If you live in Alaska you have a truck. Lakes 1966 classmate Phil Nesse, a teacher in Alaska, does.

If you live in Alaska you have a truck.

Alaska teacher Phil Nesse (Lakes Class of 1966) does.

Here are photos (taken June 24, 2022) of Phil and his Toyota Tundra.

Phil points out the truck’s engine block heater plug and the Alaska license plate.

At night and other times when you leave your car (truck in this case) outside (or even inside in really cold weather) you plug an extension cord into an electrical outlet and the plug from the engine block into the other end of the cord. 

Why an engine block heater? 

An internet source said, “The main purpose of an engine block heater is to make it easier to start the engine, but preheating the engine oil, antifreeze, and internal engine components also reduces wear and tear, reduces emissions, and makes for a more comfortable environment inside the vehicle by allowing the heater to blow hot sooner.” 

 

 

 

 

LAKE CITY SCHOOL, 5th GRADE, 1958-1959, MRS. TURPIN

LAKE CITY SCHOOL, 5^th GRADE, 1958-1959, MRS. TURPIN

Phil Nesse (Lakes Class of 1966) has a black & white photograph of his Lake City School (Lakewood, Clover Park School District) 5^th grade class. Mrs. Margaret (Marguerite) Turpin. 1958-1959. Can you identify his classmates? (Phil is in the front row, second on the right.. He is shown June 24, 2022, with the class photo in a scrapbook given to him by his mother.)

Nils Olson (Lakes Class of 1966) has amazing recall. Here’s the ID he provided for those in the photo. Correct? Have names of the missing?

Back Row (L to R): Mrs. Turpin, Susan Grant, Betty Clifton, Patty Reed, Nora McNerthney, Barbara __?__, Sharon Kirby, Ed VanHorn, Bill Weinman, Greg Saxton.

 

Second Row (L to R): Mike Chapman, __?__, Joe Berg, Mary Warren, Steve McCann, __?__, Candy Hilliard, Jackie __?__, Daisy VanArsdale, __?__, Daisy Villa.

 

Third Row (L to R): __?__, I want to say Linda Geroux (but could be mistaken), Frances Frye, __?__, Larry Bennet, __?__, __?__, Alan Pederson, Phil Nesse, Ronnie White.

 

Sitting (L to R): __?__, __?__, Lee Thoren, Jim Haskins, Jim Shepherd.

 

(If you have the same photo and it's in good condition, could you please scan it as a TIF or JPG and send it to me? The photos I took of Phil’s photo has glare on the right side.)

Flett's Dairy: Located in the 'wetlands of Lakewood.'

Recall the Western Washington State Fair in Puyallup (a.k.a. the Puyallup Fair) during the fall? Students in the Clover Park School District got free tickets to attend the fair and a free school bus ride to and from the fair. One of the fair exhibitors was Flett's Dairy. Located in the “wetlands of Lakewood,” Flett's was in business 1902-1994. Most likely it provided milk for Clover Park School District student lunches. With that preamble, here’s a Flett's Dairy handout from the fair. It’s the cover of a photo holder. A black & white photo was taken of you and put in a photo holder (not show) part of the handout. Which fair? Maybe in the late 1950s.

Lakes High's first journalism teacher, advisor to Quill & Scroll, Ledger and Legend

Many remember Charles Croasdill ...

50-year reunion of Lakes Class of 1966: Charles Watson Croasdill III (lakes-1966-50-year-reunion.blogspot.com)

... who taught journalism and was student newspaper advisor for Lakes High (Ledger) and Clover Park High (Clover Leaves). Mr. "C" was a member of the Clover Park faculty when he added, starting in the 1963-1964 school year, duties at Lakes. He succeeded Ronald Frank.

Obit from July 29, 1982, TNT/Tacoma News-Tribune with editing and additional info added in 2022

Ronald P. Frank

Ronald Philip Frank, 47, a public school teacher, died Sunday, July 25, 1982.

Mr. Frank was born June 19, 1935, in Tacoma and had resided here all his life.

He belonged to the First United Church of Christ.

Among survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Frank, Tacoma; and a sister, Judy Schliewe, of Tacoma.

Mountain View Funeral Home is in charge.

He graduated from Tacoma’s Lincoln High School and, in 1957, from the CPS/College of Puget Sound. (In 1960, CPS became UPS/University of Puget Sound.)

In the 1962-1963 school year, in Lakewood at the newly-opened Lakes High School, he taught English and journalism, and was advisor to the Lakes chapter of Quill & Scroll, an international high school journalism honor society.

He also was advisor for Lakes’ student newspaper and yearbook, Ledger and Legend respectively. He is credited with naming those publications.

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Two photos from the Lakes Legend yearbook and one from the CPS Tamanawas yearbook. 

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At CPS he worked on The Trail student newspaper including as a sportswriter and sports columnist, sports editor and editor.

He and another student helped direct the Evergreen Conference State Press Association convention held on the CPS campus.

“Ron Frank, business manager of the Tacoma Athletics is beating the drums for Friday’s game at Bellarmine between the Seattle U. Papooses and the Tacoma Athletics. ‘It could decide the Northwest AAU League championship and it will give local fans a chance to see Eddie Miles, the Seattle U. freshman who someday will make Northwest fans almost forget about Elgin Bayor,’ Ron enthuses, said an item in the Feb. 20, 1960, TNT/Tacoma News-Tribune.

Frank was praised in print by a newspaper sports editor for his talents as a sports publicist, including presumably, for Logger athletics of CPS and for ?Oregon Tech? in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

An item in the Aug. 4, 1962, TNT/Tacoma News-Tribune reported that “Ron Frank will teach journalism at the new Lakes High School.”

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Find A Grave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104525143/ronald-philip-frank

Phil Nesse (Lakes Class of 1966) in Minnesota (2007) and Oregon (2017 and 2022)

Aug 28, 2007 - PHIL NESSE in Bloomington*, Minnesota

July 24, 2017 - PHIL NESSE in Sherwood, Oregon

June 25, 2022 - PHIL NESSE in Sherwood, Oregon 

August 1968: Hemion brothers, Whit and Dave, members of Western Washington U men’s basketball team which toured/played games for six weeks

=Whit died (plane crash) in 1978 at age 31.
=Dave died (heart attack) in 2020 at age 62.

In August 1968 the Western Washington U (Bellingham, Wash.) Vikings men's basketball team went on a six-week tour of the Far East and Australia. Whit Hemion and brother Dave Hemion, both Lakes High School grads and former basketball players for the Lakes Lancers, were players on the WWU team.

Team wearing sports coats -- Front Row (L-R): Assistant coach Marv Ainsworth, Ben Smith, Ron Caderette, Dave Hemion, Mike Clayton, Neal Larson, Doris Randall. Back Row (L-R): Whit Hemion, Blaine Johnson, Ed Monk, Gary Reiersgard, John Reed, Jimmy Jones, Paul Hallgrimson, Head Coach Chuck Randall.

Team wearing game uniforms -- 1968 WWU Australasia Team (L-R): Ron Caderette, Mike Clayton, Jimmy Jones, Whit Hemion, Gary Reiersgard, John Reed, Ed Monk, Paul Hallgrimson, Dave Hemion, Neal Larson, Ben Smith. Kneeling (L-R): Assistant Coach Marv Ainsworth, Head Coach Chuck Randall.

Black & white action photo with photo corners cropped -- Dave Hemion, Jimmy Jones and Ed Monk.

Small color photo -- Paul Hallgrimson, Ed Monk, Whit Hemion (with yellow scarf), Dave Hemion (light blue shirt) and Gary Reiersgard.

Large color photo -- Dave Hemion, John Reed, Whit Hemion, Gary Reiersgard and Mike Clayton

Story text included: In Taipei, Taiwan, WWU played and won four games. The players did a lot of shopping. "… Whit (Hemion) bought 19 (music on phonograph records) albums for eight dollars (pirated copies). He thought he had (the albums) concealed but when he went through customs they found them. He was a little worried but they let him keep them with no penalty."

LAKEWOOD’S ROUNDABOUTS AND LAKEWOOD SATURDAY OAK LEAVES MEMORIES

 

LAKEWOOD’S ROUNDABOUTS AND LAKEWOOD SATURDAY OAK LEAVES MEMORIES

How old are you? Do you remember Lakewood before roundabouts?  Am told by a Lakewood resident on 10/4/2021 that roundabouts are being put in/installed/built on Gravelly Lake Drive, one each at Nyanza Park Drive, Veterans Drive and Washington Boulevard intersections. Wow!

Speaking of, "How old are you?," are you so old you remember fall Saturdays in Lakewood when oak leaves that fell from trees were raked into piles, not "pushed" into piles with noisy leaf blowers? And, do you recall the smell of those oak leaves when homeowners burned them? It was, at least to some memories, a sweet scent even though it was polluting the air and a health hazard.