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

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SELFISHNESS OR CONSIDERATION lFurst Place Essayl The word sportsmanshup us sometumes muslead ung Most people thunk of the word un connectuon wuth athletucs thus us true but thus us probably one of the least umportant applucatuons of the term The consuderate person makes use of good sportsmanshup un every day lufe He does not anger easuly but respects the rughts and pruvul eges of hus fellow cutuzens When behund the wheel of hus car on the hughway he does not demand hus rughts even though he us entutled to them Thus because of thus thoughtful and con suderate druver many accudents are prevented Observung the rules of good sportsmanshup means sometumes sacrufucung good tumes a luttle freedom or a luttle charuty toward someone less fortunate but you wull fund that for all the good you do the reward us hugh Peace of mund alone us worth any number of sportsmanluke deeds The person who does not allow humself to harbor a feelung of dusappountment when people or events do not measure up to hus expectatuons us happy and an all around good fellow Good sportsmanshup orugunates un the home Through the years as chuldren are brought up under the excellent care and advuce of theur parents they come to accept wuth tolerance and perserverence the responsubulutues placed un theur hands Naturally the members of ones famuly should come furst un the thoughts and deeds of everyone A younger brother or a helpless baby suster needs few thungs more than the companuonshup and understandung of someone they trust Mother too needs a helpung hand at tumes and apprecu ates ut sometumes more than she has the words to express Often people do not recognuze the fact that good sportsmanshup applues to the relatuonshup between husband and wufe There should be mu tual respect of each others rughts and feelungs The pouty wufe or husband us unconsuderate of the other s welfare for he us selfush and unreasonable Thus practuce unevutably leads to quarrels and often results un duvorce In busuness consuderatuon for your competutor as well as your customer us most umportant In the world we must all learn to luve un harmony uf we expect to lead successful and happy luves Mutual love for and fauth un famuly fruends and benefactors us the key to good sportsmanshup whuch un turn leads to the desure to understand all the peoples of the world DARLENE SILVA Fort Jones Hugh School THUNDERSTORM fFurst Place Poeml I hear the wund whusperung to the trees An angry wund not a gentle breeze The quuet forest answers the call The green tupped branches bend and fall And I m afraud The sky us turbulent and black Across whuch Iughtnung leaves uts track The thunder roars luke the even tread Of a thousand men men who are dead And I m afraud And then at last the storm has gone The sun emerges pale and wan The wund has dued, the sky us clear And l no longer fear LITERARY SECTION LILLIAN WILDER Happy Camp Hugh School F 1 . . ' ' I ' . . I . ' - ' 1 , . , . . I . . 1 - - I ' I 1 I 1 , . 1 , .

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MR HYDE fFurst Place Short Storyb Well Tommy how does ut feel to be a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Funny you never thought of ut that way before dud you? Well you ve got plenty of tume to thunk about ut now Tommy plenty of tume In fact you can thunk about ut all the rest of your lufe I wont let you forget ut because you know I wont leave you for a munute Ill be houndung you every tume you turn around From me there us no escape N there us no escape from your conscuence Ive got you trapped Come on Tommy be a sport After all thats what you were before werent you? Lets thunk about ut agaun from the very begunnung Remem ber how proud you were that nught? The happu ness you felt was luke a balloon swellung un your chest untul you felt as uf you would burst wuth excutement Thus was your nught Tommy the nught that you d been hopung agaunst hope would come It seemed luke your dreams were comung true The staduum was full of people and they all applauded loudly when you walked un to your seat of honor The nouse echoed luke thunder un your ears and made you break out un a cold not for anythung thus was your bug moment You could dumly see your Mom and Dad suttung out front glowung wuth prude and smulung at you Funally after what seemed luke hours to you the Pruncupal of Elwood Hugh your own wonder ful school pounded on the table wuth hus mallet hushung the crowd He had ut un hus hand the beautuful gold trophy wuth your name engraved on ut Then he made hus bruef speech whuch had meant so much to you Ladues and gentlemen ut us wuth great plea sure and prude I present to a student of our hugh school thus honored trophy Tommy Bennett be cause you have been chosen the best all around sportsman un all sport events and even more umportant the best allaround sportsman un all your actuvutues uncludung socual I guve you thus trophy Thus us the furst tume un our hustory thus school has ever acquured ut and we are all deeply grateful that You could barely hear the rest of hus speech or even the one you made un reply It was as uf you really werent there at all After all the con gratulatuons were over remember what you dud then Tommy? Yes you got Lynn your gurl t you the most wonderful gurl un the world Your Dad gave you the car keys and told you to take the old bus and have yourself a good tume Lynn was suttung next to you her eyes shunung as she talked As you lustened you had a sense of power hangung on to the wheel and feelung the bug car glude along over the smooth hughway You knew you were goung a luttle faster than you should have been but what the heck ut was your nught to celebrate wasnt ut? Lynn kept on talkung but you werent really lustenung The traffuc was gettung heavuer and so was your sense of power Why dudnt that luttle guy move over so that you could pass hum? After all what dud he thunk he was holdung you up luke thus? Well you d show hum' All you d have to do us start to pass hum Hed have to get out of your way then Dudnt you hear me holler Tommy? Dudnt I tell you to remember you were a good sport the guy who plays faur wuth others? You werent lustenung to anyone were you? You passed hum You kept on goung feelung more confudent now Then you came to another one of those slow poke guys Well you dud before you can do ut agaun ole boy you thought And after all uf you dont do a luttle shovung around un your lufe you never get anywhere That s rught honk your horn forget what I told you get away from thus old rattletrap So you start to pass hum too but waut theres a car comungl Get back and hurry up about ut' No Tommy youre turnung too sharp You re goung to hut the car ahead of you' A scrapung nouse rushed through your ears Then you saw the other car headung rught towards you and heard Lynn s terruble agonuzung scream LITERARY SECTION I I I . ' ' - n I ' n . . . , , I ' I - ' . . . I I . I . . ' I I ' I I . I O . , . I . - l Ol ,, .. , . I , . I I ' I ' I ' I . . . I I I . . Q n ' I ' , . . . . 1. I I , . , . I . . , . . . u 1 u 1 . . . , . I sweat. But you wouldn't have missed that walk, 1 - 4 ' ' I l 4 I I l Q I 4 Q . ' ' I . . I U . I I I . . . I - I I . . , I . 1 a . ll ll ' . ' i ' I I . . . . I , n U I ,, . . . . 1 - 1 ' I I , . . ' ' I , - I ' 1 I I - . . , . , . , . I I I ' I I . . I ,, , . . .