Redmond High School - Juniper Yearbook (Redmond, OR)

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CLASS PROPllECY Flora Logan is just starting to be a writer. Her first publication is Proper Conduct of a Student. Gene Damewood recently put his application in for foreman of the W. P. A. Evelyn Ryder is trying to replace Ann Sheridan. She has the oomph but not the it, We have just heard Warren Parr has to go to the hospital again. One of his legs is shorter than the other from farming on side hills in Washington. Amy Dunn has come back to R. U. H. S. where she is teaching English to the younger generation. Dorothy Croghan is making a trip around the world. The trip is made possible by the alimony from her former husband, Chuck Hiatt. Pat Follon is now living a peaceful home life in Bend with her husband. People are beginning to fear that William Hall is losing his mind, a condition caused from trying to make a new set of parliamentary rules for the F. F. A. Betty Iverson and Helen Inman have discovered a new vitamin, L, in spinach since becoming dietitians. Betty Mae Weigand and Glenda Stephenson are selling cigarettes at the tables in a night club in a suburb of Los Angeles. Marvin Coss and Gene Gaston earn their bread and butter as bellhops in the biggest hotel in Chicago. Donald Moore and Robert Scott own an airplane factory in Southern California. They have built a monoplane so like a bird that it roosts in trees. Will Kanoff and Charles Sawyer have started a new venture on life's ladder of success. They have bought a confectionery in Alaska and sell double-dip ice cream cones to the Eskimos. Doris Abernathy and Alma Beougher have started a beauty parlor in Central Africa, specializing in permanent waves for the aristocratic natives. Delora Davis and Helen Tellefson are modelling clothes for Montgomery Ward's spring and fall catalogs. Jean Clevenger has become Chairman of the Deschutes County Fair Board. Out in the Cloverdale School House, we find Anna Saxton with a bunch of students around her skirts trying to learn something. Virginia Swendig has followed up her high school activities by becoming editor of the Redmond Spokesman. Dan Kilgore recently became head designer of one of the three big automobile companies. Robert Nichols is boxing the punching bag and singing Western ballads to the strains of his new guitar. Keith Shepard is slowly but cheerfully driving a team across the black rich soil of mother earth, with a plow behind making dainty incisions in the dirt. Betty Lou Shelley is in the East, specializing in voice training and leading the world's most famous swing band. Clarence Allen is a coffin salesman. He goes around pounding doors and following in the footsteps of the life insurance salesman, Ralph Klann. Marie Rutherford has just opened up a dancing school in Bend where she is teaching tap and ballroom dancing. Doris Williams is out on a public speaking tour on Why Men Shouldn't Become Hermitsf' We find Rev. Ray Sturdivan trying to convince his congregation they should become Christians. Virginia Park is a radio commentator for the exercise hour over KBND. Miss Annarose Hall has become a snake charmer in the South Sea Islands.

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SENIOR HISTOIlY In September, 1936, the Class of '40 took their place in Redmond Union High School as freshmen. As time rolled on, they were carried forward into the domain of upperclassmen, encountering both strife and contentment. As they watched other classes graduate, they began to acquire a feeling of future responsibilities and importance. At last their dreams were realized: they were the seniors! During the last year the class was rep- resented in many activities and sports, taking leading parts and guiding younger members of the student body. Now with sad but eager hearts the members of the Class of '40 leave the familiar halls, and wonder if they will find the future as bright with inspiration and hope as the past four years have been. CLASS PRIDPIIECY Whereas at the commencement of the compilation of the 1950 census, it was considered advisable to conduct a research to determine the value of secondary education and, Whereas the class of 1940 of the Redmond Union High School of Redmond, Oregon, was considered a most sample group for such research and, V Whereas, the committee appointed has now concluded its work, the following report containing an account of the present whereabouts and activities of the aforesaid class ten years after their gradu- ation from high school is now herewith respectifully submitted: Vern Hartford has become the world's leading socialist. His philosophy is based on ideas learned in Socio-Ec class. Dr. Edward Booth has stopped in Redmond on his wav to Portland to give a lecture in the high school gym. He is a famous heart specialist in Hollywood, California. Gene Johnson is conducting a home for aged women. There are twenty-five, not counting Gene. Carmen Newell has just crashed the movies! She is replacing the famous Jeanette McDonald and has made a fine start. Edwin Schmidt has a farm all to himself on the other side of Madras where he is experimenting with a new type of silkworm. Phyllis Means just returned from Germany where she has been ctllecting material for her social problems book. Mr. William Tweedie has given his consent for her to be his assistant. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Chitwood Qformerly Marge Jorgensonj have started a second-hand store in Bend. Incidentally they have a tidy family of seven children. Hartley Hobbs is known around Redmond as the best person to dodge work. Vernon Kirby and Beryl Roberts are in Hawaii, designing skirts for the hula-hula girls. Sam Parsley is a floor-walker in the toy department of the Fair Store in Redmond. Betty Kingsbury and Alice Freeman are now running a divorce bureau in Salem. Divorces may be obtained from them by correspondence. KNO pun intendedj. Rex Richardson has just invented a new dictionary which is said to be better than Webster's. The R. U. H. S. students are adopting it. Alice King and lla Kissler were in Redmond last week demonstrating candy that is guaranteed not to make one fat. Marvin Christy is now featuring a new cartoon, Why Mothers Get Grey. Norval Grubb is head of the State Fish Commission. He is doing his best to keep suckers out of the C. 0. I. canal. Luther Freeman is running a traveling side show of trained fleas. Richard Logan is accompanying him, selling hot dogs.

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CLASS PROPlIECY Bob Povey is Central Oregon's most famous cow-rustler. Glen Brenchley has recently acquired his degree as a mortician. David Chamberlin is advertising agent in a soap factory. His slogan is, 'Tm Forever Blowing Bubbles. Dean Lowe has become a jeweler. He specializes in fitting diamonds on young ladies' fingers. Keith Ferguson is the U. S. diplomat to Germany, and, therefore, his flaming hair has turned grey. Bobby Varco is at Harvard now, training to be U. S. President. Agness Alexander is like the 'twandering Jew, still wandering, and where she stops nobody knows. In Witness Whereof, we, the investigation committee do hereby affix our seal. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Realizing that we, of the class of May, 1940, shall soon cease to exist in the memories of those we leave behind, and mindful of the unknown and obscure future, we do hereby solemnly make our last will and testament and do make the following distribution of our earthly possessions. Firstly: To Mr. Means, our kind and sympathetic principal who has guided us through our four years in this school, we leave behind our deepest appreciation. Secondly: To our advisors and members of the faculty who have by patient and uncomplaining efforts aided us in realizing our highest ambition, we leave our respect and love. Thirdly: Individual bequests. I, Gene Gaston, will my well-worn paths up and down the hall to Dale Dorn who will need to get out of senior English next year. ' I, William Hall, will my long legs and arms to Tommy Ammon. Dan Kilgore, leave my memories as a good football and basketball player, but am taking every- I, thing else with me-SHE graduates tool I, Doris Williams, will my quiet ways to Minnie Lowe, in hopes they will be put to use. I, Amy Dunn, will my ability to learn English easily to Bud McDonald because he needs it very much. I, Betty Mae Weigand, will the alumni boys to DeFriese Johns and any other girls who want them, on condition that I can keep one for my own amusement. We, Betty Kingsbury and Alice Freeman, will our interest in Bend to no one. We want to have some more fun ourselves. I, Warren Parr, will Betty Frakes to any boy who can get her, on condition that she be returned if she starts talking. I, Norval Grubb, bequeath nothing to anyone. I am taking everything with me but my locker. LHe's Scotchl. I, Dean Lowe, leave what little I have left to anyone, and give my undying sympathy to the poor freshies who still have four years of struggle. I, Will Kanoff, will to Chan Ray my arguments to get Bend-Redmond school dances so they'll be carried on. I, Marie Rutherford, will my swearing ability 'to Bernice Stoner who needs it badly when she gets mad. I, Gene Damewood, leave my ability to pitch woo to Zell Cooley. I, Vern Hartford, bequeath my ability to study to Emma Nan Peden.