| 50th Reunions im es,, Fond Memories — | Class of "31: Hard | ae the Class ‘of 1981 moves ah the home stretch, members of the Class of | 1931 are holding their ie remembering 50th Weren't available “which fledemg cafeteria. reunions, » a litany of high school _ “whens: re in ce Hamburgers for Sale East’s Ks | different last year. I was there “The Weber. County high worked at a school: gas station after class. ~ jon, Leedutes recalled how studpate.” were hauled before the student court | . for something as goofy as launching: : | spitballs or yelling. the ! get too dressed up for class, alhoug : > Wayne says | They also Led, they never wore slacks. . Corry and her classmates didn’t cafeteria broke down and started a =? F. Richards, who now works for the Some Hand-Me-Downs | little hamburger stand’’ to compete i 7ZCMI Merchants Association, how un-— i wee and high | with the market, says. Mr. Zarr, ad ae : “It was fairly casual dress. Most distinguished was the school’s football — older from | heels and didn’t hand-me-downs wore now retired. ‘‘But we certainly were proud of the team. of wear makeup to because sisters and rs -prothe the basketball team,’ he says. “They — He also remembers that staneuts had I was Fhe mber | class. — I_reme ion. Depress — from minor a and were usually represented in | the state i to select a major the dress for * When there was among required academic classes. - pleased when I got a new finals.” : “she sSays. no such thing asa i _ Everybody took six classes, only one of prom,” | Other members if the school’s Class of the many - school parking lot pie students rode. bers remem She still which was an elective. The latter, Mr. _ of 1931 remember the advantage of | 4 bicycles or street cars or walked to Zarr says, included mechanical draw-_ songs popular at that time, including being in a class that had only mated a : school. ing, commercial art, music, typing and “That Old Gang of Mine,” “Bye, Bye hundred students. iy | Blackbird’’ and “When I Grow Too Lap When only farmboys. wore denim to 7 metalwork or shop. “We were a small school,” says to Dream.” ~ elass. ‘‘Academic classes were more de-_ ‘Spencer Elggren, who was | “Maurine a in | diuted tunes Gopular Several Some things | aheut high choo! manding (than today) in the sense that r president in 1931. “You. vice ‘student prank pulled by several of her class" haven’t changed, however. they were rigid requirements,” Mr. | with srk like you | away get couldn’t station, mates who asked a local radio . Zarr says. ‘‘A student either met the can in a large school.”’ to principal, school’s the of in the name Bast High School students of 50' years | requirements or didn’t graduate.” ™ ‘Biggest Differences play a list of requests. : ago weren’t supposed to smoke on the school grounds. In fact, remembers Kin those Depression days, many ‘high Al Among them were: ‘“‘You’re Driving is Another class member, Helen | Valois A. Zarr, who later returned to his school students worked, recalls Clara Me Crazy’? for one of the teachers, Biesinger Johnson, says the biggest — alma mater as a teacher, smoking was Ortin Corry, a member of the Weber “Pm Making Whoopee’”’ for the coach - difference between high school then — cause for expulsion. ? County, High School Class of 1931, which | -and ‘‘Little White Lies’’ for the adand now is. that friendships ans is organizing its vahdata reunion. | : | ministrator in charge of student — ab- become less important. | | But there used to be a store across the _ sences or tardiness. street where a convenience market is ‘In our experience ‘he people you : | “It was a fur time, although it was © now located. As they do now, students. later had to apologize ers prankst ‘The with seemed to be very impor-— were Corry Mrs. very. difficult financially,” simply walked off-campus to smoke | tant,”’ says Mrs. Johnson. ‘So many AE er. newspap Ogden an through says. ‘‘Most students took the street car their cigarettes, he says. now it seems everyone for There were also pranksters attending “times ‘to school and a. lot. of students worked. ee In my day, the relationships | himself. City Lake Salt a the old LDS College, i That store also figures iin his memory with the other kids seemed to be a lot — ad a job at at a | local oeal variety store closed. been since has that school high | for another reason: It sold such food : | At the school’s recent eee reun-_ more important. ae and her future husband, who attended a items as hotdogs and hamburgers, When girls wore ade : dresses, silk stock-_ | Fe (ape A j ; * - ee ae : : i, Las