Many remember Charles Croasdill ...
... 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.
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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