Highline High School

Looking for Lee Keith

2010-05-13T01:48:31-04:00

Hi,

One of the Missing Classmates is Lee Keith. Does anyone know how to reach him, where he went to college. I'd really like to talk to him if you know. Thanks

Linda Phillips Chambers

RE: Post 64 banner?

2009-11-15T01:31:37-04:00

Yes it was a 1964 Mustang. At the time my dad was selling Fords for Southgate Ford. He called it a 64 1/2 Mustang. Never understood the 1/2 part, but I believed him. It was early into 1965 when I bought one of the 64 1/2 Ford Mustangs. I also was working my first job and was making a whooping 350.00 a month. The Mustang was baby blue with white appolstery, and I coughed up enough money for rims and baby moons for it. I LOVED that car. My dad felt it such a classy car that he thought a miniature poodle would look nice in it, so he bought me one. Eventually my Mom kept the dog, and I kept the car. Still the 1/2 part is a mystery. If we can get Bruce Minella on here he could probably straighten it out. His dad owned Southgate at the time, when my dad worked there.

Karen

RE: Post 64 banner?

2009-11-06T08:39:21-04:00

While these things didn't all happen in '64, but we did... kind'a, sort'a.

We burst out on the world, looked around and started making some changes. I can see a couple of things in that banner that we might have influenced.

And hey, Baby Boomers are still a powerful force for change.

Oh, the Ford Mustang... think the first one was in '64 or was it '65. Well, someone planned it in '64... LOL. The 1966 Mustang was my first brand new car. I was living on poor, and I mean poor, wages working for the government in DC. Drove that little car for about 12 years, how I loved it.

Linda

RE: Post 64 banner?

2009-11-01T12:31:08-04:00

Interesting point. Sound of Silence from 1965. Man on the moon 1969, Woodstock 1969, Looks to be a late sixties Mustang. May or may not be able to change the icons,as it is probably a canned program.

What would be some good visual icons from 1964? 1964 GTO?

RE: Class of 64 - 45th Reunion

2009-11-01T12:15:42-04:00

Thanks to the Reunion Committee Members: Gary Korsgaard, Carolyn Eichler, Bill Hamilton, Barry Hayes, Larry Ohrt. Great get-together and always good to see everyone again. I arrived late and talking to Gary, was the last to leave. The evening went by too quickly.

Thanks again!

RE: Class of 64 - 45th Reunion

2009-10-28T23:29:09-04:00

The Forum isn't getting much play, but I'll chime in and agree with Tom. A very nice evening and another thanks to all the hard work by the organizers.

Early on I was a little disappointed that there wasn't music to dance to, even though the dance floor was small. I even wore my dancing shoes! But great conversations were taking place everywhere you turned and I quickly forgot all about the lack of music. As Dorothea pointed out on the way home. the absence of music made the conversations easier, and the background hum of voices was music of a wonderful kind.

Class of 64 - 45th Reunion

2009-10-26T11:02:53-04:00

WOW! What an absolutely out of sight, not to be believed party. Thanks to the committee for all your hard work in setting up this event. And thanks to all who attended for adding your special presence to make this a most enjoyable event indeed. And for those that didn't make it, I'm truely sorry, as you missed a most enjoyable evening.
Tom Bourdage

RE: School Tour

2009-10-25T21:19:17-04:00

Maybe there is continuity on some matters about Highline. The current principal is a Mr. Fosberg, who is the son of Dr. Ted Fosberg, a Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering. I worked for and with Ted for fifteen years. The president of our engineering company, Russ Vandenberg, is a Highline graduate from 1949. He distinctly remembers Earl Trowbridge as being THE MATH TEACHER during the 1940's. So they can do to the building what they want. There is continuity among a large range of graduates over the years.

Gregg Wilson

Senior (old) Process Engineer

Resources Conservation Company

Bellevue

School Tour

2009-10-23T23:29:18-04:00

A big "Thank You" to John Leonard for arranging and leading a tour of the school this afternoon. It confirmed my thoughts pre-tour that you can't go home, again. If you get a chance to wander around the school, I suggest you don't bother. Drive by the front and remember it as it was. Behind the front facade of the building, there's not much left of the school as we knew it.

John did a good job showing us the new school and finding bits and pieces that remained from 45 years ago, but it's just not the same with the centerpiece auditorium gone and the hallways we walked no longer in existence.

Just one person's thoughts. There were 25 to 30 of us walking about the school today. Check with the others at the Saturday event. Others may feel differently.

Post 64 banner?

2009-10-22T22:55:13-04:00

Any one else wonder why the web site's top banner has all the post-64 photos for a class of 64?

Viet Nam Survivor

2009-10-19T15:57:29-04:00

SOMETIMES EVENTS GAURENTEE LUCK - In 1964/65 my mother had devorced & still had 2 mouths to feed. I tryed to get a job but as I was 1A on the draft, employers just said, "Why Don't You Come Back in 4 years," You got good skills. Well that was some hint to join the service & after all it was just a little "Police Action" going on (at this time the US Army was breathing down my neck & I got a draft notice). So in April I joined the USAF. Upon completing basic trainning President Johnson decided on a build-up of forces & the Basic training center became flooded with new recrutes. I had made an agreement with my enlistment that I would be put in the electronics field. The USAF decided to place me in the Classified field of Cryptography which, ment it was a little difficult to place mE in harms way. In 1967 the Air Force decided to re-assign me to PAC-AFT (Pacific Theator, i.e. Viet Nam & surrounding areas). The assignment also included access to the National Security Agency's (NSA) special catagory clearance & information. In this capacity I was the first to receive information of the capture of the Pueblo by the North Koreans (HIGHLY CLASSIFIED). As such, & having had access to such highly classified, war particular information, I was not allowed to get to close to any war zone, In fact I had a travel & duty restriction for 2 years after I left this position. For the Fact that I was NSA I was purty much guarenteed servival of the Viet Nam conflict. - Rudy

Reunion Time!!!!

2009-10-08T15:41:10-04:00

Hey, it's me again folks, Tom Bourdage®.....

So come on folks! Time to mingle, party on and get down with our bad selves!!

Lets shake the dust off the dancing shoes, get the glad rags out of the back of the closet, review the 64 Annual and get psyched up for the party of the decade!!

Hey guys let's rattle some cages, get to the folks we don't usually see, or see only infrequently, at best, and get them signed up for the forthcoming 45th Reunion of the one, the only, Highline Class of 1964!! Yee haw!

RE: Another Vietnam Casuallty

2009-10-08T00:33:18-04:00

Hi Tim, I thank you for your kind words. Being a retired librarian, semantics are second skin. The term, "police action", never cut it for me. If ammo is being traded, that is war. Same holds true for Korea. Same holds true for America's ghettos. No way to pretty up ugly truths.

The haunting always lurks in the background. Even after all these years. At least, for my family, and it is a big one, it does. This holds true for my husband's side of the family as well.

I remember my dad, who flew bombers in the Pacific Theater, during WWII, would not talk about it. Except for one story that was so poignant and heartbreaking. And he told me that when he was in the last month's of his life.

Yes, America is fighting for it's life and I am scared and cannot figure out why others are not.

Tim, I am not whining. I am still angry. After all these years. I am territorial about those I love and about my country. I won't be mellowing anytime soon.

Thank you again. It is good to hear from you. I wish you and yours the very best. I am proud of the Class of '64.

Connie

RE: Another Vietnam Casuallty

2009-10-07T13:21:31-04:00

Hi Connie,

Sorry to hear you lost family in that police action. Don't think it was ever a declared war.

To the younger generations, Viet Nam is ancient history, but it surely was the hot topic in our youth. It still lingers in the background of our minds and hearts. As the late George Carlin said. "America is only 200 years old and already we've had ten major wars".

Right now we have two wars going. September 2008 the biggest dowturn in the US economy since the stock market crash of 1929. Is it worth mentioning that Afganistan was the former Soviet Union's undoing?

Hang in there.....

Tim

RE: Another Vietnam Casuallty

2009-10-06T04:54:22-04:00

This is so very sad. I lost family and friends too. But a brother is too close to home. For me and my family it is as if Nam never left. It's not over. From my husband, to my brothers, to my cousins, the tragedy never goes away. It hovers in the background.

RE: Another Vietnam Casuallty

2009-09-26T17:24:06-04:00

I did not know that. Polly would have taken that very, very hard.

Gregg Wilson

Another Viet Nam Casualty

2009-09-25T00:39:02-04:00

Classmate Polly Pollard's bother Jim Pollard (Highline 65) met an early end in Viet Nam. Jim was only 19. I met Jim in 1965. Polly told me Jim had a model "T" Ford. I too had a "T", so in 65 went to Jim's home in Normandy Park and met Jim. We hit it off right away. Great guy! Friendly! Down to earth. I was really bummed to hear that Jim was killed in Nam!. What a tragedy! Somewhere in my archives I have a picture of Jim's name on the Viet Nam Memorial in Washington D.C. Maybe some day I can post that picture here on this site.

Jim Pollard.....great human being........gone way too early.....BUT NOT FORGOTTEN................

Tim

RE: KIA Viet Nam

2009-09-13T16:46:07-04:00

I too heard Mike got it early on, but not how. If we could find Sherry Waters I think we could find out. They lived two doors down from each other on Three Tree Point. Don't even know if those houses still exist anymore. I loved them.

Back to Mike, though, I remember him as hilariously funny, yet he never played the fool. It was fun being around him.

If the way you say he went is true, it makes my heart hurt all over again. In 1964 all of us were just babies. What did we know?

Connie Purdy Gilbert, Class of '64-we took it on the chin and just kept getting up again.

RE: KIA Viet Nam

2009-09-12T22:03:38-04:00

My parents were friends of the McCarthys. This is pretty old info, but the story I heard was Mike McCarthy, a Navy pilot, made a hard carrier landing and the aircraft went over the side. Mike didn't eject. Aircraft and pilot lost. Don't know if it was in Nam? Think it was a training exercise....

Looking for info on Mike on the web. Will post if I find some. RIP Mike!

RE: KIA Viet Nam

2009-08-27T15:01:41-04:00

Hi Connie,

I agree we have probably beat the subject to death. However, I want to recognise and thank you for helping young troopers coming back, probably with life long injuries and messed up minds. I did not need that, but a great many of them did need help. You are literally one in a thousand. I know.

Can be contacted at wilbot@nuclearpyramid.com

Gregg