Seaside High School - Sea Breeze Yearbook (Seaside, OR)

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Wistury of the Class of 14920 Now, the history of the class of 1920 of the Union High School of the City of Seaside is in this wise; in the nineteenth hundred year of our Lord, in the month of September, there entered this land of learning one and ten Seekers of Knowledge. Some came up from the Eighth Grade, where they had been engaged in filling their minds with the honey of wisdom; some were green and fresh from a far country and some were from other halls of instruction. These Seekers of Knowledge were led into this country by a certain woman of much skill who was called Miss Cotter, who had been their teacher in an adjoining country but who now gave them into the hands of several leaders, each to teach them a different subject. And those Seekers of Knowledge were: Hlvera, of the House of Miller; Dagney, of the House of Owen; Blanche, of the House of Ruthrauff; Aster, of the House of Moore; Nita, of the House of Olson; Tressa, of the House of Cobine; Leonard, of the House of Peeler; Rodrick, of the House of Anthony; Edward, of the House of Sawrey; Anthony, of the House of Bain; and even William of the House of Spear. These ten and one seekers did enter together. And it came to pass as they entered this land that they were received by welcomings and rejoicings by those who, it was decreed, should henceforth lead them in the paths of knowledge. Likewise, it came also to pass that they were received with malicious glee by a certain band of wild beings called Sopho- mores and who, because of their fierce taste for Freshman blood, did pounce upon them daily and nightly and did cause them to suffer great things, and to say in their hearts, ‘‘ Behold, blessed be the name of Education, for because of it we have endured great torments, both of the body and of the mind. Verily, have we been martyrs to its great and noble cause.’” But, as they dwelt long in the land; they fell in with the cus- toms of the inhabitants thereof, and their strangeness wore away, and they each became at home amongst the rest. Now, it came to pass, soon after they entered this land, that they were one and all seized with a strange infirmity which did cause them to act with much fierceness and strangeness of manner, and to grapple and wrestle with their fellows in much PAGE 14--“SEA BREEZE”

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NDO-2ZMNHN DAGNY OWEN ‘“Teddy’”’ Debate (1), Basketball (1), Literary Program (1), 1st Sea Breeze (1), Sec.-Treas. Senior Class, Sec. Athletic Assn. (ly) Sia luto plan OL Class (2), Staff of Annual Sea Breeze (2): Noted for bangs. SHIRLEY CALDWELL ‘“Hleventh Muse’’ Class Poet (2): Noted for me- chanical interest in steam en- gines. ASTER MOORE ‘ Boots’’ Vice-Pres. Athletic Ass’n (1), Debate (1), Students Coun- cil, ‘What Happened to Jones’? (2), Class Reporter (3), Class Historian (2),: Noted for skipping school. JENNIE LONG ““Yennie’’ Valedictorian Class (2), Sea Breeze Annual Staff (2): Noted for ‘‘nonchalanee.’’ “SEA BREEZE”--PAGE 13

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rage and seemingly ferocity. Wise men were called who did examine them with much care and pains, and did finally pro- nounce the infirmity ‘‘Basketball,’’ and did assure the fright- ened leaders that the malady, while it needs must be con- tagious and like-wise sometimes fatal, yet it was a necessary evil, and one that wise men knew not the way to cure. From this illness three of the class did receive fatal injuries. There were two other diseases which did break out in the land and the one was called ‘‘Debate’’ and the other ‘‘Public Speak- ing.’? And now it came to pass that one of this class was smitten with the first, and four did succumb to the second. Now, it so happened, that this land, to which they had come, was ruled over by one known as Mr. Lovett, as protes- sor of much wisdom; and, during this first year, he spake unto them, saying: ‘‘Go, gather ye in a body, and organize your- selves, into a class that ye may gain in strength and that your courage may wax hot.’’ And as he spake unto them, so it was done; and they did make a pennant which they did present to the school and each did make for himself a smaller one which he did keep and bring forth only on festivals and feast days. And during the year, one of the class did leave for a far land and another did come unto this land so that the end of this first year the number of seekers was the same. Now, the class in this second year did join the wild beings, called Sophomores, and did make for the Freshmen a feast which was to disguise the many and terrible things they did do. And they did eall this ‘‘Initiation’’ and the Freshmen were much frightened. Now, when the third day of the fifth month of the year nineteen and nineteen hundred was come, this class did make a feast and a dance and they did send messages over all the land, east, west, north and south, even unto the City of War- renton, to the inhabitants thereof, saying, ‘‘Come ye, and make merry with us, for the class of nineteen and twenty hundred has all things ready for feasting and dancing.’’ And, as they were bidden, so came they to the place set apart in large num- ber, and did rejoice with the class of nineteen and nineteen hundred at the good fortune that had come to them, in having this festival prepared in their honor. And, when the guests did at last depart from the festivities, they were exceeding glad “SEA BREEZE”--PAGE 15