VHS Commencement Ceremonies May 29
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By Vickie Pitt
Forty-eight seniors will participate in
the
sixty-fourth
annual
VHS
Commencement Ceremonies in the gym
on Friday, May 29, at 8:00 pm.
Pastor D. J. Dickey will provide the
invocation and benediction.
Mr. Tom McCall, former governor of
Oregon, will be the guest speaker. Mr.
McCall is presently employed, as an
editorial commentator at Channel 2 news
in Portland.
In 1968, Mr. McCall, then governor of
Oregon, was promoting kindergarten
programs throughout the state of Oregon.
Vernonia was. one of the few towns which
provided kindergarten for children. Mrs.
Virginia David, teacherx>f the cl^ss, was a
long-time acquaintance of the governor.
She invited him to speak at a special
graduation ceremony and he accepted.
On a spring day in 1968, Mr. McCall
addressed a group af youngsters, who are
now graduating from VHS;
In addition to Mr. McCall, there will be
two speakers from the class. Karen
Parrow and Kathi Rinks are salutatorian
and valedictorian, respectively.
Honor students of the class are Vickie
Pitt, Karen Parrow, Kathi Rinks, Lana
Green and Julie Gwin.
Top five graduating seniors for the class
of 1981 are (left to right) Lana Green,
Kathi Rinks, Karen Parrow, Julie Gwin
and Vickie Pitt.
Officers of the class are: president-
Shawn Stevens, vice-president- Ann
Serby, secretary- Pam Steele, treasuret-
Karen
Parrow,
student
council
representative- Cyndie Miner, and
sergeant-at-arms- Dick Titus.
Motto for the class is: ‘What lies before
us and what lies behind us are small
matters compared to what lies within us.’
Class colors are royal and sistine blues,
the flower is a blue-tipped carnation.
Serving Vernonia since 1933
Vernonia High School
THE LOGGERS"
Vol. 47, No. 7
May29,1981
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play review
VHS students put on a stunning performance
, By Tracy Wilkerson
‘Wow!’
‘That was great! ’
‘I was really surprised! ’
‘I really enjoyed it! ’
These are just a few of the comments
uttered as parents, grandparents,
brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles filed
out of the VHS gym on May 8 &9.
These families had just been awed by
the stunning performance of Conrad,
Albert, Rosie, and the rest of the cast in
the musical production of Bye, Bye
Birdie.
An outstanding job Cannot be
attributed to any one person; the entire
cast did a sensational job!
Amazingly, every person fit his or her
role and did a terrific job with it. Dave
Proehl and Debbie Jackson?, as Albert
Peterson and Rose Alverez, did
particularly fine jobs with their singing
and dancing. Albert’s Put On a Happy
Face, and Rose’s Spanish Rose, couldn’t
have been performed better in a
professional theater.
Shawn Stevens and Lila Harrison, as
Conrad Birdie and Mae Peterson, put an
astounding amount of effort into their
performances, also. Conrad sang like
Elvis, and Mae’s accent was Jewish to-a-
T.
' Brooke Crowston, . portraying Kim
MacAfee, was the epitome of a fifteen
year-old teenager.
Denise Tracy, Robert Jackson and
Mark Tracy, Doris, Harry and Randolph
MacAfee, looked and sounded exactly like
a middle-class American family of the
fifties must have.
Everyone in the teen chorus, teen trio,
and the shriners were always right on the
ball with their singing and dancing.
Others, including Ken Hostetler, as
Hugo, Monica Hogan, as the Mayor’s
wife, Guy Richardson, as the Mayor,
Melodie' Parrow as Gloria,Jack Price
as the policeman, and Tammy McMaster,
as the reporter, are also to be commended.
And who could forget Maude. ‘Charles
F. Maude,’ excellently portrayed by Mr.
Ward Nelson.
Technical aspects of the play, fulfilled
by staff and students were fantastic.
Musicians, Mr. Nelson on piano, Mrs.
Marilyn Van Winkle on the organ, Lori ,
Taylor on the guitar and Jim Westbrook
on percussion, deserve commendation for
the performance in the role of pulling the
show together.
Teamwork exhibited by the cast and
crew, helping out wherever it was needed,
was an excellent example of hard work.
Entire cast, crew, faculty advisors, and
directors, of Bye, Bye Birdie deserve the
deepest thanks for the hard work,, long
hours, and absolutely fantastic job they
did in bringing this play the Vernonia.
VHS Track Team goes to State
'Math is fun in '81!'
VHS mathemat ics students
participate in festival
By April Durst
This year, interested students had the
opportunity to participate in a math
festival on the PCC-Sylvania campus, on
April 25.
Five categories of competition were
offered, from general math to advanced
math skills.
Sonya Olson participated in the
Algebra 1 division.
Dave' Kleinman,
Heidi Heisterman, and Rod Hammerburg
participated in the geometry .division.
In the informal competitions, students
played games, like MATHO (very similar
to BINGO) in which to students solved
equations, then placed markers on a game
An ensemble from the chorus, including
senior members Salena McDonald,
Debbie Jackson and Denise Tracy will
perform We May Never Pass This Way
Again.
Mr. Art Parrow will take care of the
presentation of awards.
Junior class president, Leslie Sutherlin,
will be announcing the seniors’ names
while Mr. Randy Aultman, principal ot
VHS presents the diplomas.
Elementary
students
receive free
books through
RIF program
By Polli Goodman
RIF (Reading is Fundamental) could
stand for Reading is Fun. It is a project
that motivates kids to read and gives
them a positive attitude about books.
Each student in grades kindergarten
through sixth, are allowed to choose three
books from a display of more than three
hundred. They are encouraged to make
their own choices after browsing. The
books ar^ then order, and the children
receive them free of charge.
‘It is really satisfying to be involved in
[RIF]. It is exciting,’ said Mr. Dan Sevig,
district librarian. ‘There is something
special about a child owning his or her
own books and it is most satisfying to
give books to kids who have very few at
home.’
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Money for RIF books was raised
through a book fair. Profits totaled
$184 and $582 was added by the federal
government.
During the activity, 1116 books were
given away to children eager to read.
- Special thanks is extended to the
parents and teachers of the selection
committee who carefully chose the sample
books, and helped in the distribution.
Thanks to Mrs. Kathy Sevig, Mrs. Glenda
Delemos, Mrs. Delaittre, Mrs. Abbot,
Mrs. Vineyard, Mrs. Prohaska, and Mrs.
Cadwallader.
Entertaiment will be provided by the
VHS band, under the direction of Mr.
Ward Nelson. The group will play The
Battle Hymn of the Republic, and Stars
and Stripes Forever.
card, over the correct answer. ,
Another activity took the form of a
relay race in which students raced to a
table to answer questions geared to their
level of math.
T-shirts, stating ‘Math is fun in ‘81’,
were offered as prizes.
Other, more serious competitions,
offered scholarships and an opportunity
to advance to statewide competition.
‘We had some fun in ‘81,’ agreed Mr.
Mike McKee, advisor. ‘This was the first
festival for us. We’ll have a better idea of
what to prepare for next time. I think
everyone enjoyed it.’