, Jean Napper, do bequeath my talkativeness to Catherine G 3 G THE □ A K

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Page Six 1936 Senior Class Prophecy Miami, Florida 1209 N. Fourth St. May 6, 1946 Dear Ruth: Well, we’ve certainly earned the name of hitch-hikers: Gladys Fisher, who is taking a two-year vacation from teaching athletics at U. of O., and I who wanted to be out in the open after seven years as a student and graduate nurse, were figuring our “shoe” expense. The last two years were spent hiking across the continent, and 1 honestly wish I had traveled by motor, except for the one fact that I met nearly all of my classmates of 1936, which would have been impossible if I had gone in style. We started from Pasadena, California, on June 2, 1944, and arrived in Miami, Florida, May 5, 1946. Just after we had left Pasadena and were hiking toward Oakland, a big Cadillac 16 passed us and then stopped. As we came abreast, we found the occupants to be the former Ruth Miller and her chauffeur. Ruth is now Mrs. Nelson-Dodd of Oakland. She insisted that we accompany her to her home. While we were there she called a meeting of her club—I say “her club” because she is president of an uplift society now—and we were invited to attend. We left Oakland and hiked to Eugene, Oregon, now a much larger city than of the former days when we were at O.H.S. and thought it such a lark to go to Eugene to spend an evening. The small dance pavillion, Willamette Park, is now a very large place. We spent an evening there in hopes of finding some old acquaintances. The guest artist of the evening was Paula Wilson. She is making a tour through the Americas with the famous Johnny Johnson and his Orchestra. We left Eugene and went up the coast and into the Tillamook dairy coun- try. Early one morning a dairy truck stopped and the driver asked us to ride. Gladys recognized him as Charles Wert. He was driving for the regular driver, who was vacationing for a few days. “Chuck” now owns a large dairy ranch. After spending a few days making hay at the ranch, we went to a facial specialist to get our complexions repaired. We were referred to a ij ,'lKtle thinking it would be Marjorie Wilkinson of Oakridge. rarahop and specializes in the removing of freckles. '. estination was Seattle, where we were treated to an airplane r-mail pilot, John Burt. It was the same John Burt who 1 with us. He took us to Montana. While there we went Rings to mail a few cards to friends. Two of the cutest ears old were there. You’ll never guess who! Georgia r came in—they were her boys. Of course we visited her -sner, who owns a large wheat ranch near Billings. In the fternoon she received a Hi-Breeze and in it were some articles Alyce Orr, who is traveling in Europe and writing magazine hile there we heard LeRoy McAtee give his famous sales talk, Jnm the world’s record for being able to speak the most words in written articles which THE □ A K A

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Pago Eight Junior Class Class officers: president, James McLarrin; vice-president, Ray- mond Bates; secretary-treasurer, Lena Mae Mattoon. In 1933, 28 small and frighten- ed individuals entered O.H.S. as Freshmen. During their first year they were initiated and gave a suc- cessful return party. As Sophomores they lost their frightened looks and became a lit- tle more self-reliant. The title of Upper Classmen” completely erased the look of awe from their faces even though their original class of 28 had dwindled to 17. Many of the juniors earned letters in basketball, baseball and football. A three-act play “Who Wouldn’t Be Crazy!”, the Jr.-Sr. banquet and prom, and a school party were the activities sponsored by the class during the school year. Sophomore Class Class officers: president, Paul Cummings; vice-president. Iola Dunning; secretary-treasurer; Harold Mattoon. The present Sophomoreclass be- gan their high school career at O. H. S. by electing their Fresh- men officers. The basketball games with the grade school and the Freshmen return party were the main activities. Sophomore activities were in- itiation of the freshmen and the participation in football and bas- ketball. Sophomore lettermen and let- terwomen are Paul Cummings, Leona Blakely. Iola Dunning, and Mildred Jones. Freshman Class Class officers: president. Made- line Richter; vice-president. Nao- mi Allen: sacy arv-treasurer. Eliz- abeth ™ :i!l s played a mes, win- tant func- class was rty given he upper the school and letter- s, Naomi Al- sher. □ A K 1 □ 3 G