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Sid Storer: Faculty – Gone but not Forgotten
Faculty Position: Teacher: biology and chemistry (1962 – 1979)
Residence: Lopez Island, Washington
Last Updated: 07.25.09
Bio: Died August 25, 1999. Taught science in Colville high schools and then entered WWII in 1943. After the war, he returned to Colville and continued teaching science until 1962 when he moved to Normandy Park, and taught in the Highline School District in Seattle. Later he was chairman of the science department at Tyee High School. After retirement in 1979, he built his retirement home on Lopez Island in the American San Juans overlooking the water.
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Shirley Long: Faculty
Faculty Position: Counselor(1978 – 2003)
Residence: Kent, Washington
Last Updated: 06.15.09
Bio: I started at Tyee on August 26th of 1978. I remember the date because it was my husband’s birthday and I was attempting to make yeast bread. I got the call from Len Zevenbergen to come to work that day…and it was about noon when he called…so the bread never got baked…or at least it didn’t rise and bake properly…that’s what my husband had wanted for his birthday!
I jumped in full time after that and never looked back until 1982 when I was “riffed” and had to go to Satellite Alternative School to teach for a year. It was quite boring after having been at Tyee where so much happened all the time that I came to expect action. Being class advisor for Class of ‘79 was the most fun thing I did while a high school counselor. Up until that time I had never even been to a prom or home coming dance and working with you I not only got to help plan the events…at least I thought I helped at the time…now I wonder… then I even got to attend.
After Class of ‘79 left, the class events didn’t hold a candle. As the years progressed each classes presentations and events became even more lack luster..just plain dull in other words. There were some bright spots along the way throughout the eighties but once we hit the nineties there was very little student participation in class events.
Somewhere in the nineties after principal Tom O’Keeffe left to go to Mt. Rainier HS…and Commi Babe Madame Jean Shumate came on board, she gave the job of class advisor to one of her cronies and started paying that person real money for the job. So whatever happened there in the early nineties didn’t really matter as much to me. It’s strange how that just happened, that jobs I used to just do like finding student counselors for Camp Waskowitz and leading up the King County Blood Donation Drive and who knows what else…once I was given the push out of the assignments, the new people got paid real money to do what I did for “fun”. Oh well…it was all good since I didn’t know any better.
Since I’m trying to think in chronological order I will pop in here with travel info…In 1985 my husband Dennis and I joined a group in New York’s Kennedy Airport that headed out to Eastern Turkey…Our goal was to climb Mt. Arrarat…but as luck would have it the Kurddish warriors were on the war path and we never got to go up the mountain…I have to tell you I am not a technical “climber” and it was never my goal to climb anything mountain like…just to hike! Steep is okay but I only enjoy it going up as coming down is always a challenge for me…We did hike among the Katchkar Mountains (I don’t recall the spelling but I know the name started with a “K” and sounded like I spelled it). The mountains were quite pleasant and we saw many Turkish women herding goats and cows and scampering up the steep slopes like they were daily exercise and took no effort…Not so for me!
Turkey is a wonderful place to visit and travel as an American…and still is even after 911…at least that is what people tell me…We haven’t been back sad to say…Our trip was organized by Col. James Irwin who had been an Apollo 15 astronaut and had walked on the moon in the late sixties or early seventies. He had made many, many trips to Mt. Arrarat in search of finding Noah’s Ark…This trip we were on was the only one open to anybody…so that’s how it all came about.
That trip sort of opened up the “need to travel” in my head so the following year over Christmas Vacation we took a TWA Getaway trip to Israel. I had always wanted to do Israel, Egypt and Jordan in one trip but that never manifested itself as at that time there was some restriction about going from Israel to Jordan. Now there is no restriction. I have to say that for me the most fun and enjoyment is meeting people and talking with them and learning how they live. I guess this is one of the things I live for as the places of historic value and importance are not what warms my heart. The Holocost Museum (not the correct name)…was a total wipe-out as I could not get over it for a very long time.
In 1987 we went to Switzerland and had several hiking adventures. The most fun was riding the trains into towns and cities and walking through them and having people holler out “Americans” so we got to stop and meet various people while traveling on the train. We talked with anyone who could speak English as that is still my first and last language.
Back in Christmas of ‘85 we traveled to Florida as that was going to precede the launch of the Challenger and we wanted to go to Kennedy Space Center, which we did and I filled out the paper work so I would receive “teacher stuff” from Christa McAllufie from space as they were launching about Jan. 26 ‘86. As you know, that launch never worked out…and I never got my teacher stuff from space. We did have a good time traveling around Florida even though my husband’s back went out just as it had in Turkey. That definitely limited our activities as he sometimes had to get a motel and just lay on the floor and hurt.
In August of 1988 my sister Kathy and I went with a group from our church to Papua New Guinea to help built a church. Again…I have no nail pounding skills but went along to help cook and do laundry. Actually my sister and I knew the missionaries who were living where we visited at the time and we got to stay in their home with them and take side trips with them. The side trips were priceless and staying with the missionaries in their home was a learning experience one would never read about. Needy people with all sorts of emotional and physical problems came to both the front and back doors until the lights were turned off. It rained hard every night at exactly 7:00 and the women went out to gather big crickets which they took home for their families to eat. No I will not be going back to PNG to visit as the heat even in their cool season was too humid for my body.
The summer…late June of 1989 we went to the Soviet Republic and Latvia, Lithoania and Estonia. Again it was a guided tour and I’m not even sure if the wall was down already and it was just plain Russia again. Whatever it was it was slim “pickens”. The food even for tourists was not what we are accustomed to…but it was a Great Adventure. The stores were mostly empty of food. I saw a woman selling cooking oil on the street…black market style. I soon learned about “black market”. Communism did not treat the people well and it was not efficient either. We saw tons of crops left to ruin in the fields because there was no transportation to get them to markets.
1990 during Christmas Vacation again we got to go to Egypt. We were there at least 12 or 13 days so we got to see the pyramids along the Nile and we got to stay with bedouins on the Sinai Desert, where we rode camels, saw Valley of the Kings and all the sights but mostly enjoyed the people and the food. My husband’s back went out while we were riding donkeys to the Valley of the Kings and the tour guide summoned a Cadillac taxi to take him back to our hotel. I was quite concerned because I was not “there” when it happened so wondered if I’d ever see him again. Fortunately things were not quite so terrorist like back in those days.
My husband and I both had parents with ailing health so we did not travel and have not traveled much since. We went with friends to Mexico in ‘92 and did a tour to the Greek Island of Crete to hike in August of ‘94. We also did the sights of Athens in August, where the heat started at 100 degrees in the morning and climbed to 120 at least by noon.
In 1997 we took our first cruise and went to the Caribbean. That was good and we now fully endorse cruising. When I retired in 2003, we did an Alaskan Cruise with our family.
Since I retired from Tyee, I have been subbing in both Kent and Highline School Districts. Since I live in Kent, I prefer the shorter drives but it is fun to revisit my old school and HHS and the Puget Sound Skills Center from time to time.
Since I was the the ripe old age of 28 when I got married, I thought I was too old to have kids, so I raised my husband’s two oldest kids, Tony and Kellie. They are now in their forties. In fact just today my granddaughter Leilani and her husband Bryan were up to attend some events in Seattle.
My husband’s youngest daughter, Adrienne, is now staying with us, as she is going through a divorce and so we have been sharing her pets and her life to add to the care giving of my husband’s dad. We have one other grandchild who is autistic and he lives at home with his parents as his handicap does not allow him to get into any of the adult homes.
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Bev Larsen
Faculty
Faculty Position: Secretary (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Unknown
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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Ruth Winquist
Faculty/Office Staff
Faculty Position: Bookkeeper (19XX – 1979)
Residence: Des Moines, Washington
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Retired from Tyee 1979
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Diane Abrahamson
Faculty
Faculty Position: Attendance Clerk (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Unknown
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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Wilma Holtslander
Faculty
Faculty Position: Registrar (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Unknown
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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Pat Crounse
Faculty
Faculty Position: Librarian (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Longbranch, Washington
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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Bev Smiglewski
Faculty
Faculty Position: Corrective Reading (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Burien, Washington
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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Sonia Fierst
Faculty
Faculty Position: Hearing Impaired (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Lynden, Washington
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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Paul Scott
Faculty
Faculty Position: Resource Room (19XX – 19XX)
Residence: Unknown
Last Updated: 11.02.08
Bio: Not Yet Submitted
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