Bellevue High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bellevue, WA)

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PRINCIPAL S MESSAGE Sometumes you hear ut remarked that hugh school us a preparatuon for lufe Thus us a true statement but ut seems to me that hugh school us much more than lust a gettung ready for what us to come later In my opunuon hugh school us an umportant segment of lufe utself What years of a person s career are rucher un actuvuty un growth un enloyment7 As I see ut student centers practucally all hrs actuvutues around hus school he us not only preparung for hus career after graduatuon he us experuencung hus present portuon of exustence wuth keen untensuty He us probably workung and playung as hard as he ever wull un all hus Iufe That us why the hugh school structure utself us so sugnufucant The buuldung and uts settung are the physucal nucleus of a student s present partucupa tuon un experuence Consuder Bellevue Hugh Schcol s buuldung for a moment Insude uts walls and close outsude them MR HAROLD HEIDENREICH Pruncupal on the campus and un the staduum throb the vug orous luves of over fuve hundred teen agers A buuldung servung as the center for that much un tense luvung should be what Bellevues clean cut sturdy representatuon of youth utself Its Iunes should be what Bellevues Iunes are staunch and sumple Its colors should be Belle vues colors warm and uncomplucated But there us more to youth than vugor and modernuty There us a strong straun of Idea usm a struvung of the growung spurut toward lofty heughts often dumly seen but suncerely yearned for Here at Bellevue Hugh School we have an um pressuve symbol of thus upward struvung he tower a strong cleanly modeled funger of ma sonry pountung toward the sky gesturung for our hearts and munds to follow uts durectuon upward As for myself I am grateful that I have had the pruvulege of servung Bellevue s young people un a beautuful settung from whuch I have been able to draw a very real unspuratuon MR HEIDENREICH 5 I I I . . I . - . . 1, . - ' 1 1 s ll I ' I . - ' us - a I - I . . ' . . . . h I I . - . , ' . - . . . . . I , , . . . . I . I . . ' .I 1 . ' . it I none. During the years of adolescence, when a - - - - - - 1 v n p I I I Q 1 . . . . . . ' ' ' ' -1 ' ' I I ' s Q 1 I I - I , I t Q . . . , . . . , . . I I I ,

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MR ROY THORDARSON Superuntendent SUPERINTENDENT S MESSAGE If you were to look up the word beacon un the ductuonary you mught fund as one of uts mean ungs a devuce for warnung of danger That us the unterpretatuon of the words un the expressuon beacon lught used wuth reference to a lught house Such a defunutuon however does not have much sugnufucance for us un connectuon wuth the present topuc of duscussuon namely Bel evue Hugh Schools present yearbook the 1952 BEACON There us very luttle un common between thus cheer ful volume of happy memorues and a warnung of grum danger So we must go back to the ductuon ary for another explanatuon of the word bea con And there we fund sumply the expressuon a sugnal Now to see how thus applues to the Bellevue annual It furst occurs to me that un after years when a student comes upon hus hugh school annuals un the bottom of hus cedar chest or on the top shelf of the bookcase thus volume wuth uts golden word BEACON shunung from the cover may then serve 4 as a beacon utself callung the unduvudual to return un memory to Bellevue Hugh School Then for a luttle whule perhaps the man or woman who was once a boy or gurl treadung the halls of Bellevue may fund humself agaun un that famulnar place perhaps wuth the half forgotten odor of chalk dust un hus nostruls and the clatter of class bells un hus ears Perhaps thus book bearung on uts cover the photograph of Bellevue s tower wull serve as a beacon or remunder that from the heught of that lofty edufuce the boy or gurl once looked out across a magnuficent vuew of water and mountauns And perhaps the unduvuclual wull feel agaun hus youth ful wonder at the breadth and beauty of the world s horuzons No one can preduct how brughtly thus ussue of Bellevue s yearbook may serve as a sugnal now un thus year of 1952 or un the years to come It us my suncere hope that thus BEACON may have good fortune un flashung forth uts message MR THORDARSON l l . ' 1 I . . . . . 1 11 11 - - . . . . . - , , I . . - 11 - - 11 - , ' ' . . . . . . . . . . I ,, . ,, . . - 1 1 ' 1 1 . . . ' . , . 1 1 1 1 , . . , . ' 1 ' 11 ,, . . . I 1 . , - 11 . 11 - - . , . . . 1 , . . . . . . . 1 - 1 , .

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THE FACULTY MI SS JOAN CAMPBELL Luttle Muss Campbell us new un these parts Teachung language and communuty arts She swums and cycles and rudes on shups Defends women druvers and dotes on trups Fruends call her Jo where she went to the And ate her way out through fudge sundae goo MR HAL CHAPMAN Coach Chaoman us a P E prof who prexues health as well He fishes when he gets a chance and thunks football as swell He came to us from Oregon ls marrued ha one chuld Hus pet peeve cant you guess ut? Mussed blocks druve hum wuldl MR ROBERT CROWN Dustrubutuve Educatuon says Mr Robert Crown ls the most practucal subuect that ever came to town Hus D E and typung classes are always on the ball But Mr Crown goes huntung to escape and forget ut all Enchaladas are hus dream of food we all should eat And hus lovely harsey necktues are the kund that cant be beat MRS MARTHA DAVIDSON MI MI Thus energetuc lady works wuth so much zest We sometnmes wush she d get her wush whuch us a day of rest She has the uob of teachung French In whuch the pleasures vary And then to top thus Frenchue fare she heads our dear lubrary SS ELINOR EDWARDS Thus lukable character sometumes called Eddue Develops reporters and gets em all ready She loves to rude horseback and goes for the west Of books by the bulluon buagraphys best To wrute a best seller us Eddue s ambutuon Sa she teaches Englush and keeps on a wushun SS PATRICIA FOSTER Thus lubrary lady comes and goes luggung tons of books She hunts antiques and tells them by theur scent and feel and looks She has a poodle favors mauve lukes cherry tarts to eat Defies frustratuon loves to roam and study what you meet MRS VIOLET GUSTIN MI fe Cl Thus lady came from yonder to teach lunuar Eng ush he And though new to the halls of Bellevue shes made thus year Chocolate marshma law sundae us her ace hugh dush Her favarute fun us dancung and she often gets her wush SS JUDY HAGEBAK Thus Iuvely addutuon to the gang teaches Englush Ten Enloys browsung through the fruuts of any worthwhule pen She hauls from far Wusconsun where she went to Wuscan s U And says she lukes all colors un the dufferent shades of blue MR ARTHUR HAINES MI Thus master of the mucroscope can make a student see The very great umportance of buology He lukes to teach the sublect but sometumes feels the wush That unstead of dussectung worms un the lab He could use them all to flsh SS JOYCE HAMILTON Our dear La Ham us the home ec teacher When you re un a stew you can always reach her favarute trup us ta any place new favorute color us skues of blue can hold her own un a fruenclly clucker says her pet peeve us a brawl or bucker Her Her e ut 6 - 11 If A luuluf ' , s ' , , , - . - tu - tu ' , f . . . , - ' I H - 1 ll ' 4. I 7 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 - . . . I. I ' , hut Sh ' ' ' , B ' ' .