Seattle Pacific University - Tawashi Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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The Cascade DISTANT WANDERINGS O NE day in 1942 as I was working on the Nicaraguan Canal, the air mail brought me word from California that I should return to claim my heritage as the sole beneficiary of my uncle. It was March and I was tired of shoveling Central American mud. I rather gladly complied with the request and took the air stage to Watts, California, my uncle’s late home. After settlement of my uncle’s estate, I had $267.03 and a 1928 Ford. What could I do with my assets? The thought “Why not travel?” seized me. I then began planning an itinerary within a few days, and I started north in my motor car. Four miles south of Eugene, Oregon, I drove into a service station for gas. There, to my surprise, I saw Ralph Richards look up from mending a tire. Of course, we talked, and I learned that Mrs. Matilda Reichelt Richards was principal of a nearby grade school. In Seattle a newspaper heading attracted my attention. “King County Jersey, Winner. Fred Hawley, Bothel Farmer, Owner.” Fred had married a Montana school teacher and had a nice little home near town. I left my Ford at Vancouver and sailed to Alaska. At Wrangell I saw Myron Williams, city mayor. I visited other friends in Alaska and returned to Vancouver to resume my automobile tour of the continent. In driving across Canada I stopped over Sunday at Cousins, Alberta, where I heard a sermon by the Reverend Russell G. Bisnett. My itinerary led me through Red Wing, Minnesota, where Wilfred Marston was selling hamburgers at a fair. He told me he was porter in a side-door Pullman during winter. In Missouri, near St. Peter’s, I saw Mrs. Mike Murphy, formerly Elvira Herrmann, wife of a section foreman for the Wabash Railroad. I came across Feon Hawley, sky pilot, in the Kentucky Mountains. At a Russian mission on the waterfront in Philadelphia I heard Fred Bach, in special meetings. By the time I arrived at New York my money was nearly gone and so I looked for work. As I glanced through the paper to find the want ads I saw a special announcement of a lecture on the Fourth Dimension and Other Mathe¬ matical Phenomena, by Professor Burton F. Beegle. I arranged to hear this lecture. Afterward, in talking to Professor Beegle, I learned that he had recently returned from a tour. He had seen the Holton family in Japan where they were on a furlough from Tibet. The Holtons told him that Dorothy Harris had visited them on her way to the mission field in Africa. Professor Beegle had also seen Pedro Panaligan in Manila at a teachers’ convention. Then, having seen or heard of every member of the class of ’28, I was satisfied to work in a shoe shining parlor temporarily. Page Sixteen

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The Cascade REMINISCENCES R EMEMBRANCES as college days come to a close make parting with friends and classmates seem harder. Two members of the class, Wilfred Marston and Jesse Walter, have continued from the High School Class of ’24. Six others, Matilda Reichelt, Ralph Richards, Fred Hawley, Leon Hawley, Elvira Herr ' mann and Pedro Panaligan, have been with the class since Freshman days. Russell Bisnett, Fred Bach, Dorothy Harris, Myron Williams, and Lora Holton have entered the class since then. After we were initiated we became fulhfledged Freshmen, ready for a good time, and many were the good times we had together on hikes and parties. Our “Kid Day” was a success. We well remember entertaining the Sophomores at Phyllis Van Dyke’s home, and also the Sophomore Goat. The class basketball team began its career in this year by winning the Glen E. Carlson trophy cup. We had a debate team, also, which won from the College Juniors and lost only to the Seniors. We certainly did not permit Freshman days to be unpleasant even if the Sophomores provided us with “Angel Food” cake unintentionally. We began our Sophomore pleasure by putting the Freshmen through an nitiation at Hallowe’en. New Year’s Eve of that year we spent at Magnolia, where hamburger was our main delicacy, and at the home of our adviser, Mrs. Tiffany. Many were our pleasant times during that year. In athletics we again stepped to the front, as basketball champions. Owing to greater responsibilities we lessened the number of activities during our Junior year. We entertained the Seniors by a boat trip on May 6. Our class basketball team was the first College Junior team to win and the first team to win for three successive years; the Glen E. Carlson trophy cup thus became a permanent possession of the class. Winning the Elkins’ Scholarship Trophy added to the scholastic attainment of the class. We have had members in important offices and on debate and athletic teams. Five of the Seniors are members of the Ministerial Association and another is a missionary, indicative that spiritual interest is not foreign to us. For other interesting items ask a member of the class of ’28. Page Fifteen

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Henry Wilson Pearl Ketcham Andrew Grey Mabel Shipley Victorio Velasco Lloyd Vincent Ethel Klein Ralph Bisnett Jewell Dennis Marian Mills Kaneo Oda Kathryn Devers Glenn Phelps Mrs. Leota Walter Herald Leise Geneva Hemry Allan Westcott Mrs. Wesley Edwards Page Seventeen