Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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 =m -■= 5ijmnashtm €N© The closing year of 1924-25 finds our gym almost entirely completed. During the past year, all the equipment has been placed in the shower and locker rooms, including double showers in each room, toilets, lavoratories, and drinking fountains. The floors and walls are built of concrete and every part built with a view of strength and durability. A set of lockers have also been built in the boys’ locker rooms which will accomodate about 160 boys. Stairs have been built from shower rooms up to the locker rooms above. A hot water system consisting of two heating units and boilers furnish a supply of hot water sufficient for any need. A complete modern drainage system including septic tank and drainage pit, has been built by the Mechanical Arts department, and a very creditable job was done under the direction of Professor Em-mel, instructor in the Agriculture Department. With an enrollment of a little over a hundred in the High School, including boys and girls, this huge project was undertaken and now it is practically completed. All this work except the pi umbing and drainage system has been done by the Manual Training Department. By the end of another year we hope to finish the check and office rooms and install better furnaces. To say the least, we are proud of our Gym. It is the largest project developed and completed by a Manual Training Department of a High School anywhere in the United States. This may sound like a very extravagant claim but we challenge a refutation. We have had constant use of our gym since the first game of basket ball was played in it just ninety days after ground was broken. Our stage has been used for a great number of plays, programs, and pageants, while other pleasant social functions have been held within its walls. Two annual basket ball tournaments have been held in the gym and the huge crowds, numbering over a thousand, were handled without mishap or discomfort. Union can well be proud of itc new building and we extend an invitation to all Eastern Oregon to ise our gym. Page Eleven

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€5 ' ll-lfit Staff Editor in Chief------------- Assistant Editor ----------- Business Manager Assistant Business Manager News Departments ---------------- Jokes Society--------------------- Girls Athletics ------------ Boys Athletics-------------- Dramatics------------------- Exchange ------------------- Circulation ---------------- Staff Stenographer Grace Hailing Edith Wight Bethene Miller Nellie McClellan Gracia Haggerty Grace Swiger Georgiana Jenson Ardythe Harn Cleo Spencer Sidney Dobbins Leona Rose wall Bruce Davis Murray Jensen Doris Busick The Editor-In-Chief and Business Manager are elected by the entire Student Body, while the other members of the staff are appointed by Professor Conklin and the Editor. Each person is in charge of his own particular department. The U-Hi has always been a complete success and has paid for itself financially, we are very proud of this fact, for we feel that it is not every school that can say this. QhO Haggerty McClellan Swiger Hailing Spenser Harn Davis Miller Jensen Wight Dobbin Page Ten

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Top Row (Left to right)—J. Cox, Young, Kofford, Richardson, Pitts. Parent, May, Gilmore. N. Cox Second Row Spray, Hutchinson, Lamb, Fugit, Watts, Dobbin Bottom Row Geertsen, Taylor. Castor, Brown, Caspar. Crouter Q D jFoothall 'ttmntetrtr Last fall, when school started on the eleventh of September, Coach Pitts issued the first call for football men. The call was immediately answered by the appearance of about forty-five husky gridiron warriors. Although they were a husky looking lot. we missed some of the old faces that starred on the ’23 team. Since almost the entire team of ’23 graduated. Coach Pitts had to build up a team from raw material around the three letter men that remained. Fugit and Kofford, veteran guards, were the main stays on the line, while Richardson commanded the back field. Coach Pitts, assisted by John Wortman, spent the first two weeks teaching the new men the fundamentals of the game. It was not long however, before they were passing and kicking like old veterans. Since the first game of the season was to be played with North Powder, after only three weeks of practice, the coaches devoted the third week to scrimmage. Because of the lack of practice and a green team. Coach Pitts took the entire squad of twenty-five men to North Powder. Although they were trounced to a terrible score, the coaching staff determined where the different men belonged and some of the weak points were discovered. From that time on, they continually improved and when the season closed they were playing a very good brand of football. If the season had 'lasted a few more weeks the Maroon and White undoubtedly would have emerged with flying colors. As it was, they succeeded in winning one game out of seven, but considering the circumstances we can consider ourselves well rewarded, for all of the opposing teams were composed of old and experienced men. Although we did not make a Very great showing in the percentage of games won, we did make something to build our team out of next year. Of the fourteen men that received letters this year, only two will graduate, so football prospects for next year look very good at the present. The men that received letters for the ’24 football team are: N. Cox, Parent, Kofford, Castor, Taylor, Geertson, Dobbin, Casper. Spray, Richardson. Brown, Lamb. J. Cox and Fugit. Page Twelve