Lincoln High School Alumni Association LHSAAMagazine Fall Issue 2019 Volume 22 • No. 3 Lincoln High School Alumni Association From the President Dear Fellow Alumni October 25th and LHSAA Well, its fall, the leaves are changing and the last football Magazine its back to school. Do you remember what game is on No- Fall 2019 that was like when you were at Lincoln? We vember 1st. The hope that you enjoy this issue of the LHSAA ground breaking Volume 22 • No. 3 Magazine and maybe it will kindle some for the new build- memories of Lincoln and allow you to engage ing will be some- Who We Are with the Lincoln community. Our mission is time this winter. to encourage and promote alumni interest and There will be some THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION special events in David Perlman ‘65 support of educational excellence at Lincoln. conjunction with President • FOL Liaison We are proud of our history and the Dana Barton Cress ‘64 wonderful alumni and students that Lincoln these milestones and we encourage you to come Secretary/Treasurer • Archives has fostered. We honor those alumni who back to Lincoln and celebrate with your fellow Magazine have distinguished themselves in our alumni. Harris Matarazzo ‘75 community in leadership roles and elsewhere. As always, we encourage you to get Vice President • Historian We also honor alumni who have served in the involved with the LHSAA. Brian Lamson ‘78 armed forces. If you would like to help just contact us. 2nd Vice President • Reunions This is the year of the start of the new [email protected] Food Drive Lincoln High School Rebuild and the last year Go Cards Niels Brownlow ‘65 on Walsh Field. The last homecoming is on Endowment Chairman Glenn McMath ‘80 Data Base Charles Matschek ‘70 Reunions Roscoe Nelson ‘66 From the Principal Reunions Dear LHS Alumni: Emily Duden Pinkerton ‘87 Back to school season always offers a sweet many opportunities Director end to summer vacation, and this year was to be involved in no exception. the project through THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE We enjoyed welcoming back our Class curricular activities Contributing Editors of 2020 seniors who have already showed their and the potential David Bailey (retired teacher) creative and collaborative class spirit by paint- for new classes Dana Barton Cress ‘64 ing a global themed mural on the patio and in Construction Leslie McClung Costandi ‘75 – initiating a new “Good Morning Cards!” video Management and magazine - memorials weekly announcement series to help increase applied STEM Lauren Livesay (graphic designer) communication between elected officials, classes. administration, students and staff. We hope to see our alumni at this year’s ARCHIVES We have all been celebrating the City of Pop Cycles, Oct. 19, which will be an import- Katie Bush Portland’s approval of our design review process ant fundraiser for our choir, band and theatre Dana Barton Cress last month, and we are looking forward to the departments. Our theatre department will be David Bailey PPS groundbreaking ceremony in mid- performing “Fiddler on the Roof” this spring, December. and our band is headed to Disney World. CONTACTS Fall activities are off to a great start, and We are particularly excited to announce Board Members we are busy planning “last games” on the that our Cardinal Choir will be heading to Phone: 503-452-2225 current Mike Walsh Field. Please plan to join Vienna, the first trip of its kind at Lincoln, for e-mail: [email protected] us on Oct. 25 for our Big Homecoming a performance tour in March, and they will mail: 4931 S.W. 76th Ave. celebration vs Madison, and on Nov. 1 for our be working hard to raise the funds needed to #282 Portland, OR 97225 last home football game vs. Grant. pay for their trip. WEBSITE: www.lincolnalum.org Once fall sports end, Hoffman Construction We hope to see you all at Lincoln soon. DONATIONS • ENDOWMENT will start to prepare the west side of our It’s an important time to reconnect. Your gift FUND 4931 S.W. 76th #282 campus for construction slated to begin in of time can positively in uence our future. Portland, OR 97225 earnest in February-March. Thank you to our LHSAA for always Staying on site during the rebuild, while advocating for our youth. hard on field space use, will give our students Once a Cardinal, always a Cardinal! 2 LHS Alumni News Magazine | Fall Issue 2019 City says ’yes’ to new Lincoln lans for the new Lincoln are moving forward after the Portland Design PReview Committee gave its final ap- proval in August. Construction on the six-story building is scheduled to begin in the winter following the dismantling of the outdoor athletic com- plex that includes bleachers, track, field, and Table of concession structure. Students will remain in the current school during Phase One of construction, which CONTENTSwill include the main building and a land- scaped pedestrian plaza. Occupancy is tenta- Features tively4 Thescheduled end of for an fall, era 2022. TheHomecoming current buildingon Oct. 25 will will then mark be the demolished Southwest Salmon Street looking west. tostart make of final way celebrations for a new athleticon Mike complex,Walsh with That’scompletionField before no groundset ladyfor is2023. broken - for the new Lincoln. Also in this issue She’s a Cardinal 8 Cardinals on the move old, sassy, and irreverently classy - and now Darcelle/Wal- 6ter Cole, ClassThat’s of 1950, is rightfullyno Ladyenjoying a multi-beam BByspotlight that heraldsthe the oldest performing numbers drag queen in theDarcelle/Walter world. Cole, 1950 graduate, Known internationally for entertaining thousands of guests at 14 The Bulletin Darcelle’shas XV entertained in Northwest Portland and thousands raising thousands of for more Ex-Cardinal finds ‘flapper’dollars for charity,floors the 88-year-oldstardom grand(tallest dame of female highimperson- school in It was 1919. Gladys Walton had just atorsthan6 is seeing hera lifehalf portrayed century. in a musical - “That’s See No Lady,”what the currently on stage at Portland State University’s Lincoln Hall. finished up her sophomore year when An88-year-oldNW) exhibit of extravagant costumes is up Darcelle to has now. worn is also on display at the Oregon Historical Society, and a biography written 17 Memoriams her mother took her to Los Angeles to has just been released by longtime friend Donnie Horn, who also visit relatives for the summer. It was a wrote the script for the musical. On top of that, Darcelle was pro- filed in the September Portland Monthly and given a special section in trip that would forever change her life. The $245Oregonian titled, appropriately, million “The Queen of Portland.” expected cost Asked by an uncle if she would be Silent Film Stardom 7 IN THE SPOTLIGHT random numbers - notLooking all Ahead interested in auditioning for the silent • “That’s No Lady” - PSU Lincoln Hall - films, the 16-year-old agreed, and before Gladys Walton acrescloses Oct. left 5. Lincoln for 11.5 • “Many Shades of Being accurateDarcelle: 52 - easy to adjustfor association members Hollywood andYears of Fashion, the 1967 Broadway – 2019” - Oregon stage the summer was over, her movie career Historical Society - exhibit of dresses was underway. for a short but• Darcelle storied - Looking From My career. Mirror - new She also biography - by Donnie with Walter Cole - Here’s what’s in the works for future Soon to be left behind was a high 72 classroomsavailable through Amazon may have had• Darcelle a - Thelong-running Musical - profiled in the affair with September issue of Portland Monthly issues of the alumni magazine - school life that had included time at both gangster Al Capone. Lincoln and Jefferson and swimming at available only to alumni association gymnasiums the Multnomah Club under the coaching Lincoln: A Life-Changing Experience2 By Walter Cole/Darcelle members. Send your suggestions of legendary Jack Cody. I am a proud graduate of Lincoln High of races, sexes, and lifestyles. for what you would like to The start of a life in Hollywood and School, Class of 1950. I had a choice to Did I fit in at the beginning? No, but I Broadway had begun - one that included, attend Lincoln, as most if not all those knew the only place that I 1800personally wasCardinals I knew student the onlyin profileplace capacity lhsaa@lincolnalum. org who lived in Linnton at that time usually 9 going to succeed was going to be Lincoln, according to her son, a 10-year love af- went to Roosevelt. This was a choice that and I do believe attendingThey Lincoln played were “that classmates I personally was and teammates in I am glad I made. a big part in changing my life. A New Era Begins fair with Chicago mobster Al Capone. First, arriving at a new school I had to What I learned throughhigh my four yearsschool. going Readto succeed about was two alums who “I have never understood why they take the bus, which was usually a nine- at Lincoln has carried with me through mile trip. That alone probably should the 10 businesses that I havenow either are trailblazersgoing to be Lincoln... in breaking barriers. Follow construction progress on the new Southwest 18th and Salmon streetsmade looking me a star,” east. she told film biogra- have stopped me from attending. But you started, owned, and/or operated. One and gave me the capacity to respect others see, when I walked in through the doors business most know me from is Darcelle building as ground breaking begins in pher Michael Ankerich many years later. – no matter what walk of life they come of the school, I was greeted by a different XV Showplace.