Portola High School - Pine Needle Yearbook (Portola, CA)

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BOB BURNS Transfer from El Dorado Football 4 Basketball 4 Baseball 4 Sk1 Club 4 DIANE KEETCH nceBand234Bandl234GAA1234F l Z Drxll Team 3 4 Annual Staff 3 4 Class Offxcer l Student Leaders Conference 2 4 Student Council 4 KAY KILPATRIC MAX EKENBERG C G Footballl 2 3 4 Block P 2 3 4 Bandl 2 Baseball 4 llth Class rlngs heralded the opemng of our Iunlor year, wlth some owners of some rlngs loslng pos Famous battles 1n the Unltes States past were agam rellved by a hlstory consclous class There was a noted dlfference 1n the Ir Class relatlonshlp w1th the Sr Class Terr1f1c rlvalry started hlgh 1n the a1r w1th the celebratlon of Twlrp Season No 59er shall ever forget a wheel Money lS most everyone s problem and the tale was no dlfferent when lt came to the Iumor s coffers Around Chrlstmas t1me agaln, the future 59 graduates held a b1g dance The1r flrst venture ln the off1c1al dress world brought a b1t of the troplcal lslands to Portola ln December In the M1ddle of An Island was enjoyable desplte December temperatures Student Body electlons had placed two Semors ln top Student Body posltlons, w1th Danny Olsen re peatlng h1s role as Presldent, only on a more dlgnl fled plane Almost before we reallzed 1t we were playlng Pomp and Clrcumstance for the class of 58 Antlclpatlon of thlngs to come started summer vacatlons for us WAYNE EMERICK Football 2 3 4 Basketball l ock P 2 3 4 Track I I J Da ,,Z ,,,:...,,,2.N.C. I ' - ,: ' .: .7 ' ,2: 1? - I e 1 ,rl . M4 My F.N,.2g.A.A.2. ,,,i ,,: ,: . session mighty fast. 1 - I ' ' ll ' - ' ll I ll II - I . , . , - - - I ' II ' ll 4 - ,,: :Bl ,.: 4- Il - ll I

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D MELISS BROWN RICK BACON Band l 2 3 Class Offrcer 2 Student Counc1l Treasurer 4 Student Leaders Conference 2 3 4 Cheerleader 2 3 Annual Band l 2 Iumor Class Presxdent Student Leaders Con Editor 4 P T A 1 4 GMS State 3 Drama Limb 4 School ference 3 Track 2 Basketball 2 Football2 3 4 Block P Play 2 N S G W Speaking Contest 3 4 Class History h Knock kneed and quaklng ln our shoes, we entered P H S ln 1953 We scurrled from class to class pulllng a few A s from the f1re when necessary Took a long tlme for June to roll around and when rt d1d we had completed the flrst year of totally new type of educatlon 8 h By the t1me the 8th grade year had progressed a whlle, mlnute evldences of future leadershlp began to show Much more pohshed, we started soc1al1z1ng and gettlng a few study hablts Elec tlons for the Iunlor Student Councll closed out the year w1th Danny Olsen belng elected Presldent Freshmen to the Senlor Hlgh students and 9th graders to the Iunlor Hlgh students, we met the ever lncreaslng demands of educatlon Th1s year was undoubtedly one of the roughest ln hlgh school because of the lntroductlon to the mner worklngs of such subJects as Algebra and Span1sh Fun lS a major vocabulary work to all Frosh and was no exceptlon wlth us Our class started closmg out the year wlth the dellghtful dreamy, Ir Hlgh Sprlng Formal It was, of course, an all Iumor Hrgh dance, but all Frosh took real prlde for thelr part 1n Stauway to the Stars The blg event 1n a P H S Freshman s l1fe lS that Spr1ng day when he recelves that b1t of whlte paper whlch entltles hlm to be the Semor Hrgh student lOth The so called W1se Fools, more commonly known as Sophomores, cast feellng tentacles about as they experlenced everyday hlgh school l1fe We all learned many of l1fe s mysterles ln Coach Wlse s sclence classes T1me wears on, and just about the tlme the adventuresome few who trred Geometry were just beglnnlng to dlstmgulsh a parallelogram from a rhombus, they too, were caught up 1n the fervor of the Sophomore Hop Determlned to make the dance a success, w1th llmrted funds, we slaved A couple of weeks before Chrlstmas the W1nter Wonderland took place Mam attractlon, one mag n1f1cent Chrlstmas tree rn full dress We ended our Sophomore year wlth rumors of broken romances here and there, and a few new ones ln the maklng 15 arf-Y BRENDA JOHNSON JIM BENNETT Chorus 4 Drxll Team 2 Drama Club President 4 G A A 1 Transferred from Placer Iolnt Unron High School ,Q l I! 1 Z-L -- - ' 1 . . .' . ' ' ll I ll ' . ' L- ' .. ' ' ' D ' - ll ll ' ' Il-J- II ' ' l l I av I I o I I m . 1 . . I . . . . . . . 3 , l i

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A f Q 'A ff? BETTY MARIE LITTEER HENRY FISHER Transferred from Qumcy F H A 4 Choms 4 Football 2 3 4 Block DENNIS GRAVES Track Z -.J DAVE I-IARDGRAVES Basketball 3 Baseball 4 VIRGINIA MCGARR 12th GAA 2 3 FHA Off1cer2 3 4 DrlllTeam34 The 7th grade awkwardness 15 long gone by the t1me one reaches the Senlor class level Those smooth movlng students whlch we now see are labor everybody s problems Semor 59 boys who played football are now proud pos sessors of an 1nd1v1dual gold football We are proud of OUR champ1ons and we glve due respect to the other team members The annual staff regrets the deadlme whlch w1ll prohlblt the coverage of such events as the Sen1or Ball, the outcome of basketball season, and the other numerous Sprlng happenlngs Basketball, off to a great start, Wlll have come out f1ne 1f lt follows thls 1958 59 year By the t1me th1s annual lS read, the Semor Ball w1ll have come and gone, w1th all success poss1ble Graduatlon shall be but a hand shake away Wherever we end up the 59 class Wlll always remember the town, the school, good and bad mem ones, flrst loves, and the educatlon Educatlon IS not last or'least, because educatlon w1ll go on wlth each 1nd1v1dual You, the Semor, take thls book and remember, The best knowledge you could poss1bly have lS of yourself hx A S. ' . 1,2 P 3'4- Q - A I , 3-.r1p,,, ing through American Government, Chaucer, and ll I ll ' I , lv , l , - - - - I , . ' .. ll ' - . . V 1