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16. THE GREEN YEARS Sir Robert Vmlpole once wrote, All history is a lie ' . The class of 48 class history is quite unbelievable but quite true. September 8, 1945--a day of rejoicing? No, it was a sad mournful day for the poor hardworking teachers. That is the day that the class of 48 crashed the gates of our freshman year. Remember us then--svi ee t innocent children with a mad desire for learnings. Coach Bader v as our new coach and many of our skinny athletes decided then to take football so as to greatly improve the sport. Can you ever forget the gym exhibition girls. J.lany of us found that the studying was quite hard but we somehow always mana: ed to pass the tests. New teachers (poor souls) were heralded with joy as they came to take the places of other teachers v;ho had suffered nervous breakdowns. Among these v e welcomed Liss Keenan, I.iiss I.ioody, Lir. Bader and kr. Dickerman. The big event of that year was our first dance that could be held at night. That was a big time all right, --imagine a dance with a real live juke box. Me then learned the procedure of writing out invitations to the teachers to act as chaperones at our dances. Many times the invitations v ould arrive the night alter the big dance--but that v as excused because we v ere young and inexperienced. (at least that v;as our excuse.) How we envied our big brother upperclassmen who could get out of classes for one reason or another. Most of our big wheels were then only little spokes. Somehow with luck we managed to get by those trying days of our freshman year with not too many casualties. Our Sopiiomore year was a little more daring. Some of our boys even got caught smoking. Our social prestige was ruined. It was that year of 1946 that our girls wrote the ancient and honorable Ode to Brade . Our gift to great literature. We welcomed Mr. Thurston, Mr. O ' Neil, Miss Whiting and Mill Montague as members of the faculty. ' We held many class dances and the adoption of movies was tried. It was that year that the girls played the teachers in basketball. We took it out on the poor teachers all right. There was many a twisted knee and a bloody nose after that battle. Do you remember those uproarious class meetings when poor Don Johnson tried to keep order.
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17 iVe withstood our sophomore year with one thought in mind — next year we would be in the U]jper brackets - that of our Junior year. V;e finally achieved the ranks of Juniors, a feat that deserved much praise. We were no longer inexperienced children but we had been transformed into mature young adults. (so our mothers thought) kiss O ' Neil, kr. Uppvall and kr. Stevens joined the r acuity at Vi estv ood. Our big event of the year v as the Junior prom which was held in Lay. It was our first major event and we strug- led through making it a big success. Already lectures were being ' iven about future plans after high school. New slang says v ere also invented by our aspiring Junior boys. The new look as we knov it now v;as not the same. The new look v as done by making hideous and grotesque facial expressions. Ask some of our girls how it was done. 1948 - The year of the atom bomb and the squirt gun. Anyone who walked down the corridor was not surprised to see a Sophis- ticated Senior with a squirt gun. The seventh grade was shocked with our conduct. Our first great event of that year was the football and basketball dances. The Senior Flay Gome Rain or Shine v as equally important. The whole class co-operated as never before to make this year something to remember. More slang sayings v ere introduced. Big Wheel was the nev and popular saying. The nev; look came into being and was not too popular v ith the boys. In reprisal for the long black skirts the girls v;ore, the boys began to roll up their cuffs to expose their argyle socks. Vi - owe a lot of thanks to Miss Keenan, Our class adviser, and to all the teachers who helped to make our green years happy ones.
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