50 years ago (1964)
Stephen Rochon, Michael Whetstine, Richard Ruckmaster and David Sieminski received the Catholic Church’s Pervule Dei award for Cub Scouts at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. The boys, who received the award from the Rev. Richard Gallagher, were fifth-graders at Perpetual.
Commencement speakers at Stanwood High School were valedictorian Walt Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson, salutatorian Rebecca Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Anderson, and class speaker Phil Bloom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bloom.
25 years ago (1989)
Another nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would be sent to the Everett home port when the USS Nimitz departed for an overhaul and refueling in 1993. The USS Enterprise, now based in Alameda, Calif., would replace the Nimitz for about two years in the middle of the next decade.
John and Loyce Slagle, of Arlington, were spending yet another summer as volunteer U.S. Forest Service hosts of the Troublesome Creek and San Juan campgrounds 11 miles northeast of Index. The place was so special to them they renewed their wedding vows there last year.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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