Tigard High School - Tiger Yearbook (Tigard, OR)

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ONLY GAME FISH SWIM UPSTREAM (Prophecy) Seniors, you are out of the formal round of study called High School. You will be plunged, willy-nilly, into a drabbly real world where nobody tells you what to do next, and nobody seems to care very much what happens to you. This sounds serious, and it is. Everyone who has looked into the matter says that the young graduates of 1935 are graduating into a world of strictly limited opportunities. Professions such as law, medicine, teaching, journalism, and fine arts are overcrowded. Seniors, you are trying to get a foothold in some sort of a position which means life—or death in life. So I take up my crystal and gaze around a bit and I find only game fish swim upstream. So I began to think about the class of 1935 of Tigard Union High School. I wondered if they desired to swim upstream or downstream. It is going to be so easy to go downstream. I do not really believe you will have to do anything but drift. Soon you will be out on the broad ocean of life with thousands of others, out of work, out of the necessities of life. But I believe this particular class desires to swim upstream and if you desire to find a satisfying life you must be keen, resolute and adaptable. You must forget a lot of ideas about wealth and success and social prestige, and be willing to undertake kinds of work and modes of living that may not be easy or pleasant. You must know how to cooperate with others in large groups for social ends. You must understand mechanics, politics, economics, mathematics and biology. Above all, you must know a great deal about what is going on in every continent. You have learned some things out of books, magazines, movies, radio, but mostly by observation and practice. Intelligent flexibility is better than narrow specialization. Seniors, jump into the stream, the water is fine, flounder a bit if necessary, but head upstream and be a game fish instead of a scavenger. Fifteen

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THE STORY OF THE LITTLE SENIOR PIGS (Class History) One time three little pigs became famous in the realms of Mother Goose Country because of judgment used in the selection of their future homes. In September, 1931, 56 little boys and girls, often called “pigs” by teasing companions or provoked relatives, started to high school. Parents had warned them about the Big Bad Wolf of Ignorance, and how it was necessary to choose the right kind of material to built safe homes for the future. The teachers, or the architects of the child’s future, had their materials ready to offer. One architect spoke of the advantage of building their houses out of a business education, for such a strong fortress could withstand the change of times. Another spoke of the advantages of athletics. Strong bodies need not fear the ills of life. Others offered science, English, mathematics, languages, and drama as the right kind of material for strong, well-built houses. Here stood 56 bewildered little “piggies”. What a weighty moment had arrived. All desired a successful future. Some chose the academic course, some the business course, some a general mixture, and they started to build their houses. A great number employed long hours, nails of concentration, a great amount of sand and grit, until their building is one that no amount of puffing and huffing will cause the structure built of strong educational fundamentals to crumble. Then there were others, sad to say, that did not use their building material to the best advantage. Lack of attention, poorly prepared lessons, have resulted in a flimsy house. The wolf will come whining to their door, and only the future can tell if their houses can withstand the storms of life. It has required four years to build the house composed of the planks of mathematics, English, science, language, athletics, music drama, and business methods. The builders have enjoyed the construction, first as frightened freshmen, then as arrogant sophomores, and then as confident juniors, and last as worthwhile seniors. The Big Bad Wolf will be around the corner a number of times during life and it will require courage coupled with hard work to keep him from blowing the house down. Fourteen

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MOTHER GOOSE’S WILL (Class Will) We, the Senior Class of 1935, being of sound mind and possessing a rational judgment of true values and bearing a reverence for all worthwhile things gleaned from the intimate study of the Mother Goose Classic, leave, with regret, to the under classmen, the following qualifications. Treasure them, employ the use of the same and you will grow to be worthwhile men and women and develop into citizens that this world is in dire need of same. We desire to leave you— Modesty, morality, magnetism, manliness, marriage, money, and music, For a full life needs— Order, objectives, obedience, observation, and opinions, To enjoy— Talents, talks, theaters, tasks, taxes, teachers, temperaments, tenors, and tests. When— Home, honor, honesty, heritage, heroes, and harmony Disappear, then— Envy embarrassment, emotions, emptiness, equivocations, errors, and eliminations Will occur. Take heart for— Righteousness, rewards, rationalism, regulations, relief, and religion Will triumph if you possess— Goodness, gladness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, and gratitude. We seniors realize that— Objections, oddities, omens, opinions, and outbreaks Will be heard from some of you, while— Others offer only, oh ! oh ! oh ! Since we can not leave you— Stones, statues, silver, salaries, sealskins, and servants We do relinquish our rights to— English, economics, encyclopedias, entertainments, epics, equations, escorts, and educators. And the wish of the Senior Class of 1935 is that all the good things that we have aforesaid mentioned may be your share, while all the evil things will not happen. You will get out of life just what you put into it. Signed and Sealed THE CLASS OF ’35 Sixteen