Sandy High School - Mee Ma Yearbook (Sandy, OR)

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ON SEPTEMBER 4, I94S, OUR LITTLE BAND OF '49ER8, IIO IN ALL, WERE GREETED SY MR. LIGHT AND WISHED THE BEST OF LUCK ON OUR JOURNEY. WITH OUR COVERED WAGONS LOADED WITH TOOLS IN THE FORM OF PENCILS AND BOOKS, WE SOON STARTED ON OUR.JOURNEY TOWARD PROSPERITY AND SUCESS. ON THE FIRST LAP OF OUR JOURNEY, WE CHOSE DON PULLEN AS TRAIL GUIDEg EUGENE STOCKMAN, ASSISTANT TRAIL GUIDE3 ANN STEENSON, DIARY KEEPERg ANN LINGERMAN, MONEY KEEPER! DON DAVENPORT AND DAVID BAYLINK AS GUARDS. FOR OUR FIRST CAPTAIN, WE CHOSE MR. GEORGE GILLIS. To ENTERTAIN THE REST OF THE WAGON TRAIN WE GAVE AN ASSEMBLY AND A DANCE FOR ALL MEMBERS. AFTER A REST OF THREE MONTHS, WE AGAIN STARTED ON OUR JOURNEY WITH ONLY I06 MEMBERS AND NEW LEADERS. THEY WERE! DON DAVENPORT, TRAIL GUIDEg DOB GRASHORN, ASSISTANT TRAIL GUIDEg NANCY WOODCOCK, DIARY KEEPERQ AND BONNIE DARNELL, MONEY KEEPER. CAPTAIN OF THE TRAIN WAS MRS. BEVERLY BRUNSn THIS YEAR WE ALSO PRESENTED AN ASSEMBLY AND A DANCE FOR OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TRAINu WE BEGAN OUR THIRD YEAR WITH III MEMBERS, A MEMBERSHIP LARGER THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS YEAR OUR LEADERS WERE FRED KOEHLER, TRAIL GUIDEQ DON DAVENPORT, ASSISTANT TRAIL GUIDES ELNA JENSEN, DIARY KEEPERQ AND PAT GOMOLL, MONEY KEEPER. OUR CAPTAIN WAS MRS. BETH OREM. THE MAIN EVENTS OF THIS PORTION OF THE TRIP WAS THE PLAY 'SATURDAY EVENING GHOSTW DIRECTED BY MRS. ELEANOR HOWARD. THE JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM, AN ANNUAL EVENT, WAS ALSO GIVEN. BOTH THE PLAY AND THE DANCE WERE WELL ATTENDED AND VERY SUCCESSFUL. NE BOUGHT RINGS AND PINS TO INDENTIFY US AS THE '49ERS. OUR CLASS WAS ALSO RESPONSISLE FOR DECORATING THE GYMNASIUM FOR BACCALAUREATE AND OOMMENCENT EXERCISES. THIS FOURTH YEAR ONLY 89 HAVE WEATHERED THE HARDSHIP8 OF OUR JOURNEY. RAYMOND GIFFORD WAS CHOOSEN FOR TRAIL GUIDE, DAVID HOPP, ASSISTANT TRAIL GUIDE: PAT GOMOLL, DIARY KEEPERQ DAVID BAYLINK, MONEY KEEPERQ AND NPOPW RANNOW AS CAPTAIN. As WE NEARED THE END OF OUR JOURNEY, WE MET PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO TOOK OUR PICTURES. WE PRESENTED ANOTHER PLAY THIS YEAR. IT WAS ULOST HORIZONN DIRECTED BY MRS. ELEANOR HOWARD. ON MAY 20, I949, WE HAVE REACHED OUR DESTINATION AND TRAVELED OUR LAST TRAIL TOGETHER. Now EACH 'AQER WILL FIND TRAILS TO TRAVEL AND STRIVE FOR A DESTINATION OF HIS OWN.

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R As I SIT HERE, ALASKA. IT IS THE YEAR THE DESIRE COVES TO ME TO FECOUNT THE STORY OF MY RECENT TRIP TO ISES, THE YEAR OF THE RIG GOLD RUSH IN ALASKA. ALASKA HAS JUST BECOME THE 49TH STATE OF THE UNION, I, LIKE MANY CF MY FORMER CLASSMATE3 OF '49 AM ON MY WAV TO ALASKA SOMEDAY. AT THE AIRPORT AND CARRY GROCERY STORES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. THE PLANE WHICH TAKES ALASKA IS THE EXQUISITE DESIGN OF THAT MASTER DESIGNER, FRANCIS PLUMONDORE, PILOTED BY THE ONE AND CNLY DON DAVENPORT ABLY ASSISTED BY RAYMOND GIFFORD, BETTY SEARLS IS CHIEF HOSTESS ON THE PLANE AND IS ASSISTED BY LAURELL WOLFE T0 CET A GLIMPSE OF THE PRGSPERING STATE....MAYUE T0 SFTTLE THERE TO SEE JE OFF WAS MY OLD PAL, DYANN KAHNY, WHO OWNS SEVERAL CASH ME TO AND IS CO-PILOT. AND TEN JUNIOR HOSTESSES. THERE WAS NO DCUBT IN MY MIND AS T0 ARRIVING AT VY DESTINATION SAFELY. WHEN I ARRIVED IN ALASKA, FRED KOEHLER, THE MAYOR OF HIS FAIR CITY, FAIRBANK3, AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AUOREY SCHNEPP, ANNA HUHMAN, EULA MARIE SMITH, JAMES MAY, JACK PHILLIPS, AND WILLIAM CARROLL WERE ON HAND T0 GREET ME- FRED TELLS ME THAT JERRY YOUNG OPERATES A VERY EXCLUSIVE NIGHT CLUB NAMELY uSMO0CHVILLA,' THAT I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN VISITING. IMMEDIATELY I DECIDED TO VISIT THE NIGHT CLUB. As I ENTER THE SWANKY NIGHT CLUB, I AM ESCORTED TO MY TABLE BY GLEN CARMONY wuo IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED ME ANU CALLED MY ATTENTION TO THE TWO SINGING WAITERS, GENE STOCKMAN AND LYLE OLSON, A DANCING SEKTET WHICH INCLUDES ETHEL CAIN, PHYLLIS CLAPP, LILLIAN OLEJNIK, UELBERT SHARER, DAVID BAVLI K AND PAUL HILL GAVE US THEIR VERSION OF THE RASPA, IT WAS VERY GOOD, IN FACT SO GOOD THEY HERE CALLED BACK FOR AN ENCORE- THE OUTSTANDING PLAYERS IN JERRY'S ORCHESTRA ARE IVY BENNETT ON THE SAUSLPHONE, VERNE CRONE PLAYING HIS CLARINETTE, AND THAT WELL KNOWN SAXAPHONE PLAYER, DAVID HOPP, BETTER KNOWN AS nHOT LIPS HOPPn' THE ORCHESTRA WAS CONDUCTED BY THAT MAN nTHAT'S MAD ABOUT MUSIC,' ROBERT SEARLS- AFTER SPENDING A VERY ENJOYABLE EVENING AT nSMOOCHVILLA,n I CALLED A TAXI TO TAKE ME TO HY HOTEL ROOM, WHEN THE TAXI ARRIVEC, I NOTICED THERE WAS A WOMAN DRIVER. 'MY GOODNESS, GERRY DAIMLER, NHAT ARE YOU DOING DRIVING A TAXI IN ALASKATn Wvou HAVE TO TRY EVERYTHING ONCE,n WAS HER EXPLANATION, AFTER WITNESSING WHAT I WOULD CALL A VERY HAZARDOUS RIDE, I SETTLED MYSELF COMFORTABLY IN MV HOTEL ROOM FOR A MUCHLY NEEDED REST, THE NEXT DAY, I DECIDED TO DO MORE VISITING AND REVIEWING OF OLD ACQUAINTANCES. I FOUND THAT JERRY MARKHAM IS PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALASKA. JERRY IS KEPT VERY BUSY EXAMINING ONE ARE IN TOWN, NRAIN, RAIN GO AWAY SO THE ROSEMARY SNOOKS WHO ARE RUNNING CHILDREN, THEY EKCLAIMEC, NTHIS I ALSO FOUND THAT BOB GRASHORN IS A SALESMAN WORKING FOR KOLD KIST ICE DOLLAR BILLS AS HE KNOWS SOME OF HIS FORMER CLASSMATES LITTLE CHILDREN MAY PLAY, WEINGS MARY SHOCKEY AND A DAY NURSERY. WHEN ASKED HOW THEY LIKED CARING FOR IS WHAT WE HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF DCINGon BERG COMPANY, IT SEEMS BOB HASN'T BEEN PROSPERING TOC WELL AT THE BUSINESS OF SELLING I3EBERGSo NORMA DECKER AND LA VERNE LEWIS AFE FLOOP BOUNCERS AT ONE OF THE WOFLIV5 LARGEST ICE SKATING RINKS SITUATED IN THE HEART OF FAIRBANKS, ON A BILLBOARD OUTSIDE THE SKATING RINK I NOTICED SOME FAMILIAR FACES, YES, THOSE FAMILIAR FACES BELONG TO MARY PEARSON, GENEVIEVE GILL AND UCLA TERPENING, THEY COMPOSE THE INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN NGLOOMER GIRLH DANCING TRIO WHICH IS MAKING A SHORT APPEARANCE IN FAIRBANKS-