Ron Froebe & The Dalles High
Class of
1955
The Dalles, Oregon
Also included is a picture of the class of 1956 at their 50th reunion at the bottem.
Hello: Thanks for visiting my web page.
The picture on the left is Luvern and me in 2001. The right one is in Hong Kong in 1991.
I was born in The Dalles, Oregon and graduated from The
Dalles High School (Class of 1955) and from Oregon State University. After
graduation, I spent 2 years in the army. After the army, I spent most of
my rat race years working for the Oregon Dept. of Transportation in Salem
and Portland, from which I retired in 1991. I married Luvern in 1972.
After retirement I took some computer classes at Portland
Community College and learned enough about computers that I became a
volunteer computer instructor at several locations in Portland.
Last updated/accessed: Sep. 7, 2009.
Go ahead and make my day: e-mail me at: [email protected].
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this page to see the
pictures of The Dalles High class of 1955 taken at the 2005, 2000, 1995 and the 1980 reunions.
The OFFICIAL web page for the class of "55 has become: www.geocities.com/thedalleshi1955.
Some other web pages that I have created about The Dalles are:
www.geocities.com/ronf11/
www.geocities.com/tdhc55/
www.geocities.com/steelhead_55/
www.geocities.com/edchambers1/
Gwen White Masters (class of 1960) www.geocities.com/gwenwmasters/
Names on the bricks at the Columbia River Gorge Discovery Center are at:
www.geocities.com/thedallesbricks/
My Favorites:
Senior Computer Learning Center
The Dalles news
Here is our latest picture taken Aug. 27, 2005 at The Dalles Country Club.
Front row: sitting, L to R: Jeanne Delano (aka. Jelena Camille Zednik), Charles Lane, Ken Benson, Ron Froebe, Milt Ryan, Gayla Collins Holmes, Dawn Bryan Galliano, Barbara Dillinger Bates, David Bates, Fern Cyphers Stephens, Carmen Kendrick Ambos, Sharon Leedy Banzer, Marilyn Atwood Klingberg, Laurene Hayzlett Sallee and Pat Herbst Potter.
2nd row: Darlene Bright Farmer, Margaret Sim Vestal, Earline Clark Wasser, Freda White Knight, Nina Dawkins Dunn, Louise Nothiger Long, Rosemary Whitworth Meyer, Sidney Reynolds Mayfield, Paula Geer Nichols, Virginia Sousley Parks, Sue Wallace Head, Arlene Vipperman Jones, Marie Miller Guarnieri, Janet Berger Harmon, Russell McDonald, teacher Walt Smith, Charles Clayton, and George Blakeley.
3rd row: Jeannette Delano Hodges, Ed Chambers, Blair Stoddard, Harold Egbert, Robert Wiley, Lloyd Jones, Kenneth Williams, Richard Havig, Gary Stein, Richard McKinnon, Anne Phillips a first grade teacher for some of us at Chenowith School in 1943, Jeanette Bonney Clifton, Wesley Wheatley and James Hardin.
4th row: Frances Pattee Trumbull, Kent DeBoer and Lee Hoodenpyle.
5th row: Yvonne Johnson Meier and Charles Austin.
6th row: Joanne Emerson Brewer and David Jones.
7th row: Bob Joseph.
8th row: Dale Woodard.
Top, behind wall: teachers: Lester T. Jensen and Raymond Hotka. And a spouse.
June Smith McCullough planned to attend but due to her husbands illness, she did not.
Not pictured but who came to the Friday bar-be-que, and/or to the Sunday brunch: Margaret Curtiss Tornblade, Patricia Costello Stultz, Sharon Sawtell Boyles and Lavern Morris.
Thanks to Russ McDonald, Jeanette Bonney Clifton and Ed Chambers for help with some of these names.
The Dalles High School, Class of 1955, Class
Reunion, Aug. 2000:
Front row: left to right: Charles Austin, Richard Havig, Dave Jones, Carrol
Bourland, Russell McDonald, Joanne Emerson Brewer, Milton Ryan.
Second row: Ed Chambers, Arlene Vipperman Jones, Lois Dinsmore Kelly, Ron
Froebe, Lee Hoodenpile, Yvonne Johnson Meier, Richard McKinnon, Ron Ryan.
Third row: Dave Bates, Earline Clark Wasser, Carmen Kendrick Ambos, Fern
Cyphers Stephens, Paula Geer Nichols, Virginia Sousley Parks, Darlene Bright
Farmer, Jeanette Bonney Clifton, Frances Pattee Trumbull.
Fourth & back row: Bob Joseph, Daniel Flaman, Harold Egbert, Marilyn
Atwood Klingerg, Keith Leppaluoto, Lloyd Jones, James Hardin, Jerry Bonn, Freda
White Knight, & Barbara Dillinger Bates.
Not pictured, but came to the brunch the next morning: Laurene Hayzlett
Sallee.
Thanks to Joanne Emerson Brewer, Yvonne Johnson Meier & Carrol Bourland
for help with these names.
The
Dalles High, Class of 1955, 40th Reunion of 1995:
From left top: Jim Wilson, Jim Hardin, Paula Geer Nichols, Keith Leppalauto,
Marilyn Atwood Klingberg, Carol Bourland, Dave Bates, Ron Ryan, Lee Hoodenpile,
Bob Joseph, Russ McDonald, Ed Chambers, Dave Jones, Lavern Morris, Dave Ulrich,
Richard Havig, Earline Clark Wasser, Arlene Vipperman, Francis Pattee Trumbull,
Freda White Knight.
Front Row: Ron Froebe, Barbara Dillinger Bates, Joanne Emerson Brewer, Edith
Harrington Walker, Richard McKinnon, Lloyd Jones, Myrna Stephens Pitchford,
Virginia Sousley Campbell and Fern Cyphers Stephens.
Reunion of 1980
Bottom row #1: Walt Smith, Dave Jones, Russ McDonald, Ron Froebe, Bob Joseph, Virginia Sousley, Arlene Vipperman, Myrna Stephens Pitchford, Paula Geer Nichols, Sue Wallace Head, Delores Lewis Phillis and Joanne Emerson Brewer.
Row #2: Dave Ulrich, Larry Shimp, Dave Bates, Barbara Dellinger Bates, Sharon Leedy, Jeanne Delano, Nina Dawkins Dunn, Freda White Knight, Lois Dinsmore, Betty Stephens, Frances Pattee and Charles Austin.
Row #3: Richard McKinnon, Yvonne Johnson, Edith Harrington Walker, Keith Leppaluoto.
Top row #4: Mike Moore, James Harden, Gary Stein, Harold Egbert, Fred Richey, Jerry Bonn, Dan Head, John Martin and John Betts.
Thanks to Joanne Emerson Brewer and Paula Geer Nichols for their help with these names.
O BROTHERS, O SISTERS WHERE ART THOUS?. If anyone knows where these people are, please let me know by e-mail or snail mail at the Senior Computer Learning Center, Holladay Park Plaza, 1300 NE. 16th Ave., Portland OR., 97232.
Juanita Rose Berglund, Patricia Sue Boyd, Robert John Brandl, Beverly Cavis, Ann Hutchinson, Elizabeth Laplante, Beverly Lutz, Mike Moore, Bill Newcomb, Pat L. Smith, and Trudy Wheeler.
DECEASED: Charles Beattie (June 1996), Jackie Aycock Smith, Kent Bies, Larry Homer, Patricia Lawance Berry, Betty McFarlin
Haupt, Kay McKay Grotjohn, Fred Richey died in March 1981, Edwin Smith (aa*), Carolyn Treadway (Feb. 1954,aa*), Jean Wray Perler, Ron Ryan (Oct 2001), James Littleton, Donna Jean Blakely Hanks (April 2002), Albert Lawrence Ryan, Dan Head, Fay Shambow Bowers (cFeb.2002) David Ulrich (Nov. 04), Betty Stephens Holman (Jan. 2006), Dawn Bryan Galliano (April 9, 2006), Randall Brown (Aug.2006), Chuck Stuart (May 2007) and Nina Dawkins Dunn (Jan. 2008), David Bates (July 2008, cancer), Margaret Sim Vestal, Oct. 2008, Lester T. Jensen March 2009 (instructor) & Bill Day (July 2009). (*aa = auto accident)
ALL OTHER NAMES:
Florence Billson Stout, James Caldwell, Larry Chapman, Gladys Cole Laney, Jack Conner, Robert (Bob) Cook, Doyle Cottongim, David Norman Davis, Bill Day, Jack Dean, John Doran, Bill Garner, Howard Harness, Rusel Hause, Valiene Heckart, Don Herrin, Teresa Kelly Voss, Barbara Kenslow Beardsly, Sandy Kroll Hall, Nancy Leabo Robideau, John Martin, Pat McClard Oliver, Jerry McGuire, Dave McKee, Pat Mead Cook, Mary Nell Morris Morrison, Donna Page Dickson, Robert Peal, Donna Peterson Cloud, Phillis Robideau Wildrick, Kleah Rowley Nelson, Joanne Rue Roth, Jack Sagen, Bob Skaugset, Walt Smith, Bob Tyack, Meda White Adkins.
Former Classmates:
Georgine Dunlop O'Conner, Barbara Elliot Green, Norman Goree, Shirley McDonald, Gorden Mee, Mavis Morrison Rogers, Vernon Oldfield, Sharon Rice Barrier, Wayne R Salley, Bob Schoonhoven, Elinor Thompson, Frank Tussing, Jerrell White.
I believe all the student names have been listed above at least once. I may be wrong, and the spelling? Please let me know.
Lots of thanks to Earline Clark Wasser, Joanne Emerson Brewer and Russ McDonald for help in updating this information.
The fine print: please let me know of any additions, subtractions, corrections, etc. E-mail me at: [email protected].
Google in The Dalles
July 25, 2006
CBS TV crew spotlights Google in The Dalles
By RODGER NICHOLS
of The Chronicle
In late June, CBS-owned and -operated KPIX (Channel 5) San Francisco sent a reporter and camera person to The Dalles to report on the construction of the Google facility in The Dalles.
Veteran technology reporter Sue Kwon and photographer Kelly Ryan spent two days in The Dalles, following a widely-reprinted June 14 article in The New York Times about Google�s arrival here. Versions of that report appeared in the London Times and several other European newspapers.
That story aired during the 11 p.m. newscast at KPIX Monday night and a shorter version was scheduled to be released to the CBS �feed� and available to CBS affiliates nationwide either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Portland affiliate KOIN-TV (Channel 6) plans to air the piece either Tuesday or Wednesday night, according to producer Jeff Allen.
The story interviews Andrea Klaas of the Port of The Dalles, City Manager Nolan Young (misidentified as Robb Van Cleave, who is The Dalles� mayor), antique shop owner Henry Sheets and jobseeker James Nichols.
Those with high-speed computer connections can see the video online at the address below, though they will have to sit through a short IKEA promotional ad first:
http://cbs5.com/technology/local_story_205225934.html
Copied from The Dalles Chronicle.
How did The Dalles get its name?
What does the word "dalles" mean?
The word dalles is generally thought to derive from the French plural of dalle, meaning "gutter" or, possibly, "tube" or "conduit". ... Local history suggest that The Dalles, Oregon, a place where the Columbia River once moved swiftly between steep canyon walls, was named by French Canadian trappers: the steplike rapids created by the flow of water over columnar basalt might well resemble water moving through an enormous gutter lined with flagstone. The Grand Dalles refers to the great rapids east of the present town, which were inundated by the backwaters of newly built Dalles dam in 1957...."
As suggested by Kim Barnes, and published in the Portland Oregonian, Oct. 1, 2006.
I walked the Portland Marathon of 26.2 miles, October, 2002 in 7 hours & 52 minutes. I'm glad I did it once just to see if I could, but I was very stiff and sore for a couple of days and I will never do that again.
Two of my favorits.
The Class of 1956 at their 50th reunion, as published in The Dalles Chronicle Oct. 9, 2006. This picture furnished by Earline Wasser. Thank you, Earline.
Front row: Maria Sanders Peterson, Elaine McNaught Walker, Judy Powell Albro, Jolz? Perkins Naegell, Dotti Bensen Cunningham, Virginia Taylor Leschner and Frank Hammel.
Second row: Maurice Traughber, Deanna Dixon Lish?, Rita Anthony Hendrickson, Del Hendrickson, Jackie Baker Watkins, Juanita Stanek Holling, Mary Ann Birge Hass, Frances Chapman Hinkins, Vera May Keeney Smith, Betty Shaw Root, Helen Emerson Brewer, Sally Hubel Stoddard, Marty Grady Roark, Ed Gustafson, Norma Slaughter Schockley, Ruth Geon Lantis, Lois Viers Swanson and Joanne Osborne Jolliffe.
Third row: Albert Lutz, Rodney Dow, Gary Evars, Joyce Willett Davis, Christine Reuter Brockway, Linda Reed Lee, Beth Butler Urses, Nanet Stevensen Catmill, Sandra Renken Johnson, Judy Fulton Elston, Bill Roark, Doug Keil, Alice Schanno Van Leo, Mike Probstfield, Robert Stanek, Phil Blaschke and Bernell Roundy.
Top row: Clyde Stevenson, Bob Masoner, Mike Ferguson, Larry Hill, Doug Woolsey, Gary Meeker, Bud Root, Joe Haynes, Bob Altendorf, Bill Schwartz, Pat Foley, Bill Young, Stan Stout, Bob Lee and Larry Larson.
SPELLING: Some names were difficult to read in the e-mail of the picture, so please send me the correct spelling. Thank you.