Watsonville High School - Manzanita Yearbook (Watsonville, CA)

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DOUGLAS JENKINS : Class president '20 and '21g cast Midsummer Night's Dream '21g cast i'Schoolmistress,' '22g Cadet Ma- jor '21 and 2'2g football '20 and ,213 Class treasurer '19 and '20. ' REUBEN TUTTLE: Yell leader '21 and '22g Manzanita '22g baseball '21g assistant band master 22. STANLEY THOMPSON: Frosh president '18 and 'l9g rifle team '20 and '22g State Cadet school '20g football '22g assistant editor Manzanita '22g First Lieutenant Co. 30. MERLIN BRYAN: Student Body president '21-'22g member rifle . team '21 and '22g cap- tain Co. 305 track ,225 member Exe- cutive Committee ,21 and '22, WALLACE CHRISTENSEN: Track '19 and '22g football ,215 bas- ket ball '22g Class track '19 and '22,

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PETER FREIERMUTH: Yell leader 120 and '2lg Class tennis '21 and 122g Class track '21 and '22g track '22g cast Midsummer Nigl1t's Dream '2lg Senior stunt '22, HARRY HOLMES: First Lieutenant bruldi Radio Club '22, 4 IC RNEST FUJT MOTO: Basket ball ,2l and '22g traek '20, '21 and '22g Class track '20. '21 and '22g Class basket hall '22. LAXVRENCE KELLY: School reporter '21 and '22g Class reporter '2lg Senior stunt '22.

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Senior History FROSH YEAR One beautiful morning in August. l9l8. a band of travelers landed on the shores of VVatsonville Union High School. They had safely crossed that wide Sea of Graduation: consequently it was a merry little group that taked joyfully together on the beach. The pilgrims hastened to a large building which stood near. Here they registered, some for a two-days' journey, and others for a four-years' journey through that beautiful land from which so much knowledge might be gained if one but used his eyes and looked about him. The travelers were accosted by stern-looking men and women who took their names and addresses and gave them in return a slip of paper which told them what they should do in that strange land. The travelers felt very weak and bewildered there among so many- strangers, so they meekly asked for a guide. In this way Miss Cox became their first guide. They inimedately rushed to her side for protection from certain wild-looking creatures who said they were Sophomores and Seniors. The travelers, who were called Freshmen by the other people of the new country. soon found that they had a few friends. There people introduced themselves as Juniors, called the Freshmen together, and told them they should organize their people in order to be better able to fight the battles. ' But all was not easy going in this beautiful land, for the Fresh- men were soon drawn into battle in the form of a tug-of-war with those wicked Sophomores. Of course, the Freshmen were victorious. There was an eclipse in the early part of that first year.. caused by the Spanish Influenza, on account of which the class had some diffi- culty in getting started. The Freshmen were very charitable and gave money along the way for patriotic causes such as War Stamps and Red Cross. They also adopted a mascot in the form of a French VVar Orphan. The year was slowly drawing to a close, so the Freshmen met to choose new officers for the next year. before retiring for vacation. Helen Philips wes elected president. Wallace Jackson vice-president. Ose Koch secretary, Douglas Jenkins treasurer. Preston Mclllwing yell-leader, Edith Devine class reporter, and Elwood Bridgewater athletic manager. Sophomore Year The sun had not yet risen on that second year when the Pil- grims. anxious to be started on their way. were bustling around camp. They were not so inexperienced as they had been the year before, so they were given the name Sophomores. ll8l