Olympia High School WW Miller High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Olympia, WA)

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The class above, believed to be that of '88, was one of the first high school groups to graduate in Olympia. An interesting contrast is presented between this small but enter- prising class and that of 1937, with its 265 members. WM, KB..-.:,5N f Ek

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glalesf .gilze ouse IKE the two-faced Cod, Janus, who is credited with the ability to look into the past and into the future at the same time, senior classmen, looking forward with enthusiasm, hope and fear usual in crossing a new frontier, also can peer back with memories of four success- ful years at Olympia high school. When this year's 265 seniors have climaxecl their tinal year as part of the Associated Student Body at the Com- mencement exercises,- they will leave behind years filled with triumph and disaster in proportion with those of other graduating classes, but also filled with a constant effort for progress toward a better student life. During Courtesy Week seniors turned the spotlight on their own personal characteristics. The class of '37 also continued the custom of junior Week, following and elaborating upon the example of their predecessors. Thespians of the class brought a great deal of credit to the school, not only by their junior and senior plays, but also in a one-act play tournament sponsored by the College of Puget Sound in which Olympia won first prize with the fantasy, Orange at the Window, Purple at the Window. In the junior year the play, Three-Cornered Moon, was enthusiastically received by fellow students. The equally succesful senior play, Mrs. Moonlight, was presented by a double cast-the second time in the history of the school double casting was used. As for assemblies, the class showed its ability as the worlcl's best contemporary historians by presenting a parody on the March of Time. ln the senior assembly the class became ardent journalists, pursuing the glamor- ous and the unusual about the world. Dan Blom got off some of the best jokes of the year as a fortune teller. Classes, like the people who compose them, hope to leave their footprints in the sands of time, hence the senior memorial gift. F rom a number of selections com- piled and investigated by a committee headed by Robert Cahoon, the senior class chose a new curtain for the stage. Class leaders during the first half of the senior year were Robert Gilhus, presidentg Jerry Maury, vice president: June Austin, secretary-treasurerg Bob Cahoon, boys' rep- resentative: Amy Anderson, girls' representative, and Mor- ris Payne, yell leader. Cahroon and Payne were retained during the second se- mester. New second-term officers were ,lack Ensign, presi- dentg George Fliflet, vice presidentg Nancy Hoover, sec- retary-treasurer, and Myrna Olson, girls' representative. Upper: Senior class officers. Left to right: Myrna Olson, Robert Cahoon, Morris Payne, Amy Anderson, jack Ensign, George Fliflel, Nancy Hoover, func Austin, ferry Maury, Rob- ert Cilhus. Lower left: Past senior ojficers. Lower right: Post graduates.