Gregg Wilson

Kaiser Whilhelm claimed that his army would have won The Great War except for that "contemptible little British Army". The BEF stopped his army dead in its tracks in 1914 even though the BEF was outnumbered 10 to 1. The veterans of the BEF were proud to call themselves "the old contemptibles" for the rest of their lives.

Now the "old deplorables" have elected Trump.

C'est la vie.

Ken Becker

Hi Gregg,

I scanned your book online and found it interesting.  Unfortunately, my retention isn't the best with online books.  I would do much better with a complimentary, autographed, leather-bound addition.  When will you be able to send it?

I am in Australia visiting my daughter, and was thinking a good sequel for you would be to do the same treatment on Ayers Rock (Uluru).  I am in Perth, but can travel to do the field work for you.  How do wish I submit my expenses?

Gregg Wilson

Hi Ken,

I will send you a hard copy from Amazon. Please tell me your home address. Overseas mail to Down Under is notoriously slow.

Gregg

My home email is wilbot@superjer.com

("superjer" is my oldest KID.)

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!  

Jack Fouts

Wishing all my classmates a happy,healthy and wonderful Thanksgiving!

Jack Fouts

John Davis

Happy thanks giving and a marry cristmas to all our class mates, and all the best in our new year.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Ditto!!

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

A Very Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year.  We are so fortunate to have the chance to enjoy another year.  I am looking forward to seeing you all at the next get-together.  

As Tiny Tim would say.....Blessings to you all....each and every one!

Thomas Bourdage

MERRY CHRISTMAS one and all

and a very HAPPY and PROSPERrOUS NEW YEAR!

Jack Fouts

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year! May 2017 be filled with happiness and good health!

Ronald Goodmansen

Merry 🎄 Christmas and Happy New year to all.  Be healthy, be happy.

Tom Nixon

Anyone else see that Melba McConnaughey passed away last week? Very nice obit in the Seattle Times this morning. Her and Don moved to Ocean Shores some time ago and she passed in her sleep last Thursday. 

For those of us that went on to Highline College, we saw a lot of Don when he transfered with us to the new campus in '64. He went on to become the athletic director at the college and a banking customer of mine for years ....the McConnaughey's were a class act. 

I vividly remember our first year at Highline High when they introduced this couple from Amarillo Texas at an assembly and I could hardly understand a word they said with that thick Arkansas/ Texas accent. Funny the little things you remember. I bet the ladies on this board have a lot of fond memories of Mrs Mac from English classes, cheer, pep club.

Her funeral is this Friday in Ocean Shores and a celebration of life in January. We are all invited......... 

Shirley Widerski (Miller)

Yes, I remember when she would read Shakespeare to us .........with that southern accent!

Gregg Wilson

Does anyone remember Donald Kelly? Perhaps he attended Evergreen High School.

Lynn Britton

Yes, I remember Donald, he was our and your (while you lived on 150th) neighbor (kinda) over on 1st Ave by Gary Summerson.  I think he went to Glacier because he was on the wrong side of the tracks.  The last I heard about him was that he was a deputy sheriff in, I believe, Kitsap County.  I had hoped to see him at the reunion but he wasn't there.

Gregg Wilson

Hi Lynn,

I found him in Port Angeles, where he is retired. He was a policeman. Haven't been able to find his phone number but he probably has a cell phone. Thinking of writing him a letter.

Funny thing happened long ago. I arrived at the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot late at night and was invited to stand on the yellow foot prints. A gunnery sergeant came up to me and said "Hey puck. Somebody in the guard shack wants to see you". I hustled over to the guard shack and there was Don Kelly, a sergeant. He said he had four weeks to go and then would return to Washington to become a policeman. Then he said and I quote "Have a great time in the Corps!"

The s. o. b.

Bill Hamilton

Gregg,

If I remember correctly Don Kelly and his friend, whose last name I think was Mathews, were in our boy scout troop for a while. 

Dennis Morse

Donald Kelly's best friend and neighbor when they lived on 1st. Ave So. and about 146th was Alan Mathers who I got to know again at Highline College. They went to Chelsea Park at that time. Nice kids.

Al Peffley

Dennis, you peaked my interest by your comments on Kelly. I still have most of my Chelsea Park annual class pictures, but only one set has the names marked on the back of the sheet in my mother's handwriting (Miss Valentine's first grade class). Kelly must have either been in another first grade class, or he entered Chelsea Park grade school as a student at some time later than my first grade class. Was Kelly our age or younger? I lived just off of 146th street on the Ambaum end. The name doesn't ring a bell in my mind (but then, a lot of things don't connect as I get older...LOL!) I remember Alan Mathers vaguely (same first name), but did not really have a friendship with either Kelly or Mathers. Could Kelly have possibly gone to grade school with Fred Grabos? I bellieve 1st Avenue was a major dividing line between grade school attendence populations in the Highline School District. So long ago...

(I sure got a crappy haircut at the Burien Barber Shop just before my senior class picture was taken, didn't I?  LOL!)

Gregg Wilson

Hi Al,

I was probably in your first grade class, because I remember Miss Valentine. Gary Summerson was in another first grade class. Don Kelly may have been in that class. I remember going across 1st Avenue to play with him. He was digging ditches and placing boards over them to make a tunnel. This might have been his first attempt at becoming a Marine. Who knows.

Dennis Morse

I can't remember who was in my classes. I started Chelsea Park in 4th grade in Miss Stiles class, Mrs. Mathers for 4th grade and Mr. McCullum for 6th grade. I don't think you were in my classes but of course we were friends in the "hood' and all through Jr. and Sr. High.  Alan and Donald definetly went to Chelsea Park but I thought they both moved due to development along 1st. Ave.  Maybe Gary Summerson would know. I did make friends with Alan again at Highline College and he said he had stayed friends with  Donald

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Gregg Wilson

Dennis,

You are correct. I spent my 4th, 5th, and 6th grade at Pleasant View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Had to make new friends and still communicate with two of them.

Ted Comstock (Briggs-Comstock)

Al -- I'd love to see the 1st grade photo if you could post it. I started at Chelsea Park in the middle of that year, so I'm probably not in it, but I'm sure I'd remember some of the kids. I can't place Donald Kelly, but the name sounds familiar. My earliest class photo is from 3rd grade.

Patrick Calkins

This is what I remember of Chelsea Park Elementary School. 1952 - First grade, Miss Visentine; 1953 - Second grade, Miss McCallum; 1954 - Third grade, Mrs White; 1955 - Fourth grade, Mr Bartholick; 1956 - Fifth grade, Miss McCallum again; 1957 - Sixth grade, Mr Bartholick again. 1958 and 59 - off to Puget Sound Jr High for Seventh and Eighth grade then 1960- Ninth grade at Seahurst Jr High. Then on to Highline and the rest is history. I pretty much hated school until I got to high school. I was dislexic and didn't know it. Thank god for the gymnastics team, it kept me in school.

Elizabeth Paull (Kaplanian)

  Hi All,

         I am looking for information about Carol Rathke - I see her profile has not been created.  Do any of you know her brother Dan?  A good friend knows Dan well and has been wondering how he and his sister are doing.   I have no way of finding anything about them, I hope someone here knows.

Thanks!