Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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THE BOBCAT Page 13 Senior Class History The year of ’42 promised to be an interesting one for the Senior Class. Since this was the last year of high school for the seniors, most of them decided to start out right. The Senior boys were very interested in sports, so a large majority turned out lor football practice. Most of these were on the team, many earning their letters. Hill Gale was named the most valuable member of the team receiving the trophy. Work was started on the Senior one-act play, “Who Gets the Car Tonight?” A the result of much work, this play won first place in the one-act play contest. Lucille Keys and Boh Pike were chosen the outstanding Senior .actor and actress. The boys of the Senior Class stepped out and showed the underclassmen how to play basketball by winning the inter-class basketball tournament. The girls didn’t want to lx behind and tried very hard to win their tournament, hut luck was against them and they took second place in the girls’ inter-class tournament. An outstanding feature of the year was a contest sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution to pick the outstanding Senior girl in the state of Oregon who was to receive an all-expense trip to Washington, D. C. The Senior Class selected Barbara Galle, Eleanor Richards and Lucille Hutchinson to compete for this honor. The faculty chose one girl, Lucille Hutchinson, to represent the school. She competed for Union High School in the county; and was once more chosen. The county lx ard then sent Lucille’s name to the state committee at Salem where all the names were put in a hat and one drawn. But alas! Lucille’s luck had changed because the lucky girl was a girl from Pendleton. Another honor came to a member of the Senior Class when Bill Gale won the Union Pacific Scholarship which pays $100 tuition and a roundtrip ticket to Oregon State College. The qualifications needed to get this scholarship are the student’s scholastic standing, his activity record, and a high rating on his record hook and in the Agricultural classes. The District F. F. A. Public Speaking Contest was held at Union High School March 13 and 14. Bill Gale took top honors with a first in the public speaking division. Bill won the State Contest at Portland, so he will go to Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 4th to compete against eleven other state winners. The Seniors entered the inter-class debate and were victorious, the affirmative having no defeats. The Senior affirmative team was Lucille Hutchinson, Carolyn Withycombe, and Boh Pike. Negative team was Nancy Cosner and Georgia Me Mi Ilian. The Senior Class, always ready to try new ideas, presented “The Night of January 16, the class play, in penthouse style. This scene was in a court room; the cast being among the audience, just as people do in an actual court. The townspeople took great interest and cooperated to the fullest extent by being the jury. They brought back their verdict and were then surprised by the Judge’s remarks, who said that all jurors names were stricken off the jurors’ records for five years. A very important event in the Senior year is the choosing of a gift for the school. The Seniors, like many before them, gave this matter much deep thought, and decided upon a suitable gift, a new movie screen. This is the type that can lx folded and put in the office for safe-keeping. The Seniors hope that much benefit may be derived from this gift. Last hut not least, in a Senior’s life is the all-important Skip Day.” This year, due to the gas and tire rationing, the Seniors didn’t stray far from home, spending the day at Bingham Springs near Pendleton. This spot offered much in the way of entertainment—horseback riding, swimming, hiking, and dancing filled the ticket for most of the class. Once more a class has moved on into a world of opportunity. What is to become of them, no one knows. However, may much luck and happiness be theirs.

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— THE BOBCAT Paqe 12 BETTY SMITH “Smilty” Years at Union 4. Home Ec. Club 1-2-4, Band 3-4. Girls League 1-2-3-4, Gym 1-2-3. BETTY SIM KICK “Spike” Years at Union 4. Home Ec. Club 1-3-4. Glee Club 1. Gym 1-2, Girls League 1-2-3-4. ROSEMARY TURNER “Turner” Years at Union 4. Home Ec. Club 1-2-4. Glee Club 1-4, Operetta 1. Girls League 1-2-3-4. Gvm 1-2-3-4. All Star 2-3-4. Honor Roll 1-3-4. U-Hi Staff 3-4. Bobcat Staff 3-4. Dramatics 1-2-3. Thespian 2-3-4. Secretary 3. Debate 3. Class Play 3. ALLAN WHITE. Years at Union 3, Transferred from Xyssa. Band 3-4. Glee Club 2-3-4, Operetta 3. Football 3-4, Track 3. Honor Roll 2. Bobcat Staff 3. Debate 3, Class Vice-Pres. 3. NORMA WIGLESWORTH “iViggic” Years at Union 4, Home Ec. Club 1-2-4, Glee Club 2, Girls League 1-2-3-4. Gym 1-2-3-4. Dramatics 4. Student Body Treasurer 4. CAROLYN WITHYCOMBE “Slug” Years at Union 4. Home Ec. Club 2-3-4, Reporter 2-3, Convention 2, Band 1-2-3-4, Girls League 1 -2-3-4, Vice-President 3. Reporter 2, Sec’y 1. Gym 1-2-3, Honor Roll 2-4, U-Hi Editor 3. Town Paper 4, Bobcat 3. Staff 2. Quill and Scroll 4. Thespian Club 3-4. Parliamentarian 4, Debate 4, Speech Winner 3. GUY VAUGHN. Years at Union 4. Glee Club 1-2-3-4. Operetta 3. Football 3-4. I.ettermens Club 4. Dramatics 2. Class Play 4.

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THE BOBCAT Paqe 14 Senior Class Prophecy “V FOR VICTORY!” Graduation—Seniors—Caps and gowns. The band strikes the key note of Pomp and Chivalry, lights are lowered and heads turn. Thirty Seniors with anxious hearts solemnly march to the goal of four years ambition. The usual ceremony—and thirty Seniors rise—step down the three steps from the platform to the floor, dot, dot, dot, dash ... — ”V for Victory.” 1942—and America is engaged in war—at the point of the V” willfully striding to the top—for Victory and Freedom! Eyes upon the “V”, the thirty Seniors start into the future. In the distance we faintly hear the familiar strains of Beethoven’s Symphony, (adopted by the “V for Victory” campaign) played by the Philadelphia Symphonic Orchestra, under the direction of the guest conductor Allan White. At the outmost tip of the baton in the grandeur left sweep for the crescendo is Lucille Hutchinson, nationally known music critic, who is rapidly taking notes for the music reviews of the late editions. Far off in the l)u Pont Laboratory behind the experimental tubes and chemical apparatus Bob Pike and Wilburn Aston have just completed a formula which produces a new synthetic rubber, estimated to be capable of matching the strength of Superman. Outside the laboratory door a pack of newspaper men stand impatiently waiting, with cameras and flash bulbs, for the appearance of the two newly discovered scientists. But, wait! Preceding all of the other reporters and closest to the door is Earnest Bates, or better known to the public by his pen name from his daily internationally read columns as “Pluto.” He is ready to scoop the story for the “Withy-combe Special”, a daily newspaper designed especially to simplify jokes and run an additional page of funnies, guaranteed circulation of six billion, edited by our ingenious classmate Carolyn Withycombe, ably assisted by Eleanor Richards, who spends her spare time holding her record as the World’s best Majorette. Donald Nelson has recently employed two new secretaries, Barbara Gallc and Betty Counsell, his left and right-hand men, and now production has increased one-hundred per cent. Behind the drawing specifications and blue prints at Boeing Aircraft, Jerry Bateman is just completing plans for a B-20, and as an avocation draws daily comic strips for the “Withycombe Special.” Young Americans learning the fundamentals of subtraction are under the very able supervision of Betty Spiker and Laura Morrison. Freida Posey is especially busy with her Civilian Defense jobs, and also is conducting Red Cross Classes; and speaking of Red Cross, Rosemary Turner, a trained nurse, is working under the emblem in the Kodiak Base at Alaska. Hurrah for the Three Musketeers promoting good will. Nancy Cosner is an exchange student at Guatemala, while her friend, Georgia McMillan is busy mastering the Spanish language for her missionary service. Betty Smith is working as a foreign service interpreter in Honduras. On duty at the Airplane Detector Station are Lucille Keys and Georgene Ham, who are very busy learning the technique from the instructor. Mary Lindsay has just signed a contract with the U. S. O. to be a hostess at the Pacific Coast Training Stations. The government program is well under way. and Jeanne McMillan is conducting special nutrition classes concerning substitutes for sugar, to American home-