Ray Tope:  

Life I was a transplant from Utah and spent the fall of '55 to fall of '57 between Elma, Then transferred to Satsop & Enumclaw schools, Satsop was great two-room school. Then we moved to the Wenatchee area late fall of 1956 then to Sunnyslope to start the 1957/58 school year at Sunnyslope School, the benefits of a construction family. Then moved in town to attended H.B Ellison JR High 1959, the benefits of a construction family, then on to WHS till the fall of 1961 when I attended school in Kahlotus High. I returned to WHS until Graduation in 1962. I joined the military prior to graduation form high school. After my enlistment was completed & I was released from active military service in September 1966 I returned to Wenatchee where I worked & lived until 1977. From 1974 till 1977 I attend school at WVC while working 40 to 72hrs a week at KBI Alloy's. I then moved to Yakima 1977 for a sh...Expand for more