Wilson High School - Nova Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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SKIP LAW and RONNIE HOHEIM lunior Prom Co-Chairmen STEVE GOULD. KAREN NERO, and MARGARET FLORA Rummaoe Sale Co-Chairmen OR the members of the lunior Class, 1961 was quite an eventful year. ln it they enjoyed their first year as upperclassmen and looked forward to '62 - their year as big men on the Wilson campus. The year '61 was crowded With events-merit tests and thoughts of the now not-so-distant college, in math an introduc- tion to sin, cos, and tan, in Lit. to St. Exuperey and Macbeth , in history to the Bonnie Blue Flag and Rob- ber Barons. Outside the small World of tests and classes Was a second World - that of candy sales, pep buses, plays and operettas, Iunior Rummage Sales and Proms, football games, bake sales, Homecoming, and together, these two Worlds of activity constituted 1961, a half-Way mark and prelude to an important year. Members of Junior Class Enjng First Yea IAYNE SEASTROM Vice President One Hundred Four IOE GRANDE President SHARON ROREM IAN LE VEQUE Secretary Treasurer B2

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E3 opinn BIRD IEFF WOLVERTON Girls' Representative BOYS' Repfesenfdlive MR. WINGARD Advisor MR. MARTIN Advisor School Life, Looks Forward to Coming Years On September 7, l960, over 700 sophomore entered Wilson and embarked upon the unforgettable period of fun and study known as high school. The first few days weren't easy, sophomores, hopelessly lost in the rush between classes, reluctantly carried the books of the upperclassmen and suffered various other indignities of initiation. With relief they welcomed the Howdy Dance, which marked the end of initiation with an evening of fun and music. Later, at the Turkey Day Game, sophomores indus- triously sold booster ribbons to augment their treasury Similiar activities crowded their calendar throughout the year. The Sophomore May Dance climaxed the first of three busy years for Wilson's Class of '63, COLORS' Day - one of the sophs' more brilliant ideas ALEETA WRIGHT and BURGESS BAUDER May Dance Co-Chairmen One Hundred Three

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The ambitious Class of '62 came close to outstepping their upperclassmen in the quantity and quality of social and money-making projects this year. Their first project, the annual rummage sale of Novem- ber 25th and 26th, met with especialfinancial successg perhaps because of the beautiful Indian Summer or an unusually industrious class of promoters. The Iunior Prom, Spangled Splendor, was the first semi-forrnal dance of the year and attracted many Sophomores and Seniors as well as Iuniors and -1 their dates. Booster ribbon sales and other fund raising and social functions crowded the l96U-6l lunior calendar. The busy Iuniors climaxed the year with the annual Farewell to Seniors dance held late in the spring. IOE AALBUE, DIANE TATUM, and LYNN GULLETT Farewell to Seniors Dance Co-Chairmen IUNIORS triumph in Howdy Week's annual Tug'O'War. s llpperclasemen, Prepare ter Senior Year IEANNE ROSENBLADT GEORGE ALEXANDER Girls' ReDI'9Se1'lldliVe BOYS' Representative 62 MR. NELSON MR. ROALKVAM Advisor Advisor One Hundred Five