Coach Holly Gee – Clover Park, Lakes High Schools

=The 1963-1964 season was Holly Gee’s second as Lakes head boys’ basketball coach. He coached that sport at Lakes through 1969. He came to Lakes from Clover Park, where he was head baseball coach and an assistant boys’ basketball coach. At Lakes his resume included p. e. department chair, asst. baseball and asst. football coach, senior class adviser and administration rep to Lakes student govt.

=With additional info added, this from Winter 2016 Arches alumni magazine from Holly Gee’s alma mater, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma:

"In Memoriam" – Hollister Roland “Holly” Gee, College (now University) of Puget Sound Class of 1949, died Nov. 10, 2015. He was 91. Holly was a leader in the Lakewood, Wash., community, where he was a longtime educator and coach. He was instrumental in organizing youth sports programs in the area and had a passion for helping athletes accomplish their goals. His family remembers him for his compassion, work ethic, and quick wit. His wife, Mary Louise “Mary Lou” Rogers Gee, died at age 90 in 2013. A member of the College of Puget Sound Class of 1945, she was a Stadium High School (Tacoma) and UW (English, 1946) grad. Her background included teaching English at Clover Park High. A son, Ron Gee, and grandchildren Jevan and Dillon, survive Holly and Mary Lou.

=“In Memoriam” based on his obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tribnet/obituary.aspx?pid=176529171

=More about Holly Gee and his baseball connections here:

oldtimerbaseball.com/hall.php?name=Holly%20Gee

=Before Holly Gee came to the Clover Park School District (initially at Clover Park High School and later, when it opened in 1962, to the new Lakes High School), he was in Centralia.

July 2, 1952, Centralia, Wash., Daily Chronicle -- 'New Position For Gee at Clover Park 'Centralia high school was looking for another coach Wednesday -- one to replace Holly Gee who resigned from the Centralia district and will teach at Clover Park this fall. Gee has the head baseball coach at Centralia high, and also assisted in football and taught classes In health. At Clover Park, he will be the head junior high football coach, teach physical education and health in the high school, and will also probably have another coaching job in the high school. Gee said. Besides, coaching, Gee. has also been an active participant In sports in Centralia--usually on one of the teams sponsored by Dick Scott. During the summer, the former Centralia coach has been attending the University of Washington, completing his work for a master’s degree in physical education. He plans to complete moving to Tacoma this weekend.

Originally posted 12/13/2017