Vernonia High School - Memolog Yearbook (Vernonia, OR)

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OCTOBER 3—The new Pep Club members were initiated in billowing nightgowns. Our men of the gridiron took Clatskanie, 50-0. Game receipts were $93.35. Martha Tapp was elected S. B. treasurer during an entertaining student meeting—assembly program. OCTOBER 9—The girls' sextette was completed and began some good and useful practice. OCTOBER 10—Football boys came home with another logging” to their credit. This time it was Rainier with a score of 19-0. OCTOBER 14—Had an entertaining animal show at the grade school. OCTOBER 17—Well, it's the end of the first six weeks, with fourteen students on the honor roll. The Loggers walloped Seaside, 20-0. The new grandstand on Park Field was used for the first time. Lieutenant Red MacDonald visited. OCTOBER 20—Our football team was mentioned over a nationwide hookup as one of the sixteen schools in the U. S. which has been unbeaten, untied, and unscored upon. Seniors chose blue and white for their class colors, and The Higher We Rise,the Broader the View , for their motto. OCTOBER 23—Scappoose was burned in effigy at a bonfire at Park Field. A plenty good serpentine preceded it. Delegates for the Press Conference at Eugene left today. Individuality of the Timberline heading was changed. Freshmen sold tags in the shape of footballs. Exchange papers are pouring in. OCTOBER 24—By beating Scappoose, 26-0, the Loggers won the Columbia County football championship. OCTOBER 28—A noon hour victory dance was held to celebrate the good fortune of the football team and the Timberline, which was placed second at the Press Conference. f OCTOBER 31—Loggers slaughtered Hill Military with a score of 60-0. Vernonia underwent a test blackout in the evening. The Errend-1 Hodgson romance is well underway. 0 NOVEMBER 1—Sadie Hawkins' dance was held in the gym. NOVEMBER 7—Timberliners stood out in the cold gray dawn to hand 9 out papers to the football squad before they departed for a game with Prineville. This was the game in which the Loggers suffered defeat. The score was 19-14. There was an Armistice Day program at the grade school.

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°S the S1H1 SC1H]©©IL September 1941 May 1942 SEPTEMBER 8, 1941—Well-tanned students entered V. H. S. for a-nother enlightening school year. Some of the former Birkenfeld students are going to adopt V. H. S. as the Birkenfeld district has disbanded. Student body ticket sales began today. For something new and unusual,the Timberline was distributed on the first day of school. This year we'll have the thrill of seeing our football games at night, for this summer, lights were installed on Park Field. SEPTEMBER 12—We elected class officers today. Each of the teachers was assigned a class to which he will act as an adviser. Patsy and Clair have made up again after a summer's recess. The football squad made the highest score at the Hillsboro opener. SEPTEMBER 15—The seniors selected their announcements. SEPTEMBER 19—The Loggers received the highest score (27) in the Columbia County foothall opener at St. Helens. Pep girls made blue and gold shakers for the game. SEPTEMBER 20—The seniors led the S. B. ticket sales with 100$. SEPTEMBER 21—Male members of the faculty and student body are spending their weekends deer hunting. Cloice's car tires were flattened when fifteen kids piled in. SEPTEMBER 22—We had our first National School Assembly at the grade school. Two musicians performed. SEPTEMBER 23—Lewis Adams was chosen to be chief of the fire squad which was also selected today. SEPTEMBER 26—The frosh ended their harrowing initiation today with a fun-filled assembly. Timberline received First Place Award from the Quill and Scroll Critical Service. Mary Lee Hall won the Timber- line subscription race. The Loggers beat St. Helens, 18-0. SEPTEMBER 29—Teachers attended the Columbia County Institute. OCTOBER 1—Federal tax went into effect, taxing school functions which charge admission. Oh woe '.

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NOVEMBER 8—Girls' Leaguers acted as hostesses for the successful convention at the Washington Grade School. Mrs. Buena Maris, Dean of Women at 0. S. C., was the main speaker of the day. NOVEMBER 12—The girls began an interclass volleyball tournament. NOVEMBER 13—The seniors decked out in finery and had their individual class pictures taken. NOVEMBER 16—Our football second squad beat Parkrose 19-0. NOVEMBER 17—Judith Ann was born to Mrs. Prescott, a former teacher of V. H. S. NOVEMBER 18—Class group pictures were taken. NOVEMBER 19—Jack Nashem completed a large magazine and paper rack for library use. Lillian Laird is busy telling of her trip to the Atlantic coast and back. NOVEMBER 24—Junior play tryouts were held. NOVEMBER 25—Tuberculin tests vrere administered to 158 students, Mrs. Hearing underwent an appendectomy and Allice Hoffman Tower subbed for her. NOVEMBER 27—Thanksgiving'. The Loggers made turkey out of Springfield, victoriously emerging from the mud with a score of 35-14. NOVEMBER 28—S.udent body plays were given at the Washington Grade School. Sixty dollars was made. DECEMBER 2—Mr. Wood, a noted cartoohist, entertained us at the Washington Grade School, Really good'. DECEMBER 4—The Timberline appears without Tattler. Much holler. DECEMBER 5—Our basketball team defeated the Forest Grove Vikings. DECEMBER 7—Hawaiian Islands were bombed by Japanese air squadrons. DECEMBER 8—During an assembly program, we listened to President R«osevelt's radio address to congress and the nation.