Vida High School/Springfield High School

Class of 1931

Wilma Leona Post Adrian Kaip Thomas

These are taken from Commencement Memories book

Name: Wilma Leona Mae Post, "Jerry"

Address: Vida, Oregon

Born at: Vida, Oregon 1913

Entered School: Lebanon, Oregon 1919 age 6 years

Graduated Grammar School: May 1921 at Vida, Oregon age 13 years

Entered High School: Vida, Oregon September 1927

Graduated: 1931 age 17 years

Miss Jean Millican

English 1,2

Jr. Science

1. History

Algebra 2

Miss Adele Olson

English 3,4

W. History

Soc. Problems

Economics

Biology

Mr. L.L. Lawrence

English 5,6

Geography

Physiology

Botany

Civics

Basketball:

Vida Girls won championship for Lane County – 1928

Boys entered finals-lost to P.H.- 1929

Girls won Lane County Championship – 1929

Stars:

Gladys Minney

Arthur Minney

Louise Allen

Metola Allen

Bill Goff

Alden Burdick

William Goff "Bill"

Ennis Goff "Mix"

Evelyn Burdick "Jimmie"

Louise Allen "Low"

Gladys Minney

Frances Lawrence "Red"

Margaret Mont., "Mary"

Graduation Memories

President: Lloyd Mattison

Vice-President: Johnny Lynch

Treasurer: Harold Geiger

Colors: Pink and Silver

Salutatorian: Dale Daniels

Valedictorian: Myrna Bartholomew

Class Play: "Take My Advice"

Actors:

Don Nilson…..Mr. Weaver

Dick Lyles…...Clement

Helen Mersdoff….Mrs. Weaver

Johnny Lynch

Daisy Tomseth

Dorothy Fisher

Date: June 5^th 1931

Place: M.E. Church

Baccalaureate:

May 31,1931, M.E. Church

Girls League

Dramatics Club

Vida High School:

Baseball 2,3 years

Won 1928-29 Lane county Championship, Girls Basketball

1929 Captain Basketball team

1930 All Star Center

1930 Manager

Springfield High School:

1931 Captain Sr. Team

Soccer 1931

Baseball 1931

Senior dinner: Community Hall

Junior – Senior Banquet: May 1^st Community Hall

Senior Sneak: May 7^th Benton – Lane and Newport

Senior Picnic

Student Body picnic

Vida High School:

Miss J. Millican

Miss A. Olson

Mr. L.L. Lawrence

Mrs. L.L. Lawrence

Springfield High School:

Miss M. Millhollen

Miss C. Wagner

Miss M. Hughes

Mr. N.E. Buell

Springfield, Oregon

Dec. 24,1930

Dear Wilma,

In your golden chain of friendship don’t count me as the "missing link".

Your friend,

Jim

"31"

"Remember the Cardinal Mask play"

Franklin J. Drury

Springfield, Oregon

Feb. 13,1931

Dear Wilma,

You only live one day at a time,

Make that one count.

Your friend,

Ruth La Vie

"People don’t always practice what they preach"

Dear Wilma,

In your fruit cake of life remember me as the nut.

Your friend,

June Clover

Springfield

January 11,1931

Dear Wilma,

Just a little advice from and "old Maid" never eat onions when going to church, league, never get caught when trying to flirt, always be happy in having some with somebody’s brother or somebody’s son.

Your friend,

Dawn Church "Don"

"Don’t forget all the times we got in "dutch"

SHS

Dear Wilma,

Sew your wild oats

While your young,

You might not live long.

Your friend and classmate,

Daisy Tomseth

"Remember good old SHS

Springfield High

Friday 13^th 1931

Dear Wilma,

Love many

Trust few

And

Always paddle your own canoe

Your friend,

Faye

Springfield High

Friday 13^th 1931

Dear Wilma,

Let us solve a great problem,

As all of us should do,

The way to be happy,

Is first to be good.

Your friend,

Ita Bartholomew

"Remember senior class party and our laugh"

Springfield, Oregon

February 9,1931

Dear Wilma,

Pursue your course as far as you can and surely success will come! I wish you luck.

Your friend and classmate,

Angeline Severson

"31"

Springfield, Oregon

Sunday nite-January 11,1931

Dearest Wilma,

Wilma is your name

Single is your station

Happy be the little man

That makes the alteration.

Your friend,

Mary

"Don’t forget Dawns’s Party"

Springfield, Oregon

Febraury 16,1931

I’ve thought and thought but all in vain, So at last I think I’ll sign my name.

Your classmate,

Iris Marie Harper

"Here’s wishing you good luck and loads of happiness"

Springfield, Oregon

February 16,1931

Dear Wilma,

May you go through life with never a slip

Like a bobbed-tailed squirrel on a hickory chip.

Your friend,

Elwin Meacham

"Remember S.H.S."

Springfield

February 12,1931

Dear Wilma,

Just a few lines from

________

________

________

Your friend,

Clarice Fenton

’31

S.H.S.

"Remember our dear old Basketball days"

"Poor ink, poor pen, poor writing, Amen"

Springfield, Oregon

May 26,1931

Dear Wilma:

The higher the mountain, the stronger the breeze

The smaller the couple

The tighter they squeeze.

Your classmate,

Lois Rogers

"Babe"

"Remember our typing Class of 1931"

Springfield, Oregon

February 11,1931

My ink is bad

My pen is poor

Remember me forevermore.

Your friend,

Hersey Tomseth

"31"

S.H.S.

Dear Wilma,

In the Fruit cake of life

Always remember me as the nut.

Your fiend,

Elva Moyer

"32"

For-get-me-not

1931

Dear Wilma,

Remember me as a classmate in good old S.H.S

Your fiend,

Lloyd Mattison

Sept 4,1931

Dear Wilma,

You are a very quiet girl,

Not noisy like a bear

But when it comes to doing things

You surely are right there!

Sincerely your friend,

Ruth Fisher

Springfield, Oregon

September4,1931

Dear Wilma,

When you see a monkey climb a tree,

Pull his tail and think of me.

Lora A. Fisher

Oakland, Cailf.

June 9,1932

In this little book

I’ll write a little line,

Which is just to tell you

Wilma’s mighty fine.

With very best wishes,

Orval