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Pirate Pickleball

Jun 17, 2025 | 50-Year Reunion

Calling All Pirate Pickleball Players!

Have you become a part of the pickleball craze? If so, it would be fun to get fellow Pirates together for a few games, either on Friday afternoon, Aug. 22, or Saturday morning, Aug. 23 of the reunion weekend.

If there is any interest, we would like to know:

Who would like to join
(so we know how many courts are needed)
If you’d prefer to play on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning
What level player you are
(ie. beginner, intermediate, or advanced)

Please respond to reunion@highlineclassof75.com. Thanks!
Hope to see you on the courts!
Laurie (Lee) Ball

P.S. No courts have been secured yet. This is a post to first see if the idea should be pursued.

The Brand New HHS!

Feb 2, 2025 | 50-Year Reunion

Come tour the new HHS on Saturday, August 23, 2025.
Meet in front of the school at 2:00.

The redesigned and rebuilt Highline High School as seen in 2025.

The original Highline High School from 1924.

The new and improved HHS is incredible! (It really did need to be demolished. It was pretty creaky when WE were there, 50 years ago!)

In designing the brand new building, which opened for students in September of 2021, they mimicked the massing and appearance of the original school. They kept the terracotta details of the front entrance, and the brick facade. Once you enter, though, it’s a whole new world.

Here’s a link to the school’s Virtual Tour.

And here you can see videos showing the new school as it was under construction:

In January 2025, Maureen Hoffmann toured the school and shot some photos showing the creativity and inclusiveness that has blossomed at Highline High School.

Taste-Testing Pirate Crew

Feb 2, 2025 | 50-Year Reunion, 50-Year Reunion

Highline Pirates’ Class of 75 Classmates showing up to taste-test the 50-year reunion menu:
(Left to right) Dave Hawthorne, Maureen Hoffmann, Laurie Lee Ball, Neil Ball, Linda Bradshaw Burfitt, Kitty Jo Larson Pray, Jim Pray, Larry Stone

We came, we tested and tasted, selecting pirate-appropriate foods for chattin’ and eatin’ at the 50-Year Reunion coming up on August 23 this year! Several of us met at Classic Eats, here in Old Burien, and sampled from their catering menu.

We enjoyed Portobello Mushroom Sliders, Meatloaf Sliders, Chicken Club Sandwiches, Reuben Sandwiches, Cobb Salad and House Salad with a keen eye (taste?) to what would appeal to our classmates as they’re wandering around chatting with long-time friends.

We nibbled, laughed and caught up after all these years.

Yes, we talked about aches and pains (and Kitty Jo demonstrated the arthritis in one of her fingers. Ha ha.)

Are you in? Come join us on August 23!!

A Zooming Committee Meeting

Dec 20, 2024 | 50-Year Reunion, Committee Notes

Just some of the Reunion Planning Commitee Members zooming along as details are discussed… and there are MANY details!

Seen here: Betsy Wildish McQuinn, Maureen Hoffmann, Richelle Ring Slater, Mark Meyer, Neil Ball, Arden Gremmert and Eva Doherty Gremmert, Kitty Jo Larson Poland, Jim Pray, Linda Bradshaw Burfitt.

HHS Alumni Foundation Golf Day on Friday August 21, 2015

Jul 17, 2015 | 30-Year Reunion, Highline High School 40-Year Reunion, Reunion Notes

For those of you Pirates that would like a little golf before you head to the other 40-Year Reunion activities, you can put the HHS Alumni Foundation Golf Day on your calendar for Friday, August 21, 2015. The Alumni Tournament will be returning to Auburn Golf Course.

Click on the flyer below to view it at a larger “Class of ’75 Readable” Size. ; )

Click here for the 2015 Golf Registration Form.