Wilson HS ... now known as Ida B. Wells High School
Alumni Update - JuLY, 2024

http://www.wilsonalumni.com
edited by Linda Doyle

WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE

... FIGHT SONG
What about the words to the fight song? It's posted in the gym at school, but we're not sure who came up with the words. We learned that Linda Rae Oglesby '58 and Lynne Harris '58 co-wrote the words to the Wilson High Fight Song. "Robert E. Keuscher, the principal, had a contest," states Lynne. "I think that we won $25 for the words. I remember that he changed one line that we wrote, but I can't remember which one." Susan Chaney '72 (Casey Moffett-Chaney) remembers the fight song. "In 1968, our freshman orientation taught us the fight song, and we must have sung it at least 10 times before the end of the orientation. Then we sang it hundreds of times at pep rallies, and every time a touchdown or basketball basket happened. It is definitely ingrained in my psyche forever." Maddi Evans '07 sent us the words to the Fight Song and adds, "I must say that that song will be engraved in me forever, I guess that's what I get for being a cheerleader and all!" Here is the version originally posted in the school's gym:

Best in the Land
The Mighty Woodrow Wilson High
Throughout the League,
Opponents Hear Our Battle Cry Fight, Fight, Fight
Victory For You,
Each Gallant Trojan Brave and True
For the Green and White, We'll Fight, Fight, Fight
Our Loyalty Forever, Wilson High!

What about the music?  Dallas Lommen '57 recalls that the music for the fight song was taken from one of the big colleges. Two grads, Dr. Karl Wustrack '62 and Kevin Flink '71, recall that the music for the Wilson fight song is the Stanford fight song.

Jim White '59 and John White '61 sent us the following amplification: Robert White, our Dad, was Wilson’s Band Director from the school’s opening in the fall of 1956 to 1962. Dad chose the New Colonial March (trio section) as the new school’s fight song. New Colonial was composed by R. B. Hall in 1895. It is indeed one of Stanford University’s fight songs, entitled “Come Join the Band”.  We think it was a great choice and hearing New Colonial today, still a popular march, brings back many memories of our years at Wilson and playing in the concert and pep bands. Click here to listen to Wilson's fight song.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW

1966 GRAD RECOGNIZED BY USDA FOREST SERVICE – ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

Photo courtesy Pacific Northwest Region Office of Communication and Community Engagement

Portland, Ore., April 10, 2024 — The USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region recently awarded Stephen Sichau '66, an esteemed Forest Service Engineer, and 1970 Oregon State University Graduate, as the Region’s Technical Engineer of the Year for 2023. Award recipients were nominated by their supervisors, peers, and employees.  Sichau, son of Reinhold and Jessie Sichau, is an Oregon native and graduated from Wilson High School (now Ida B. Wells) in Portland, OR in 1966.  Sichau has been integral to the design, renovation, and maintenance of the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region’s most visible, high-profile projects including Timberline Lodge, Multnomah Lodge, and numerous tree cooler renovations that support the agency’s regional replanting program, as well as a variety of specific engineering projects, throughout the Pacific Northwest.  After high school, Sichau earned a bachelor’s in science in Electrical Engineering in 1970 from Oregon State University. After getting his bachelor’s degree, Sichau continued to study studied solid state physics at the University and worked as a summer intern with the Forest Service. In 1971, Sichau returned to the Forest Service regional office in Portland as an employee, where he works to this day. Click here to read the full story of Stephen Sichau’s career. Photos to accompany the story can be found here.


GREETINGS FROM TOM BARTON '62

Photo Tom's birthday party ..................................................Photo of Tom

"While in Portland, I worked in the old Meier & Frank store, downtown, in the display department, & was sad to hear when it closed. I also worked in my uncles closing store. After serving in the Navy on the USS Coral Sea, CVA 43, & being discharged, I decided to make my home in San Francisco. I first worked in a camera store & then moved on & I worked as a professional photographer for 20 years in a photo studio doing passport, immigration photos, & on the outside, I was hired to take wedding photos & other photo jobs & when the market dried up I went to culinary school & after graduation, I worked at San Francisco General Hospital, for 15 years as a food service worker & a shop steward. I have a strong addiction for boat cruising, 37 cruises with Princess, & around 50 including other cruise lines.  I’m active in a senior center here in San Francisco, & a member & past officer in an Oddfellows lodge that I’m a member & I’m actively involved within 2 lodges & the Oddfellows organization.  I love planning outside actives with both my senior Center & my Oddfellows lodges.  Last July I celebrated my 80th birthday & planed a party of many of my longtime friends. I still have some cousins that live in Portland & I occasionally make a visit. If anyone is visiting San Francisco please contact me at trbarton743 at aol dot com." 

SCHOOL NEWS

FRESHMAN CANCER SURVIVOR GETS BACK ON STAGE THANKS TO THEATER DIRECTOR
by Wesleigh Ogl KATU

Photo courtesy of Jamie Miller (Sabina McMahon playing Annabeth Chase)

Sabina McMahon is a freshman at Ida B. Wells High School. "The last time we saw Sabina McMahon she was in middle school and had just finished chemotherapy for osteosarcoma. She's now a freshman at Ida B. Wells High School in Southwest Portland and enjoying all the new experiences. The past year has not been hospital-free. Sabina's cancer relapsed a couple of times. She had surgery twice, but none of this keeps Sabina off the stage for long. Sabina landed the lead female role in her school's production of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical. Her character Annabeth fights monsters, just like Sabina fights the cancer cells in her body. Theater Director Jamie Miller is incorporating Sabina's leg scar and ankle brace into her character. Giving Sabina a platform to celebrate all that she is; that's what makes Mr. Jamie Miller our KATU Everyday Hero. He has been teaching at Wilson/Ida B. Wells for 19 years. Read the complete story about Jamie Miller and Sabina McMahon here. Congrats Sabina and congrats Jamie Miller! If you would like to support the school's drama/theater program, all donations can go through the bookeeping office when school is in session: Bookkeeper, Ana Curtis (acurtis@pps.net).


SOPHOMORE TAKES OREGON STATE WRESTLING TITLE

photo courtesy Raleigh Emerson, Portland Tribune

Sophomore Zorina Johnson '26 came into the 2024 Oregon high school state wrestling tournament at Veterans Memorial Coliseum and left as the first wrestler from Wells/Wilson to win a state title since 2012, when Austin Wallace-Lister won as a sophomore at 120 pounds and Brian Wojahn won as a senior at 195. Jeff Johnston stood on top of the podium in 1968 at 168 pounds. Read the full story by the Portland Tribune here.

SENIOR JOSIE FALE EARNS PIL DENNY SULLIVAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Profile written by Dick Baltus (Wilson, 1973)

The Denny Sullivan Scholarship Award was established by the PIL to honor Denny Sullivan, Cross Country/Track and Field Coach, at Grant High School from the early 1950s to his final Track and Field season, 1962. This year Josie Fale from Wells HS was named the First Place Female (in a tie with Havana Alonson from Roosevelt). Each received $10,000. Congratulations to Fale's Coach Thor Esbensen.

Ms. Fale has an impressive athletic resume.
- 4.321 weighted GPA, # 1 Class Rank, Honor Roll every semester, has signed letter of intent to run for University of Utah and study Biology
- Member of Wells Athletic Leadership Council, Positive Coaching Alliance and Athletic Leadership Program.
- 3rd place in the 1500 at OSAA Oregon State meet (2023)
- 5th place in the 3000 at Oregon 6A state meet (2023)
- 7th place in the 800 at the OSAA state meet (2021)
- 7th place at the Oregon Cross Country State Meet (2022)
- PIL district champion 3000 in track and field (2023)
- Runner up in the 1500 at PIL District track and field championships (2023)
- 4th place finish in the 3000 at PIL district championships in the 3000 (2022)
- Voted MVP on track and cross country teams (2022,2023) 
- Voted most dedicated on cross country and track and field team (2022, 2023)
- Team captain Cross Country and Track and Field (2022-present)
- Qualified as an individual and team member for every state meet in cross country and track and field all four years.
- PIL all-league every year in high school
- All time number 2 for Ida B. Wells in the 800, 1500 and 3000 as well as anchoring the all-time #5 4x400m relay.

DON'T FORGET ALUMNI BASEBALL GAME
- Alumni Game, Saturday July 13

2024 PIL HOF Annual Mel Krause Memorial Golf Tournament
Sept. 9 at Langdon Farms 
Only 1 foursome left in field!
Register Now!
Our 2024 Tournament will be held Monday September 9,  2024 at Langdon Farms! Due to the sell-out last year, we already have commitments for 95% of the field this year! Registration is now available at 2024 PIL HOF Golf , if you want to secure your spot please email Steve Rudolph(Wilson '75) at rudy6@hotmail.com or give him a call at 503-449-0438.

Do you have any stats you would like us to remember and document on the alumni website? Send your details to Linda Doyle.


RECALLING GREAT MEMORIES THROUGH STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
If you would like to share stories and/or photographs with names, places/events, and the year, please send them to Linda Doyle: Lsdoyle@earthlink.net. So, make sure to look for RECALLING GREAT MEMORIES THROUGH STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS in every alumni e-newsletter.

SEND YOUR UPDATES
Send us the details on where/what you have been doing since graduation from Ida B. Wells/Wilson, and we'll post in an upcoming IBW-WWHS Alumni Update e-newsletter. Send details to Linda Doyle.


KNOWN CLASSMATES/TEACHERS NO LONGER WITH US
Please send an email with details to Linda Doyle if you have an obituary that should be posted here. Below is a list of classmates who have just been added to the list:

ROBERT (BOB) GRAHAM '80
RANDAL (RANDY) FITZHUGH '73
MARLYSS FREDERICKSON '70
JOHN STEVEN PASERO '71
DR. ANNE MARIAN PASERO '67
DARRYL FOWLER '58
LESLEY BERTRAM '65
BRUCE ROBERT BEEMAN '65
NICHOLAS GLUTH '68
LEAH DIANE MCCANN '65
MICHELLE COLLINS '76
SHIRLEY CORRINE (SLUYTER) FOX '58


Click on this link to read more about classmates, teachers, community members who have passed away...  Once on the page, scroll down to find the class year.

REUNIONS

GET ALL THE DETAILS ... updates to reunions are happening all the time, so make sure to check out upcoming reunions at: http://www.wilsonalumni.com/reunions.htm.


MILITARY SERVICE

GRADUATES WHO HAVE SERVED OR ARE SERVING IN THE MILITARY
Please check out the IBW-WWHS Military Alumni page and read all about our amazing military graduates. To add your name and information to the WWHS Military page, Send your information to Linda Doyle at LSDOYLE@EARTHLINK.NET.

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WWHS (now known as IDA B. WELLS) ALUMNI
Alumni and community members are continuing to move forward to establish the WWHS Alumni Association.  Application process for tax-exempt status of association is progressing (with special thanks to Jack Bertell '58).  If you would like to join them, contact Jack Bertell '58.

STAY IN TOUCH

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