Millennium Annual Queen Anne Banquet
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Vol. 19, No. 2 Queen Anne High School Alumni Association, Seattle, WA August, 2000 Seventeen Scholarships Awarded This Year! We were able to award a record number of scholarships this year due to the exceptional generosity of reunion groups, nine individual scholarship donations and the collective donations of many alumni. Fifty-five requests for forms were received with thirty-eight returned as applications. The scholarship selection committee then had the difficult task of selecting the top seventeen. It should be noted that three vocational scholarships were available this year but no vocational applications were received. Two from the class of ’49 and one from the Alumni Association will be available again next year. Scholarships were donated by the following alumni or alumni groups: Ray Carlson, ’37; Dennis Helmick, ’62; Charlotte (Quash) Higgens, ’37; Christine (Madsen) Hynes, ’31, (two); Douglas Lorentz, ’72; Kerry McMahan, ’54: Fred Milkie, ’34; Jim Rafferty, ’45; Class of 1949 (five); Class of 1972 and five from the collective scholarship fund contributions of many alumni. See pages 10, 11 and 13 for recipients accomplishments and photos. Thelma Marie Chisholm PICNIC Millennium Our Miss Chisholm August 20th By Bill Tobin, ’46 Annual Queen By Barbara (Wilson) Nelson, ’58 [email protected] QA alums will gather at Magnolia Park August 20th for the seventh Anne Banquet Educator, advisor, mentor, she made annual All Alumni Picnic. As in the By Dennis Helmick, ’62 life-long positive impressions on all past, the picnic is planned as a us girls at QAHS from 1937 to her The First Annual Queen Anne “bring your own basket” affair with retirement in 1969. She died March 23 Banquet of the new Millennium or the the Alumni Association providing of heart failure at age 96. Her service Last Annual Queen Anne Banquet of hot dogs, buns and soft drinks. was held at Horizon House, her home the old Millennium (depending on Please note that Park Department the past 15 years. your viewpoint) will be held regulations prohibit beer and other Miss Chisholm served as Debate Saturday, October 14, 2000 from 5 alcoholic beverages in the park. Coach, Language Arts Teacher and to 8:30 P.M. at the Yankee Grill (ex QA logo merchandise will be Girls Advis or at Queen Anne for 32 Diner) located on the canal at 5300 available for sale and a raffle is years. She helped institute "Middy 24th Avenue in the Ballard planned. Days". We girls wore sailor blouses neighborhood of Seattle. Two classes are planning reunion and many of us remember making The “Millennium” Banquet offers gatherings at the picnic. They are matching collars and cuffs of bright views of Salmon Bay, excellent the classes of 1935 and 1940. They prints to relieve the same old dining, exciting raffle prizes, and fun both hope for a good turnout of their regulation navy blue ones. Many of us music and dancing. In other words, classmates. remained in contact with her after the Banquet will be a Great Grizzly The picnic starts at 11:30 AM and graduation. We will miss her smile, Gathering. lasts until 6:00 PM. Magnolia Park her dignity, her caring, her wonderful This year’s complete dinner menu is located at 31st Ave. W. and W. Galer, about six blocks from the top (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 9) of the Magnolia Bridge. Page 2 - The KUAY, August, 2000 Who’s News in 2000 By John Hennes, ’51, email: [email protected] , 206-284-2266 Who’s News items come from all over-newspapers, letters, magazines, etc. We can’t find all the news without you. If you have news of Grizzlies, please jot them down, or clip them out, and send them to: KUAY Editor, QA Alumni Assoc., PO Box 9128, Seattle, WA 98109. Photos are especially wanted. ’10s and ’20s Bob Hoxsey, ’37, sent a note and a archives. She notes of the alumni Kuay: We were surprised to find there is a contribution from Wenatchee as a “It’s my favorite newspaper (being an Queen Anne connection to the richest man remembrance for his fellow Boy Scout editor of the KUAY way back in 1943-44, in the world, Bill Gates. His paternal Troop 65 mates, Paul Schaffrath, ’35, I’m prejudiced!). The yellowing 1944 grandmother, Lillian (Rice) Gates, ’10, and Herb Munter, ’38. Both of them paper reveals that Jr. Red Cross Christmas and great uncle, Kenneth Rice, ’25, were perished while flying during WWII. boxes are being prepared to send overseas, both Queen Anne graduates. Last issue’s story on “Five Grizzlies The KUAY has received the “coveted” Elsie-Jane (Hadley) Donnelly, ’26, Make UW Top 100” brought in a letter Gallup Award, two more Grizzlies have writes from The Sequoias, a Presbyterian from Don Millikan, ’40. He noted that been killed in action (56 gold stars so far), retirement home in San Francisco, about the story mentioned Bob Houbregs, ’49, Big Bill Simmons has been chosen Yell two other accomplished classmates living leading the UW team to its only NCAA King and Hank Ketcham, ’37, has started there. Lorna Logan, ’26, went to San Final Four appearance in 1953. Don, having his “Half-Hitch” cartoons run in Francisco in 1931 and has spent her life however, who played on Husky teams the Saturday Evening Post. working with Chinese immigrants in that with Jack Nichols and Sam White, Bettie Louise (Johnson) Wilmoth, ’44, city. She recently received the Jenkins recollected that his 1948 team went to writes to clarify her name spelling. There Award for Services to Older Persons for the final four. A check with the UW were three Betty Johnsons in school when her years of service, her sense of justice Sports Information office revealed that she started. She has been living in Fresno, and her long history of social the Art McClarney coached 1948 team CA since 1948, widowed in 1994, and has responsibility. Rev. Frederick went, not to the national Final Four long been involved in collecting dolls and McDonald, ’26, was chaplain to General tournament, but to the Western hand-painted porcelains. Omar Bradley during WWII and during Regionals, losing to Baylor in the Thor Chellstorp, ’48, has retired from his travels he began collecting shards of opening game and beating Wyoming, Fluke Corp. and now lives on the North stained glass windows from cathedrals, for third place. A worthy Umpqua River near Roseburg, OR. churches and temples destroyed by the accomplishment for any team. Through the Alumni Assoc. he was able to war’s random violence. Recently, the Kirby Nunn, ’40, has surfaced in renew contact with Larry Casler, ’48, numerous glass fragments have been Tucson, wondering if anyone remembers who followed an illustrious career on the recreated into 25 to 30 small stained glass he and Dorothy Short in “Naughty KUAY (“Make Merry with Larry”) with windows, each identified as to what Marietta”? He can be reached at email: an illustrious career in psychology (Ph.D. sanctuary the shards came from. The [email protected] from Columbia, lecturer, consultant and windows will be in the newly renovated professor). Main Post Chapel in the Presidio, now part Thelma (Knox) Beck, ’49, writes from of the Golden Gate National Recreation Oxnard, CA about other Grizzlies in the Area. (Author’s Note: The three Grizzlies entertainment world. She points out that above are now in their early 90s. As with Rod Gibbons, ’67, who was in the senior most of our Who’s Newsers, this brief note play, went on to New York for several off- does not do justice to their life stories and Broadway shows and has many accomplishments.) appearances in commercials and soap Bill Holm, ’28, has sent some notes operas. He lives in Alameda, CA from Vancouver, WA about his life. He ’50s and ’60s graduated from the UW in 1932 with an Bill Westbo, ’51 has been “found” in Accounting degree, but no job. He found Laguna Niguel, CA, where he lives after work in Oregon and eventually joined with retiring from Costco. Like many "missing" Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst & Grizzlies he had not been in touch with Young) and retired in 1972 as managing any classmates and had no idea there was partner. He and his wife are active Belleek an alumni association. Moral: keep in collectors and have formed a collectors’ A note from Charlotte (Larson) touch, talk to your friends. chapter in the Portland area, one of the Larsgaard, ’41, (on the left) describes 1952 grad, Gary E. Striker, is a largest in the world. how she and Eileen (Lindquist) professor of medicine at the University of ’30s and ’40s Ulberg, ’41 (on the right) were among Miami School of Medicine. He is also Longevity is the story for Claude and the students from the north end that were presently Director of the Diabetes, Clamara (Skaw) Hobson, both ’36, who bussed to Queen Anne during those Endocrinology and Metabolism Division. celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary years (roughly 1938-43). Four years of He has just been given the job of June 1. Claude is retired from the Seattle bus rides led to a lifetime of friendship. Associate Dean for Research for the School District. Their children, Gail Eileen was the artist for the 1941 annual. Medical School. Martini-Peterson, ’62, Joan Hurley, ’65, Patsy (Barrett) Harrah, ’44, sent a Bob Hellenthal, ’57, has lived all over and Irene Michel, ’66, helped with the Sept. 27, 1944 KUAY Weekly for the the west and the south as part of his work large family celebration. The KUAY, August, 2000 - Page 3 in the building materials industry.