Phi Theta Kappa Kicks Off 1976

c u. , I HCC shines at Southcwec// e4 by Carol Wilde 9 +A . Theoffset printing class had a display down at South- center that was a little more ‘unique than the usual illustra-- tive pictures, pamphlets or LAW AS CAREER. .Administration of Justice and statistical figures. It was in Corrections are programs available in Law Enforcement. fact an actual printing press, photo by John Sankalis and during the 10 day period students from the class were down at Southcenter giving demonstrations of the offset printing process on the press. ’ A press had beenfurnished . for the display by the A. B. Dick Company for the last three years. The exhibit also includedsamples of general material printed bythe students’and several personalized Christmas cards, wedding announce- ments, invitations, tickets, stationacy and business . cartip Several other departments were represented by displays or demonstrations. They in- cluded: Behavioral Sciences, VETS INFO. .Steve White, Veterans’ advisor, wason hand at Women’s Programs. The . Business Department was Southcenter to help prospective studentswho are vets. - photo by John Sankalis Readers Theatre 1roupe.ma.kespeople happy _.-. , -by BurtCourtier SamWr; *‘We.&aygd for over 22,000 people last year...we “Peter Piper pickeda peck hope tqreach about 35,OoO this of pickled, Peruvian, purple, year.” pomegranates.’* At least he The Readers Theatre at did according to Kent Seifert, performed Southcenter, Phi Theta Kappa _-.- ‘tongue twisting expertof the Wednesday, February 12; in Readers Theatretroupe. conjunction with HighlineCol- The Readers Theatre is a lege’s exhibit. The group group of eight highly talented started a tour of the Skagit kicks off 1976 performers from HCC, who Valley yesterday, and will finish up today, after a total of get a kick out of acting and To celebrate the openingof day, Mar. 10th at 11:OO a.m. in making children happy. Their eight performances. the national bicentennial A genuine rapport the lecture hall. Appearing performances, including such celebration, which officially with her willbe Mildred Cook classics as, “Alexander, and develops between the actors begins in March of this year, and their audience, whichcon- from Federal Way, who with the Terrible, Horribie, No Phi Theta Kappa is spansor- Ms. Harper isa member of the Good, Very Bad Day,” and tributes much to their ing a campus bicentennial success. Seattle King County Bicenten- “Lovable Lyle the Crocodile,” week from March 5th to nial Commission. They will are directed mainty toward An impression may have March 12th. The week will in- come out that the Readers discusscurrent and future . the younger set. clude a series of events projects in the community Chick Sandifer is director- Theatre is just for youngpeo- scheduled for noon in the ple. Impressions can be that can supportedbe by High- teacher of .the Readers lecturehall. line College. Theatre, which isalso known wrong. The group will be Launching the week’s performing on campus, On Tuesday the concert 3s Speech 215. The course is activities will be a Reader’s band under the directionof Ed five credits, but an aspiring February 24 at noon. It “LYLE “HE CROCODILE,” Theater Production, “Voices Fish willsalute the‘bicenten- performer is accepted only presents a great opportunity from 1776” on Mar. Sth, which to be entertainedby a talented alias Kent Seifert. .hiding in nial week by including in its after an audition. The next Will be performed by the noon program John Phillip four weeks following the au- group of actors. “ closet.the 1 following members of the fa- Sousa’s “Hands Across the dition are spent rehearsing culty: Dr. Christie Steltz from Sea.” The climax of theweek before the troupe begins an Computer points way to the drama department, Dr. will occur onWednesday with extensive tour that covers Chick Sandifer from ,the the showing of the critically about 40 elementary schools, speech department, and Joan acclaimed film, “1776,” which plus a number of special your occupation future Fedor, Robert Neunschwant for this occasion will begin at performances. der, and Richard Stevens noon. “It’s amazing how many by Glen Boyd about your occupational from the Humanities Divi- . Otheractivities that will people we get in contact with Who ever heard of a’ ‘capabilities and answer any sion. On Thursdaya vocal en- take place during the week in a year,” commented Chick typewriter that can tell you all questions you may haveabout semble concert under the are a Benjamin Franklin Kite a niven accmation 3 direction of Gordon Voileswill FLying Contest sponsored by include the early American theASHCC. Watch the air, “Johnny Has Gone for a bulletin and the weather for Soldier,” and the modern time and day’ of this event. Johnny Mann arrangement of During the noon hour of the “Stand Up and Cheer.” A week Phl Theta Kappa will bicentennial teach-in is. also be selling homemade . scheduled for Friday with Dr. pecan tarts to bclp send oneof .- Richard Olson, American its members to the city where Literature instructor, Henry America began and where Phi Perry, potltical science in- Theta Kappa is holding its structor, and Kay Gribble and national convention, Roger Landtud, history in. Philadelphia. structorr corrtrlbuting their The George Washington comments an the re- Association from Mt. Vernon, volutionary period and its re- Wa. has been invited to visit lation8bip to modern the campus during the week. America. They specialize in authentic m A prominent community costumes and military fils. leader and chairman of There is alao tbrt possibility af Burien community bicenten- raising an official bicentennial committee, Dottie nial flag over4lighline College Harper, wil1 speak on Mon- during the week, ... I’ c k Feb. 21. 1975 Thunder Word .' Page 2 I." R.~ t FOURTH OF JULY patriotically-decorated vehicle in Des Moines in 1899. THREE TREE POINT welcomes summer visitors in 1912 from abardthe Steamer Vashon. (Much of the early traffic was by ships making regular stops at Three Tree Point, Vashon Island, Des Moines and Stone's Landing, now Redondo) T-Word focuses on SEATTLE-TACOMA InternationalAirport in 1967. by Me1 Ferron completed in 1860,the Sunnydale Road (now called In the beginning the area H-ighlinehistory the Des Moines Road) was not now called the Highline Dis- constructed until 1873. This trict was known as road and its extensions was were erected. "Hardscrabble." Then in 1869 called the "High Line Road" In 1924 sevenseparate a pioneer named Mike Kelly and was the first to connect school districts unitedto build explored the region and three Seattle and Tacoma. a newhigh school. A. N. years later carved a The term "High Line" homestead from the giant firs Thompson, the first chairman stuck to the north-south road of the board of this new Union and gravelly land and calledit on the uplands between the "Sunnydale." school district, wrote in his White River Valley and Pugetmemoirs:. f Old Indian paths and crude Sound. In addition to wagon trails originally con- "The name of the new Sunnydale, other com- school was significant. It nected the homesteads . munities in the area along thishad been suggested by a around Sunnydale and gave road emerged: Lake Burien, the pioneers access to the set- Mount View Elementary Five Corners, Mount View, school youngster, and the tlements at Alki, Duwamish Normandy Park, Manhattan, I and Seattle. Although the Board accepted the name of Angle Lake and Des Moines. 'Highline' with the provision MilitaryRoad between Fort As the population grew and Steilacoom and Seattle was that it must alwaysbe spelled more children had to be 'Highline' and that the word educated, additional schools should carry the ideaof High- line - sportsmanship, high TWO HORSE-POWER rig in the early 1900's in the Highline .. standards, high effort." area. In 1941 the elementary schools and the Union High School consolidated into one school district withone board of directors and one superintendent tobe known as Highline School District 401. From the first Sunnydale school that opened in 1882 with 11 pupils,the school system grew and today the Highline School District has 34 elementary schools, one special school, nine junior high schools, five high schools, an occupational skills center, an * oceanography laboratory and an outdoor classroom, Camp Waskowitz, in the Cascades near North Bend. In 1961 the school district FIRST TERMINALbuilding Seattle-Tacoma airport, 1947. establishedHighline Com- munity College.' Although the TOONERVILLE TROLLEY. .officially the Lake Burien state legislature separated Railroad, began at Riverside where it made connections with community colleges from the the Seattle trolley system, and "jolted and swayed over nine school districts in 1967, the col- miles of uneven track" through White Center and Lake Burien lege works closely with the to its terminalat Seahurst. schools in the Highline area. Highline originally got its name from one of the many roads into the area, the High Line Road. The term hasbeen . '* - contracted to one word - Highline, and its meaninghas *, been expanded to designatea 32-square mile area witb a population of over 130,000, aptly called "a modern sub- urbantropolis." I Photographs are reproductions L taken from "The ManyRoads to Highline" by Melba Eyler the turn the quare FIRST AUTO-in Suonyvale: 1906 Cadillac. The Presto gas , DES MOINES around of ceatary. blg and Evelyn. 4... YeW+, .. , building on the right wa8 its first botcl, lamps and tool -box werestandard equipment. ,' , , , , b--.=. ,' ..--.- .. --- * - ".. 0-0 4a.e... .a,- """"".~~ ".,, C b' Feb. 21, 1975 b Thunder Word Pane 3 cmsumer’s Guide to fine dining- on the Highline Campus * I by Mickey Swope of amazement is the “Special ailable. of the Day!” How many other Last but not least is the Dateline HCC...There has places can brag of: Hawaiian candy counter at the book been a rumor of dissatisfact- Meatballs, and Hungarian store where the neighborhood ion with the lack of fine Goulash that strangely kids and most of the students eateries on the campus.

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