THE TIMBERLINE
COMPILED BY THE VERNONIA HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM CLASS
Logger Saves
Trio in Peril
During the second Lake
Clean-up day May 14, there
were many interesting occur-
ances. Besides all the work that
was being done, there was still
time to listen to cries of help
coming from the middle of the
lake. These cries of distress
were genuine and came from
Jeff Krieger, Dave Sawyer, and
Ron Meyer.
The reason for their excite
ment was that the motor of the
boat in which they were riding
caught on fire. Their cries were
heard by Alan Johnston who
rescued them from their peril
They then towed the crippled
boat to shore, and the three
boys had to work on dry land
for the rest of the afternoon.
Driver's Ed
Classes End
THE SECOND “go around" at Lake Vernonia was
held the past week by the male members of the
VHS senior class and Paul Bunyan club. Ix>ts cf
debris was wrestled from the lake by the group.
This effort may possibly put the younger genera
tion ahead of the “over 30” crowd in accomplish
ment on the community project.
Operator Gets 'Best View'
Of Prom from Crowsnest
Prom time is the onlv time
of year that would probably be
referred to as the time cf un
ending wonders. Eor one brief
but unforgettable evening, or
dinary high school students are
transformed
into
gleaming
Prince Cralahads and Snow
White fairy tale princesses.
Shoes are shined, clothes are
taken out of mothballs and
manners are brushed un on.
Outwardly thev seem to be
tailor made for their new found
selves, but inside, where no
one can see the little gears
working, there is turmoil.
By late afternoon on the night
of the orom, self confidence
flies out the window, and fin
gernails get shorter and shorter
as the bewitching hour approa
ches. Despite the thought “I
feel sick,’ they go to the prom
anyway, because they’ve alrea
dy blown two week's allowance
on the tickets. The self-assuring
thought also crosses their minds
that the room will be dark, and
maybe no one will see them:
So there they are.
As the spotlight operator, I
suspect that mv station up in
the crowsnest afforded the best
view in the house. It was un
believeably entertaining.
People that one would never
expect to see at a prom showed
up shaken but ready to go.
They really didn’t know how to
act in front of everyone else,
who, unknown to them, also did
not know how to act, and some
how they all contributed enough
mistakes to cause everything to
miraculously coincide.
A subject of the “Funny to
see you here” crowd was wear
ing a new shite dinner jacket,
and was doing a fine job sitting
there trying to keep out of
trouble, until someone shuffled
up and asked him where his
ice cream truck was parked.
Purple and white go well to-
Class of '70
Is Honored
At Banquet
The class of 1970 was honored
at the fortieth annual senior
banouet Friday May 20. The
ovent is sponsored by the
American Ix'gion Auxiliary and
was hel l at the Oddfellows hall.
The ladies of the American
Legion assisted by members of
Pythian Sisters and Rebekah
Ixxfge, prepared a delicious
meal and arranged the tables
using the class colors of purple
and white Donations from com
munity organizations financed
the event.
Opening the program was
clans President Paul Nelson,
who was master of ceremonies:
and giving the invocation was
Heather Higginbotham. Mrs
Edear Hartzell welcomed the
seniors and faculty, and Steve
Hanson gave the response.
After dinner. Darrold Proehl.
school superintendent, gave the
prologue He sooke of his me
mories of ixxiple and told about
some of the thin-’s that he
learned from people.
The class history was read by
Gwen I’ersvn. the class will by
Deborah Curl, and the class
prophecy bv Scott Davies
Arthur Parrow high school
principal, clos'd the program
with some advice and a fan*
well for the seniors
Assisting with the serving
and clearing of the tables were
Beverlv Armstrong. Helen Hig
ginbetham. Carol Nelson, Jan
Johnston, Vicki Hemeon. and
Aoril Cseh These girls are all
sisters of seniors.
Oernonia Eagle
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THURSDAY. MAY II. 1970
gether.
Several other stiff-necked
people were green with some
thing other than envy, or as
one stated. “The boa constric
tor around mv neck tightened
as the night progressed.” It
was auite humorous watching
the boys try to talk to the per
sons sitting next to them with
out moving their necks.
The snack time during the in
termission was another gem.
The little napkins with slices
of cake were passed out, and
everyone stood there looking at
each other so as to determine
as quickly as possible who was
going to take the first bite, and
if fingers were appriopriate. Al
though there weren't any forks
in the first place, some were
still not quite sure.
Somehow throughout the en
tire performance, the spotlight
operator managed to resist the
temptation of singling out cer
tain individuals with his greatly
feared weapon, and after the
coronation of the queen his job
was over, so he departed the
scene.
In all truth though, the prom
was excellent in all respects,
and everyone hail a wonderful
time. The author hopes that no
one takes the slams in this ar
ticle too seriously. Even though
everything in this story is bas
ed on instances that actually
did hapDen, they have been sa
tirized for the reader’s enjoy
ment.
Students Aid
Outdoor Camp
Eleven Vernonia high school
students aided with the out
door school for sixth graders
from Vernonia and Scaopoose
Thursday and Friday. May 14
and 15, at Camo Wilkerson.
During the morning, the high
school counselors acted as
guides for the various groups
as thev went to their classes
in wildlife anil conservation. In
the afternoon, the counselors
took their groups on a 30-min
ute hike to give the students
a chance to put into practice
what they have learned.
After the students left, the
counselors, who were staying
for the night, got the camp
ready for the next day’s group.
Their duties in Ihe evening in
cluded cutting fire wood and
picking un trash.
The group planned to spend
the nii’ht in the cabins at the
camp However, the girls in the
group, Teri Heath. Lauri Banta,
Irene Birkenfeld. Mary Anne
Ddam. Diane Medges. and Mar
sha Jensen decided to retire to
the safety of a tent after stor
ies of bears and escaned con
victs began to spread around
the camp.
The bovs attending were
Gary Cseh. Jim Proehl, Emil
Pelster. Richard Tronson. and
Larry Borgland.
Seniors Do
Final Project
The senior American prob
lems classes have a new pro
ject Each student is required
to nick a partner Then the two
partners choose a topic, with
one taking the pro and the
oth°r the con of the topic
They must prepare written
renorts on the information re
lating to their side of the tonic
After that, they will go before
the class and try to convince
the class of their side of the
controversy. They will be allow
ed two weeks to work in the
library, and prepare for their
turn.
So far, many interesting and
controversial topics have been
selected
GARY MICHENER
Senior Plans
Future in
Forestry
Gary Lynn Mitchener is one
of the real comedians of the
Senior class, whether he is the
perpetrator, or the brunt, of the
joke. Gary was born in Verno
nia and has lived here for all
but two years of his life. Gary
is 5’ 7” with blue eyes and dark
hair. His favorite color is blue,
and he likes to eat clams.
He’s a real bottle-hunting nut
ami likes to hunt and fish the
year around. He is active in
shop classes and in the Future
Farmers of America.
Gary was one of the high
school members who went to
Europe last summer. He liked
the trio very much and especi
ally liked Austria. His favorite
saying in Europe was saying,
“olog" instead of “hello.” He
hop?s to return to
Europe
sometime next summer.
His dad has his own refores
tation project and Gary works
for him during the summer.
His mother is a licensed prac
tical nurse. After high school,
Gary hopes to attend Clatsop
Community College for two
years and major in forestry,
after which he will work for
his dad’s company or Longview
Fibre.
VHS Graduate Is
Honored as Poet
Geoff Proehl, a VHS gradu
ate of 1968, was recently named
poet laureate of George Fox
College. He was honored at a
May Dav celebration for the
following poem.
Mile of concrete.
Like anesthetic,
benumbing man.
Surrounded by products,
we don’t understand
Living on a shell,
made by man.
Synthetic world—
all dark and gray,
Synthetic world—
in the cold light of day.
Synthetic w orld-
all plastic and steel.
Synthetic world—
what will you yield?
Someday the last man will die,
who ever touched a tree
Someday they'll lay in a shiny,
plastic casket.
the last hoy who ever waded
a creek
And will we be any better
for it’
Eor our genocide of trees,
of rivers, of land?
Is this lo be the result of man's
keeping of the earth’
Synthetic w orld-
all plastic and steel.
Synthetic world—
what will you yield?
Oh but. steel isn't real.
Cities are illusions
Reality is you and me
Man stripped of his
necessities.
God, man. woman-
totality,
trinity of life
return us nak.d to eden
On Monday, May 11, the last
driver’s education class was
concluded. The students com
pleted their final examination
and turned in their books.
The classes, which began in
April and were held for one
hour after school and two hours
on Saturdays, were conducted
by Gordon Crowston. During
class periods the students view
ed films, took tests, or were
taught some of the basic driv
ing maneuvers by Crowston.
The students began driving a
few weeks after the course
started, and the majority of the
class has yet to complete their
required six hours of actual
driving which they must have
to pass the course. Although
the formal classes have ended,
the students will continue to
drive until they get all of their
driving hours in.
The students will receive one-
half credit for passing driver’s
education.
Cheerleaders
Are Selected
Football cheerleader tryouts
were held Wednesday, Mav 13,
during activity period. There
were four contestants, Julie
Klein, Cita Vigil, Mary Steele,
and Sandi Stockwell.
Normally there are five
cheerleaders chosen from the
girls who try out. but this year
due to the lack of interest there
weren’t enough girls to have
this kind of competition. The
girls followed the same proce
dure used in previous years
for tryouts.
Because of the lack of con
testants, voting by ballot was
not not used. Instead a motion
was made that the student
body accept the four as next
year’s football cheerleaders.
The motion passed and the four
girls were accented.
At the student body meeting
Thursday it was decided that
during basketball tryouts any
girls who wished to try for the
fifth place could do so. The
decision will be made by the
student body.
New Uniforms
Are Ordered
Vernonia hieh school’s head
basketball coach. Gene Carlson,
recently announced that next
year’s varsity will be wearing
new home uniforms. As a rule,
all teams must have white or
light colored home uniforms,
and dark colored traveling uni
forms. The I/Ogc^rs will keep
their blue traveling uniforms
and give their old whites to the
jayvees.
Carlson claims that the new
uniforms will be “really wild” .
The uniforms will have blue
neck and shoulder stripes with
a gold stripe down the middle
and blue pin stripes running
verticially across the front and
the back of the jersev with a
royal blue number. The pants
will match the jerseys, and to
gether, they should go well
with the new warm-ups that
were purchased last season.
Three Attend
Music in May
Brenda Armstrong. Julie Spi
tzer. and Debbie Curl repre
sented Vernonia at the twenty
second Music in May festival
held at Pacific University in
Forest Grove, Mav 14, 15, and
16.
The three were selected from
a field of 1,500 students on the
recommendation of Vernonia
high school music director
Ward Nelson. Brenda and Deb
bie played in the band and Jul
ie sang in the chorus. Brenda
plays the clarinet and Debbie
plays saxophone
The girls spent the three days
on the Pacific University cam
pus Thursday afternoon, all
day Friday and Saturday mom
ing were spent in preparation
for the concert that was held
Saturday night The concert,
held on the campus, was broad
cast over the radio
Sawdust -
The FFA
Don Kabler,
students to
shop awards
be given out
assembly.
and their advisor,
combined to pick
receive different
These awards will
in the final awards
The VHS band, chorus, and
triple-trio entertained at the
Barnes Veterans hospital in
Vancouver, Washington May 18
Their trip was sponsored by the
American Red Cross and ar
ranged by Red Cross delegates
Jim Proehl and Gary Cseh.
DE ELDA (GROSCHE
De Grosche
Will Become
A Secretary
DeElda Ann Grosche was
born on April 9, 1952 in Hills
boro, Oregon. He has one older
brother, Pat who is 22. De, as
her friends call her, has at
tended schools in Vernonia all
her life, with the exception of
one semester this year at Hills
boro Senior High School. In
relating her ideas and com
parisons of the two communi
ties, she says “Although the
Hillsboro school was harder
academically, the schools in
Vernonia are much friendlier,
and the community is also
friendlier.
Her hobbies and interests
center mostly around her
church, although some of the
other things that interests her
are sewing and cooking.
DeElda’s father, (who is of
German ancestry) works for
Texaco, in Hillsboro, and her
mother is a nurse at the Hiller
Nursing Home.
After graduating from VHS
this spring she plans to try to
get a job at the courthouse in
St. Helens as a secretary.
In finishing the picture of Dee
she says that her favorite food
is liver and onions, and that
green is her favorite color.
Records Fall
At Astoria
Several record-breaking per
formances highlighted the sub
district track meet held Satur
day at Astoria. Vernonia tied
with Clatskanie for fourth place
with 64 points. Neah-Kah-Nie
won the meet with 157 points.
Steve Hanson was the only
Logger to place first as he won
both the high jump and the
pole vault. In the high jump
he established a new sub-dis
trict record of 6’ 5%” . This
equals the school record for the
high jump held by Gary Davis.
Hanson vaulted 11’ 6” .
Vernonia’s mile relay team
of Cline, Hicks, King, and Mc
Cutcheon won a second with
a time of 3:39.4, just three-
tenths of a second behind War
renton. Rob McCutcheon also
placed second in the 440, in
53.7.
Steve Cline was the only Ver
nonia Thinclad to capture a
third place finish as he ran the
low hurdles in a time of 21.9.
Cline also won a fourth place
finish in the high hurdles in a
time of 16.6. Earlier, Cline
broke the school record for the
high hurdles with a time of
15.8. The old record of 15.9 was
held by Fred Smith.
Among the other fourth place
finishers were Chris Hicks in
the 880. 2:12; Don King in the
shot put, with a throw of 42’4” ;
and Jim McGinnes in the jave
line. 150’ 7”.
King also received a fifth
place in the 100-yd. dash in a
time of 10.9. Freshman Rick
Davis got fifth in the pole vault
with a vault of 10’ 6” . King re
ceived yet another placing as
he got sixth in the 880 in a time
of 2:13.4. Dave Parrow also
captured a sixth place finish in
tte mile.
Those who placed at the sub-
district meet will now go on to
the district meet to be held to
day at Lewis and Clark college.
They must finish either first or
second in the meet to go to
state.
Red Cross Camp
Delegates Chosen
Gary Cseh and Jim Proehl.
Vernonia high school’s Red
Cross delegates for last year;
and Jim Brunsman and Lauri
Banta, next year’s delegates,
attended a dinner at the Red
Cross Chapter House in Port
land Wednesday, May 13. The
banquet was a combination
farewell for the old delegates
and a welcome for the new
delegates.
The new delegates will attend
a week's training session next
fall. The purpose of the camp
is primarily leadership train
ing and aquainting the delegat
es with the functions of the
Red Cross.
The camp is attended by dele
gates from most of the Port
land area schools and renre
sent stives from Washington,
California, and British Colum
bia will also attend. The camp
is held each year at the Mount
Scott Boy Scout leadership
training center
During the closing minutes of
the prom, Heather Higginbo
tham and Ray Etherige spent
some time in the home ec room.
They said they were working
on the Senior class prophecy.
Foreign Exchange Student
Robert McCutcheon spent the
weekend in Astoria with a
group of exchange students.
The FFA held a brief meet
ing Monday, May 18. Members
discussed whether or not to sell
the Pixie House. They decided
they would not but if the base
ball players wanted to use it
this summer, terms would be
made agreeable to both. It will
be decided on at a later date
what the terms will be.
At a GAA meeting held last
Monday morning, a committee
was formed to plan an outing
for the members of GAA be
fore school is out. The com
mittee was composed of the
club officers and the senior
girls. It was also announced
that some of the awards had
arrived and would be presented
to the girls at the outing.
Life is full of hard knocks,
as Kim Beezley, sophomore,
discovered last Saturday when
she fell off a horse. She sur
vived falling off the horse and
she even survived having the
saddle crash down on her. Now
she is wondering if she ill sur
vive the sprained finger and the
sprained shoulder muscle she
received from the fall.
Mrs. Cathy Howard substitut
ed for Gene Carlson Monday
because of his absence due to
illness.
The Amiercan Field Service
made $120.73 on their hoi dog
sale at Cliff’s Market Saturday,
May 16. The AFS’ers express
ed their appreciation to Cliff’s
for their donation of the wieners
and the space, and to the Da
vidson Bread company for the
donation of the buns.
Chris Boyle, FTA advisor and
seven members of the local
FTA club at VHS attended an
FTA district meeting in Clat
skanie, Monday night. Ken Mil
ler accompanied the group.
Psycho is back! Alfred Hitch
cock’s thriller that “TV didn’t
dare show” will be shown this
week. High school students who
are interested in attending the
performance are invited to con
tact Ray Etheridge for further
information. Rated M.
Pat Kretchmer, a senior at
Vernonia High School, under
went knee surgery on Monday.
Pat is presently recuperating
at Emanuel hospital in Port
land.
Lawrence Borglund drove
Debbie King, Berverly Arm
strong, Debbie Smith, Martha
and Larry Borglund to the
Northwest Bible College in Sea
ttle last Tuesday, May 19. The
students went to visit the cam
pus and the classes to get
acquainted with some of the
people.
FTA Elects
New Officers
The Future Teachers of
America elected new officers
for the coming school year
May 5. The new officers are
Steve Landers, president: Mike
Clason, vice-president; Marylin
Henderson, secretary-treasurer;
Jeri Rundle, historian; and Ben
Fields, student body representa
tive.
The group met again Monday
May 11 to discuss plans for a
car-wash. During the meeting
Arthur Parrow, high school
principal, described the cluster
education program and answer
ed questions related to this to
pic. Refreshments were served
after the meeting.
Several members took part
in a successful carwash on
Sunday, May 17. The funds will
be used to pay for the trip taken
to a spring convention earlier
this year.
Student Council
Meets Thursday
Thursday, May 14, Student
Council was called to order by
President Steve Hanson. The
regular business was taken care
of quickly and the group start
ed a discussion of the recent
football cheerleader tryouts for
next year.
There were some suggestions
as to the course of action to
persue before the basketball
cheerleaders tryouts this week.
Although there was a lot of dis
cussion, no changes or final
decisions were made, because
of lack of time.