University High School - Duckling Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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GIRLS' LEAGUE Ambitious members of the Girls' League were kept more than busy carry- ing out the full program planned for the year. At the Big and iLittle Sister Dance held at the beginning of school all girls became acquainted with the school and each other. Once more homes of school members were ransacked for the rummage sale. Early in November the student body enjoyed a good meal at the Girls' League Cafeteria. At the Doernbecher tea the school was once more overrun with cloth animals of every form and color. For the formal held in January, the auditorium was transformed into a winter wonderland and couples danced amid ,snow flakes and silvery winter scenes. Although Girls' League Day was held on Friday thirteenth, Lady Luck smiled broadly, especially on the sophomore class which walked off withethe cup. On that same evening the first Parents' Night in the school history was sponsored by the League for,the purpose of receiving eight dozen cups from the mothers. In the spring the traditional teas for Eugene High, Springfield High, and Roosevelt Junior High were held. Late in May the annual Mother and Daugh- ter Banquet was held at Gerlinger Hall. At the last assembly President Dorothy Denslow, Vice-President Mary Booth, Secretary Norma Rose Evans and Treasurer Jane Hall turned over the reins of government to the incoming officers. GIRLS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Intramural competition this year included basketball, swimming, tennis and hiking. ln two basketball games with Eugene High, the Uni-Hi girls won a like number of victories. ,Several hikes and swimming parties were held. Officers for the year included Betty iMae Lind, president, Alice Giustina, vice- president, Beth Winsted, secretary, and Anna Marie Huffaker, custodian. Leaders of sports were Jean Cramer, basketball, Lois Onthank, swimming, Mary Booth, tennis, and Billie Crawford, hiking. UNI-HI LIGHTS Under Jane Hall as editor, the Uni-Hi Lights made an immediate appear- ance this year. In order to gain the backing of the student body, the staff decided on an early edition, and completed their plans by publishing a paper in the first school week. This was volume l, number I of the Uni-Hi Lights, the name chosen to replace the outmodedrname, Code The first news extra at U. xH. S. was successful, published following the football victory over Eugene High. Under the expert guidance of Make-up Editor Maxine Glad, the paper took on the aspects of a finished lproduct, being made up in double page form with headlines made from a purchased set of headliners, Norman Holt, business manager, kept the paper self supporting without the use of advertising. SCIENCE CLUB The Boys' and Girls' Science Clubs combined at the beginning of the year and elected Walter Achterman as president and Lois Onthank secretary- treasurer. Throughout the year the members devoted themselves to private projects which occupied all of their spare time. The projects were varied in nature and proved very interesting. Regular meetings were held the last part of the year to make and prepare plans for an active year in i936-l937. 20

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HELVETIANS Unconquered by their unsuccessful l935 debateiseason, the Helvetians again started a debate campaign which resulted in the best debate season in University High School history. University High ,debaters won second place in the district, inclusive of five schools. First place was won by Roseburg by the scant margin of one point. Post season cross-question debates were held with Corvallis in April. De- baters who represented University High School in this activity were Ed Luckey, Bill Rosson, Ted Smith, Fred Waller, and Mary Katherine Crumbaker. Mr. Joseph Holaday was Helvetian adviser and debate coach. FRENCH CLUB The French Club of University High had a ,very successful second year. Meetings were held every two weeks. Informal discussions and short programs were given. Six new members were invested in the fall, bolstering the total membership to twenty. Jean Crites, president, and Ruby Orrick, secretary-treasurer, were the officers for the year. RIFLE CLUB Adding to the list of the school's activities, the University High Rifle Club was founded at the beginning of the fall term, for those students interested in the use and value of firearms. The club, which has Mr. Kerley as its adviser, electediLinden Leavitt as president, Jim Bennett as vice-president, and James Kroblen as secretary- treasurer. The R. O. T. C. rifle range was obtained every Tuesday and Thursday af- ternoon for practcie, but during the spring term the club was handicapped as the range was being remodeled. Next year the club hopes to have a range of its own. The club became a member of the National Rifle Association, permitting them to participate in national contests. RADIO GUILD An infant club of University High School is the Radio Guild. It was organ- ized in the fall to help girls understand and overcome their own personal ethical difficulties. The club derived its name from a radio program to which the girls listened to aid them in their difficulties. The officers elected were Anna Marie Huffaker, president, and Leota Whitelock, secretary-treasurer. PEP CLUB A new organization, promoted by the student council, made its appear- ance in U. H. S. White ralIy sweaters were worn by members who aided in game attendance and promotion of school spirit. Officers of ,the Pep Club were Ed Luckey, president, Beth Winsted, vice- president, Jane Anderson, secretary, Anna Marie Huffaker, treasurer, and Archie Zarewski and Alice Giustina, sergeants-at-arms. A swimming party for members of the club was planned as the year's final activity. I9

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THE CRYSTAL GAZER The crystal gazer sat and gazed into his glistening ball- The Figures shown within were clear, although so very small, And memorydhad not played him tricks, although twenty years had passe , For he knew all of them to be his high school senior class, He saw he face of Betty Jean Van Atta, fender queen, Manufacturing dentless fenders. Twenty years had passed between, But he knew dauntless Winsted with her calm and fearless look, As she put down rules of etiquette within her latest book, Of Donna's truant officers, none better were than Cook, Who chased unruly children from the grassy Dale and brook. A leading lady now appears, Juanita Williams grown In the thirteenth traveling unit, working under Major Blown. The next in line was Lalferty, the curly-headed sinner, He owned the dark horse, Breaststrok, last Kntucky Derby winner Don Stevenson was posing then as Johnny Saturday, Evangelist for twenty years, at last he'd learned to pray. In HarIem's blackest depths, a night club flourished well and grew. 'Twas run by Phoebe Breyman, as the crystal gazer knew. A part-LimevSanta Claus was Norman Holt, in Marshal Fields, Chicago s big department store, the crystal then revealed, Virginiiwhitelock hadn't changed-no power on earth could stunt er: She was, as she had ever been, the daring big game Hunter. Then Ed O'Reilly came alongsthe gazer now paid heed- Ed had invented wordless books for people who can't read. Kentucky Colonel Hollowwa, the army's shining star, Appeared as a brave veteran of all the future wars, And one more star. of movies now, romantic Archie John, As Percival Throckmorton, the screen's heart-twisting blond. Bill Rosson was a ping-pong champ, and how he swung those sticks! Hed'd won at the Olympics, then, in 1956. He saw, in black, Miss Huffaker, upon the city street, Salvation Army lassie, singing hymns with voice so sweet. He went quickly then to Podunk into Shirley's Beauty Box, Owned and run by Shirley Currin, covering a city block. Then the crystal gazer thought that surely glasses he must need, For he saw a Greyhound bus that had as driver, Danny Read. Within a courtroom dark and drear, on trial for bigamy, Bill Williams sat, with downcast face. In ever-gay Paree, Bob Beckman was a ladies' man, a hopeless play-boy case, The chronic laugh upon his lips, the smile upon his Face. Carl Petersen so sorry felt for pepole who drink cokes, That he invented hole-less straws so that they wouldn't choke. And Rose-nose Ray, the Houghton boy, the next in line was seen. He was the celebrated coach of Alcatraz' golf team. A Burley Bob he saw this time, a master of the dance, YVith Monte Carlo's ballet russe, he held one in a trance. Ted Smith a famous cook in Greece had now at last become, And chicken a la Ted had never failed to get quite done. George Craig as a brain specialist the gazer then could see, In a flea clinic spending all his time and energy. Virginia Hen-rke'd been his nurse, but long ago having left Eloping with a handsome flea, and leaving George bereft. Max Simpson, the propietor of an establishment Oft called an undertaking parlor, into banishment Helped bodies on their way, Walt Rush played in the Navy band A piccolo which squeaked beneath his unaccustomed hand. Next he saw the Thompson girl, with proud and haughty carriage, Upon her way to Reno, for her third successive marriage. Concentrated limhurger he came upon there, too, Made in a modern process by the modern Lillian Pugh. Official walter-upper of the keeper of the clock On the tall Empire State Building, on the very, very top Was Mildred Hechinger. Butch Olney, in the movies then, Play as the mighty Tarzan, srongest man of strongest men. Then came Soranson, who set all Ethiopia ajar By champion ditch-digging in Addis Ah-bah-bah-bah, While June Smith, the lovely matron in a lowly foundling home, Mothered all the darling infants, wishing they were all her own. The Trials of Tiny Tess Tearheart, drawn by the artist Green Appeared in all the papers from the syndicate called Queen, While Orva Ford, a model, was the pretty little lass That smiled upon the gazer from the Kleenall toothpaste ads. In the door of a small cottage, covered by the red, red rose, Feeding chickens in the garden, while she watered with a hose, Stood-Marge Clark. Though with others he had tried to be quite terse, He was so surprised a Marge he gave her all ofi this one verse. The crystal gazer then passed on, and found among the pills The Healy girl, inventing Healing ointment for one's ills. The greatest circulation in the lowapriced field of cars Was held by one make only-that of Manufacturer Bowers. The place of that great novelist, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Was taken by Miss Allen, in American readers' hearts! Nick Bohowitz, professor then of English Lit at Smith, Was thinking of his high school days as but a happy myth. Lomax and Mills were officials for the King ol England then, Daisy picker and fly catcher, experts truly were these men. And Lloyd Omlid, the dictator of Bolognawienerland, Ruled his sheeplike, wwenhg subjects with a heavy, east-hah haha. Jean Cramer, Curley Shen-iple was, the latest movie child, Delighting all the mammas, while she drove the kiddies wild. While Mr. Soward was, in his Art, the champion of the land? He'd lift his voice to call the hogs, and make them understand. Tom Taylor was in business, and as ever, in the red. He was a carpet maker, with his sample in his head. Catch-em-up Murdock, land she always gets her wormj Was the chief of the Gee women, never faltering in her turn. Margaret Rankin then had made her place in social life. Of a high rankin' army man she was the gracious wife. Charles Fox was one for whom the Fates had done a curious thing, For he held a position as song leader at Sing-Sing. Going by the name of Mitzi Miffleyu on Broadway, A tear-jerking torch singer, he found Denslow in her sway. While Clarice Tobbie'd broken all the rceords known, in flight Across a bunch of continents in just one day and night. Howard Elliott guaranteed to make a man of you In thirty days, if you would send for his free plan for you. And when the artist had grown tired of drawing Sweet Pea's face In Popeye, then the Jensen boy was hired in Sweet Pea's place. Ladies' Hats-Ye Faust Hat Shoppe-Sth Avenue, New York Then caught the crystal gazer's eye. He then saw, hard at work, Ed Luckey, as he practiced For the talking marathon, And the people who had lived near him, far, far away had gone. Coach of knitting teams at Harvard, where she'd been for twenty years was Jane Hall. The gazer hen saw, in his crystal an,-,ing hen, Maxine Glad, the leading washer woman then, of Willow Crick, So he turned the crystal quickly lest the suds become too thick. Edna Franson was first lady of America's fair land, In the reign of this Buzz Windrip, social students understand. Ended thus the long procession, now the crystal's on the shelf, And if one dislikes the answers, he may go to Chase himselfi 2l f 1 hit-1 . 4 so . ,,,,.,,