Roseburg High School - Umpqua Yearbook (Roseburg, OR)

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As I Recall Lookung back ut seems as uf thus were the greatest year of hugh school for me How could anythung be greater'? Oh l suppose your senuor year us always luke that though Funny thung next year I ll make the rounds all over agaun because you see Im THE STUDENT I shall never graduate suppose lm uust too much un love wuth Roseburg Hugh and uts human content to ever leave You mught uust call me an observer very unterested one at that uust walkung down the darkened halls remunuscung over teachers and assugnments and frantuc funals but enough of that' Really I should guve you some of those umportant facts that the Chamber of Commerce lukes to have uts cutuzens know Lets see Rose burg us located below Mountaun Nebo besude the Umpqua Ruver and under the new clover leaf overpass the State Hughway Commussuon lust buult for us Sorry feel too lazy uust now to dug up the longutude and latutude but then you re feelung too lazy to read ut anyway Our town claums to be the caputal of the world s tumber we grow quute a few trees hereabouts The year us T956 57 the tume us denoted by the sharp uanglung of an alarm clock as ut shocks some peaceful sleeper from hus smulung dreams to face a cold bleak dawn and another day at school the populatuon of OUR SCHOOL us around T400 count ung even the wee freshmen The grounds are bug and spacuous gugantuc when you re racung the tardy bell there s the Mann Buuld ung the Socual Arts Buuldung Band Buuldung the Lubrary Arts Buuldung the new Gymnasuum the baseball fueld football fueld and track fueld plenty of lawn to mow Thus fall the townfolk buult a new set of grandstand bleachers thus one even has a roof that doesnt leak The school faces Chapman Street a bug hunk of pavement lovely for cuttung the donut Dufferent school organuzatuons contrubuted theur extra pennues thus year to buy some roses for the grounds beautu ful un the sprung but let s get on wuth the tour O I O 1 . - , . . . 1 1 ' I - 1 1 1 1 ' ' ' , . . . . 1 . . . . , . , ' 1 I - 1 . , . . , . . . , . . . , , . , . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 . . . , 11 - 11 . , . . . - - 1 .

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THE OLD SCHOOL. . .AND THE NEW They call us a boom-Town . . . l guess They mean ThaT Roseburg has expanded since The phoTo of The old senior high school Cpicfured belowj was Taken. H-m-m-m. ThaT old school exisTed 'way back when The girls had To worry abouT middy uniforms and dragging hemlines and The boys choked in Ties and sfiff whiTe shirTs. Then, They were puTTing ouT The mighTy hoT Fords and The WesT was growing like ragweed . . . sTill is, for ThaT maTTer. The Townspeople ThoughT They'd builT The school clear ouT in The coun- Try . . . a few years laTer The ciTy was pushing Laurel- wood righT inTo our laps. Before long, in January 1926, They puT up The new building, converTed The old FullerTon Grade School inTo The Social ArTs Build- ing, builT The new Library ArTs Building-wiTh big windows and modern green blackboards and yellow chalk-supposed To be easier on The eyes. AbouT The middle of my freshman year, They finished The new gymnasium for over S400,000 . . . made us Take off our shoes before we could walk on The shiny floors . . . had our phoTographer go up in a plane in order To Take a couple aerial views ThaT would show you how big we've really become. S'pose The valley will grow a loT and They'll sTarT Taking up The Trowel and hammer again soon. ,fi