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

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY REMEMBER 1946? There were ten of us, and we eagerly looked forward to a year of being freshmen. We started things off by choosing Keith Lewis as class president, and after a humiliating initiation week we had a class swimming party. In the second assembly of the year we had everyone laughing with our one-act skit, “Who Gets The Car Tonight?” In January we played hosts to the Sophomores with a skiing party. We numbered eleven when we enrolled as Sophomores, for Carol Bradfield had joined our ranks. We hadn’t forgotten our introduction into high school the previous year, so we thoroughly initiated the green frosh. The boys of our class began to shine in athletics. Jim McAlister was elected class prexy and Pat Anne Shaw was a yell leader for the second time. We took time out for a Valentine date party, and bingo—the year was over. We were Juniors, the year of the Junior-Senior banquet and prom and our class had a year of money making ahead. We had four new class members: Elsie Loennig, Larry Toney, Ronald Young, and John Lawrence. Clark Gray, Jeannine Smith, and Arlene Mann had dropped, so we numbered twelve. We went all out for athletics with all seven of the boys names appearing on the football programs, two of them winning first team all-star honors in the Tu- Valley League, Jim McAlister and Ronald Young. We squeezed in a masquerade party between games and sent a CARE package on its way to Europe. Jim McAlister again packed home the honors with his unanimous choice for the Tu-Valley League all-star team in basketball. Larry Toney, another member of the first five, received honorable mention. The girls added their bit to the picture as they were all memliers of the volley- ball team, and Pat Anne Shaw won all-star honors at the annual volleyball jamboree held in Halfway. We managed to lx; well represented on the Student Council with Larry Toney holding the vice-presidency and J. McAlister serving his second year as class president. Everyone called us “misers” but we had big ideas; one of them was to have the biggest banquet and prom ever. We escorted the Seniors to the newly redecor- ated banquet room at the Baker Hotel, then everyone turned out for the prom with Virg Orton and his orchestra supplying the music. The theme was ‘‘Neptune’s Dream”, and we crowned a king and queen Neptune, which was something new. Time for track meets had rolled around and that all-around Jim McAlister won the highest honor—high point athlete at the district track meet. We managed several swimming parties and parted until next fall. 1949—pi WAS OUR YEAR! Evelyne Stephens had joined us as well as Stan- ley Hansen; and Keith Lewis again led the class, Pat Johnson handled the student body’s money, Ronald Young served as student body vice-prcxy and Pat Anne Shaw as secretary. Jim McAlister transferred to La Grande and Rodney Toney, a Junior, moved up tfo take over the job as student body president. Pat Anne Shaw was elected to reign over the annual “Cider Jug Jamboree” and Elsie Loennig won first prize on her cake at the “state fair”. We gave the first formal of the year in November which was appropriately entitled “Winter Wonderland” with Virg Orton and his orchestra again giving out with sweet music. The l?oys, as before, all played football; and quarterback Larry Toney won first team all-star honors in the Tu-Valley league, and Ronald Young, second team honors. Under the direction of our advisor, Miss Doris Lankins, we presented a three act mastery thriller entitled Mystery at Midnight”, with Norma Thompson and John Lawrence giving outstanding performances. Most of the Seniors took journalism and the school paper, the Broadcaster” was published once a month and was edited by Pat Anne Shaw. Elsie Loennig presided over the G. A. A. Our fourth year of high school is nearly over. Soon we’ll be guests of the Juniors at the banquet and prom. We’ll try to leave on our Senior “sneak” without anyone else knowing. The time of caps and gowns, commencement, and finally graduation will come, we’ll part from Powder Valley High School with diploma in hand—then we can look back upon this and REMEMBER FOR A LONG TIME.

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LARRY TONEY WILLIS MARSING % “HE NORMA THOMPSON CAROL BRADFIELD RONALD YOUNT EDGAR NEWMAN PAT JOHNSON

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Front row, left to right: Evelync Stephens, Carol Bradfield. Pat Shaw, Pat Johnson, Elsie Loonnig, Norma Thompson, Miss Lankins. Back row: Willis Marsing, Edgar Newman, Keith Lewis, Ronald Young, John Lawrence, Guy Pritchard, Larry Toney. Front row, left to right: Carol Bradfield, Elsie Loonnig, Norma Thompson. Back row: Keith Lewis, Guy Pritchard.