Roosevelt High School class 72

Roosevelt High class of 1972

2011-04-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySDD1JGKkkc

Roosevelt High School class of 1971 Brian Delmer Smith

2011-04-03T07:43:00.000-07:00

Brian Delmer SMITH Brian left us on March 23, 2011 at the age of 58 after a short illness. A musician and friend to many, he passed away far too young. Born in Seattle on February4th, 1953, he graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1971, already an accomplished electric bass guitar player. He played in many bands over the years, most famously with Scargill, the touring backup band for Doug Kershaw, the Ragin' Cajun fiddler. A serious record collector, he could never pass up a garage sale offering those strange round objects with a hole in the middle. Always willing to help out his friends, he was the most honest of people. He loved the social aspect of listening to music or jamming, and liked to sit in with Seattle-area bands whenever he could. He was also an avid sports fan, madly cheering on his favorite teams. He is preceded in death by his mother, Ardath L. "Toddie" and father, Delmer G. "Tubby" Smith. He is survived by his sister, Deanne (Dee) Smith of Seattle, an aunt, Vi Ellis, of Spokane, and numerous cousins, most notably Holly Getman of Naches, WA, who was there for him in his last years.A memorial service will be held at a later date. He will be truly missed by all who knew him.

Roosevelt High School class 72 reunion

2011-03-09T11:20:00.000-08:00

Looking to see who would like to meet and talk about next year's class of 72 reunion.

Roosevelt Class of 1973

2011-01-16T11:41:00.000-08:00

Mary Margaret (Meg) Currier REID Meg passed away on January 4th after a brief illness, surrounded by her family. She was born in Tacoma, WA on October 18, 1955 to Jim and Mary Ann Currier. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Romance Linguistics. She was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority and served as chapter president. Meg was the personification of grace, love, and compassionâ€"she never met anyone she could not befriend. Meg had the gift of being able to remember something about people she met and share it with them the next time she saw them. She chose to make her family and her community her life's work. She gave quietly of her time and talents with unceasing generosity and humility to many organizations, most notably the Northshore School District. Meg could light up a room with her big brown eyes and beautiful spirit. She had a quick wit and a wicked sense of humorâ€"she was hilarious. She had her own way of telling a story, and her version was always more entertaining than what had really happened. Of her many wonderful quirks, she had a unique palate, and was known for her four basic food groups: nonfat lattes, milk chocolate, crunchy peanut butter, and Cheerios. Meg loved sports and was a devoted fan of the Huskies, Mariners, Seahawks and Sounders; no matter what the record was, she never abandoned her teams. Meg was an amazing wife, mother, sister, and friend. She is survived by Tom, her devoted husband of 28 years, and her children: Andrew, and his fiancée Melanie Bishop, Margaret 'Maggie', Peter 'Bubs', Jane Elizabeth 'Janie', and SeÃ±or (Buddy), her constant and faithful four-legged companion. Meg will also be greatly missed by her sisters Betsy Wheeler (Doug), Jane Lamb (Peter), and her brother Jim Currier (Melanie), as well as her nieces, nephews and extended family. We are all better people for having had the gift of her presence in our lives. Meg was always the life of the party, but she has left this party far too early, and we will all miss her. In lieu of flowers, remembrances can be made to NW Chapter of National MS Society (Meg's Fun Raisers 2011 Walk MS); Hopelink or The Puget Sound Blood Center. A Celebration of Life for Meg will be held on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 10:18 a.m., at the Lake Forest Park Presbyterian Church 17440 Brookside Blvd NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155.
Published in The Seattle Times on January 16, 2011

Barduhn's Photo - jazz in New Orleans 2011

2011-01-14T23:23:00.000-08:00

Jill Lorene Brossard at the age of 53 dies of breast cancer

2010-12-16T09:49:00.000-08:00

Jill Lorene BROSSARD Jill Lorene Brossard, born December 13th 1956 in Seattle Washington, passed away on December 11th at the age of 53. She died unexpectedly, surrounded by family, after a reoccurrence of breast cancer. Jill graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle and Green River CC in Auburn, where she received her degree in occupational therapy. Jill realized her passion for working with special needs children and was a dedicated advocate. Yet, once she had children of her own she left to focus on raising a family. She can be identified by any Mill Creek resident, as she was an avid walker-coffee cup and dog leashes in hand! Jill was a beautiful soul, always ready with her genuine and warm smile. She left a loving legacy to both her immediate and extended family. She is survived by her husband Jim, her daughters Carlee, Kimberly (T.J.), Laura, her son Daniel, her parents Jerrolee and Carl Ostrom, her sisters Carolee Morrison (John), Nancy Broderson and brother Tom Ostrom (Marilyn). Service to be held at Trinity Lutheran Church, 6215 196th St. SW, Lynnwood WA 98036 December 17th at 2:00 p.m. Remembrances can be made to www.trinitylutheran church.com or www.komen.org.

2010-10-26T12:16:00.001-07:00

The two 1972-73 All-Metro Jim’s, Edwards and Ingram, go at it.
The Metro League was so good that season (long-time local player and coach, Keith Kingsbury, called it the strongest he had seen it in 15 years) that Ingraham won the pre-seaso...n Holiday Tournament, Garfield won the Metro League title, and Roosevelt won the State Championship.

Even Nathan Hale, which finished 3rd in the North Division, defeated Ingraham, and took Roosevelt twice into overtime before losing.

Another year is comming to an end.

2010-10-26T11:57:00.000-07:00

We are approaching Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2010. I am back after I departed Seattle back in 1977. I live in Edmonds. If I had one wish; it would be that all that need a job could find one.

Dave Barduhn sent an invite Roosevelt Class 1972

2010-09-08T07:48:00.000-07:00

Dave BarduhnSeptember 8, 2010 at 7:33am
Genesis 2011 had their orientation (pool party) yesterday. It's gonna be a fun group! :-)

I'm really looking forward to making music with these folks as we prepare to put our set together for the national jazz educators convention in New Orleans!! That's right we have been selected to perform the first week of January in New Orleans! Who wants to go with us????

The many shirts of Dave Barduhn Roosevelt class 1972

2010-08-31T14:46:00.000-07:00

Doris Lederer Roosevelt class of 1972

2010-08-02T11:49:00.000-07:00

Doris Lederer class 72 Roosevelt Hi Carl-

All is well. I'm in Maine right now teaching and performing at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Next week I'll be in Chautauqua, NY doing the same... :)
...During the year I am Associate Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA where I live with my husband, Tom Shaw. Tom and I are also both members of the Audubon Quartet.

My website is
http://www.dorislederer.com/

Doris Lederer Roosevelt Class of 1972

2010-07-20T11:58:00.000-07:00

Doris Lederer with survivor Arnost Lustig, "He is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust."
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Doris Lederer has performed with the Marlboro Music Festival and toured with Music From Marlboro. She has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Albuquerque Chamber Orchestra, among others.

Ms. Lederer has been honored to represent the United States as a jury member at the Eighth Banff International String Quartet Competition in Canada and to be a jury member of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in California.

Currently an associate professor of viola and chamber music at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA, Ms. Lederer also serves on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in Idyllwild, California, and the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She has also served on the faculties of The International Festival at Round Top, Texas and The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, as well as the annual Audubon Quartet's Intensive String Quartet Seminars. She has given viola and chamber music Master Classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University, the Yale School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Kneisel Hall, the Chautauqua Institute, Idyllwild Arts, the Marrowstone Music Festival in Washington State and the Beijing and Shanghai Conservatories in China.

As a member of the Audubon Quartet since 1976, Ms. Lederer has performed extensively throughout the world and has recorded extensively on the RCA, Telarc, Centaur and Opus One labels.

Ms. Lederer's four solo CD albums, entitled An English Fantasy for Viola and Harp, Music of Arnold Bax and York Bowen, The Passion of Bliss, Bowen and Bridge and Music by York Bowen, which features the Bowen Viola Concerto have been released by Centaur Records.

Born in Istanbul to European parents, Ms. Lederer grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she began her study of the viola at age nine with Vilem Sokol. She studied with Georges Janzer at Indiana University and subsequently attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, Felix Galimir and Mischa Schneider.

Roosevelt class of 1983 Craig Phillip Nicholson

2010-07-20T11:44:00.000-07:00

Thank you for the picture Margo Serrano July 19, 2010
Roosevelt class of 1983 Craig Phillip Nicholson
Craig Phillip NICHOLSON April 16, 1965 ~ July 11, 2010 Craig Phillip Nicholson, 45 of Kenmore, WA passed away on July 11, 2010 suddenly leaving family and friends in a state of shock and grief. Craig was born and raised in Seattle, and graduated from Roosevelt High School. Craig lived his life to the fullest, recently completing a trip to the Philippines to attend the wedding of a dear friend. During his short life, he gained an appreciation and love for the water after being a commercial fisherman for 12 years. After his tenure as a fisherman, he started his own Construction Company. Craig took great pride in building homes and doing remodels and the pride that he put into each project was apparent in the final result. He had an attention to detail that resulted in outstanding workmanship and quality construction. Craig touched many people's life and was a friend to all, never hesitating to drop everything to help a friend in need. Craig is survived by his loving wife, Lugene of Kenmore, his two daughters, Elena Myers, 28 of Everett and Brittany Nicholson, 12 (his little pumpkin) of Kenmore. He was very active in school projects for his youngest daughter and was very proud of the girls who have grown up to be remarkable young ladies. Craig was known to put the needs of others before his own needs which leave a void with those who are closest. Craig is also survived by his mother, Corinne Paradis Nicholson Duke and predeceased by his father, John Alexander Nicholson. Others left behind to remember and honor Craig are his brothers, Doug (Karen) of Shoreline and their two children, Kia and Andrew, Randall Nicholson (Jessie) of Medina and their son Jack and his sister, Gail of Seattle and her son, Ryan. Craig will also be remembered by Brandon, his nephew in Utah, who was like a son to him. Craig is also survived by a large group of friends who will miss his laughter, his sense of humor and the unique perspective that he brought to life. Farewell my husband, my father, my son, my brother and my friend, you will be greatly missed and we love you deeply. Memorial services are being provided by Acacia funeral home in Lake Forest Park. Services will be off site, however the family urges those who knew Craig to go to the website at Acacia www.acaciafuneralhome.com to speak of the relationship with Craig. These memories will be saved and shared for his daughters.
Published in The Seattle Times from July 18 to July 19, 2010

Roosevelt class 1973 Christy Timberlake

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Mark Sandstrom commented

"Our family had the pleasure of interfacing with Christy Timberlake (Denova) a
generation later -- her daughter Tyana went to preschool with our now 17 y.o.
daughter, and our now 15 y.o.son to Whitman MS, and various sports teams over
the years here in Ballard, with her son Alec. Both of Christy's kids are as
exceptionally talented and nice and down-to-earth as Christy was. It is a very
tough loss but they will carry on her spirit well, I am sure."

Michael O'Sullivan BURROWS Roosevelt class 1973

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Michael O'Sullivan Burrows burst into this world on June 21, 1954. He passed away peacefully on June 22, 2010 as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage he suffered on Thursday, June 17th. Michael spent his entire childhood in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle. He attended McGilvra Elementary, St. Michael's University School in Victoria BC and graduated from Roosevelt High School. Following high school, Michael served honorably in the United States Navy aboard the USS Ranger. After attending college, he worked in the family forest products business. Michael developed an impressive talent for tennis at an early age and was a lifelong member of The Seattle Tennis Club. During his later years, golf became his passion, consuming countless happy hours on the course with his many friends in pursuit of perfecting his handicap. He had an extraordinarily warm heart and robust sense of humor. He was a consummate entertainer, generous to a fault and a well-respected leader in the Pacific Northwest Hardwoods industry. Michael was an adoring husband, loving father, devoted brother and deeply loyal friend. He had an astonishing number of 'best friends'. All who have had the honor to know him will dearly miss him. He was preceded in death by his father Kenneth Burrows. He is survived by his loving wife Tove Burrows, son Petter Burrows, mother Joan Strand, brother Christopher Burrows (Leslie), sister Anne Reid (Michael), mother-in-law Kari Pors, sister-in law Kirsti James (Peter), sister-in-law Mari-Ann Murphy (Ben) and many loving cousins, nieces and nephews. There will be a memorial service held at 4 o'clock on Monday, June 28th at St. Bridget's Church, located at 4900 N.E. 50th, Seattle. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests remembrances be made to a fund for educational purposes that has been established for Michael's son Petter. Donations may be made at any Wells Fargo Bank in the name of: Scholarship Fund for Petter Burrows.
Published in The Seattle Times from June 25 to June 27, 2010 June 28, 2010
May your hearts heal with the happy and loving memories of 'Mikey'...I will always remember his robust laughter and what a great host he was... You knew if you were in his presence in a work and or casual instance there would be laughing and FUN!
May you rest in peace Mikey!! Jimmy L. DuBois
~ Jimmy DuBois, Bisbee, Arizona |Contact Me June 26, 2010
Dear family, my sincere condolences for you loss.
May you draw close to the father of tender mercies and God of all comfort at this difficult time.

Sincerely,
Janel June 25, 2010
We will always remember your big smile and warmth toward all. Please give my dad a huge Mikey hug for us.

Jane Harris Nellams on Christy Timberlake / Roosevelt High School

2010-07-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

Jane Harris Nellams said Christy Timberlake died in March 2007 of stomach cancer. Today would have been her 55th birthday. Several of us had a tree planted in her honor at Green Lake near the Bathhouse Theater. I stopped by it today on my walk.
If you are facing the Bathhouse theater and the lake, walk to the left side of the building and go to the water's edge. At the left end of the developed beach area are three sappling Black Tupelo trees. The first one is Christy's. It has a tag hanging around it at about eye level for those of us who are 5' 6".

Laurel Baker / Roosevelt High School

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Dave Filer and I dated for 4 - 5 years all thru high school. He contacted me a few years ago and I hadn't heard from him since we broke up after high school. So needless to say this was such a shock to hear from him.
He was dying of LuGericks Disease and wanted to ( I am sure ) close some chapters in his life.
We had a pretty tight group of friends in high school that were inseparable.
So when Dave called me with the bad new of his disease ( which by the way was such a shock for me to hear from him after all these years ). I decided to get our old group together to honor Dave and say our final goodbyes. Dave was living in Tusan, AZ so we had to get created. I hired a photographer and video taped the whole party along with special private messages from each friend who attended my party in honor of Dave.
It touched him deeply. He died a few months later but I was able to be his ray of sunshine via the telephone after all these years of not communicating with him . We tried to talk regularly.
My husband of 27 plus years was a gem thru this all and very supportive of me being there for Dave.
This was such a blessing to me to be able to bring Joy to him in his last days.

Laurel Baker

Laurel ( Mayovsky) Baker sent me these names

2010-07-07T16:04:00.001-07:00

In Memoriam 1973

Doni A Gough, Betty Dunn, Dave Filer

Dan Raley Roosevelt class of 72

2010-06-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

Dan Raley said; My Seattle friends: ... Want everybody to show up for one of my SoDo book author meet & greets/signings. Got to speak. Got to fill the rooms. Don't need to buy a book. Just want to see you, share a beer later ...

July 29, Thurs., 6:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble, U Village
Aug. 1, Sun., 2 p.m., Elliott Bay Book Co.
Aug. 5, Thu...rs., 5 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Pacific Place
Aug. 6, Fri., 6:30 p.m., Third Place Books, Ravenna

Roosevelt High teacher retiring after 45 years

2010-06-23T17:30:00.000-07:00

'Mama' mia! Revered Roosevelt High teacher retiring after 45 years
After 45 years of teaching teenagers everything from darning socks to balancing checkbooks, Joanne Janni Ryles is retiring from Roosevelt High Sch

Joanne Ryles becomes emotional while reading notes students wrote on the "We will miss you" poster outside her classroom.

After 45 years of teaching teenagers everything from darning socks to balancing checkbooks, "Mama Ryles" is retiring from Roosevelt High School.

"Nobody believed her this year when she said she was retiring," said Aly Ryles, Joanne Janni Ryles' youngest daughter. She said her mother had been threatening to retire for several years, but always returned to school in the fall.

But this time she means it. Wednesday, she'll leave her classroom for the last time.

"I didn't want to die at my desk and I have so many things to do on my bucket list," said Ryles. She wants to spend more time with her grandchildren, live in Italy, explore business ventures, finish remodeling her house and get two puppies, just to name a few.

"We'll see when the fall comes if she doesn't show up," joked Aly Ryles, 33, an elementary-school teacher in Dallas.

Ryles came to the school in North Seattle in 1965 as a home-economics teacher. Over the decades, the class has reached far beyond needlepoint and baking, with Ryles helping to lead the way. "It's more focused on life skills rather than cooking and sewing," Ryles said.

Today's classes center on relationships and "just getting along in the world," including classes called independent living and child development. "There's no place for them to learn these things," Ryles said.

When kids get on their own in the world they have no idea about how to budget or how much things cost to live, she said.

Her students — and there have been thousands — say she's been more than just a teacher. She was also a friend and mother figure, earning her the "Mama Ryles" nickname. "One thing I can say about these past 45 years is I have really had fun," said Ryles

Her two daughters remember how their childhood friends bonded with her in and out of the classroom. "They loved our mom more than they loved us," said Aly Ryles.

Praised by students

Ryles has taught students from every background. One is a CEO. Some have been in prison. The list even includes rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot (Anthony Ray).

"I know that for some of the kids, that hour that I have them is the best hour of their day because they're up against so much," Ryles said.

Despite only having Ryles this past school year, Sophie Turnberg, who graduated this week, feels a bond with her. "She really gives you the support you need and the confidence you need to go beyond what you think you can do."

Turnberg, 18, designed and crafted her own prom dress and recently entered another dress in a gown competition, with encouragement and support from Ryles.

But Savannah McAlpin, another recent graduate who first had a class with Ryles as a sophomore, had a rocky start. "She thought I was a devil-child," McAlpin said.

"I was on [Savannah] like a bad rash," said Ryles, who said she never had discipline problems and has only sent two students to the principal's office in her career. "She was always skipping [class] or late or something."

"I've had her three times and each time we've gotten closer," said McAlpin, who also said she's since matured and just earned an "A" in Ryles' class.

Students boast of Ryles' generosity, candor and how she keeps her classes lively and interesting.

"She taught us how to take care of ourselves, not that my wife would agree," said David Covey, 56, with a laugh. Covey took bachelor homemaking with Ryles where "all the baseball and football players learned how to sew buttons on."

Ryles kept an open-door policy with her students, spending lunch periods talking students through their problems. "You could go to her and let it all out," said Britney Cyprian, 24, Seattle, who would go to Ryles when she and her boyfriend, at the time, were fighting. "That's what makes her special."

Almost became a nurse

Originally from Wenatchee, Ryles graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in education in 1965 after changing her major from nursing during her senior year.

"I was always [deciding] between being a nurse or a teacher," said Ryles, whose mother was a registered nurse and her father a career educator.

"I'm glad I wasn't a nurse because if I had lost a patient it would have killed me."

She was assigned to Roosevelt a few months after graduating, but didn't want to go.

"I didn't even want to come here," she said. "I pleaded with the personnel to switch me."

Ryles was concerned about the rumors she heard like "how stuffy" the school was.

"The teachers didn't talk to me for the first six months I was there," Ryles recalled.

But things turned around after a fellow teacher realized that her childhood crush was Ryles' father. After that, she was welcomed into the faculty.

And she's been a student — and teacher — favorite since.

"She is the glue to the fabric in that department," said Elnora Hookfin, a vice principal at Roosevelt who has known Ryles for 38 years. "I don't know what we are going to do without her."

Ryles also has taught science, English, math, food and nutrition, child development, home furnishings, independent living, and apparel and textiles, her most popular class, where students learn to stretch their clothing budget by designing and sewing their own clothes.

Robin Ogburn, who teaches independent living and child development at Roosevelt, is a former student of Ryles' and will take over the apparel and textiles class next school year.

"The last time I took sewing was 40 years ago from [Ryles]," said Ogburn, who plans on recruiting parent volunteers to help out with the class. "I'm going to try to uphold her legacy, but it's going to be hard."

She'll have help from Ryles, who said she plans to come back and help out as a volunteer.

"I'm amazed at her energy," said Marilyn Sizer, a language-arts teacher, who is also retiring this year after working at Roosevelt for the past 15 years.

"I'm surprised she's retiring, but I suppose it had to come sometime."

Mrs. Ryles at retirement party "45 Years" June 15th 2010

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We all had a good time at the Sand Point Country Club. Duane Covey, Mrs. Ryles, and Matthew Harlowe.

Roosevelt class of 1976 Vanessa Veronique "Vivi" Brown

2010-06-12T16:34:00.000-07:00

For more comments by classmates see my Facebook

Vanessa Veronique 'Vivi' Brown, daughter of Marcia and Bob Brown was born in Stuttgart, Germany on December 26, 1958 while her father was on duty with the army. She died on January 28, 2010 in Seattle after struggling for decades with what we now know as bipolar disorder. Vivi lived in Berkeley, CA. where brother Morgan and sister Tristin were born, Newport Hills, Bellevue, WA; Boulder, CO; and Seattle, WA. As a child Vivi loved physical activity, reading and writing. She pursued dancing, gymnastics, biking, swimming, diving, tennis, hiking, skiing, and soccer, doing the Danskin Triathlon in '07 and '08. Vivi went to Roosevelt High School. She was on the gymnastics team and a commended scholar on the PreSat. She graduated from the University of Washington in Creative Writing with a minor in Ceramic Sculpture, later taking writing classes at Evergreen College, Central Seattle Community College, Hugo House and Northwest Writers Conferences. She organized and attended many writing groups, sharing her poetry, prose and editing others' work. While writing, Vivi worked as a waitress, receptionist, ships' mate on the Argosy, guide at the locks, rangler at preschools, and a Realtor. Her primary interest was teaching: Gymnastics Coach (Garfield Metro Champions), Creative Writing and SAT Test preparation teacher at Nathan Hale Evening School, nanny and licensed Day Care and PreSchool owner. She did collages, glass art, ceramic sculptures, tiles and mosaic assemblages. Vivi's art car was a mosaic wave of glass pieces. It received a full page spread in the Sun Valley, Idaho newspaper. Her passions were her family, niece Kimberly and nephew Teton Brown, uncle Norman Brown, aunt Diane Bogoshian and family, friends, and loves, her many animals, blues music, the environment, the orchids at the conservatory, the view and beach at Golden Gardens, Bill Maher and Obama, reading to the students at BF Day School, and the University Unitarian sermons, music, art and Great Decisions group. She is greatly missed. A memorial will be held on the beach at Golden Gardens on Saturday, June 19th at 5:00pm.

Joanne Ryles Retiring after 45 years at Roosevelt

2010-06-01T10:59:00.000-07:00

Robin Balee Ogburn informed me of the retirement party for Roosevelt teacher Joanne Ryles " Retiring after 45 years" on
June 15, Sand Point Country Club, 4-6 pm. Appetizers and cash bar. More info to come. Can you pass on to those that may want to attend?
Thanks!

Carol Milholland Hess Roosevelt Class of 72

2010-05-13T15:29:00.000-07:00

Just found Carol Milholland Hess on Facebook Roosevelt

Lily Chu Roosevelt class 72

2010-05-01T21:45:00.000-07:00

Anyone know where she is?

Timothy "Tim" Dunn Roosevelt Class 72

2010-05-01T21:38:00.000-07:00

Anyone know were he is? I remember that he knew every bus route in Seattle.

Tracy W. Osterhout Roosevelt class of 1975

2010-04-16T13:42:00.000-07:00

Tracy W. Osterhout Roosevelt class of 1975 Tracy W. Osterhout, 52, of Burbank, WA passed away on April 11, 2010 at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. He was born November 15, 1957 in Oahu, Hawaii to Fred and Edith Osterhout. Tracy lived in the Tri-City area for 23 years and was a Rural Route Mail Carrier for the United States Postal Service.

Having an Army Lt. Cornel as a father he lived in Germany, San Diego, CA, Virginia and Kansas before settling back in Washington State. Tracy was very active in Little League in that state of Virginia as well as in Washington. He was a self taught musician, being able to play the piano, flute, guitar and bass. Throughout the years he enjoyed performing with a variety of talented musicians.

Tracy was also a big fan of the hydroplane world from a very young age. Tracy along with his mother and father started a model remote control hydroplane business, Electric Thunder. He loved to work and build any type of hydroplane, whether it was toy size or full size, from plastic to fiberglass he could fabricate it all.

He was a very active volunteer with the Water Follies; he could hardly wait for the yearly July event.

Tracy is survived by his wife Lisa Osterhout of Burbank, WA; father, Fred Osterhout of Seattle, WA; sister, Donna (Mike)Carroll of Seattle, WA; sister, Karol Jones of Seattle, WA; and brother, Rick (Amy) Osterhout of Seattle, WA; along with several nieces and nephews and his aunts and uncles.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Edith Osterhout.

Tracy was honest, hard working, loving, caring and thoughtful of others and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 10:00am at Memories Sunset Event Center, located on the beautiful grounds of Sunset Memorial Gardens in Richland, WA.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Tracy’s name to the Tri-City Water Follies, 201 North Edison Ste 232, Kennewick, WA 99336 (509)783-4675 and or the Hydroplane/Race Boat Museum, 5917 South 196th St., Kent, WA 98032 (206)764-9453

Drummer and Composer Aaron Alexander is a New York City based klezmer and jazz drummer, composer, bandleader and educator

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Aaron grew up in Seattle, played classical violin from the ages of 4 thru 12, attended Eckstein Middle School, Nova and Roosevelt High School where the jazz band was led by the renowned Waldo King. Waldo really turned Aaron on to jazz music as a way of life and forever changed his direction. The following year Alexander began private studies with Jerry Granelli through Cornish College of the Arts. When he finished high school he attended Cornish and studied with Granelli, Jay Clayton, Julian Priester, James Knapp, and Randy Halberstadt. He attended the Banff Centre's Jazz Intensive in 1988 where he studied with Dave Holland, Marvin Smith, Anthony Davis, Muhal Richard Abrams and Pat LaBarbera. He has studied drums privately with Jerry Granelli, Sam Ulano, Gerry Hemingway, Bob Moses, Joe Morello, Victor Lewis, Woody Pierce and Mike Clark.
Alexander has appeared on over 50 CDs and his compositions have appeared on many of them, including CDs by Babkas (3 CDs on Songlines), Hasidic New Wave(4 CDs on Knitting Factory & Nottwo), Jay Clayton/Jim Knapp Collective(CDs on ITM Pacific and Sunnyside), Klezmerfest, The Kleztraphobix, Freeplay, and of course his CDs as a leader.
For the rest of the Bio, go to http://www.aaronalexander.com/shortBio.html

Wynton Marsalis

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Wynton Marsalis playing with Seattle's Roosevelt High School band, winner of the 2005 Essentially Ellington competition

Queen Marie of Romania and Princess Ileana and Prince Nicolas visit Seattle's Roosevelt High School on November 4, 1926.

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Queen Marie of Romania and Princess Ileana and Prince Nicolas visit Seattle's Roosevelt High School on November 4, 1926.
On November 4, 1926, Queen Marie of Romania (1875-1938) and her children Princess Ileana (age 17) and Prince Nicolas (age 23) visit Roosevelt High School at the invitation of the Roosevelt Girls’ Club. Queen Marie and her children are in Seattle after dedicating the Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, Washington. The visit to Roosevelt is just one feature of a day jammed packed with motorcades and public appearances, but Queen Marie and Princess Ileana, charmed by the Roosevelt girls, insist on alighting from their car to pay their full respects.

Courting the Queen

The Roosevelt Girls’ Club first courted Queen Marie in the spring of 1926 by writing to her and inviting her to visit their school if her long-rumored trip to Washington ever came to be. They also requested her photograph to use in a booklet of her sayings that they had been collecting. They sent along a copy of the Roosevelt “R” Book, a 3 x 6 inch, green student handbook emblazoned with a golden “R." The book outlined all of Roosevelt’s rules and regulations, school songs and creeds, and the constitution of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs.

Queen Marie’s participation in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and her 1924 appearance on the cover of Time magazine, as well as her published articles and fairytales, made her a role model for many women and girls.

Excited Preparations

The Roosevelt News reported the student body’s excited preparations for the royal visit:

“In honor of the royal party the Roumanian flag will fly immediately below the flag of the United States; the band will stand at the right of the flagstaff and play the Roumanian national air as the Queen alights from her automobile ... the Rough Riders are to form a guard of honor on both sides of the front steps while the Aurora Guards will line up in front of the entrance ... the stage will be decorated with the American and Roumanian colors” (November 4, 1926).
The Aurora Guards were a group of female students with red hair who greeted visitors to the school and helped new students acclimate. The group's founder was Roosevelt High School's girls guidance counselor, Rose Glass (1880-ca.1965), a flamboyant redhead, who may have met Queen Marie while performing volunteer service with the YMCA in France during or just after World War I.
Queen Marie noted in her diary, “I stopped my motor and the chief-girl came out with flowers and told me that they had been awaiting me with intensest (sic) eagerness because they were the school that had corresponded with me this spring and I had answered sending them my picture. I then suddenly remembered the name Roosevelt High School Seattle and how they had sent me a little book with the ‘statutes’ of their school and how they classed all the red-haired girls for certain charges of duties, and there indeed stood up in a special row were about two dozen girls every one of them with red hair. It was like a dream to be really there” (America Seen By A Queen, p. 102).

A Fine Lot of Young People

Queen Marie’s American hostess, Constance Lily Morris, remembered the Roosevelt students:

“A fine lot of young people crowded the high flight of steps leading to the front door -- boys and girls looking the picture of health. A few of them ushered the Queen up the front steps while the rest of the assembled crowd shouted ‘M-A-R-I-E’ in unison a number of times, ending with a loud war-whoop. When the Queen reached the top of the landing, she saw a row of red-headed girls, and she immediately remembered that she had been corresponding with these girls for some time as they had sent their pictures to Roumania, and called themselves ‘The Red-Headed Band.’ They seemed like old friends, she said. It was a unique demonstration, and she enjoyed it thoroughly, and often laughed about it afterwards” (On Tour With Queen Marie, p. 135).
The crowd gathered on the Roosevelt lawn was 2,000-strong. Roosevelt was the only spot on Queen Marie’s long motorcade where the royal party alighted from their Lincoln limousines. The Roosevelt News quoted Queen Marie as saying “I cannot disappoint them -- I must get out” (“Assembled Students Cheer Heartily ..."). Roosevelt Girls’ Club president June Voss welcomed the royal party and led them up the steep, broad stairway to a specially erected dais.

The Seattle Star noted, “Cameramen and motion picture operators almost spoiled this event by boring inside the lines of students and arranging themselves in a row in front of the dais where the queen and her two children stood. Marie, seeing nothing but clicking shutters in front of her, turned a haughty, royal back on the cameramen” (November 5, 1926). According to The Roosevelt News, Princess Ileana told the girls around her, “This is the first school we have visited and I’m glad it could be this one. I have wanted to visit your school ever since I have read your creed” (“Queen Marie Visits”).

The Girls’ Club presented Queen Marie and Princess Ileana with bouquets of pink Ophelia roses. Prince Nicolas was given a felt Roosevelt banner. Loud cheers for each member of the royal family, led by cheerleader Kenneth Wilcox, followed.

A Handsome Prince

“The immaculate young prince wore a delighted grin as he heard the students’ voices echo his name with real fervor,” reported the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “An irrepressible little minx, standing on the sidelines, just couldn’t resist the temptation and, as Prince Nicolas passed, she reached out and plucked at his arm. ‘Oh, you sheik!’ she cried -- and if there wasn’t pure adoration in her smile there’s no such thing in all the world. Prince Nicolas seemed just a bit put out at first, but her smile was too much for him” (“Marie Rushed Hither, Yon ...").

Young women of the 1920s used the term “sheik” as a high compliment referencing silent film star Rudolph Valentino’s 1921 movie The Sheik.

Roosevelt High School received a thank you letter written by Queen Marie’s personal secretary, Robert Papworth, from her train, The Royal Roumanian. A few weeks later The Roosevelt News reported that the Girls’ Club was sending Queen Marie and Princess Ileana a Christmas gift: “To Queen Marie will go the creed of Seattle and the Girls’ Club creed printed in poster form and Princess Ileana will receive the Roosevelt creed ... Nothing will be sent to the Prince Nicolas unless the Boys’ Club should decide to send something” (“Girls Send Gifts To Queen And Princess”). Queen Marie’s response to these gifts, if any, does not appear to have survived.

Gentle Ben, Snowden retireing from Roosevelt High School

2010-03-30T10:21:00.000-07:00

by Craig Smith
Seattle Times staff reporter

The teacher and coach they called "Gentle Ben" at Roosevelt High School is retiring after a 41-year career.

Ben Snowden, best known as coach of the Roughrider state-championship boys basketball teams of 1973 and '82, also had an impact on thousands of students as a physical education teacher and track and cross-country coach.

"You don't realize how much you touch kids' lives until they tell you," he said last week at Roosevelt. "Often, it's just the little things that touch someone's life. To them it's a big thing, but to you it's just something (a small kindness) that should be done."

Snowden has been hearing a lot of nice things as his final day at Roosevelt approaches. He was honored at a reception last week attended by more than 150 people.

"It was overwhelming," he said.

Many former players attended, including four starters from the 1973 title team, among them James Edwards, who had been cut in junior high school and had to be coaxed to try high-school basketball by Snowden and his assistant, Larry Whitney.

Edwards went on to star at the University of Washington and play 19 years in the NBA, winning three championship rings.

One thing Snowden doesn't miss about coaching is dealing with pushy parents who have an inflated opinion of their child's ability.

"I won't miss the parent issues," he said. "I don't miss the parents who would say, `Why isn't he playing? He's going to be an All-American.' But on the other hand, I also dealt with some wonderful, wonderful parents."

Asked to compare modern students with those of previous decades, Snowden said, "They aren't as respectful. I think they are much more casual than they were before. . . . In lots of ways, kids are still kids. That's why I like them. I think the thing I like most is seeing them come in as a ninth-grader and seeing the changes when they are seniors. I don't mean physically maturing. I mean upstairs. All of a sudden, they grow up and they are young adults. That's been one of the things I like the most about teaching school."

Snowden grew up in Mount Vernon and was cut from the basketball team as a sophomore. His best prep sport was boxing and he was state lightweight champion when boxing was an interscholastic sport.

"Boxing taught me a great deal," he said. "How to defend myself and how to think on my feet and make decisions when you had to and not get mad. You had to stay cool."

Another influence on Snowden's style was the man he succeeded at Roosevelt, John Fuller.

"He wasn't a yeller or a screamer," said Snowden, who figures it rubbed off on him.

"If you're excited when the kids come off the floor, then you don't get much accomplished."

The nickname "Gentle Ben" connotes calmness, and it came from a 1960s TV show about a friendly bear.

Ex-Roughriders liked playing for Snowden.

Jay Nemitz, who played for Snowden in 1992 and 1993, said, "You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who has anything negative to say about him as a person or a coach.

"He was so approachable and just a good guy," Nemitz said. "I enjoyed having the chance to be around him."

Snowden began coaching the Roosevelt varsity in 1967 and retired in 1995 with a 337-265 career record and the two state titles. The Roughriders appeared in a third state-championship game, in 1987, when they lost to city rival Garfield, 63-60.

One of his most memorable victories was over Mount Rainier in the 1982 playoffs when the Roughriders trailed by six points with 52 seconds to play and didn't have the ball. Making a withdrawal from the miracle bank, they won. Two steals and layups by Peter Nielsen were pivotal in the victory.

Memorable players? In addition to Nielsen and Edwards, they include Craig Nichols '71, Will Brantley '87 (Oregon State) and Peter Dukes '88 (Stanford), Gary Gardner '82, Randy Sheriff '71 and Craig Jackson '82.

In girls track, two of his best were sprinters Debbie Adams '77 (considered one of the best athletes in state history) and Asa Pennington '79.

Snowden quit coaching track and cross-country two years ago. Last year, he had a knee replaced and the post-operation months haven't been trouble-free. Next Wednesday, he officially retires from teaching and his position as head of the physical education department.

Snowden, 65, and his wife, Venette, have three adult children and seven grandchildren. His retirement plans include travel and bird hunting.

It will be strange for him to walk out of Roosevelt a final time, but he said, "I'm ready. It's time."

Ruth Granen Roosevelt class of 72

2010-03-29T06:21:00.000-07:00

Robin Swanson class of 73

2010-03-24T16:31:00.001-07:00

Carl Brecht then and now

2010-03-24T10:52:00.000-07:00

Dan Raley Roosevelt class 72

2010-03-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

Dan Raley March 19, 2010 at 5:46pm
Subject: books
Carl,

1) I have a book in book stores and on http://www.facebook.com/l/69f77;Amazon.com, entitled "Tideflats to Tomorrow: The Story of Seattle's SoDo," produced by Seattle's Fairgreens Publishing;

2) I have a book in production, entitled "Pitchers of Beer: The Story of the Seattle Rainiers," to be released in 9 or 10 months by University of Nebraska Press;

3) I have a third book in progress, a biography of NBA player Brandon Roy, tentatively entitled "The Trail Blazer." I'm seeking a bigger publisher for this one, but haven't finished or contracted this book yet.

Meanwhile, I work as an editor in Atlanta. Paying for two college educations for my daughters has put me into writing overdrive. ... Thanks for your interest.

Dan Raley

Keeping up with Muriel Siki

2010-03-15T18:49:00.000-07:00

International Day of Democracy: Events in 2008
09.45 - 10.00, Brief introduction of the panel and panellists by Moderator, Ms. Muriel Siki (Swiss Television TSR). 10.00 - 10.15, Video message from Mr. ...

www.ipu.org/dem-e/idd/events08.htm - 45k

U-Games
The 2009 U-Games 2009 will begin in one week. The Swiss university ... Muriel Siki, television hostess of Dolce Vitae on TSR1, will also be at the starting ...

u-games.ch/en/archives-news-2009.php - 24k

THE WORLD OF PARLIAMENTS
for the IPU for the period 2009-2011 are spelt out in its strategic plan. As ...... moderated by Swiss journalist Muriel. Siki (TSR). ...

www.ipu.org/PDF/wop/32_en.pdf

Muriel Siki, Roosevelt Class of 1972, Journalist (Télévision suisse romande)

2010-03-15T16:27:00.000-07:00

The 2004 ECLOF International Board meeting took place at the La Longeraie conference centre in Morges, Switzerland. Muriel Siki was a representative on the Board of the Swiss constituency. " Everybody must have access to a more equitable information society. That was the purpose of the Summit", said the MPs attending the Parliamentary Panel organised by the IPU as part of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva. Very well, but how can you guarantee the right to information for all countries, North and South alike? Some of the participants in the Panel, which was chaired by Mrs. Muriel Siki, a Swiss journalist, shared their thoughts She is herself Swiss-American and has been a television journalist for over 30 years. Muriel currently lives near Geneva and makes programmes for the Swiss national television service.

Après avoir participé au lancement d'Actu où il a travaillé jusqu'à aujourd'hui en tant que chef d'édition pour les différents journaux, Jean-Paul Cateau quitte l'univers de l'info pour un nouveau pari quotidien en compagnie de Muriel Siki.
Histoire, clarinette, caddie et TJ : la bio de Jean-Paul Cateau
Jean-Paul Cateau a suivi des études de lettres (histoire, musicologie, anglais) à l'Université de Genève, obtenant en mars 1987 une Licence en Histoire générale. La même année, il est engagé comme journaliste-stagiaire par la TSR. Pendant deux ans, il collabore à de nombreuses émissions - actualités, magazines, sports ? et complète sa formation par divers stages en presse écrite, à la Radio Suisse Romande et à l'Agence France-Presse.

Il travaille ensuite comme journaliste-présentateur au Journal Romand de septembre 1987 à juillet 1989. En septembre 1989, il rejoint le magazine d'information Tell Quel où il signe divers reportages sur l'actualité sociale en Suisse, obtenant notamment le Prix de la SRT Vaud pour Le rappeur, la prostituée et le maraîcher. Une année plus tard, Jean-Paul Cateau collabore au magazine scientifique TéléScope où il obtient également deux Prix pour Six milliards de races.

En 1993, il lance avec Martina Chyba la nouvelle formule d'A Bon Entendeur où, pendant quatre ans, il assume successivement reportages, productions et présentation. En 1997, il rejoint la rubrique économique du Téléjournal, qu'il partagera dès septembre 1999 avec la présentation de « Cadences ». Une émission en résonance avec sa passion pour la musique : Jean-Paul Cateau joue de la clarinette et du violoncelle.
En septembre 2001, Jean-Paul Cateau participe au lancement d'Actu où il travaillera jusqu'à aujourd'hui en tant que chef d'édition pour les différents journaux.

Fin du printemps 2006 : nouvelle aventure pour Jean-Paul Cateau : il endossera le rôle de journaliste-producteur éditorial aux côtés de Muriel Siki pour la nouvelle émission quotidienne qui s'ancrera sur TSR1 dès le 28 août aux environs de 17h50. Le grand public verra ponctuellement Jean-Paul Cateau sur le plateau de ce nouveau rendez-vous qui privilégiera l'art de vivre.

Dan Raley Roosevelt Class of 1972

2010-03-15T15:48:00.000-07:00

Dan is presently with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as a story editor and
anchor write. Dan left the Seattle PI after being part of that insitution for many years.

Good bye from Dan Raley
This is goodbye. Heartfelt. Tearful. Somewhat involuntary.

After 30 years, and that's the longest relationship I've had with anyone except for a few chosen relatives, even trumping my marriage by a year, I'm headed out the door of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which will no longer exist as a newspaper as of tomorrow.

Permit me to reminisce a little before I toss away those interview notes I collected yesterday and today, and won't need anymore for Washington's run in the NCAA Tournament, and pull the plug and slink away.

It was a great run. I went from this part-time, temporary P-I employee with no guarantees, from this kid hired after leaving Alaska's Fairbanks Daily News-Miner to replace a woman sportswriter who was headed to a pregnancy leave, to a permanent P-I employee within a month and someone who has covered just about everything since.

I remember walking in the door at the old Sixth and Wall P-I building for my first sports department shift. I wore a suit. A kid named Scott Anderson in a Mad Magazine T-shirt and an older guy named Phil Taylor in a stained golf sweater were there to welcome me. I learned how to dress down after that.

I had my mouth fall open when people such as Muhammad Ali and Bubba Smith and countless other athletes walked into the sports department, with Ali playing tricks and mesmerizing everyone on his visit. The late Pete Axthelm, of TV and Newsweek fame, was seated at my desk one day when I arrived, in town on assignment, given a workspace out of respect. I grabbed another desk.

I had my P-I career ups and downs. I took chances, none more than leaving the sports department, or toy department as we like to call it, to become the P-I police reporter for three years (1993-1996), a much more serious-minded venture, simply to make myself a better journalist. I'm proud of that more than anything. The cops were cool, too. Just treat them fair. They'll tell you about the bad ones.

I know I've made some of you mad, others incredulous, at what came out of my laptop. Mostly, I tried to give you an honest take on things, mixing current affairs with a look at Seattle's sporting past. As a Seattle native, I made it my mission to keep the memories of our old sporting heroes alive and well. My Where Are They Now series topped out at more than 300 stories.

I was able to cover 20 major golf tournaments, which included six Masters. I got to play the place. I shot 109 with a birdie. I was happy with that. I covered or was part of coverage that took in 10 bowl games, a dozen Final Fours, two NBA championship finals, four American League playoffs and one Super Bowl. I'm estimating I wrote more than 6,000 stories at the P-I.

I'm no star-gazer, never have been, but there aren't too many jobs that permit you the chance to sit and have one-on-one conversations with the likes of Jessie Owens, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Elgin Baylor and Muhammad Ali. That probably won't happen in my next job.

My favorite stories that I wrote for the P-I were the following: 1) Spider Gaines, the UW Rose Bowl hero turned pimp: 2) Hugh McElhenny's late-life revelations about his well-funded UW football career; 3) Solving the murder of civil rights leader Edwin Pratt; 4) defining Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing, with the help of a half-dozen hall of famers; and 5) the tale of Royal Brougham.

I worked directly with some real P-I giants in this changing business, among them – and this is my Oscar acceptance speech – Art Thiel, James Wallace, Carol Smith, Jim Moore, Clare Farnsworth, John Owen, Bill Knight, Ron Matthews, Pete Wevurski, Angelo Bruscas, Glenn Drosendahl, Bill Plaschke, Tracy Ringolsby, J Michael Kenyon, Scott Anderson, Lenny Anderson, Blaine Johnson, Don Fair, Gordy Holt, Tyler Kepner, Jim Street, Gary Washburn, Sheldon Spencer, Jim Redding, Steve Rudman, John Engstrom, Mike Barber, Keith Olson, Paul Rossi, Jack Smith, Dwight Perry, Bud Withers, Danny O'Neil, Steve Dominguez, Ron Tillary, Molly Yanity, Ted Miller, Carter Cromwell, Boyd Smith, Phil Taylor, Debbie Carlton, Holly Cain, John Hickey, Dave Andriesen, Jim Caple, David McCumber, Warren Wilson, Gerry Spratt and Nick Rousso. Sorry, but Tim Kelly, in my own little protest, does not make this list.

I now invite you to support Seattlepi.com. Friends of mine will be working for it. It should be a radical departure from what we know with newsprint, but it might become a blueprint for other papers that start falling around the nation, maybe in town, and there will be more. I probably wasn't supposed to reveal this, but for anyone mad that I won't be continuing on with the Web site, I had an opportunity to join it but I couldn't make it work for me. Maybe some day. …

I now have to find another job. I have a kid in college and one who wants to go. I want to stay in Seattle, but am willing to consider relocating for work, even going overseas. My neighbor works in Afghanistan. Maybe I will, too.

Should you want to offer me a job, or simply check in on my well-being, friend or stranger, feel free to e-mail me at danraley54@aol.com or call me at home at 425-292-9168.

It's been my pleasure and a great honor to write stories at the P-I for so long. Thanks for reading my stuff and supporting my paper.

Dan Raley

Lori Patnode (Paulson) Roosevelt Class 72

2010-02-16T09:44:00.000-08:00

Bonnie Everson Unsell Roosevelt Class of 1972 - A Complete Pest Control

2010-02-05T08:17:00.000-08:00

I had a chance to talk to Bonnie yesterday at a marketing meeting in Lynnwood.She has her own business. She would like you to bug her. Her business, A Complete Pest Control. Call her at 206-362-BUGS(2847) For a list of all services and locations go to
www.acompletepestcontrol@Q.com

Roosevet High School Eagle Scouts

2010-02-02T13:54:00.000-08:00

They say that there are not many childhood accomplishments that one can put on a resume, becoming an Eagle Scout is one of them. They also say "Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout". Here are three names of Eagle Scouts from Roosevelt, please add the names of those that you know. Max Schwennsen, Duane Covey, Carl Brecht

Eileen Windsor Scott "Sammy" Roosevelt class of 72

2010-01-28T11:12:00.000-08:00

Thank you Eileen for sending me a copy of your new book "Sammy." Please comment below for those that have read the book. For details please see Blog under 2009

" Great Divorce" a new play just starting, Jan. thru Feb. 2010

2010-01-25T06:05:00.000-08:00

Pam "Bailey" Nolte, of Taproot theater is a class of 72 RHS member. She is a founding member of Taproot Theater and they are "re-opening" Taproot Theater after the Greenwood fires. see
http://www.facebook.com/l/7e604;taproottheatre.org/great-divorce-about
The play is the "Great Divorce"

Linda M Olsson Class of 1972 Roosevelt

2010-01-19T11:02:00.000-08:00

Her business web-site http://www.facebook.com/l/63e72;lindao.nsedreams.com, and http://www.facebook.com/l/63e72;www.ns-spa.com

Lauren Dahlgren's Photos class 1972

2010-01-19T07:59:00.000-08:00

Max Schwennsen Roosevelt Class of 71

2010-01-13T10:34:00.000-08:00

January 11, 2010
At the service today there were many stories about Max being an Eagle Scout. I not only was able to share that experience along side of Max, but have great memories of him at Camp Parsons playing Purple Haze and Foxy Lady by Jimi Hendrix. Also, in the Little League Championship Baseball game,Max had a cast on his arm and was given permission to go up and swing with 1 hand. He got a hit...which was the highlight of the game(which his team won!) Many fond memories.
~ Duane Covey, Seattle, Washington

January 13, 2010
As a Class member of Roosevelt 1972 we wish the best to the family and friends of Max. Carl Brecht, a fellow Eagle Scout http://roosevelthighschool72.blogspot.com/
~ Carl Brecht, Seattle, Washington

January 03, 2010
He wrote songs to chase the fears
Laid bare his heart
Sang of joy and love
Better tomorrows
Human sorrows
His love keeps lifting us higher and higher.
He would want us to dance!
~ Carol Kane, Seattle, Washington

Max Schwennsen's Guest Book

2010-01-13T08:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.legacy.com/gb2/default.aspx?bookID=1597865930565

Roosevelt Jazz

2010-01-13T07:25:00.000-08:00

go to http://rooseveltjazz.org/ to see a list of the local jazz scene and school jazz schedule.

Max Paul Schwennsen Roosevelt class of 1971

2010-01-04T05:45:00.001-08:00

Max SCHWENNSEN Max Paul Schwennsen, born in Seattle on April 18, 1953 passed away in his hometown on December 22, 2009. Max grew up in the View Ridge neighborhood of Seattle and graduated from Roosevelt High School. He enjoyed Boy Scout activities with his father and brother and attained Eagle Scout status. He developed a passion for music early on and taught himself to play the guitar, saxophone and piano. Max spent a year at Central Washington State University studying music and anthropology, but decided to leave to pursue a career in music. He traveled around the country and world in Doug Kershaw's Cajun band as a guitar player and singer and moved back to the northwest in 1975 where he formed the bands Slidin' Jake and Scargill. In the late seventies he married Victoria Murtishaw and had a daughter, Charlotte. Three years later the family moved to Florida where Max played and wrote music. When the family moved back to Seattle in the late eighties his second daughter, Elaina, was born. Max began working atthe family-owned Universal Repair Shop with his father and brother and continued to write songs and play music professionally. He played with Marilee Rush, The Atlantics, Star Anna and his bands Waxy Maxy and Max and Johnny. He is survived by his wife of 31 years Victoria, daughters Charlotte and Elaina, mother, Florence, father Robert, brother Robert Jr., sister Kirby, nephews Steve, Howard and Marshall and niece Jill. Memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Sand Point Community Church - United Methodist: 4710 NE 70th, Seattle, WA. Please visit the online guestbook at http:// www.asacredmoment.com/obits/

For the New Year 2010

2009-12-31T08:06:00.000-08:00

The paradox of our time, posted by Brian Buffini

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember; say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember; give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember; say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Attributed to a number of sources.

Roosevelt class 72 Looking for additional income?

2009-12-29T09:16:00.000-08:00

Craig and Pam (Eaton) Price have begun a business working from home.

We are looking for MOTIVATED individuals to join our team who are willing to work from home to be able to earn a good income and to create a healthier, safer environment in your home at the same time. Call now for an interview to see if you qualify to join our team. 360-470-4920.

Roosevelt class 72 Jazz Nutcracker

2009-12-18T11:07:00.000-08:00

The Roosevelt Jazz Band performing Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn's Jazz Nutcracker Dec. 12th and 13th to a sell out crowd. I can see why they were invited to a 2 week tour this coming summer in Europe, which will include the city of Vienna.

Keven Beder

2009-12-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

Kevin Beder and I had coffee in Edmonds at the Walnut Cafe. He is the third person from the left. What a memory he has. He went to the 30 year reunion, and has a lot of good memories. I must say that he does have a great philosophy on life. He knows what is important. I am looking forward to our next coffee. - Carl

Kevin Beder Roosevelt class of 1972 - Past The Big "W" Club Board of Directors

2009-12-18T10:35:00.000-08:00

Shawna Erickson Roosevelt class of 72 (Spangler)

2009-12-10T08:57:00.001-08:00

Roosevelt class of 72 Dave Barduhn at Christmas

2009-12-08T10:33:00.000-08:00

Roosevelt class of 73 Someone looking for Pam Pasternak, Robin Swanson

2009-12-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

Good morning, I have someone looking for Pam Pasternak "class 72", and two people looking for Robin Swanson "class 73".Please send an e-mail to carlbrecht@netscape.net if you have any info. thank you, Carl Brecht

The Roosevelt Jazz Band performing Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn's Jazz Nutcracker

2009-12-03T10:46:00.000-08:00

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE The Roosevelt Jazz Band performing Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn's Jazz Nutcracker Two Performances this year:Sat. Dec. 12th - 7:30pm Sun. Dec. 13th - 2 pm Roosevelt HS Performing Arts Theatre 1410 NE 66th Street, Seattle tickets: Ticket Info line: (206) 526-8460 Adults...$15 Students and Seniors...$12Join us for a warm Seattle tradition! I will be there on Sunday, please come by and say hello. Best wishes to all, Carl Brecht

2009-11-30T11:27:00.001-08:00

On Mon. Nov. 23 7:30 pm in the Roosevelt HS Performing Arts Theatre, Seattle Washington. The Roosevelt Vocal Jazz performed with Dave Barduhn's Genesis/Mt. Hood CC., and the Seattle Jazz Singers. I enjoyed a quality music performance. This was two hours that I was able to get away from all the world problems. Sabine, my partner in life accompanied me. The holiday season started with a memorable visit back to my old high school, and a positive image that our young people will improve the future. Please don't miss Roosevelt's Jazz Nutcracker.

Roosevelt class of 1972 Candy "Bushnell" Sherrill

2009-11-30T11:04:00.001-08:00

Roosevelt class of 72 Dori McCain Hathaway/Thanksgiving 2009

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Roosevelt class of 72 Gary Turner

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Roosevelt class of 72

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Craig Price November 26 at 7:28pm
Hi Carl, saw your post on Jim Crozier's page and thought I'd drop you a line. Craig Price, priceca53@gmail.com Retiring from 31 years at Boeing as of Dec 23 to show people how to live a healthier lifestyle and earn a good income part time from home.

Roosevelt class of 72

2009-11-30T08:31:00.001-08:00

Hi Carl! from Rita "Circenis" Rubenis

A while ago you posted something to our class that you needed info on us. My maiden name is Circenis. I am a dental hygienist working in south Everett. E-mail address: rrubenis@yahoo.com.

Roosevelt class of 72

2009-11-30T08:27:00.000-08:00

Eileen Scott November 25 at 12:28pm "see her book below"
Yes, we live in Shoreline and I would love to sign a copy for you. Either you can let me order a copy and get it to you after I sign it or you can order a copy and I'll sign it at some future point. Thanks, Carl.

The Roosevelt Jazz Band performing Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn's Jazz Nutcracker

2009-11-25T11:05:00.001-08:00

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE The Roosevelt Jazz Band performing Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn's Jazz Nutcracker Two Performances this year:Sat. Dec. 12th - 7:30pm Sun. Dec. 13th - 2 pm Roosevelt HS Performing Arts Theatre1410 NE 66th Street, Seattletickets: Adults...$15 Students and Seniors...$12Join us for a warm Seattle tradition! Go to school web-site on link on the right. On the school web-site clink on Jazz. I will be there on Sunday, please come by and say hello. Best wishes to all, Carl Brecht

Eileen Windsor Scott Roosevelt class of 72

2009-11-25T10:31:00.000-08:00

Skip sent me this e-mail a few days ago,"Eileen has her book about her Dad's life during WWII listed on Lulu, which is
where I bought it. You can get a synopsis on
http://www.facebook.com/l/8fb68;Lulu.com
by simply searching for Eileen Scott. By the way, Eileen and David Scott have
been married since high school, I do not know how many other class mates
actually got married, but it would make for an interesting human interest piece.
It was good seeing you at the concert. Take care. Skip"

Sammy An Incidental Life of Fortunate Circumstances
By Eileen Windsor Scott
Sam's hilarious stories of growing up in WWII Kansas are now in written form so you, too, can take part in this amusing and thought-provoking American boy's life. Born during the Depression, Sammy comes of-age in post WWII America. Free to explore and test his limits, we follow the youngster from his earliest impressions to dating fiascos and his first car at fourteen. It's after the war when the GIs swamp the school system that Sammy really starts learning about life. Intrigued with survival, the teenager and his best friend drive into the Canadian wilderness to live off the land and by their wits. It becomes the adventure of his lifetime and a tale that is both uniquely his and universally every American boy's.

Duane Covey class 1972

2009-11-23T09:24:00.001-08:00

James "Jim" Fuller Class 72

2009-11-18T09:28:00.000-08:00

Good day to all.
I servied 5 years in the Airforce and 15 in the Navy. Mcchord AFB, Altus AFB, USS Forrestal, NAS Moffit Field, USS Nimitz, NAS Fallon and the USS Constellation.

Michael "Mike" Banks class 1972

2009-11-18T08:41:00.000-08:00

"Tradition" if I were a rich man......Dave Barduhn

2009-11-13T12:20:00.000-08:00

Dave Barduhn - with his image on shirt

2009-11-13T12:04:00.000-08:00

Vivyan Adair Roosevelt class of 72

2009-11-13T07:02:00.000-08:00

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and 2004 New York State Professor of the Year
Telling a Different Story
For New York State's professor of the year, education is about finding a voice and making it heard
By Donald Challenger
She calls it catching fire. It's that instant when a student makes the connection between lived life and that once-alien world in books, the world of the mind. A moment of focus, the right teacher, the right text, and a spark leaps the gap. Everything is somehow different; there is no going back.
Vivyan Adair is proud of how many of her students catch fire -- sometimes, it seems, entire classes at once, sucking the oxygen from the room with the sheer burning force of their collective need to know. It is why she teaches. "Education is such a powerful, powerful experience," she says. "It changes lives." She understands that. It changed hers.
As the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and the 2004 New York State Professor of the Year -- honored in November by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) -- Adair is a natural draw on campus, a magnet for even the uninitiated. On this frigid January day, the opening session of her Introduction to Women's Studies course is standing room only. At least half a dozen students tell the group they are there at the urging of a friend or roommate but know little about women's studies.
That's OK, Adair assures them. Psychology major? Government? Anthropology? They're going to make connections that they can carry back to their own interests and disciplines. Unsure about a major? She tells the story of a former student who ended up concentrating in women's studies and then went, of all places, to Wall Street -- where he recently landed an account with the National Organization for Women.
When Adair passes out the course syllabus, though, several students peel away to slip quietly out the door. And no wonder. It's a formidable blueprint for a 100-level course, seven pages of rigorous reading and writing assignments: Who writes history? Who defines work? Are gender and sexuality biological or cultural? How is gender commodified? Four major papers, two exams, weekly assignments, full commitment. Adair pulls no punches as she describes what is to come.
"The course is not easy, because it requires that you be very fluid as we move among law and literature, politics and economics and psychology," she tells the class. "We won't just be examining a single topic from a neutral point of view. You're being asked to shift your center - to reconceive the way things work." A few bodies stir, and another student makes a furtive exit as Adair begins to lead the class from the land of received, comfortable wisdom to a new and more demanding place -- a place where, she believes, they will catch fire.
"Women's studies is a misnomer -- it's not exclusively about women," she says. "When we talk about gender, we are talking about what is masculine as well as what is feminine. In fact, we are going to look at all such codes -- including class and race and age -- and examine the way they are constructed."
The challenge delivered, Adair smiles, and her musical voice turns playful. "If this doesn't make complete sense at this point, that's good. Do you know the five stages of grief that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross talks about? Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance? Well, I was reading about those not long ago" -- she pauses for a beat, with a comedian's sense of timing -- "and I realized that people in this course go through exactly the same thing." A contagion of relieved laughter ripples through the room.
"You're part of a community"
In little more than an hour's time, Adair outlines the course, introduces a host of new concepts, prepares the class for some healthy disorientation, hears individually from every student, and forges a sense of belonging. "Your own experience is a text crucial to this course," she tells the class. "You don't have to agree with everything we read. I don't. But it's crucial that you're here as part of a community -- not just in attendance, but participating."
It is a remarkable performance, one that suggests how high Hamilton faculty members set the bar for themselves as a group. Adair is the third Hamilton professor in seven years to be honored by the Carnegie Foundation and CASE, a standard matched by only 23 other campuses in the nation. Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin was the National Baccalaureate Professor of the Year in 1998, and Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geology, was the New York Professor of the Year in 1997. Adair sees that standard as the rule rather than the exception.
"I think that's why students come to Hamilton," Adair says in an interview. "To make that connection with teachers and knowledge and each other -- not to sit in a room with 900 other students taking a test."
Tiffany Titus '06 agrees such connections are crucial, but she notes that Adair also has a special ability to simultaneously nurture and pressure. "She makes it so easy, but she challenges you at the same time to go beyond yourself and what you know," Titus says. She took Adair's Seminar on Theory and Politics in Education as a sophomore; now she's on board for Feminist Perspectives on Class. A women's studies major and education minor, she's particularly interested in how gender and class issues shape knowledge and play out in classrooms.
"She's a very powerful teacher. She really appeals to your passion," Titus says of Adair. "She had me from the start."
When students mention Adair, the same words tend to turn up over and over: passion and compassion, commitment, engagement, respect. But classroom dialogue doesn't achieve such lofty ends by magic, especially when the topics are gender, class and race -- all minefields of taboo and bias. Adair the nurturer must also be Adair the authority.
David Paris '71, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty, recalls heated student exchanges in a recent Sophomore Seminar he team-taught with Adair. Rather than pitching platitudes or detouring around raw topics, she pushed through them by linking students' personal feelings to larger cultural and political patterns. "Her rules for classroom discussion seem to me to be a model of how to make students more self-conscious about class participation and, more important, how to disagree in respectful and productive ways," Paris says.
Adair believes her attitude sets a tone. "When I come into class, I'm excited, I've done the reading, and we're going to elevate the conversation," she says. We cannot veer off into the personal unless the personal is used to explain what we're doing. I tell students that I will always be respectful of anything they say as long as they come to the table with commitment, sincerity and having done the work. But you can never mock or ridicule or close down the conversation."
Adair also routinely warns students about a couple of other breaches of protocol. "Silence and stares offend me personally. Say anything you want, but say something," she says. And then there's the hat thing.
"That sort of Hamilton cool where students sit back and have their caps down over their eyes? That just cannot happen in my class." She laughs, but the laugh has an edge. "I will go lift up those caps and have them stand up and tell me what they're thinkingExcellence beyond ACCESS
Adair is best known for her work as director of the ACCESS Project, an innovative welfare-to-work program for nontraditional students that she founded in 1999. Unlike programs that emphasize bare-bones vocational training, ACCESS has provided scores of low-income students with a broad, intensive liberal arts education coupled with student jobs, child care and other crucial support services. Paris sees ACCESS as the kind of bridge between theory and practice at which Adair, as a "true public intellectual," is adroit: "It is both a test of a hypothesis about the transition from welfare to work as well as an attempt to promote real social reform."
Adair herself grew up in poverty and was reliant upon welfare's safety net when she entered college as a single mother. She is an impassioned advocate for the overhaul of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, which she says curtailed such opportunities in the name of a "work first" imperative that moved low-income adults from welfare rolls to low-paying jobs but did little to help them climb past the poverty line.
"Everyone is looking for cheap labor, taking advantage of you," says Emin Hodzic '04, who entered the ACCESS Project several years after coming to Upstate New York as a refugee from his native Bosnia. "Only a person who has suffered as [Professor Adair] has can identify with the problems that people in the program face." Simultaneously studying, learning English and working to provide for a wife and son, Hodzic graduated with a degree in chemistry and is now in medical school at Nova University in Florida. Although he took only one course with Adair, he credits her with much of his transformation. "She listened," he says. "It was the first time someone had really listened to me. I owe her so much."
Between ACCESS and activism, though, what can go unremarked -- even among Adair's most ardent supporters -- is the heft of her scholarship and the dynamism of her teaching in the traditional classroom. Since 2000 she has authored one book, From Good Ma to Welfare Queen, that traces the evolution of representations of poor women in American arts and culture, and co-edited a second, Reclaiming Class, that explores and documents the obstacles and opportunities poor women encounter in higher education. Both earned enthusiastic responses; reviewer Carolyn Law lauded Reclaiming Class as "a moving demonstration of the best kind of social justice scholarship." A third book, Epistemologies of Poverty, is in progress; a fourth, on the ACCESS Project, is taking shape. Over the same period, Adair has published 18 book chapters and articles, including several in such high-profile journals as Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Harvard Educational Review, Feminist Studies and History of Labor Studies.
Along the way, Adair got up from the word processor long enough to win the College's John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000, after just her second year at Hamilton.
The secret of her productivity? "I have no life," she laughs. "But of course, I have the richest life in the world. There are absolutely no borders for me between my life as a human being and my life as a writer, researcher, teacher. So the fact is, I never take a break. I'm in such a privileged position, and I love what I do. My work is my oxygen."The power of the text
Much of Adair's scholarly work and teaching build on the critical theory she studied a decade ago at the University of Washington. It is complex, demanding territory staked out by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, refashioned by European feminist critics such as Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, and more recently given a firmer grounding in multicultural studies by Satya Mohanty of Cornell University. This rarified realm of concepts such as alterity, the Other, différence and Mohanty's post-positivist realism might be thought of as a sort of meta-skepticism, building on Freud, Nietzsche and Heidegger to challenge what we know and how we think we know it.
Adair affectionately describes much of the language of critical theory as "garbledy-goop." The mindbending stuff of graduate seminars and dissertations, it is not known for its handy utilitarian value in the undergraduate classroom.
For one thing, much of it is counter-intuitive. Surface meaning -- what a page purports to say -- is so much lipstick. Deeper meanings tend to disguise themselves as "silence" or "absence," and meaning itself is much more slippery than the dictionary would have you believe. Confusing as it is, though, we can't escape this maze of language. In Derrida's phrase, "There is nothing outside the text." Power and ideology, likewise, aren't just headquartered in Washington or Baghdad or Buttrick Hall; they also pulse along cultural isobars that shape and mark our own bodies as well as our thoughts.
So far, so theoretical. Even many proponents of such concepts have wondered aloud about their practical applications.
Not Adair. Once the garbledy-goop is burned away, she sees critical theory not as academic chitchat but as a perfect operator's manual for students, especially for poor women whose usual role in the civic conversation is one of silence and invisibility.
"At a very practical level, they come to understand that texts are sites of contestation," places where different viewpoints compete, she says. "So that in the real, material world, when they face ideologies or rhetoric that would frame or manipulate them in a certain way, they learn that they can push back." If everything is a text -- not just books and computer screens, but the very sea of symbols in which we drift daily -- then literary skills become survival skills. Close, tough, skeptical reading and writing become ways to stand up and rock the boat.
"It can seem very esoteric and difficult," Adair says, "but I love going there with my classes, showing them that the way we think impacts how we live."
The realization that the world is a kind of text can empower many students, but it can also take the form of a wrenching epiphany: The body itself becomes a document, inscribed by experience. The more brutal that experience is, the deeper the world carves its words into one.
"Poverty physically writes on the bodies of poor women in a way that allows their bodies to become signs," Adair says. When others "read" those women as poor -- and by broken logic as dirty or dangerous or lazy -- "that whole cycle of inscription is reinforced."
To point out an example, Adair reaches not for a book but for her own face.
A story within a story
"I got out of a shelter at age 32 and had to deal with the effects of battery and poverty written on my very body," Adair says. "And it was a very telling experience for me, because people assumed I was stupid. My class was literally written on my face. So I began to see the ways that poor women's bodies are written or marked as different."
It is part of a larger story Adair has told many times, in print and in the classroom. One of four children of a poor single mother in Washington state, she grew up haunted by hunger, deprivation, illness and a pervasive sense that there was no way out. As a teenager she dropped out of school and found herself trapped in a spiral of abusive relationships and menial jobs. "I was a really good halibut cleaner in Alaska," she recalls.
Then, at 32, with her daughter Heather an infant, Adair departed from the script and began, slowly and painfully, to write her own. Taking advantage of more liberal pre-1996 welfare benefits, she returned to school, graduating from North Seattle Community College and entering the University of Washington as she struggled to balance motherhood, work and education. By 1997 she held a Ph.D. and returned to North Seattle, this time as a teacher; a year later she was appointed assistant professor of women's studies at Hamilton.
"I was a very nontraditional student," Adair says wryly.
It's the kind of inspiring, up-by-the-bootstraps tale that finds a ready home in political speeches, campus lore and media profiles: Welfare mother studies way out of poverty! "Going to school completely transformed my life," she says. "And I'm more grateful for that experience than anything else I've ever done." But Adair is frustrated by what happens to the story when it slips away from her. A text plucked from its context, it gives voice to a more vindictive subtext: Why can't all those other welfare mothers do it, too? What's wrong with them?
"I hear it all the time," she says. "I was in Hillary Clinton's office recently, and her legislative aide said, 'Oh, your story is so fantastic!' But it's not fantastic, and it's not my story. It's the story of literally hundreds of thousands of people across the nation who are trying to gain economic security.
"It's a fine line for me to walk, because I myself talk about my past as a way of making political claims for supporting low-income parents -- women in particular -- in going to school. But when I use it, I use it purposefully and for political reasons. Other people -- and I'm not just singling out people at Hamilton -- often use it in ways that reinforce the very narrative that I'm trying to critique. It's my responsibility to mitigate that."Building bridges
Although ACCESS students take specially designed preparatory courses before being admitted to Hamilton or other area schools, Adair will not permit a double standard to sneak into the program. High expectations come with the territory, she tells ACCESS applicants. Emin Hodzic recalls that in his first ACCESS course, Adair "taught us writing and English, but she was really teaching us how to take a class, how to learn and participate. She even showed us how to sit and maintain eye contact."
In addition to coursework and grades, such students must manage heavy work hours, family life and a legion of obstacles unknown to, and often invisible to, traditional students. Adair knows those obstacles; she faced them for decades. To Adair and the ACCESS students who must negotiate the passage out of poverty, the transit is never easy and never complete. The program's 70 percent on-time college graduation rate -- well above the national average -- testifies not only to the success of the program, but to the will and desire of the students it serves.
"They are often dealing with abusive partners or parents who are angry at the fact that they are choosing to go to school rather than what the parents see as caring for their families," she says. "They go back to their homes and their communities and they are told, 'You are no longer one of us. Your language has changed, your goals have changed.'"
The entry into campus culture can be just as painful. Traditional students "have their teeth," Adair says. "They hadn't sold their blood that afternoon to get money to pay for their books. They didn't have to go to a food bank that night. Poor students never truly fit. Even if people want to welcome them, there are material differences that simply won't allow them to feel that they are ever really a part of campus life."
To succeed, she observes, such students must build "liminal bridges" between worlds: between past and future, between street and campus, between the personal and the political. One such point of connection for Adair herself came when she packed up her literary and critical skills and moved them to women's studies. As the first winner of the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year award from that discipline, Adair exemplifies the growing reach and authority of what some academics once considered a suspect field.
"The joy for me was that it wasn't just isolated intellectual thought; it was rigorous thought that had a connection to praxis," she says. "In women's studies, the central idea is that the personal is political. You don't just learn about the world, you learn about the world in ways that allow you to impact the world."
Adair is careful, though, not to simply preach to the converted. Raising political awareness need not mean hewing to a party line. "And I have to add that this happens a lot," she concedes. "A lot of students feel shut out of women's studies because they don't necessarily share the politics. But you don't have to have a political affiliation to come to my classes. You only have to do the reading, consider the text, have respect, and show complete focus and engagement."
The loyalty Adair inspires in many of her ACCESS students is fierce. They credit her and the program with nothing less than transforming their lives. Shannon Stanfield '07, a single mother of two who completed ACCESS last year and is now a full-time student with a major in theatre and a minor in creative writing, says Adair and ACCESS helped her replace the "shame and self-hatred" she once felt as a welfare recipient with a sense of focus and value. Stanfield intends to earn a Ph.D. and teach; Adair, with her "kindness, generosity and compassion," is her role model.
"Before I met Professor Adair, I only dreamed of becoming a teacher," Stanfield says. "Now I am becoming a teacher. And I feel bound by nothing."
The power of telling
On a desolate January day between semesters, the horizon between gray snow and gray sky is a vague smear, and campus is nearly deserted. Adair, though, has been in her Couper Hall office since before dawn. "I couldn't wait to get to a book that I wanted to start taking notes on," she says.
She is an incessant note-taker, a keeper of stories as well as a storyteller. It is a source of her strength as teacher, scholar and ACCESS mentor. Her work often teems with data sets and demographics, but she never fully entrusts narrative to numbers. Stories belong to people; they give voice to the voiceless. Her books are woven with stories of despair and growth and acts of sheer endurance by women in poverty. The following week, the first words she will write on the blackboard in her Introduction to Women's Studies class are: Tell a different story.
But today Adair points out that stories can also be used to devalue others and to justify punitive policies. "It's part of the larger question: How do we know what we know? And the answer is that we can only know through competing narratives," she says. "So part of what we need to do is to present different stories as a way of countering that power and authority."
One story that needs to be countered, she believes, is the pervasive cultural myth that equates poverty with pathology. Poverty does create misery and privation as it shapes an entire, nearly invisible, economic class. But poverty does not erase the experience of community, of love, of discovery. To counter that story, Adair tells a last story of her own.
"When we were kids, we didn't really have anything. My mother was a seamstress, and she would collect the little cards she used for receipts," she says.
"I remember coming in one morning when I was 6 or 7. She had taken a dictionary from the library and had written the Latin and Greek alphabets on the backs of these cards. She was so eager for us to get up and sit at the table so she could show us alpha, beta, delta and so forth.
"She never had any exposure to higher education, but she read and learned all of the time. She would read things in the back of a dictionary -- Latin, Greek, prefixes, suffixes, stories of heroes and legends. We had nothing, and yet she loved knowledge. Knowledge not for power or money, but just for the pure joy of understanding.
"And I think that was probably an early model for me of the kinds of engagement we need to create for our students and for ourselves."
One imagines a young Vivyan Adair, adrift in poverty but suddenly enthralled by letters, words, stories, the possibilities of what might be said and written. It would take decades longer to fully find that voice. But already she must have been catching fire.
Donald Challenger is a frequent contributor to the Hamilton Alumni Review.

Walter Hatch class 1972 "Colby Faculty"

2009-11-09T10:45:00.000-08:00

Ph.D., Political Economy, University of Washington (Seattle)
Phone: (207) 872-3445 (Office)Email: wfhatch@colby.eduOffice: Miller 258Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-3:30PM, Wednesday 10:00-11:30AMIn a former life, I was a journalist, serving briefly as a stringer for CBS News and – for a much longer time – a political reporter for The Seattle Times. (Before that, I was a cabinet-maker.) I switched careers because I grew tired of listening to politicians talk trash, and because I was thrilled to be paid to read (and write) books, and to argue with other people about them. I turned my masters thesis into a book (Asia in Japan’s Embrace, which was published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press), and am now working to turn my dissertation into a second book on the feedback effect of Asian regionalization on the political economy of Japan. A future research project will focus on the use and abuse of collective memory in the Japan-China relationship. At Colby College, where I am an assistant professor, I teach Introduction to International Relations, Japanese Politics, Chinese Politics, and the Political Economy of Regionalization. I also serve as editor of The Japanese Economy, a journal published by M.E. Sharpe.

Doris Lederer's CD Reviews

2009-11-09T10:03:00.000-08:00

Doris Lederer CD Reviews
" Both artists are American virtuosos in their own right" - American Record Guide
"All viola lovers should snatch up this disc" - American Record Guide
"Emotionally candid and imaginatively shaped reading...deeply felt, resourcefully argued colloquy, eloquently served" - Gramophone
"If I had to go for a single version of the Bowen Viola Concerto this would be it" - Musicweb International

2009-11-09T09:45:00.001-08:00

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE The Roosevelt Jazz Band performing Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn's Jazz Nutcracker Two Performances this year:Sat. Dec. 12th - 7:30pm Sun. Dec. 13th - 2 pm Roosevelt HS Performing Arts Theatre1410 NE 66th Street, Seattletickets: Adults...$15 Students and Seniors...$12Join us for a warm Seattle tradition! Go to school web-site on link on the right. On the school web-site clink on Jazz.

2009-11-09T09:40:00.000-08:00

Roosevelt Vocal Jazz performing with Genesis/Mt. Hood CCMon. Nov. 23 7:30 pm Roosevelt HS Performing Arts Theatre

Keith Mastenbrook class 1972

2009-10-30T08:30:00.001-07:00

Keith's CV
Keith Richard Mastenbrook 6841 40th Avenue NESeattle, WA 98115-7531206/849-8141
Work History
1990-present: Co-owner of Westland Gardens Inc., a residential garden design, construction and maintenance business operating in the Seattle area. Responsible for conceptual/structural planning and hardscape installation. http://www.westlandgardens.com/
1989-92: Garden restoration project at Westland, working for David E Lamb, of the Lamb-Grays Harbor Company, restoring the 7-acre garden of his grandfather, Frank Haines Lamb, in Hoquiam, Washington.
Education
2003: Completed the Permaculture Design Course, at Lost Valley Educational Center, Dexter, Oregon, taught by Toby Hemenway, Jude Hobbs and Richard Valley
2003: Completed the Seattle Tilth Comprehensive Organic Gardener Course, at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, Washington
1990: Landscape Preservation and Restoration Workshop, held at La Napoule Art Foundation, Cannes, France; taught by Lucinda A. Brockway and Robert Z. Melnick. This was a 2-week, intensive workshop in the field of historic preservation.
1989: King County Master Gardener Training Program, conducted by Washington State University Cooperative Extension.
1988: Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, from the University of Oregon, Eugene. My Comprehensive Project was done on Seattles’ Kubota Garden, which led to a 10-year involvement in the Kubota Garden Foundation, being a founding board member and where I served as Secretary and Historian.
1975: Environmental sciences studies at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.
Personal Information & Affiliations
Military: U.S. Army, Armor Crewman, 1980-84. At Fort Hood, Texas, 2nd Armored Division, I served as Company Armorer, and in Aschaffenburg, West Germany, in the 3rd Infantry Division I served as Battalion Ammunitions NCO.
Hobbies: Gardening, Photography, Bicycling & Hiking
Affiliations: Northwest Eco-building Guild, Seattle Tilth, Seattle Tree Fruit Society

Douglas Oles class 1972

2009-10-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

DOUGLAS S. OLES
Main Phone: 206.623.3427Fax: 206.682.6234
PRACTICE EMPHASIS AND EXPERIENCE
Construction Business & Real Estate Government Procurement Commercial Litigation Intellectual Property Licensing
For more than 20 years, Douglas Oles has concentrated his practice on helping clients to avoid and resolve disputes on complex contracts relating to construction, supply, real estate development and intellectual property licensing. He has prepared, negotiated and litigated claims resulting in recoveries in excess of $100 million on major projects performed for government agencies and private owners. Most of his work has been in the western United States and Alaska, but assignments have ranged from Europe to South America.
As a principal developer of the firm's international contracts practice, Mr. Oles has joined the faculty at five conferences of the Canadian Bar Association's National Construction Law Section, and he chaired the first construction conference to be planned jointly by the Canadian and American Bar Associations.
PRESENTATIONS
"Dispute Review Boards," OMRB Construction and Public Contract Law Seminar (2005)
"Negotiating Changes to ‘Standard' Form Contracts," OMRB Construction and Public Contract Law Seminar (2004)
London Super Conference (2002-2006)
Society of Construction Law Conference in London (October 2008)
PUBLICATIONS
"Construction Damages and Remedies," American Bar Association (2004)
"The Construction Lawyer," ABA Forum on the Construction Industry Quarterly Law Journal, Editor (1997‑2000)
"Washington Building Contracts and Construction Law" (1996)
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
American College of Construction Lawyers, FellowAmerican Bar Association – Chair, Forum on the Construction Industry (2005-2006)American Bar Foundation, FellowAmerican Arbitration Association Panel of ArbitratorsWashington State Bar Association, Construction Law SectionInternational Bar AssociationPresident, The Rainer Club (2007-2008)
COURTS
Washington State CourtsU.S. District Court, Eastern District, WashingtonU.S. District Court, Western District, WashingtonU.S. Court of Federal ClaimsNinth Circuit Court of AppealsU.S. Supreme Court
Education
J.D., with honors, University of WashingtonB.A., History, with distinction and department honors, Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa)

Dave Barduhn class 1972

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Dave teaches at Mt. Hood Community College. As a performer Dave has played piano with Mark Murphy, Diane Shuur, Diane Reeves, Ernie Andrews and several Stan Kenton Alumni Bands. He is better known for his jazz arranging for Stan Kenton, Bud Shank, Bobby Shew, Richie Cole, The Four Freshmen, and especially Hal Leonard, Warner Brothers, Sound Music Publications, and Jenson Publications. His groups have performed at many IAJE and ACDA national conventions, MENC, and ACDA regional conventions. As director of the pioneering vocal jazz group Genesis, Dave and his students have won many awards from Downbeat magazine, the IAJE Journal, and most of the more prestigious jazz festivals in the West. Dave is now on parole after serving a 20-year sentence with the Frank DeMiero Jazz Camp and is now a founding staff member of the new Soundsation Jazz camp. He is currently serving as department chairman for both the theater and music departments at MHCC. In March of 2006, Dave performed the role of Tevye in the MHCC production of “Fiddler On The Roof.” When he has the time, Dave is also considered a master brewer of wheat ales and French/Alsatian ales, don’cha know.

Karen Bierman class 1972

2009-10-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

Karen Bierman is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Ph. D.

Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University 251 Moore Bldg.University Park, PA 16802-3106
Phone
814 865-3879
Fax
814 863-7002

Research Interests
Karen Bierman has interests in child-clinical psychology, social-emotional development, and preventive interventions. Her research focuses on peer relations, disruptive behavior problems, and intervention programs to facilitate social adjustment. Currently, she directs the Head Start-REDI project, a field trial evaluating the impact of research-based emergent literacy and social-emotional skill training on student school readiness, when delivered in the context of Head Start programs. She also directs the Pennsylvania site of the Fast Track Program, a multisite program addressing the early identification and prevention of conduct problems (http://www.fasttrackproject.org/). She codirects the FOCUS project (Forming Outreach Community University Systems for engagement), which utilizes university-community collaborations to promote school readiness by designing, implementing, and evaluating parent outreach and support programs. She leads the School Readiness research initiative at the Child Study Center (http://csc.psych.psu.edu/ ) and serves as Associate Director for the Prevention Research Center (http://www.prevention.psu.edu/)
Recent Publications
Bierman, K.L. (2004). Peer rejection: Developmental processes and intervention strategies. New York: Guilford.
Putallaz, M. & Bierman, K.L. (Eds.) (2004). Aggression, antisocial behavior, and violence among girls: A developmental perspective. New York: Guilford.
Lavellee, K.L., Bierman, K.L., Nix, R.L. & the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2005). The impact of first-grade "friendship group" experiences on child social outcomes in the Fast Track Program. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33, 307-324.
Bierman, K.L., & Erath, S.A. (2006). Promoting social competence in early childhood: Classroom curricula and social skills coaching programs. In K. McCartney & D. Phillips (Eds.) Blackwell handbook on early childhood development (pp. 595-615). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Thomas, D.E., Bierman, K.L., & the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2006). The impact of classroom aggression on the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. Development and Psychopathology, 18, 471-487.
Bierman, K.L., Nix, R.L., Maples, J.J., Murphy, S.A., and the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group (2006). Examining the use of clinical judgment in the context of an adaptive prevention design: The Fast Track Program. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 468-481.

Joel Bodansky class 72

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Joel’s practice focuses on business and commercial transactions, with an emphasis in business formation, debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, and federal and state securities compliance. Joel provides advice and legal representation to clients, both large and small, in connection with the structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing of a wide variety of business combinations and reorganizations (including mergers, stock sales, share exchanges, and asset sales), financings, and other commercial agreements.
Representative Matters
Worked with Fortune 500 manufacturing company to structure, negotiate and document a multimillion dollar integrated software solution for operation of its manufacturing facilities. Key documents included master commercial agreement, software licenses, support and development agreement, statements of work, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement, and software escrow agreement.
Represented Horizon Airlines in connection with its initial public offering, a subsequent preferred stock offering, and additional securities transactions. Represented the principal shareholder of Horizon Airlines in connection with the acquisition of Horizon by Alaska Airlines.
Acted as securities and general corporate counsel to privately-held start-up telecommunications company in connection with the successful raising of over $10 million in equity and debt investment capital through a series of private placement offerings.
Represented the developers of a 20-megawatt hydroelectric facility in western Washington in connection with the construction and term financing for the project and in connection with the subsequent restructuring of the ownership of the project and $45 million refinancing.
Represented National Development Council and related nonprofit corporations with respect to the structuring, development and financing of various housing and economic development projects, including student housing, medical laboratory facilities, government offices, and a multilevel parking garage which was sold to the City of Seattle as part of the Pacific Place Project in downtown Seattle.
Professional and Civic Involvement
Washington State Bar Association; Business Law Section, Chair, 1999-2000; Executive Committee, 1994- 2001, 2003-present; Ad Hoc Committee on Third-Party Legal Opinions in Commercial Transactions, 1991-2001.
Intiman Theatre, Seattle, Washington: Board of Trustees, 1993-2005;Co-chair of Artistic Director Search Committee, 1999; Vice Chair of Managing Director Search Committee, 2008.
Honors / Awards / Unique Recognition
Recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by Washington Law & Politics
Law Clerk to The Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981-1983
Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, cum laude, 1981
Order of the Coif
Associate Editor, University of Chicago Law Review
A.B., Harvard College, magna cum laude, 1976
Bar/Court Admissions
Washington State Courts
Personal
Parenting, English history, hiking, theatre, and travel.

2009-10-21T14:46:00.001-07:00

This article was added because I remember Paul Nordstrand, he is a member of the class of 73. This is a history of a family and a school, Roosevelt High School (Seattle): A Reminiscence by Dorothea Nordstrand
HistoryLink.org Essay 7131
This is a reminiscence and reflection on Seattle's Roosevelt High School by 1934 graduate Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
Roosevelt High School
Watching Roosevelt High School being returned to its former impressive self is of great satisfaction to me. I remember when it was the newest school in the city and the pride we all took in having it in our neighborhood. Our family, the Pfisters, lived in Green Lake district and the new school would be ours for our high school years. It was just about a mile’s walk from home, which was nothing at that time in our lives.
We had moved from a homestead in the far northeast corner of Washington State in 1919. One of the main reasons for the move was to ensure that the children in the family could get high school education.
Our parents, Joseph and Mary Pfister, both had limited formal education and were determined that their children, John (always known to the family as Jack), Florence, and I (Dorothea), about three years old at the time we came to Seattle, would have the advantage of a high school education.
The Pfisters at Roosevelt High
Jack entered Lincoln High School almost as soon as we arrived, since that high school served all the north central part of the city. He rode the street car as close as he could and walked the rest of the way. After three years of that, we were all very glad to know there would be a new school much closer to home.
When the beautiful, new school opened, Jack was among the first students and was graduated in 1925. Florence followed him, getting her diploma in 1927. Seven years younger than my sister, I graduated in 1934.
At the time we attended, high school provided two very distinct courses of study; one for college-bound students, and one specifically suited to those of us who would hoped to go directly from high school into the workforce. All three of us took the “commercial course,” knowing there wasn’t a hope of our continuing into higher education. Our family’s financial situation didn’t allow for that.
Mama had entered each of us into the school system using a simpler spelling of our last name, so we all received diplomas and certificates of proficiency with the surname of “Fister,” instead of “Pfister,” but it never made any difference, as nobody ever asked to see those precious documents.
Music, Writing, Poetry
I want to mention my favorite teachers while in school there. Mr. Worth, whose dedicated teaching made it possible for a lot of us to enjoy music in a way we might never have had without his guidance. He has my undying gratitude.
Sam Glass, who seemed hardly older than the students he was teaching, aided and abetted my already budding love affair with reading, writing, storytelling, and poetry. The special effort he made to help me cope with an inborn shyness made a great difference in my life.
Another teacher I will never forget was a Miss Adeline Lee Rowe, who taught bookkeeping. Unfortunately for me, she had been Jack’s bookkeeping teacher. Jack was an arithmetic (as we then called mathematics) whiz, with a fascination for numbers. Teaching him to keep a set of books must have been like teaching a duck to swim.
Not John Pfister
Nine years later, when I became one of her students, it was a whole different thing. I only took the class because I had to get my credit for graduation as a commercial course student.
Debits and credits made absolutely no sense to me. My set of books soon looked a complete mess, due to the many erasures. Miss Rowe was mystified. How could a sibling of "John's," as she called Jack, be such a dud? (She didn’t say that, but I’m sure she thought it.) She had us so tied together in her mind that she often called me “John” in class, which did nothing to bolster my self confidence.
As the term wound down, it was obvious I would not be able to complete my set of books. I stayed after class one day and, shaking in my boots, asked her what I could do: that I just did not understand what she was trying to teach me; and if she would please quit calling me “John.” I can still see the stricken look on her face as she said, “Why, you poor child. Let’s see what we can do to help you.”
For the next three weeks, I came to her room a half-hour before her first class. She issued me a fresh set of books and gave me some one-on-one assistance. Suddenly, it all ironed itself out. Debits became “take aways” and credits became “add ons” and I was able to finish with the rest of the class. And, she quit calling me “John.”
A Great Honor
In my Senior year, I learned commercial law from James Chamberlin and found, much to my surprise, that I had a talent for the logic entailed. At the end of the year the two top students in that class were offered scholarships by Judge Black, a prominent figure in our judicial system. Raymond Royal was the first one selected. He went on to become a lawyer and, eventually, a judge.
I was the second one so honored, but there was never any question of my accepting the scholarship. College was not to be thought of. I was anxious to get out into the world to become a wage-earner and take some of the financial burden of our needy family from the shoulders of my Mom, my sorely crippled Dad, and my sister, Florence.
The Next Generation
Thirty years after my graduation, our eldest son, David donned the green and gold cap and gown from the same school and two years later, in 1966, his brother John followed. Both of them went on to get degrees from the University of Washington.
Daughter Hildy went from Roosevelt in 1970 on to North Seattle Community College to get her Certificate as Medical Assistant. Youngest son, Paul, 1973 graduate, went on to Shoreline Community College. While at Roosevelt, John and Paul each played on the Varsity football team and John earned Seattle All-City Team status while playing catcher for the Varsity baseball team.
I guess you could say Roosevelt High School has been a big factor in my family’s life. We look forward to its restoration.
By Dorothea Nordstrand, November 18, 2004

Roosevelt Chess History was made in 1971

2009-10-21T11:22:00.000-07:00

The Roosevelt Chess Team added to school history as had never been done before. The Roosevelt Chess Team won first place in the City of Seattle, first place in Metro, first place in State, and first place in the Pacific Northwest Championships. Four members of the Roosevelt Chess Team traveled to New York to compete in the National High School Chess Championships. 570 top high school players came from around the country. Many students playing in the tournament came from around the world, and have reached International Grandmaster status. Because of limited funds, Roosevelt was only represented by four players. Each teams scores where calculated by the individual scores of the top 4 players from each school. In New York our team was able to place 10th out of over 100 teams.

Dr. Douglas Nitta class of 72

2009-10-20T08:35:00.000-07:00

Family Practitioner and Board certified with 25 years of experience. Located at 301 W Bastanchury Rd Ste 155 Fullerton, CA 92835

On a more personal note, Doug is an accomplished Jazz organist and drummer. During lunch at Roosevelt we enjoyed our chess and wrist wrestling completions. Doug is Married (wife Cindy) with 4 year old son (Doug Jr).

1980 Doctor of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1980-83 Residency in Family Medicine
University of California, Irvine
1983 Diplomate, American Board of Family Practice
Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians
1988 Vice Chairman, Department of Family Medicine
St. Jude Medical Center
Fullerton, CA
1989 Chairman, Department of Family Medicine
St. Jude Medical Center
Fullerton, CA
1989 Recertified, Diplomate American Board of Family Practice
1995 Recertified, Diplomate American Board of Family Practice
1997 St. Jude Heritage Health Foundation Advisory Board
1998 Board of Directors, St. Jude Medical Group, Inc.
Vice-President, St. Jude Medical Group, Inc.

Barbara Cahill class of 72

2009-10-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

Barbara is a native of Seattle, grew up in the Laurelhurst neighborhood and attended Roosevelt High School, Mills College (B.S. in 1976) and the University of Washington School of Public Health. Barbara began her real estate career in 1982 with Wm. Todd Cahill & Associates, a small “boutique” firm in Laurelhurst. Cahill & Associates was purchased by Ewing & Clark in 1984, where she worked until she joined Windermere in 1987. Barbara now has over 28 years of experience in residential real estate sales. She has an extensive knowledge of Seattle’s neighborhoods specializing in high-end properties.
Barbara’s reputation in the Seattle real estate community is based on integrity, professionalism and cooperation. She belongs to several networking organizations consisting of top agents in the field. She is a Director of Windermere’s Premier Homes Program and an active member of the Forum 22 club, an organization for Seattle’s top residential real estate agents. Barbara is consistently ranked among the top five producing agents at Windermere Real Estate Northwest. Inc. She will work enthusiastically to help you obtain the highest and best value for your property. bcahill@windermere.com http://www.barbaracahill.com/

Kay (Rothweiler) Jaz class of 72

2009-10-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

My mentors are those who help me to be authentic and show me how to get me out of my own way to the good stuff that's right there bubbling under the surface. They remind me we all have cracks. There's no place to get to before I begin. I start from here, now.
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." - Stevie Wonder
"Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other -- they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?" - Jack Lemmon
"Kay understands what it is to truly live authentically in the work and knows how to bring her students to that experience." Steven Anderson - LA Actor, Coach, Director

Visit Kay (Rothweiler) Jaz on her site at http://www.wakeupyour/work.com or contact Kay@wakeupyourwork.com

Doris Lederer class of 1972

2009-10-16T08:28:00.000-07:00

Link to her website http://www.dorislederer.com/

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Doris Lederer has performed with the Marlboro Music Festival and toured with Music From Marlboro. She has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Albuquerque Chamber Orchestra, among others. Ms. Lederer has been a jury member of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and represented the United States as a jury member at the Eighth Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2004. Ms. Lederer is currently on the faculty at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA, Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in Idyllwild, California, and the Chautauqua Institution in New York. She has also served on the faculties of The International Festival at Round Top, Texas and The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, as well as the annual Audubon Quartet's Intensive String Quartet Seminars.As a member of the Audubon Quartet since 1976, Ms. Lederer has performed extensively throughout the world and given master classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Shanghai and Beijing Conservatories, the Yale School of Music, The Chautauqua Institute, as well as the Audubon Quartet's annual String Quartet Seminar. Born in Istanbul to European parents, Ms. Lederer grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she began her study of the viola at age nine with Vilem Sokol. She studied with Georges Janzer at Indiana University and subsequently attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, Felix Galimir and Mischa Schneider.Ms. Lederer's four solo CD albums, entitled An English Fantasy for Viola and Harp, Music of Arnold Bax and York Bowen, The Passion of Bliss, Bowen and Bridge and Music by York Bowen, which features the Bowen Viola Concerto have been released by Centaur Records. She can also be heard on disc as a member of the Audubon Quartet on the RCA, Telarc, Centaur, Orion and Opus One labels.

Duane Covey

2009-09-24T14:09:00.000-07:00

Duane Covey - Outfielder/Pitcher - '69-'72
Duane Covey the best hitter in Roosevelt High School history? A strong case can be made in support of this Rider legend.
Duane's baseball career is strongly anchored in the Northeast Seattle community. The legend's career started with North East Seattle Little League, progressed to two years of North Seattle Pony League and eventually moved on to Babe Ruth, prior to his arrival at Roosevelt. Duane's youth baseball highlight occurred at the end of the 9th grade when he played on a Babe Ruth team that traveled to Illinois and finished 3rd in the Junior Babe Ruth World Series.
At Roosevelt Duane was a three year letterman for the Roughriders. Going into his Senior year he figured he was going to be the team's star pitcher. However arm problems limited his pitching opportunities, so he turned to the bat. Duane hit .489 - (wood bat era) for the Riders in 1972, the best batting average for any high school player in the State that year.
During the summer following the end of his Roosevelt career Duane played in the City/State All-Star Game held at Sick's Stadium. Duane also spent part of that summer playing with future Major Leaguers Floyd Bannister and Ken Phelps on this area's Senior Babe Ruth team; a team that traveled to North Carolina to win the Senior Babe Ruth World Series.
Duane played and lettered four years for the Washington Huskies. He batted .354 (again wood bats) for the Huskies his Senior year. He was named to the All-Pac 8 Conference team in both his Junior and Senior seasons. In 2000 he was one of a select group of players named to the Huskies All Century Baseball Team.
Following his Husky career Duane was given an opportunity to play for $500 a month for the Eugene Emeralds of the Cincinnati Reds organization. While he possessed a major league arm and bat, he knew two bad knees would keep him from ever making the majors, so he decided it was time to set his baseball career aside for a business career.
What was Duane's most memorable experience as a Rider?During his Senior year, in a game at Roosevelt, he crushed a ball that hit off of the top of the tennis court fence in right center field. While rounding the bases admiring his shot he slipped and fell on a soft spot on the base path. What would have been one of the most talked about home runs in Rider history, turned into the most talked about triple in Rider history. (Ironically, the start of the game had been delayed 30 minutes so the spot where Duane ended up slipping could be repaired.)
Why was Duane such a good hitter? Duane credits his hitting prowess to 20/10 vision, quick wrists, and a love for batting practice. Duane states that, "When he was a kid he would rather hit BP than watch cartoons". Duane attributes his quick wrists to years of doing what current Rider players know as "Forearm Rope Drill".
What was Duane's hitting style?Duane describes himself as a left handed Edgar Martinez - a hard line drive hitter with a bad set of wheels.
Who were the best players Duane played with and against? Phelps and Bannister were the best players he played with. Scott MacGregor was the best player he played against. MacGregor was later a 20 game winner for the Baltimore Orioles. The best athlete Duane ever faced was Steve Bartkowski of the California Bears. Bartkowski, better known as a football player, was also an outstanding pitcher. Even though Bartkowski was the best athlete Duane ever played against, Duane never the less managed to hit a home run off the Bear ace.
Post Baseball CareerToday Duane Covey helps Roosevelt alums and the community with their financial needs as an investment advisor for Edward Jones Investments.

Robert Polk

2009-09-24T13:49:00.000-07:00

Robert Polk defended student press freedom
By Carole Beers
Seattle Times staff reporter
Robert Polk, a former Roosevelt High School journalism adviser who believed in the potential of all youth, took a firm stand on students' press freedom.
During the five years he taught English and served as school yearbook and newspaper adviser, the Roosevelt News won a fistful of awards in the Washington Journalism Education Association (WJEA) annual contests. The News printed a variety of stands on topical issues.
Mr. Polk volunteered with the WJEA and headed its Journalism Day at the University of Washington as well as its selection committee for "Journalist of the Year."
Ever vigilant for news errors or omissions, Mr. Polk in 1996 wrote a mildly indignant letter to The Seattle Times. He noted that while "The superb `Seattle Times Guide to High Schools' made for fascinating reading, a piece of vital information was missing (about Roosevelt's newspaper awards). . . ."
Mr. Polk died Tuesday (Jan. 25, 2000) of heart failure. He was 48.
"Bob put a lot of his energy and ability into the WJEA, and he had a lot of energy," said Lu Flannery, WJEA treasurer. "He also worked on projects on the national level. He was very . . . committed to our goal of improving the quality of student journalism."
Born in Pittsburgh, and entranced by journalism during the Watergate era, Mr. Polk earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Point Park College. He got a master's degree in journalism at Penn State University.
Early jobs involved clerical work and free-lance writing. He also wrote copy for a travel agency and ran an agency in Tacoma in the late 1980s.
After turning 40 and having surgery to repair a heart valve, Mr. Polk re-examined his life. He had a young son, Franklin, who survives, and a need to write and to help young people write with confidence.
He got his teaching certificate at Western Washington University, then went to work at Roosevelt. "He wanted to encourage kids more than he had been encouraged," said his wife of 18 years, Ellie Polk.
Mr. Polk always took the ethical high road, says his wife. He refused pressure to tweak a student's grade for the better and expressed outrage when journalism advisers came under fire for allowing students editorial freedom.
"When that Stanwood school newspaper adviser (Val Schroeder) was let go for allowing the kids to write about bestiality on farms, he wanted to go up there to set the community straight about freedom of the press," his wife said.
Mr. Polk left Roosevelt last year because of his health.
Last summer, despite heart problems, he insisted on taking his family camping near Banff, Alberta, because he didn't know if he'd get the chance again.
Also surviving are his mother, Florence Katz of Pittsburgh; and sisters Susan Nowell, Indiana, Pa.; Marsha Polk, San Antonio; and Pam Sherry, Houston.
Services are being planned for next week (information: 467-6269).
Donations for his son's college education may go to the Bob Polk Memorial Fund c/o any Bank of America branch.
Carole Beers' e-mail address is cbeers@seattletimes.com

Roosevelt High School Renovation was done by Bassetti Architects

2009-09-23T14:30:00.000-07:00

Roosevelt High School Renovation was done by Bassetti Architects in 2006
The original Roosevelt High School building, a landmarked three-story Georgian-style building in Seattle, was built in 1921. Renovation of Roosevelt High School focused on rehabilitation of the historic structure, with a 120,000 SF addition that complements the massing, scale and materials of the original building
The new daylit student commons, which acts as a lobby for the new gymnasium and theater, is adjacent to a plaza overlooking the athletic field and territorial views of Seattle. The plaza serves as a protected exterior gathering space pulled back from the street. Roosevelt’s extraordinary performing arts program is supported with the provision of a new 750-seat theater, an intimate 150-seat black box performance space, and numerous teaching, rehearsal and support spaces. Academic areas are organized into eight small learning communities surrounding a daylit library at the core of the historic structure. Each learning community has dedicated classrooms, science labs, teacher planning areas and small group spaces. Since 1947, Bassetti Architects has been the architect for many well-loved and long-lived Seattle buildings. Bassetti Architects continues this legacy of working with public and non-profit agencies to provide meaningful, enduring and functional buildings. Contact them at
71 Columbia Street, Suite #500Seattle, Washington 98104

tel:206 340 9500

fax: 206 340 9519
Career opportunitiesdblair@bassettiarch.com
Vendors' contactdaxt@bassettiarch.com
Marketing contactcrosenstein@bassettiarch.com

James Edwards helps Roosevelt win State Championship in 1973

2009-09-23T13:34:00.000-07:00

James Franklin Edwards (born November, 22, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, U.S.) is a retired American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Buddha" for his appearance (he often sported a Fu Manchu mustache) and stoic demeanor, the 7' 0" Edwards played 19 years (1977-1996) in the NBA, playing both the center and power forward. Edwards played for eight teams: the Los Angeles Lakers, the Indiana Pacers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Phoenix Suns, the Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Chicago Bulls. Prior to his NBA career, Edwards starred at Roosevelt High Schooland the University of Washington.
Though he never appeared in an All-Star Game, Edwards was a reliable low-post scorer, averaging 12.7 points per game over his career. He was a key member of the 1989 and 1990 NBA champion Detroit Pistons, starting most of the team's games in 1990. He won a third championship in the final season of his career, with the 1996 Chicago Bulls, where he saw limited playing time. He retired with 14,862 career points and 6,004 career rebounds

Carl Brecht- photos taken on a trip to Canada/summer 2009

2009-09-23T12:06:00.000-07:00

Leaving Seattle in 1977 was only going to be temporary, with plans to return in 5 years. 32 years later, Carl Brecht is back. Carl, after graduating from the University of Washington Business School in 1975, began working for West Coast Realty. Two years later, he continued his real estate career in Chicago Illinois, Granger Indiana, and Saint Joseph Michigan. Now back, with 3 broker licenses,Carl has chosen to place his Associate Brokers License at Home Realty. Home Realty has four locations. They are a privately owned company geared to customer service. With continued success in these market conditions, Home Realty has initiated an expansion program. Carl’s expertise is finding an area that is reasonably priced, and promoting the property to investors. He has owned a few wholesale and retail businesses. His favorite one was a gourmet coffee shop, and that is a operation he enjoys selling. The enjoyment is finding that right person to carry on the business.Carl’s education did not stop after business school. Just a few years ago Carl attended Thomas Cooley law School to concentrate in property and contract law. His back ground has enabled him to offer his clients an expertise above the norm. Even though he does have a knack for selling businesses and commercial property, his enthusiasm for selling residential property is also evident. “Older historical homes are irreplaceable and have a story to tell “When asked about his fondest memories of Seattle, Carl was quick to mention his days with Boy Scout Troop 15. Taking the Adventurous, a hundred plus foot sailing ship to summer camp in the San Juan Islands. Another adventure was on an Eagle Scout climbing trip to Mount Rainer. On that climb he ran into both Whitaker brothers at Camp Muir. A highlight of his high school days was being a member of the Roosevelt Chess Team. His love for the game continued by teaching hundreds of elementary school students. His team of five third and fourth graders routinely defeated the top high school players in the Indiana area. Carl also is an avid rower and skuller. He was a member of the University of Chicago Rowing Team and attended the annual Head of the Charles rowing regatta in Boston. His only regret was that he did not take advantage of the rowing program at the University of Washington in his earlier years.At age 55 Carl sees himself working another 25 years in the profession he loves. His experience over the years has seen markets like today. “ There is no place in the world like the Pacific Northwest.” He is back to stay. If you would like someone like Carl working in your corner, you can reach him by email at carlbrecht@netscape.net, or by cell phone at 425-368-8246

Visit Glen Buschmann's Blog! class of 72

2009-09-08T08:13:00.000-07:00

Glen said, "I have lived in Olympia since 1985, graduated from Evergreen and worked many years as a landscaper Now (I'm not always sure why) I work at Capital High School in OlyWA, (in Special Ed classrooms). My spouse Janet and I have a nature blog on blogspot, which gets better attention in the winter than the summer.Habitat Consultations See blog" at http://www.olypollinators.blogspot.com/
If you live in the greater Olympia area and need some garden ideas, Glen can come to your home. In a 90 minute consultation he can help you evaluate your landscape for its habitat strengths and needs. If you live outside his region his ability to help is different, but he can still provide you with a questionnaire and offer some design ideas.E-mail Glen or Janet at: olypollinators@aol.com Phone them at: 360-352-9009 There mailing address is:Bees, Birds, and Butterflies Box 11464Olympia, WA 98508

A story that takes place at Roosevelt 1972

2009-08-17T12:13:00.000-07:00

I attended Roosevelt (the Teddies, Teds, or Roughriders), a public high school in North Seattle, while my friend John William Barry was a student at Lakeside, our city’s version of an East Coast private academy like Phillips Exeter or Deerfield. Besides slumping at my desk all day and getting high in Cowen Park at lunch, I also ran the 880—today called the eight-hundred-meter or the half-mile—for the RHS track team. It was a good niche for me. You didn’t need to be fast or have the wind of the distance runner. Mostly what you needed was a willingness to sign up. As a sophomore in 1972, I was a good enough half-miler to represent RHS with a time of 2:11.24. To put this in context, the world record in ’72 for the half-mile was held by Dave Wottle, with a time of 1:44.30. Roosevelt’s best half-miler of all time is Chris Vasquez, ’97, at 2:01.23. This is a race that takes runners twice around the red cinder oval found behind many high schools—I say this so you can imagine me losing to Vasquez by about thirty yards, or think of me still rounding the last bend, at the far end of the grandstands, while Wottle is crossing the finish line, arms raised victoriously. Either is a useful picture of me—of someone intimate with the middle of the pack. There’s good and bad in that.I remember one race more vividly than others. It’s ’72, so Nixon is president, though he and everything else, the world, seem far away from Seattle. I’m sixteen and wear my hair like Peter Frampton’s and a mustache like Steve Prefontaine’s. (Because of this mustache, I’m sometimes referred to at school as “the Turk,” after the guy in the Camel cigarette ads. I’m not Turkish, but my mother’s father, whom I never met, was what people call Black Irish, and possibly I inherited his coloring.) I’ve got on hi-cut satin shorts and a satin jersey emblazoned with Roughriders, and I’m at the starting line along with seven other runners, six with better qualifying times than mine. Despite them, I’m a believer that if the ninety-nine-pound mother in the apocryphal story can lift the front end of a Volkswagen off her crushed toddler, I can win today.I’ll dispense with the obligation to describe the weather—whether or not it was a sultry afternoon, with clouds of newly hatched mayflies above the track, or a windless May day smelling of moist turf and mown grass, is beside the point—and cut, literally, to in medias res: the eight of us stalwart and tortured young runners rounding the third curve of a high-school track and coming up on 250 yards. It’s my usual MO—out front early and counting on adrenaline to keep me there, but with heels nipped and a sinking feeling that’s anathema to winning. A race is a conversation with yourself, motivational in quality, until somebody interrupts by pulling away from you, and then it becomes an exercise in fathoming limits. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you’re one of the obliterated.The right track term is “running in a pack.” That’s us—a band of runners hardly separated. One keeps exhaling humidly on my shoulders. Another’s left forearm hits my right elbow on its backswing. A runner pulls up beside me—the way a freeway driver pulls even in the adjacent lane to take your pulse—and I assess his chances with a panicked glance. Not strictured yet; striding with more ease than I feel; biding his time; relaxed. Working up a freshly adrenalized surge, I gain a quarter-step on him, but purchased with the last of my reserves.The early leader in a half-mile race rarely crosses the finish line first. But he wants to have had the experience of leading—that’s part of it—and he’s perennially hopeful that, this time, things will be different in the home stretch. I still feel that way in the early part of curve three: that I might have heretofore undiscovered deposits of leg strength and cardiovascular capacity, not to mention will, at my disposal, all this against the grain of my foreboding. It turns out that my foreboding makes sense; at the curve’s apogee, I know I’ll flag, and with that, the flagging happens. Three runners pass me, going strong.I’m needled by regret. Why don’t I have a better strategy than running as fast as I can from start to finish? I’ve squandered my energy; I’ve incurred too large a deficit. But it isn’t in me to plan; I just run, as my coach says, on unfocused emotion. These other runners, by the halfway mark—end of lap one, where we’re lashed on by friends and exhorted by teammates, a small fire zone of screaming and technical advice—are just stretching out and finding a rhythm, while I’m already in a battle with depletion. I drop to sixth, dragging with me a familiar sense of failure.Then, on the back stretch, the runner in seventh tries to pass me, too. To anybody watching we’re in a pointless and even pathetic battle between losers, but for me what’s happening feels critical. Against good tactical judgment—it’s a move that slows you—I indulge in another assessment of an opponent: like me, long-haired; like me, in earnest; like me, goaded forward by, the word might be, convictions. In other words, this runner is approximately my doppelgänger.Ask any track coach. The half-mile is a race for unadulterated masochists. Neither a sprint nor a distance event, it has the worst qualities of both. It’s not a glorious race, either. A lot of people can name a sprinter or two—Carl Lewis, for example—or a famous miler like Roger Bannister, but can very many name even a single half-miler? No athletic romance attaches to the half-mile. It’s not a legendary or even notable feat to beat other runners over 880 yards. At track meets, the half-mile contest is somehow lost between more compelling competitions, an event that unfolds while fans thumb their programs or use the bathroom. Into this gap of a race, this sideshow, step runners in search of a deeper agony than they can find elsewhere. They want to do battle with suffering itself. It’s the trauma they want, the anguished ordeal. It’s the approximately two minutes of self-mortification or private crucifixion. All half-milers have a similar love of pain. So this race is an intimation and an opening. In two minutes’ time, you get a glimpse.I do, on the afternoon I’m telling about. There’s a kind of synchronicity that can happen in a running race, and it happens now. We run in tandem, my near doppelgänger and I. In running parlance, we match strides. I’m measuring him, as he, no doubt, is measuring me—all the while throwing ourselves forward into fresh pain, so that there are two perceptions, pain and the close presence of another agonized half-miler. In parallel this way, and canceling each other out, we’re neither of us ahead or behind for maybe forty-five seconds. That’s an unusually long time to run neck and neck in the 880. I’m oxygen-deprived, so everything looks well lit and startling, and from this perspective I see what I probably wouldn’t see otherwise. This guy, right here, running next to me, is a version of me. We both feel, romantically, that our running is transcendent. How do I know this? From running alongside him. I also have the benefit of hindsight.Thirty-four years have passed, but I still remember how, in the final five yards, my double frees himself—like a shadow in a cartoon or a mirror-figure in a dream—and beats me by three-quarters of a stride.I’m bent over and spent, my hands on my knees after the race, breathing hoarsely and looking at the ground, when he comes over to shake my hand with what I think at first is a grating sincerity. The grip is vigorous. The expression is heartfelt and, post-race, ruddy. The stance is upright, the posture exclamatory. This is gracious victory personified, and for a moment I think—it says Lakeside on his jersey—that what I’m seeing is obligatory patrician good manners, a valorous lad with his cursory and vapid Victorian Well done! while his heaving breath subsides. But no. He’s just fiercely putting forward what he feels—he’s honest. There’s a sentiment to be noted, life is short, and he doesn’t want to just pass by. “Thanks for the push,” John William declares, between bouts of sucking wind. “I just about died.”That’s how I met the privileged boy who would later become “the hermit of the Hoh”—as he’s been called by the Seattle newspapers this spring, in articles mentioning my name, too—that loner who lived in the woods for seven years and who bequeathed me four hundred and forty million dollars.

2009-08-13T08:25:00.000-07:00

Frank Fidler

By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times staff reporter

"Special thanks to Lynda Mapes

on 08/13/09 for permission to reprint her work"

THE FIDLER FAMILY
Frank Fidler served as Roosevelt High School principal from 1970-77.
He was known as a firm man but a fair one, on the court and off, during a long career with the Seattle School District, serving as a coach, counselor and school principal, among other posts.
Frank Burke Fidler, 86, died peacefully at his home Feb. 27 2008 with his wife and son at his side. His death was caused by difficulties after a fall, subsequent surgeries and several bouts of pneumonia, according to his son, Brett Fidler, of Bellevue.
Born Aug. 5, 1921, in Cornelius, N.C., Mr. Fidler met the love of his life, Doris Ylvisaker, at a dance.
"I'll never want another man," said Doris, who recently found the packets of letters she said Mr. Fidler wrote her every day while they were engaged and living apart. He was doing graduate work at the University of Washington and she was at Washington State University.
"I won't read them all at once. I'll read one every night so I don't feel so lonely," she said. The two were married 61 years.
Mr. Fidler graduated from Appalachian State Teachers College in 1942 and after graduation was drafted by the New York Giants Baseball organization. Military service interrupted his baseball career and he joined the Air Force in WWII, serving as a meteorologist.
While stationed at Paine Field, he met Doris, marrying her the same year.
He began his career with the Seattle School District in 1947, starting out as a teacher and basketball coach at Garfield High School. He also served as a counselor at Roosevelt and Franklin high schools; vice principal at Garfield from 1959-1961; and principal at several Seattle high schools, including Roosevelt, from 1970-1977.
Mr. Fidler's last position with the district was in the central office, as director of staff relations. He retired around 1980.
He was well known in Seattle athletic circles. Mr. Fidler officiated football and basketball at both the high-school and collegiate levels. He helped establish the Washington State High School Officiating Association and was selected as an official for the Rose Bowl in 1964 and 1976, among other high-profile venues.
He spent several years coaching the Buchan Bakers Amateur Athletic Union basketball team and in 1956 his team won the national championship, and later toured, playing teams in the Philippines and Japan.
Mike McCutchen, 77, of Bothell, remembered working with Mr. Fidler the coach as a player at Garfield. "He was a great basketball coach that took us to state tournaments two times," McCutchen said. "He had a different attitude than most coaches; he didn't berate the players."
Instead, Mr. Fidler helped players get past their mistakes and achieve, McCutchen said.
Most of all, he said, what he learned from Mr. Fidler was how to deal with people. "It was his good attitude, and his patience."
In addition to his wife, Mr. Fidler is survived by his son, Brett Fidler, of Bellevue; brother, Carl Fidler of Boone, N.C.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
A family celebration of Mr. Fidler's life will be in the spring. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Mr. Fidler's name to Childhaven of Seattle.