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30 Scholarships Awarded Feed the Bears Sunday, Aug. 14 at Gas Works Park!!! Oct. 22 Fall Luncheon Celebrates QAHSAA's 30Th Volume 30, Number 2 Queen Anne High School Alumni Association August 2011 Oct. 22 Fall Luncheon Celebrates QAHSAA’s 30th Special Auction Planned By Glo (Gleason) Holcomb ’46 It’s hard to think ahead to fall 2011, but it will come whether summer ever comes to Seattle or not. So, mark your calendar for Sat., Oct 22, 2011 at the Seattle Yacht Club, starting at 11:30 a.m. Remember “The Last Hurrah”? Another big celebration is coming up for the Queen Anne High School Alumni Association as it turns 30 this year. The Fall Luncheon will mark this milestone. There will be the usual raffle, but this year we are adding an auction of Queen Anne memorabilia and other neat items. So start filling that piggy bank. Look around to see if you have some Queen Anne memorabilia or anything else you’d like to donate. Call Glo Holcomb, (206) 783-9936, to donate or for questions. See page 15 for a registration coupon, or register online at www.qagrizzlies.org. The deadline is Oct. 11. 30 Scholarships Awarded Feed the Bears Sunday, Aug. 14 at Gas Works Park!!! By Kerry McMahan ’54 By Claudia (Kettles) Lovgren ’65 Our 29th annual scholarship competition resulted Food will be left out for the QA Grizzlies at the 18th in 30 scholarship awards made possible by the annual summer picnic Sunday, Aug. 14. Feeding time is exceptional generosity of classes, reunion groups, 11:30 am to approximately 4 pm at Gas Works Park. individual donations and the collective donations of Please note the change from the previously announced many Queen Anne alumni. John Hay site. Construction there has forced a move. This year, 98 application forms were requested, The Association will be providing the hot dogs, pop with 74 applications received by the March 31 and coffee. Tully’s has generously provided the coffee in deadline. This year, 17 scholarships were awarded to past years. Our Korean and Vietnam veterans possess the high school seniors and 13 to college students. original grill from Al’s Hamburger Place on the Ave. and Those interested in competing for a 2012 award will be grilling the burgers as they have in the past. Excellent should download an application from the QA website Grizzly feeding! The Association will bring some side dishes next fall and take great care to follow the completion to share. And if you’d like to feed the bears too, bring a instructions. High school applicants must submit side dish or dessert (honey?) along with another classmate. official transcripts from their school’s registrar Donations will be gladly accepted also. which must contain their fall semester grades. There was a large turnout last year and we are looking for Post high school applicants must submit their high more this year. We hope you will join us for some food and school, community college and most recent college fun! transcripts. Anything less than an official transcript The Gas Works Park is at the north end of Lake Union will disqualify the applicant from competition. and parking is available (Meridian Ave. N. and N. Northlake The 2011 QAHSAA scholarship winners are Way). For directions, visit www.qagrizzlies.org. featured on pages 8-11. FEED THE BEARS!!! From Our QAHSAA President Having just completed my 50th anniversary with Seattle Public Library in May, I look for- ward to the 50th anniversary of the Class of 1961 Oct. 1, at the Overlake Golf and Country Club. A preliminary Act the day before is a gathering of the Coe School Class of 1955 (6th grade) who are among the 1961 alums. See reunion page for details. Before then are two of our regular alumni events. First is the Magnolia Summerfest and parade, on July 30th (opens July 29), with Grizzlies once again actively marching in the parade. If you are willing to join the marchers, call Jackie Zobrist at (206) 285-0582 or Kim Turner at (206) 706-4184 or check the website. What a year this has been! The Spring Luncheon at the Seattle Yacht Club brought over 120 alums and former teachers together, for an afternoon of pleasant conversation and a wonderful group of raffle items and logo materials. The new mug will make its appearance at our second summer event, the August 14th picnic, which has been moved back to Gas Works Park, due to heavy main- tenance on the John Hay School, which had been our first choice. We were lucky to get the Gas Works park location, as our request was not in as early as past years. The October 22nd Fall Luncheon will be at the Seattle Yacht Club and we are looking for volunteers to help make it another success. The Fall Luncheon will begin the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the closing of Queen Anne High School and the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Queen Anne High School Alumni Association. It will also be the event at which board members will be elected for the positions which are due to become vacant. Think about the possibilities…. Kim R. Turner ’61 Acknowledgements Once again, our thanks to our Board and regular supporters for the hours they put in on the KUAY, the website, handling merchandise, organizing luncheons and picnics, donating raffle baskets and many other tasks. We also want to 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: The Queen Anne United Methodist Church for providing our current meeting space for the board. Mike ’67 and Alexandra (Dalinkus) Smith ’67, owners of LeRoux Fine Apparel in Magnolia Village, for selling our QA Alumni logo merchandise. Go take a look. Betty (Charouhas) Bebee ’45, Terris Howard ’52, Don Estep ’46, Doris (McClure) Linkletter ’31, Carol Mc- Guinn ’67, Bill Bloch ’62, Allan White ’54, Pat (Sykes) Ronhaar ’47 and Ardena (Bramwell) Pendleton ’56, for continuing to screen newspapers for the death notices used in our Memorials. Chef ’n Products, David Holcomb ’72, for continuing to offer raffle baskets. Kerry McMahan ’54 for again sponsoring our luncheon at the Seattle Yacht Club. Ruth (Hanson) Ghormley ’42 for the spring luncheon decorations. John Shepard’s Red Mill Burgers for spring lunch prize coupons. Anthony’s Restaurants and Bud Gould ’58 for spring lunch prize coupons. Mary (Gundrum) Englund ’58 and Pat (Wilson) Faller ’58 for raffle donations, along with other Grizzlies and many board members. Finally, our thanks to all those who have helped our Association to endure these 30 years. Memorabilia Gifts—Our Thanks to: Chuck and Linda (Willis) Dagg both ’62 for a ’28 KUAY Annual belonging to Linda’s mom, Emmilla Lacey ’28. Van Sherod ’64 who donated his track letterman’s jacket, shortly before moving to Montana this year. Cheryl (Ball) Atwood ’62 who donated annuals from 1959-62, plus some buttons, dance programs and a Queen Anne doll. Edie (McDougall) Kerr ’41 who sent us class pins belonging to her father James McDougall ’12. The 1912 pin was accompanied by a Seattle High School pin for 1910 (later renamed Broadway High School). 2 The KUAY August 2011 WHO’S NEWS Compiled by Kim R. Turner ’61 We need your input to create this column. Send news of Grizzlies to: Who’s News Editor, QA Alumni As- soc., P.O. Box 9128, Seattle, WA 98109, or e-mail: [email protected]. Photos are always wanted. 1920s: Robert “Bob” Nerup ’55 lives in Olympia, WA., Joe and Marion (Tower) Epler ’29 working as “Ra- celebrated their 100th birthdays last conteur” special- February at the Ida Culver House izing in “Tales Broadview (Seattle). They have only du Mer.” Gary been married since 1998. The Seattle Knight ’56 is liv- Times caught this couple with a great ing in So. Cal., article on Feb. 13. Check it out. playing golf and watching over six 1930s & 1940s: From L to R: Dorothy (Clark) Rogers ’40, Shirley (Brown) Doran grandsons. Retired ’39, Virginia (Cawthorne) Johnson ’40, Dorothy (Wilson) Hass from the insurance Patricia (Brown) Reiman ’37 ’42, and Bette (Lillie) Loomis ’39 get together as often as possible business and mar- would love to hear from other class and would welcome other grads to join them. ried 47 years, he enjoys not having members. Check our website for her Calvin “Mack” McDonald ’41 Seattle’s weather. email address. writes he is still boating and fishing. William “Bill” McCaffrey ’57 lives Ted Carlson ’37 was living in Planta- sold his Robert “Bob” Balliet ’45 in Desert Aire, WA., and is enjoying tion, Florida. He and his wife Adele, Skykomish cabin and lives in south the sun. a Garfield grad, have been married Snohomish County with his wife. Donald “Don” Thompson ’57 lives 69 years (March 2011). His letter to Maurice Stoffer ’46, is living in Bell- in Trilogy in Redmond with his wife us was sent by his daughter Carolyn ingham. Rasanen, who lives in New Hamp- Betty McClain ’58, enjoying retire- shire. Ted died the day after writing ment, golf and family. the letter (April 9th). He taught all his 1950s: Charles “Chuck” Davis ’58 is now children the Queen Anne Fight Song. living in Dungeness, WA. Margaret DeLacy ’59 retired in Gary Gollofon ’50 was feted along 2007. She and hubby Ron Gillette ’59 with the rest of the 1952/53 Seattle U. live in Kenmore. basketball team, which included the noted O’Brien twins, among others. They played (and lost) to UW with its 1960s: great star Gary Bob Houbregs ’49.
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