Yakima High School Pirate Press - Spring 2025

It's been a long time since the last Pirate Press -too long. However, I'm sure that you are as familiar with "senior issues" as I am: a plethora of doctors' appointments, an occasional fall and/or a broken hip, some kind of cancer or other health challenge. Yep. These "Golden Years" can be tough (and time-consuming).

However, here we are sailing along in our mid-eighties and remembering so many good times during our own version of "Happy Days".

I have been thinking of you and am anxious to hear about your life and family (including grandkids, great grandkids). Please email me with your news: editor@azbw.com.

Our news is old stuff; I still teach English 101 online, and my husband and I still do our monthly publication Western Outdoor Times. We are active in veterans' organizations and participated in Welcome Home activities all during April to honor our Vietnam vets.

Recently, I upgraded to Windows 11, which was a bit of a challenge. In the process, most of your emails and notices of classmates' passing were lost.

I did find these, however.

1. Thank you, Ed Nolan, for sharing this -

Audrey Van Eaton: I had her for Spanish. Boy, was she ever patient with me!

2. Thank you, J Andy Thompson, for this -

Just decided to do some checking and discovered an old friend and school mate, Doug Altman, passed away Oct 26, 2022. Part of the Class of 1957,

3. Charlotte Bradford: Does anyone have information on this dear class mate?

A good way to keep up with the 1957 YHS Pirates is to use Facebook Groups. ( I know some of you don't like it, but I find it fun to connect with old friends – no political postings from me, however.) I'm listed as Carol Elizabeth Lemon Allen on Facebook and I would love to be "your friend".

AND THIS:

"A Senior's Version of Facebook"

For those of my generation who do not, and cannot, comprehend why Facebook exists,

I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.

Therefore, every day I walk down the street and tell passers-by what I have eaten, how I

feel at the moment, what I have done the night before, what I will do later and with

whom.

I give them pictures of my family, my dog and of me gardening, taking things apart in the garage, watering the lawn, standing in front of landmarks, driving around town, having

lunch, and doing what anybody and everybody does every day.

I also listen to their conversations, give them "thumbs up" and tell them I "like" them.

And it works just like Facebook. I already have four people following me: two police

officers, a private investigator, and a psychologist.

I wish you fair winds and following seas,

Carol (Lemon) Allen