Bellevue High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bellevue, WA)

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Now we give you iust the kids -the tenth generation of teen-agers to pass to and fro across the foyer floor. Ask the faculty, and no doubt they would say that Bellevue boys and girls, like the foyer, have not changed very much.

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MISS JUNE STARK From cozy fireside with a good book, to the spar- kling cold of ski slopes, is the interest range of Miss Stark, petite iunior English teacher. Though not new to Bellevue District, she is in her first year in the senior high. She plans an extensive Euro- pean trip this summer. lt's safe to say the iuniors would like to tag along. MR. JOHN N. TERREY What's the other maior party besides the Demo- crats? a student innocently asked Mr. Terrey, whose blank look raised another gale of delighted laughter. Between laughs, Mr. Terrey patiently ex- pounds the fundamentals and incidentals of Eng- lish comp and lit to seniors. Out of school, he is famous for impassioned speeches. Sublect? Poli- tics! Of course. He's lrish. MR. ARNOLD TORGERSON The ambition of Mr. Torgerson, attendance officer and scholarship consultant, is to write a book called Excuses of Students Absent From School. Oh, really? says he to the average excuse. As scholarship chairman, however, he works with real- ity, and in his spare time is strictly down to earth with family, fishing and golf. MR. FRED WHITNER Wonder who keeps tab of football and basketball statistics? A math brain, of course, Mr. Whitner, geometry teacher. Brawny, too, he spent a long Saturday nailing the iunior prom together-the pil- lars, that is. A very suitable task it was, since he is a pillar of iunior class affairs. His personal affairs include golf, cameras, spectator sports and wise-cracking. MR. ROBERT C. WHITNEY That Ichabod Crane effect on two wheels is Pro- fessor Whitney coat tails flying as he coasts down- hill for an evening, plotting more challenges for teen-age intellectuals. Alternate years at Yale and Cornell, on scholarships, did not blunt his notions of the proper pedagogy for Bertie Bellevue, aver- age physics quiz kid. He also has classy notions as senior class adviser. MR. WILLIAM L. WICKER The man who waves that little stick down in room l63, and draws such beautiful, inspiring sounds from sundry horns, drums and students is a true music enthusiast-Mr. Wicker. Band, dance band, choir, girls' glee and various other groups keep his baton very limber. Off-hours he likes to quietly fish. MRS. VIRGINIA E. WIEDER Patient, understanding, always ready to help-this aptly describes Mrs. Wieder, girls' adviser and sponsor of the Girls' Club. Besides these duties and supervising the clinic, she teaches soph comp and typing, meanwhile indulging a few dreams of travel in Switzerland and Ireland, where she would try her brush at landscape painting. MR. GLENN O. YOUNG The likes of Mr. Young, typing and P.E. teacher, should endear him to every Bellevue boy and girl- favorite colors BLUE and GOLD, and favorite ani- mal, besides the iumping jackrabbits on the basket- ball team, his mixed-up dog. As basketball coach he pleads daily, in season, one mor-r-re basket, ple-e-se! I9 '-we,

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And here is the very heart of the intellectual life of Bellevue-the library. The light, spaciousroom is new, but the idea is centuries old-that in books one can seek and find wisdom.