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

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Thats all you remember You woke up here rn thrs hosprtal bed Youll be O K rn a month or so wont you good sport 'P Lynn wont be rememberrng anythrng though You were lucky you were thrown clear but Lynn drdnt have a chance not a chance rn a mrllron But you strll have whats left of your trophy Tommy that s what really saved you That long prerced your heart whrle you were thrown to the srde of the road along wrth the flyrng fragments of the shattered cars But rronrcally your trophy landed on your chest formrng a perfect shreld Well Mr Hyde you ve got plenty of trme to thrnk about rt All the rest of your lrfe you shall remember what krnd of sport you were behrnd 'he Wheel of 3 Ca' BEVERLY PETERSON lagged spearlrke prece of glass would have McCloud 53 SPORTSMANSHIP AND CHARACTER lSecond Place Essayl From our earlrest years we begun to develop our character and all through lrfe contrnue to change and rmprove rt rf we have the rrght opportunrtres What good sports we become de pends upon our lrfe experrences As we grow older our personalrty grows wrth us A lrttle chrld soon learns the meanrng of b a good sport from hrs playmates and parents At frrst he crres when thrngs go wrong wrth hrs plans or when he cannot have hrs own way As He learns to share wrth others through experr ences wrth hrs playmates He automatrcally learns to burld hrs chrldrsh personallty at home and rn school The young person gradually learns more and more the meanrng of responsrbrlrty for hrs pro gress through varrous actrvttres brrngs hrm rn contact wrth others He wrll have to work and co operate wrth hrs classmates Hrs school work becomes more drffrcult and hrs socral relatronshrps more rnvolved He begrns to rely more on hrmself not havrng others do hrs share of work As he becomes more self relrant he can learn to become less selfrsh and less dependent on others Later rn lrfe the teen ager learns through ex perrence observatron and reflectrve thrnkrng that character and sportsmanshrp go hand rn hand Durrng hrs hrgh school days he goes out for some type of sport He learns that rt rs not possrble to become angry wrthout a good cause covers that rt rs better to lose a game gracefully than to wrn drshonorably Sportsmanshrp rs the marnsprrng of any game and character rs the key that keeps rt wound If we take advantage of our opportunrtres and develop the rrght attrtudes learnrng to share berng honest playrng farrly co operatrng wrth others we develop sportsmanshrp and character GLENNA WELCH McCloud Hrgh School S0 THIS IS THE CITY CSecond Place Short Storyl Man alrvel exclarmed Don McMannan to hrs buddy Chref OConner Dad you ever see such a srght'? The Chref readrly assured hrm that he hadnt For here rrght before therr eyes was the awernsprrrng spectacle of New York Cnty And to two boys that had never been out of the state of Texas th panorama whrch was spread out below them was a srght that they would never forget Even the fact LITERARY SECTION that they were rn an arrplane strll had them som what dumbfounded The two boys presented an rnterestrng study rn contrasts as they sat lookrng out of the wrn dows of the DC4 Although they were both tall and bronzed and wrry the lrkeness completely ended there for Don had lrght sandy harr blue eyes and a pleasrng combrnatron of lrrsh Scotch I ll. ll ' I I - 1 , , - . , . . n ' I I . I . . l . n n I ' I . I ' I , , I . . , 1 - , - ' - I ' I I , ' I I - . I . . . - - , , . - n 1, e I ' the child grows older, he learns to give-and-take. and at the Same llme be Well lllfed- Also he Clls' f . . .. I . ' - I . . . . . . . I I , 11 - u - ' ' ' ' e, - , Q . . I ' I . . I . I . I . I I I ' I '

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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 ,, , . . .

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features He smiled readily and seemed to have a generally cheerful outlook on life even if his eyes did occasionally grow deadly serious as if glimpsing some of the sadder things of life But this look of deep serious thought was seemingly implanted on the impassive face of the Chief who was a full blooded Apache Indian There was something approaching nobleness in the hard granite face of the Chief Don had often thought that the Chief would be a very good subiect for a sculptor to reproduce in marble for any accomplished sculptor couldn t help but cap ture that look of thoughtful meditativeness which seemed to express without words some of the problems of this harassed world But after this thought struck him Don would always have to allow a smile to flicker across his face because he knew that underneath this mask of dull sad ness and pessimism existed a mind and person ality that was lively sharp and possessed only an infinitesimal amount of sardonic o u tl oo k on life However the mask completely fooled the students of Franklin Academy Upon seeing the Indian lad one of the more outspoken upper Western film style held up the palm of his hand and exclaimed How' Seeing what the situ ation was the Chief did some careful quick thinking then decided to go along with the gag so he too held up his hand and grunted How' That was a mistake because the students victims of the cowboy movie craze and disillusioned to the point where they thought the Southwest Indians still spoke broken pidgin English made life miserable for the Chief by talking to him in monosylables grunts and phrases The boys had been sent to the academy by Don McMannan Sr Don s father and the Chiefs guardian who thought that a little higher learn ing and association with more boys their age would do the lads a lot of good Don Sr had often hoped that he would someday be able to send the boys to college but it looked as if this would be impossible due to the financial cond: tion of the McMannan ranch which although large had been badly depleted by the previous owners and it had taken all of his money and then some for Don to get the ranch in a produ tive condition This was all changed however when oil was discovered on the McMannan ranch The royalties which Mr McMannan re ceived were not enough to make him wealthy but they were of sufficient quantity to get him out of debt and send the boys to the academy which had been recommended by a friend So Don and Chief OConner this ancestors had picked up the OConner from some Irish set tlersl found themselves in a strange seemingly unfriendly school where everyone considered the Chief an ignorant lnlun and thought of Don as a wild western cowboy fresh in from the hills which in a way he was but not in the sense they thought since the West has tamed down somewhat since the days that the mov: s portray To be sure this gave him a sort of distinction but not the kind of distinction that a boy would like to have since it gave hum the feeling of being an animal in a cage with all the students looking in at him But the boys being boys wanted to feel themselves con sidered as fellow schoolmates of the students of the academy However they didnt seem to be able to break the ice so to speak The other lads would talk and laugh and roughhouse with each other but they didnt seem to include Don an exceedingly quiet person but he had always mixed well with strangers and could win friends easily The Chief too never had any trouble getting acquainted with people so after two weeks of isolation from the rest of the students nn the academy Don and Chief held a council of war After an hour of earnest serious discussion they hit upon a plan They decided that the whole trouble lay in the fact that they had gotten off to a poor start They had given the impres sion that they were tee total hull bullies oblects to stand back and observe but not to associate with Since first impressions are theoretically lasting impressions the boys decided that the only way was to prove they werent still in the l9th century So they bided their time and waited for a good opportunity to do this lt arose at the next student body meeting Don and Chief had been working in an outer shop so they got to the auditorium lust before the meeting was opened As they walked in the auditorium was quickly growing quiet and the same boy who had first greeted them with the proverbial LITERARY SECTION . ' 1 , 1 I D I . I . . A , . , . , . . . . . ,, , ,, . - I , . g . I . . I A . . a 1 - ll ' ll I ' ' I , , I . I . I . I . . . I - , n . .S . . I l I - - . . . I I ' I , , , , - . . . . I . . . I I . I . . . . - I - . ' ' I I ' 11 - 11 , . , . - 1 . I ' I Classy-nen Sfrgde up 10 the Chief and, in perfecf and Chief in their activities. Don was, by nature, I , . . I . - I 4 I 1 . I n ' . ' I I . . I . . I I - ll ll ' ' I I ' . I I . . I ' I I I I , , . ' ' I I I ' I Q. v o 1 I 'I I . . . - , , , I ' I 'I , . . . I . .- - ' - . I . I . . - I I I . A. I . I . . . C- . . . I . .. ' . , '