Bill Yake:
CLASS OF 1965
Lewis & Clark High SchoolClass of 1965
Spokane, WA
Bill's Story
Bill lived in Olympia, Washington. Bill was married to Jeannette Barreca. After graduating from Lewis & Clark High School, Bill attended Washington State University receiving a Bachelors Degree in Zoology and a Masters degrees in Environmental Science as well as one in Environmental Engineering. Bill worked for the Washington State Department of Ecology from 1977 to 2001. He died Dec 12, 2022.
Bill's musical tastes leaned towards folk and blues with a particular interest in Texas singer-songwriters.
He published 3 books of poetry. The latest was 'Waymaking by Moonlight" (Empty Bowl Press, 2000).
One of Bill's favorite quotes was: "The woods have stored the rain…” – Wang Wei (701-761), Tang Dynasty poet
“Is the fact that someone genuinely thinks he means something a guarantee that there is something that he means?” - Ludwig Wittgenst...Expand for more
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“…the intelligence of deer trails is greater than that of the speech of man.” - Howard McCord
“I also thought, ‘As for men … they are like the animals. Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal ... All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?’" Ecclesiastes 3: 18-21. ".
More about Bill:""A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
“May no one who does not still wonder/ what he is and what he does/ suddenly arrive at my fireside.”
– Sophokles, from Antigone".
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