North Kitsap High School - Viking Yearbook (Poulsbo, WA)

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055 P019 QC? Early in the summer of 1958, deciding that we needed a. rest very badly, my able assistant and I thought that a dude ranch would be just the place. A recent travelogue mentioned the Lazy NK Dude Ranch as the ideal place for rest, relaxa- tion, and recreation. It is the most talked about ranch in the country. As we entered the ground, we encountered Donald Hegland riding one of the mules from his mule farm. He informed us that the North Kitsap class of '48 was having a reunion at the ranch at this time. Strolling around the ranch house, we were very much surprised to see Dave McClelland lying in the mud at the back of the house twisting pipes. It seems that Dave is still a plumber's apprentice. Walking a little farther from the house we came upon a corral. Anne Cadwell was busy busting a broncho. She does this for a living and finds the work very enjoy- able. She stopped to talk to us for a few minutes to tell us about the occupations of several other class members. Keith Pickerell is resting here after a year's hard work. He is now the owner of a long chain of grocery stores. He started off on a shoestring, you know the sold them on the streets of Indianolaj. Bob Dahlquist and Bill Salo are nationally known chemists. Bill is trying to perfect a method of making use of atomic power in his Model T. Bob is experimenting with a new type of plaster cast. Jack Minert has founded a home for big brothers in conjunction with his huckleberry farm to protect them from their little sisters. Traveling on, we had the good fortune to meet Dave Baker, the famous Olympic Track and Field coach. He told us that Carmen Hansen and Joyce Young had given up piano in favor of a less strenuous occupation. They are now teaching chemistry. George Van Horn and Violet Soderberg are married. George is the star of the New York Yankees and Violet keeps busy traveling from town to town to see the games. Ken Maki has just returned from Paris. He is going to start teaching school this year. Harold Brenner was recently elected to the office of Mayor of Port Gamble. We were simply astounded to hear that Dean fBonesJ Antonson is one of the top tap dancers in Hollywood. Gene Kelly is his understudy. Just as we left Dean, we ran right into Ernie Knudson, who is now the owner of the Frazier Automobile Company. He let us in on the scoop about the Rover Boys. Smiling Byron Hughes is a happy used car dealer. Allan Fredrickson'has taken over the Olympic Foods in Poulsbo. They still get together now and again. The dinner bell rang at that time so we hurried back to the ranch house. We met nearly all the former members of the class of '48 in the dining room. I was especially tempted to eavesdrop when I saw Mary Ellen Wilkins, Bob Bridges, Maxine Manville, LeRoy Watland, Ina Peck, and Gerald Howe talking in low tones in the corner. I imagine they are talking over their plans for a Motel for Newlyweds. These three couples took the big step just last year. Joining the ranks of Housewives, Inc., are Shirley Burton and Shirley Gervais. These two couldn't bear the thought of being separated, so they have bought a delightful duplex so they can see each other as often as before. Martin Lund, the owner of the ranch, and his assistant, Mike Kostic, entered the dining room and began renewing old friendships with Sidsel Guldjord, an Occupational Therapist, Muriel Armstrong and Mildred Toplinski, who are regis- tered nurses. Doreen Harvey has also entered the field of medicine. She is now a surgeon. Speaking of medicine, Don Vondersmith, the famous ski instructor, just arrived in an ambulance. He broke his leg and is here for a rest. Peeking over Don's cast, we see Bob Dennis and Adoree Wilken, president and vice-president, respectively, of Alcoholics Anonymous, discussing Bob's new Broad- way hit, Musical Revues. He is also an amateur producer. Not wishing to eavesdrop, we strolled down to the bunk house and who do we see but Bev Morgan, the nation- ally known snake charmer of Ringling Brothers Circus. Bev's collection of snakes seems to interest Walter Hill, a barker for the same circus, and Agnes Frieboth, a

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Shirley Burton and Shirley Gervais leave together. Ugh! Marguirite Deford and Bonnie Faler left with rings on their fingers. Wedding rings, that is. Muriel Armstrong is leaving her old candy wrappers in the candy store. Mildred Topolinski wills her last name to any Norwegian who is tired of his. Mike Kostic bequeaths his football pants to Em Fullerton. Tight fit???? Rose Marie Alexis leaves, willing her habit of being tardy and also, all her dis- abilities to anyone who is crazy enough to continue them on as well as she has! Dean Antonsen wills his ability to miss the basket to Bob Hansen and his ability to strike out to Richard Johnson. Don Vondersmith bestows his ability to throw the shot-put 20 feet to Bob Jorgenson. Baskey, Coon, Bones, George, and Ernie, Inc., leave behind Bob Hansen, Tom Mariner, Wally Naslund, and Har Svare to carry on the Rover Boys' name. Lorraine Hansen wills her position as President of the Golden Spear to any future senior in the club who likes to do lots of running. Paul King bequeaths to any boy in the junior class his ability to come in last in track. Gabe Howe left Ina Peck at mid-term to finish four and a half months alone. Ina Peck leaves to join Gabe. Joyce Young and LeRoy Watland will their Chocletto box to two deserving juniors fBarbara Black and Janet Brooke?J with which to sneak ice cream bars into the library. Birdie Cheetham leaves nothing iexcept Harl. Everything else she's taking with her. Ronnie Teed leaves with the regret that Mr. Newberry is going to be heart- broken to see him leave???? Laura Lee Teeling bestows her brilliant C?J theories in Sr. Home Ec. to some shy girl who is afraid to say what she thinks. Carmen Hansen turns over her job as accompanist on the piano for every occa- sion to Maureen Falkner. Betty Jean Mobley relinquishes her Remington typewriter to anyone who has the patience to put up with it. Veldyne Junell wills her little blue Ford and all the fun the gang has had in it to some deserving future senior girl. Sylvia Olsen hands over her job as editor of the annual to Barbara Black. Her other miscellaneous tasks she leaves to some unfortunate soul, who we hope can do as good a job as she has done in her high school years. Walter Hill presents his chemistry set and broken test tubes to some other sucker who takes chemistry out of pure curiosity, like he did. Maxine Manville leaves with one leg 115 inch shorter than the other? Byron Hughes wills his ability to drive a car to the next group of Drivers' Train- ing students. Dave McClelland leaves his bloody nose to Marshall Brenner. Martin Lund bequeaths his job as Disk Jockey to anyone who appreciated Nellie Lutcher's Hurry On Down. Dave Baker leaves Lil, but he'll be back. George Van Horn leaves a crop of five sisters to carry on the name of Van Horn. Ken Maki wills his position on the football team to Tom Mariner in the hope that he will make lots of touchdowns. Bev Pearson, Muriel Turner, Bev Morgan, Celia Nelson, Inc., leave together, hoping that they have set an example for all future school skippers. Harold Brenner wills his post' 'in the Fire 8: Safety to Ann Buster Robin. Doreen Harvey leaves her pink slips fpaper, that isj to any one who likes to sleep in in the morning. Donald Hegland leaves his quiet ways to Bob Hoagland. Ed Sinclair just leaves with his sister! Gilly Francklyn wills his body building weights to Ramie Paulson. June Johnson wills her month in the stock room to Joy Lytle so she'll be sure and get stuck there next year. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we of this class, hereby affix our seal on this docu- ment this twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight. Martin Lund ............. ........ George Van Horn ....... Carmen Hansen ........ Arlene Stanley ..... LeRoy Watland ...... .............. Jack Minert ......... Joyce Young .,.... SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ..........President.......... .......Secretary......... .....,.Treasurer...... Boys' Representative Girls! Representative ....... .Editor ........,........ . ........Dave Baker ...Muriel Turner ......V1ce-President....... .,.....Carmen Hansen Beverly Pearson ......Joyce Young .......Jack Minert ...Joanne Gibson

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baton twirler with the circus band, Agnes has a cast on her hand. It seems she tried to twirl a fence rail. The man with the dark glasses and bottle of sleeping pills is Martin Stretch Schumacker. He wanted to be a chemist with a daytime job so he could sleep nights. He is a night watchman at Oak Ridge Atomic Bomb Plant. Walking around the corner of the bunkhouse we tripped over Milton Briggs, President of the University of Washington, now that he has relinquishedhis editor- ship of the New York Times, and Marty Adams, who has taken over Mr. Rosvold's place in the Science Department of NKHS. They are shooting dice with Ron Teed, who is teaching grade school math in the new Suquamish grade school, which cost 8 million dollars. June Johnson, who teaches Drivers Training at NK, holds the bets. Picking ourselves up we are nearly run down again by a herd of 20 steers, all marching in perfect step and being commanded by Bill Green, who has joined the army, and George Mariner, sergeant in the Foreign Legion on leave from Arabia. Seeking a quiet refuge, we dash for the cook shack and break into the middle of a conversation between Joanne Gibson, head dress designer for Warner Brothers fthe one who married the 7'6 basketball playerl, and Bonnie Faler and Marguerite Deford. The latter two are very capable housewives. Backing out apologetically, we stepped on Jack Stone, head floor walker at the Rosalie Shop in Poulsbo. After helping Jack put his arch supports on, we ran over to the barn, listening to the music all the way. It's Shirley Frkyholm, Marilyn Olsen, and Carol Lovos, co-owners of Perl Maurer's Pavilion, giving an audition to Celia Nelson and Sylvia Olsen, the well-known song and dance team who have just com- pleted a 27-week run at Earl Carroll's. Glancing out the door we notice Bill Jewel sliding down a haystack on his draw- ing board. He is one of the nation's top flight artists. Running out to join the fun we see Fred Walker, ranch foreman, and four of his cowhands, Ceil Ward, Earl Phillips, Frank Ward and Ed Sinclair, all sliding down the other side of the stack. Not wanting to look conspicuous, we decided to leave the fun and go investi- gate the crowd of people watching Gilly Francklyn, the world record holder in weight lifting, lift the horse over the corral fence. The necessity of this, we fail to see, but it seemed to interest Mardelle Sinclair, owner of the Ford Automobile Industry, Rose Marie Alexis, head of the Back to the Model T's Society, and Maxine Brockman, Agriculture teacher at NK. With our backs aching from watching, we struggled on to the horse trough just in time to see Roland Baskins, game warden at Harding Creek, throwing Bev Pearson, Olympic swim champ, into the water. Roland doesn't believe she can swim. Passing on we came upon Muriel Turner and Arlene Stanley, famous cheer leaders at Yale Cmen's collegel, running through the NK school song. Plugging our ears we dashed around the corner right into the middle of plans being laid by June Whitfordpfamous wild animal trainer, Florence Halvorsen, national women's speed boat champ, Lorraine Hansen, lady wrestler and inventor of the Hansen's Strangle- hold for Men, and Laura Lee Teeling, head of the Truck Farmers' Union, all laying plans to get dates with four of the ranch hands. Running for our lives, we spotted Bernice Cheetham, bubble-gum queen of '58, Solveig Jacobsen, winner of the Indianapolis Speedway Race of '58, and Marilynn Myreboe, head of the Myreboe for President League, all gathered around the pasture gate singing, I Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You, while they tarred and feathered Wesley Hubbard, the ranch blacksmith. As we back off quietly, we just missed being run down by Veldyne Junell, inventor of fenders that spring back after they have been smashed, riding backwards on a steer because she wanted to see where she had been. As we left Veldyine to her own fate we fell into step with Betty Jean Mobley and Mary Ellen Holcomb, partners in a 525,000,000 cafeteria and store at North Kitsap High. They told us that Lois King has taken up logging and is now the owner of the Pope and Talbot Co. Betty Jean also gave us the lowdown on Delores Ross, President of the Silence Is Golden Society, who had joined Alberta Passenger, chairman of the We Want Tall, Dark, Handsome Men clan. They are combining their talents to find a tall, dark, handsome, silent man. Being the noisy rowdies that we are, we passed on to our yellow NK school bus. As we left the ground we met Joe Rettig, Paul King, and Loren Hansen, all well- known for their mixture called Kickapoo Joy Juice. Watching the green boiling liquid eat the metal hoops, we took leave of the Lazy NK Ranch, reunion and all. Ever thankful that we escaped with our lives. A tear rolls down our cheeks, as we bid fond farewell and leave the class of '48 to fate and the future.