Queen Anne High School - Grizzly Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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7?0w14 Senior Class History S we members of the class of i942 look back on the four years that we have iust completed, we are able to recognize many changes, both in ourselves as individuals and in our class as a whole. ln September of 1938 we more or less obsequiously entered the door and climbed up to our third-floor lockers counting every flight of steps so that we wouldn't find ourselves on the mythical roof garden. That first semester was spent learning as much about routine as about algebra, lit., and civics. We became familiar with assemblies, gym, study hall, blue slips, pink slips and green slips. We held only one election for class officers that year and chose Herb Robin- son, Phyllis Cochrane, Pat Ryan, Dot Wilson and Bertha Schreiber. One mixer was ours-it took place in the spring when we had become a little more sure of our standing. Confident of ourselves and our friends, we returned the next year and were surprised at the number of people to whom we said hello. We sponsored a show, Dawn Patrol, putting on intermission acts, with strictly sophomore talent. Our friends' names began to appear more often on the second and third pages of The Kuay. Sometimes they rated a whole paragraph instead of being confined to a mere sentence. ln the fall we made the following our officers: Herb Robinson, Dot Wilson, Betty Johnson, Jack O'Brien and Judy Smythe. For the second semester of our second year we chose Herb Robinson, Pete Apostolou, Judy Smythe, George Jeffs and Dot Gamble. NWhen, at last, we became upper-classmen, we began to show our versatility, we gave the seniors ahead of us competition in every extracurricular activity. A