Golden Grads
Do you know who's the oldest?
Mary Rothwell will be attending our event in September. She will be 98. She was born on June 28, 1908.
Mary also attended Washington and Lowell. Her Dad owned a business college in downtown Tacoma.
Mary attended the University of Hawaii and UW and received a degree in social work. She worked as a social worker in Hawaii and Seattle.
In case you're looking in your yearbook, her former name was Beutel.
Do you know of any older graduates?
There will be a special reception for "Golden Grads" on Saturday, the 16th.
This will be for all graduates from at least 50 years ago.
For information, mail to:
Golden@celebratestadium.com
See you in September
CelebrateStadium.com
Also see "Memories" Herman Brix
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I was amazed to see that the first name on the Registered List was that of Herman Brix, a 1924 alumni. He was born in Tacoma on 19 May 1906, so is 100 years old. For those too young to remember him, he was a movie actor. Here's what his mini-biography on the IMDb Movie Database has to say: "Herman Brix was a star shot-putter in the 1928 Olympics. After nearly getting the lead in MGM's Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), he was picked by Edgar Rice Burroughs for his own production of The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935/I), the only one between the silents and the 1960s to present the character accurately, as a sophisticated, polyglot English nobleman. Metro blocked "Adventures" out of most theaters, but it was very popular in the foreign markets, resulting in the Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938) sequel made essentially of reworked footage from the earlier movie. After "Adventures" he made a number of serials for Republic, including a Tarzan-like Kioga in Hawk of the Wilderness (1938). After this he dropped out for a few years, took acting lessons, and changed his name to Bruce Bennett, dropping his Tarzan and athlete connections. He made many movies after that, gaining fame as a leading man in many Warners products. In 1960 he retired from movie making and went into business, becoming sales manager of a multimillion dollar vending machine company. In 1967 he returned to acting in TV guest appearances."
See Stadium-Olympics-Hollywood
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