Winter 2007 Edition of TThehe ClevelandCleveland JournalJournal A publication of the CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

A Memorable Past, A Promising Future

Meet some amazing grads Grand Open House reports Wayne Floyd on CHS Inside: And more, more, more Photo by Helen C. Sing ’70 Ed Landon: A Teacher for the Ages by Don Duncan ’43 In his best years, he left the house at 6 OR., with his daughter Marlys Alger, one Q: Where did you go to school and did t age 92, Ed Landon is Cleveland High a.m., returned at 9 p.m. and earned $250 of four Landon children to graduate from you play sports? ASchool’s “living legend,” a man who a month, plus $5 extra for his master’s Cleveland. “I’m always amazed that people A: I graduated from little Moclips High spent a quarter of a century (1948-1973) degree. still remember me and want to talk about School, down in Grays Harbor County. I teaching young Eagles about the past and, But, Landon says, what he gained in my classes and the teams I coached.” wasn’t very big, maybe 5-91/2 and 155 in the process, giving them invaluable memories from his interaction with stu- Th e essence of Ed Landon, as his former pounds. Baseball was my favorite sport. tools – curiosity, fair play, social values dents was “priceless.” students know, cannot be distilled into a Our teams were pretty good. We lost just – with which to deal with the future. “I think I’ve been invited to something simple news story. But these notes from a one game in my four years there. Easily the most popular teacher/coach like 30 class reunions since I left Cleveland,” recent conversation with him provide few Q: What about college and the war years? in Cleveland’s history, Landon’s fi nancial he said in an hour-long telephone interview snapshots of “the living legend” known as rewards were meager by today’s standards. from the home he now makes in Madras, Ed Landon. continued on page 3 Annual Meeting of the CHS Alumni Association December 8, 2007, 10 – 1 at Cleveland High School

CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL Non-Profi t Org. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION U.S. Postage P.O. Box 94004 PAID Seatttle, WA 98124-9404 Seattle, WA Permit No. 2571 2 The Cleveland Journal Wayne Floyd: The Old Coach Came off the Bench to Lead the School Wayne Floyd, Cleveland’s interim students were. At the same time, there Studies and outside work were not principal, was caught by surprise when was a gloomy morbidness that hung like overlooked. Floyd was on the honor roll Principal Donna Marshall informed him a cloud in the hallway that needed to be and had a part-time job with South Park of her intention to resign just a few weeks lifted to allow the students to grow and Community Center and the Auto Club of before Cleveland High School was to re- blossom.” Washington. open after an extensive, two-year remod- Floyd would need all his skills as a Not surprisingly, Floyd was recruited eling project. coach, a teacher and a role model for stu- by several colleges in his senior year. He Marshall had talked for several years dents in the days and weeks ahead. Fortu- was intrigued by Long Beach State, but about “moving with her children,” Floyd nately, he was in good physical shape from narrowed his search to Tufts University, said. But it was always some time in the a lifetime of athletics, and his “parents University of Chicago and Cal (Berkeley). future. and grandparents and the village that gave He asked his parents for a car and was Suddenly, while Floyd and Marshall their two-cents in raising me” made sure told that if he left Washington State he were driving to the Central Offi ce of the he wouldn’t run from a challenge. wouldn’t need a car. Photo by Helen C. Sing ’70 Seattle School District in August (the Th e Arkansas-born Floyd moved to “I quickly began looking at in-state pos- school would re-open after Labor Day), Seattle with his parents when he was 3 or sibilities,” he said. “UW, too big. WSU, too ful, racist obscenity out the window.” Marshall turned to Floyd and said, “My 4, living in Yesler Terrace and attending far. Whitman, too expensive and not fully “Up to that time,” he said, “being in col- resignation letter in my briefcase and I’m Leschi and Bailey Gatzert (elementary paid for.” lege was an exciting, pleasurable learning going to submit it on Friday.” schools), Mercer (Jr. high) and Franklin But on the way to Whitman to check experience. I learned a brutal truth that Marshall’s words left Floyd “kind of High School. He believes his decision to it out with three student-athlete friends night and never looked at my situation the numb, because we had such a good team attend Mercer rather than Washington – from Garfi eld, Rainier Beach and Shore- same again. Th e innocence was gone and (of CHS administrators) and had accom- Jr. High, which most of his friends chose, line – they stopped at Central Washington real life was upon me. It was like reading a plished a lot.” changed his life. He was forced him to fi nd University (Ellensburg). Floyd liked what novel set in the Deep South or watching an Floyd’s anxiety was understandable. new friends and broaden his outlook. he saw and looked no farther. He would episode of ‘Roots’. I could not believe that Students and faculty were about to move In addition, spending summers in Ar- spend the next four years at CWU. this blatant act of hate was hurled in my into a new building that was not fi nished, kansas with his brother and grandmother Like a lot of young men, Floyd didn’t direction.” the school would be losing its principal “gave me an appreciation for hard work, know what he wanted to be. He started in After graduating with a degree in educa- (Marshall), assistant principal and athletic earning the things you want and not being pre-dentistry, moved to optometry, fl irted tion, Floyd hoped to return to Seattle to director (if Floyd moved up) and a math wasteful. It also reinforced my self-disci- with accounting, business administration, teach and coach. Failing to fi nd an open- teacher. Furthermore, fi ve teaching posi- pline and respect for my elders.” aeronautics and recreation. Finally, in his ing, he took a temporary job as a “desegre- tions were unfi lled. Floyd doesn’t remember a time he senior year, he settled on education. gation affi liate,” riding with students from Floyd took stock. “When I came to wasn’t involved in sports – baseball, Like most minorities, Floyd has expe- Rainier Valley and the Central Area who Cleveland a few years ago, I fell in love football, track, wrestling, cross-country, rienced varying degrees of prejudice and were being “bussed” to North End schools. with the rich diversity and how alive the basketball. At Franklin, he played “a little racism “throughout my life.” Th e most When the youngsters arrived at the school, of everything,” earning the school’s Best- memorable was during his freshman year Floyd provided support in their new sur- Athlete Award in his senior year. He also at Ellensburg, when he was walking off roundings. CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL captained the track and basketball teams campus to get a pizza. “A truck drove by ALUMNI ASSOCIATION and was Homecoming King.” and some young white men yelled a hate- continued on page P.O. Box 94004 Seattle, WA 98124-9404

OFFICERS President Ribbon-Cutting Made Re-Opening Don Mills ‘49 (206) 878-2401 [email protected] Official few days after the newly renovated Cameras were focused, scissors at the from Atlanta, spoke of lofty goals. Parents Secretary ACleveland High School opened its ready. At the word “Cut,” the snipping who send their sons and daughters to the Ken Dorsett ‘54 doors to students, an offi cial ribbon- began. Each cutter wound up with a nice newly remodeled Cleveland High School, (206) 232-2149 cutting took place in the spacious new little chunk of ribbons as a keepsake and she said, should expect their children to [email protected] gymnasium. the knowledge that he or she had a small earn (or at least aspire to) “A” grades in It was quite a ribbon: red silk, roughly snippet of Cleveland’s on-going history. every class and take advance-placement Treasurer two-inches wide and a good 40 feet long. Dick Lee of the Seattle Schools, who (college-level) classes before graduation. Alison W. Sing ‘64 Th e Seattle School District provided new emceed the program, graciously wore Also speaking were David Della ’73, (425) 742-1782 red- and blue-handled scissors, and ribbon- a Cleveland t-shirt for the event, even Seattle city councilman; Bill Maynard, for- [email protected] cutters were allowed to take their pick. though he was a star basketball player at mer Cleveland principal ’71-’76; Don Mills Among the roughly 30 ribbon-cutters Ballard High School in the ‘60s. ’49, CHS Alumni Assn. president; Wayne BOARD MEMBERS lined up along the length of the ribbon Seattle Schools Superintendent Dr. Floyd, interim principal, and Th ea Leidel Pat Coluccio ‘47 were contractors, architects, educators Maria Goodloe-Johnson, newly arrived ’08, student body president. (253) 852-4229 and assorted friends of Cleveland. [email protected]

Bernie Moskowitz ‘57 (206) 772-6285 Parental Concern Wins Out; Ginny Ogle ‘64 (206) 937-2209 Old-Time Lockers Back JoAnn Victor Smith ‘56 he doors of the newly renovated them in building #3, which houses the every student and a full set of textbooks in (425) 487-3952 TCleveland High School had been open commons/cafeteria/gymnasium. every student’s backpack. [email protected] for only a few weeks when parents started Since the re-opened school has nowhere By the time it became obvious that membership database coordinator calling the school to fi nd out why, after near the 1,000 students it will eventually the dream was not “fi nancially feasible” spending $67 million, the students didn’t house, there will be more than enough for a money-strapped school district, the Peggy J. Soong-Yaplee ‘71 have individual lockers the way they did lockers for everyone. lockers were long gone and toting heavy (206) 723-4138 when their parents went to school. Veteran educator Charles Chinn (’63), backpacks from morning to late afternoon [email protected] Students who lug heavy backpacks, who has helped open several remod- was a way of life for Cleveland students. fi lled with everything from textbooks to eled Seattle Schools and is now assisting Chinn emphasized that fear of student Jim Southcott ‘56 laptops to brown-bag lunches, are fl irting interim CHS principal Wayne Floyd, said drugs or fi rearms had absolutely nothing (206) 762-0334 with the possibility of having back prob- Cleveland was the only one of the city’s to do with removing the lockers at Cleve- lems when they grow older, some parents “older” schools that has not had lockers land, “because that’s never been an issue at Nicole R. Washington ‘80 argued. in recent years. Th ey were removed and this school.” (253) 941-2375 Th e bottom line: School District offi cials the space fi lled with classrooms, he said, Th e lockers, costing “a goodly sum of [email protected] agreed with the parents and immediately “back when Cleveland received a Bill Gates money,” should be installed by winter ordered 1,000 lockers to be installed in grant,” which envisioned so-called “small break, Chinn said. Th ey will be along the Vera Chan-Pool ‘91 the halls of the main classroom buildings schools” as the ideal setting for a good walls of the halls, not in the fi rst-fl oor CHSAA Newsletter Editor (#1 and #2). Th ere was no reason to install education. Th ere would be a laptop for alcoves that many older Cleveland grads remember. Winter 2007 3

Ed Landon: A Teacher for the Ages continued from page 1 A: I’d graduated with a B.A. from Western (Washington State College) and Celebrating Ed Landon’s 93rd Birthday got married to Virginia. I taught for about half a year and then we got word of the What: A party honoring Ed Landon’s 93rd birthday horrors of the Bataan Death March (in When: 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2 the Philippines). I decided to enlist. I took Where: Glen Acres Golf & Country Club, 1000 S. 112th St., Seattle, WA 98138 some tests and had a choice of cryptogra- pher’s school or being a tail gunner on a Th e class of 1957 is spearheading the events and all former students of Ed Landon B-25. Cryptography was more appealing. are invited. A fund drive to create a scholarship in his name is underway. I was told I’d be a second lieutenant when Light refreshments and desserts will be served. No charge and no gifts! But cards I fi nished. . . In one day, Roosevelt froze and written messages would be appreciated. Address them to Ed Landon, P.O. Box the commissions. He also ordered a tax on 999, Madras, OR 97741 or call 1-541-475-7140. excess war profi ts. Unlike today! If you plan to attend, please e-mail your RSVP to Mary Ann McCord (Bosnich) at Meanwhile, Virginia became Rosie the [email protected]. You also may phone (206) 762-4598 or mail your RSVP to Riveter in the shipyard. After the war, she Jim Yurina, 4152 14th Av. S., Seattle, WA 98108. decided airplanes were going to be more important than ships, and she switched to almost the entire class giving the Repub- and writing a black history to use in the Boeing, staying there more than 25 years. lican arguments in favor of the sales tax. classroom. At the same time, Garfi eld got When the war ended, Virginia wanted Photo by Helen C. Sing ’70 When I’d fi nished, I called on Shirley Ann. a federal grant for $50,000 to have a black- me to go back to school and get a master’s She said, ‘Mr. Landon, you just stole history written. Mine worked just as well. degree, a pretty rare thing in those days. I were usually loaded. On the fi rst day, I’d everything I was going to say.’ “For all the unrest, the kids at Cleve- went to the UW on the GI Bill. tell the students that I was known as the And I answered, ‘Th at’s what a good land, which was the most cosmopolitan Q: Did any professors there impact your toughest grader in Cleveland and that I teacher’s supposed to do – give both sides. school in the city, were always respectful. future life and teaching style? expected them to work hard. It would be Any further questions?’ We just didn’t have the problems they had A: Th e class I’ll never forget was English easy to get a C-grade from me, I’d say. All Q: Was coaching hard at a school as at many schools. History, taught by perhaps the most they had to do was attend class every day, small as Cleveland? Q: Family facts? popular professor in UW history, Giovanni read the textbook thoroughly, take good A: When Dave Currie quit as football A: My wife Virginia died this year Costigan. I loved it. notes and they’d earn a C. To get a B they’d coach in ’53, I got the job. We had 600 (March 10). We’d been married 65 years. His fi rst exam changed my life. I wrote need more gumption. Th ey’d have to check kids in school and played football against After I retired from Cleveland in ’78, we four bluebooks on just three questions. the bibliography, read some of the extra schools like Roosevelt that had maybe divided our time between our cabin at Mo- I felt I’d cooled it. When I got the exam books and write critically, citing pros and 1,000 in their sophomore class alone. We clips and a nice warm place in Mexico. back, I’d received a B. I was incensed. I cons from the books they’d read. To get had this diverse bunch, some very short We had four children, one son and three went to see him. He said, ‘What’s on your an A they had to do all the B things in a and skinny. We’d do OK until we had to daughters. All of them graduated from mind, Mr. Landon?’ I was surprised he’d superior manner. put in substitutes, and we didn’t have very Cleveland. Rick played football and base- know my name when there were several- I had some awfully smart students. many. But we never quit competing. We ball, even though he was starting to show hundred students in the class. I told him Some a lot smarter than I was. I’ll never did better in baseball and basketball than signs of muscular dystrophy. Daughter I thought I had done A work on his exam forget Shirley Ann. I’d just fi nished a unit we did in football. Marlys, which whom I now live in Madras, and had received only a B. on the Washington State tax system and Q: How did Cleveland survive the civil is the principal of an elementary school. He asked to see my bluebooks, scanned lectured on our sales tax as being so re- unrest of the ‘70s. Daughter Judy, our oldest, is now in her them quickly and said, ‘Mr. Landon, you’re gressive that it should be replaced. I could A: I was the history department head 60s. Our youngest is Barbara. lucky I didn’t read your bluebooks more see Shirley Ann – whose dad worked for when we had the Black Panthers and the I fi nd it hard to believe that the women thoroughly. Otherwise, I’d have given you the FBI – sitting there with tight lips, just Indian Revolution. Turmoil after turmoil who now organize reunions and ask me to a C. You’d read all the material in the text- dying to take me on. after turmoil. I had a talk with principal attend are no longer the fresh-faced 17- book, but you didn’t cite a single source I said, ‘Shirley Ann, tomorrow, fi rst (Bob) Tate and vice principal Wilson and year olds I see pictured in my yearbooks. from the extra reading I’d suggested. Al- thing, you get to rebut my arguments.’ I said, ‘we can’t hide from the problem.’ We Why, they’re now well up in their 60s. ways check the bibliography and read some know she spent her whole evening working had white, black, yellow and red kids. I But, then, I also fi nd it hard to believe I’m of those books, too.’ on her arguments. So, the next day I spent spent that entire summer reading books almost 93. It taught me a lesson that I would use in the classroom when I got to Cleveland. For the next test, I read several books besides the textbook and cited sources all over the CHS Grads: Imagine Writing a Book On place. I received an A. A month or so later, while walking down the hall, Professor Costigan approached Little Old Georgetown me and said, ‘You haven’t been to see me lately.’ I said that I had tried to prepare for fter graduating from Cleveland High still referred to by historians and read with June continues her love of history and my tests the way he had suggested and felt ASchool at age 15, June Peterson (’42) – interest by those who are rediscovering education in Sequim, where she’s in her there was no more reason to bother him. who grew up on Beacon Hill with her sister Georgetown as a place to live. third term on the Sequim School Board, He said, ‘I’ve been waiting for you. I want Jean (’44) – enrolled in Seattle University, June met her husband, Ray Robinson, has written booklets on the history of to off er you a job – as my teaching assis- intending to become a history teacher and after she retired from teaching and was Clallam County, chairs the Clallam County tant. Tell me if you want it.’ maybe doing a bit of writing someday. volunteering at the National Archives in Heritage Board and a parks advisory I did. And for two years I was the as- It was while attending college and work- Washington, D.C. Her husband was a career board, and pens a monthly column for the sistant to the most popular and important ing part-time in Georgetown that the young employee in Army Intelligence and the CIA. local newspaper. professor on the campus. historian-to-be discovered the wonderful Th ey now lives in Sequim, Clallam County. She’s amazed that people are still Among my unforgettable memories of old houses with their gingerbread trim, the During a recent drive through George- reading her book on Georgetown. Maybe Costigan is the time he carried a little 3x5 enormous brick brewery that had slaked the town, June says, she noticed that many of someday she’ll do one on Sequim. card during a lecture, looking down at it thirst of Seattleites and heard the stories of the old houses had been lovingly restored, occasionally. One of the students asked Georgetown’s lusty days as an incorporated including the old “Georgetown mayor’s” Costigan what he had written on the card city that remained independent of stodgy home. that enabled him to speak for a full hour Seattle as long as it could. without interruption. Costigan handed the After graduation, Jean taught history in young woman the card. schools like Firlands Sanitorium and Th e Th ere was nothing on it. Florence Crittenden Home, places most Q: Did you attend the famous debate on teachers shied away from because many of Autism Life Skills Class the UW campus in 1971 between Costi- the students were emotionally disturbed. want to thank the many alumni who On my “Wish List” is a request for gan and William Buckley, the well-known Jean found herself doing more counseling Ivisited Cleveland’s Autism Life-Skills funds to provide for our second semester’s conservative?: than teaching. classroom during September’s reunion and out-in-the-community events. One of A:I wouldn’t have missed it for any- Her love of history never died. And she open house. the alums, David James, returned to my thing. Hec Edmundson Pavilion was never forgot Georgetown -- a place that Th is program was designed to help au- classroom and made a kind donation jammed that night. Th e debate lasted bravely soldiered on even though many tistic students learn the skills necessary to toward this cause. My students and I want almost three hours and Costigan had Seattleites seemed to regard it as a dump- get a job after leaving Cleveland. Lessons to thank you, Mr. James, for your thought- Buckley on his heels the whole time. Th e ing ground for the city’s least desirable are geared to the developmental ability of fulness. press had a wonderful time writing about industries. each autistic child as he or she moves from Sincerely, Lois Mehus the professor way out here in Washington In the ‘70s, after years of researching adolescence to adulthood. P.S. Our “Wish List” is still active and State who beat the ‘great Buckley’. Georgetown and thinking about the place, Many skills targeted in this curriculum any donations will be greatly appreciated. Q: Did you pattern your teaching style she sat down and wrote a book that she were chosen to help the autistic child adapt after Costigan’s? says almost seemed to write itself. It was to the community and gain independence. A: In many ways. I taught fi ve classes called “Georgetown: Th at Was a Town.” It is of history a day at Cleveland, and they 4 The Cleveland Journal CHS Grads: The Kings of Swing Revisited on Case (’48), former alumni presi- Ddent and a member of the “original” Kings of Swing, says the history of the band has been skewed over the years and he would like to set the record straight. For one thing, says Case, Ed Ottum, the band teacher widely credited with starting the band in 1944, could not have been the founder because he didn’t come to Cleve- land until 1945. Th e music teacher in ’44 was Margaret Wood. “Ottum turned us into a good band when he got to Cleveland, but he didn’t start the band,” says Case. Th e real founder, says Case, was Don Kinsley, the band’s drummer. Case went on to say that the band was formed by Kinsley to perform in 1944 at Cleveland’s annual Vodvil. Although Case was only a junior high school student at the time, he was asked by Don Cliff ord (’44), one of the band’s founders, to join Th e Kings of Swing with Marilee Winn Johnson (’52) at the CHS Grand Re-opening. Photo by Helen C. Sing ’70. because they needed saxophone players. . Several photographs taken at the time “Nowadays,” Case says, “Th e original bear out his memory of the band’s found- Kings of Swing are considered to be any- ing, says Case. one who was a member between 1945 and Marilee Winn Johnson: “Somewhere in the archives is a pic- 1948. Th is is not written in cement, but ture from the 1944 Vodvil that shows the who’s to argue? fi rst Kings of Swing: Cliff ord, Dick Keene, Th e Kings of Swing were reunited in For Her Life’s a Song 1987, primarily through the eff orts of Gor- Helen Woodley (piano), Jim Furlan and Marilee Winn Johnson (’52) made her don Parker. Th e band’s fi rst gig was for the Hardy Schmidt on trumpet, Gordon Parker fi rst appearance as a singer in a recital in class of 47’s 40th reunion, in the Bellevue and I on saxophones, and several others.” Seattle at age 3. She went “big time” two Athletic Club. Case adds that “the real clincher” is a years later, singing “Ma, He’s Makin’ Eyes “Frankly, we stunk,” says Case, “but photo in the 1945 school annual of Th e at Me” on Uncle Benny’s radio show in we had a lot of fun. It took about three Kings of Swing, which includes Furlan, California. years to get anything halfway decent put Case, Cameron, Parker and Kinsley on Marilee has been singing in public ever together.” drums. since. Small wonder she was chosen to be Case says he has more than 2,200 songs Kinsley went on a career in music and the principal vocalist at Cleveland High on his computer, including six versions of education, graduating from what was then School’s 70th, 75th and 80th birthday Autumn Leaves. Th e version by Th e Kings Central Washington College of Education. parties. of Swing, Case says, “is as good as any He was a principal at Asa Mercer Junior Marilee grew up on Beacon Hill, always recording by the so-called big timers.” High and founded the Imperial Drum and singing and – in her youthful innocence Bugle Corp. – thinking that everybody could sing. “It took a while,” she says, “before I real- ized that not everybody can carry a tune.” By age 12, Marilee’s voice already at- tained a maturity far beyond her years. York Times, the biggest paper I had ever Joe Colello: Not Your During summer vacations, while visiting seen. And she made Lit. class so much fun an aunt in California, Marilee took voice and so interesting. lessons from a “Mr. Giraldi,” who helped “Miss Phimster, the well-coiff ed, smart- Ordinary Joe her a great deal. ly dressed drama teacher, was very lovely. Back in Seattle, Marilee was accepted She knew her way around a stage and was nother Cleveland “boy” who made be the world. “Lyle had a car, and I’d loan into the Seattle Children’s Chorus, di- a wonderful director. Agood is Joe Colello, who, with wife him a couple of bucks to buy gas, because I rected by Gustav Stern, which sang at a “What can I say about Mr. Landon that Gayle, divides his time between a home at didn’t have a car.” performance by the San Francisco Opera hasn’t been said many times over. He was Glen Acres Golf Club in Seattle and one of Colello was drafted into the Army in Co. In time, she would sing in choruses my home-room teacher for four years and Lyle Anderson’s exclusive golf-course com- 1964. Tough life? Not really. He spent with the Seattle Opera, the Seattle Sym- I have such respect for him. He had a killer munities outside of Scottsdale, AZ. his entire military career playing golf. phony, Seattle’s Summer Concerts in the smile and laugh and was one of the most Colello (’60), who grew up in South In France, he became a member of the Park and the Aqua Th eater. good-natured people you could ever fi nd. Park, is not an easy man to catch up with, four-man All-France U.S. Army Golf team, At Cleveland, she sang in the chorus “Now, in the senior part of my life, although some caught a glimpse of him – which won the All-European U.S. Military and in various stage productions, and was I’m performing in musical theater with along with his uncle – at Cleveland’s grand (all branches) golf championship in Berlin one of a handful of students in Seattle Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Th e great thing re-opening in September. He fl ies around in 1965. high schools chosen to work with drama about this is that my husband, Walt, is the country -- bird-hunting here, playing Th at same year, Colello won the Spring professors at the UW. Th ey were sent part of the fun, too. I got him interested in golf there, visiting old friends somewhere Open Golf Tournament at Berschtesgaden, throughout the district to “act out” fairy doing shows with me about 12 years ago. else – since retiring in 2003. Germany, best known as “Hitler’s fi nal tales for elementary students. She also was To directors, we’re known as ‘the older What enabled Colello to retire in style, hideout.” a member of a USO troupe that sang for couple who work in theater.’” he says, was former Gov. Gary Locke’s After his discharge from the Army, soldiers during WWII and the Korean War. Th e Johnsons last show together was decision to sign a bill that enabled him to Colello married the girl he met on a blind Favorite teachers: Miss Raine, Miss “Damn Yankees.” One of the great rewards turn his South Park Rascal’s Restaurant date at the Rainier Golf & Country club. As Phimster and Ed Landon. they receive from theater, Marilee says, and mini-mall into a casino. Overnight, luck would have it, she also was a golfer. “Miss (Margaret) Raine, whom everyone is “the ‘family’ we become part of. Age is the property became infi nitely more valu- Th ey’ve been married for 40 years. said was really tough and a ‘hard grader’ never considered, and we mingle with kids, able. Colello won the Washington State Open introduced me, and our class, to Th e New young people and middle-aged.” Even though an accident kept him from as an amateur in ’67 (Fred Couples would In addition to doing theater, Marilee realizing his life’s dream of being a profes- win it, also as an amateur, 10 years later). has a “One Woman Show,” which she sional golfer, Colello hasn’t known many In ’69, Colello missed qualifying for the performs for private parties, banquets, disappointments. U.S. Open by just one stroke, “when the fund-raiser and Christmas parties. She In high school, he was fi rst-string other guy chipped in.” Shortly after that, and racing dragsters and funny cars. One describes it as “entertainment for any age, catcher on the Cleveland baseball team for Colello took a nasty fall on the stairs and of his cars car qualifi ed for the hot-rod from 8 to 88.” Call her at (253) 719-8587 if four years and also lettered in football. tore up his knee (he has since had a knee fi nals at Indianapolis in ’71. For a time, he you are interested “Cleveland had a Colello as catcher replacement). “owned the world’s fastest Chevrolet.” Marilee has a son who lives in Anchor- on the baseball team for nine straight Meanwhile, wife Gayle has won more Colello settled down in South Park f age with his family and two married years,” he says. First was my older brother, than her share of golfi ng honors: three- rom ’74 to ’95, fi rst running his dad’s old daughters who live close by. George, and after me came our younger time Seattle Amateur ladies champion, grocery store and, in 1981, branching out brother, Dominic.” 20 times club champion at Rainier Golf & and building Rascal’s restaurant and a At Cleveland, Colello also became good Country Club. little strip mall. Gary Locke signed the ca- friends with Lyle Anderson, the premier When Colello’s golfi ng dreams died, he sino bill in ’99 and four years later, Colello golf-course developer in the U.S. and may- spent four years in the early ‘70s owning cashed in. Winter 2007 5 Mike Mastro, The Man With the Golden Touch and taught history)” and a rather curva- “I’d been doing real-estate deals in my and Oregon. Th e Business Journal again: ceous female English teacher. But that list, spare time the last few years I was at the “he’s been called a phenomenon and a Se- like the list of fellow students he remem- bank,” he says. “I realized that doing it full attle real estate lelgend.” Th e Journal adds: bers, is quite short. time was what I wanted to do.” “he (Mastro) is his organization.” Life post-Cleveland is, however, very Initially, Mike had a partner in what was Th e “organization” puts on a modest vivid to him. Asked why he keeps working called GM Investments. After 10 years, front. It is housed in a nondescript build- in his 80s, he answers without hestitation, Mike went solo, founding Mastro Proper- ing on Rainier Avenue (unless you see “Because I love it.” He adds, a moment ties, whose signs are hard to miss all over posh interior and Mike’s Bentley parked later, “If you have your health, wealth the Puget Sound area. out back). Still a “snappy dresser,” he likes and a job you love, there’s not much more By 1989, it was obvious that Mastro tailored suits and monogrammed shirt anyone could possibly need.” had a knack for deals, when he – accord- cuff s. A creature of habit, he rises at 5:30 Mike has those things and the extra ing to the Puget Sound Business Journal every day, works out at the Washington rewards that come from remarkable suc- – sold $211 million worth of property, Athletic Club and goes to lunch every cess in the marketplace – from a Bentley which included eight offi ce buildings and weekday but Friday with his son and as- automobile to a private jet to a multi-mil- two business-park docks developed for the sociate, Michael K. Mastro. lion-dollar home not far from that of Bill Boeing Co. Father and son dine at Mike’s favorite Gates. Business Journal stories list many other Italian restaurant, Terrazzo Carmine, near In his senior year at Cleveland – while good years for Mastro: $70 million in Pioneer Square. Mike’s been going there the nation was fully involved in World 1995, $78 million in 1996, $115 million for 22 years, and the waiters are ready ichael R. Mastro (’43), the man who War II – Mike took a nationwide test for in 1998, including hotels and offi ce plazas with his daily cappuccino. On Fridays, Mpulls off million-dollar real-estate high-school boys and scored high enough from Vancouver, WA, to Everett to Palm Mike takes his wife to lunch “uptown.” deals before lunch and sometimes swings a to be selected for the V12 program, to give Springs, CA. On a recent weekend, Mike and his few more before going home to his Medina young men a college education and train In 2005, Th e Journal noted, Mastro wife fl ew to Toronto in Mastro Properties’ home at the end of the day, grew up in them to become offi cers in the U.S. Navy. had 5,100 lots in his company portfolio, private jet. “She’d never seen Toronto, and modest circumstances on Beacon Hill dur- Mike wound up at tiny Wabash College, had built “thousands” of condo units and I thought it would be nice,” he says. It’s ing the Great Depression. a private school in Crawfordsville, Ind., his developments included hotels, senior his second marriage. His fi rst wife died of Mike’s father worked for the City of where, he says, “I piled up a lot of credits” housing facilities, warehouses, mid-to- cancer. Mike has two grandchildren and Seattle and Mike attended St. George’s before becoming a Lt. JG and being as- high-rise offi ces and even water-theme one step-grandchild. School before moving on to Cleveland. In signed to combat duty aboard the USS San parks. Mike rarely attends sports events, pre- high school, he got good grades and was Francisco. Th e war ended before he had a In just the fi rst half of 2006, the Jour- ferring to watch games on TV. He avoids one of the rare boys who could be called a chance to fully test his seafaring skills. nal noted, Mastro Properties engaged in a boards and organizations, but sends con- “snappy dresser” (“snappy” being defi ned After two more years of education at “transaction frenzy,” with sales and acqui- tributions to such varied institutions as as someone who wore something other the University of Washington (business sitions totaling $235.5 million. Seattle Opera, Th e Rep, the Symphony, Th e than soiled corduroys day in and day out). and economics, on the GI Bill), Mike had Th e Journal reporter gushed that since Fifth Avenue Th eater, Seattle Art Museum He was not much involved in student a bachelor’s degree. Th e day after gradu- its inception in 1967, Mastro Properties and his old school, St. George’s. activities outside the classroom, preferring ation in 1947, he was hired by People’s had controlled and developed more than In the time it took to read this, Mike after-school jobs. . Bank, where he rose to vice president and $1 billion worth of properties in the Puget Mastro probably fi gured out how to earn He recalls “Mr. Imus (the vice principal), manager of the Th ird and Stewart Branch Sound Region alone. more money before the week is out than Coach Starcevich (who coached football before leaving after 22 years to make his Th e Cleveland High School graduate has most Cleveland grads will earn in a life- fortune in real estate. owned land in Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas time.

Lyle Anderson Makes the Leap From South Park to Private Jets yle Anderson was about six-years-old nities in Arizona and New Mexico: “Where pocket and trying to fi gure out how to almost never turns in a scorecard. Lwhen he found himself in a small boat some people see coyotes and rattlesnakes, start all over again. Anderson has 50 companies, all under with his father, rowing around the 9-hole Lyle Anderson sees a luxury community. Besides golf, Anderson likes deep-sea one umbrella, and roughly 1,500 employ- Earlington Golf Course his father had His high-end developments have earned fi shing. He always catches and releases. He ees. His wife is named Missy. He has three recently leased. Th e Duwamish River had him the nickname ‘Th e Desert Fox.’ almost never plays a full 18 holes of golf children, a step-daughter and four grand- fl ooded, covering the golf course and wip- Golf Digest this year chose Anderson’s any more, “because it’s simply too time- children. ing out both the family’s bank account and Loch Lomond Golf Club (Scotland) as one consuming.” Four or fi ve holes a week are If he hadn’t become a developer, he his father’s dream of managing his own of the “100 Best Golf Courses in the World suffi cient, he says. In fact, he’d like to see says, he’d probably have been in stocks golf course. Outside the U.S.” Th e course will host an courses reduced to 12 holes, so it wouldn’t and bonds, because he likes to work with Th e Andersons wound up going to the upcoming Barclay’s Scottish Open. take an eternity to play a round. money and investments. Red Cross for help. Being destitute, even An article by Bill Hoff man, in Stratos Now in his 60s, he fi gures his golf for a short time, Anderson has told many Magazine, notes that “Anderson has handicap is about 5 or 6, although he interviewers, was an experience he’s never developed some of the world’s great golf forgotten and doesn’t want to repeat. communities’s, including Desert High- Anderson did well in his studies at lands, Desert Mountain and Superstition Cleveland, and, according to baseball coach Mountain in Arizona, Las Campana in Dick Pangallo, “was one of the smoothest New Mexico, Hokuli’a on the Big Island Wayne Floyd continued from page 2 third basemen I’ve ever seen.” of Hawaii and the aforementioned Loch “In addition,” Pangallo said, “Lyle was Lomond. He called the clubhouse at Later that year, he was hired by an alter- resist adding “and excellent coaching.” just a peach of a kid.” Superstititon Mountain, outside Phoenix, native-school program to teach multi-age Th e next year, the Floyd-coached Bull- Anderson graduated in ’59 and went on “simply fabulous.” groupings” (K-8) and, in his spare time, to dogs won the state basketball champion- to the University of Washington, earning Golf courses in Anderson’s develop- coach basketball, softball, track and foot- ship. Th e school hasn’t won a state title in a bachelor of science degree in electrical ments have hosted 29 professional cham- ball at various Seattle high schools. Th e job basketball since. engineering four years later. pionships. lasted 15 years, until he was moved to the After 10 years at Garfi eld, Floyd moved Today, as head of Lyle Anderson Co., What drives Anderson, writes Hoff man, central offi ce “as an Instructional Resource on, getting a taste of administration as co- Inc., he’s one of the premier developers is “his family and the thrill of the chase. and Support Teacher.” principal at Wing Luke Elementary School. of golf-course communities on planet He adds that Anderson told him, “I get Floyd’s star was rising. He moved on Next stop: Cleveland High School, as dean Earth, racing around in his Gulfstream III tears in my eyes when I drive around Des- to Garfi eld High School, to teach health, of students and then as assistant principal. jet from Arizona to Scotland to Hawaii to ert Highlands (six golf courses), which was physical education and traffi c-ed. He also As interim principal, Floyd said, “I have check on his various properties. He pals my fi rst eff ort to design a community.” became: department head, dean of stu- grown tremendously in a short time and around Jack Nicklaus and Hale Irwin and Anderson says he went into developing dents, athletic director, and basketball and look forward to fi nishing out the year hires Jack and to design most of his golf golf-course communities because he sim- cross-country coach. strong.” courses. ply likes golf. And he went into high-end At Garfi eld, Floyd took over a basketball Th e old coach still falls back on sports Th e homes in Anderson’s vast develop- developments and the taking of “monu- program that – despite a rich history of when the going gets tough: “High school ments are mostly architect-designed multi- mental risks” because he still fantasizes championships – hadn’t made the playoff s sports is the epitome of the life lesson. million-dollar mansions for the nation’s about being broke, the way his family was in recent years. It was not, Floyd says, a Everything you learn in sports can apply well-to-do. Even the clubhouses have won when he was a boy. team loaded with talent. Nonetheless, “we directly to life. national awards for design. Anderson told Hoff man, for the article came together down the stretch and made Like the man in the principal’s offi ce, Golf Connoisseur Magazine says of An- in Stratos, that he sometimes fantasizes it to the state tournament, with a lot of Cleveland obviously has nowhere to go but derson’s magnifi cent golf-course commu- about being in Iowa with just $100 in his hard work, hustle and heart.” He could not up. 6 The Cleveland Journal

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Photo by Helen C. Sing ’70 8 The Cleveland Journal CHS Grads: From Cleveland to Jet Aircraft Legend of his great contributions to the aircraft Cleveland, Sutter says, “I think the kids explaining how a “concept” is developed. industry, he still maintains an offi ce, which were half-scared of him. We were expected Th e engineers then fi gure out how to turn he visits one day a week to consult with to learn something while we were there. So a concept into reality. today’s Boeing engineers, who are working we did.” Th e “kid from Cleveland High School,” on next-generation 747’s. After graduation, Sutter enrolled in with only a bachelor’s degree in a fi eld Sutter grew up on Georgetown’s Swift aeronautical engineering at the University increasingly fi lled with master’s degrees Avenue and attended St. George’s Elemen- of Washington. When the U.S. entered and doctorates, succeeded admirably on tary School. What was the Sutter family World War II, he joined the Navy and the 747, “the world’s largest jumbo jet.” home, he says, “is now in the middle of spent several “scary” years aboard a de- After it was introduced, to rave reviews, I-5.” stroyer escort in the Atlantic. Sutter spent four or fi ve years running Sutter entered Cleveland High School At war’s end, he completed his Bach- Boeing’s Everett plant before returning to in the mid-30s and, although too small to elor of Science studies at the UW in what headquarters “to run the company’s entire engage in sports, cheered the Eagles team he calls “the era of slide rules” and then engineering department.” that won its fi rst – and so far only – city anxiously awaited some job off ers. Th ere In his present role as a Boeing “senior football championship in 1937. He re- were two: One from Douglas, the other advisor” on all things pertaining to the members Don Harney, a mainstay of that from Boeing. “Douglas off ered $10 more a 747, Sutter still fi elds calls from “younger team, being in some of his classes. month, but I decided to take a temporary engineers.” And his name is enshrined in hen Joe Sutter was growing up in a Sutter took “all the math and science job at Boeing.” every book that mentions the Boeing 747. Whome overlooking Boeing Field, he courses they off ered at Cleveland.” He re- Th e “temporary job” lasted 40 years. A few years ago, Sutter, along with Jay dreamed of someday getting a job in aero- members his algebra and calculus teacher, Sutter cut his teeth on Boeing’s 707 and Spenser, wrote a book titled simply “747.” nautics. Sutter’s dream came true. And, “Mr. (Hiram) Pratt, as being “a rather 727 jet aircraft, doing so well as a team Th e subtitle reads: “Creating the World’s in the process, the 1939 Cleveland grad stern, humorless fellow, but neverthe- player that when it came time for Boeing fi rst Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures became a Boeing Co. legend: “Th e Father of less a superior instructor.” Sutter was to tackle the biggest jet of them all, the from a Life in Aviation.” It is now in the World’s First Jumbo-Jet, the 500-seat especially interested in physics and found 747, he was a natural choice to lead a team paperback and, for those interested in the Boeing 747.” Cleveland’s physics and chemistry teacher, of 4,500 engineers. history of aviation, a must-read. Now 86, Sutter looks out the window Mr. Hassenmiller (Kenneth), to be a little Th e time frame was the shortest for any Although the Airbus A380 recently of his Fauntleroy home and watches less rigid than Pratt and equally “superior” Boeing jet (just 29 months from start to surpassed the 747 in size, the present ver- ferryboats cross Puget Sound and glide in imparting information. fi nish) and while the number of engineers sion carries fewer passengers than the 747 into the dock. It is, he says, a fascinating, “I must say that I thought my education involved seems large, it was considerably because considerable space is given over to ever-changing sight – though, perhaps not at Cleveland was every bit as fi ne as what I less than the 6,000 who worked on the luxury suites. quite as romantic as watching airplanes received in college,” Sutter says. 737. No matter what happens in the future, come and go over Seattle. As for Ray K. Imus, the legendary as- “It takes one or two years to fi gure Sutter is the highest fl ying Eagle of them Sutter confesses that his heart will al- sistant principal who spent 35 years at out what the airlines want,” said Sutter, all. ways be at the Boeing Co. where, in honor You Can’t Do Much Better Than Coach The All-Time Best Prep Hoopsters

ost coaches spend a lifetime drawing tually play in the NBA. Mdiagrams on blackboards and dream- Asa Mercer went 63-0 with Ahern as ing of coaching a championship team coach and Harrison as his assistant. – “just once.” In 1973, Harrison took over the junior And then there’s Fred Harrison, head varsity basketball program at Cleveland, basketball coach at Cleveland for just three while still teaching at Asa Mercer. After short years (1974-76). During that time, winning the junior-varsity championship his 1974 team took third in the State 2A and almost beating the varsity in a chal- championships, his 1975 teams – with lenge game, he knew the team would be Marvin Morris as assistant coach -- won something special. the State 2A championship, and his 1976 Harrison moved to Cleveland fulltime team won the State 3A championship in ’74, a head coach at age 28, and saw Cleveland’s ’76 basketball team also was the young team, most of which he had voted the Washington State “Team of the inherited from Ahern, go 15-10. Th e young Century” by a panel of 60 reporters, edi- Eagles were improving fast, however, and L to R: Buddy Williams, Phil Petty, Fred Harrison, and Carl Ervin. Williams, Petty, and Ervin tors, coaches, sports information directors they took third in the State 2A tourna- played on Harrison’s State AA/Metro Championship Team of 1975, with a record of 25 - 0. and historians. ment. Coaches and sports writers began Harrison, now 62, is tall, trim and gray- talking about something special going on game that year, and Garfi eld won by just team, is believed to be coaching in China. ing. Although retired from coaching and at Cleveland. seven points. Harrison kept scrapbooks on his teams teaching, he keeps in touch with some of “We had Eli Carter, who was one of the Harrison says his sports idols, John at Mercer and Cleveland and recently his former Cleveland players and never most intelligent basketball players I have Wooden (UCLA basketball) and Vince turned them over to some of the young tires of talking about sports. ever coached,” says Harrison. “We had Carl Lombardi (Green Bay Packers), also re- men who played on those teams.” A ’64 graduate of Seattle’s Rainier Beach (Ervin), the best total point guard I ever fused to run up the score on much weaker What does one do for an encore after High School, Harrison went on to earn coached. We had James Woods, our lead- opponents. winning back-to-back state champion- degrees at Highline Community College, ing scorer.” When a team has as much success as ships? Harrison moved on to Highline Eastern Montana College and Seattle U. He And, of course, there was the highly Cleveland did – 25-0 in ’75 and 23-1 in ’76 Community College as a health and physi- is in the Athletic Hall of Fame at Montana talented Oldham, who looked more like – there are bound to be complaints. cal education teracher, eventually taking State/Eastern Montana College and the a future NBA player every year. Oldham “Early on, they said we were recruiting over as Highline’s athletic director. After Northwest Athletic Association Commu- didn’t disappoint. He was with Chicago in kids, which was not true,” says Harrison. 30 years in education, he retired in 1999. nity Colleges. the NBA when Michael Jordan joined the “After a thorough investigation, we were A year later he became an assistant bas- While teaching physical education and team. cleared. And one of the investigators told ketball coach at Seattle University, a job he health at Asa Mercer Junior High School, “When I came to Cleveland it was one me, ‘We did fi nd some things wrong at held for seven years. starting in 1969, Harrison put together a of the most diverse schools in the state,” other schools, however.’” In retirement, he spends considerably fl ag-football team, “which was undefeated says Harrison. “Bill Maynard, the principal Th e greatest reward for a coach, says more time with his wife, Linda. for three years.” He also watched Asa at the time, did a great job of keeping ev- Harrison, is to see his players do well after Mercer’s young athletes excel in track. erything under control. It was a wonderful they get out of school. Four became bas- Th e Teams: “It was obvious we had a wealth of place to be for a young teacher and coach.” ketball coaches. ’75: John Bell, Robert Keller, Keith Lowery, talent – fast hands and tall, neither of In 1974, he says, Cleveland started Mike Bethea, one of Harrison’s “Asa Jawann Oldham, Philip Petty, Carl Ervin, which can be taught,” says Harrison, who slowly. Garfi eld led Cleveland 25-0 after Mercer kids,” is coach of the highly suc- Maurice Young, Brad Bowser, James Brown, became an assistant to head basketball the fi rst quarter “and the coach kept pour- cessful Rainier Beach program. Wayne Eli Carter, James Carter, Danny Horne, coach Frank Ahern. He laughingly recalls ing it on, winning by something like 50 Floyd, the interim principal of Cleveland, Buddy Williams, James Woods. suggesting to Ahern that he “get rid of 7th points. After the game, I just sat in a chair coached Garfi eld to its last state basketball ’76: John Bell, Brad Bowser, Eli Carter, Tony grader Jawann Oldham. . .who had great and cried. Th ere was nothing I could have championship. Carl Ervin, a member of Carter, Gary Bowman, Jesse Gardner, Wil- hands, but was in special education and done to stop the slaughter. I vowed right the ’76 Team of the Century, was an as- liam Hunter, James Jones, Tom Kihara, Carl I wasn’t sure he’d settle down.” Oldham then never to run up a score on anybody. sistant coach under Al Hairston at Seattle Ervin, Larry Roberts, Robert Keller, Jawann would become a team leader and go even- Cleveland and Garfi eld played a second U. Jawann Oldham, another star of that Oldham, James Woods. Winter 2007 9 Dick Pangallo Lived His Dream After CHS Th e name change was welcomed by Pangallo wanted to be a coach as far for pulling such a stunt,” Pangallo says. many because the Huling Bros. auto deal- back as he can remember. Cleveland “Later on, I learned that Brigham, when he ership, after whom the cup was originally coaches Loren Ralph and Rex Scott were coached, was famous for pulling just such named, made headlines last year when his fi rst role models. tricks himself.” former employees, in the now closed busi- Following graduation, Pangallo spent Pangallo went to West Seattle as head ness, were charged with cheating a men- two years at the University of Washington coach in ’60, compiling a 34-34-8 record tally ill customer out of his life savings. and then two years at Western Washington over eight years, and winning a Metro Pangallo, always gracious, said that to earn his teaching certifi cate. His fi rst job League championship in 1961. He was while he was delighted to be honored, was teaching 6th graders in Oakville, Grays 2-14 in a less than memorable two years at he felt sorry for Huling Bros., “because I Harbor County. In 1957, he made his way Lincoln (1971-72). He became head coach always bought my cars from them and was back to his old school, Cleveland, teaching at Sealth in 1978 and over the next fi ve always well well-treated.” physical education and General Math while years compiled a 30-20 record, still the Now 76, Pangallo is happy to talk about serving as an assistant coach in baseball best in Sealth history. his life in sports. He grew up in the South and football under Ed Landon, “one of the While at Sealth, Pangallo pulled off a Park area, started at Cleveland High fi nest gentlemen I’ve ever known.” memorable bit of ingenuity. Th e teachers School and – and when is parents moved Pangallo’s favorite bit of coaching were on strike when Sealth played Roos- to West Seattle – continued to come to trickery occurred in the waning minutes evelt. Although the teams could play, with Cleveland every day “by hitching a ride of a football game against Queen Anne. non-teaching assistants on the bench, with (Gaylord) Peltier, the track coach.” Th e football had been kicked to Cleveland’s head coaches couldn’t even sit in the After school, he turned out for baseball one-yard line, and with Cleveland trail- stands. Pangallo went up the Space Needle, he annual West Seattle-Sealth High and football, in season, and then caught a ing and time running out, Pangallo called with a pair of binoculars, and scouted the TSchool football rivalry, previously bus back to West Seattle. his team together and said he wanted the Roosevelt team. Th ey lost that day, but known as the Huling Cup, recently was re- Cleveland would have won the Metro team to line up as usual, except he wanted Pangalo picked up enough information to named the Pangallo Cup – in honor of Dick baseball title in ’49 if not for a fl y ball one player to wander over to the sidelines beat Roosevelt the next time they met. Pangallo, who went on to a long career as dropped by its ace centerfi elder, Pangallo, but stand in-bounds. Th e quarterback Although Pangallo has had a heart at- a teacher and coach after graduating from in the championship game with Ballard. threw a pass to the “lonesome” player near tack and a bypass, he works out daily, trav- Cleveland in 1949. “I saw it all the way,” Pangallo says. the sidelines, who proceeded to run 99 els with his wife, attends Husky football Pangallo, who had coached at both “Th ere is no way I could have dropped it. yards for a touchdown. games and is proud of his four children schools, was honored at the game, won by But I did. Th e next day, Mr. Imus, the vice “Th e next day, Leon Brigham, athletic (two boys and two girls). Son Dick was West Seattle, 48-13. principal, called me into his offi ce and told director for all Seattle Schools, called me an all-state hurdler and ran track at the me how sorry he was.” down to his offi ce and chewed me out University of Washington.

June Anderson Evanoff: Multi-Talented Artist Still Going Strong lthough June Anderson Evanoff (’48) with the Seattle Philharmonic and Choral lehem Steel’s Seattle plant until it closed. Ais known primarily as an artist, it’s Society, then the offi cial chorus of the Shortly after becoming a single parent, hard for those who know her to fi nd a Seattle Symphony Orchestra. June was selected to represent Swedish canvas big enough to include all her skills After just two years, June’s mother Americans in the U.S. by demonstrating and honors. became ill and June dropped out of the cooking and painting at the 1976 Smith- She’s also been a piano teacher, taught U to go to work. She also married George sonian Institution’s celebration of this gourmet cooking and become a book- Evanoff , a fellow member of the school country’s Bicentennial. printer of note. orchestra. A special moment occurred when a June’s Swedish-born parents had their June was in her early 20s when she couple stopped at the booth where she was last child, June, late in life. Mom was 45, began taking art lessons and found the painting and listened attentively while she dad 50. June’s sister was 18, her brother principal focus of her life. Her oil paintings described was she was doing. When she 16. It meant being raised pretty much as – fl orals, seascapes and landscapes – now fi nished, the man said, “I’ll see that this an “only child.” She remembers admiring hang in 28 countries and are displayed information stays in the proper channels.” the painstaking work done by her father, in such places as the Nordic Heritage June thought it was an odd comment and an “old country” cabinet-maker. Museum (Seattle), Grastorp Museum in said to the man, “What do you do?” While June grew up on Beacon Hill, graduat- Sweden and Th e Smithsonian Institution the man’s wife glared at June, the man ing from Beacon Elementary School (K-12, in Washington, D.C. responded, “I, uh, work for the Smithson- before the building was taken over by El in those days) in 1944. (Interesting note: She’s been featured in one-woman arts ian.” Centro de la Raza. Most of the “old grads” June was elected Girls’ Club president exhibits at Purdue University, Gallery June learned later they were Vice Presi- are now in their 70s and up. At the ‘07 at Beacon the same year Howard Glazier North in Edmonds. And her paintings are dent and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller. reunion, June presented a fl oral painting was elected Boys’ Club president. A few in private collections in Canada, Japan, Since 1998, June has been chief orga- to El Centro de la Raza which the director years later, both were elected presidents Europe and the United States. nizer of an annual reunion of those who said was “worthy of Monet.” of Cleveland High School’s girls’ and boys’ June also has been artist-in-resident for attended Beacon Hill Elementary School June lives and paints on Mercer Island. clubs. June also served as student body the Pacifi c Northwest Ballet, and is a pri- president for half-a-year at Cleveland.) vate printer (Ilis Press), whose fi rst book At Cleveland, thanks to a push from was described by the Book Club of Califor- June, French Language classes became a nia as “one of the fi nest fi rst editions we Veteran’s Day Assembly part of the curriculum. Not surprisingly, have seen.” she was the fi rst president of the French Not surprisingly, she has served as Club. During her Cleveland days, she also president of Swedish Club Arts, the Mercer was a Seattle Times Ski Queen (’47). Island Visual Arts League, the Seattle June, who started piano lessons at age League of Arts and Gallery North. 7, playing piano in Cleveland’s orchestra But painting isn’t June’s only skill. She and with Th e Kings of Swing. took cooking classes and worked for a But it was not until her roll-room teach- time in the Rainier Bank food department, er (Mr. Joyce) looked at her hands one day cooking for the board of directors. She and told her she should be an artist that later taught classes in gourmet and ethnic she decided to pursue art seriously. cooking, and catered for large groups as Among the teachers who off ered guid- well as individual families. Swedish dishes ance, she says, were Margaret Walthew, are her favorites. business studies; Ed Ottum, music, and Ask June about her “favorite job,” and Dorothy Crim, girls’ advisor, who thought it won’t be wielding a brush at an easel, June should “work for the FBI after gradu- printing a book or concocting an exotic ation.” Miss Crim even promised to help dish. Surprisingly, she says it was working her get an FBI job. at the Federal Reserve Bank, where she But June was off ered several scholar- counted currency and looked for counter- Attending the CHS Veteran’s Day Assembly spearheaded by Rebbecah Emanuel, CHS Music ships and went to the UW instead, enroll- feits. She also worked as an offi ce manager Staff and featuring music of the CHS Band and CHS Choir: ing in the School of Music and singing and was secretary to the manager of Beth- left to right, Don Mills ’49, Bernie Moskowitz ’57, and Jim Southcott ’56 10 The Cleveland Journal Eagle 100 he Eagle 100 includes those individuals who have made contributions to the Cleveland High School Alumni Association of $100 or more in a year. We would like to thank the TEagle 100 members for the period July - November 2007: Alison W. Sing Class Of 1957 Elsa Huber Hogue Lanette R. Keri Mary Jylha Stuard Andrew G. Baldwin Daniel E. Lowe George B. Bojko Jr. Leo W. Utter Randolph T. Hikida Ben W. Wakefi eld, Jr. Darlene McConnell Pearson-Bray Howard E. King Leslie G. Imlay Richard Carmichael Betty Young Robinson Della Cookstetter & Merlin Bosch Howard H. Wang Linda Amodei Murphy Ruthann Kantzer Gatto Beverly Voelker McKnight Donald R. Mills Judy Fort (Forthoff er) Butterfi eld Lois M. Olson Sam & Sharon (Robinson) Ronnie Charles Frederick Widger Dorothy Clausen Jeanne Brannon Nichols Louise Bianchi Bullington Stanley E. Moran Charlotte Eldridge Teufel Douglas L. Wong Kay J. Haarmann Margaret Goodman & Harold R. Stanley G. Ridings Clarence F. Seeliger Douglas R. Verhoef Kazuko Umino Bill Imus Vince B. Alit Virginia Smedley Hilton Cleveland HS Alumni Association Donors We would like to thank these individuals who generously donated to our Association since July 2007: Margaret Kellogg Andersen, ’35 Donald Duncan, ’43 Robt M. & Joann Hegseth, ’53 Bonnie Holleman Trueblood, ’58 Benjamin D Grenn, ’64 Jessie Parshall Bruce, ’36 Carl (Gene) Snodgrass, ’44 Donna M Mc Donnell Hogle, ’53 Maryann Smith Haines, ’59 Victor G Rafanelli, ’64 George R Cooper, ’39 Don L Baldwin, ’47 (Mary) Sue Mc Caff ree Schloredt, Joyce Galvagno Molvik, ’60 Dorothy A Johnson, ’66 Betty Cooper Mac Leod, ’40 Marion Towle Harris, ’49 ’53 Wendy Ann Morgan, ’60 Lynn (Reynolds) Player, ’69 Catherine Krisewich Weidum, ’40 Richard L. Mc Fadden, ’49 Kenneth C. Dorsett, ’54 Valerie L. Fierling Nelson, ’60 Luwana Wiechmann-Gosch, ’69 Lavonne Cook Raven, ’41 Hazel Funk Sethe, ’49 Mary Jean Di Grazia, ’55 Anne Mc Callum Sand, ’60 Helen C Sing, ’70 Eileen O’Malley Bannon, ’42 Marilyn Rogers, ’50 Wayne R. Moreland, ’56 (Ira) Wes Reynolds, ’61 Patsy J Aragon Connors, ’74 Nezita Smith Campbell, ’42 James W Mc Arthur, ’51 Warren C. Shukis, ’56 Kay Bowman Gordon, ’63 Nicole Washington, ’80 Marjorie A Safar Goodsir, ’42 Mary Neilson Hemenway, ’52 Dean & Lillie Sanders, ’57 Robert J Baugher Jr, ’64 Robert M Baine, Associate Betty (Columbus) Wilson, ’42 Donald T Aoki, ’53 Allan H Mc Fadden, ’58 Pamela J Robison Braaten, ’64 Tina C Camero, Staff

I want to support the Cleveland High School Alumni Association. Fallen Eagles To help with costs (including newsletters to more than 8,000 alumni and former teachers – and growing), we ask you to join Listed below are alumni who have passed the Cleveland High School Alumni Association. away recently. Th ey will be missed. Please accept my tax-deductible donation to the Cleveland High School Alumni Association. Lovilla Browning Crandall, ’32 Bernie Simonson, ’36 I would like to be designated a Platinum Eagle with a donation of $5000 more: $ A.L. ‘Nibs’ Pricco, ’37 I would like to be designated a Golden Eagle with a donation of $1000 - $4999. Donation Amount: $ Walt Benadom, ’38 Jeanne Ethier Carter, ’39 I would like to be designated an Eagle 100 with a donation of $100 more: $ Clement J. Zipp, ’39 I would like to support the Cleveland High School Alumni Association with a donation of $ Ed Spangler, ’40 (Please enter total of your check here.) Frank Yellam, ’40 Please allocate my donation as follows: George Lucker, ’42 Joanne Ianniciello, ’52 Mailing expenses ($10 suggested) $ Alumni Association General Fund (unrestricted) $ Geraldine Rolshiem Onustack, ’53 CHS Athletic Fund $ Scholarship Fund: Gerald F Egbert, ’54 Memorial Forest Fund $ Annual Scholarship Awards $ Henrietta Tarrach Wickham, ’59 Jon E. Moore, ’65 Endowment Fund (restricted) $ James M Agbalog, ’66 Mail make your check payable to CHSAA or Cleveland HS Alumni Association and mail to: CHSAA, P.O. Box 94004, Seattle, WA 98124-9404

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Member #2: Name (First, Maiden, Last): Class: Deductions Address: ooking for a 2007 tax deduction? All City/State/Zip: Ldonations to your Alumni Association are eligible as tax deductions on your 2007 E-mail: Phone (with area code): Federal Income Tax. NOTE: We are updating and adding e-mail addresses to our membership database and have found this to be an eff ective way Th e Alumni Association is designated as to quickly communicate information regarding what is happening at our alma mater as well as time sensitive information a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization by about your alumni association. the IRS; therefore your donations to sup- Please check here if this is an address change. port our various programs are eligible as a taxable deduction to the extent permitted I’d like to volunteer; please contact me. I am interested in the following: by the IRS Code. I’d like to serve on the Board. We are also organized under the I’d like to serve on a committee (Alumni Relations, Scholarship, Golf Scramble, Finance & Budget, Memorial Forest, Washington State Nonprofi t Corporation Act, RCW 24.03 and registered with the Audit, Bylaws Review, and/or Nominations/Election). Washington’s Secretary of State as a chari- Please state your preference: table nonprofi t organization. I’d like to help out with an event, activity, or in some other way. Our Alumni Association was formed to preserve the Cleveland Memorial Forest and support and assist the students and Look for more alumni profi les in future newsletters! staff of Cleveland High School. For those of you, who have given gener- ously this year, please accept our sincere thanks for helping to grow our alumni as- sociation and for investing in our eff orts to 2008 CHS Annual Golf Scramble support our newly renovated “alma mater.” Go Eagles! he planning is just beginning on our Ginny Ogle, John Christensen and Don Watch for the date and location, to be TCHS Annual Golf Scramble and we’re Mills are current committee members and announced. We hope to be teeing off on looking for volunteers and major spon- additional members are needed. For now, either the 2nd or 3rd Friday of August sors. We need your input for a location to please contact us at 206-878-2401 if you 2008. make this activity a success. can help. We’ll have a new contact number when we have identifi ed a Chairman. Winter 2007 11 Website Brings CHS Alumni Together By Peggy J. Soong Yaplee will be used to communicate all events the newsletter. Th e CHSAA Website is grow- is posted online, along with the names of o you have a reunion coming up? A that come our way to our alumni. ing with new information all the time. this year’s winners. If you are interested Dstory to tell or a great memory about For instance, did you know Mr. Landon, Do you have fond memories of the in assisting the Scholarship Committee, Cleveland you want to share? Well, you can former Cleveland teacher? He is going to Cleveland Memorial Forest? Are you won- please contact Jo Smith (chsaajo56@com- do all those things on the CHSAA Website have a big birthday bash. Check out the dering what is happening with it? Did you cast.net). Keep those dues and contribu- - www.clevelandalumsea.org. Th is website details on our website and in this edition of know that the alumni association takes tions coming! busloads of students from Cleveland High Soon to come is a Wiki space, where old School to the forest each year? friends can communicate with each other All the latest details about activities of or ask questions of the alumni board. Any From the President the alumni association also are posted on pictures or information to be posted on the our website. Pictures are posted as they Website must be sent to us electronically. hank You! Th ank You! Th ank You! come in. All the news and history about Th ere will be a charge – the amount to T Without a doubt, high praise the forest also are posted. be determined by the board – if pictures should go out to Don Duncan ’43 for his Interested in being part of the Cleve- need to be scanned or a Web page created. stunning interview articles on CHS grads land Trek each year? Contact the alumni If you have any class websites you want us featured in this copy of the Journal. We board and let them know. All board infor- to link up to, we will be happy to accom- didn’t give him much time to accomplish mation is posted online. modate you. all he did and he came through with fl ying Did you know that the Cleveland Any ideas or suggestions for making colors. Th is is to say nothing of his writ- Alumni Association awards scholarships to our website better or more user-friendly ings in the July CHS Journal which cov- current seniors? When you pay your dues will be welcomed. Anyone wanting to work ered most of the special edition. He truly or make any contribution to the associa- on the site to make it better can contact is a high-fl ying Eagle and I thank him for tion, some of that money is used for schol- Peggy J. Soong Yaplee (’71) at jssoong@ his eff orts. He gets my vote for the 2007 arships. All information on scholarships acomcast.net. Cleveland Alumnus of the Year. Special thanks to my Alumni Board for their support throughout the year. Also, the alumni members who stepped www.clevelandalumsea.org up to volunteer during our re-opening on September 22 and 23. I am pleased the Class of ’80 was well represented by Elinor Dofredo, Dana Tsuboi Lim, Rubina Eagle Pavers on Sale Now Manson and Julie Rock; along with Cylisa Don Mills Brown ’98 and Roger Bedel ’53. Photo by Helen C. Sing ’70 here is still time to help pave the way Th ere is a special group who worked Tat the new Cleveland High School by tirelessly in the background to make the I would have liked to talk with more purchasing your Eagle paver today. You re-opening and the CHS Journal a suc- classmates before the program and after- can choose to commemorate an alum, cess: Dick Lee, Chuck Chinn and Marjorie ward. Time that day went by so fast as it teacher or group. Or choose to put your Goldfarb; Wayne Floyd and the CHS Staff . always does when you’re having a good message in stone for generations to come. All these folks helped us reach our goal of time. Just complete the form below and mail a Grand Re-Opening. Th e Eagle spirit still Don “Corky”’ Mills ‘49 it in with your payment. prevails. Alumni Association President Pavers will be installed this Spring. Th ank you for supporting our Eagles.

Yes, I want my paver at Cleveland! The Memorial Forest Name CHS Class of resent-day Cleveland students know uses over the years, and the solemn an- Address very little about the history and pur- P nual Memorial Day trek to the rock. City State Zip pose of Th e Cleveland Memorial Forest, a Moskowitz is the bugler for the Memo- wooded 130-acre tract outside Issaquah, rial Day programs, which usually feature Day Phone Email purchased by Cleveland students 63 years a patriotic presentation by the students Each 8 x 8-inch brick can be printed with up to three lines of type with each line ago. of Faith Beatty. Th is year’s Memorial Day having a maximum of 20 characters including spaces and punctuation. Th e centerpiece of the forest is the Me- program was chaired by Pat Coluccio (’47), morial Rock, which contains a plaque with also a member of the board and of the One Line Brick $70 the names of all Cleveland alums who have Memorial Forest Committee. given their lives in this nation’s wars from Veterans willing to assist in making WWII to today. presentations to classrooms and at school Two Line Brick $80 To build support for the forest, Alumni assemblies should call Coluccio (206) Board member Bernie Moskowitz (’57), 799-3271 or Moskowitz (206) 772-6285. who serves on the Memorial Forest Com- Coluccio is also looking for help in main- mittee, is putting together a program to taining and marking the forest’s extensive explain the background of the forest, its network of trails. Th ree Line Brick $90 Reunions Class of 1973 - 35th Reunion Class of 1978 – 30th Reunion A committee is being formed to plan When: Saturday August 9, 2008 Mail thie entire form to: a 35 year reunion for the CHS class of Where: Rock Salt Steak House Cleveland High School Pavers, c/o Offi ce of School Partnerships, MS 33-300, P.O. 1973. Please contact our class president 1232 Westlake Ave N Box 34165, Seattle, WA 98124. Kathy Okawa at [email protected], 425- Tickets: $65 per person, $125 per 487-1622, or Melna (Sakura) Skilling- couple, HELP SUPPORT CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL, ORDER YOUR stead at [email protected], 425-766- $75 after 7/1/2008 0309, with the following Other Reunion Events: EAGLE PAVER TODAY! 1) your interest in the reunion Friday, August 8, 7 P.M. – 11 P.M. open All proceeds from the sale of pavers benefi t Cleveland High School. All payments 2) your full name, including maiden bar are tax-deductible. name, email and phone number Hotel Deca – 4507 Brooklyn Ave and mailing address NE Method of payment 3) information on any classmates you Contact: Denise Holmes – 206-726- Check payable to Cleveland High School still see and their full name, includ- 9044 or email dlholmes@seattleschools. Charge: Visa MasterCard ing maiden name, location, email org and phone number, address. Card Number Exp. Date Th anks. No dates or times have been set Class of 1992 - we need your contact info to keep you Although it’s too late for a 15th reunion, Name on Card informed! Gynevill (Sibolboro) Jolly is investigat- ing the possibility of planning a reunion. Signature She may be contacted at [email protected] or 206-772-6341. We reserve the right to approve any engravings. 12 The Cleveland Journal The Double-header was Great by Don Duncan ’43 Marilee Winn Johnson (’52), a tal- come, thanks to modern sound-proofi ng, I would like to off er special thanks to here was much ented singer and stage performer, emceed and how much light those new fl oor-to- Don Mills and JoAnn Victor Smith (‘56) Tgoing and com- the program, opening with a God Bless ceiling windows allow into the classrooms. of the CHS alumni assn. for the countless ing at 15th Avenue America that triggered memories of the A three-story classroom building now hours they put into meetings and prepa- and Lucile Street on recorded voice of Kate Smith that always occupies the South end of the property, rations for the event, to Dick Lee of the an overcast Sept. ended Seattle Rainier’s baseball games in where a “new” gymnasium was built in ’69. Seattle School District and Chuck Chinn 22, as alums gath- Sick’s Stadium. Marilee added a beautiful At the school’s North end, where portables (‘63), special consultant to CHS during its ered to celebrate rendition of Th e Way We Were (Memories) and woodworking and metal shops used to start-up period, and to the teachers and Cleveland High later in the program and me join her in a be located, is the two-story gymnasium/ students of present-day Cleveland High School’s 80th birth- Cleveland-fl avored parody of I’d Grown cafeteria/commons complex. School who came in on the weekend to day and grand-reopening following a two- Accustomed to Her Face (“…we’d better Only the middle building – the gutted serve as guides and to let the alums know year closure for a $67 million renovation. treasure what we had, it’s such a pleasant and totally remodeled original Cleveland the weekday use of various classrooms. Head counts were diffi cult, but an blur, remembering what we were.”). To High – bears the slightest resemblance to And, of course, a heartfelt thanks to all estimated 1,200 alums – give or take a close the program, she led the audience in what we remembered. It was fun to walk who contributed fi nancially to the alumni few hundred – walked unfamiliar halls in Cleveland’s Alma Mater. its halls and try to locate “old” landmarks, association to make the event possible. search of “my old roll room,” chatted with Pianist Louise Bianchi Bullington (’49) like Mr. Imus’s offi ce. What used to be the Back when the planning began, Alumni former classmates and attended an assem- bravely soldiered on when a new Yamaha cafeteria now appears to be a performing President Mills said he saw no reason why bly in the new 1,350-seat gymnasium. piano was “dumped” on the fl oor – and arts rehearsal hall. Th e old locker area is “little Cleveland” couldn’t stage a grand Another 100 or so showed up the next badly damaged – while being moved from solid classrooms. And the library has a re-opening celebration equal to the ones morning for a breakfast of pancakes, sau- the school’s music room to the gymnasium. large wing devoted solely to computers. at Ballard and Roosevelt, both of which sage and scrambled eggs, courtesy of the Although the electric keyboard brought by Perhaps the biggest surprise was the opened remodeled schools in recent years CHS Alumni Association’s board of direc- Th e Kings of Swing was unfamiliar, Louise stairs. Gone in the remodeled “old” building and have many thousands more alums tors, headed by president Don Mills (’49). sat on a box atop a stool – in order to reach are the familiar stairs worn into hollows by than Cleveland has. Although the reception for Golden the keys – and didn’t miss a note. thousands of feet over the years. In the two It was a brave statement. But from the Grads (’57 and earlier) was scheduled to Among the assembly highlights: new buildings, the stairs are metal. newsy tabloid invitations to the well-at- begin at 10 a.m., hundreds of aging alums • Th e present day CHS cheer squad lead- Oh yes, and to fi nd an elevator in all tended open house to the Sunday morning – not wanting to miss a moment of con- ing some contemporary yells, followed by three buildings was, as many said, “simply pancake breakfast, “little old” Cleveland versation with old friends – began arriving a remarkably trim and agile Marge Wallrof unbelievable.” did itself proud. shortly after 9 a.m. Th e large commons/ Brown (’54), sister of former teacher/coach cafeteria area was fi lled to overfl owing well Paul Wallrof (’50), leading a yell from “the before the offi cial starting time. good old days.” Our thanks to Don Duncan ‘43 for his many Th e oldest grad in attendance appeared • Th ea Leidel (’08), ASB president, editorial contributions and the many alumni profiles to be Leonard “Spike” Richards, 95, who answered the question, “what in the world was an 8th grader when he joined junior do students put in those backpacks?” by in this issue of The Cleveland Journal. high and high school students in the his- unloading her pack on the gymnasium toric “Walk up the Hill” from Georgetown fl oor for all to see. Biggest laugh: Th e large to open Cleveland High School in Janu- bag of munchies, deemed critical to stave ary 1927. Richards graduated in 1931. off hunger pangs. Estimated weight of the Don Snyder (’44) brought Richards to the backpack: 14 pounds. celebration. • Bob Tate, CHS principal from ’65 to Easily the most beloved returnee was ’69, touched on the civil rights protests of Ed Landon, 92, who taught U.S. and the ‘60s and the changing face of Cleve- World History and coached for 25 years land during his tenure, praising those (late ‘40s through ‘73). Landon, who now parents who worked tirelessly to calm lives with his daughter in Madras, OR., the troubled waters. Tate, a baseball and received a standing ovation when he was basketball star at the University of Wash- introduced at the assembly. Also returning ington and coach of Garfi eld High School’s and speaking briefl y were Bill Maynard, a fi rst state championship basketball team very popular former CHS principal (1971- in ’57, yielded the fl oor to Wayne Floyd, 76) and David Della (’73), a Seattle City interim CHS principal, who “coached Councilman. Garfi eld’s last state championship basket- Half-an-hour before the assembly be- ball team.” gan, alums started gathering in the gym- • Several alums took to the shiny new nasium to listen to Th e Kings of Swing, a gymnasium fl oor while Th e Kings of Swing big band formed at Cleveland back in 1944 played an old Glenn Miller dance tune, and now – with younger instrumentalists “In the Mood.” An aging gentleman, who – one of the premier Seattle-area dance appeared to be affl icted with Parkinson’s, bands playing ‘40s and ‘50s Miller, Shaw didn’t miss a beat as he bravely shuffl ed and Dorsey arrangements. and pivoted on the fl oor with his lady love. Several members of the early-day band • When the last notes of Cleveland’s were in the audience, including Don Case Alma Mater had died away, Th e Kings of (’48), former Alumni Association presi- Swing resumed playing while alums tapped dent; Harry “Pee Wee” Cameron, Gordy their feet and lingered to give hugs to Parker, Judge Joel A.C. Rindal, Harry people they hadn’t seen in years and, quite Sankey (who attended Franklin), Burr possibly, will never see again. Cline, Louise Bianchi Bullington and June Th ose who toured Cleveland were Anderson Evanoff . amazed to discover how quiet it has be-