Another relic of the past is the student newspaper. Anyhow, on with our story. In the mid-1930s the Lassen Union High School student body experienced some interesting happenings. The first was a student newspaper dubbed the Hi-Times. This was followed by a school emblem—-the Grizzly bear.
In the fall of 1935, Miss Morgan, the school’s journalist instructor announced a campaign to change the school newspaper name. One issue was there were a number of Northern California student newspapers that had a similar name to Lassen’s. In an effort to promote the school’s new emblem, the word Grizzly was required in the new name contest. On October 4, 1935 the renamed student newspaper Grizzly Growler made its debut. It was Eleanor Hansen, Class of 1939, that was the prize winning entry.
Fast forward by several decades, when I attended Lassen High the school newspaper was just the Grizzly, somewhere along the line the Growler was dropped. From what little research I have done, it appears sometime in the 1990s the student paper ceased to exist.