Judy Nist:  

Life I came into the Highline District as a fifth grader at Des Moines Elementary. Scary times for this shy 10 year old girl; all new kids. I remember Curt Bailey and Harmon Leonard (now both deceased) were the only boys taller than me at that age. I had a crush on Terry Coil, although he already had a crush on someone else. (You know how that goes when you are kids.) Marianne Jorgensen, Diane Waddell and I became fast friends until Marianne's death in 2001. I still am lucky enough to see Diane who now lives in Sierra Vista AZ, at least once a year. Some of my favorite teachers were Miss Lyons, 7th grade and Mrs. Schenk, 5th grade. Our class entered Highline High School as part of the last eighth grade to walk the hallowed halls of Highline for five full years, after which it became a senior high school only. After graduating from Highline, 1956, with great grades, I went to school at Wazoo for a year, pledging Alpha Chi Omega, but my grades there were not so hot. Too much playing and not enough tending to business, but I sure had fun. The highlights there were making the finals for Sweetheart of Sigma Chi and seeing my old beau, Ferd Nist, when he came down from Ellensburg in the Fall to see me a couple of times. I became engaged in April of 1957 and came back to Seattle to work for Pacific Telephone, which became a baby bell known as Pacific Northwest Bell. I married Jerry Jewell of Roosevelt High School in 1958. My handsome son, Todd Jewell, b:1961, lives north of Denver and flies for United, and my beautiful daughter, Lori Jewell Clark, b:1965,lives with her pilot husband, Todd Clark (from the Highline area), just south of Denver. He flies for Frontier and she has formed her own company as a pilot consultant for job opportunities. Formerly, she ...Expand for more