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

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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.

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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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CLASS PROPHECY Exactly one hundred years after the gold rush days. I was confronted with a mirage that fascinated me. It was an old prospector standing by a stream, panning gold. He seemed to see me as well as I could see him, for he asked me to come over and talk with him. He said people hadn’t been along here much since the days of the gold rush. He told me that he kept seeing a mirage of a class of fourteen graduating from a school by the name of Powder Valley High, and that he kept seeing what each graduate’s future was to be like ten years from now. I didn’t tell him I was one of those grads, but asked him to tell me what the future of each was to be like. He said he could see Pat Johnson as a very famous pianist at the Metropolitan opera house in New York City. She had made her first debut the year after her graduation and had been at the opera house since. Several of her own compositions were now world famous. She was not married yet but was engaged to an old boy friend of her high school days. I definitely knew who he meant. The old-timer said he could see a cloud of dust and a streak of yellow, and we came to know that Ronald Young was around. Ronald is now a manufacturer of “hot-rod” cars. He has converted the old yellow Kaiser he had in high school into a hot-rod for his own personal use. He is married, by the way, and has five children—all boys. He said that he was beginning to see something—another mirage. Suddenly his face lit up as he said he saw headlines on the national sports papers. Guy Pritch- ard was going to fight at Madison Square Garden for the world championship on June 21, 1959. He could see John Lawrence as his first-class promoter. It seems Guy and John have risen from amateur boxer and promoter, the night Guy knocked out his first opponent while in high school, to the professionals—they are on this, the big night at the Garden. The old fellow said that working for John D. Rockefeller was none other than Carol Brad field. She was his private and right-hand secretary and was married to a close associate of Rockefeller. She really isn’t doing so bad for herself as she owns quite a lavish mansion and has twin daughters. Again the old miner shaded his eyes and said he could see Madame Pat Anne Shaw in Paris, France. She has a most fashionable dress shoppe which she owns exclusively. She also has her own original dress designs. Madame Pat Anne is no longer married to a Monsieur Lewis as was said in last year’s annual, but is married to a French monsieur that owns a large portion of down-town Paris. Wait! He could see something else. The latest news cast. Edgar Newman had just made history with the newest in flight records. He had flown to the moon and back in 59 seconds flat. The record flight prior to “Doc’s” was made in 7 minutes and 2 seconds in 1955. Doc” flew an atomic propelled plane on this mission. He has also set several other records through the years, including flying around the world in 7 seconds in one of his own modeled planes. Edgar is still a bachelor, as it seems the girl he was interested in was determined to remain an old maid. A new planet. Planet X. has just been discovered, and Willis Marsing has found a great pleasure in planning a new rocket flown by combination jot and atomic pwoer. His trip is planned for the coming year. Willis has made quite a fortune on his scientific inventions, but has made more still on disks. He sings for Decca, with that beautiful bass voice he was developing while in high school. Tears came to the old prospector’s eyes as he told me than one out of that whole group of seniors that graduated from Powder Valley had been faithful to the begin- ning of mining—that of the great gold rush of a hundred years prior to our gradua- tion. Seems as if Stanley Hansen is a uranium miner on a newly arisen island off the coast of Alaska. He has married a cute little Eskimo girl and they turned hermits for two years when they first discovered this ever increasingly important metal. They later told the government of their claims and after making a fortune, retired and he became warden at Sing Sing prison. He seemed to detect another mirage and told me that he could see Keith Lewis as the father of twelve children, and all girls. He read the book “Cheaper By The