Our 45th Reunion!

Mark your calendars for Sept. 18, 2010 in Anacortes...for our 45th Class reunion. Organizers are working on a location, and other details, but want to get the word out now on that date. If there are questions, please contact Linda Spencer Heide at bjlinda@comcast.net.

In Memoriam, Jim Maris

We have learned that Jim Maris passed away on December 29, 2008. Jim was in our class through his Sophomore year but graduated elsewhere.

You can see a complete obituary at the Skagit Valley Herald archives on line.

The Girls

On the occasion of ANOTHER birthday, the "girls" enjoying the day were: Dianna Thorene, Gail Valentine, Linda Spencer, Linda Lemberg, Jane Wingert and Vicki Travis. Joining the party later was Cheryl Lewis.

Can you still identify your classmates?

In these fairly recent photos, see if you can find Dean Barth, Gary Storme, Paul Evans, Pat Snyder, and Vicki Travis.

Daryl Compton, Retired

This familiar face is very active on FaceBook.com so you can connect with him there. He's in Puyallup now that he has retired from the daily grind. I'm going to guess that his lot has a nice view of Mt. Rainier. Nice landing Daryl!

Terry Kiser

Here is another Seahawk who refuses to act his age. Terry and his wife Sandy (Biernes) live in Anacortes.

Dwight Dawson actually bought his first motorcycle from Terry in 1964...a Honda 55! While brother David was in the Army, Dwight traded his car for the bike...without his knowledge.

Several classmates are showing up on Face Book. Better jump in: http://facebook.com/

Brain Worcester

These are some pics taken last month during the Arts and Crafts Show. The good lookin' kid with me is my baby boy, Chad (now 38 years old). We were on some beach on San Juan Island. The two old dames on the couch with my granddaughter Alexis (Lexy) are my sisters, Suzy and Marcia.

Brian and Bill Baxter have been good friends since age 11.

Brian Worcester

Sandy King & Bill Baxter plus spouses

This picture was taken in Las Vegas, where Bill lives now. I don't remember which restaurant they were at. I think this was taken in June. From left Brent Gilhousen, Sandra (King) Gilhousen, Bill Baxter, and Leilani Baxter. Brent and Sandra live in California and as I understand it Brent is trying to, at least, semi-retire. Bill is retired, but his wife still works as a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines. I try to get down to see Bill about every 3 months.

Brian Worcester

Russ McGlenn

(The following is from our own Indiana Jones-McGlenn)

Oil is a Renewable Resource

by Russ McGlenn russmcglenn@juno.com

(In photos, Russ and Tricia McGlenn at their dinosaur dig in South Dakota.)

Oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico are being refilled with oil coming up from below the current oil fields. Russia has drilled over 400 eight mile deep wells into the Earth’s granite crust. This has worked so well that they worked in Vietnam and found oil off its coast where everyone said there was no oil. Oil used to be found in sedimentary rock at 2-3 miles deep, but the Russians found a new source.
What is happening? The Russians found that new oil was being made from hot molten rock called magma heating the basement rocks of the Earth’s crust. As the rocks are heated methane gas is distilled. This combines with carbonates and carbon 14 that occur naturally in rock, when these are mixed together, they form oil. It’s called Abiotc (non biological) because it does not come from vegetable matter.
The original theory of how oil was formed is that swamps filled with vegetation, (biomass) were covered with mud (called sedimentary rock once it hardened) and decayed over millions of years into coal or crude oil. This is called the Biotic Theory.
Oil is a renewable resource because it is being made today deep in the earth’s crust. We do not have an energy crisis we have a leadership crisis. One group says we are running out of energy so we have to cut back all that we do and will not allow us to drill for the new oil. This new group says we have plenty of oil, let us drill for it and use it. Write or call you congressmen and tell them your views. They are already feeling the heat from voters, keep the pressure on.
Here are articles about the Abiotic Oil:
Potential oil supply refill? Washington Times 5/29/02 Bruce Bartlett
On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed. (Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com

The world has more oil not less http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/596421/posts http://www.anxietycenter.com/ By Alan Caruba.

Vietnam http://www.geoscience.co.uk/geofrc/geobaseasia.html
Ongoing exploration activities (initiated in the 1970's) have proved the existence of oil and gas in basement reservoirs [in the granite crust RM] in the offshore area of South Vietnam. This has resulted in the discovery of several oil and gas fields including White Tiger (Bach Ho), Dragon (Rong) and Rang Dong fields.

Origins of petroleum: This site has a good over view of the issue and the chemistry involved.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold

Darel Oson's Daughter and Grandson

PLEASE READ THIS NOTE AND SEND ANY RELEVANT ANECDOTES TO ME. d3dawson@gmail.com (or you can post a note directly on the blog.)


Hello Dwight, I am Darel's daughter, and coincidentally, I live outside of Houston in The Woodlands! I read your tribute to Dad on Rill's website and noticed you went to high school with him. I loved seeing his high school photo and saved it to my computer! I am trying to get some information for a scrapbook and wondered if you could help me. Before Dad became ill,we had a brief discussion about him running track in school and what some of his events/times were. Do you by chance have any recollection or might there be something in the yearbook? I don't remember if he was actually part of the Track team or not,as I don't think he had much support from home for extra curricular activites.As it turns out, I have a 14 year old son who just recently competed at the Junior Olympics in Track & Field, and he placed 2nd in the 200 meter in the country and he runs the 100 Meter dash in 10.97 seconds, which was the best time of the year & 3/100ths of second from the all-time J/O record! I am putting this scrapbook together for my son and any little anecdote or story would be great. I have attached a photo of Blake - there is definitely a family resemblance :)

Best Regards, Kimberly Olson Webb

Congratulations Rod and Shelley!

Rodney and Shelley Dorland with some of the attendees at their recent wedding reception. The party included Ed Storme, Doug Merz, Tim Walters, Rod Coyne and Keith Anderson (not shown.)

We Didn't Start The Fire

Click on this for some nostalgia. Be sure to have the sound on.

http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html

Guns in School

Here is something you won't see in today's schools. Aren't you glad we were put at such risk?

In Memoriam...

Some bad news, Darel Olson died last Tuesday. July 1. Apparently he was diabetic but he actually died from liver cancer. It sounds like he didn't last long after he was diagnosed. He lived in Port Orchard and had retired from Bremerton Ship Yard. As his classmate and friend Doug Palm puts it, if you are thinking of getting in touch with a friend, don't wait...you never know.

See an obituary notice at: www.rill.com

Washington Ferry Rides

Those of us that no longer live on the Puget Sound will especially appreciate this photo. How great it was to be on a relaxing ferry ride when the horizon rose and the sea jumped up to cover your car with cold, wind-driven saltwater. I remember it on the Guemes Ferry for sure.

Jayne Carlson

Our classmate Jayne Carlson lives in Bellingham. She suffered a stroke in 2002 as a result of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. He broke her back in 3 places, lower, middle and neck area. She showed me the diagram. It was during subsequent back surgery that she had the stroke. Jayne lost the ability to speak but has retained great interest in the world around her. Her room at Alderwood Park reflects continuing interest in her AHS experience. The walls are covered with photos, documents and other memorabia. She enjoys visits and communicates well. Treat yourself and stop in for a few minutes. We went through the 1965 Annual and she pointed to pictures wanting to know about so many people. I have spoken with her sister Lynn in Virginia, and her independent caregiver Nancy; they have been very helpful in piecing things together for me. I think anything you have to say would be fine with her. She was excited to know that several of our classmates live in the Bellingham area, at least part of the year.

Jackie (Addison) Twilley

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.

20th Reunion

From our 20 year reunion. This was back when we still knew ALL the answers.