"Coincidently, my teacher, George Lewis, happened to be a gymnastic coach, and coached Glacier High School graduate Dale McClements. "I went to North Seattle Community College to learn the clock and watch repair trade, horology and micro-precison instrumentation classes," he said. He got serious about a career upon his return. It's official capacity was 1,000 beds, but they were never below 2,000 beds and often much higher. Back then we attended junior high for three years, then high school for three years."Īfter Eastwood graduated, during the Vietnam War, he was sent to Japan to set up an army hospital. Most of our class did attend Evergreen and Highline first, (Eastwood attended Highline) then Glacier beginning in '60 and '61. "Highline High School is still there and seems like it's been there forever. "I think generally our feeling was it did, and does add a loss to our generation because the school is gone," Eastwood acknowledged. The thing that we did was to pay for our admission with a dime, get a penny change and throw the penny in the fish pond." When first entering the lobby there was a large fish pond stocked with Rainbow Trout (.)Īlumni Ron Peterson adds, "In 1955 admission was 9 cents for the Sunday afternoon matinee. It first opened for business in the fall of 1947. In addition it featured a three bedroom apartment above the lobby. The theater seated 875 people and included an enclosed balcony with a 'crying room' for families with noisy babies. In the June, 2012 Avalanche, he recalls Coy’s Highline Theater: "The unique theater was located at 13400 1st Ave, South and was designed by noted theater architect Bjarne Moe and built around the frame of a World War II Quonset Hut. This inventive stunt got him kicked out of typing class, his wish in the first place. Granted, my score was zero, but it was still an improvement of 25 to 30 words." In other words I was typing at something like minus 25 or 30 words a minute (.) It occurred to me that I could raise my score by some 20 or 30 points by not typing a single word - the reason being that I had no mistakes. Much to my horror I found that I was coming out in the hole. We had to take off about five words a minute for each mistake. The name of the game was now speed, which caused me to make more mistakes than usual. In my mind typing was a first cousin to home economics and I wanted no part of it (.) I was never fast, although I was reasonably accurate. Your editor was in his class, but typing was definitely not my thing. He writes: "Some of our readers may remember Cecil Anderson as a typing teacher at Glacier. In his Oct., 2011 edition of Avalanche, Eastwood recounts a somewhat brilliant and humorous strategy he employed to improve his flailing test scores. He would go on to author 17 self-published books, most focusing on Ritzville's Adams County history, and he continues to publish. I just didn't do to well in the academic stuff." If I could 'get my hands on it', then I could probably do it. I mostly needed English and maybe some math because I had taken a lot of shop classes, electricity, metal, wood, engine, and just one English class. I didn't have a clue of what I wanted to do so I went back for another year. I was short credits, and supposed to graduate class of '61. "I wasn't a very good student," admitted Eastwood, reached by phone at his home in Ritzville, 220 miles east of Seattle on I-90. Its curator, Nancy McKay, helped with the project by allowing Eastwood and other committee members access to the Society's collection of Glacier High School photographs and other memorabilia that appear in the book. Copies will also go to the Highline Historical Society for their future Burien Museum. One hundred copies were made, including about a dozen hardcovers, two going to the Burien Public Library. That led to a book, "Taku Memories", named for the school's annual, and an Alaskan glacier. Reunion committee member Harland Eastwood has been publishing a monthly newsletter, "The Avalanche" with old stories and photos pertaining to Glacier High School, plus grade schools and middle schools Glacier alumni had attended. 6 at nearby Rainier Golf and Country Club. The first graduating class held its 50-year reunion Oct. Long after its disappearance, its alumni still express school pride. The extension of SeaTac Airport caused a demographic population shift resulting in the closure, and those of Puget Sound Junior High, Beverly Elementary School, and others. opened in 1960 and close just 25 years later. The former school, now a lonely collection of vacated buildings and covered outdoor walkways punctuated by tall stalks of pampas grass on South 142nd St. Compared to Highline High School, which remains open since 1924, Glacier High School, also in the Highline School District, came and went in the blink of an eye.
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