AHS REUNION

The Anacortes Schools Foundation would like your help spreading the news about the AHS All-Class Reunion to be held on Saturday, August 4, 2007 from 1:00-4:00 at the Anacortes High School.
The event will be similar to the Seahawk Centennial Celebration held last August commemorating the 100th anniversary of the high school. There will be media presentations of the history of the Anacortes High School, an area designated to meet your classmates and renew old friendships, food and refreshments.
Williams Gym will be set up to display photos, memorabilia, old Key Club scrapbooks and other high school memories. Each class will have the opportunity to display their reunion scrapbooks, photos, yearbook, and any other memories. Please contact Kris Lytton if you’d like to organize a display for your class and to reserve a table. Take this opportunity to show off your graduating class!
Attached is an Anacortes Schools Foundation newsletter to forward to your classmates. If you would like us to contact your classmates, please forward either email or postal addresses so we can keep them up to date with what’s happening.
For more information, please contact us by:
Email: info@AnacortesSchoolsFoundation.org
Mail: 2200 M Avenue, Anacortes, WA 98221
Or contact a committee member:
Bret Lunsford: blunsford62@comcast.netKris Lytton: 299-4542 or mrlytton@fidalgo.net

Another 60

What is with all these people we know turning 60?! Haven't they heard that the Social Security Fund will be going dry soon?

The Birthday Girl in this case was Linda Spencer. She still refuses to grow up and joined in the spirited singing with Jane Wingert, Bill Jamerman and Linda Lemberg.

(Send your birthday photo to d3dawson@gmail.com)

Turning 60

We knew it would come. But who can believe it has started? Amazing as it seems, most of our Class is turning 60 years old this year! Ed Storme is leading the way as his day was celebrated recently. Pat Fraser looks on with empathy. Over the Hill 40 looks pretty good now eh?

All-Class Reunion in August

The Anacortes Schools Foundation has announced the AHS All-Class Reunion to be held on Saturday, August 4, 2007 from 1:00-4:00 at the Anacortes High School.

The event will be similar to the Seahawk Centennial Celebration held last August. There will be media presentations of the history of the Anacortes High School, an area designated to meet your classmates and renew old friendships, food and refreshments.

Williams Gym will be set up to display photos, memorabilia, old Key Club scrapbooks and other high school memories. Each class will have the opportunity to display their reunion scrapbooks, photos, yearbook, and any other memories. If you would like to receive the Foundation newsletter and other updates, you can write to: info@AnacortesSchoolsFoundation.org

If any of you want to take the lead in organizing a Class of 1965 presence at this event, please contact:
Bret Lunsford: blunsford62@comcast.net or Kris Lytton: 299-4542 or mrlytton@fidalgo.net

And we can use this site to coordinate and communicate as needed.

How Cool Are You?

Being at least half-way "cool" in high school was always on our minds.


One of my Baby Boomer colleagues sent this to me. I fell for it.

www.elks590.org/main/cooltest.htm

Its quick.


Dwight Dawson

Rick Weber, in Memoriam

We learned recently that classmate Rick Weber is deceased some years ago. He had apparently been ill for a while and living in Seattle. No other details are available.

Holiday Dinner

What could be better than enjoying a pre-Christmas dinner with old (as in: from another time) pals? I guess you could ask Rod Dorland, Rick Figenshaw, Pat Fraser, Tim Walters, Rod Coyne or Ed Storme.

Below we see Doug Merz trying to talk Rod Dorland out of his lunch money. Some things never change.

Help?

We have no data on the classmates listed below. If you can provide any contact information, please send it to me.



Laura Bobarovich

John Brandt*** Okanogan County?
Donna Brothers
Jill Brown

Larry Carr
Diane Carty
Jack Cheney
Vicki Claussen

Carol Conger
Mick Cowan
Rosemary Crowell
Susan (Cumin) Schultz ***Vancouver, WA?
Barbara (Daniel) Ross ***Louisiana?
Marie Davis
Bill Dodson

Larry Eisenzimer
Galene Fraley ***North Carolina?
Jean Francisco
Kay Gallup
Bob Gilbert
Sandra (Ginnett) Parker ***Salt Lake City?
Dan Gullett ***Alger?
Dean Harlow
Evelyn Holmes***Arlington?
Clive Humble
Lee Ann (Isaacson) Roll ***Brocton, IL?
Randy Iverson

Diane Kelly
Lynne Kilbreath
Linda Knudson
Paulette (Kujda)Van Buren***Hyde Park, NY?
Fritzi Legg
Mary Anne LeMuiex
Roberta Levenseller
Stephen Lightle
Rick Lindbo
Sara Lingwood
Stuart Litzsinger
Linda Lowder
Bruce McDugle
Elaine Meyers Olsen
Elvy (Meyers) Hickenbottom***Seattle?
Barbara (Mier) Reynolds***Anacortes?
Danny Miller
John Miller
Leta Mae Morris
Mike Morris
Vernon Olson
Judy (Padgett) Pitts
Robert Peter
Barry Porter***Prince River, BC?
Linda Roose
Julie (Lamphier)Rydberg***Shelton, WA?
Mike Sanford
Cheryl (Sawyer) Orren***Kennewick?
Wallace Sharpe
Janet Smith

Pat St. Clair
Carolyn Steen (Turner?)
Barbara Stevens
Jack Stevens***Seattle?
Leta Mae (Stineff) Benfield***Anacortes?
Larry Stiner***Seattle?
Suzy Stratton
Sandra (Thomas) Swanson***Noxon, MT?
Connie (Wahl) Mathews
Sandra Walton
Dan Williams***Ferndale?
Greg Williams

Linda Yankacy***Spokane Valley?
Judy Zoet (Richland?)

Bob Matson, the Mad Inventor

Bob Matson has surfaced in California. He's in Orange, near Disneyland with his wife Jeanne. They have two adult kids Erik (26) and Jacqueline (24). Bob got his PhD in Biochemistry from Wayne State University after receiving a BA and MS in Chemistry from Western. He works for Beckman Coulter, Inc. in Fullerton. They are a major supplier of the medical diagnositic equipment we Boomers will be needing (or are already using.) Bob was inducted into the firm's Inventors Hall of Fame recently with the latest of his 12 inventions. Most of these are related to "miniaturization and multiplexing of DNA and protein diagnostic assays in themicroarray field." He says that future applications include molecular medicine, genomics and proteomics. Got all that?

Way to go Bob!

Whidbey Island Drive in Houston

You see the strangest things around this city of 4 million people. You know there is a story behind this but one can only guess.
I found this tranquil street of 6 blocks or so in NW Houston not too far from the horse track. I was taking advantage of a "less than 90 degrees top-down day" in the MG.

Music from our era...

Here is an interesting site on bands from the Pacific Northwest. Check it out: http://pnwbands.com/nwtributes.html#top It sure brought back a lot of memories for me.

Linda Spencer Heide

Anacortes Street in Houston

(This article was borrowed from Claudia Lowman's website for the Class of '62)

HOWDY!!! FROM ANACORTES STREET IN HOUSTON, TX.Back row (up high) L-R: Candy Swenson Dawson (class of '67 and John's sister), Mike Renquist ('62) Middle Row: L-R: Dwight Dawson (class of '65 and brother of Mr. Dawson, biology teacher), John Yankacy ('62), Claudia Lowman ('62).Front/kneeling: Jay Clow (brother of Nancy) ('62) with his Wailers shirt and bass guitar.Doug Richards writes, "There must be a story behind this picture. What is it?" Yes, Doug, there is a story. [Kind of sounds like, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!"] Here it goes: When Claudia found Jay Clow late in the summer of 2001 after 10 years of no contact, she learned that Jay was in Texas, too. Claudia had been in Texas since 1990, Jay only a few years. So Jay wondered, now that the two classmates were reunited, "What about Renquist?" Claudia did an internet search and found Mike in Dallas, where he had been living most of his life since AHS. This three way connection then sparked the thought that 2002 was the 40th year since our HS graduation. Out of this awareness came the idea for a class website. Jay found more AHS underclassmen in the area, too. Then he looked in a Houston map book and found that there was an Anacortes Street. Houston is the 4th largest city in the U.S., yet little Anacortes was represented in this giant metropolis. Jay also found a Clow Street ("Very short." he reported. "Who woulda thought?!")The three AHS 1962 classmates decided a picture on Anacortes Street would be fun and invited Dwight Dawson and wife Candy Swenson (also living in Houston) to join us for a photo. That was when John and Peggy Yankacy came to town from WA State to visit their son, Mike, in the greater Houston area. All the classmates gathered on a Saturday in early June, 2002 at a nearby Mexican restaurant and then collectively drove the mile or so to "our" street.Anacortes Street is two blocks long. The houses appear to have been built in the late 50's. They are well-kept, large ranch houses and all the yards are very well maintained and manicured. Claudia had made a field trip to check out the area weeks earlier and reported to all that it was a fine neighorhood. In a city this large you never know what you might find. Dwight had been a little worried before hand, thinking it might be a run-down area of Houston and that Anacortes might not look so good; everyone was pleased that it was a pleasant neighborhood. The group had only two street signs from which to choose for a photo. The one in this picture had with lots of grass surrounding it so that we wouldn't trample anyone's landscaping. Behind us, though not seen in the photo, is a community pool.Mike Renquist drove down just for this photo. The drive from Dallas to Houston is about 4 and a half hours. He stayed awhile afterward and visited with John and Peg at their son's house in Sugarland, a suburb city of Houston. Claudia visited, too. John and Peg treated their guests to a salmon meal and some of John's homemade wine. Pumpkin and Apple wines were among the choices that day.After visiting (and not too much wine), Mike drove back to Dallas. Mike's wife, Georjean, is a Methodist minister in Dallas and likes Mike to be available for Sunday services, so Mike made it a point to get back that night in plenty of time to be at church the next morning.We all surmise that, since Houston is the biggest oil port in the hemisphere, there must be a refinery connection. The little subdivision was applied for in 1955, just a few years after it was announced that Shell was to build at March Point. Maybe someone was transferred from Anacortes to Houston or Houston to Anacortes who was involved with the sub-division development and named a new street for our town. Claudia called the City of Houston and talked to a very helpful gentleman who pulled the nearly fifty year old file on the sub-division. The source of the street name was not indicated in the file. So, we are still curious to know who named it and the REAL story behind "our" street. I suppose we will never know.Okay, Doug, hope that answers your question about the story behind the picture. The street, by the way, is on the SE side of Houston in the Hobby Airport area. If you were on you way through Houston, heading to NASA or Galveston, you would pass near this street, not far off I-45, that heads NS.

Purple White Fight Fight

Recognize anyone? I think this may have been as early as 1958. It was probably part of the celebration of 2nd place in State AHS Basketball Team. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Music from KJR

In cleaning up the garage, which we all must do sometime since you can't take it with you, I found a KJR Fabulous Fifty survey. When I read the song titles I think I blushed.

1. Judy's Turn to Cry.....Lesley Gore
2. So Much in Love.....Tymes
3. My Block.....Four Pennies
4. Candy Girl.....Four Seasons
5. Saturday Sunshine.....Burt Bancharach (sic)
6. Devil in Disguise.....Elvis Presley
7. Just One Look.....Doris Troy
8. Rocking in the Cradle.....Dee Dee Sharp
9. Blowing in the Wind.....Peter Paul & Mary
10. Green Green.....Christy Minstrels
...
12. Scarlet O'Hara.....Lawrence Welk (!!!)
...
47. My Boy Friend's Back.....Angles (sic) DJ Pick
...
50. Tips of My Fingers..... Roy Clark


And we all thought we were pretty cool? Some of these songs are Muzak Elevator Music rejects. When your kids or grandkids ask you why you are the way you are, just show them the list. Actually, we're still cool. This list is dated "July 29, 1963."

And, I'm still ok with no. 4.

At the AHS Centennial

The Seahawk Rock still survives in Anacortes and is visited here by Linda Spencer, Nancy Clow, Linda Lemberg and Jane Wingert. Just click on the photos for good enlargements.















On the right, in front of the Principal Williams caricature, are Nancy Clow, Donna Neutzman, Cheryl Lewis, Gloria Glasoe and in back, Jane Wingert, Linda Lemberg and Linda Spencer.

There is interest in creating a combined reunion for the Classes of '63, '64, and '65. Linda Spencer Heide is our agent and contact on that possibility, which may develop in the next couple of years.

Class Flower Fund

The "AHS Class of 1965 Flower Fund" is now established at Wells Fargo Bank in Anacortes. To make your one-time contribution of $25 or whatever you can spare, please send your check to:

Wells Fargo Bank
1018 8th St.
Anacortes, WA 98221

Please make a note to say these funds are for:

AHS CLASS OF 1965 FLOWER FUND
ACCOUNT NO. 25261555144

Questions or information on deceased class members should be directed to Tim Walters:

2113 10th Ave. Anacortes, WA 98221 Phone: 360.293.4128
Email:island_tim@hotmail.com

Seahawk Over the BIG Hill

Some of you remember my brother-in-law John Swenson, class of 1962. He made a commitment a few years ago to summit Mt. Rainier at age 60. Two years ago a storm stopped his group at 12,000 feet. At the end of July this year it went better. John, now 62, made the top with his three sons...on what would have been his Dad Palmer Swenson's 100th birthday.

Seahawks aging gracefully...

Dwight Dawson

Flower Fund Class of 1965

Check in again soon to learn about the Flower Fund that is being created to remember classmates who go on ahead of us. Tim Walters is chairing this effort and will be posting information on how to participate in the next month or two. If you'd like to help, contact Tim at island_tim@hotmail.com

From Arizona

For enlargement, just click on the picture. In April 2006, these Seahawks gathered in Arizona. Linda Spencer, Donna Neutzman, Bill Jammerman and Gloria Glasoe.

Now the rest of you, get those new digital cameras working and send me some photos!

Dwight Dawson, d3dawson@gmail.com 

In Memory...

Carol Louise (Rice) Krause, 58, of Juneau, Alaska, died Jan. 10, 2006, in Juneau after a long battle with ovarian cancer. You may view the entire obituary at: http://www.goanacortes.com/obituaries/