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

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£e uosi GIgAA, Will . . . We, the students of the Senior Class of 1948, TaHoMa High School, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament upon passing through the doors of TaHoMa High School. It seems as though Sue Horne thinks the incoming freshmen would like the dingy halls, and Perry Tompkins is leaving dear old TaHoMa a fumigator. The reason of course is the smell that comes into the halls trom the chemistry room. There seems to be some feuding and fighting between the chemistry boys and the Ag boys. Maybe that explains why Dick Kleparek (a good Ag boy) is leaving his chickens to a poor starving chemistry boy and La Verne Gay is leaving the next Ag class the pants from some chemistry boy. Fred Habenicht thinks that he would like to will this school his little water hose in the chemistry room. Maybe that’s why Jack LeGrande is leaving his rain clothes to anyone who might need them. It looks like Chester Spurgeon has quite a distaste for the Ag boys. He says he’ll leave that to his brother Jack, and hopes that he’ll carry on the good work. Helen Horne seems to be a pretty lucky girl what with Nettie Comer leaving her all her boy friends except her latest one. Eilene Cox hates to depart with her pierced ears but she says she will give them to Frances W. I guess Mildred Popenoe doesn’t think that Chuck A. has enough freckles so she is giving him hers. With such beautiful red hair. I don’t see how Mildred Saftich can give her red hair to Rosalee V. Some people have all the luck. What I mean is that Irene Porter is willing her legs to Delores. Evidently Dorothy Bartholomew’ doesn't like her bangs so she wills them to Betty Hedin. Right in that line, Sonja Peterson is willing her flashy hair ribbons to Colleen P. The girls are going to be mighty lucky. Why? Because Patti McGraw is leaving her address book and it contains bodys’ addresses only. Less Collecchi must have trouble with the stencil machine. He says he’ll leave all his headaches and cussing from it to any poor sap who wants it. Don Neal wills all his arguing just for the sake of arguing to anyone w'ho wants it. Alene Sandhei seems to get quite a few headaches from the Letterette Club meetings. She wills all her headaches to anyone who wants them. David Maxw’ell seems to think that girls give him a pretty rough time. He says he’ll gladly leave that to Bob Hale. Bertha Faull must have quite a few compacts and lipsticks to be able to give them to Della A. Ralph Matthews doesn’t think he w’ill have any more use for his tuba so he is going to will it to Donald Dunlap. Seems as though Gwen Williams has a horrible habit of drinking coke and she W'ants to get rid of it so she is willing it to Marlene Radtke. It looks as though Virgil Markus is going bankrupt since he wants to will his used car business. Cookie seems to be quite a fortunate person. Why? Because Marjorie Bowman is willing to Cookie her trusty tw’o-inch pencil. Guy Belleman seems to want to be like Nettie since he is willing all his girl friends except his latest one to the Ag boys. Looks like Mr. Heidenreich will get his bicycle after all because Virginia Merett is willing him her bike and she wills her lunch pail to Marvel L. Richard Grady doesn’t think Don Dunlap is tall enough so he is willing his long legs to Don, and we do mean long. Bob Zielinski is willing his ability to stay out of trouble to the Junior class. James Keys wills the Class of “53” to TaHoMa. As if Don C. doesn’t have enough trouble, Chuck Barbero decides that he will will all his car troubles to him. Wills, wills and more wills. But here are a few more. Shirley Kovash doesn’t like to do all the blushing so she is willing all her blushing to her dear old cousin Alice G. Victor Biasotti wills Helen H. to his brother, Santo. Bill Bowman wills all his blondes to the future Ag boys. Last but not least, is Buddy Dubigk who wills his 6 feet 2 inches to Pete Peterson. Oh, we almost forgot, Herbert Reed who wills his intelligence to Dick Stone. 12 TaHoMa, ’48

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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

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 ffuniosui . First Row; left to right: Della Aanerud, Betty Hedin, Desma Taylor, Alice Grady, Colleen Palmer, Frances Wisniski, Delores Vaiente. Second Row; left to right: Santo Biasotti, Jim Sener, Rosalee Vey, Pat Ullrich. Marvel LeGrande, Margie Knott, Bud Plischke, Harold Heilsberg (Advisor). llte GIgAA September 5, 1945, the class of “49 began ‘.heir school careers together with an enrollment of 33 students. Yes, they admit the other students shuddered, the teachers were stunned and the School Board was horrified, but they bravely continued. The end of the school year finally arrived with the cheerful thought of returning the following fall. The Sophomore class began to toll the bells for the year of 46” with the enrollment of 30 students. They liked this year better because the teachers began to agree they were human, but it was still a struggle to hold their heads up before the upper classmen. Yes. there were trips to the office for some and notes to the parents for others, but at least 24 of the more determined students finished the year. Juniors, at last they have become upper classmen. The enrollment reads 15 students remaining to carry on the hopes and dreams of the 33 students of two years ago. With graduation as their goal, their heads held high, the juniors have at last realized the important part they hold in TaHoMa High. The activities of the year for the Junior Class began with an assembly given for the rest of the school. The assembly which consisted of musical selections a nd a one-act play. “Cornin' Round the Mountain” was given December 3, 1947. The annual Junior Prom this year was one of the most important dances of the year. The date was March 19. 1948. Each and every Junior will long remember that evening as an outstanding event of their school days. The class officers for the present year are: Margie Knott, president; Betty Hedin, vice-president; Colleen Palmer, secretary, and Jim Sener, treasurer. The class feels they have had a very successful year under the excellent guidance of their advisor, Mr. Harold Heilsberg. The Juniors are looking forward to a happy, successful Senior Year. KI-AH-YU 13