Seattle Preparatory School - Echo Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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NAME: Russell Clifford Alexander NICKNAME: Honest Russ AMBITION: To inherit s5oo,ooo,ooo and take lite easy as an undertaker ACHIEVEMENTS: Football-Soph-Frosh 2, Boxing I ACTIVITIES: Sodality I, 2 NAME: John Gerald Andersen NICKNAME: Andy AMBITION: To honestly type fifteen words a minute ACHIEVEMENTS: Baseball-Cubs I, Second Team 2, 3, Basketball-Cubs I, Third Team 2, 3, Football-Second Team 2, 3, 4, ACTIVITIES: Sodality I, 2, 3 NAME: Robert Renaut Beezer NICKNAME: Bob AMBITION: To be a successful pawn shop broker and proprietor ACHIEVEMENTS: Baseball-Cubs I, Football- Second Team 4 ACTIVITIES: Annual Stafl 4, Debate Club I, 3, 4, Sodality I, 2, 3, 4 -NAME: James Louis Berard NICKNAME: Dumbo AMBITION: To get out at Kosher Canyon ACI-IIEVEMENTS: Class Officer 4, Football- Second Team 2, 3 ACTIVITIES: Panther Club 3, 4 JL 4 I NAME: John Wesley Blewett i NICKNAME: Bullet AMBlTlO,N: To be a winning grade-schasiyff basketball coach y if v ACHIEVEMENTS: Baseball-Second redm 3, Qasketball-Third Team 3, Varsity 4, Class Offi- cer 3 ACTIVITIES: Glee Club 4, Publicity Club 3, 4 NAME: James Gerard Boner NICKNAME: Beaver AMBITION: To build better and bigger barges forthe Chris-Craft Co. ACHIEVEMENTS: Baseball-Frosh I, Second Team 2, Varsity 3, 4, Basketball-Frosh I, Sec- ond Team 2, Varsity 3, 4, Football-Cubs I, Second Team 2, 3, Varsity 4 ACTIVITIES: Glee Club 2, 4, Lettermen's Club 3, 4, Sodality I, 2

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Phil Gastineau drew leading roles, with Don White rank- ing as top star in the basketball scene. We gained momen- tum as we settled into a smoothly functioning group. Many new lettermen were added to the roster. We ran out of gas about half way through our trip but after much strenuous pushing and pulling we managed to get by with most of our riders still on board in an upright position. En route, Arsenic and Old Lace was enacted, with Mee- han, Wyse, Packard, Parker, Touhy, Dreaney, Carroll and Smith carrying roles under the dauntless, sometimes called fearless, mister by the name of Falsetto. A certain bit player known as Mike Hansen demanded better roles and immediately was made prefect of the Sodality, editor of the Panther and president of the Associated Student Body. Don White was made director of the powerful Lettermen's Club. Jim Meehan, Bill Wall and Jim Wyse insisted upon making speeches which were lauded by the public, espe- cially in a small town called College of Puget Sound. Then came the pause for which we had all been waiting, the pause that refreshes, the junior Prom. It was a huge suc- cess and earned the cast many curtain calls. But before we knew it the end had come to this very enjoyable and highly successful junior tour. 1945-46 Touk Peace having been declared August 15, we believed it safe to board an airliner for transportation during the last year of our show. We set out on what seemed to be the shortest trip we ever made. Don White and john Prender- gast took the controls, with Fr. Evoy and Fr. Renner as navigators. On the gridiron John Sollars and Chuck Ketch- am were chosen by football enthusiasts for the all-star cast of the Cross-State Leagues annual All-State show. The former was voted the Inspirational Oscar for his spar- kling performance. We had a little trouble with a high flying balloon called O'Dea which we deflated in a hurry and dropped on the University of Washington Stadium on Thanksgiving Day. We then were acclaimed Catholic Champions of the Northwest. We managed to win third prize in the Cross-State Gridiron Show and the basketeers came in second with their excellent performance starring Sollars and Spangler. They gained the recognition of being the best Prep team in years. The good fortune of these teams is attributed to a strong, huge, bulky man called Mr. Melink, or Melinkquicha, or Malinkavich, or something like that. The plane crashed into an air pocket but in our groping attempts to gain an even flight most of us retained' our seats and weathered that mid-January storm. An expe- rienced cast of prize debaters did very well in keeping the speaking reputation of Seattle Prep high and mighty. The Lettermen's Club presented The Best Dance of the Year, which was really a social success in the highest sense of the word. Finally, on June 2, the Seattle Prep Players of '46 presented their last performance at the Moore Theater. It was the end of one of the best companies ever to carry the name of Seattle Prep. These four years have enabled us to take almost any part, be it doctor, lawyer, engineer or priest. And no matter how successful we become on the professional stage of life, wefll never forget the little school house where we got our start. God bless you, Seattle Prep.

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NAME: Marsh William Brown NICKNAME: Admiral AMBITION: To get a full length picture in the paper ACHIEVEMENTS: Baseball-Second Team 3, Basketball-Second Team 3, Varsity 4 ACTIVITIES: Glee Club 4, Publicity Club 3, 4 NAME: Robert J. Buck NICKNAME: Hindu AMBITION: To fly a kite ACTIVITIES: Debate Club 4, Glee Club 2, 3, Harlequin Club I, Sodality I, 2, 3, 4 NAME: John Alfred Carroll NICKNAME: Hick AMBITION: To turn West Seattle into one big chicken farm ACHIEVEMENTS: Elocution l, 2, 3, 4, Extem- poraneous Speaking 3, Sodality Essay 4 ACTIVITIES: Debate Club l, 2, 3, 4, Harlequins 3, 4, Sodality l, 2, 3, 4 . 5 gk ', ,, - , NAME: Davaqfw. ctiumbeflcan .IL NIQCNAME: Dav AMBITION: To yer In the Draw f ACHIEVEMENTS: Basketball?-Varsity 4, 1. Tennis4 - ' VlACTIVlTlES:lylee CIub4 Q NAME: Jerry Lane Copeland NICKNAME: Bleachy AMBITION: To star in pictures and 'television u a NAME: Leroy Maurice Dehan Jr. NICKNAME: Shoulders AMBITION: To be another Crosby ACTIVITIES: Debate Club I, 3, Glee Club 3, 4, Harlequins I, 4, Sodality I, 2, 3, 4