Keith Eide

Just a note to fellow Anacortes High School band members........Mr. Keith Eide's health is failing. I talked with him and his wife a few weeks ago and was quite saddened to see him this way. His wife told me that, unknown to him, the North Cascade Community Concert Band is performing a tribute concert to him. It will be April 13th at 3pm in the Broadniak Performing Arts Center (the high school auditorium). This is the concert band the he originally formed. He is quite frail and very hard of hearing and had to give up his love of conducting and finally playing his music. The music program will be Mr. Eide's favorite...Sousa marches. Hope to see some of you there.

Gary Storme

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$1,000,000

In 1962, when were Sophomores, the Seattle World's Fair wowed us. It required a trip to the "big city," then 500,000 people. The futuristic monorail and other Jetson-type displays were exciting and inspirational. I remember buying and creating an injected plastic momento, in blue. Seems like I may still have a stamped metal coin as well. The trip up the Space Needle was just 42 seconds and the view was like nothing we had seen before. Remember, if you stood in one place long enough you got a slow 360 degree view of the Seattle area.

Back on the ground, a display that I was drawn to was the 1,000,000 silver dollars. This was in the day when $20,000 could get you a very nice 4 bedroom home. I'm an optimist but I've always wondered if the plastic-faced 9'x9'x9' box was really full of dollars or if it was just a deceptive display. My money is on the latter.