I was involved in several different organizations in high school. I was a member of the Pep Club all four years. I loved going to the games and cheering with the cheerleaders. We had special outfits in the school colors to wear. I belonged to the Future Homemakers of America. We had fundraisers to raise money to put on a Christmas party for underprivileged children. I was in the Girl’s Athletic Association, and on the volleyball team my freshman and sophomore years. I was also in the Girl’s League. I was the vice-president my junior year and the treasurer when I was a senior. I was on the Student Council when I was a senior and in the Honor Society my junior and senior years.
When I was a junior and about to be inducted into the honor society, I didn’t know it was going to happen. My mom had been told, so she could be there. That morning I decided I’d be different and do up my hair in a whole new way and wear a weird new outfit. Mom tried to talk me out of it but for once I wanted to look different. It was kind of strange because I could kind of sense that something was going to happen that day.
I was in the Spanish Club my junior and senior years. I was the vice president my junior year, and then the president when the current president moved away. I was a representative for the club when I was a senior. We raised money in the club to send a student on a four day trip to the Shakespearean Festival in Ashland, Oregon. We raised money by making and selling wreaths at Christmas and by putting on the play, “Harvey”. It was a lot of fun to be in the play. I was Aunt Ethel!
The organization that benefited me the most when I was growing up was 4-H. I think I joined when I was in the third or fourth grade and nine or ten years old. By the time high school came around I’d learned what I wanted to and wasn’t involved in 4-H any longer. I belonged to a sewing group, a cooking group, a baking group and a knitting group. This was how I learned to cook, to bake, to sew and to knit. I loved doing all of those things and it kept me busy. Every summer I sewed most of my clothes for the next year. I made my skirt and blouse in this picture. One year the cake I made and entered in the Lincoln County Fair won first place. I got to enter it in the state fair in Salem. It won a ribbon there, not first place but I was very proud. Organizations are great for giving experiences and knowledge in things you want to learn and for making friends.
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