Ron Froebe and The Dalles High Class of 1955

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	If you need help, please check our forums. Last update:   Jan. 19, 2012. Corrections? Additions? Subtractions? Comments?  If so, please contact me at: [email protected] Also see the latest class reunion pictures of the class of 1956 and 1954 near the bottem of thid page.   Hello: Thanks for visiting my/our (Class of 1955) web page. The picture above is of my wife, Luvern and me 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 (Class of 1959). 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. Of my two brothers; Ed, the oldest, class of 1950, died in January 2010 and Jerry, class of 1952, lives in Portland with his wife, Olivia (Thoraldson sp?), class of 1953. Go ahead and make my day: e-mail me at: [email protected].  Some other web pages that I have created about The Dalles are: The Dalles High Class of 1955, The Dalles, Oregon SORRY,but the 4 web pages with 3 astericks (***) have been taken down by the server for lack of activity. I will try to get them back as soon as I can. www.ronfroebe.mysite.com/ The First half (the students) of the yearbook: sites.google.com/site/froebe36 And the second half of the Steelhead: www.steelhead1955b.mysite.com/ www.edchambers.mysite.com/ Names on the bricks at the Columbia River Gorge Discovery Center are at: www.thedallesbricks.mysite.com/ ========================================== My Favorite: The Dalles news ====================================== The 55th class reunion held in September, 2010 at the home of Laurene Hayzlett Sallee and Bill: had 17 classmates and with spouses, friends and relatives, there were a total of 27 people. As far as I know, there were no pictures taken. The following list is from the courtesy of Earline Clark Wasser. Thank you, Earline. 1. Virginia Sousley Parks; 2. Ron Froebe; 3 Charles and Roberta Clayton; 4. Richard and Micki McKinnon; 5. Bob and Pennie Wiley; 6. Patricia and John Oliver; 7. Ken and Nancy Benson; 8. Jack Connor; 9. Barbara Bates and daughter Karen (last name unknown); 10. Ray and Freda White Knight; 11. Joanne Emerson Brewer; 12. Myrna Stephens Pitchford and Duane; 13. Laurene Hayzlett Sallee and Bill; 14. Earline Clark Wasser; 15. Harold and Carmen Egbert; 16. Patricia Herbst Potter and Dick; 17. and James Hardin. ====================================================

The picture below was taken at our 50th class reunion in Aug. 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.
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Picture  below, Reunion 2000

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.

 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.
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Reunion 1980

Bottem 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.
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O BROTHERS, O SISTERS WHERE ART THOUS?. If anyone knows where these people are, please let me know by e-mail.

Juanita Rose Berglund, Patricia Sue Boyd, Beverly Cavis, Ann Hutchinson, Elizabeth Laplante, Beverly Lutz,  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 March 1981; Edwin Smith; Carolyn Treadway Feb.1954; Jean Wray Perler; Ron Ryan Oct.2001; James Littleton; Donna Jean Blakely Hanks April 2002; Albert Lawrence Ryan, Dan Head Feb.2001; Fay Shambow Bowers cFeb.2002; David Ulrich Nov.2004; Betty Stephens Holman Jan.2006; Dawn Bryan Galliano April,2006; Robert J. Brandl May 2006; Randall Brown Aug.2006; Patricia L. Smith Vahl Aug.2006; Chuck Stuart May 2007; James B. Caldwell Aug.2007; Nina Dawkins Dunn Jan.2008; David Bates July 2008; Margaret Sim Vestal Oct.2008; Lester T. Jensen March 2009 (instructor); Bill Day July 2009; Jerrell White Dec.2009; Sue Wallace Head Dec.2009; Bill Newcomb 2008; John Doran May 2010; Carrol Bourland Sep.2010;  Jeanette Bonney Clifton Sep.2010; Edith Harrington Barker Mar. 9, 2011 and Lloyd Jones, July 2011.

Thanks to Earline Wasser and Russ McDonald for help with these names.

Florence Billson Stout, James Caldwell, Larry Chapman, Gladys Cole Laney, Jack Conner, Robert (Bob) Cook, Doyle Cottongim, David Norman Davis, 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.

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.

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 Googles 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.
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  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.  
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Two of my favorites:

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Below: the class of 1956 at their 50 reunion, as published in The Dalles Chronicle Oct. 9, 2006. This picture furnished by Earline Wasser. Thank you, Earline. If anyone has an original picture, please try to e-mail it
to me.  That is, a picture that has not been filtered through a newspaper.



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.
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Below is the 55 class reunion of the class of 1954. If anyone has an original picture, please try to e-mail it to me.
That is, a picture that has not been filtered through a newspaper.

The following was copied from the website at: ghostsofcelilo.com:

Celilo Falls was only 12 miles up (east) of The Dalles.

This ground-breaking production weaves a bittersweet love story within a mystery and features a haunting score of Native American music and traditional musical theatre songs.

The Ghosts of Celilo (suh-LIE-low) is a musical play based on true events that happened near Celilo Falls in the 1950s. Celilo was one of the world’s premiere fisheries and a cultural and spiritual center for native people before it was inundated by the Dalles Dam in 1957.

Ghosts features Native American music and traditional musical theatre genres telling the story of two Indian boys kidnapped and taken to a government boarding school. There, they are befriended by the white daughter of the school’s administrator. The three make a daring escape to catch their ceremonial first salmon before Celilo Falls is buried by the closing of the dam gates. This story is ‘remembered’ by four colorful ghosts who have been stuck at the bottom of the Columbia River for fifty years on the last remnants of fishing platforms that have been buried underwater where Celilo Falls once roared.

This dramatic musical is acted and sung by Native American and non-Native actors. The score is a powerful combination of music that combines Native American song and scoring with music more familiar to musical theatre.