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About The amplifier. (West Linn, Oregon) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1950)
PageTwo . THE AMPLIFIER Friday, March 10, 1950 We Amplifier r Bernie Herrmann's Clothesline Twelve Publications by the Journalism Class "______ of West Linn High School Editor-in-Chief....,.................................. Shirley Calder Business Manager.................... ... ...........Aubrey Sharp Sports Editor.,....^......;,....!...^-------- .................. ............ Bob Scholer Exchange Editor....... , ............ ....... Shirley Helms Reporters........ Gordon Dickinson, Betty Weibel, Jim Thornburg, Wayne Fero, Jean Smith, Arlene DeNeui, Ken Palmer Staff Typist....................................... Edward Bradshaw Advisor..;.,..«,,.....,................. ....... :.... ............ .Miss Marjorie Sinclair SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR 85c Student Body Members $1.00 Non-Student Body Members Tra-la, tra-la! Spring is here and so is the Junior Prom and some of the surprise couples for the occasion are as follows: Jim O'Donnell and June Stonee, Ted Scholer and Sue Ralston, Earl Miller and Sue Earlenbaugh, Dave Grey and Sue Smalley, Harold Adrian and Thelma Par rish, Rodney Bowdish and Dodie Church, Pete Bell and Bonna Fritclue, Stan Blue and Helen Bertilson, and Gib Kingsbury will be with Ann Gribble. “We” Like Them! t'HpHANK GOODNESS, elections are over for this year!” ■ “I think another election should be held i I didn’t vote for some of the students who were elected. Do you think they, counted the votes correctly?” Again this year, as in past years, some students are still wondering how student body elections could “possibly have been fair” when their personally backed candidates received no office. Of coure, we should realize the fact that not every body can be satisfied by the outcome of a student body elec tion and that some of us have to lose This brings us down to this year’s voting and campaigning. Let us acknowledge the fact that many capable and com-; petent candidates were in the running this year and we all know that ours was a difficult choice to make. In many cases, perhaps two,of our very best friends were opposing each other for the same office, and we had to make a decision one way or i the other. Using much discretion in the matter, we finally marked our X on the dotted line and slipped the paper into the ballot box. For the next few hours we waited breathlessly for that announcement on the final count and, if our candidate lost,i we could not help experiencing a feeling of regret for that is only natural; however, in the days that followed, we began to realise tkat perhaps the student body hadn’t made such a disastrous choice. And finally, it wasn’t the student body any, longer it was “we.” .Now “we’re” certain “we’ve” made a wise choice, so let’s stay behind our new student body officers and let them know “we all” want them and will support them. Did You Know This ? Do you know any correct rules for etiquette around .the school? jvlosf students have ä fair fledge, about the regulations oh home etiquette, but here’s the low-down <nd a few points on courtesy at school. THROUGH THE CORRIDORS If you rush pell-mell out of a classroom and go bumping down the corridors, you will have to stop several times to apologize for jolts you adminis ter and probably to pick up books you have knocked from someone’« hands—so what good haß violent hurry done you? Satmtetihg along yith your arms clasped around ä friend on each side is disastrous to traf fic? in the halls. If you meet a friend and want to talk for a minute, get out of the passage ways for your. chat. When waiting with a crowd for the door to open, doii’t let the opening of the doors be a signal to push forward with treinendous force. Keep your weight -on your own feet instead of-putting it against another’s back. Stand aSide and let the teach er or a fellow student who is visiting, go first. Annuals Should Be Ordered Right Away The'’Annuals are now on sale in the student body office dur ing:' the ,nöon hours. Subscrip tions are' $2.50 per copy? The Annual would - like snap shots for the.snap section of the publication. The snaps must be of West Linn students but need not be taken at the high school. If you wish your snapshots back, write your name on the back of themT^Turn them in to Betty Weibel or Miss Ringham. \ J/ / r -J _ Bill Brown Bill Wash Bill White ■—........ Pat Finn Pat Irish Pat Finr^gan ON THE GROUNDS Be proud of the “front” your school puts up to the commu nity.. This means keeping the grounds free of rubbish. The janitor can not always be be hind you to pick up fruit peel ings, lunch wrappings, and the like. You can easily acquire the habit of taking them to a con tainer. Your conduct on enter ing and leaving the grounds also reflects on the school. IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL It is nearly always the same people who make a last minute dash for the assembly and come in breathlessly to find a seat. Having taken your seat quietly, behave yourself as you would in any public auditorium. Squirming, whispering and foot scrapping are labels of the un derbred.; Try to be interested in the program for your own sake. People who are easily bored and close their minds to ideas and happenings are painfully likely to become boring themselves. But even if you are not enter tained, you can at least appear attentive and not disturb those Who may be enjoying the pro- cedings. An outside speaker deserves all the courtesy you can show him because he is your guest. What must be the impression a school makes upon a person who has accepted an invitation to address the students if there is even faint groan or boo or any other form of. impoliteness. Applause, is the accepted method to show appreciation for a talk or musical number, but not long and boisterious dap ping. Do not be in such haste to applaud that you begin be fore it is certain the song or piano selection is finished. Do not keep up applause for an en core when a singer or musician shows he does not wish to give, one. Whistling and tapping the. floor with the feet are, of course, outNof place. Some K>f ,the old standbys to make an appearance will be Aubrey Sharp and Janet Sher man, Alden Rondeau and Joyce Schaber, Bert Stein and Jane Culver, and Bob Scholer and his grandmother. Dan Cupid is shooting long range arrows from across the river, or so, it seems,, from the reports about Peg Lander and Art Arliano, Bob Greenwood and "Toots" and Don Penney with Donna Van Lanningham. Heisler Hails Horses By SHIRLEY HELMS I’ll bet that you don’t know half the people around your own school as well as you should! Now, take for instance, Joyce Heisler, a 16 year old junior, and an honor student at that. You know her ^hen you see her; speeding down the halls oe- tween classes and speak to her, but Could thdt be considered really knowing her? Let’s take a glance at hfer in every day life, shall we? HORRIES SAID TO BE NUMEROUS Hobbies are interesting and our gal Joyce has many, but her special one is those four-legged kickin’ thingSL-ua^lled... “horses'" Taking after her father who rides in the Clackamas County Posse, she is quite interested in owning her own horse ranch, and doing her own . training when she gets older. Duke, her “one and only,” is a beautiful 7 year- old bay. He has been shown several times at different stock shows, the Pacific International stock show and other local horse shows. At any time of night oi* day when some kind of animal show is going on. which hap pens frequently at the neighbor ing farms, on goes her jeans and a saddle on Duke and Joyce is off. MOUNTAINS VISITED FREQUENTLY During the summers Joyce’s favorite spot is the mountains. For the past couple of summers Joyce and her father have visited various Oregon scenic lakes and Mt. Jefferson. With horse trail ers hooked onto their cars, the Heislers go a%J;ar as the roads can possibly take them; then when they can get no further, out comes the camping equip ment and off They go exploring the hills for a few days by horseback. They have adven tured as far as Squaw Moun tain. INTEREST IN OTHERS DISPLAYED Joyce’s eyes are also always on the people. Yes, she feels that charity should begin at home. She cannot understand why the Navajo Indians, who are Americans more than anyone else, “still get a raw deal.” In the coming summer Joyce plans to donate her services working as a nurse’s aide. If the work appeals to her,, she plans tq capry on with nurses’ training,and study for a degree after she graduates. Joyce has been aroimd sick people quite a bit-to see how they are being treated. She hasr'attended vari ous talent shows at Veterans’ hospitals with the Red Cross of which she is a council member here at West Linn. She is also an active member at the county headquarters of the Red Cross in Oregon Ctiy. ARTIST'S GOLD KEY AWARD WON Her favorite class in school is art. Art seems to come very naturally to Joyce; she has just recently won recognition when sending an oil painting of a “Dark Alley” in Oregon City to the National Scholastic Art con test which Meier and Franks were sponsoring a few weeks ago. Your “Amp” reporter asked her if she had heard from then yet. Holding a letter out, she replied, “Yes, I did and they sent me a silly looking an nouncement that I had won a gold key and that my picture will be sent to Pittsburgh.” When. congratulated, all she did was. solemnly sit down and reply, “I think they have rocks in their heads,” over and over again. Yes, people are swell when you really get to know them. Carlson, and Sue Ralston and Gary McMurray. Congratulations, Joan Elliott, the final date is May 30. Yes, students, an,d here is a final reminder that those beau tiful Jantzen sweaters in all of the spring pastel shades arb down, at Bernie Herrmann's, so drop in and see them soon. —Pd. Adv. LOOK OUT. FELLOWS! Below are listed the results of a poll taken among the girls in the home economics classes. The question asked was, “What are the qualities girls find- desirable in husbands?” Fellows! You don’t have to be tall, dark, and handsome to win the women! In fact, good looks are listed as twenty-first on the poll, and you short guys don’t have to feel bad, either. Num ber twenty on the poll states that the ideal husband must be “taller than I.” Most important to the girls is consideration which ranks first on the questionnaire. Listed below are the other qualifications. 1. Consideration. 2. Companionship. 3.. Provides financial security. 4. Helps with housework. 5. Moderate drinker. 6. Controls tdmper. 7. Likes children. In a recent poll conducted at 8. Well groomed. 9. Good manners. Newberg High school, 375 of the 550 enrolled students voted in 10. Ambitious. favor of outlawing the Commu 11. Well educated. 12. Trustworthy. nist party in America. At Springfield one of the 13. Responsible. freshmen English classes has 14. Independent of Mother. become quite in ternational 15. Affectionate. minded. They have begun corre 16. Good conversationalist. sponding with foreign students 17. .Not conceited. their own age all over the world. 18. Sense of humor. 19. Religious Eugene High school’s Bep club 20. Taller . than I. must have had the same idea 21. Good looking. as West Linn’s student council, 22. Not jealous. for they recently sponsored an assembly which, from all re ports, brought to the attention There are traces of jazz in of nearly every student the need many of the so-called classical for courtesy in the school’s as compositions.—GEORGE GERSH WIN. semblies. From The Mailbox Once again the mailman has come to West Linn and what has he brought? -The “Amp’s little drawer in the offiee isn’t over flowing because Santa just paid a belated visit. In news around the league it appears that the Hillsboro root ers are really enthusiastic. A new booster club has been or ganized by the school’s yell leaders and .^ny student who attends at least the home games wears a white shirt or blouse, sits in the reserved section, and Yells can be a member. ,• Hillsboro has also had three 'members of its TYV champion ship football team named to the st^te Shrine all-star team. Well, well, the “green hornet” is back again only Lowell Lan dis is driver and owner now. By the way, did you smell something in the school the other day? Yes, I thought so. Thee chemistry lab is at it again. Coach Catherwood, did you see that “poodv tat” , in the locker room after the Gresham game? Casanova Palmer is bn the prowl again and Thelma Parrish and Carolyn Heisley are, at the moment, the main objectives. With spring just around the corner, Shirley Helms has to for get her ski instructor for an other year. Say, Lester Louden, stores are not open at eleven o’clock every night and, anyway, you can’t drive your car in. Janie Culver will teach you to park your car. The long romances are coming slowly but. surely to . an end. Some of the unfortunates are Howard Howard and Ann Lan der, Thelma Parrish and Fred
