Queen Anne High School - Grizzly Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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HIS IS IT. . . the result of 1460 hours crammed vvith svveat and svvearing, deadlines and discourage- mentg hours when nerves became quivering harp strings, when nocturnal silence Was shattered by a gremlin army threatening to throw a monkey vvrench into the Yearbook engine of pictures and pulp .... These are only pages and portraits-but they are a graphic, moving history of Queen Anne and the people who make those grey bricks pulsate With the flaming vigor of youth-You.. . . Ten years from novv if these pages bring but a glimmer of of nostalgia for that high school on the hilltop, our goal will have been reached.

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Sin 1945

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HIS is not a dedication-it is the portrait of a MAN. Glowing adjectives and fiery phrases alike fall miserably short of their purpose in picturing this person, one whose entire life has been forged from childhood in the raging furnace of true manhood. His span of years has been as steeleand this has been his code. The steel must be cast with care, and yet not gently, ere the finished ingot be tough and true. The molding and shaping are done with the hammer and anvil of worldly knowledge. The bitter blows of life, its tears and its disil- lusionment can be weathered without scar, if the molten metal of the man be of unswerving determination. And man's mind too must be temperedenot with undue haste, nor with faltering step. lf time is lost, the youth must harden and be cast before life's centuries of knowledge can be poured into his mind's yawning mold. Albert Francis Bassford was born in Birmingham, England, not far from the sweat and swelter of that city's blast furnaces. ls it not possible that his life has been fashioned after the pattern of steel-tough and true as the best Birmingham could offer? lf such a comparison be made it will be found deficient in one respect. Steel has not the power to shape other bits of unfinished ore. Once cast it has not further use but to serve its solitary purpose. Here the life of Albert Bassford surpasses the cold steel. His has been the job of casting the undeveloped minds of twenty-seven years of Queen Anne students. This is where nerveless metal falls short. Under his hand, the steel of a quarter century's eight thousand Queen Anne students has been tempered and taken the blows of life's anvil. lf the course of their life has carried true as unswerving steel, they may offer silent thanks to the one, who, from the raw iron, forged that steel. Steel has found a superior, Albert Frances Bassford-the teacher, the friend, the MAN. fbedzcaizw