Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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YOUNG AMERICAN Cl-lonorable Mention? The youngest of five brothers, the most promising of them all, the pride of the family, and yet he could be of no help. Why, everyone had always chosen him as the one most likely to succeed. Young jimmy Kelly thought it was ridiculous, even impossible that if he were all of these things that he could be of no help. He would show them. He must. He would prove his point-that he, too, could do something. Little or great, there must be something for him. If there was any- thing he could do, he would find it. For a lad of sixteen, jimmy Kelly had great ideas. The more he thought of them, the more clearly they were formulated in his mind. Nothing could discourage him now, his mind was made up. He was out to get what he was after, and he would get it, do or die. Why did they always treat him as a child? They should have realized by now that he had great ability. limmy's bosom swelled at the thought of that, but then, he didn't care if the others realized it or not. He knew it and that was all that mattered to him. He knew he had the courage to go through with it. Nothing would be too great to risk as long as he knew he was doing his part. How he regretted that he was the youngest of five brothers. How he envied them! He would gladly have exchanged places with any of them, if it were possible. Even at that he was very proud of them. He loved to be able to single them out as his brothers. Yes, he would have been even prouder if he had been counted as one of them. Yes, he would have been proud to be with them, doing his part along side of them. He just coulcln't stand idly by and watch others endeavoring to do their utmost while he himself did nothing. It would drive him crazy: he knew it would. limmy's heart was heavy as he thought how he was being cheated. Why should a little thing like age stand in his way? And to top it all off, his parents wouldn't even consider it. ln fact, they thought that it was just a young boy's foolish notion. What could such a young, inexperienced boy like himself do? lt hurt to have them think so. lt was then that jimmy lifted his heady gazed at a highway billboard, and looked into the eyes of a tall, long-bearded old man wearing the colors red, white and blue. jimmy seemed to know just what that man would tell him if he knew of Iimmy's situation. Yes, he knew that he would tell him that someday his turn would come to play his part well p and until then, jimmy should continue to have that great American spirit within him. And jimmy certainly had it. INEZ TOSARTI, '43 Weed High School W A R l CI-lonorable Mention? A blast of fury from the sky! A cannon's boomf And all is done. Once more, Desolation. Why? BUDDY TOWNSLEY McCloud High School 22

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One day a herd bull challenged me to a duel and, in defending my throne, I had to accept his challenge and fight. We went up on the side of one of the cave banks and, as you see, he got the best of me. I was killed. It has been many' moons since then and my son has become Brigham Boss of the Harem, but I can sit here and watch my kingdom-for I am still King of the Sealions . . . From the mummy, it is but a few steps to the main cave which covers close to two acres and has a dome-shaped ceiling. A large part of the floor space is covered by the sea and here the sealions come and go through a large doorway at the west end. This doorway admits sea, birds, and light. These caves are interesting because they form the only mainland sealion home in the world where hundreds of sealions make their home. Around the first of March, the animals are more or less restless and there are not so many in the caves, as they prefer to feed on the surf and live on the rocky shelves near the caves. After Iune they are scattered up and down the coast and by mid-Iuly, they start coming back. By August, all of them have returned. Brigham, the Boss of the Harem, whose throne is the center rock in the main cave, rules by law of strength. I-Iis duties are many because he has to protect his throne from others-old and young, he must separate his wives when they become quarrelsome: he must prevent the yearlings from Worrying their mothers when the new puppies are born. The Pigeon Gullimot and the Puifins live in this region as well. The Puffins are small black and white birds marked like the Penguin and have a particular call of their own. They do not fly about, but mostly waddle about among the sealions on the beach. Words cannot express the beauty of the caves, ocean, and the interesting things found there. These caves, it is said, are far more beautiful than the Blue Grotto of Italy-so they are truly the Green Grotto of America. DOLOREZ SEVITS, '44 Butte Valley High School COLIN P. KELLY il-lonorable Mention? Courage!! Is it something all men possess? Men of breeding, men of class! Or is courage built within one's soul With an aim much higher than the highest goal? And why does man give his life F or the world he knows in continual strife? Unanswered go these words we know, Yet we have a hero who made them so- We pay tribute to deeds well done, We awarded this man a career for his son! RITA IO MCDONAGI-I Yreka High School, '43 21

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SUNSET CHonorable Mentionl I watch the sun a settin' On mountains far beyond, And feel a sight o' sadness To think the day is gone- A day so filled with beauty By happiness l've had: A day so filled with rapture From making someone glad: It seems I grow years older In just a single day, Because l've helped the helpless Or taught some soul to pray. 'Tis not a time for sadness: I wonder Why I've wept, F or there's a glad tomorrow: Another sun to set. ROBERTA M GREENE 44 Yreka High School ffl 3 W f r X i I 1i'. :5'::L.1 fix, 7 i . . t 7? I 'A' ,,. . I - J. 3. x f if bprti if xx it s ' A x y J y 23