Langley High School - Falcon Yearbook (Langley, WA)

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enior Class History The first gathering of the class of '53 was an awesome one. On that bright September morning the following eight timid souls got together in the first grades Phyllis Boardman, Gloria Porter, Sigrid Heggenes, Harlan Peters, Al Hagglund, Jack Simone, Bob Surface and Norm Thompson. The class really got rolling during the second grade with the addi- tion of Carol Jensen, Ted Thompson, .Dennis Fcnrler, Roger Gabelein, and Ed Howard, who discovered that they would be forced to attend LGS because their former school, Bay View, had gone out of business. Dick Bryant, a former Island resident tho couldn't resist the lure of good old Whidbey, returned and joined the class that same year. Iarilyn Jensen was the next to join the ranks. She entered the third grade from Chehalis. Dorotln' Day was the next person to become a member of the class. She soon discovered she preferred our fourth grade terrors to those she had met in Seattle. The girls get a break during the fifth grade when two of our more ruggedC?D males moved in. They were Gary Kohlves from Ballard and By lorland from Grants Pass, Oregon. Jean Hurt also dared to make the ferry ride and left her old domicile of Edmonds. To help lake the last year of grade school something to remember Ken Seaton left Seattle to add his smiling face to the, by then, notorious class of '53. The class was much too well mannered to cause any eanmotion during their freshman year in high school, but they hit the jackpot during their sophomore year. That year saw Jerri Armtrong leave Seattle for us, only then she spelled it Jerry. It also saw Gertie Lau desert Cleveland of Seattle, Al ,Brager leave his North Bend, Oregon, home, and Lorren Olsen and John Iaddell, fugitives from Mukilteo, succumb to the charms of IHS. The fame of the class had spread so far that llary Lou Anderson left Ballard to join us for the last three weeks of school. Jack Scheller, another lad from lulcllteo who found Everett Hgh not to his lildng, decided to keep Lorren and John company on the ferry ride. Ole didn't go for this, and fled to Everett for the last six weeks of the year, only to finally acknowledge the superiority of LB and return for his senior year. llariel Jenkins heard about the fabulous fifty-threers way up at Blaine and moved down for her senior year. The second semester of our final year saw Charles Shelley come back to graduate and Harold Dull, a foznr resident, return to become the final members of the class, swelling the graduating class to thirty members.

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Class Prophecy Looking far into the deep, deep future of the nineteen-fifty-three graduates of Langley High School, we found a bright light shining on the desk in the home of the world renowned financier, Albert Hagglund. ltr. Hagglund was sitting at his desk dictating to his secretary, llary Lou Anderson, who was perched on his knee, when there was a crash and through the window cams a rock with an envelope tied to it. He opened the envelope and took out ho slips of paper. One was a ticket to the circus the next night and on the other was scrawled two words, 'BE TIBEJ' lr. Hagglund told his secretary to call a detective. She dialed a number and at the other end of the line she heard, 'Jensen and Jensen, Girl Detective. Agency. These were the two comonly known as Supersleuth larilyn and Hawkeye Carol. After instructing them to take the ticket and go to the circus the next night, the Hagglund household went to bed. The next evening finds Hawkeye and Supersleuth driven by taxicab driver Jack Simons. They got to the circus just as it was about to begin. On the way through the midway they saw Roger Gabelein and lariel Jenkins and their famous sextuplets who were eating cotton candy bought from Charles Shelley, the candy man. When they stepped inside and found their seats they heard a laugh which they remembered from .high school days. Looking around they noticed llarian Peters. She told them she was principal of a Siamese grade school and cane to the circus for a vacation from Siam. lhen the show was almost over, Hawkeye spied a very suspicious looking clan and went to the circus door to capture him. Upon removing his wig and glasses she found it to be Gary Kohlswes and everyone knows he was always too bashful to play that kind of a trick. All this was getting Hawkeye and Supersleuth nowhere and thq were becotlng riled so they called in Bob Surface and Norm Thompson, finger print experts for the police, to check for prints on the circus ticket. After close examination it was found that the prints belonged to either Dennis Iowler, a famous plastic surgeon, or Allen Brager, a race horse Jockq. Further investigation disclosed Allen had been associated with two questionable women, Phyllis Boardman and Gloria Porter, who were famous gun nolls posing as professional baby sitters. Following a hunch they went to John Wadde1l's restaurant where the waiters, Ken Seaton and W Worland, told them Al Hager was in the back rot with Bd Howard and Harold Dull, the big gamblers, but the waitresses, Gertie Inu and Jerri Armtrong, said he had been there for five dqs, and the receptionist, Sigrid lbggenes, backed up the alibi. The only thing left to do was to hunt up the other suspect. They went to the Bryant Hotel owned by Richard L. Bryant and the switchboard operator directed them to the seventh floor office of Dennis Fowler.