West Seattle High School - Kimtah Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Front row: Earl Boyd, Joe james, Hugh Snow, Dwight Stevens. Back row: Carl Winge, Dave Potter, Lee Brewer, Noah Showalter. YELL SQUAD jerry Costacos, Clyde Hereford, Walt Litch, Elwood Pelton, Don Corley, Jack Rockwell, Jack McLaughlin, Leo Marshall. SAFETY PATROL Front row: Ronald Flanagan, Jerry Cos- tacos, john Capis, Don Erlandson, Harley Healy. Back row: Bob McFadden, john I-Ieib, james Burroughs, Carl Schukar, Lyle Wilson. PROJECTOR COMMITTEE Front row: Carl Winge, Norman White, Stan Timmons, George Bayless, jim Hess. Back row: Bob Rowlins, Bill Mahoney, Don jacques, Claude Simmons. :C o ' ,Jw ,- A in pf. ri,i ri, I lik Q I I ,Q L.. I if obtained prominent speakers to entertain the student body before school, Thursday morn- ings, and as a whole proved worth while. Other committees organized during the year were: Toy Drive, headed by Bill Love, Cfhce Committee, which included the boys in the Boys' Club Office who took phone calls and ran er- rands, Safety Patrol, boys who helped out in air-raid drills, Library Committee, boys who took care of the Boys' Club books, and last of our standing committees was the Athletic Council

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13' ,, BOYS' CLUB OFFICERS Bill Whitesel, Dan McGill, Visco Grgich, Lee Brewer. CLEAN UP DRIVE Phil Brewer, Don Bowles, joe james, Bob Dalton. THURSDAY MORNING CLUB Visco Crgich, Al Selfriclge, Jack Rockwell, Dan McGill, Bob Dalton, Walt Popich, MOTHER AND SON BANQUET COMMITTEE Front row: Bjarne Qvale, Walt Popich, Tatsumi Tacla, Bob Collins. Back row: Dave Potter, ,lim Balzer, Phil Brewer, Jim Humphrey, Harley Nygren. As the first semester of this school season got underway, the Boys' Club put on their an- nual banquet for the mother ancl sons. General Chairman Bob Thorsen and Toastmaster Dave Potter, with their Banquet Committee, put across an excellent annual get-together for the mothers and sons of West Seattle. Although the Thursday Morning Club was a little late in getting started, Visco Grgich and his Committee showed active enthusiasm in selecting speakers for the meetings. This group

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IONEER boys in faded blue jeans, faces industriously scrubbed, walked with their little sisters, whose pigtails dangled, through meadows and over wooded hills to get Hthar larnin '. There, in a one- room log school house with dirt floor, the off spring of hardy pioneer stock congregated. Wind whistled through chinks in the logs. Wood fires, kindled early in the morning, struggled against the cold. Teachers, usually untrained, faced with the task of teaching all grades at the same time, were impatient over blundering mistakes. For the most part, Heddekashinn was left to shift for itself. Today, riding streamlined trolleys to well- lighted, well-ventilated, modern buildings, we students obtain our education. As Well as learning the three Rs, and geography and history, we have access to books on all subjects. Education has ceased to shift for itself and has become the foundation of de- mocracy. sq f'Qf?tf Us X M