Commencement speakers, selected by a board of teachers and students, were named for Everett High School’s graduating exercises this Thursday. With their topics they were Elinore Howlett, “For Want of the Individual”; Dan Kremer, “The Many Headed Dragon,” and Ward Helms, “The $64,000 Question.”
Penny Lane Stout of Edmonds took the top scholarship awarded by Everett Elks Lodge, it was revealed by Floyd Berry, exalted ruler. Stout would receive $200. Second place award, $150, went to Sheila Marie Knutsen of Everett, and third, $100, to Burke John Williams of Lake Stevens.
John Connor, Marsha Cogdill and Shirley Morrow of Save Our Community studied plans for the proposed Shadow Run development the group was opposing. The plan called for 717 new homes on a 75-acre site between Glenwood and Dogwood avenues. The group preferred cutting the number of homes to “the low 300s.”
Bob Tolbert was enjoying a dream of his. He built a 57-foot yacht in his yard next to his home on Beverly Lane. Now, 2 years later, it was moored on the Everett waterfront. The boat, given the biblical name Gethsemane, was not completed, but would be functional soon.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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