Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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1937-’38 DIARY OF UNION HIGH’ Sept. 7 Sept. 16 Sept. 24 Oct. 1 Oct 8 Oct. 11 Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Oct. 22 Oct 40 Oct 29 Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Nov. 23 Nov. 25 School started. Very little happened except many and varied jokes on the freshmen, who were as usual parked on the fountains and made to push peanuts around with their poor little noses. Football season started off with never a ripple in a home game with Halfway. Result a victory for us. Football with Ontario at Ontario in which the Ontario lads left us holding the bag—and it didn’t have the ball in it either. Football game at Baker in which their new turf field was dedicated. In spite of a pouring rain—and a most one sided score— our girls without curls, and bedraggled boys cheered gamely on. Today we played Mac Hi, coached by our ex-coach Weinel. Though the score was tied, Mac Hi admitted defeat. School Master’s Banquet held at the high school. Dinner cooked and served by the Home Ec. girls. Junior dance. First activity of the junior class—Long may They Wave. Union vs. Wallowa and Mr. Conklin, our ex-Supt. Well, I guess we showed him. Game with Enterprise at Enterprise. Union met her Waterloo. James Williams gave us a demonstration of liquid air teday in assembly. First time we knew there was such a thing. Football game with La Grar.de at La Grande. According to tradition the Tigers practically ate the Bobcats, couldn't do it again. In spite of good ball playing, Pendleton today took us for a nice, long ride. The student body put on three one-act plays today. Said plays were quite a success. Jack Rank gave a solo performance of a Shakespearean play in front of assembly today. He played all the parts and made the necessary changes of costume in a very few seconds time. Thanksgiving dance at the Commercial Club. Nov. 26 Thanksgiving holidays. Dec. 3 Basketball season starts. We got off on the wrong foot, evidently,

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Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Feb. because La Grande foiled us again. But maybe that is only natural. 10 Game with Athena. It was plenty close, but at the final gun the score was 28-26 in Athena’s favor. 11 Basketball squad went to Enterprise and won 28-23. Well, I’d say it was about time. 17 Union met Imbler in a game which chalked up another victory for us. Maybe we are getting started now. 18 Fast, rough game with Cove. Union won 18-13. 20 Union traveled to Baker and was badly defeated. Not enough spinach. 23 Christmas vacation. Student body party. 3 School reopens. 6 Union 32; Cove 26 in game. 7 Union vs. Imbler. Union’s victory. 8 Union traveled to Hermiston to play first inter-league game. Because of the long ride, Union could not get started, and Hermiston won by a wide margin. 13 Union defeated Wallowa, but don’t get cocky, boys, you probably 14 Union clashed with the La Grande Tigers again. Sad to say their faces were very red when the Tigers tamed them a bit 21 In a slow game on the home floor, Union surprised North Powder by a little matter of ten points. 22 Bobcats traveled to Pendleton and lost by a big score. We gather that something must have been wrong. 27 In a fast well-played game, Union beat Elgin by 13 points. This was the first time Elgin had been defeated by more than 1 point this season, and it took Union to do it. Well, they do say the worm will turn, but sometimes it takes a long time. 28 Our team traveled to Athena on the other side of the Blue Mts. for the last time this season. Maybe it is all for the best, though, because we lost to them 52-26. 28 “Spain Yesterday and Today” was a moving picture shown in the high school auditorium portraying the former glory of Spain, and its present decline into ruin. 4 Home game with Enterprise in which Union again walked off with a victory.