Roseburg High School - Umpqua Yearbook (Roseburg, OR)

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Barefoot clogpatchers dance The night away To records spun by Dick Booth at The annual Sadie Hawkins day dance, The final celebration of Twirp Week. Friendly Faces Add Glow To Icy November Exhausfed dancers, Joe Hindman, Gwen McLaughlin, Dick Gorfhy, and Meredeth Cone gaze curiously aT some unseen Twirp dance decoration. 28 Fall This year Twirp season began on November 25 and conTinued ThroughouT The week. Twirp is an abbreviaTion for The Woman is RequesTed To Pay. During This week The girls were required To ask for and finance The daTes. Special acTiviTies, such as Clash Day when The sTudenTs could wear conflicfing colors and paTTerns, were included in The weekly schedule. Hillbilly Hop, held on Wednesday, November 27, was The Theme for The annual Sadie Hawkins day dance sponsored by The Pepsrers. More Than 75 couples showed up in Their mosT ragged cloThes To sfomp The nighf away on The hay covered floor To The records spun by Dick BooTh. Yoshiko Kimura, who prefers To be called Yo Yo, was an American exchange sTudenT from Hiroshima, Japan. During her year aT Roseburg High, Yo Yo sTayed aT The Ray Doerner residence. The Tiny bruneTTe, who spoke English fluenTly, found ThaT she had some diffi- cuITy undersTanding her Teachers and classmaTes. She dis- covered Americans To be very nice and very friendly, and if was cerTain ThaT boTh The EasT and WesT have benefiTed by The friendships ThaT Their liTTle ambassador had esfablished. In order To graduaTe Yo Yo had To re- Turn To Japan and repeaf her lasT year.

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30 Winier Shocked and silenT, The sTudenT body gaThered in The audiTorium, lisfened To The Tragic news of PresidenT Kennedy's assassinaTion in Dallas, Texas, on November 22. STruggling To adiusT To The sudden loss, some classes were conducfed only as sTudy hours while oThers were used as discussion periods as people Tried To under- sTand The disasTer. The bravery of Those closesT To The President was reflecTed in The composure of The sTudenTs and faculTy. Even as The new PresidenT was Taking The oaTh of our counTry's highesT office, The flag was lowered To half masT ouT of respecf for The laTe PresidenT. ThaT nighT The assassinaTion's effecT could clearly be seen on The gridiron as The players aTTempTed To uphold Their spiriT in a game which would have been posTponed had noT The Granf Generals already been on The way aT The Time of The assassinaTion. School was closed The follow- ing Monday in accord wiTh PresidenT Johnson's declara- Tion of a day of nafional mourning. On Monday afTer- noon, A Cappella choir provided TiTTing music for The Roseburg Memorial Service aT The fairgrounds.