Vernonia High School - Memolog Yearbook (Vernonia, OR)

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E- [ V E R H I A N ] s Senior (Oa s $oem Yernonia High, our joy and pride. With you we fain would long abide, But duty calls us up and on. To meet life's battles when they dawn In future struggles large and small May we prove true blue one and all! Oh! Y. H. S. of twenty-four, Farewell to thee for evermore; We Seniors eight must part from you. Alas, and from each other too! —Benita Parker.

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a................[ V E R H I A N ]...........a jSenior TS7tU Last Will and Testament of the Class of ’24 We, the class of ’24, hoping that we are in our right minds, for once since we entered V. H. S., do solemnly give and bequeath the following: First: To our professor and teacher, Mr. Nash, our wishes for his success in finding a model senior class as good as we have been. Second: To our directors, who are fully as glad to see us graduate as we ourselves, the memory of the class of ’24. Third: To the Juniors, our Senior row, so they may watch nature through the windows. We trust they will revere and respect the desks. Fourth: To the Junior classmen our superior authority to kid the teachers. Fifth: To Mr. Owens, an ever-faithful, all the gum wrappers, chewed gum, popcorn, etc., that he finds behind the radiators. Sixth: To Miss Holaday the right to kid Mr. Nash and the school board. Seventh: To Margaret Smith, Margaret Tousley’s powder puff. Eighth: To Henry Kauppi, John Wharton’s ability with the Frosh. Ninth: Since we are taking Weston, we leave Albert Kelly or Ray Mills for a certain Freshman girl. Tenth: Benita Parker’s vampish ways to Mildred Bergerson. Eleventh: Blanche Bergerson’s “pull” in V. H. S. to Edith Wilson. Twelfth : Helen Brown’s “worries” to anyone who feels capable of assuming so great a responsibility, preferably Doris Akerstadt. Thirteenth: Eddie Condit’s popularity with “one” to Robert Hoffman. Fourteenth: Ernest Narver’s “Sheikie” ways to John Hatton. Fifteenth: To the Freshmen, our reverence and love for V. H. S. Sixteenth: To good ol’ V. H. S. some peace after our departure, a fond goodbye and our school spirit. We, the class as a whole, absolutely feeling well and sworn by Professor Nash that we are in our right minds, hereunto set our hand and seal this twenty-third day of May, 1924. (Seal) CLASS OF 1924, (Signed) Helen Brown, President. Signed, sealed, published and declared by Senior Class of ’24, as our last will and testament, in the presence of each other, hereunto subscribe our names as attesting witnesses to said instrument. Witnesses: Margaret Tousley. Ernest Narver. Blanche Bergerson. Weston Sheeley. Benita Parker. Helen Brown. Eddie Condit. John Wharton. —13—

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a.......................[ V E R H I A N ]:.....................a J)ropi)esp of Class of 1924 New York, May 23, 1943.—Miss Helen Brown has returned to New York from a lengthy trip to Paris and European cities, where she has been cultivating her ability to sing. Miss Brown was a student of Vernonia High School, graduating in 1924. After leaving school she studied voice in New York and was given her first opportunity by the Chicago Grand Opera. Miss Brown has planned on a trip to Oregon, where she will visit the town of her school days and where she hopes to meet many old friends.—New York Times. July 23, 1946.—Mr. Weston Sheelcy was recently nominated for the presidency in the Republican convention held at St. Louis. Mr. Sheeley attended high school at Vernonia, Oregon, and after a very successful career in high school studied at Harvard and later at Yale. Mr. Sheeley is a very capable man, noted for his oratory and breadth of keen perception and will be elected. He has twice been Governor of Oregon and once Mayor of Vernonia and will surely carry all Vernonia’s vote, as well as all of Columbia County. —Vernonia Eagle. Portland, Ore., Dec. 4, 1945.—Mr. and and Mrs. Edwin Condit have returned from a trip abroad, where they have been entertained in many historical places. Mr. Condit attended school in Vernonia, Ore., and after graduating from high school lived peacebly near that city for a number of years. In recent years he was made a millionaire by marrying Mary Crowfoot, a Comanche Indian of Oklahoma, who owned great oil wells in that country. He is expected to build a great mansion in Vernonia and reside there the rest of his days.—Oregonian. Vernonia, Ore., Feb. 6, 1935.—Mr. Ernest Narver was a Vernonia visitor this week, coming especially to get the order from the graduating class for rings and pins. He is traveling through Oregon and Washington for a Seattle house now, and seems to be very successful. He attended high school at Vernonia in 1924, when he graduated. While in the city he met many old friends and among his reminiscences he recalled how he helped “haul the woodpile down.”—Vernonia Eagle. New Orleans, La., Feb. 23, 1934.—Miss Margaret Tousley of Rochelle, La., has recently announced her engagement to Prince Alfonso of England. She and her parents will soon leave for New York to meet the Prince when he arrives from England on the President Wilson in March. Miss Tousley is a graduate of Vernonia High School and later attended Oxford, where she met the Prince. Congratulations are reaching her from all quarters.—New Orleans Tribune. St. Helen’s, Ore., July 23, 1933.—Miss Blanche E. Bergerson of Vernonia has purchased the newest model of airship, called the Monarch, which will set a fashion in the West. It was recently introduced in the East from Paris. Miss Bergerson graduated from Vernonia High in 1924 and very soon afterwards came into great wealth through an unknown uncle’s death in Alaska. She has many friends in Oregon and throughout the West.—Oregon Journal. St. Helens, Ore., Nov. 4, 1938.—Miss Benita Parker again announces her candidacy for Mayor of Vernonia. Miss Parker has made a startling political career by being elected to the Oregon Legislature, and hopes to win the title of Mayor for Vernonia. She graduated from the Vernonia High School in 1924 and studied law at Willamette University. She has many friends in Vernonia and throughout Oregon. Here’s to success, Miss Parker.—St. Helens Mist. Chicago, 111., May 21. 1934.—Mr. John Wharton has made a success at last. His latest book, called “Civil Government of U. S.,” has been adopted throughout Oregon for the high school course of study. He studied civics when Wm. Schrieber was in Vernonia High School, graduating in 1924. He announces that he will soon write a history which he hopes will be adopted for the same purpose.—Chicago Star. -15-