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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1967)
May 26, 1967 THE ÓRANTONIAN 5 From frosh breakfast Recollections for seniors to commencement by Casey Coughlin Our Class. Four years of high school are over forever, and the one thing that we will remem ber the most will be Our Class. The class of ’67 numbers well over 700 students: studious, care free, arrogant, intelligent, mis erable, glorious, sad young adults. Things that no other class has done, ours has. We are the most frank, blatant class ever to tromp through Grant’s hallowed halls. Our predecessors had their prob lems and were problems themselves, but on the whole were quiet, conforming types who didn’t cause teachers and the adminis tration that much trouble. We knew of the first “protest marchers”, and the rumors and deadly jealousies concerning the Rose Festival. We heard of crosses being burned on the front lawn in late January, and count ed the cop cars and paddy wag ons just for fun. We claimed we knew of narcotics agents posing as student teachers — our own underground. We had food fights in the cafeteria, adding to the general garbage, and joined in the so-called “race riots” down center hall — where the action was. We learned to smile for the news cameras as inside a teacher trying to stop a fight was hit himself—something before con sidered absolutely taboo. Something never attempt ed before was done—“Cam elot” — and, despite dis gruntled students and “I hope it’s a big flop,” turned out a huge success. We fussed about student body elections and the right of endorsement — and found out what a ‘real student newspaper’ was — a spider- ish attempt at breaking through their “dictatorship of school administration”. Traditions are never meant to be broken, but we have. We stopped the orderly chain of student-teacher blahness and tried to establish communication. FREE FREE We began looking at teachers as people, not as chalk-wielding gods/idiots whether we admired or despised them. In the last few months we realized that four years had passed and we still didn’t know all of ‘Our Class’. Time had passed since the Frosh Breakfast, and time had changed us. Physically, mentally, emo tionally. People we’d always hated and never knew turned out to be really great kids—and it was get ting too late. We learned not to depend on the same crowd, on ‘old’ or ‘best’ friends so much—we spread out, developed new interests. During these four years we’ve set ideas that will be ours for life. We got our licenses (drivers, some mar ried, started/stopped smoking/ drinking. We knew the seasons by bi-annual pledging, hearing stories of new and fiendish tor tures—by the pledgers and the administration. We were Dr. Kleiner’s children, babysat by Mr. Harding and turned over with hopes and rumors to Dr. Malo. “I heard he won’t let the girls wear sandals, even!” But this was nothing compared to rumors from Madison about a ban on patent-leather shoes. In September of ’63 we were told “Don’t walk down Knott ’cause then the seniors can beat ya up.” We were,scared that year, of teachers and of students, especially ourselevs. We learned each other’s name from our gym clothes, and square danced, and ran from class to class in the old four-minute mile race. The class of ’67 can re member having a jukebox in the cafeteria, and when little white tape lines were added, making a regulated traffic zone out of center hall. We never expected a new part to the cafeteria, nor our impromptu football field and seagull haven to become a science wing. FREE FREE We had wooden, splintery spoons, and four-minute breaks. Today is the last day. We have cried and celebrated, had parties even in the sternest of classes, and written all over every avail able Memoirs. We look forward to a class reunion in five years, and guess as to what we’ll all be like then. We have learned to hate some classes and love others, to agree with teachers or argue on basis of fact and reason rath er than emotion. We have learned how to select products for our selves with thought, We have learned choice. We have learned to accept «others even though we “can’t stand them”. We don’t judge anyone by adult standards of race, religion and social stand ing, we take them for what they are. We have learned tact and tolerance. We stopped having three-week love affairs, on boys/girls or teachers. We stopped believing that sports heroes and student government officers were neat- ies, our idols have become per sons. We stopped doing things for others just so that they would do things in return. We learned respect, and friendship. We question the aptness of having a no smoking ordinance and then watch teenagers pre tend not to notice. We just can’t see why a school board would insist on making a boy tuck in his shirttail and then hold back monies for his education. We’ve learned a lot. The class of ’68 has made their own mis takes, and no doubt will profit by them as we have. They are a smart, good group. They are finding out, as we did, that we can’t cruise Yaw’s forever. They will take up where we left off— as seniors at Grant, the best pos sible thing in the world to be. are from left, front row: Deb- bje Chung, vice-president; President Dan Percich and Secretary Nancy Herman. Standing are: Mike Soule and Marty Davis, sergeants-at-arms, and Treas urer Gary Cogill. mmm m I& mm »«. bopnomore Orriccrs Drugs to be subject of television show “The Mind Benders,” a graphic documentary about the serious problem of youth and drugs, will be telecast Saturday, June 3 from 8 to 8:30 p.m. in color on KATU, Channel 2. 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