Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:48 pm Sunday, March 23, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Gwendolyn Shakespeare and three of her third-grade students at Jackson School were looking over the Faculty Fancies Cookbook and the clown’s mouth bean-bag target at the school’s Fun Night. The students were Sally Norway, Dallas Salisbury and Donald Carter.

A new, more interesting and more profitable approach to music exploration had been added to Whittier School’s program by Ray Howell, head of the music department. Now students such as Janet Norgaard and Betty Hall could take instruction on the viola earlier, in fourth grade.

25 years ago (1983)

A birthday party was always a pleasant affair, and William Diedrich Sr.’s 95th birthday reception Sunday was no exception. What pleasantly surprised everyone was the large number of guests, some 125 or so, who stopped by to offer their best wishes. Traveling the longest distance was William’s son and wife, Harold and Edith Diedrich of Yuma, Ariz.

Jayna Cleeste Alflen, the last baby born at Everett’s Providence Hospital before the city’s obstetrics facilities were consolidated at General Hospital of Everett, turned 5 years old this week. Her parents were Kelly and Marcia Alflen of Snohomish.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library