50 YEARS AGO (1960)
Everett’s Board of Education named seven new staff members: Rose Marie Saad and Patricia Kent, primary; Madeline Torvinen and Carolyn Kield, intermediate; and Richard Shideler, Warren Heber and Nancy Brune, junior high. In other business, the board approved the YMCA’s use of buildings on the Lincoln School grounds.
By selling tags to help finance the work of the Shut-In Club, girls who helped on the recent sale would bring added sunshine into the lives of others. The top sellers were Virginia Baker, North Junior; Billy Plattis, South Junior; Elaine Affeldt, Evergreen; and Linda Fisher, Silver Lake.
25 YEARS AGO (1985)
John Fluke Mfg. Co. Inc. of Everett this week reported net income for the company’s second quarter was $3.9 million, a 13.6 percent increase over the $3.4 million reported a year ago. Earnings per share were 47 cents compared with 41 cents in 1984.
Mark Hammond, a special education teacher at Cedar Valley Elementary School in Lynnwood and Edmonds Education Association’s 1983-84 Educator of the Year, was named state teacher of the year by the Washington Education Association. He had been at Cedar Valley for the last three years.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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