Ballard High School - Shingle Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Three decades, with two generations of students, find Ballard's auditorium just about the same, However, the costumes of its occupants have changed from black stockings, dresses, and suits. to bobby socks, skirts, sweaters, and cords. ALBIN CARLSON, Custodian-Rfb members taking out his 'LMerry Olds- mobile for a picnic by the side of a nice lake or a roaring mountain stream. BESS BENHAM, Study Hall-Has al- ways liked our fine, well-organized sf-hool, its helpful favulty, and friendly students. GRACE PETERSON, Study Hall-Was too young during the uroar- ing twenties to remember much about them. f l BENHAM M'

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uv... SL, ww.:-N '75-I-Qu I3 Q-.an-uf. Q-'-GIU.4, 1, WM. KATHERINE OLSEN, English-Our genial Shingle adviser, when asked about what she was doing thirty years ago, replied: 'gl was a green freshie in grade school at that time, and canit recall anything special except the usual 'shenanigans'.', AGNES ARNOLD, English-Was a bad little girly when she attended Ballard as a student. She tells of skipping history class with ten other girls and hiking to Woodland Park to scare the ostriches by flapping umbrellas at them. VERA NICHOLSON, English- Doesn't think the uroaring twenties were as uroaringn as the Mfortiesn are now. MARY BLANCHARD, English-Thinks the kids get nicer every year. fls she kid- ding?l OLGA SNODCRASS, English-While Ballard was in its infancy, she was busy traveling around the United States to satisfy her Nwanderlustf' GLADYS WILSON, English-The faculty and students seem just as wonderful to her now as when she first came to Ballard. DOROTHY COULTER, Englishmlflecalls with many happy memories the days of ankle-length skirts, modelfl' Fords, and ucootie garage hair do's. MAUDE STRONACH, English-Remembers the long skirts that women wore when she went to college, and that there were no women drivers in those days. IRVA KNUPPENBURG, English4Tells of the days when she took the street car to dances carrying a slipper bag.