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THE STAFF THE BEACON BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL 1952 BELLEVUE WASHINGTON CONTENTS SECTION 'I ADMINISTRATION Superuntendent Pruncupal Faculty Assocuated Student Body Board of Control Boys Club Gurls Club SECTION 2 CLASSES Senuors Junuors Sophomores Freshmen SECTION 3 ENTERTAINMENT Varuety Show All School Play Senuor Play Band and Chorus Mauorettes Dance Commuttees SECTION 4 ATHLETICS Basketball Baseball Track Skuung Tennus Gurls Sports SECTION 5 CLUBS Wolverune Guard Loyalty Club Lettermen s Club Gurls Athletuc Assocuatlon Honor Socuety Dustrubutuve Educatuon Pep Club Druvers Councul Debate Scuence Club Spanush Club Lubraruans Offuce Practuce Offuce Gurls Barque Beacon FOREWORD When the funal bell of the day rungs Bellevue Hugh School students scramble to theur lockers then out the wude front doors to be off to theur after school actuvutues Two of the crowd a boy and a gurl set off to ward the curvung druve that leads to the busy hughway below the hull The gurl turns and walks backwards gazung at the school un uts settung of tall furs Suddenly she stops and remarks Its a gorgeous sught usnt ut? What us? asks the boy haltung besude her Oh our buuldung and uts settung she replues Do you thunk that spendung our hugh school days un such a beautuful place wull make us remember and apprecuate them that much longer? Why of course says the boy I know Ill always be proud to have gone to Bellevue A school luke that us somethung to remember And when we get the new gym ut wull be perfect Her eyes scannung the length of the buuldung the gurl says What do you luke best un the buuld ung the way ut us now? I luke the balcony and the entrance hall wuth the trophy case Whats your chouce? Thats not hard to answer' replues the boy I thunk youll agree that uf ut werent for the tower much of the buuldungs modern beauty would be unexpressed Theres somethung about that tower that seems so free and clean luftung our thoughts up hugher Oh yes' I know lust what you mean' says the gurl I was up on top of the tower once and I could see all over Seeung the lake the trees and the snow capped mountauns made me realuze what thus beaututul land of ours should mean to us all You know the tower us almost a symbol of freedom Its a sort of beacon callung us to come and grow strong and tall un the securuty of uts strength and tallness Thats what ut us exactly de lares the boy A BEACON' After a long last look at the tower r sung ruddy and mauestuc un the warm lught of afternoon the boy and the gurl turn to go down the wundung druve both busy wuth thoughts and aspuratuons Edutor NANCY SMITH Assocuate Edutor MARY MOSSOP Busuness Manager JEREMY ANDERSON for the future MARCIA WHITNEY I I 3 - . I . g A . . I . . g 5 , , 6 - . .. A ' uo . 11 . '. ' ' ' 4 12 . . . ' ' 4 A A 13 . ' . . . , ' I 11 1 ' I I 28 ' ' i V 37 ,, I . . . . l,, . . I 40 ,, . . . , M . . . . 42 ' - It 43 ,, ,, ,, , 44 ' ' ' - I 45 . . . ' ' 46 . . ' ,, , 47 . ' . . Football 50 . ,, . . . ' 52 . '. . . ' 54 1 - I 55 ' - 56 ' 57 f ' . ' 1 58 ,, . , . . 1 , 61 , ' ' ' - 62 . ' ' 62 , ' ' f 63 ' . , . . . 63 H U H . 64 ', H . . . - . . I 1 I 66 ' . ' . ' l I I . - . 67 U ' 67 . , ' 68 . ' ' . Q ' ' . . 69 . ' ' 69 ,, , . . ,, , 70 ,, ,, ' ' ' 71 ' U H
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MR FRANK ODLE Mathematucs Teacher DEDICATION ln the year 1918 when Mr Frank Odle now dean of mathematucs teachers came to Bellevue Dustruct neuther he nor anyone else dreamed that some day he would be teachung un a beautuful buuldung on top of a hugh hull lookung west across Lake Washungton to the far Olympuc Mountauns All those years ago thurty four to be exact many thungs were dufferent So remunusces Mr Odle recallung tumes gone by as he gazes out the wude wundows of room 204 westward to ward the snow clad peaks You take thus buuldung for example Thus us certaunly a change from what we had un 1918 Then we had hugh school un part of what us now the V F W hall There were fufteen hugh school pupuls un grades nune and ten and they had to share the school wuth grades fuve to eught The furst four grades were un a shack behund the hall We dudnt have a four year hugh school tull 1923 and our furst graduatung class un 1924 had three students un ut Almost everythung was dufferent then except human nature 2 In those days Mr Odle was dustruct superun tendent but he has been far more than that He has been teacher of the scuences mathematucs and Latun and even gurls basketball coach For ten years the Bellevue gurls basketball squad took one champuonshup after another un unter scholastuc competutuon It travelled as far as Oak Harbor and Skykomush defeatung all opposutuon even the Seattle teams ln stull another fueld the theater Mr Odle has the durectorshup of a couple of dozen plays on hus record For ten years he served as funancual head of the Bellevue student Today as an outstandung mathematucs teacher and advuser of the Torch Honor Socuety Mr Odle us a fruend to all hus students He us a furm but kundly duscuplunaruan loved and respected by all un hus classes In deep apprecuatuon to a man who has de voted over a thurd of a century to helpung Bellevue Hugh School students achueve hugher udeals of scholarshup and conduct thus 1952 BEACON respectfully deducated to Mr Frank Odle . ' I , . , . , . . . r 1 ' - - 1 . . . , . 1 - 1 ll - ' ' I - I . . . . H . . ' ' . . 1 - I I ' s . ' I I - . . ' bod . ,, . . . . . Y , . . . . . I I . . . 1 - Q . 1 I . . . , I s . . , . . ' ' I I I . . . . . I IS I1 ' , . . .
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