Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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2 cyff mtmm LAURIE JEAN HICKOX WILLIAM HOLMES HICKOX 7 945 - 796 7942 - 7967 COMPETITIVE ICE SKATING RECORD Placing Event Year Class Senior Pair 1961 World 6 Senior Pair 1961 North American 3 Senior Pair 1961 National 1 Junior Pair 1960 National 3 Senior Pair 1960 Pacific Coast 1 Bronze Dance 1960 Pacific Coast 1 Senior Pair 1960 Central Pacific 1 Bronze Dance 1960 Central Pacific 3 Junior Pair 1959 National 1 Junior Pair 1959 Pacific Coast 2 Bronze Dance 1959 Pacific Coast 1 Junior Pair 1959 Central Pacific 2 Bronze Dance 1959 Central Pacific 2 Junior Pair 1958 Pacific Coast 1 Junior Pair 1958 California State 5 Junior Dance 1956 N. California I.C. In addition to their pair and dance skating, both Laurie and Bill participated in single compe- tition starting in February 1952. Laurie was in Pacific Coast Juvenile Girls competition in 1956 and 1957; in 1958 she placed second in Novice Ladies in the Central Pacific area; in December 1960 she placed second in Junior Ladies in Central Pacific. Bill won the Pacific Coast Juvenile Men’s Championship in 1953; Pacific Coast Novice Men’s Championship in 1955; California State Junior Men’s Championship in 1956; Pacific Coast Junior Men’s Champion- ship in 1957; and the St. Moritz Ice Skating Club Senior Men’s Championship in 1960. Life begins and life ends much as a day begins with the first rays of light penetrating the morn- ing sky and ends with the sun setting in the West. As the sun floods the day with light, so Laurie Jean Hickox and her brother Bill brought love and happiness to their friends made through school associations, skating, the International Order of Rainbow for Girls, and the International Order of DeMolay. Both were extremely talented in the fields of skating, music, and dancing. Laurie was a member of this Spring graduating class, while Bill graduated from BHS in Janu- ary 1960, and then attended the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. The magnificent ice skating skills of this pair thrilled audiences everywhere. Their skating talent was so great that they took first place in the 1960 National Junior Pair Competition, and in 1961 they placed third in the National Senior Pairs and sixth in the North American Senior Pair Competitions. In January of 1961 they were named to the North American and World Figure Skating Teams. The Sunset came early in the lives of Laurie and Bill, on February 15, 1961, when the plane carrying the United States Figure Skating Team to the competition for World Championships at Prague, Czechoslovakia, crashed at Brussels, Belgium. Darkness surrounds us as the sun sinks in the West, but on the other side of the earth the sun is shining brightly. Death brings life as we know it to a close, but, like the sunset, it is not the end. On the other side of death, beyond the gates which separate the mortal from the the immortal, there is a new horizon.