Riverside Polytechnic High School - Koala Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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THE ATCMS CAME NEXT y Saye , J t s t d too e w o oun a uni orm ind the age m r en a ing th n e mera' and Orville Hague patiently await the decision of fate-to be not ta be. Alvin Gunn, Doris Cannon and Pat Younglove making ready for the big night. A great event in the life of every Junior was the long- awaited day when he could proudly display that passport to transportation, the DRlVER'S LICENSE. Weeks of study preceded the grueling test, and, if heart failure had not first claimed its victim, a member of the Motor Vehicle Corps steered the novice through busy downtown traffic and safely back to the Department. For some, the precious document was long in coming, but the daunt- less ones never said die. For them it meant the termina- tion of tired feet and smooching off a buddy when dates were in the offing. For fond parents it meant sleepless nights and a permanent schedule for quiet weekends at home. Come Spring the industrious middlemen, clad in levies and peddle pushers, began the arduous task of preparing the JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM. Football season had found a persuasive and desperate vendor of the Junior class on bended knee begging hungry spectators to buy just one more hot dog, please! The financial problems solved, the worst was yet to come. For weeks preceding the great event, slap of brush upon paper and sound of hammer upon nail issued from the inner sanctums of the admini- stration building. An occasional crash thundered through the edifice as some unsuspecting Junior fell with an ear- splitting thud from the ladder he had seconds before occupied. Smashed thumbs and vehement cuss words culminated the last week of harassed days, but when the great night arrived, the bad times had been forgotten. Soft lights and an old-fashioned garden greeted the critical eye of every Senior when to their older brothers the Atomic Juniors presented their grand and glorious Junior-Senior Prom.

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ash Y, Y 4 N 109 'Tl' s'v CQ 'v ,-vw, ,ffsw 60 4 4- gary, gas ,0Q, QM Top. Left to right. Front row: Latferty, Dysert, Oglesby, Sides Naiman, Young, Eubanks, Second row: Speer, Vacchio, Stebbins, Hall, Carson, Kilday, W d ' A ' a sworth. Third row, Monroe, Conrad, Jones, Swanland, Pratt, Snider. Fourth row: Boyne, Harp, Gould, Jensen, Kohrn, lyemura, Gotori. Center. Lett to right, Front row: Bogart, Mitchell, Schott, Scott, Stutzman, Newlander Pearson Olson Second row' Hearn, Baber, Kinnick, Walker, Staats, Munger, McArdle, Rai. Third row: Botsford, Yates, Best, Pierceall, Catalina, Sheppard,lAndersoin. Fourth row: LeVan, Vasquez, Ponce, White. Fifth row: Mctarland, Boosey, Flint, Shultz, McClain. Bottom, Left to right. Front row: Leggett, Core, Maldonado, Vasquez, Carabini, Barton, Maloney. Second row: Morfat, Woolston, Holmes, Vinsont, Roedecker, M A F . . . . . c tee, crguson. Third row. Ringstrom, Thompson, Parks, Richardson, Clark, Thomas, Phillips. Fourth row: Schylmg, Martin, Nelson, Towers, Ward, 5

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IN CHARACTER RAN KS The middleman, go between and all round slave lin one capacity or anotherl of Sophie and Senior alike, was a Junior. Considered in by some authorities but still having much to learn, the Atoms were an aggregation of characters on whose shoulders lay the major responsibility of the Prom and Junior Play. lt 'twere possible, Junior steadies vacillated more than did they in either Sophie or Senior ranks, but after all, it was a lady's privilege to change her mind-and in this case the privilege was exercised freely. At the year's culmination, hay-fever-struck Junior beauties more than gladly composed the daisy chain, accelerating graduation in any way they might, for, with their older brothers liquidated, the Juniors became lords of earth and high heaven. Front row: Mariano Garcia 'vice-presidentl, Wayne Braman lboys' athletic managerl, Pat Younglove lsocial chairmanl, back row: Barry Barnes lpresidentl, Joy Sims 'girls' athletic managerl, Shirlee Gray lsecretaryl, Diane Wade ltreasurerl, and Happy Parsons ldebate manager'-apparently found something to tickle their funny bones while airing themselves after a rousing meeting.