Franklin High School - Tolo Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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TRATHEN, SIDNEY POLMERE-PRINCIPAL A.B. Michigan Normal College: University of Washington Interests: Music, Gardening. Adviser of the Franklin Hi-Y Club Greetings, Alumni of Franklin High School: Scattered as you are throughout the length and breadth of these United States in industry, business, education, the professions, community service, and athletics, you are giving a good account of yourselves and we are proud of you. Hundreds of you are at present in war activities throughout the world, and you, too, are to be congratulated on the high quality of your devotion and service. Judging from the many letters that have been received from time to time, we feel sure you are interested to an unusual degree in one another, especially in the members of your own class. We are sorry that we cannot keep in closer contact with all of you who claim , Franklin as your Alma Mater, but numbers forbid. You see there are well over nine thousand graduates at this time. However, we hereby send to each of you a hearty greeting and our best wishes that you, our loyal alumni, may continue to launch out into the deep. SIDNEY POLM ERE TRATHEN Mr. Trathen came to Franklin in 1912 as head of our Mathematics Department. He became Vice- Principal in 1919, and Principal upon the death of joseph A. Reed, first Principal of Franklin High School, in the fall of 1932.

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TO OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN and A11 Other FRANKLIN ALUMNI NOTE: This picture was taken at the dedication ot the Service Flag in the spring of 1944. The numbers are now much larger. Our 1917-1918 service Hag had 395 stars, with seven gold stars: Allen H. Clements, Grant Coltenbaugh, jesse Dodge, Robert Gruger, Roger W. Hillis, Colin Hyde, and Herl Lincoln.

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A V 3 1 RESEBURG. WALTER J.-VICE-PRINCIPAL B.A. Ripon College. Interests: Golf, Singing. We are becoming world-minded! Through transportation by air and electronics we are being brought into closer contact with foreign lands. The fact that our former pupils are now on all the continents and on the high seas tends to make us citizens of the world. We are becoming world-minded! In the future our graduates will visit London and Moscow where now they travel to Port- land and San Francisco. What happens in Rome and Tokyo will concern us. Television will bring world events into our homes. Tolerance will sweeten our spirits. So we may effectively adjust our attitudes and our lives to the new conditions and so we may meet and help solve this new challenge- We must become world-minded! WALTER RESEBURG Mr. Reseburg came to Franklin in 1912 when this building was first opened, as a language instructor: later he taught in the Science Department until he became Vice-Principal in 1932. He has also served Franklin as Coach and Boys' Adviser. e if