Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Feliz Navidad!

And a Happy 2009, to you, too. Best wishes to all of our classmates for a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year.

As the old song goes... see you in September.

It's Snowing....

Looking out my window last night I saw that winter was really beginning in Seattle. Because snow is such an infrequent visitor to Seattle, I had to head out to find something to photograph. I headed to the Top of Queen Anne Hill thinking that because it was several hundred feet higher I'd find lots of snow ...and lots of Xmas lights.

Wrong on both counts, though I did manage to find a representative sample. As I write this post... the snow has finally begun in earnest. Winter is here. Perhaps we'll have a white Xmas? We'll see. Statistically the odds aren't very good, but you just never know.

At the very least the city will be virtually shut down tomorrow. When a flake of the white stuff falls in Seattle everything comes to a screeching halt. Of course we're a city of hills, so some allowance must be made for that fact, but it's sure not like in Montana. Rain we can handle ...snow is another matter altogether. -Ed

Reunion Plans Update

Good news! The reunion committee has secured a block of rooms at $89 per night at the Holiday Inn Grand Montana hotel. Call 1-406-248-7701 or 1-800-465-4329, ask for Reservations, and reference Senior High Class of 59. Reunion dates are September 3, 4, and 5, 2009.

The side entrances to the hotel do not have elevators, so if you have a problem hauling luggage upstairs, either enter from the front of the hotel or ask for a ground floor room.






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B-Day King and Queen

Dan's the Man!

Dan Noennig loved baseball. Still does. Cecil Musberger (Brent's dad) organized baseball at Lissa Field, corner of Virginia Lane and Rimrock Rd. Dan says those were the good ol' days--parents weren't very involved!

Of course, it's obvious there wasn't much money for uniforms, either. And look at the size of those feet!

7th Grade, Lincoln Jr. High

Another contribution from Dave Moulton. Many of you will recognize yourselves and your friends. Such innocence! So young!

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Louise Kostelic Merring at the Rose Bowl Parade.

Lookin' good, Louie!

Miss Knudsen's First Grade class, Broadwater School

I recognize little Davy Moulton. Anyone see themselves or recognize anyone? Let's hear from you!
Dave says some of the children are: Peggy Josephson, Chuck Boyd, Barbara Fellows, Joanne Highhouse, and Dick Colberg.

Leaves

Hurrying to jump into the car and get out of the rain, I glanced downward as I hastily stepped from sidewalk into the street. My subconscious mind registered several things simultaneously: safety, no cars, leaves, color, beauty, clogged drain, soon, hurry, pattern, maple, autumn, red, picture and probably several other things I don't recall now. My point is simply this - in our haste going about our daily lives... what do we simply walk over, under or around without noticing?
There is so much we all (me included) miss as we pass through our days. What have you stepped over, under or around recently? -Ed

If I remember correctly it was our Sally Leland '59'
that painted that big Bucking Bronc in the gym. -Ed

Football in Good Ol' Pioneer Park

On the line:

Bill Dove, Bert Decker, Dave Moulton, Jim Carney, Hal Crum, Phil Currie, Bill Anderson, George Grice, Charles Hanson

Back: Steve Fenter, Mike Gaines, Bob Fletcher

Thanks again to Dave, and to his mom, who kept the photo.

Muggsy Xmas

Dave Moulton says this is 'specially for Diane, because she forgot that she starred in this production with him, Elmo Sackett, and so many others of our classmates!

Congrats on your stage career, Diane.

Wonderful to see so many classmates, all looking remarkably like their older selves.

Memories

Remember what a big deal it was to leave sixth grade and go to junior high? Exciting as that was, it seems to me that we really weren't much more grown up, and in fact spent our time with other 7th graders, happy as clams. But then--8th grade, much older, right? Cliques formed, we started having parties and dating. Ninth, and we were the big kids, practically adults! Only, when we started BHS--back to being the little kids again. And so on. I remember, in perhaps 7th grade, being so aware of the older high school kids, whom I thought of as grownups. How could we not be aware of them, given the intense coverage of all school events and even private parties, by the Gazette?

It amazes me, sometimes, that I remember that all so clearly. They're my memories, though. My friends remember particular parties and incidents differently than I do, or perhaps not at all, because their minds recorded other incidents and parties. When we get together and say "Remember when...." I may not remember at all.

How about your memories?

Our esteemed leaders

Class officers, left to right:

Don Eder, Dave Moulton, Jane Madson

Mike Gaines, Kara Rollins, Barbara Mulder '60, Jon Shelton

Terry Wallace '60, Sally Verden '61,
Patty Berg '60, Elsie Morrow '61, Carol Goss '61

Cool Eddie

Our ladies who lunched

From left: Kate Oliver, Gayle Myhre Hooper, Bobee Selvidge Romstad, Judy Baumgartner Alguire, Carolyn Strand Christenson, and Susan Koch Henderson enjoyed lunch together last spring in Arizona.

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School Days, Good Ol' Golden Rule Days

Broadwater School, 2nd Grade class 1949/1950



Top Row: Dave Moulton - Ron Sheldon-Bob Adolph


Middle Row: Ed Burris - Bob Beeman - Guil Mullen


Front Row: Margaret? - Judy Brummett - Peggy Benson

If you live away from Billings, what do you miss or do you miss anything about Billings?

I miss the Fall weather with the leaves turning colors. I do not miss the wind, nor the snow!

Santa Being Good To Ed

Santa gives Ed Burris a new Harley
with Sidecar...

Where does he get these things?

OK, here they are:

Left front: Bob Fletcher, Alice Wilson, Dick Colberg, Judy Lito, Tony Bornheim, Gay Fergus, Gwen Propp, Hank Cushing, Martha Earl, Dave Moulton.
Left back: Brenda Tronson, Bruce Lohof, Mike Gaines, Barbara May, Patty Lee, '60, John Shelton, Dixie Wilcox, '60, Steve Fenter, Holli Large, Eddie Bruhaug. Sally Leland and Don Eder are sitting to the side.

A Blast from the Past

Taken 1956

Ed Burris - 'Shotgun'
Dave Moulton - 'Middle'
Doug Moulton - 'Driving'

Ed's very first car... a 1949 Chevie Flip-top

Dave Moulton's donkey

Judy Alguire sent this picture of Dave Moulton. She says the donkey is his. Dave? Raising donkeys over there on Whidbey to haul packs up Rainier?

Welcome, Class of 1959

Are you looking forward to our reunion next fall? We are, too! In the meantime, let's get to know each other all over again.

This blog is the brainchild of Judy Baumgardner Alguire, Dave Moulton, Eddie Burris, and me, Brenda Tronson Snow. We want to hear from all of you, and welcome your comments, memories, photos, stories about your fabulous vacations, and yes, jokes, as long as they're in somewhat reasonable taste. This is your blog! Have at it!