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

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Senior Class History Frosh and as green as they came. That was us on that bright, sunny day in the fall of '44. Eleven shy but eager boys and girls climbed the stairs to become students of the North Powder high school. George Hardy and Bill Lewis enrolled at Christmas to make it an unlucky thir- teen. We feel however that it wasn’t unlucky for they were a great as- set to our field of sports. We took in our stride the fright and embarrass- ment which the Sophomores caused us at initiation. By the close of our first year we were planning with eager anticipation, the next season. Rowdy Sophomores! We were more sure of ourselves this year. We still had thirteen. Betty Jean Taylor dropped out but Jack Frost enroll- ed. He quit school however before Christmas leaving a number of twelve. Cocky and wanting a party every week was typical of us. Now it was our turn to pour it on the Frosh, and we thoroughly enjoyed initiation week. Upper classmen at last. As Juniors we had more fun and worked less. Again thirteen students, as Robert Gilkison transferred from Cali- fornia. How to make money for the Junior-Senior Prom was a major problem. We finally scraped up enough and gave the Seniors a pretty swell banquet and prom. Tins brings us up to our Senior year with eighteen students. Mud- dy Creek helped out our school in many ways. Clarice Busby was nom- inated by our class as Jamboree Queen. Others were Wayne Young, Esther Pritchard, Peggy Maxwell, Gary Aldrich, with Phyllis Jones also joining our class. We sponsored two very successful skating parties and at pres- ent date we have a full schedule ahead of us. So far in our history we have neglected to mention our class in connection with sports. We are pretty proud to say that our boys have been active in at least three sports for the past four years. Frank Mc- Alister has been a constant source of pride to our class. He has been voted Basketball All-Star all four years of high school. He has also been a foot- ball and track star.