Bellingham High School - Shuksan Yearbook (Bellingham, WA)

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January hit its traditional low point on the calendar ot events. Talented ones sweated over operetta tryouts. Crutches were fashionable as Mt. Baker became a haven from boredom. Many grew tanned skimming its fast slopes, and other dreamed of tanning in Palm Springs JERRY JOHNSONfBand. JOHN JOHNSON-Key Club: Raider Club: Football C2 yearsl: Track C3 yearsl: Student Council. Ambition: College. LILLIAN CHRISTINE JOHNSONQY-Teens: Friendship Club. Ambi- tion: Get a good job and buy the things I want. DORIS ANN JONES-Pep Club, Drill Team. Ambition: Be a sec- retary and live in Hawaii. ELI JONESHUshers Club C2 yearsj: B Club C2 yearsj: Girls' Club, Vice President: What-A-Sho: Band C3 yearsl. Ambition: Tour Europe on a bike, SIDSEL JORGENSEN-Office, Secretary: Girls' Club. Ambition: Go to Arizona. PAT JUKES-Executive Board, Junior Representative: Ushers Club: What-A-Sho, General Committee: Torch Club: Senior Play, Lead. Ambition: Medical technician. THOMAS E. KEARNEY-Intramural Basketball. Ambition: Buy a car. GAYLE WILSON-Swim Team Turnout: What-A-Sho: Boys' Club Assembly. Ambition: Get a good job. DAVID KLINGENSMITHAGamma Hi-Y. Ambition: Become an ace mechanic. JOANNE KNAPMAN-Friendship Club, Vice President, President: Torch Club, Secretary: Student Council, C3 semestersl: Girls' Club Council and Cabinet: Spanish Club, Vice President. Ambi- tion: Buy and live on my own island. DOROTHY KNOTT-Shuksan Editorial Staff: Beacon Ad Staff C'53l: Girl's Club Council C'53l: Secretarial Committee: Class As- sembly C'53J: Ambition: Become a teacher and go to Florida to live. DICK KNOX-Radio Club, President: Chess Club: Tennis Letter- man. Ambition: Christian service. EVELYN ANN KOTAR-Torch Club C2 yearsl: Make-up Corps: Shuksan Editorial Staff, Class Editor: Beacon Editorial Staff: Spelling Contest C'53J. Ambition: Get through college and travel to Hawaii. BRUCE KULANDER-Torch Club: Orchestra: Band. Ambition: Bet- ter understanding of other people. YVONNE FRANCES LA BELLE-Girls' Club Council: Art Club C2 yearsl. Ambition: College. RON LA FRENIERE-Boys' Club. Ambition: Get my driver's license. ROBERTA LA PLANTE-Chorus: What-A-Sho: Ping Pong: Christ- mas Pageant. Ambition: Marriage. CHUCK LAPPENBUSCH, JR-Football C3 yearsl: Executive Board: Raider Club, President: Senior Class President: Beta Hi-Y. Ambi- tion: Doctor of Medicine. MARGARET LARSON-A.S.B. Secretary: Basketball Queen C'54D: Pep Club, Drill Team Lieutenant: Stage Crew C3 yearsj: Song Leader Queen. Ambition: Anesthetist. GEORGIE LEE-Pep Club C2 yearsl: What-A-Sho C3 yearsl: Operetta C3 yearst: Torch Club C2 yearsl: Girls' Club Council. Ambition: Pediatrician. DAVE LEONARD-Future Farmers of America C2 yearsl, Reporter. Ambition: Retire at thirty-five. DON LEONARD-Future Farmers of America C'52J. Ambition: Bum. H. VICTOR LEVERETT, JR.-Shuksan, Editor-in-Chief: Starlite Revue, Co-Director: Beacon Editorial Staff, Executive Editor: Operetta, Student Director C'54, '55J: What-A-Sho, Student Director. Am- bition: Producer of musical comedies. ALLAN LEWIS-Alpha Hi-Y C2 yearsl: Ski Club C3 yearsl: Bowling Club. Ambition: Work in styling department of General Motors. GARY C. LIND-Drum Major C2 yearsl: Operetta C3 yearsl: Chorus C2 yearsl: What-A-Sho C3 yearsl: Gamma Hi-Y, Ambition: Obtain my Ph. D. in music education. ED LINDEMAN-Raider Club C2 yearsl: Golf C2 yearsl: Alpha Hi-Y C2 yearsl. Ambition: Make it through four years of college. SHIRLEY MAE LINN-First Period Chorus C2 yearsl: Distributive Education Club: Make-up Corps: What-A-Sho C2 yearsl: Christ- mas Pageant C2 yearsj. Ambition: Marry and move to California. 27 or skimming the surf at Bali. Morale hit a new low, and studiousness zoomed when end-of-the-semester tests ar- rived. Ropes of gaudy beads were the rage for the girls, and still it didn't snow. i D

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With December arrived the king of sports at BHS- basketball. On December 23 the Pep club received a Technical foul for yelling too loud, but it was soon for- gotten in the rush of Christmas shopping. The tolo was '- '-i-' llf fi' .gi ' ffi? 1 called White Christmas, and the weatherman tried to cooperate with a December 25 conglomeration of snow and rain, but the slushy mess we tramped through that night would have made Irving Berlin whirl in his grave. BYRON HANSON-Band: Intramural Baseball: Intramural Basket- ball. Ambition: Become a constructional engineer and go to South America. CHARLES HARDWICKmOrchestra, What-A-Sho K3 yearst: Operetta K3 yearsj: Alpha Hi-Y, Secretary: Christmas Pageant K3 yearst. Ambition: Musician. HOLLY HARMER-What-A-Sho K2 yearsl: Ski Club K3 yearsl: Operetta: Ushers Club K2 yearsl: Band. Ambition: A social butterfly. KENNETH HATCH-Gamma Hi-Y. Ambition: Make SlO0,000 a year. CONNIE HAVERKAMP-Sophomore Assembly: Bowling Club: Y- Teens: Manners Assembly. Ambition: Graduate from college. RON HAWLEY-Sophomore Assembly. Ambition: Make a career of the marines. VIRGINIA HAWLEYePep Club: What-A-Sho K3 yearsl: Senior Play, Student Director: Torch Club: Shuksan Business Staff. Ambition: Have a house full of kids, kindness, laughter, and love. WARREN HAYES-Track K3 yearsl: Senior Class Play: Stage Crew: Gamma Hi-Y: Intramural Football. Ambition: Military service. SHIRLEY HEAVILIN-Orchestra K3 yearsl: Chorus K2 yearsl: Christ- mas Pageant K2 yearsl: What-A-Sho K2 yearsj. Ambition: Travel. DICK HEMPLERASki Club K3 yearsl: Swimming Team. Ambition: College. NOMA JEAN HENEFIN-What-A-Sho: Class Assembly K2 yearsl: Distributive Education Club. Ambition: Live, love, be happy, and learn how to iitterbug. GEORGE HERNANDIS-Transferred from California. What-A-Sho: Senior Assembly: Student Council, President. GAYLE MARIE HILL-Band K3 yearsl: Ski Club K3 yearsl: What-A-Sho K2 yearsl: Ambition: College. CAROL MARIE HOLDING-Pep Club, Drill Team: Y-Teens Cabinet K2 yearsj: What-A-Sho K'53l: Beacon Editorial Staff. Ambition: Go to Long Beach, California. JUDITH LEAH DAYTON-Distributive Education Club: Cafeteria. Ambition: Travel around the world. DOLORES HAYES-Chorus: Cafeteria. VELMA HOPCROFT-Beacon Staff, Co-Business Manager: Pep Club: What-A-Sho: Beacon Editorial Staff: Girls' Club Council. Ambi- tion: Undertaker. BARBARA BOYD-Chorus. Ambition: Receptionist. BILL HOWE-Intramural Basketball K'52l. Ambition: Singer. BOB HOYER-Future Farmers of America K3 yearsl: Intramural Foot- ball, Basketball, and Volleyball K2 yearsj. Ambition: Drive a new pickup. PEGGY HOYT-Pep Club, Drill Team K2 yearsl: Friendship Club, Secretary K2 yearsl: Student Council, K2 yearsl: Girls' Club Coun- cil K2 yearsl: Secretarial Committee. Ambition: Be a sophomore again at B.H.S. RONNIE JENSEN-Boys' Club. Ambition: Twenty years in the navy. MARLENE JEPPERSON-Pep Club, President, Secretary, and Drill Team: Torch Club, Secretary K2 yearsl: Girls' Club Cabinet: Student Council: Social Committee. Ambition: College. PEGGY JEAN JEPPERSON-Girls' Club President: Ushers' Club: Y-Teens Cabinet: What-A-Sho, Program Chairman: Sophomore Assembly. Ambition: Secretary. MARILYN JEAN JOACHIM-Tomahawk Cabinet K2 yearsb: Starlite Revue K2 yearst: Beacon Ad Staff K'53D: Beacon Business Staff K2 yearsj: Secretarial Committee. Ambition: Personnel work. BETTY ZANE JOHNSON-What-A-Sho K3 yearsl: Y-Teens K3 years: Advanced Chorus K2 yearst: Operetta K2 yearsl: Class Assemblies. Ambition: Like college as well as B.H.S. DAN JOHNSON-Football K2 years: Alpha Hi-Y K3 yearsl: Raider Club: What-A-Sho: Band. Ambition: Pilot a space ship to the moon. GEORGE E. JOHNSON-Future Farmers of America, Reporter, State Delegate, President. Ambition: Be introduced to Marilyn Monroe. 26

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February arrived, and we were in the home stretch of '54-'55. Donna Walton and John Morgan dueted ro- mantically in the Star-Lite Revue until the second chorus, when the pale pink snow falling on the stage became a tissue-paper avalanche and they were nearly buried. 28 MARLENE MAE LITTLE-Pep Club, Vice President, Drill Team, Art Club. Ambition: Get a good paying iob and save money for my future home. LESTER GREEN-Boys' Club. Ambition: Auto parts salesman. RICHARD LOVAAS-Football Manager C2 yearsb, Raider Club, Projector Squad. Ambition: Own a channeled '54 Cadillac with a full house engine. PATRICIA LOVE-Torch Club C2 yearsl. Ambition: Become a top grade secretary. SHIRLEY LUCIEReMake-up Corps, Pep Club, Class Assemblies, Friendship Club, What-A-Sho. Ambition: Get a good job then take a trip to Hawaii. FRED LUDTKE-Basketball C3 yearsj, Boys' Club Secretary, What- A-Sho, Co-Manager, Golf Team C2 yearsl, Key Club. Ambition: Architecture. BARBARA JEAN MC ALLISTER-Girls' Club Council, Beacon Ad Staff, Beacon Editorial Staff, Reporter, Bowling Club, Art Club C2 yearsj. Ambition: Professional artist. LA DONNA MCCLELLAN-Class Assemblies C2 years, Y-Teens, Tomahawk Decoration Committee, Library Secretary. Ambition: Secretary. JAMES MC CLELLANDARadio Crew, Co-Chief, Gamma Hi-Y, Presi- dent, Sophomore Basketball Manager. Ambition: Engineer, KATHY ANN MC ELHOLM-What-A-Sho, Pep Club, Drill Team, Distributive Education Club, Social Committee, Chairman, Ambi- tion: Be a stowaway on a rocket ship to Mars. ANITA MC FARLANDvWhat-A-Sho C2 yearsj, Starlite Revue C2 yearsl, Junior Assembly. Ambition: Work in a law office. ARNOLD MC GINNIS-Student Council, Baseball C3 yearsj, Intra- mural Basketball. Ambition: Beachcomber. ARDRA RAYE MC KINNON-Chorus C2 yearsi, Ticket Squad C2 yearsl. Ambition: Graduate and meet Liberace's brother. KATHLEEN MACMILLAN-What-A-Sho C3 yearsl, Operetta C2 yearsl, Chorus C3 yearst. Ambition: Doctor's receptionist. CLIFFORD MALLORY-Boys' Club. KEN MANEVAL-Key Club, Intramural Football, Intramural Basket- ball, Intramural Baseball, Assemblies C2 yearsl. Ambition: Serve my two years in the service. GENE MARCH-Proiector Squad. LUCILLE MARIE MARIOTTO-B Club C2 yearsj, Beacon Ad Staff C2 yearsi, Social Committee, Latin Club C2 yearsl, What-A-Sho C'53l. Ambition: I'Il never tell. ED B. MARSH-What-A-Sho, Bulletin Board Committee, Art Club, Gamma Hi-Y. Ambition: To settle down very soon. JANET MARTINEN-Maiorette C3 yearsj, Senior Class Secretary, What-A-Sho Queen, Pep Club, Class Assemblies. Ambition: Secretarial work. RICHARD MARTINSEN-Boys' Club. Ambition: Machinist engineer. JANET MARTINSON-Torch Club C2 yearsl, Ushers Club, Vice President, Ski Club C3 yearsj, Senior Play, Shuksan Business Staff C2 yearsj. Ambition. Be a good first grade school teacher and eventually a college professor. TERRY G. MESFORD-What-A-Sho C2 yearsb, Beacon Editorial Staff, Senior Play. Ambition: Make a million before I'm twenty-tive. ROBERT MESSER-What-A-Sho, Christmas Pageant, First Period Chorus. Ambition: Stay single. PATRICIA C. MEYER4Bulletin Board Committee C2 yearsj, Girls' Club Council, Girls' Club Cabinet, St. Luke's Assistance League, Beacon Editorial Staff. Ambition: To find one-that is. LYNNE MICHEL-Operetta C2 yearsl, What-A-Sho C3 yearsl, Y-Teens Cabinet, Ski Club, Pep Club. Ambition: College. JANET MILES-Orchestra C3 yearsj, Torch Club C2 yearsl, Shuksan Editorial Staff, Copy Editor, French Club, President C'53J, Pub- licity Committee, Chairman C'54D, Ambition: Have as much fun in college as I have had in high school. BOB MOEN-Radio Club. Ambition: Electrical engineer. District tournament fans came with playing cards and lunches at 4:30 for games that started at 8:00. After the first-night games we went to Ski club's dance, and after the second night we went home depressed by a bitter loss to Lynden.