Friday Harbor High School - Harbor Light Yearbook (Friday Harbor, WA)

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and pl 0l0AOCg It was during the winter of 1973 that I dropped over to see Terry Jack- son, my old class mate, to have a friendly evening of general conversation. Terry had taken over his father's business after graduation from college, and had consolidated all of the Puget Sound and Alaska fish canneries into one giant enterprise, known as the Jackson Fish Fry, Inc. In the course of the conversation, he mentioned that he was receiving shipment the next day on a new yacht which has a cruslng speed of 150 knots. Gradually' the talk swung around, until we decided to take a trip around the world and look up our old classmates of '53 with his new 300 foot yacht. As this was his slack season, he could get away. I could leave the S00 acre rabbit ranch, which Jim Erickson and I owned jointly, in his care. He had 'been A1leAmerican at Central Washington for 3 years, and following that had had the distinction of being the only white player on the Globe Trotters basketball team. Following that, Jim and I had teamed up as big time rabbit operators. Darlene Workman and Jim were married now and had those famous Erickson quintuplets, which keep Darlene so busy that she has no time to slime fish at Terry's new 60 million dollar cannery ingFriday Harbor. I had married the former Lois Hammond and she had found her calling as advertising head for our rabbit concern. It seems that people can't resist her ads, and as a consequence, rabbit praising has almost replaced beef cat- tle. She has had mamr offers from large companies, but has 'preferredto use her talents where she is now. ' Terry and I started out on January 3rd, with Bill Erickson and Jerry Waner among those seeing us off. Bill became an engineer after four years in college and specialized in bridges. He was doing fine until one of his brid- ges collapsed, resulting in 200 deaths and six million dollars in damage suits. After that no one would hire him for some reason. Then he used his talents and figured out a formula for splitting cordwood. He now keeps Roche Harbor supplied by himself, his only trouble being to move his equipment fast enough. Jerry turned out to be a smash hit as a comedian in Hollywood, until he had to spend a week-end in a hotel room with some unknown who could top' all his jokes. He got so sick of the whole business that he retired to his first love as golf pro at the five million dollar golf course at San Juan Park. Before Terry and I started out, we stopped in at Clarence Youngbergs Space Port at Mount Vernon for some rocket fuel for our ship. It seems that something went wrong with Clarence's l9h0 Olds, and before he got it back to- gether, he gave up and started the first rocket repair shop. He was with Spike Jones and his Corn Boys for several years,but he finally settled on the Space Port. However he still plays at Seven Cedars in the evenings with his Oim bands we got our fuel from Elwyn McKay, who has the concession with Clarence. Elwyn now is 6'h and weighs 265 lbs, all solid muscle. His favorite past- im is making firewood with bare hands, and has set several world records as the world's champion weight lifter. Just as we were ready to leave, Santos Pantoja came in with his latest rocket creation. He runs and airplane from Mars. to Earth now, making therun in an advertised time of lb days. He was the first man to get to Mars and discovered a race of primitive people there,which he has converted to tourist businessmen.

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Now we have really started out in earnest and are on our way to San Fran- cisco, where we meet Gloria Olson, 'owner of a large chain of grocery stores. She started out as clerk in a grocery store in Seattle, but she rose so fast that she soon owned the store, and went on from there to her present chain of stores. While there, we took a trip to Hollywood, where we met Etta Mae Tuck, who is writing fantastic stunts for the movies. Seems that she had such a knack for doing crazy stunts in high school, that she just followed it up. She wrote her most famous picture for Jerry Waner, which was called, l80 Days of Slavery , or ny Senior Year in High School. As we went back to our ship, imagine our surprise when we bumped into Kenneth Ramage. He now was the top hotrod driver in the country, and was just passing through on his way to the Mexican Road Race. He told us that he builds all his own hot rods and only three have blown up with him. His late- st creation is a cross between a Model m, a '37 chev, a '53 Olds, and a 1970 rocket ship. Our next little trip was to Washington D. C., where we 'saw Nancy Nash, who had made a career of government work. Her greatest accoirqalishment was breaking up the cold war with Russia in 1965. She has been appointed as am- bassador to Russia and had been in a conference with Premier Malenkov, when she got mad at him and beat him up. Since that the Russians were so scared of the U. S. that they turned over the whole country. While we were there, Joyce Anderson and the former Char Carter came down from New York to see us. We found out that Char had married the butler of the first trilllonare in the world. They were a devoted couple and Char told me that her husband often told her that while the best things may come in small packages, he had gotton a large shipment at once. 170700: we 19431951 had startedout as a telephone operator in Houston, Texas. Shortly afterward, however, she found that she could make much better money as a rlveter :Ln an airplane factory. Then one day she dropped a hot rivet in her work clothes and earned her present name of Hot Garters Gertie. While dancing around, a big producer from Broadwqr happened to come by and signed her up on the spot as a dancer, where she has been ever since. Next we took a little jaunt across the Atlantic to Paris, where we went to Barbara's Beauty Bank. This world-famous beauty salon was run bynme other than our old classxmte Barbara Thompson. She explained to us that young women can come in and store up part of the young beauty for use in later years. Just then she was fixing up Rawleen Davie, another old classmate of ours. Come to find out, Rawleen had opened a Music Conservatory there in Paris after graduating from Western Washington College and spending,seve1-al years at the Metropolitan Opera. So far, Rawleen has turned out five very famous opera stare, sixteen just famous ones, and seven top popular artists. In fact a list of her pupils reads like the music award. Well now that we have seen everybody, and proved that the class of '53 were all famous without exception, and that the world has to acknowledge our sup ariority, we turn back home again to the cannery and the rabbit business. Jack Ringler, Jerry Waner, Santos Pantoja