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Library, U of O VOLUME 33, NUMBER 22 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON PHONE 191 10c COPY School Men Plan for Next Term During Summer Scholarship Awards Made At Graduation School is out and for the child- | ren it is vacation time. The build- ! ings are empty and quiet with I only a ghost of past echoes in the halls. However, for Supennten. detht Darrold Proehl and a group of public spirited citizens who are members of the board of di- | Joyce Akers Given rectors for school district 47 Jt., f S2000 C-Z Award; 6 there is no vacation. Throughout I Others Presented the summer they must be busy I Scholarship awards played an with school elections and the prob .mportant part in the graduation lems of getting everything ready exercises at Vernonia high school for the coming year. last Thursday night. PIONEERS PLAN SCHOOLS Topping the ljst was the $2000 The schools have ever been the | srnolarship offer 'd by the Crown. responsibility of public- spirited I Zellerbach corporation for a stu- men and women who sdhght for 1 ,®nt who intended to make a their children the best of every I career of teaching. This was thing including education. When > awarded to Joyce Akers and the the first pioneers came to the’; presentation was made by Glen upper Nehalem Valley in 1871, ' they soon began gathering to- | Hawkins. The Collins scholarship went to gether in the various homes for Margaret Buckley for study next religious services and to discuss \ ear at Oregon State College. It community problems. In 1875 was one of five awarded in Co ttjjey organized a school district lumbia county under terms of the which was designated as district v 11 of Gertrude F Collins who 12. and set about erecting a school established the scholarship fund by volunteer labor. Since the first I in memory of her husband, James settlers homesteaded northeast of j Harrison Collins. Vernonia in what we know as i Harriet Heath received the Riverview, the first school build- I Sears Roebuck Foundation home ing of hewn logs was erected economics scholarship. Only five about where the C. I Anderson cf these are awarded in the state. residence 'Is now and in the winter Charles O'Brien received a state of 1876-77, the first three month scholarship for tuition and fees term of school was taught there at Oregon State college. by Ozias Chernngton. Marcia Garner and Carlotta SMALL SCHOOLS BEGUN Hodgen both received full year Since roads were few and poor scholarships for study at the and transportation limited to ox Northwest Beauty academy in en and horses, as the valley was Portland and Odean Blount re settled, other schools were built to ceived a similar scholarship for a serve community groups. The six months course. second log school was near where Other awards included scho the Stoney Point road joins larship pins given to the top five Rock Creek road. This was re who were Joyce Akers, Margaret placed by one near where Sam Cook, Charles O'Brien, Nadine Hearing Sr.’s house now stands Tunnell and Margaret Buoklsy, and still another was near the and the Wilkerson cup for scho old high school site, before the larship and citizenship which was Vernonia grade school was plac presented to Joyce Akers. ed on the present Washington The drama award for the stu school .site. dent giving the most outstanding Other country schools were performance during the year went built in the surrounding areas, in to Joo Taylor for his work in the cluding Pleasant Hill, Kist, Bea Junior play last fall. ver Creek, Rock Creek and Kea- Diplomas were given to 44 stu sey. Little school houses were at dents. In addition to those listed about four mile intervals, and previously was Shirley Jones | within walking distance of most Hinze who had transf rred from children. Vernonia to Jefferson high school About 1915, a high school dis- in Portland and by special ar rangements was permitted to re ceive her diploma here. Cre dentials came through too late for previous publication. Senior boys wore blue caps and g< wns and the girls wore white Special arrangements have giv and each carried a long stemmed rose bud which were gifts of Bush en the Vernonia high school band Furniture companv and Clarence a spot in the Portland Rose Walker Florists of Portland. Rose Festival parade although Ver buds were also given each boy nonia will not have a float this year . They have been assigned for his mother. On the program, honor speakers to spot 32 in the parade and the trict was farmed to provide high er education for the children from these schools and with the pro cess of bringing stud nts in by bus for this school, the idea of consolidating smaller schools with the Vernonia school began to take root. CONSOLIDATION GROWS The .district below Vernonia, known as tjje Parker school, was consolidated at an *>arly date, but not until 1937 when the Rock Creek school voted to consolidate did the movement gain momen tum. In 1940, Pleasant Hill came in and by 1946, Kist, Beaver Creek and Keasey had also been included in 47 Jt. Today. Vernonia’s elementary district stretches to the Moran place on the Mist highway; into Washington county on the Buxton highway and across Sunset high way on Timber road, again en tering Washington county. The district is designated as 47 joint, the word joint indicating that the district does Ue in two counties. It is also a second class district which is one with over 200 pupils and less than 1000. As each small district was ab sorbed. a school board was dis solved. also, but with the addi tional load in district 47 Jt., the burden of responsibility there grew. Today, with mounting costs in every phase of endeavor, and with a school enrollment of about 535, the job is one that calls f r a lot of time and effort if the standards are to be kept high and all the educational needs met. MEN TACKLE JOB The men who tackle this job for th" Vernonia district now are those pictured ’here. Darrold Proehl has been hired by the school board as elementary school superintendent. Under hrs su pervision are the 22 teachers which include 19 classroom teacU ers and three special teachers in the Washington and Lincoln schools; the three cooks in the caf ztria, three custodians and the office secretary. Also on the list of district employees are the bus drivers into whose care the child ren are entrusted for the daily journies to and from school. To Mr. Proehl, the school board dele gates the Responsibility for select ing teachers and directing the op erations of the school, all of which he does with the approval of the board and according to the poli cies established by them. Mr. Proehl has been in Vernonia since 1947 and is completing his second year as superintendent. Next to Mr. Proehl is Ralph M. Aldrich, clerk of district 47 Jt. He fe the only member of the board to receive any compensa tion and that is small in considera tion of the time required for keeping records, making reports and carrying on necessary corres. Glen Hawkins is the board member with the longest contin uous term of service in this dis trict. He was appointed to the board in 1936 by Ed Condit who was county school superintendent at that time, to fill the unexpired term of Jim Moran who resigned. Mr. Hawkins had himself attend ed Vernonia schools and had es tablished himself as a business man and active citizen of the community. During hi* almost 20 years of service he has helped put the district on a cash basis, raise salary levels and establish good middle of the road policies for operation of the school with educational standards that are high and not too far to either right or left in the following of education al trends or foibles. Ted Keasey was director first in district 27. Rock Creek, and m 1938, only one year after its con solidation, he was elected to the Vernonia board. He has spent most of his life in the valley, at tended school here himself and has raised a family of seven boys and girls who have been a strik ing example of his belief in edu cation. Five of them are now (Continued on Page 4) FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Darrold Proehl, elemc-ilary school superintendent; R. M. Aldrich, district clerk; Glen Hawkins; T. F. Keasey and Sam Hear ng, board chairman. Winona Grange and Machinists Local No. 63. Portland. band is to be at Multnomah sta dium at 8:00 a.m. Saturday, June 11. The parade will begin mov ing out of the stadium at 9:30 a.m. Bill Johnson has arranged for marching practice for the band every evening next week. Band members are to assemble at the high school Monday evening at 5:00 o’clock and will practice on the field and also march on the streets in preparation for the long parade march. Since money will be needed to finance th? trip and provide meals for the band members, organiza tions and individuals who had planned to help with the venture are asked to give contributions to Mr. Johnson to cover these ex penses. Another item of interest local ly in the Rose Festival parade is the fact that logs for the raft be ing used on the Shell Oil float wei z obtained at the R J Cone place on highway 47. Also, one of the majorettes appearing with the Beaverton band will be Don- no Rae Frykholm of Aloha, eight year old granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Pierson of Ver noma She has be"n in a twirl ing class only this one year but advanced rapidly and recently appeared with the O.J.J. troupe at Jantzen Beach, also. George Foerster Rites Friday Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday at Young's Funeral Home at Tigard for George Edward Foerster who pas. sed away Tuesday, May 31 at a Portland hospital following a short illness. Reverend Karutz of the Evangelical and Reformed church at Helvetia is in charge of the service with Reverend Wil lard Dorman of the Methodist church assisting. Burial will be in the Middleton cemetery. George Foerster was born June Seniors led the high school b.-nor roll for the last six week 16, 1904 at Middleton, Oregon and period with thirteen. Those list had lived all his life m the state. He had resided at Sherwood, Hel ed were: vetia, Vernonia and Tigard While Seniors — Joyce Akers, Mar garet Buckley, Margaret Cook, living here, he owned the pro rry DeRoia, Marcia Gamer, perty adjoining the • golf course Dorothy Gwin. Sharon Hamilton, on Timber road Most of his life B.ll Higley. J R Kirkbride, Chet had been spent in farming al Ray. Yvonne Russom. Alice though he also learned the ma chinists trade and at the time Snook and Nadine Tunnell; Juniors — Donna Bayley, Gret he became ill was employed at chen Bolmeier, Pat Bnssett, Ed Portland Iron Works. December 24. 1928 he was mar Moses. Delons Olson and Sheila ried in Portland to Irene Hays Parrish; Sophomores — Ron Anderegg. who survives him. Also surviv Dcnna Bailey. Jim Davis. Robert ing are three sons. Jim. Don and Drips. Richard Fletcher, Dick Ed and a granddaughter, Melin CBrien, Georgia Parrish, Ken da all of whom reside in the Lake Pcdersort. Marjorie Reynolds and Grove area; a brother. Hubert M Foerster of Beloit, Wisconsin and J-vce Thompson Freshmen — Jon Bush. Carolyn a sister. Margarette Gilkey of Heath. Wayne Shafer, Gary Seaside, Oregon. He was a member of the I.O.O. Strong. Don Tunnell and Julia F. Fraternal Order of Eagles. Waite BOARD TERM LONG Four Named By Chamber Board Vote Thompson. Hearing, Drips, Roediger io Fill Vacant Places Ballots of members of the Ver nonia chamber of commerce were opened and tallied at the last board meeting to determine the names of foug new directors who will fill vacancies on the cham ber board of directors for the coming year. New members of the board ar?: John Thompson, Sam Hearing Jr, Mary Drips and Ed Roediger Jr. and the members whose terms expired are: Pat Wallace, Wes ley Bolmeier, Bill Horn and Dave Brunsman. Final plans were made for a family membership dinner to be June 10th at 7:00 pm. at the Legion hall. An interesting pro gram is being arranged by Louise Hahn, chairman of the committee for the dinner. Lyman Hawken reported that 909 survey forms have been com pleted and returned to the office, and it is hoped that there will be others turned in. Hz stressed that the main object of the sur vey is a man-power one. Art Ostrander reported on the Highway 99W Alternate Road association dinner meeting held at Rainier this month. Nine di rectors were regularly installed to serve until March. Steps are being taken to make the asaocia- tion a legal entity and plans were to sell memberships to-indivi duals, groups and busin -sses. The next meeting will be held in Banks at 8:00 p.m. June 8. Gail Whitlock Services May 25 LC League Ruled Out Band Assigned Place in Portland Rose Parade; Practices Scheduled from the class were Joyce Akers and Charles O'Brien. A very excellent and entertaining com mencement address was delived- ed by Mrs. Golda Wickham, dean cf women at University of Ore gon. Concluding feature was the traditional singing of the ' Halls Of Ivy” by the girls' chorus and the class with the usual evidence of tears when the seniors realized they were bidding farewell to Vernonia high school. pondence. He is also under bond because he handles the district funds. He served a term as board member in the early 1930s and became clerk in 1946 THURSDAY. JUNE 2. 195 Seniors Lead Honor Roll Vernonia was well represented Coaches of schools who formzr- ly participated in Lower Colum at graduation exercises last Sun bia league play decided at a meet day at Pacific University in For ing late last month to discontinue I est Grove. The degree of Bache play under that designation and , lor of Science was conferred on have split the district into two | Gerald Meilis and Bachelor of subdistricts Coach Bill Vic 'k an Arts degrees were given C. Mad. den and Sharon Magoff Madden. nounced recently Receiving a Master of Science Tillamook is now included in degree was Lee Pangle, former this district, but Columbia Prep, Vernonia high school teacher who which has discontinued athletics, and Concordia will change to B . has been coaching this past year class. The district has been split j at Euphrata, Washington. into two sub-districts and Ver- j A number of Vernonia people nonia will be included in one of , were in Forest Grove Sundqy for I these with other county schools. the exercises. Hood River and WvEast The coast subdistrict will in clude Warrenton, Seaside, Neah- J kahnie, Tillamook and N ’stucca teams. A ch -ck for $100 from the fund I The Logger football season remaining in the Girl Scout trea. opens September 9 with Forest sury which is no longer active Grove here for a non-league con Thirty-one junior forestry stu here was turned over to the high test. Other dates are: dents from Oregon State college Sept. 16—Neahkahnie, non-league at Corvallis, with forestry in sclTool band uniform fund by Mrs. Henry Anderegg who form Sept 23—Hood River, here. structor, Dan Robinson visited the Sept 30—Rainier, there Crown Zellerbach Columbia Tree erly had charg" of the girl scout work here. Oct. 7—St Helens, here. Farm here last Friday. They Effort to find someone to carry Oct 14— WyEast, there. were show logging and thinning on the girl scout work here had Oct. 21—Scappoose, here. operations in the Natal and Mist Oct. 28—Clatskanie, there. areas and saw the progress of failed and the decision was reach ed to use the funds for this pre League basketball games start the Douglas fir thinning opera sent need which would benefit December 16 instead of January tions on the tree farm. as in previous years so that games From here the class went to the Vernonia young people. requiring long trips will be play forest service experimental for ed on Friday nights. est near Wind River, Washington OSC Students Visit Tree Farm I i I ' Girl Scout Fund Aids Band Teacher Geis Scholarship I Teachers Awarded Degrees Bachelor of Science degrees will be conferred on Mathilda Bvr gerson and Irma Chance at gradu- ation exercises Friday night, June 3, at Oregon College of Education at Monmouth. Both ladies are teat hers in the Vernonia elemeo- tary schools. P.U. Degrees Awarded Sunday Funeral services were held on May 25 at Rodeo, California for Gail Whitlock who passed away at a Rodeo hospital Sunday, May 22 following a stroke the previous day. Mr Whitlock was born in Gen ola, Kansas in 1898 but moved to Colorado when quite young and received his education in that state. He came to Vernonia in 1930 and opened a J.C. Penny store in the building now occu pied by Millers. He later moved to St. Helens and managed the Penney store there for many years. When he left St. Helens he went to Vallejo, California with th? J. C. Penney company, but in 1945 he purchased a variety store in Rodeo and had operated it un til the time of his death He is survived by his wif ■, Gladys, a son Jerry and a daugh ter, Sharon. 1 ' ’ I * Consolidation Favored Goodwill Truck Due Again Results of the May 27 voting on the consolidation of the Bir- kenfeld district with Union High School District 1 Jt. war favorable with 18 yes votes and no dissent ing ones. For changing the boun dary of U.H.S. District 1 by with drawing territory. X®* votes ard o-.e no vote were cast. The Goodwill truck will make its next call in Vernonia Thurs day. June 16 and all who have articles for them are asked to have them ready Persons wish ing articles picked up may cal! 273 and leave instructions. They hr pe a good load will be forth coming. The scholarship offered by the Crown Zellerbach corporation for one teacher from the Vernonia school system to attend a sum m"r conservation workshop wa< awarded to Lyle Frazier, sixth grade teacher at the Washington school at ths graduation exercises last Wednesday night. He plan, to use it for the workshop held m Portland in July.