Wilson High School - Nova Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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DAN MULLEN Vice President CARMELA LANTIERE DAVE SMITH Secretary Treasurer GARY DONION President Wilsu11's First Graduating Class Present PAULINE VASVVIG and DAVE DILORETO Senior Theme Dance Co-Chairmen SHARON ORWIG and RICK WARD Booster Ribbon Sale Co-Chairmen BURING the years in which Wilson's Class ot '61 was caught in the whirl ot high school activities, the United States gained Alaska and Hawaii as States and elected her thirty-fourth Presidentg Russia and the U. S. A. struggled in an exciting but grimly important race tor supremacy in the worlds of science and of rneng and a nation of Americans, in the tense years ot cold and not-so-cold war, sought to forget its problems in Beat- nik intellectualism, hula-hoops, and a rash of sophis- ticatedly risque films. ln this book the happenings of these years have been highlighted, because they are special years to us ot the graduating classg on these two pages we illuminate briefly one year - our last year - at Woodrow Wilson. One Hundred Six

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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

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ELISA PETERSON IIM HIGHSMITH Girls' Representative Boys' Representative 'Bl MRS. BOOTH Advisor MR. ROLEY Advisor ichool with Portrait oi Woodrow Wilson Struggling to overcome such disadvantages as a twenty-four hour Senior Week, the Class ot '61 managed nevertheless to enjoy an active last year of high school. ln autumn the class' ardent politicians heatedly argued the issues ot the Nixon-Kennedy presi- dential race. A few days after the election, however, Republicans, Democrats, and lndependents ot '61 united to present the school With an oil painting of President Wilson done by Mr. Phillips. The next month, December, found seniors selling basketball booster rib- bons to boost their sagging class treasury. Two dances, the Senior Theme Dance in Ianuary and the annual Senior Ball on April 8, Were the social highlights ot a truly enioyable senior year. CHERIE STRAYER and ION ARTHUR Senior Ball Co-Chairmen STUDENT Council measures seniors for cap and gown sizes. One Hundred Seven