Harrington High School - Panther Yearbook (Harrington, WA)

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THE PANTHER T952 PROPHECY Harrington High School Class of 52 Reunites After 40 Years Harrington City Park was the scene last week for the reunion of the class of 52 , The returning class members found that they were not all that had changed since their graduation, for the town of 600 had grown to a city of 300,000 in the ensuing 40 years. They discovered that City Park now covers nearly all the land on which the old town stood and that Harrington High School has been replaced with a number of ultra-modern, well staffed, and well equipped schools. At the time of graduation the class consisted of only I4 members and so it is surprising to see how many of its members have done so well. Jim Larsh, the host, is now president of the Great Northern Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Larsh are some of the most distinguished residents of Harrington. Many of the classmates still reside in Harrington, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Birge and their children, Donna Jeanne, Jackie Jay, Peggy, John, Larry, and Gene were present. Mr, Birge is president of the Peachy-Perfect Permanent Pre-mix Concrete Company. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Johnson and their sons Jack, John Rodney, and Tommy attended, Mrs, Johnson was the former Miss Joyce Kindred. It is interesting to note that back in i952 people wondered whether or not public power would take over private power. We know now that private power won and that Mr. Johnson is president of the Washington Water Power Co. Mr. and Mrs, Tom Talkington and their daughters Donna, Joyce, and Wilma were present at the reunion. Mr, Talkington became a very successful wheat farmer, and then when people began building around Harrington, he sold his lands at an immense profit, and retired. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jannot, daughter Joy and son Terry attended the reunion. Mrs. Jannot supports Mr. Jannot by doing clerical work at Birge-Swenson Inter- national Implement Company. Miss Darlene Miller is the president of Panther Publications. Panther Publi- cations has recently been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Miss MiIler's company prints the Morning Citizen and the Evening Times Tribune, as well as books and magazines. Three class members came from the East. Included were Nils Knapp and his wife, the former Miss Patty Kerr, and Terry Biggart. Mr. and Mrs. Knapp are world famous for the ioint discovery of the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone. They are now doing research work at Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, To reach the reunion, Terry Biggart hopped a freight in New

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i952 E so -- . -- - THE PANTHER CLASS WILL lContinuedl Jim Larsh bequeaths his habit of spending two hours a day on his Chem- istry lesson-by sitting on the book while he reads yarns to Don Larson. To Everett Cole he gives his power to please the girls. His ability to talk himself cut of tig..t situations he wills to Helen Okazaki. Allison Morris wills the art of being kidnapped by the girls to Bert Ring. He hopes Bert will enjoy it as much as he did. He leaves his kitchen closet rats to Harrington High School. To Walter Griggs, he leaves the ability to type menus. To Mr. Anderson, he leaves his beautiful dark curly hair. Can you use it? Nils Knapp wills his ability to demolish a car in one easy lesson to Larry Bailey. To future class presidents, his power to preside with a dignity that would do honor to a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. To anyone who wishes it he leaves the art of getting to school in the nick of time-get more sleep that way! Any brcken pens, stubs of pencils, cast-oft note books, mounds of gum we were compelled to stick hastily in out-of-sight spots to avoid faculty detection, and other mementoes we bestow freely upon the finder. With our last parting breath we do hereby constitute and appoint the members of the faculty of aforementioned school executors of this our will and testament. In witness whereof we have set the signatures and the seal of the class of 1952, this 28th day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-two. Signed-The Seniors by Nils Knapp

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i952 THE PANTHER PROPHECY lContinuedl England where he had iust been elected president ot the Knights of the Road International. California was represented by four class members: Madame Du Bois, Alison Morris, Miss Louise LuAn and Miss Peggy Chappell, Madame Du Bois was Miss Gloria Werner when she went to high school. She and her husband, Monsieur Du Bois, are nationally known for their music schools which are some- what similar to the Arthur Murray Dance Studios of their high school days. The noted racing driver, Alison Morris, attended the reunion in a wheel chair, but pince it was atomic powered he sped around the park as if he were in his racing car the Petunia Ill. Glamorous Louise LuAn, the Gloria Swanson of l992, who was known to her classmates as Ann Louise Swyter, and her plane load of Hollywood talent furnished much of the entertaniment for the revelers. Miss Peggy Chappel, well known United States History professor at Stanford, is nationally known as the inaugurator of the Lomax Honor System, named after one of her high school teachers. The only member of the class who did not attend the reunion was Jack Heimbigner. Mr. Heimbigner was, at the time, being investigated by a Senate Watchdog Committee for allegedly talsitying his kissing tax return. The class members all agreed that their success and happiness in life was due mainly to the superb education that they received at their dear old Alma Mater, Harrington High School. by Terry Bigga rt.