Tahoma High School - Ki Ah Yu Yearbook (Maple Valley, WA)

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§ e UanA, • • • Chester Robert Spurgeon Boy’s club: F. F. A.; Operetta: Smoker; Ski club; Football 1 yr.; Basketball 1 yr.; Journalism club. Ambition—To be the first man to go to Mars. Perry Clifford Tompkins Prof. Boy’s club; F. F. A.; Ski club. Ambition - To de- v e 1 o p intersteller space drive. Fred Habenicht President Ralph Nolan Matthews Bud Band; Orchestra; Boy’s club. Ambition To play a tuba in the German band. Robert Russell Zielinski— Zeke Boy’s club; Football 1 yr.; Basketball. Ambition To retire at 18. Gwen Louise Williams Gen-e-wie Girl’s club; Secretary of the Senior class; Yell Leader; Operetta; Ski club; Service club; Senior Play; Journalism club; Letterette. Ambition To reconstruct our driveway for the benefit of all who enter hereon. Jack LeGrande Gwen Williams Vice President Secretary S tio-'i ClaM. cMiA£an.q, . On Sept. 5. 1944, there were 56 bright and nhining faces waiting for their respective buses. That day the Senior class of ’45 was seated on the buses so that no matter how hard we tried we could not nit alone. We either had to sit with a Senior or on the Hoor. After everything was going nicely, the Seniors decided to initiate the Freshmen. They told us this would be on Sept. P.7. On that fateful day everyone came to school prepared to see the fun. As the Freshmen came filing in, all the Seniors were ready for us. It was a day to remember. One day soon after initiation we elected our officers for the first semester. They were: President, Dorothy Bartholomew; Vice President, Jack LeGrande; Secretary. Irene Sweeney; Treasurer, Nettie Comer: Board of Control Representative. Fred Habenicht and Sergeant at Arms. Less Collecchi. The second semester we elected new officers. These were: President, Fred Habenicht; Vice President, Jack LeGrande; Secretary, Eilene Cox; Treasurer, Chuck Taylor; Board of Control Representative, Nettie Comer and Sergeant at Arms, Bud Dubigk. Our class advisor was Mr. Hewitt. And then came the year of '45. When roll was taken this year we found out the boys still out-numbe-ed the girls. There were 23 boys and 18 girls who started. The boys had it pretty easy in school this year but the girls fought a good battle in basketball and came out on top. This year our class officers were: President. Don Neal; Vice President, Jack LeGrande; Secretary Nettie Comer; Treasurer, Victor Biasotti; Board ot Control Representative. Fred Habenicht and Sergeant at Arms, Virgil Markus. Our class advisor was MissKrschma. Well, we’re still climbing. Juniors now. This year we elected our class officers quietly and very dignified like. We only had to send two people to the hospital. After our quiet meeting, we found out who our officers were. They were as follows: President, Jack LeGrande; Vice President. Sue Horne; Secretary-Treasurer, Nettie Comer; Board of Control Representative, Don Neal and Sergeant at Arms, Bill Bowman. Our class advisor was Mr. Riffe. One of the most important events during our Junior year was our Junior Prom. The theme was Dreamland.” It fit in very nicely with the nuits, formals and corsages. At the end of the year the school put on an operetta. Two Juniors took leads in it. They were Fred Habenicht and Charles Barbero. The two Juniors who led the Seniors in their graduation march were Eilene Cox and Jack LeGrande. Seniors at last. We had big things planned : or this year. First we elected our officers. They were: President, Fred Habenicht; Vice President. Jack LeGrande; Secretary-Treasurer, Gwen Williams; Board of Control Representative, Guy Belleman. Our class advisor was Mr. Moore. One of the most important events of this year was the Senior Ball. Our theme was Santa’s Land.” We also put on a Senior play. “Ghostly Fingers.” Now all we hear is graduation. We will wear suits. The date is May 27. All we Seniors will be very happy when that day comes. 10 TaHoMa, ’48

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 SenianA . . I »vid Frank Maxwell— Di-vid Hoy’s club; Service club; Torch club; Secretary of Letterman; Senior Play; Ski club; Orchestra; Band; Journalism club; Baseball, 2 yrs.; Basketball, 3 yrs.; Manager of Football. 1 yr. Ambition — To marry a woman with a million dollars and have lfr kids. Virginia Lee Merett— Ginny Girl’s club; Service club; Operetta; Senior Play: Office Girl. Ambition—To be a teacher of the animal language so that others will understand animals as I have. Norma Fatrlcia-Ellen McGraw—Patti Girl’s club. Ambition—To be a horse doctor. Donald Arthur Neal— Farmer Treasurer of Boy’s club; letterman; Torch club; Service club; Vice President of Student Body; Operetta; Senior Play; President of Sophomore class; Tennis. 3 yrs.; Board of Control; Basketball, 3 yrs.; Football, 2 yrs. Ambition — To make people think that I am working when I am not. Sonja Margaret Peterson —Sign Girl’s club secretary; Yell Leader, Journalism club; Tennis, Ski club; Editor of TaHoMa Herald. Ambition—To drive carefully. Mildred Mae Popenoe— Popsie Girl’s club; Operetta; Orchestra; Band. Ambition — To hypnotize people with my so-called music. Virginia Irene Porter— Irene Girl’s club; Librarian. Ambition—Not to eat any more candv. Herbert Emanuel Heed— Herbie Boy’s club. Ambition—Double decompose myself. Mildred Mae Safticli— Milly Girl’s club; Operetta. Ambition — To marry a man with lots of money. Alene Dolores Sandhei— Sandy Girl’s club; Service club; Pep Band; Letterette President; Operetta; Office Girl; Journalism club. Ambition — To keep from blushing. KI- AH-YU 9

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Senior GIguU Ptopitecif, Dear Teddie: Well, here it is 1958 and we’re finally getting around to taking that trip we have been talking about all these years. We left Tahoma about 7 a. m. On the road we passed Dorothy Bartholomew. She is living on the outskirts of Taylor and raising mountain goats. We had the radio on in the car and who should we hear but Richard Grady. He does a very good job pinch hitting for Walter Winchell. It was getting pretty late but still we weren’t tired, so we stopped at the Brown Derby, and who should be directing the orchestra but Shirley Kovash. We were quite lucky as we had good service. The head waiter himself waited on us. You’ll never guess who it was—Bud Dubigk, of course. As Bud left we were greeted by Patti McGraw who was the new cigarette girl. We left early as we were planning to attend the local church the next morning. Also attending church was State Representative Perry Tompkins. He introduced us to Reverend Jim Keyes who seemed to be a very sociable person. We continued our travels soon after church let out. As We were sight-seeing, not traveling very fast, we were soon overtaken by a man racing down the road. A close look proved the man to be Ralph Matthews practicing to be a marathon runner. As we were busy watching Ralph, we struck a parked car and as a result we had to stop at Virgil Markus’ Body and Fender shop. Once we had the car in tip-top shape we con tinued on our trip. We came to a stop upon seeing a young woman soundly scolding a dog which had taken her new hat and ripped it to pieces. A closer look revealed that the lady was none other than Virginia Merett who was now teaching the English language to animals. Virginia told us that she had just bought her hat from the famous fashion designer, Sue Horne, and since Sue was in town, we went up to see her. Sue told us she had designed hats for all the society people including the queen of society, Bertha Fault. Sue said that Bertha had just given a big wedding party for her close friends, Nettie Comer and Guy Belleman who were now staying in Florida where Guy runs a gas station. We left Sue among her hats and journeyed on down the road. Soon we saw a cloud of dust coming over the horizon and traveling at terrific speed toward us. A squeal of brakes and a peeling of tires and a souped-up Hot Rod ground to a stop. We were pleasantly surprised to find that it was David Maxwell, practicing for the Hot Rod races which were to be held next month. Dave told us that he was getting plenty of publicity in the New York Herald as our good friend, Fred Habenicht was now editing this famous paper. Quite a jump from editing the school paper, Huh? Our next stop was a side road carnival featuring Jack LeGrande as the strong man, and Robert Zielinski’s Hot Licks band. Head barker at the carnival was LaVerne Gay, who had really developed his lungs since high school days. As it was now dark we went to the nearest hotel we could find and guess who the switchboard operator was? Margie Bowman, of course. The night clerk rang for the bell boy to take our bags and we were in for another surprise as the bell boy turned out to be Herbert Reed. The next day we continued on our journey. Our next stop was a boxing arena which featured Victor Biasotti as the “Champ who took on all comers. His manager proved to be Mildred Popenoe and between the two of them they made a combination hard to beat. At ringside we met Less Collecchi who told us that he was now in the florist business and doing very well. On our way again we passed a very beautiful farmhouse along the side of the road. The name on the mailbox was Bill Bowman but being of a stubborn nature we had to inquire within to see if it was really Bill or not, and sure enough, it was Booming Bill in the flesh. He told us that Mildred Saftich and Irene Porter were now running a laundry in the next town and they seemed to be doing very well. After leaving Bill to his work we journeyed into town as we wished to see Don Neal who was now a big lumber man and a prominent figurehead in politics. Don told us that Chester Spurgeon was running one of his lumber barges for him and was also one of the head men in the plant. We were very glad to hear that Chester was also doing very well for himself. We continued on our trip through town on a road which just happened to pass along side of a railroad track and there were the two faithful employees who had given much of their life to keeping the trains on the tracks, Ken Collins and Chuck Barbero. Our travels took us farther into the big city where all kinds of signs and billboards met our eye. One in particular tickled our fancy and we just had to go inside. The sign read If you want to learn to Cheer, step in here,” so we went inside and lo and behold, who should it be but Gwen Williams, Jerry Cox and Sonja Peterson giving lessons to all ages of school children in the womanly art of cheer leading. Not to be rude we took one lesson and then left as we had one more stop on our list. This visit took us high into the mountains where skiiers were going full blast and into the skiiers lodge where the ski instructor was staying. Here we found Dick Kleparek seated at the desk on which a sign stood which read “Ski Instructor.” We had a friendly talk with Dick and then we had to be hitting the road for our vacation time was about Up. As we reached home we thought over all the pleasant memories of the trip which we had just completed and all in all we would not have traded it for anything else in the whole world. Well. I guess that’s about all in this letter. So long and good luck! Yours truly. THE CLASS OF ’48 KI-AH-YU 11