San Juan High School - Greenback Notes Yearbook (Citrus Heights, CA)

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Table of Contents District Administration Seniors •V Activities Juniors Student Government Sports Sophomores A - ' if Organizations Freshmen s- s 36 62 104 112 124 162 172 I9S Ads 206

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Foreword The nation we enter as we graduate from San Juan is known as the land of opportunity. This name is far from being merely three empty words --more than just a flatter- ing title which has no meaning. The world today is a rainbow, with America the pot of gold which waits at the end. It is the wealthiest nation in the world, and the one which offers the most to the youth who must make their way in the world. As we go North, or South, or East, or West, we find continuing ex- amples of the greatness of our country. Wherever we go the industry, natural resources, productive farm- land, cities and senic beauty of our land is evidenced in abundance. Through the years, it has been the courage, foresight and perseverance of the American people --Pilgrims, soldiers, pio- neers --which has made it a good land. Today we taste of the generosity of America and of the peo- ple who made her. This annual is a re- flection of the myriad wonders of the greatest country in the world. It displays some of the land- marks which are symbolic of the history and beauty of the United States, and as you turn the pages we feel that you will get some idea of the pure magni- ficence of this, our home- land. pkw« J] tUtrtsruzJ c z tyt - '

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This book is dedicated to the seniors who are graduating from San Juan this week. To them, the past has been very important, just as the future is to be very im- portant. The past covers a great deal of experience and memory. For most of us, it began about the time that the Second World War began. Through the bitter period, we were unconscious of the history which was being made. Our inter- ests were confined to our home and family. When we were born, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President, but we didn ' t know about such things, and didn ' t much care about them. When we reached school, Roose- velt had been dead for three years, and there was a different man in the White House: Harry S. Truman. Then, when we were in the fifth grade, a man who was known for his skill at directing armies, D wight D. Eisenhower, tried his hand at directing a nation. By that time, we were very aware of his- tory and knew a lot about Presidents. Other things were happening too. The television, a thing native to our own generation, had be- come a powerful influence on our leisure lives. With TV came frozen foods in quantity, and the TV Dinner. We saw cars change from sedate, boxy luxuries, to flashing monsters with insatiable gas-tanks, then back to small, eco- nomical necessities. There were sad things too. The tragic floods in Yuba City during The Christmas season of 1955. The segregation conflicts in 1956. The Chicago school fire. The wreck of the Andrea Doria. We have grown and changed tremendously in the past; more than we will in any other period of our lives. We have lived our pasts, and soon even the present will become another segment of that past.