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John R. Rogers High School, Spokane, WA - Class of 1960
Rogers 1960 Alumni - Front Page

Book All The Teachers! Excep Parry

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Book All The Teachers. Excep Parry

This site is not commercial, but when one our our own does something cool, we should note it.

James Bartlett Parry, an alumnus of John R. Rogers, is the slightly younger brother of Bob Parry, class of 1960. Jim is a retired Spokane middle school teacher. This month, Jim published a book about those years, Book All The Teachers!  Excep Parry (sic). Jim is a dry-humored guy who can be hilarious*. The book is available from his publisher, Gray Dog Press. Please click the link to see the compelling blurb (I don't have Gray Dog's permission to paste it here).  I am ordering a copy.  I would guess locals may be able to find it in in Spokane's Auntie's Bookstore also.

-Ed Mauget

* In the late 50's I asked what happened to a bush at Jim's house. Jim dead-panned: "Father pruned it."  I once noticed that Jim and Bob's father, nicknamed Parry, was really getting angry at a rototiller that wouldn't start. Jim pointed proudly at Parry: "That's my father."
Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 15:31
 

Stories for 2010

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Eight pieces of eight

High school students always enjoy the school yearbooks at the end of the year.  The immediate pleasure is signing messages in each other's books, but having yearbooks for the future home library is better. It's a gem for memories of the senior year of the Class of 60. It's the best annual of the 4 of that class's student years, 1957-60.  It has a padded, Rogers purple cover color, a huge amount of photographs, many are colored. There are terrific photos of the school administrators, the faculty members on pages of them in the subject classes they taught in.  Photos of the Class of 60 are excellent graduation photos with lists of what they did in extracurricular things, two pages of photos of some students in their younger years and several pages of funny/dramatic photos of some classmates who were voted by other classmates for various "champion" type things, such as most athletic boy and girl, best-dressed, most sophisticated. The class officers and valedictorians are also on a photo page. There are many photo sections of clubs, activities, sports, cheerleaders and other classes.

Without question, this is an award-winning type class annual, and Classmate Lynda Pagnotta was the editor.  If you are a Class of 60 classmate, you should, even if you have already, thank Lynda again for being the editor of such an award-winning, first class high school yearbook.

This year we plan to publish two stories each month,  inspired  by our 1960 Treasure Chest content. See the main menu. Click Stories.

Last Updated on Sunday, 03 January 2010 12:54
 

Reunion News

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Your Reunion Committee has just come back from a meeting in the Park Lounge of the Red Lion Hotel.
Afterwards we checked out the Windows of the Seasons dining room (that's not being used as a dining room
right now) where we're thinking about having our Friday night "social" on our reunion weekend.
We also got a quick tour in the "elevator with a view" to the Skyline Room, where we're planning on having our
Saturday night dinner. It's a BEAUTIFUL setting, with views of the city on both sides, and outdoor patios as well.
We're really looking forward to this venue; it will be special, as it should be for our 50th Reunion.  We hope
you all agree!  A letter with specifics and registration information will be going out after the first of the year.
Watch for it, okay?  This is going to be a very special event. We're excited about it.
Dora-Faye
 

40th Reunion Picture

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 40th Reunion Photo

John R. Rogers High School is located in Spokane, Washington. Alumus Art Blum (second from right),  took this 40th reunion timer-photo at the Ridpath Hotel in Spokane, on September 23, 2000.  Alumna Grace Ward Kassa (botton left), supplied the names. 

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Top Row:  Ivan Rasmussen, Daryl Benzel, Jerry Canter, Philip (Flip) Dunn, Dave Grimmer, Ray Miller, Lynda Horey, Dick Schuerman, Everett Neuman, Larry Nechanicky, Allyn Dossett, Bill Gutterstrom, Dean Garvey, Keith McNeil, Gary Whittaker

3rd Row: Ed Mauget, Bob Parry, Herb Brown, Betty Rees, Deanna Rausch, Joanne Brown, Lynda Pagnotta, Ken Kelling, Wyatt Newman, Dick Churchill, Nancy Ostby, Phyllis Bordwell, Burton Meier, Pat Taylor, Gloria Coble, Helen Hoerner, Jackie Bleisner, Ken Pointer, Denny Styren, Roger Markell, Jim McBride, Bob Cartwright

2nd Row Standing and Sitting: Judy Hankel,  Carol Dietrich, Lana Smith, Darlene Hanwell, Wallyne Hagin,  Jim Drake, Mina Gormanos, Ramona Yates, Sharon Williams, Robin Aldrich, Saundra Janni, Sue Sanderson, Diane Kroske, Joan Mishler, Charlotte Trevithick, Mary Alice Speer, Dick McCann, Art Blum

Bottom Row Kneeling:  Grace Ward, Elaine Grafious, Dora-Faye Schmidt, Barbara Hegman, Diane Knutson, Jackie Koyama, Edith Seeley, Noreen Hass, Art Summers, Linda Cunningham, Betty Williams (mostly hidden -- red dress), Ron Schaefer, Barry Bingham, Bob Gay.

 

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 March 2009 08:08
 

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