Blaine High School - Borderite Yearbook (Blaine, WA)

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Our Freshman year proved to be one of our busiest and most successful years. The Junior High Athletic teams had very successful seasons with the Basketball team placing second in Whatcom County. The Highlight of the year was the Class Day and Graduation of our Class. As Sophomores we sponsored a Spring Fever dance which proved to be very successful. Other activities were also sponsored. In our Junior year we again returned to dramatics. Our class presented the very successful play Our Miss Brooks with June Vlasman, Denis Durnan, and Joe Hallson in the leads. Three members of the Junior class were sent to Boy and Girl's State. Denis Durnan was the Boy's State Representative and Jill Sabourin and Evelyn Baldwin attended Girl's State. In the Spring the class held the Junior Prom. The Hall was beautifully decorated to match the theme Dance- ing in the Dark . Elaine Englert was crowned Queen of the Jr. Prom by the class president Joe Hallson. Everyone enjoyed the music of Mel McKee's band and had a wonderful time. As Seniors we were busier than ever. Evelyn Baldwin was crowned Basket- ball Queen with Theo Gudmundson and Bernice Anderson as her Princesses. Our Senior cruise proved to be a lot of fun and the Junior Prom was one of the nicest that we have attended. With the graduation exercises, we close the cur- tain on our school day at Blaine, but certainly we can never close them on the memories of our lives. :gf F0f0R5 .QQ -Z.. f rs. H X egbl A of aw: m CLASS PROPHECY by Lois Hough The other day, June 1, 1963, I paid a visit to my former chum Sharon I-laws. Sharon is the new editor of a movie magazine, and she has a beautiful home in Beverly Hills. We got to talking about our graduation class. I asked her what Doloris Gul- lickson was doing and she said that she is a candy tester for Mars Incorporated. She had a letter from Doloris the other day and Doloris told her that Esther Karber is secretary to the governor of the state of Washington. Also that Richard Radonski is employed by the New York Times as an ace sports writer. Mel Moffit is a photographer for the same paper. While Iwas at Sharon's, Shirley Wilder phoned. I talked to her for a few min- utes and she told me that she owns a shoe factory and they manufacture shoes for people with size one and a half feet. She said that Florence Pownall is living in Montana and she was recently chosen as outstanding farm wife of the nation. I complimented Sharon on her dress and she told me it was designed by the famous fashion designer Evelyn Baldwin. Evelyn is employed by a noted dress firm in New York which is owned by Glen Eastman, I left Sharon's house and drove over to the Boursaw Floral Shop which is owned by Jackie Boursaw. Among those on her capable staff are June Vlasman, who is half time employee. When she isn't working she cares for her fifteen children, Also employed by Jackie is Bob Bruland. Upon his graduation from high school, Bob became a jockey but gave it up a year ago.

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IIHANNH IZ EMILIANNE WILLIAMS Unaffected and sincere. Torch Honor 3. Booster Club 3,4. GEORGE DELFELDER Possible clearing and colder tonight and tomorrow with scattered snow flurries. High 30-32 Low 15-25 W F.F. A. Treasurer 4. LORRAINE SIGURDSON Our bashfull, blue-eyed blonde. Booster Club 3.4. - ELAINE ENGLERT Sweetness and fun, rolled into one. G.A.A. I,2,3,4. Booster Club I,2,3,4. Glee Club I,2,3, Reporter 4. Songleader 4. Student Council 4. Prompter Jr. Play 3. Advertising Manager A. S. B. 4. Prom Queen 3. Advertising Manager Annual 4. RUSSEL THOMAS 4. Track 4. SHIRLEY WILDER Short and sweet. Booster Club 4. Glee Club 2, 3,4, ROBERT SHERBY Great men come and go, but I just rattle on. Football r,4. Basketball 4. Track 4. SENIOR CLASS HISTORY As we think back over the twelve years which have slipped by so quickly we remember the incidents and activities in our school lives which seem important. In this history we hope to recapture some of these memories. In our Senior class of thirty-seven there are nine who have gone to Blaine from the first grade throught the twelfth. These students are Russel Thomas, Glen Eastman, Francis Sheedy, Shirley Wilder, Theo Gudmundson, .Toe Hallson, Richard Radonski, Wayne Oertel, and Denis Durnan. Among the highlights of our grade school years was our first grade Rhythrn Band with the tambourines, rhythm sticks, cymbals, and triangles all banging at once. The effect was really something, or at least we thought so. Since our grade school years were also war years, our class participated in buying defense bonds and stamps. The Army brought a jeep to school one day and several of our class were lucky enough to be chosen to ride in it. Another highlight of grade school was when our annual picnic was held at Birch Bay during the third grade. This was quite an exciting event for most of us. In the latter part of Grade School our interests turned to drama. We studied many of the Grand Operas and put on the play Robin Hood. As our class advanced into Junior High School our interest and activities broadened. Many of the boys engaged in athletics and in the eighth grade the girls formed a Junior G.A.A. Also in the eighth grade Bernice Anderson and Theo Gudmundson werelunior High Candidates for Carnival Queen and, Doloris Gullickson and Bernice Ander- son were cheerleaders. Z1 A bad excuse is better than none at all. Football I, 4. Basketball

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Bob told me Dick Markusen is the owner of a gambling cassino in Reno, Nevada. He also told me that Jim Odle had just signed a contract to take over .Tack Benny's program. June was telling me that Lorriane Sigurdson is happily married and is liv- ing in Florida. Lorriane phoned June the other day and told her that Emilianne Williams is the proprietor of a Fresh Seafood Restaurant at Sun Valley, Idaho. While at Jackie's, a dapper young man with a familiar face came in for his daily bouttonier. This man was none other than Russel Thomas. It seems that he is the head floor walker at the May Company in Los Angeles. Russel informed me the Elaine Englert is the top model at the company. Jackie's radio was turned on so I listened for a few minutes. It turned out that the heavyweight championship fight was being fought between Wayne Oertel and Bob Sherby. The fight was being broadcast by Russell Johnson who is a very well known sports announcer. After the fight the weather report was given by the very capable George Delfelder. It was getting late so I told Jackie that Ihad better start home. On the way home I went through a red light and I heard a police whistle. I pulled over to the side of the road and who should approach me but Barrie Hull! I was a bit surprised to see him because the last time I talked to him he was going to W.S.C. where he was studying police science. Barrie informed me that June Peltier is giving baton lessons in Brook- lyn. She has turned out some very fine majorettes. Also that Bernice Ander- son has a very good job with the Nash-Kelvinator Company in Detroit test- ing new Nashes as they come off the assembly line. When I got home I picked up my paper and turned to the sports section and read where the up and coming Francis Sheedy won another roller skat- ing title. Jill Sabourin is the art editor of Vogue Magazine. Another former classmate that makes the news quite frequently is Erna Siemans who is a German Interpreter for the United Nations. Seeing that I had found out what most of my former classmates are do- ing, I decided to phone my good friend Martha Pinkham. Martha told me that her husband has decided to make a career of the Air Force and she has been following him around the country. The have several children and she told me that while she was living in Texas she met up with Theo Gudmundson. Theo is married to a millionaire and they own nearly all of the oil wells in Texas. Theo told her that Diana Burke is an architect at the Boeing Aircraft Company. She also said that Joe Hallson is head football coach at Baylor University. Iasked her if she knew what Denis Durnan was doing and she said that the last she heard he was a chemical engineer for Dupont Company. In his spare time he runs a gyrnnasium at the Y.M.C.A. in Delaware. She told me that Arlene Palmer is a hair dresser for Metro Goldwny Mayer. She arranged the eye catching hairdos in the academy award picture of 1962. There was only one classmate I had not heard of and that was Kenny Knott. I asked her if she knew anything of him and she said that he was living in Hawaii and having the time of his life. Martha asked me what Iwas doing and I told her that I am employed by the Jantzen Company in Portland. I thanked her for a nice talk and was very happy to have found out what all of my former classmates were doing. Z3