Edmonds High School - Echo Yearbook (Edmonds, WA)

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Senior Honor Bob Roe was class prexy and Student Body president as well as an all-around athlete . . . Betty Barkemeyer was president of the Torch society . . . Dick Hicks was football captain and Echo Business Manager . . . Henning Nelson played baseball and basketball and made the honor roll too . . . Allen Meyer edited the Wireless and was class salutatorian . . . Bill Hardman edited the Echo . . . Bill Niederhauser was Boys’ Club prexy and played in the band and orchestra . . . Florence Beam was Girls’ Club president and a prominent leltergirl . . . Anita Christensen was vice-president of the Student Body and did art work for the Echo . . . Morgan Bartlett wras Student Body president and a star athlete. 16

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Dick Hicks may have been a captain once, but he’s only a private in the army, now. Bob Hirschberg is his superior officer. Kate, Halide and Lois are working on a Walt Disney production. Juanita McDonald married a millionaire. Pat Podas and Jean Ettrup have opened a XXX in Edmonds. Bob Roe sells vacuum cleaners at Sears, Roebuck Co. As soup slingers in a cafe we find Fran Howell and Muriel Wamsley. Will wonders never cease! Bob Bishop is a college prof, working on the principle that there’s a sucker born every minute. Bill Niederhauser, Henning Nelson, and Winston Norgar have formed a company and are selling worthless oil stock. Keith Schoppert is in the money, selling papers on Fifth Avenue. Merle Evans teaches piano to kids that don’t know any better. Dick Fisk and Sam Ewing are ministers. Ruth and Eva Brodersted are known as the Pickett sisters; they furnish music for tired strikers. Lilly Torkelson is president of the Cedar Valley Chapter of the Sons and Daughters of Norway. You guessed it; Walt Rosen sings on the radio and Willis Stubbs accompanies him. Joe O’Toole is a soap box speaker, and Mary writes all his speeches. Bernita and Luretta McGraw, Ethel Kronquist and Evelyn Nelson are all ushers in a theater. Elsworth Wilcox is catching for the Giants. “Rosie” LeRoy is a blues singer. Ted Drechsler and Ernie Janet run a Hiway garage; Wes Grover has his repair work done there. Howard Clark and Maxine Cogswell are a new dancing sensation in Hollywood. George Mathay, the test tube genius, is a soda jerker in Scott Cady’s drug store. Don Trail is a caddy at a large golf course. Florence Beam and Helen Beckerson teach women the manly art of self defense. Elsie Almaas is a hairdresser. Hap Meyer runs a gas station down in Buzzards Hollow, N. M. Bob Downing punches cows for a living. Charlotte Anderson and Louise Hall are personal secretaries. Jennie Korshaven and Jean McClelland are living on a South Sea island. Lindsay McClenny is keeper of a “booby hatch.” Bob Rhodes and Paul McClenahan are Congressmen. Carol Bucklin and Hazel Carlson are Shakespearean actresses on Broadway. Bette Babcock is a feminine Walter Winchell. Sylvia Rendler runs an old maids’ home. Maxine Lown and Ruth Lundholm live in it. Ralph Johansen is a test car driver for the Chevrolet Co. George “Renfrew” Kallstrom has achieved his life-long ambiton: to be a “Mountie.” 15

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School Board Left to Right: Mr. Matt Eisen, Mr. E. A. Lichtenstein, Mr. H. Robert Leise. In the recent elections Mr. Leise was succeeded by Mrs. Nelle M. Telfer. Faculty Back Row: W. H. Osborn — Band: Warren Bieber—Physics, Boys’ Athletics; Stanley Berentsen — Civics; Roy Ballou Auto Mechanics; H. H. Hoflland—Superintendent; S. C. Caudill—Social Science, Financial Adviser of Student Association; D. 0. Jacobson—Science, Radio Club. Second Row: Paul McGibbon—Social Science, Algebra, Boss’ Club Adviser; Thomas Tucker— Mathematics, General Science; Fae Brechner —Physical Education, Orchestra; Dorothy Allison Commercial, Journalism, Annual; Florence Crary — Omcej Luella Jones—Commercial, Girls’ Club Adviser; Kathryn Evans—Junior High, Assistant Girls’ Club Adviser; Wilbur D. Goble— Industrial Arts. Photo Club, Stage; G. F. Hatch—Prinjcipal. Public Speaking, Boys’ Tennis. Front Row: E. T. Parsons—GeneraI Science, U. S. lliyory. Boys’ Baseball; Eula Curry—English, Vodvil; June Armstrong—Art, Literature I; Marjorie Murphy—French, Composition IF, Senior Play; Laura G. Peltier—Home Economics; HalliejB. Anderson—World History, Latin, Library; Grace E. Bliss—English, Junior Play; Hayden MoPris—Vocal Music. 17