Another Amazing Alumna!

Check out the “About Alumni” page to read about our newly featured alumna, Jean Schuler Andreson. Jean is a wonderful addition to the reunion committee this year, having moved back to Bellingham about 4 years ago. She is a gentle soul and a truly remarkable person with more degrees and certifications than we can number! Jean has had the most diverse and amazing work history of anyone we know – pediatric PT, a master gardener, special ed teacher, engineering degree, master’s in chemistry, field interviewer for National Opinion Research Center (NORC),  process engineer, and lover of rhubarb. Read all about Jean in “About Alumni” and how rhubarb played a part in her return to Bellingham.

While you are on the website be sure to see the new pictures in the Gallery. You are encouraged to send in some pictures of your own and please feel free to comment on the Blog page!

Submitted by Bev Belka & Karen Hulford

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Another Amazing Alumni

The newest alumni featured on the “About Alumni” page is such a remarkable person, that I’m afraid no one else will want to be featured there ever again, because she is such a hard act to follow! Writer, artist,  defender of the rights of native Hawaiians, activist,  entrepreneur, and – at age 20- the youngest person in the United States to be elected to statewide political office(Hawaii’s House of Representatives). [Reader: what were you doing 2 years after you graduated from BHS?] She has been arrested, written and produced three half-hour television specials for children based on her Mango Hill books, and had a near death experience that caused her to rethink her life and rearrange her priorities. SO! MANY! MAJOR! ACHIEVEMENTS!! And yet – on Mother’s Day this year she posted on her Face Book page, “The one major event in my life beside which all other events pale: Being a mother.” For me, this last statement  shows that she did a great job getting her priorities straight. Even though she may not  have “Hail to the Chief” played at her funeral” (her senior “ambition”), she would get my vote if she ran for president in 2016. Who is this mystery alumni? Check it out on About Alumni!

Frank Mandarano says, “Ciao!”

I am very sorry to say that my wife Janet – of 38 years – and myself will not be able to
make it as we are in Italy for 5 weeks beginning Aug 25th. We wish you all a very good time and hope to see everyone at another time. That’s yours truly at the car barn in the picture below. If anyone is in the Palm Springs area before May 1st, give us a call!
With Kind Regards
Ciao,
Francis G. Frank Mandarano
PO Box 1015
Mercer Island WA. 98040
USA
Cell & Text 206 310 8380
Visit Car Guy Tour at http://www.carguytour.com
Next Italian Tour Sept 6 – 17, 2015
We invite you to visit our new Mandarano Balsamic website! You’ll find recipes and
suggestions on how to use our deliciously thick and rich Balsamic Glaze &
Sauce reduction. You can almost taste it!
http://www.balsamicsauce.com

P.S. We would like to hear from more classmates. Whether you can come or not, join Frank by sending an email to► Bev Dawes Belka adding a little something about you and attach a picture. I really could use some help with this blog!

A Uniquely Special Reunion – Our 50th!

It is so hard to wrap my brain around 50 years. So much has happened in our world, not to mention in each of our private lives. One thing has remained a constant—my memory of growing up in a safe, small, one-high-school community during an era when the terms “drive-by-shooting” and “suicide-bomber” had not yet been coined. I am so looking forward to the gathering of old friends and acquaintances who share this memory-bond. If you haven’t had a chance to read “50th Reunion Reflection—What I Learned at my 50th High School Reunion” by Joe McKeever (found under Class of 65 on our Home Page) please take a minute to do so. Perhaps you will be convinced, that this reunion will be uniquely special. Whether your high school experience was the greatest, the worst, or somewhere in between, it is a part of who you are: a unique individual, wise with life experiences and thankful that you have lived nearly 70 years! It truly is time to celebrate!!

“Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don’t matter;
and those who matter don’t mind.”
Dr. Seuss and/or
Bernard Baruch

Bottom Line: Our 50th reunion will bring many of us together