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HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

During my 8th Grade at Hamilton Jr. High School my Mom made me a lovely cotton pink print peasant skirt with a shirred waist for a Spring May Pole dance at Hamilton.  The teachers were amazed how lovely it was and that my Mom had made it all by hand, as she didn't have a sewing machine.  I took the required sewing class at Hamilton, and barely passed, but got so much out of the class that years later I used what I had learned there to make a cover apron for my Mom during the 1980's.  As I worked on her apron, I suddenly realized that the material I picked out was exactly the same pink print pattern of the peasant skirt she made for me in 1948.  Of course, it was from a new roll at Jo Anne's, but the print and color were still being made.  I had a sewing machine, which made it easier.

I loved my Art Class at Hamilton, had a crush on a couple of the fellows, and my first kiss!  Arline Shulmier was our chaperon.

I really enjoyed my Washington State History Class, and have always loved the state of Washington.  I was assured that the volcanoes of the Cascades would never be active.  I thought, "Ah, gee heck!"  I was one of the students in the 9th Grade that was transferred mid-year to Lincoln High School in January 1949 as a last half freshman.

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, RAH, RAH, RAH!

Lincoln's hollow halls echoed with the cleats of the guys, and giggles of the gals who were students there.  Skirts styles became so long, tight and straight that it was hard to walk, and don't try to run!  If you could afford them, they were worn with Joyce Shoes from Nordstrom's, fuzzy cuffed Angora socks, and very expensive beautiful cashmere, or less expensive lovely lambs wool sweaters from Scotland.

One of the first things I did to show my independence in my Sophomore Year was to skip Study Hall in the auditorium, AND GET CAUGHT!  The second thing I did was skip school for the day, and I got so bored staying home alone that I dyed my hair with Mercurochrome. You remember, the red stuff in the little bottle to put on cuts that may have had mercury in it? It was a lot of work, and kept me busy all the rest of the day. Oh, my hair was the most beautiful red color under the bathroom light!  When I went to meet Jackie Hill (who had naturally red hair) at the school bus stop, she said, "What did you do to your hair?"

I told her, "I dyed it red!"  She said, "IT'S PINK!”  It was not only pink, but had the strangest iridescent metallic shade of green in some lights.  I didn't get kicked out of school, but washed it twice a day, and it still stayed much the same shade of pink, with the metallic green tinge throughout my sophomore year.  I was nicknamed...Hey, Pinky!

Outdoor Drive-in Movie Theatre's sprung up so viewers could watch the movie from their car with their arm around their date, and there were drive-in places to eat at.  Most households only had one family car, with a one-car garage, and few students had cars of their own.  So, the guys had to ask their folks if they could borrow the family car for a date?  We usually walked or took the bus to the big movie theatres in downtown Seattle. The theatre's I recall are; The Orpheum, Coliseum, Roosevelt, Winter Garden, Blue Mouse, Music Box, Colonial, 5th Avenue, Paramount, Music Hall, Embassy, Liberty, and the Palomar that often included a vaudeville stage show having trapeze showmen, elephants, comedians, and maybe fan dancers? The University District had the Egyptian and Neptune Theatre's.   Every district had one or two smaller theatres we lived near, such as, Wallingford, Phinney, Green Lake, Greenwood, and Ballard. We found jobs in these neighborhood districts or close-by Mom and Pop stores.  We went to roller skating rinks, bowling alleys, libraries, malt shops, high school football and basketball games, Woodland Park and its Zoo or Green Lake for entertainment.  The theatres have vanished one by one, as television sets took their place in the family homes beginning with our generation.

The money we earned after school or during the summer paid for special events at school, dating, or for that special sweater, or pair of shoes that we dreamed about having, but our folks couldn't afford.  The work kept us busy and out of lots of trouble, and few students were fat!  Hairstyles for girls were long or the tight short curls of a Poodle Cut.  The guys had slicked down hair with ducktails, or a crew cut.  The big thing seemed to be polished shoes, and the louder and noisier the cleats were the better, to draw attention to the one wearing them. Smoking was the big sin, or sipping a beer, chewing gum wasn't allowed in school...

The Avalon was a popular dance.  My favorite song was Harbor Lights. Some liked Elvis Presley but, I liked Pat Boone, and who along with his songs wore his favored white bucks in his pictures. White Bucks began to be seen along the halls of Lincoln.

LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS DID HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON MY LIFE.

I was a straight (A) Art Major and Ms. Poor, our Art Teacher, let us just create.  Today our 1953 ANNUAL brings me pleasure to look through.  The fact I design the cover adds to the pleasure along with the memories of the Art Annual Staff serving with me; Sandra Steik, Kay Lamoreux, Pete Kind, Robin Buchan, Bill Quam and myself, Doris Clark, were added with a stick-on inside the back cover page. Would you believe we had been forgotten? Sandra and Kay were extremely talented, and I hope they did some great creative work in the field of Art sometime in their lives after graduation. I didn't!  All other classes I had held little interest for me, and my grades showed it!

I did enjoy Mr. Hay’s history class, and got a strong B.  He made history so interesting. Perhaps that is why I'm a City Historian for the little City of Mountlake Terrace, Washington. Our City is filled with both Lincoln and Ballard grads. Many are World War 2 and Korea Conflict Veteran's, who were the original composition of Mountlake Terrace and bought little cement block love cottages near the King/Snohomish County Line selling for about $5,000.  Today these are selling for over $250,000, though many have been remodeled or added onto, for making room for the large families that love produced. It also shows how much our buying power of the dollar has eroded.

Note of Interest:  When Calvary Fellowship Church that had rented space in Lincoln High School found they had to move out of Lincoln while Ballard High School was being re-built, they bought the Antique Mall building that went bankrupt located in the center of Mountlake Terrace's small downtown.

My husband, a graduate of Ballard High School, and I met on a double date while I was a Junior at Lincoln. We went to a drive-in movie and just held hands. He was in Our Country's Armed Forces, and if I had known that he was a serviceman I would never have gone out with him, as girls that dated service men were thought to be fast, and I sure wasn't. I never saw him in uniform except in pictures. We planned on getting married shortly after we met.

So, when the day came that Ms. Connors, our Comp IV teacher, told everybody in class that they were all going to pass...except, maybe, Doris?  Everybody turned around and looked at me, sitting in the back of the class!  So, I did some fast thinking.  Ms. Connors called me up after class and asked me what my plans were after I graduated?  I put on a act that actress, Claire Trevor, who always played that cheap dumb blonde, would have envied, except I didn't have the chewing gum prop.  I told Ms Connors that I had met this soldier boy.... and would probably work in a dime store until we got married... then I would stay home and have lots and lots of babies. I could almost see her mind thinking that I was this poor dumb kid who would never need to know much about English composition and she passed me!  Boy, were we wrong!

Pretty Ms. Thompson, the girls Health Teacher, terrified me!  Very good students got low grades from her. I was so scared I wouldn't pass that I memorized word for word the huge first chapter of our health book. All the answers to questions on the tests of the following chapters were found in that first chapter, and she gave me an A.  Somehow, I ended up on the Honor Roll to the amazement of my teachers and myself?

I did get secretly married to my soldier boy...but not for almost another year. Ms Thompson was the first teacher to learn I was married, as my good friends who kept my secret told her after I had signed out of her class as a January 1953 graduate. Those days if it was known you were married, you could not attend school, even if close to graduation like I was.

THINGS I'VE DONE!    THOUGHTS I HAVE!

After I graduated from Lincoln I went to Edison Technical School and got a straight (A) in Business English for very short and to the point letters, because I deleted everything I didn't know how to spell or punctuate?  And, as you may have noticed I'm gabby, and still know very little about English mechanics?  I became an IBM Lead Keypunch Operator over 30 women, who always sent me back spelling corrections in my written instructions to them.  I was the first Data Transceiver Operator on the West Coast sending information to Florida's Space Program. I was transferred to the Tabulating Department, which was all men, except for me. It was a "guy thing", and women were considered "no brains", and I never claimed to have any. The pre-computer machines were noisy and large; so were the early computers. My business career ended when I became a mother.

A new career began when I became an Elementary PTA President and our School District's PTSA Council Child Safety Chairman. I wrote our School District's "Detailed Block Parent Child Safety Procedure" (Prior to McGruff), as some children had vanished and this fine child safety plan protecting children on route needed revival. While I held the position, Mount Baker began to shake! I mentioned to the District's Administrator, Dr. Christianson, that I felt we should have Earthquake Drills like we once had Air Raid Drills. He told me, "Doris, I don't know of any school district in the State of Washington that is having Earthquake Drills?" So, he started them, and I received a State Level Parent Teacher Association Award for Outstanding Service to Children.

I was asked to be the Community College Adult Night School Coordinator for our City, which was an administrative position. Thank Heavens we coordinators shared a secretary. The next year I was elected to our Mountlake Terrace City Council, and was appointed to the Snohomish County Health Board. While holding those positions Mt Saint Helen's blew in 1980. I learned a great deal about what happens to cities in an eruption catastrophe. All vehicles in a heavy ash fallout cannot operate. To be safe, keep emergency supplies for more than three days. The teachers at Hamilton were WRONG! The Cascade volcanoes are still very active.

 I serve as Secretary for our City's Historical Committee, and there are few letters to write.  Our Chairman was an elected member of our Edmonds District School Board, and does a great job of editing before she signs... anything, that I type.  She was also in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

We have a Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary.  I'm secretary to one of our City's Park Committees, which has included working with some of the professors at the U.W.  Over the years I've served on many of our City Committees.  I don't think I've ever written anything without a mistake, but it hasn't stopped me. It all would have been much easier though if, I had learned those English composition fundamentals, as a student in Ms. Connors Comp IV Class at Lincoln High School.

I was an elected GOP Snohomish County and Washington State Delegate a few times. Presently I am an Independent! When I was GOP, I had brunch with Spellman during his campaign when he won the position of Governor of our State of Washington.  I've met lots of interesting and dedicated elected people holding office from both the Democrat and Republican Parties.  

My art ambitions, never materialized except for some fun projects involving church and school children. The reality of life, needing money to live on, and issues of my concern have always kept me from following that path.  But then.... the night is young yet.... and who knows.... perhaps my desire to write and illustrate a fun reading book for children with certain disabilities, might still be on the horizon...?  Of course, it would have to be edited...

In a round room lived a rabbit, Sir Walter Robert Richard Redfoot, who had a wonderful wardrobe of red waistcoats he wore whenever, and wherever he went.........

LOVE YA,
Doris (Clark) Cannon - MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 28, 2007

Carol COLLING McKinlay

Highlights since high school: married at 18 - had 4 kids - widowed after 44 years. Met and married Jim one year ago (2002). Worked as a secretary and meter maid over the years at various times. Now do volunteer work with the arts (ballet, theatre and opera).

Favorite pastime - playing tennis.

Wes COPPAGE

Highlights since high school: served in U.S. Army and Navy Reserve. Married Joan in 1961. Served an apprenticeship for journeyman auto mechanic. Moved to Nevada in1969. Worked for City of Henderson, Nevada for 25 years.

Favorite pastimes - motor home camping, off road in dune buggy and '69 Bronco.

Delbert DAHL

Favorite pastime - sailing "Mariah" from Seattle to Panama and all points in between.

Sue DIPPERT Calvert

Highlights since high school: "Hey - it's all one big highlight!").

Favorite pastimes - working at rallies and vintage sports car races.

Kenneth DONOHUE

Highlights since high school: happily married 48 years (in 2003) and have been drywall contractors 40 years.

Favorite pastime: riding our Gold Wing motorcycle.

William DOUGHERTY

Favorite pastime: life in Alaska.

Gaile EDWARDS Agee

Highlights since high school: married childhood sweetheart Ken Agee. Raised five wonderful children, have nine beautiful grandchildren and one great grandson. Worked for 20 years. Extensive travels and love being at home.

Favorite pastimes are family, gardening and travel.

Dick EVANS

Highlights since high school: Naval officer on an aircraft carrier (Shangri La). Started my own financial services and insurance company in 1960. Now all five children and a son-in-law own and run it. A 38-year member Million Dollar Round table. Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and CHFC. We live in an Orcas Island waterfront home with a 3-acre formal garden. Lots of travel - around the world in 2001 and to South America in 2003.

Favorite pastime - boating, travel, San Juan County Park Board and Hotel-Motel Tax Advisory Board.

Judy FOSSE Snider

After I graduated from Lincoln High School in 1953, I went to a business college and then went to work for Seattle First National Bank. I worked there for four years and then went to Augsburg College in Minneapolis. I began dating my husband to be (Neal Snider) while there; he was attending seminary to be a Lutheran pastor. We were married in December of 1958 in Seattle and moved to Minneapolis, where he attended seminary and I worked for Marquette National Bank.

For a number of years I was a stay-at-home mom and did what I could as a volunteer at our church and community. Being a pastor's wife I fill in where I'm needed but also have been able to use my talents. I have directed several church choirs, done some teaching, (not my forte) led women's groups and have done a lot of singing, both choral and solo. I was thrilled to sing the Canadian and American National Anthems at the NW Washington State Fair for seven years and met such people as Johnny Cash, Charlie Pride and Loretta Lynn, We have entertained some dignitaries and some not so dignified people in our home and met many wonderful people over the years.

Neal did an internship in Seattle and then in Williston, ND and we then served churches in Westby, MT and Port Orchard, Washington. We were at Beale Air Force Base in California for a year while Neal was a Chaplain in the Air Force. While there I was president of the Protestant Women of the Chapel. We moved to Camarillo, California while Neal was in Thailand for a year toward the end of the Viet Nam War. After which he pastored a church in Bellingham, Washington. Our children went through most of their elementary up through high school there. Neal worked at Trinity Lutheran College for a few years and then at a church in Marysville, Washington. While at TLC and Marysville we lived in Everett, Washington. At that time I worked for GTE, which is now Verizon.

We have done interim (short term) work in Kenmore, Washington, Eugene, OR, Edmonds, Washington, Seattle, Washington, Tacoma, Washington and Shishmaref, Alaska. Also, we had the privilege of going to the Northern Caucuses area of Russia where Neal did some teaching. While Neal was the one assigned to these churches, I was also actively involved.

When one looks at what I have written, one notices that my life and calling is very much entwined in what my husband have my own abilities and talents and have been able to use them all along the way.

We have done extensive traveling; visiting over 40 countries. Some of the most interesting travel has been to countries such as East Africa, Egypt and Asia. Life in those places is very different from our way of life.

We are both retired and living in Steilacoom, Washington, but Neal has just accepted another interim position in Marysville, Washington, which will be for about a year.

We have three wonderful children; two girls and a boy, and five grandchildren whom we love dearly.

Mary FOWLER Trimble

In 1989, my husband Bruce and I acted on a dream we'd held for years. We quit our jobs, sold our home, bought a 40-foot sailboat and sailed the South Pacific for two years. After cruising, I couldn't bear the thought of returning to my former job as computer programmer/analyst at a large insurance company. Bruce encouraged me to follow my heart, so I began to write. We sold the boat and bought a home on Camano Island in Northwest Washington. My office looks out on five acres of clover-covered fields and evergreen forest. Our four grown children live in the greater Seattle area, within an hour or so of our home. Our five grandchildren, as diversified in their interests as their parents, keep us up-to-date with what's really going on in the world.

By now I've had well over 400 articles published in magazines and newspapers. My first efforts were articles about sailing our Bristol 40, offshore cruising tips, and destinations. My writing soon expanded to other interests - RV travel, gardening, our two years with the Peace Corps in Africa, issues of interest to homeowners, and places to go, things to do. I'm active in the American Red Cross and respond to disasters locally and nationally and have written about these experiences, too.

My novels, Rosemount and McClellan's Bluff are contemporary westerns set in eastern Washington and Oregon. One of the joys of writing is doing the research. I visited eastern Washington ranches and participated in roundup and branding, learning first-hand the language, dust, noise and mess of working cattle. Bruce and I have camped at many of the settings of these two novels, soaking up the unique, rugged countryside these two states offer.

In addition to having books in print, it’s exciting to be involved in electronic publishing. I believe e-books will become as common as paperbacks and videos. After all, in the early days after World War II paperbacks were predicted to be a failure but by 1950 they were a part of every reader’s library. Later, it was feared that videos would replace movies but they have enhanced the film industry. E-mail and the Internet have opened electronic avenues for communication in all fields. E-books, too, will become a part of our lives and it’s fun being on the front lines of this rapidly expanding technology.

Audrey FREEMAN Damery

Highlights since high school: having five wonderful, successful children. My career has been my family. I am now learning about genealogy and found that I am a direct descendant from the Mayflower pilgrims - 12th generation. I am learning about my computer - what a challenge!!

Favorite pastimes: grandkids, church ministry and making porcelain pieces.

Betty FREEMAN Ronquillo

Highlights since high school: traveling and moving with the military; husband in the Coast Guard - Hawaii, New Orleans, Guam, Connecticut. Also visited Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. Now settled in Washington and enjoying retirement, family and friends

Favorite pastimes: traveling, TaiChi, hiking and family get-togethers.

Judy FULTON Proper

Highlights since high school: getting married the day after graduation and having three children within four years. Married again in 1963 and in 1968 opened business in Burlington, Washington. Took many boating trips in our 34' Uniflite. Bought motor home in 1992. Marriage lasted 35 years and now I'm single and loving it!

Favorite pastimes: love boating, camping and driving to parks.

Bill FURBUSH

Highlights since high school: thirty-five years in art and advertising. Traveling the U.S., Canada and Caribbean by plane, ship, car, train, bus and motor home. Working everything from Arthur Murray teacher to my own art/typesetting business

Favorite pastimes: traveling in our RV, reading and raising Koi.

Jack GARVIN

Highlights since high school: raising my children, meeting my wife at a YMCA dance class, killer vacations to the Caribbean and Hawaii, baseball trips to 30+ major league stadiums and 46 years in education (20 as a district superintendent).

Favorite pastimes: ballroom dancing, golf, car shows and vacations in Hawaii.

Arlene GASKELL Bristow

Highlights since high school: I have survived.


Favorite pastimes: reading, needle work and spending $$$.

Martha GEBERT Houk

Highlights since high school: married my high school sweetheart Delmis. Married 41 years. He passed away 12/26/94. My 30 years as a Safeco Insurance Agent and most of all my two wonderful children. Did sell my old home in 2000 and purchased rambler in Arlington, Washington on the Gleneagle Golf Course. So now being retired, I do a lot of golfing.

Favorite pastimes: golf, swimming, travel and anything else that strikes my fancy.

Bob GORDON

Highlights since graduating from Lincoln: I Graduated from the U. of W. in Mechanical Engineering. Married Joyce Berkman (Class of ’54) in 1957 and we celebrated our 50th anniversary this year (2007). We have three successful children and 6 wonderful grandchildren. I had a rewarding career for 40 years in mechanical design and management. For the past 11 years I have been a consultant in machine design working out of our home.

Current interests: Travel, photography, and being with family and friends.

Caroline GUNDERSEN Nash

Highlights since high school: After I got married in 1956 my husband and I moved to New York where he attended Pratt Institute. We lived back east for 14 years and our four sons were born there. Have lived in Santa Monica, California since 1970. My husband passed away in 2001.

Favorite pastimes: gardening

Henry HALL

Highlights since high school: I joined the Mormon Church and served a 30-month mission in Mexico. That gave me my occupation and the opportunity to meet the most wonderful lady in the whole wide world. Ran the Seaside Marathon at age 50. Received my BA from BYU in Spanish and my MA in Spanish from Northern Iowa at their summer campus in Soria, Spain. I spent 3½ summers in Spain and I really learned to love the Spanish culture and people. Married to the lovely lady mentioned above for almost 43 years (in 2003) and couldn't be happier.

Favorite pastimes: travel, reading and hiking.

Evelyn ("Evie") HAMILTON McGhee

Married Ken McGhee (Roosevelt '53) on the same day we graduated UW in June of 1957. Ken entered the Navy and we had 25 years of service, moving around the country and the orient as the Navy saw fit to transfer Ken to various duty stations -- all the while raising two girls and two boys. Occasionally we were lucky enough to get back to Seattle for visits with friends and family, with even a ten-month stay in 1974 while Ken's ship was in Todd Ship Yard for overhaul. Upon moving to San Diego (and after moving 18 times) I decided this was the place to stay and live and plant roots, both for the kids and for us. Ken retired as a Captain, our kids all graduated from SDSU, and as our children grew older I worked in exciting downtown San Diego for 20 years as a paralegal. We have nine grandchildren, seven of whom live within minutes of us. We love living in San Diego, and we've kept active in many Navy and community activities over the years.

Peter HANSELL

Highlights since high school: good health, great family and friends and travel to interesting places.

Favorite pastimes: golf, reading, travel, bridge and crabbing.

Jim HANSON

Highlights since high school: owned and operated commercial repair business for 33 years. After retirement enjoy traveling to Alaska every year and spending time at our second home in Sequim.

Favorite pastimes: fishing and hunting - Alaska - second home in Sequim.

Jack HAWKER

Highlights since high school: graduated from the U of W in 1957 in Business Administration. Went into the Marine Corps - two years active and 20 years in the reserve. Married in 1964 to Barbara Croke (LHS '51). No kids but 11 dachshunds. Retired from Puget Sound Energy. We lived in Issaquah, Ferndale, Sedro Woolley and are now in Port Ludlow. We have done our share of traveling to Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and around the U.S.

Interests are boating, fishing, genealogy and volunteer work.

Jerry HELMAN

Highlights since high school: many - including meeting and marrying Mary, birth of daughter Teresa and son Jeff. Trips from Disneyland to Hawaii and a biggy to Australia and New Zealand. Retiring in 2000 finding more time to play :-)

Favorite pastimes: driving sports car at various tracks (Washington, Oregon and California) and traveling.

David HERTZ

Highlights since high school: U.S National Pairs Title in 1954; Air Force, 1954-1957; married Sandra Brown (Ballard '56); graduated U of W Business in 1961; Manager, Boeing Defense and Space, 1961-1995; National Ski Patrol, 1974-1988; retired from Boeing in 1995.

Favorite pastimes: ice skating, roller blading, skiing, boating, travel and gardening.

Pat HIBBARD Hicks

After teaching third grade in Bellingham for 30 years I am enjoying retirement with my husband of 48 years. I graduated from Seattle University in l957 and taught at Beacon Hill Grade School for two years. I married Roger Hicks in August, l959. He was an air traffic controller and we transferred around the western region for ten years and then settled in Bellingham in l969. We bought seven acres south of Bellingham. We have three children: Tom, Jean and Linda and six grandchildren. I have enjoyed riding horses that we pastured on our seven acres. We live next to 2,400 acres of logging land so that provided wonderful trails. For two summers I chaperoned high school students to Europe with People to People. When we both retired we traveled to Europe three times. Now we travel in our camper all over the coast and especially up into Canada, which is just 20 miles north. Life has been good to me in love, adventures and health.

Ron HILL

Highlights since high school: reflecting on the accomplishments of family, friends and loved ones.

Favorite pastimes: golf and fishing.

Marlene HOLMAN Hansell

Highlights since high school: good employment with super bosses. College days at U of W. Marriage - 47 great years (in 2003). Raising with mostly wonderful days - three children. Grandchildren bonus. 40+ years of skiing. Travels - especially Africa. Fun times with old and new friends. Love my home on Camano Island.

Favorite pastimes: golf, playing Bridge, walking and travel. Huskies, Sonics and Mariners

Norma HOLMES Svardal

Highlights since high school: our wonderful family, my great husband and my many friends.

Favorite pastimes: baking, gardening, visiting friends and traveling to Europe.

Douglas HOUK

Highlights since high school: attended U of W and Seattle Pacific University; served in the U.S. Army; taught high school in Seattle (29 years); married Carolyn Hall, New York City in 1962 and have two children, daughter Sharon and son David. Live in Edmonds, Washington and enjoy retirement. The most significant thing is knowing Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

Favorite pastimes: aerobics, gardening and reading.

Clinton HOWARD

Highlights since high school: successful in charitable fund-raising and active in politics (Rep. and Dem.)

Favorite pastimes: travel.

Marnie JAMISON Oslin

Highlights since high school: raising our children, enjoying the grandchildren, retirement after 25 years with the Seattle Police Department and 44 years (in 2003) of marriage.

Favorite pastimes: cruising the Caribbean and working and playing with the Reunion Committee.

Margaret (Peggy) KELLER Click-Taylor

Highlights since high school: getting my BA and M.Ed. in my mid-30s; teaching honors; teaching at the University of Portland; mentoring young teachers; finding a good man to marry after many years of widowhood; delighting in my grandkids.

Favorite pastimes: quilting is my game - love fabric.

Walter (Pete) KIND

Highlights since high school: graduated U of W with teaching degree but joined (and later managed) F&N Window Display Dept. for 29 years. Renovated old houses for a while and retired. Lois and I started "Kind Stitchworks" and are having fun designing cross stitch patterns for tourist and craft industries.

Favorite pastimes: finding and restoring antique toys, furniture, etc.

Irene KLAVE Helm

Highlights since high school: three children, eight grandchildren. One great grandson on the way. I moved to California. I had my own casino business for nonprofit organization and corporation for 22 years.

Favorite pastimes: oil painting and travel.

Grant KNUTSON

Highlights since high school: living this damn long and retiring in mid 40s.

Favorite pastimes: motor homing and losing at poker around the country..

Bill KOONS

Highlights since high school: we are still enjoying friends that were made at Lincoln more than 50 years ago. The four years at Lincoln was the start of many new trends: rock & Roll music, drive-in movies, hot cars, the building boom, draft, good looking girls, submarine races, TV. Then honesty and a person's integrity only took a handshake! It was a fun time! Now we have AIDS, suicide bombers, crack cocaine, wars all over the TV and newspapers. It would be nice to go back to a quieter time!

Favorite pastimes: raising dahlias; travel (one of our daughters is a stewardess and we sure like these passes)

Faye LEE Lermond

Highlights since high school: becoming a grandma - for the first time being able to travel.

Favorite pastimes: boating, traveling, gardening, sewing and garage sales.

Diane LINNEMAN Bicknell

Married to husband Bud for 46 years (in 2003). For 25 years we have both been actively involved with the Lincoln High School Reunion Committee 'Class of 1953'. Children: Greg, Doug, Freddie and Debbie (twins) and five grandsons. Cats Kali & Daisy. All our family members live nearby. Working Years: Diane retired after working for State Employment Security and the Seattle School District for a total of 20 years. While working in the schools she met many fellow classmates from Lincoln. Bud worked in the tire business, had own shop and in construction. Retirement: We moved from our large Northgate area family home to a Senior Mobile Home Park "Wandering Creek". It is a gated community with a lake, streams, walking paths, ducks & quail. We are both actively involved in many facets of the community. Favorite Pastimes: Traveling by bus to Artic Circle or cruising many times with Holland American Lines, we love to travel. Enjoy meeting new people and getting together with new and life long friends. Friends are like a good wine - the older they are, the better!

Marlene LOFTHUS Willard

Highlights since high school: first of all we are so very proud of our wonderful children and our grandchildren - three already in college and one entering high school. Also we're very pleased that we were able to fulfill our retirement dream of spending our winters doing one of our favorite pastimes - playing golf in Arizona at our second home.

Favorite pastimes: enjoying retirement - golfing, traveling - friend and family get-togethers. Watching Mariner games.

Marilyn LONG Ahnemiller

Highlights since high school: building and spending time at our cabin at Lake Cushman. Being a Girl Scout leader, mother and grandmother. Lived in Lake Forest Park for 40 years. Now live in Edmonds. Bruce and I retired from the Boeing Company in 1994. (Have not missed it a minute!) I enjoy creating new quilts and quilting with my friends.

Favorite pastimes: quilting, genealogy, spending time with family.

Donald LUNDBERG

Highlights since high school: Ten years football - Seattle Ramblers and Seattle Cavaliers.

Favorite pastimes: watching Seahawks and Mariners.

Dean (Dion) MASTERS

Highlights since high school: South Pacific Air Rescue for four years with the U.S. Coast Guard. Seattle Pacific University. Being with the same sweetheart for more than 50 years. Having three sons. Loved teaching physical education for 35 years. Retired and active in Arizona. My wife Ursula graduated at Lichtenstein, Germany.

Favorite pastimes: mountaineering (climbing and hiking), traveling and touring.

Dolores MERRIMAN Bondietti

Highlights since high school: Secretary, Pioneer Sand and Gravel. Owned apartments with husband in Oakland, California. Moved to Petaluma, California in 1972. Medical assistant for pediatrician for 25 years. Charter member of CMAA. President in 1991, Traveling now and enjoying retirement.

Favorite pastimes: spending time with friends, collecting cookbooks, painting porcelain dolls, sewing (machine and embroidery).

Robert MERRITT

Highlights since high school: a temporary job in Alaska that has lasted 40 years (in 2003).

Favorite pastimes: reading, fishing and hiking.

Georgene NELSON Birchard

Highlights since high school: my three great children and eight wonderful grandchildren. My wonderful husband of 20 years (in 2003). Enjoying the beauty of Arizona and our motorcycle travels. Our seven-day river raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Our cat Daphne.

Favorite pastimes: golf, motorcycle riding, reading and seeking new adventures.

Clare NORDQUIST

Highlights since high school: lived in Colorado for 20 years where I met my wonderful wife of more than 40 years, highlighted with having wonderful children and grandkids. Enjoyed being able to serve our community as a Port Commissioner.

Favorite pastimes: boating, reading and travel.

Jo-Anne OBENHOFER Preston

Highlights since high school: a happy marriage, a wonderful family and our fiftieth wedding anniversary in 2003.

Favorite pastimes: gambling and traveling.

Joanne ODEN Knutson

After graduation, I attended Washington State University (College, then) for a year, then ran out of money and went to work at SeaFirst bank. I have worked mostly in retail, including clothing and groceries, and finally 18 years as a Realtor with Windermere. Met my husband at the Sammamish Slough races in 1955, and we were married three months later. We lived in Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Bothell and ended up in LaConner, where I still live. We had three great kids, two girls and one boy, and three grandchildren. We traveled the West (by boat and RV), and made several trips to Hawaii. My husband passed away suddenly in January of 2004. Since then I have traveled to Egypt, Kenya, New Zealand and Australia. I have a 30-foot motorhome which I drive. When I am not golfing, painting, or traveling, I am gardening or taking care of maintenance at home. Keeps one busy!

Anne ODION Roberson

Highlights since high school: marriage, divorce, two children (during marriage). College: Washington State, U of W, Western Washington and finally a Masters at Antioch University. Enjoying my children and appreciating them a lot! Loved my work as a psychotherapist and for the Peace Corps. Remarried 1996!

Favorite pastimes: boating, dancing, travel, skiing and reading.

Joy OLSEN Mickelson

Highlights since high school: visited Norway in 1956 to meet my aunts, uncles, and numerous cousins. I also got married that year to Forrest Mickelson (from Ballard) and we celebrated our 50th in 2007. Have two children and four grandchildren. Have lived in Des Moines, WA since 1957 (same house). Worked 21 years for PACCAR Inc.

Favorite pastimes: knitting, gardening and reading.

Don OLSON

Highlights since high school: being married for 49 years (in 2003); having a son and a daughter and five super grandchildren. My career in international trade; traveling the world and now retirement.

Favorite pastimes: seeing the U.S. in our motor coach.

Janet OLSON Bradford

My husband and I are still farming. We are involved in a car club and attend several car shows a year. We have a school bus yellow 36 Ford pickup that took Pete about six years to get it where it is now. It has won several awards. It is what we call a street rod. There are car shows almost every weekend in the spring and summer. We have several that we attend every year. All of the people in the car club drive the cars to the events. Pete is working on a 38 Ford convertible now. We spend time at our second home in Ashland, Oregon. It is a nice getaway. We have 36 acres that overlook downtown Ashland. Our four children live close, so we see them quite often. Our oldest grandchild, a girl graduated from high school this year. We have a grandson who will be a junior, a granddaughter who will be a sophomore, then a grandson who turned 2 in April, with a brother or sister to arrive in July around the 20th, that is why I will not be at the reunion. Plus we sell fresh market watermelons and I need to be here during that time. Along with farming, car shows, trips to Ashland, and our children we keep very busy. I still have time to play bridge and attend Broadway plays. Haven't golfed for a while, but still a member of the Arbuckle Golf Club.

Dixie OWENS

Highlights since high school: I have worked for others, had my own business, lived in interesting places, traveled to other countries, but all that cannot compare to the people I've met and the lasting friendships I've made. I have been touched by many children besides my own and that has fortified my life.

Favorite pastimes: family, friends, quilting, gardening, traveling and watching my hair turn gray.

Phyllis PAPPE Skaugrud

Highlights since high school: children, career, living on South Whidbey Island on my four acres, gardening and local volunteering. Beautiful place to live, many good people.

Favorite pastimes: being with family and friends.

Kay PECK Bartlett

Highlights since high school: raising a family, moving to Skagit County in 1969, working 22 years as an elementary school secretary, traveling, managing to stay healthy and married to a good person.

Favorite pastimes: keeping fit, gardening and reading.

Clinton PELTO

Favorite pastimes: hiking, outdoor photography and fishing.

Barbara PERSON Scott

Highlights since high school: graduated from the U of W with a BA in Business. Met and married an orthodontic student there and moved to Arizona. Divorced 21 years later and entered Arizona State as a piano major. Married Vern in 1986. Retired and now love to travel. I play the piano at Mayo Clinic twice a week and have other piano jobs. Our grandchildren live in Tucson and Las Vegas so we travel a lot!

Favorite pastimes: piano, quilting, painting and travel by car.

Lois PETERSON Eastman

Highlights since high school: being married to Joe for 46 years (in 2003) and raising our three children, having six wonderful grandchildren, traveling with Joe to England, Russia, Germany via Rhine cruise and cruises through Panama Canal and to Alaska. And finally, reaching 10,500 miles in my walking/running program. Still at it!

Favorite pastimes: reading, travel, music and physical fitness.

Barbara PLENGE Hill

Highlights since high school: raising three children and enjoying them and their families; watching their achievements and our move to Idaho and Arizona.

Favorite pastimes: bridge, cooking, grandchildren and family.

Phyllis RADKA King

Highlights since high school: becoming a mother, a teacher and a homeowner. Active in political/social causes, studying mysticism and enjoying a good romance.

Favorite pastimes: being outdoors, travel, creativity, music, grandkids and life.

Karen RAMHORST Melvin

When Brock Hogle, Class of 1951 Totem II reporter, heard about the death of classmate Wally Melvin (51) at last year's Ivar's gathering, many of those in attendance wondered how Wally had spent his years since Lincoln. Brock was delighted when Karen Ramhorst Melvin (53) contacted him with the idea that Wally's books might interest his high school and college friends. He asked Karen to bring Totem II readers up to date on those years. For this information, Karen went to the best source, Wally's sister, Glenda Melvin Cassutt (53). Following is the story as reported in the recent edition of Totem II and included here with Karen’s permission:

“After Lincoln HS, Wally joined the Army and did intelligence work in Japan. When he had completed his tour of duty, Wally studied English at the University of WA. He also acted in plays at the Showboat and Playhouse theatres. Then he moved to Florida where he worked as a reporter for the Pensacola Journal and continued his acting in local theatre productions. Wally met his first wife in rehearsals for one of these plays. Largely because of his interest in William Faulkner, he did graduate work at the University of Mississippi. After completing his Master's Degree, Wally taught English in Missouri for many years. That is where his two sons live.

“In May 1994, Wally came to Seattle to visit friends and relatives. One day during his visit, his sister Glenda was tied up with carpenters working on her house. I was recently widowed so I offered to serve as chauffeur for lunches, ferry rides, and revisiting old Seattle haunts. As he came down his sister's front steps to my car, it was an exact image of that guy from 1952. Wow! We hugged and started a conversation that could have ended 4 days ago rather than 40 years in the past. We had such an easygoing, fun time during our touring that I offered to drive him to the airport; not wanting to think this would probably be our last meeting. Over a cup of coffee while awaiting his plane, Wally gave me a lovely silver bracelet he had bought at the Pike Place Market. He also asked if I could come visit him in Missouri. To say I was dumbfounded would be putting it mildly. So on the next long weekend it was his turn to show me around a portion of Missouri and it was grand.

“By mid-summer, we were burning up the phone lines. The talk centered more and more on his taking a one-way trip to my home in Edmonds. In September, I was back at the airport. His two small cases told me he wasn't all that interested in clothes; but in one case was the senior picture I had sent him when we were corresponding in 1953. Forty years and that picture had been to Japan and back via the Army! Soon a big moving van pulled up to the house and unloaded 16, yes, 16 boxes of books. There was no doubt where his interests lay. He rented a typewriter and started writing and continued writing for the next ten years. We were married in 1995 and moved to a condo in Ballard with, surprisingly, one room already lined with bookshelves. Just right for a writer. Our view of the mountains and sunsets was almost as glorious as the time we spent talking, laughing, and sometimes crying - once cancer stole into our home. I am so grateful to have such wonderful memories. Wally gave me ten of the happiest years of my life.”

Loretta RANSOM Hucks

Highlights since high school: college; teaching Jr. High (honest - I loved it!); my family - especially the grandkids - my reward for not killing the teen-agers; owning a restaurant - five years of temporary insanity; becoming a part of the traditional jazz world - festivals and friends all over the country.

Favorite pastimes: dancing, jazz festivals, traveling - especially by train.

Myrtis REHBEIN Holdren

Highlights since high school: ten years as a full time professional ski school instructor. Living in California, Ohio, Texas and Saudi Arabia. Being married to the same wonderful man for 46 years (in 2003).

Favorite pastimes: snow skiing, golf, scuba diving and sewing.

Alda P. RICE Reynolds

I married Ted Reynolds January 20, 1956 in Anchorage Alaska. He is an Auburn, Maine native, born & raised right here in the neighborhood where we have lived since Ted's discharge from the Air Force in 1957. We've actually lived here on Pride Road in Ted's grandmother's old house since 1961, raising two beautiful daughters. I was one of those "stay-at-home" moms while the girls (Nancy and Barbara) were growing up. I've worked as a church secretary, a secretary for an accountant, and my last job before retiring in 1997 was as a legal secretary, then bookkeeper for a local law firm. Nothing much exciting goes on here in Maine (other than the Red Sox beating the Yankees last night), but we've kept busy through the years. Since 1996 I've been involved with Sweet Adelines International, singing lead for the Mollyockett Chorus and lead in two quartets, the Pine Tones and more recently "Four On A Match". Our latest quartet sings primarily WWII -1950s songs.... the oldies, but goodies. I've kept my hands busy doing art work, painting and drawing, sewing crafts, and just enjoying myself in my "golden years"...

Barbara RIPKE Callahan

After graduating from Lincoln High School I had a job waiting for me at Foster and Kleiser (Outdoor advertising) as a billing clerk.  After my office manager moved to a better paying job with Parker-Henry Glass Co., he offered me a job there working in "Inside Sales" with some bookkeeping.  It was there I met my first husband and married in 1955.  We opened up our own glass business and had four children.  I lost one child in 1965 to heart problems.  In 1972 my husband died in a boating accident.  I sold our company to the owner of a glass company in Kent, Washington and went to work for him in outside sales.  It was through him I was introduced to my current husband and his boss at F.L.Hartung Glass Co. (wholesale glass).  My current husband had a subdivision at Hartung Glass, designing shower doors .  I was hired on to work for him in sales.  We dated for 10 years and after my three children were on their own and his son was on his own, we married in 1982.  We were offered a job managing a Motel/Resort in Yuma, Arizona by one of the sons to the owner of Hartung Glass Co.  We flew down and looked it over, and decided to take the job.  It was suppose to be for three years, and we ended up staying 8 years.  We then retired and built a new home in the foothills of Yuma, Arizona.  Seven years ago, we purchased a place in the mountains of Northern Arizona at Lakeside/Pinetop, Arizona and this is where we retreat for our summer months.  I feel like we have the best of both worlds as we love the winters in Yuma, and the summers in the Pines at Lakeside are heavenly.

My husband has two sons, one in Cleveland, Ohio and one in Snohomish, Washington. and I have three children.  One in Huntington Beach, California one in Seattle, Washington and one in Spokane, Washington.  We are in constant touch with all five and enjoy occasional visits. We have nine grandchildren together.   My husband had a bout with head and neck cancer five years ago, and so far is cancer free.  We give thanks daily for all we have, especially our health.

Diana RITTER Downey

I keep busy with aqua aerobics, our craft club, quilting, knitting, etc. Due to Bob's health we no longer travel. Would love to visit with everybody again and re-live our joyous times.

Ronald ROBERTS

Highlights since high school: two years army (82nd Airborne), two years smokejumper, two years college at Wenatchee. Basketball and football. 31 years manager floorcovering wholesaler.

Favorite pastimes: golf, music - trumpet, play with small band.

Ruthanna SCHMOE Higley

Highlights since high school: went to Western Washington in Bellingham for two years. Was a stewardess for United Airlines based in Washington D.C. and Seattle. Married a '52 Ballard grad. Had two girls and a boy. Helped husband build Frank Lloyd Wright style house in Kirkland, Washington where we lived for 35 years. Now spend winters in Green Valley, Arizona and summers in LaConner, Washington.

Favorite pastimes: travel, decorating, reading, boating and watching grandkids grow.

Ardis SCOTT Ellingson

Highlights since high school: a Master of Arts degree in Home Economics (textiles, clothing and art). My 45-year marriage - we couldn't make retirement work. I was President of the Fort Lewis Faculty Wives Women's Club. I was President of my Lutheran Church Women's group twice. I was a member of A.A.U.W, the Durango Garden Club.

Favorite pastimes: arts and crafts, sewing, decorating, gardening, enjoying my family and friends.

Arline SHULMIER Daniel

Highlights since high school: traveling to Europe, Caribbean cruises... Working for great bosses. Going to my cabin.

Favorite pastimes: traveling and reading mystery books.

Chet SMITH

Since leaving Lincoln I have spent most of my life in the great Northwest. Many years as a meat broker then as a real estate broker/developer. Some of my projects were: Skyline Marina, Anacortes - Surfside Estates. Long Beach - Desert Aire, Columbia River and 2 resorts in Costa Rica. Married to my first wife Roseann, (Highline '54) for 20 years (she is still my best friend). Married to my second wife Sydney (West Seattle '51) for 28 years. We have seven kids between us and 15 grand kids. (Christmas is like the national debt.) Have traveled extensively around the world. Enjoy going to our homes in Arizona or the Pacific Ocean.

Favorite hobbies are golf, spending time with our kids and grandchildren or just hanging out at our house in Woodinville.

Wouldn't it be nice if the world could go back to the simpler, fun days that all of us had growing up here in Seattle.

Lois SORENSEN Avoian

Highlights since high school: I spent eight years in Juneau, Alaska and one year in Sitka, Alaska. I graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois with a BA in Anthropology. I have been working for Tyndale House Publishers for 16 years. We publish the Living Bible, the New Translation and many books such as the "Left Behind" series.

Favorite pastimes: reading.

Robert STENSTROM

Highlights since high school: graduated in 1955 from a junior college in Chicago, followed by five years at the U of W; first job with Boeing in engineering; joined Air Force to be a pilot, failed final vision exam, assigned to intelligence, stationed at Griffiss AFB in Upstate New York for next five years; moved to Washington, D.C. in 1967 to take federal job and attend George Washington law school; still working in 2003 for Customs Service, and have an off-hours legal and financial planning practice; active Presbyterian for 35 years; love Bethesda, Maryland, but will always miss the mountains and waters of the Pacific Northwest.

Favorite pastimes: polishing a 1966 MGB; time in church, coffee shops, fitness center, garden, concerts, Broadway theatres.

Sharon STEWART Long

Highlights since high school: married 40 years. Traveled with family. Husband in Air Force. Stayed in touch with Jo-Ann Obenhofer, now Preston, and her husband Bill.

Favorite pastimes: reading, bingo and travel.

Bonnie STOA McCrary

Highlights since high school: children, grandchildren, having my own business and having good health.

Favorite pastimes: socializing, volunteering, travel and reading.

Shirley TARBOX Taylor (Deceased)

Highlights since high school: graduating cum laude "School of Hard Knocks". Life long friends met along the way through golf, the restaurant business, owning our thoroughbred horses and racing them. I love the sense of belonging - my family, my church, my friends!

Favorite pastimes: my family, my pets, golf, RVing, genealogy, church.

Elaine TAYLOR Jones

Highlights since high school: raising three boys and having them turn out so good. Living in California. Playing bridge, meeting new friends we keep in touch with, gloating over those six granddaughters and loving our three daughters-in-law. Ron and Barb Hill moving to Boise. Spending winters at our Arizona home. Still crazy in love with Dick.

Favorite pastimes: enjoying my husband and family, travel, play bridge, read and visit friends.

Yvonne TAYLOR Michl

Highlights since high school: being married to my husband and best friend. Raising our children and watching all grow. Living in Stanwood, Washington. Meeting new people there and still seeing some old friends. We look so much older - but sure don't feel that old.

Favorite pastimes: gardening, travel in fifth wheel, snowbirding in winter and "Casinos".

Gail THOMAS Herzog

Life has certainly never been dull since June 1953! Went to the UW for a year, worked and then married Jim Hill, one of our classmates. We divorced and the adventure continued. Finally married Dick Herzog who had two kids and we had two, Tom and Richy. He passed away in 1970 at the age of 38.

I bought a home at 55th and Wallingford 1971. Shortly thereafter I decided to research classmates and connected with the people who are still the Reunion Committee. The Reunion Committee is the most rewarding thing I've done in my life!

Many adventures along the way…. With the little bit of insurance money that Dick left I bought an apt complex and then a second one. In the meantime I went to school and learned how to be an Owner/Resident Manager, working for a Management Company, managing 46 units. Great experience

I was finally able to realize my vision of Owner/Resident Manager of a nine-unit apartment complex, which I've owned for eight years now in South Everett. The frosting on the cake has been renting seven out of nine apartments to family members (who all pay rent!) and daily watching my first great granddaughter grow up, now two yrs old

My adventure has included meeting many loving people, travel, music and art. I'm a late bloomer, but consider myself very bright for my age! I know that there are many more wonderful adventures to come, even at the age of 71!

James TOLLEFSON

Highlights since high school: seeing the world - Air Force Navigator, 22 years.

Favorite pastimes: senior softball.

Judy TURNER

Having been born and raised in Seattle (actually Richmond Beach), when I graduated from the University of Washington, I went in search of sunshine.  I met a friend in Hawaii just for a vacation, fell in love with Oahu, the people, everything about it - so decided to stay.   I'd probably still be there but unfortunately my darling dad died nine months later so I reluctantly decided to move back with mom to help her deal with the empty house.

I stayed in Seattle for a year - got a letter from my best friend in college saying she was tired of living in San Francisco and "I'll go anywhere you want to go, do anything you want to do."  So we decided to go to Europe, take our time traveling from Portugal to Germany - maybe support ourselves tutoring.   We went to Salt Lake City (her home town) because it was cheap and a good place to save money for our trip.   However . . . before our ship sailed, she met a man and decided to get married.   I was not happy - stuck in Salt Lake City - no Europe.

I stayed in Salt Lake City and almost a year later I too decided to get married (to a man who had been my first true love's best friend at Roosevelt).  My husband was a Lt. in the Air Force, a pilot, and a career Air Force officer, stationed at Hill Air Force Base near Salt Lake City.

Over the next 16 years we lived in Utah; Mobile, Alabama; Tachikawa, Japan; Illinois; Frankfort Germany; Madrid, Spain; and Washington, D.C.   I absolutely loved Air Force life and moving every two+ years to new places around the world!   During that time I got my Masters' Degree in Counseling and we had three daughters, two of them twins.  We now have nine grandchildren.

My husband and I separated, then divorced, in 1976 while in D. C., and the girls and I moved to San Diego, CA.   I have been here in San Diego ever since.  I had three regular jobs while raising the kids, then went into Real Estate in 1994.  I am currently a Residential Realtor - helping clients buy and/or sell homes all over San Diego County. I'm also involved in community affairs as a member of the La Jolla Kiwanis Club and as the Vendor Coordinator for the La Jolla Half Marathon.

I get up to Seattle every summer to see my youngest daughter's family, and old friends, and it's always good to see that beautiful scenery that is so much a part of my history!

Peggy ULLMAN Hedstrom

Highlights since high school: attending Seattle Pacific University, WSU, U of W and University of Hawaii. Teaching Home Economics in the Seattle Public Schools. Marrying a pastor and being in the ministry in Muskegon, Michigan; Madison, Wisconsin and in the Seattle area.

Favorite pastimes: gardening, sewing and many church activities.

Philip UNICK

Highlights since high school: military service (travel) - most of all family and grandkids.

Favorite pastimes: cars.

Lawrence VICKERS

Highlights since high school: joined the Boeing Company July 1, 1953. Married my high school sweetheart September 5, 1953(Ballard grad). The Lord has blessed me with a loving and talented life partner, and us with two successful children. I have traveled most of the world either for Boeing or with my wife on vacation. Since our retirement nine years ago (in 2003) we have spent winters in Florida, Hawaii and California. The past three summers we have literally built a four-bedroom house at Ocean Shores, Washington (framing, siding, wiring, etc.). In between all of this we play golf.

Favorite pastimes: family functions, watching our grandchildren perform in music and sports.

Carolyn WARD Edwards

My widowed mother and I moved to Seattle in 1951. She had bought an apartment house at 904 East Miller where we lived while I attended Lincoln High School for my Junior and Senior years.

In Seattle I worked part time for a funeral home then later for Wockner Pontiac.

On a Sunday, late summer or early fall 1953 my mother and I were at church. She introduced me to a sailor who attended that day: Ensign Lyndel Edwards from Arkansas. His ship, the USNS General H. B. Freeman, was based in Seattle. I entered the University of Washington that fall and became a life member of ZTA. Ensign Edwards and I married September 10, 1954.

My husband and I drove our Austin A-40 to the University of Arkansas in 1955 after he was released from active duty. He earned his MBA with me typing all the papers! He then worked for AT&T for more than 30 years - in Kansas City, Belleville, Illinois, New York City, and Washington, DC. (We lived in Springfield, Virginia.)

Our three sons were born along the way. After the children were older I began a career with J. C. Penney Co. and later with the Central Intelligence Agency. As a CIA Security Officer with the Intelligence Community staff my office was about one block from the White House. It was interesting work. I frequently met and visited with directors of the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, Foreign Intelligence Services, leading scientists and others.

My husband and I both retired and moved to Mountain Home Arkansas in 1994 where we are active in our church, American Legion and Auxiliary, Telephone Pioneers, National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees and Korean War Veterans Association. He is active in tennis and I in scrabble and my long time belly dancing hobby. (Our Presbyterian Church pastor claims to have the only belly dancer-Elder in the Presbytery of Arkansas.)

I am currently the TOTEM II 1953 Class Reporter.
May 2007

Sharron WELSCH Reams

Highlights since high school: three children, travel, working as a school librarian so much I have substituted in library for eight years! One day a month I spend a day in each grandchild's school seeing each grade for half an hour story time.

Favorite pastimes: the social life!

Shirley WHEELER Smith

Highlights since high school: I have enjoyed many different occupations. I have three wonderful children and two grandchildren. In 1994 I started my own business - Holly & Ivey Ltd. - It's Christmas year round, gifts, home, home and garden decor. For more details visit our website: http://www.hollyandivygifts.com

Favorite pastimes: working, gardening, cooking and civic affairs.

James WHITE

Highlights since high school: teaching flying, retiring from Shoreline Fire Department after 42 years and enjoying grandchildren.

Favorite pastimes: gardening, fishing and travel.

Jan WILLIAMS Fitzpatrick

Highlights since high school: marriage of 46 years (in 2003) and still strong. The good and not so good times raising children. Being able to travel to many foreign countries and 30 years (in 2003) of times and good friends in Boise. Favorite pastimes: travel.

Miles YANICK

Highlights since high school: life.

Favorite pastimes: lots of skiing, swimming, singing and community theater.

Marjorie YEADON Kapoi

Highlights since high school: too many to recite here. Short answer -- I have been blessed! Favorite pastimes: reading.

Jeanne ZAVALES Boss

Highlights since high school: great jobs: Washington State Department of Licenses - four years; Paramount Pictures for Kirk Douglas; "California Angels" in Hollywood (1963 to 1967) - commuted to Anaheim when they built the Anaheim Stadium; Seattle Times for 16 years.

Favorite pastimes: vacations, baseball and grandchildren.