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Volume 31, Number 2 Queen Anne High School Alumni Association July 2012 30 Years of QA Scholarships By Kerry McMahan ’54, Scholarship Chair This is our 30th year of awarding Queen Anne Alumni Association Fall Luncheon scholarships. During that time Scheduled Oct. 6th hundreds of Grizzlies have gifted the program with donations large and By Glo (Gleason) Holcomb ’46 small. The result is that 439 scholarship Mark your calendar for awards, totaling $220,000, have been provided to Queen Anne grads and Saturday, October 6, 2012 for their descendants. All Grizzlies are the QA Alumni Fall Luncheon and indebted to our loyal alums that have Annual Meeting at the beautiful Alumni Picnic Moves to Saturday supported the Association all these Seattle Yacht Club, 11:30 a.m. See by Claudia (Kettles) Lovgren ’65 years. coupon on page 14. Come relish To mark our 30th anniversary, the the meeting of Grizzlies new and The annual QAHS summer picnic board of trustees authorized a one- old, savor the lunch and enjoy the will occur on Saturday, August 25, time 30th Anniversary Scholarship program. Take time to stroll through 2012, at Gas Works Park from 11:30 of $1000. Following a careful review the Ward Room where scrip for the am to 5 pm. A Sunday date was not of all candidates, we designated one bar is available. Cash only please! available this year. of this year’s top achievers, Will You can’t resist stopping by the All grizzlies are invited to Mittenthal, as our 30th Anniversary popular Raffle Baskets to buy tickets, escape their winter dens for a tasty recipient. Will and his family were hoping you possess the winning summer feeding on burgers and present at the spring luncheon to tickets for your favorite baskets. Scan dogs (HOT dogs) at the grill from receive his award. Al’s Hamburger Place. Feel free to continued on page 5 the Auction Table as you move on bring a salad, casserole or dessert to to browse the Merchandise for QA paw through, and, if we are as lucky Inside: Grizzly logo wear. Continue on to the as last year … there will be SUN! Acknowledgements 2 & 3 display that Jackie (Moore) Zobrist Don’t think the grizzlies will lose Editor Column 2 ’63 has assembled, different every their appetites if it is the other thing, Grizzly Angels 13 luncheon, of by-gone days that bring and there are large covered areas for Grizzly Events 16 a sigh, a smile and maybe a tear for classmates to “ketch-up” and fine Scholarship winners 1, 5, 6,8, 9 “I remember when.” No credit cards dine. We always get a good turnout, Contacts 16 please for purchases. come and visit with your fellow Fall Luncheon 1,14 If you have QA/Grizzly treasures, Grizzlies. The QA Picnic is open Men of QA 12,13 to all our alums. Your donations and are “down sizing” or you feel Memorials 11 it’s time to have someone else enjoy (suggested $5) are needed to help cover rising park rent and food cost. Merchandise & Donations 15 them, we would like to have them for The Gas Works Park is at the President’s Message 2 the auction or our archives, please north end of Lake Union and parking Reunion Calendar 7 indicate which. is available (Meridian Ave. N. and We’ll Make Pie 6 Contact: Glo (Gleason) Holcomb N. Northlake Way). For detailed Who’s News 3, 4,5 ’46 at (206) 783-9936. Thank you. directions visit www.qagrizzlies.org. President’s Acknowledgments compiled by John Hennes ’51 Message The Association owes many thanks to our Board and regular supporters for the Kim R. Turner ’61 hours they put in on the database, the KUAY, the website, handling merchandise, organizing luncheons and picnics, donating raffle baskets and many other tasks. We also acknowledge the following supporters. We couldn’t do it without all of them and we need all of you. Please join in! Kindnesses—Our Thanks to: Hard Times in America The Ballard Boys and Girls Club for providing meeting space for the board in 2012. These are hard times for all of us. Mike ’67 and Alexandra (Dalinkus) Smith ’67, owners of LeRoux Fine We can see it here at the QAHSAA in Apparel in Magnolia Village, for selling our QA Alumni logo merchandise. Go the greatly reduced number of alums take a look. who are able to make donations to Betty (Charouhas) Bebee ’45, Terris Howard ’52, Carol McGuinn ’67, the Grizzly cause. As our revenue Bill Bloch ’62, Allan White ’54, Pat (Sykes) Ronhaar ’47, Joye (Olson) decreases we are having to make some Wyckoff ’41 for continuing to screen newspapers for the death notices used in our Memorials. We appreciate all those who write us about our fellow alumni difficult choices. passages. Our annual participation in the Kerry McMahan ’54 for sponsoring our luncheons at the Seattle Yacht Club Magnolia Summer Festival will and being emcee of the Spring Luncheon Scholarship Program. be dropped this year. However, our Ruth (Hanson) Ghormley ’42, Glo (Gleason) Holcomb ’46, Sherry (Peck) summer picnic is still on and will Moody ’66 and Claudia (Kettles) Lovgren ’65 for the luncheon decorations. Chef’n Products, David Holcomb ’72 for continuing to offer raffle baskets. again be held at Gas Works Park, so Mary (Gundrum) England, Pat (Wilson) Faller and Barbara (Wilson) weather will not inconvenience our Nelson, all ’58, and other Grizzlies and many board members for various festivities. raffle donations. We are informing you of the Teacher Mr. Marv Hartley for donating for auction two QA Lunchroom tokens close-to-the-bone finances we have from 1910, given to him by Principal George Farmer. for operating funds. As many of Lee Monteith ’47 for his clarinet and Bob Johnston ’49 for his singing voice, both enhancing the spring luncheon. you know, we rely completely on donations for our two purposes: continued on page 3 building a scholarship fund for descendants of Queen Anne High Editor’s Column by Elizabeth Weeks Pankey '68 School alums, which will someday Several topics came to mind for this column: my right continue of its own volition; and hand surgery, welcome back Gen. Peter Chiarelli, covering the costs of the KUAY newsletter operating cost donations, articles to John Hennes, congrats to scholarship winners and the number of production and our alumni events. As paw prints in the February 2012 issue. other alumni organizations inform After finishing the February issue, my hands began to their constituents of monetary needs, hurt more and more. After painful tests it was determined so do we—the main difference I needed carpal tunnel surgery. My right hand surgery being that they charge annual fees was May 10th and I’m doing much better now. Still have e.w.pankey, editor for membership in the organization. limitations, but that won’t stop me from putting together this Because of our reliance on donations, newsletter. we are not bringing in enough revenue Welcome back, my classmate Gen. Peter Chiarelli (’68) U.S. Army retired. to fully cover the operating costs for I am very proud of your service and success in the Army, and that’s coming each year, and the scholarship monies from a Navy junior (wink). Hope to see you at the QA 68 Golf Tournament, th are not available for any other purpose. July 28 . We are reviewing other options to With the cost of publishing this newsletter, we need your unrestricted donations for operating expenses. If each of you sent in $5 for the year it reduce expenses, which may include would nearly cover printing and mailing of your 16 page newsletters. The reducing the KUAY or eliminating the QAHSAA has never charged for the newsletter, but we need more alums to spring luncheon. join the generous Grizzly Angels. Thank you for supporting us over Please submit all articles and photos to John Hennes ’51, KUAY editorial the years, and keep us in mind when board, [email protected] by January 4, 2013. My job is layout editor. windfalls come your way. John and the editorial board are the true content organizers of the newsletter. Paw Prints in the last issue equal 20, or 21 if you include the bottom of the 2 The KUAY July 2012 left paw on right picnic bear on page 9. Acknowledgments cont. from page 2 Compiled by Kim R. Turner ’61 Claudia (Kettles) Lovgren ’65 for WHO’S NEWS the poster display of our very first 1940s: Edward Goodall ’40 died in his B-24 plane scholarship winner, Mike Bennett ’79. crash while on a mission over the Netherlands in Margaret Lahde for her years of 1943. A monument to the USAAF crew members volunteering at events as an honorary has been created at Opeinde, Netherlands. Their Grizzly. historians would like Finally, our thanks to all those to contact members of who have helped our Association to Edward’s family. If you endure these 30 plus years. know of any Goodall family members, please Memorabilia Gifts—Our Thanks to: contact us and we will Gwen (Durham) Braile ’39 from try to put them in touch Belfair for a copy of the Magnolia with the historians. Delna News special edition of 6/3/81 with Edward Goodall ’40 (Derickson) Vermillion the QAHS Closing Commemorative ’42 and husband Logan section. Vermillion ’41 celebrated his 90th birthday and Tom Ferguson ’49, of Bush Prairie, their 70th wedding anniversary March 13, 2012. WA, for a 1949 Commencement Program. They live in a home in Mukilteo which Logan designed and built in 1970.