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

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They ran but they were caught and burned Howl when they arrived at the academy, thought he saw a chance to make an impression on his fellow students. So he boldly walked up to the Chief, looked him straight in the eye, then clearly exclaimed, How, Chief! The Chief didn't miss this chance, because he knew the whole student body was listening. So, instead of returning the worn-out salutation as he had been doing he gave the boy a quuzzlcal look slowly brought his hand up to his shock of get FRE black hair, scratched his skull a while, then turned to Don: Say, Don, he said, maybe you can this me, l've tell me what the deuce is the matter with Joker. Every time I meet him, he stares at then holds up his hand and says How, been humoring him so far, but do you think maybe he needs a keeper or something? There was a pause, then a roar from the student body. They were 'ft' TED ROESNER Fort Jones High School lSecond Place Poemj The lightning flashed the thunder roared It cut the sky like a giant sword Down came a bolt full of flre and fury Deep into the forest so dark and dreary It split a tree In one mighty stroke And danced on its branches until they broke nto a blaze of destructive waste And spread through forest with no apparent haste It left a path of smoking land Of blackened trees of glassy sand Gone are the mighty trees Whose branches like green flags waved Only a few denizens of the forest were saved their grave That which Nature took years to grow She destroyed in hours with one mighty blow GLENN WHITE Yreka High School CSecond Place Frontispiece Competltionl A, js, we 55'-nl' mf li '51 'YA 'wi '41 ,Q cfg 'ON if 3 We X I ll Illllllll III Illl CAROLE SAINT Yreka High School LITERARY SECTION I I ' I ' I I , ' I . . . , to , . I I ' ' l ' G , , . gi uqlff: 'He 1.1 13:4 ' L' ' .-312,511 - Q' j jj- . , ' iff? I- '-'Z ' 3 3 1 1 5325 xg 1. '- va. 1 f. f -Ps 23455: N er:-' il . n - s ' 'fl S 'ff 1 ff. feta- Yi is 55.1 iff' if 1 '-sr gre, 1 C 'f J E I 1, 3-M '-jf , F9 1 . f A- , Y : , gf- :af 4153 i 3 AES- new Sa I ' vi 'zfff '-1, 5. , . V, F Q 'sr 1 ' ay . K 1 ,rj :' - A , f' ,lint e . 'I - -H J i . 2 .1-I A -5' '. : I' z it ' gi an 5 - y F- 1: , , Y gb.. X ' L- ,,- fi-5-.-,isa-gs.. ,-. wa..

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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 . 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SEA SCENES IHonorable Mention Poeml The sea hudes many strange things Mountauns hlgher than any on land stand In a magestnc grandeur of snlence Ftsh an undreamed of shapes and colors grope Theur way through the solud blackness of the deep Strange abysses cut through the ocean s crust And form seemnngly bottomless pats Ranges of mountains wander across the sea s floor Volcanoes create consxderable disturbance whale Strlvlng to push thesr way to the surface Seaweeds are the only Kora of the marine world Shlps too the sea conceals from our vlew Shlps sunk by the wave s power and by Man s The sea holds no preludlce The vessels that keep Their lonely vngll with The deep are of many Natnonalntnes and centuries Some contain cargoes of wealth The Spanish Dons Gold and gewels from the malestlc Orient Men have risked their llves for these riches They wall go on rlskung body and soul But the sea protects her treasures and Scnentlflc oddutnes will Beneath a blanket of hundreds of water They walt to be discovered Constant and unendnng The sea goes on She ns mnstress of the world thus vault of the mysteruous She has wrought destructnon with her storms and She has brought beauty Into The lives of men wuth her Varying scenes From her depths lute sprang Wnthout her we could not surrvlve And when lrfe as we know It has vanrshed The sea wrll stall be present Waltlng for the next Arrlval to lute to make Its mark upon the DIANA HILL Undefeatable sea Fort Jones High School LITERARY SECTION Gold bullion taken from the New World by