PHOTO: First Port Angeles High School graduates together again, 65 years later

PHOTO: First Port Angeles High School graduates together again, 65 years later

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School class of 1954 recently held its 65-year reunion.

The class of 1954 was the first graduating class from the school, which opened for the 1953-54 academic year.

Members of the class held a reunion dinner at Chestnut Cottage.

Pictured in the back row, from left, are George Tweter, Don Miller, Clifford Fuller, Fred Nichols, Andy Stevens, Terry Hugo, Bill Bork, Karen Sund Grimsley, Mariane Neer Boyd, Barbara Doerge Hannify, Ted Lockhart and Don Reidel.

In the front, from left, are Audre Dickinson Bower, Maureen Schier Wild, Janet Homer Johnson, Pat Randklev Donelan, Jummie Durham, Sylvia Smith Hargreaves, Bob Schmitt, Joan Mathews Julnes, Kay Hunt Carlson-Bilbao, Beryle Evenson Middleton, Gene Middleton and, kneeling, Lee Wyman.

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