Powder Valley High School - Badger Yearbook (North Powder, OR)

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I LEFT TO RIGHT: Verna Smith, Patsy Petersen, Lois Pearson, Lorraine Johnson, Botty Joan Davis, Arnold Olsen. Opal SLuonis, absent. SENIOR CLASS ACTIVITIES September 8, 1942, found us embarking upon our last year at Powder High. Officers installed for the year were: President...............Arnold Olsen Vice-President.......Patsy Petersen Secretary.......................Opal Simonis Treasurer...................Lorraine Johnson Sergeant-at-arms...Betty Jean Davis Several weeks after school had begun, we took the juniors out to Lampkin's gravel pit for the annual junior-senior weiner roast. In January Opal Simonis and Arnold Olsen enrolled at the N. Y. A. center at Pendleton. They returned in the spring to graduate with the class. On March 19, we presented the play, The Arms of the Law. All the members of the class were active in sports and all other activities. Betty Jean Davis won the Victory Queen contest for the bond rally held April 24. Verna Smith won second place in the contest. JuLLl

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CLASS HISTORY On a September morning in the year 1939 A.D., fifteen green but self-confident fresh- men launched upon their noteworthy careers as high school students. After a week of initi- ation and making several embarrassing mis- tcuces, such a:; marching out of Business Training class en masse at the ring of the first bell instead of the second, or passing bell, we had lost a great deal of our self- confidence; were much meeker in spirit, and bowed humbly to the will of our superiors. As sophomores we found our ranks consid- erably lessened by the loss of several of our members: Orval Oliver, Lorothy Shafer, Elsie Rowett, and Wilma King, all of whom had moved away. When we assembled as juniors there were only eight of us and ’’Hank O.lsen was the only boy. Ray Ledbetter and Shirley Higley had moved away and Effie True had forsaken us to become Mrs. Jay Severns, On September 8, 1942; as our class en- tered the school portals as dignified seniors to begin our last eventful year in North Pow- der High School, we found that v e had lost another member, Jeanne Taylor, who had left our midst to become Mrs. Bill Barnett.. After Christmas Opal Simonis and Hank left us to attend N. Y. A. school in Pendleton, but they returned to graduate with our class The entire class has participated act- ively in sports, dramatics, and all school activities throughout our four years of nigh school. V e regretfully leave this, our school, but will carry the memories of our high school days with us always as we step out in- to the world to help do our part in the struggle for peace and freedom.