Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1963 was the date we started as sophomores at Lakes High School

We, Lakes High School Class of 1966, graduated June 8, 1966. June 8th of this year will be the 50th anniversary of our graduation. That’s what we’re celebrating Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, with a tour of Lakes High School and Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016, with our class 50-year reunion dinner and program at the Emerald Queen Hotel in Fife. Let’s remember another date. Most of us attended Lakes all three class (sophomore/10th grade, junior/11th grade and senior/12th grade) years. It’s assumed (if you know for sure, tell us!) we started classes as sophomores at Lakes High School on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 1963, because Monday, Sept. 2 was Labor Day 1963 holiday. Thus, on Sept. 3, 2016, it’ll be 53 years since we started as sophomores at Lakes. We knew (so to speak) nothing when we started as sophomores. Conversely, when we graduated we knew everything!

Can you find your cap and gown-clad self?

Reason we can have a 50-year reunion is because we graduated (as of June 8, 2016) 50-years ago. Do you question that? If so, here’s photographic proof. Photo does not show you, a member of Lakes High School Class of 1966, receiving your diploma during our graduation ceremony. But, it does show you in cap and gown in the Lakes Gym. When was this taken? It might have been June 5, 1966, prior to the Lakes Class of 1966 Baccalaureate Service in the gym. As a bonus, here’s a photo of cover of graduation printed program. 

Who's who in Lakes Legend 1966 yearbook photo

1. Marilyn Seeley
2. Tom Lyon
3. Barb Akin
4. Suzie Skinner
5. Jim Haskins
6. Jon Denman
7. Tom Hicks
8. Phil Nesse
9. Moria Bordman
10. Ann Dooley
11. Tim Esche

=> Larger color version of photo at http://bit.ly/1N3RQeG

In June 1966, 'World Famous' Tom Murphy of KJR Radio was our senior breakfast speaker

"World Famous" Tom Murphy (photo) of Seattle's popular KJR Radio was surprise guest speaker at our Lakes Class of 1966 senior breakfast held a June school day morning in part of the Lakes High Cafetorium.


Another breakfast surprise was Arthur Stolz, Lakes senior dean, telling those in attendance about a (nonexistent) VW Beetle for sale at a low price newspaper (Suburban Times, Tacoma News Tribune?) ad. Lakes '66 classmate Rick Hill surreptitiously placed the ad which included Stolz family home phone number. The phone "rang off the hook," Stolz indicated. He invited Rick to the podium and gave him the ad billing Stolz received in the mail from the newspaper.

If you have more information about the breakfast, it can be added here: Per te oporteat mandamus comprehensam. Quaeque euismod deleniti cu ius, feugait complectitur eos an, ad soleat recteque mea. Omnium accommodare ius te, commodo dolorem suscipit ad qui. Ad hinc nominavi incorrupte mea, an nibh suavitate hendrerit sed. Sed ex iudico eirmod, mel graeci noster an. Amet postea lucilius pro te, case alienum ne mea.

You might want to 'Do the Puyallup'

When you’re in Lakewood/Tacoma/Fife to attend the 50-year reunion of Lakes Class of 1966, you’ll be only a few minutes’ drive to Puyallup, home of the annual Washington State Fair (“Puyallup Fair”). For 2016, the fair starts Friday, Sept. 2, and has its concluding day Sunday, Sept. 25. If you want to “Do the Puyallup” before or after Lakes ’66 reunion activities visit www.thefair.com for info.