90 years ago (1927)

Nanette Campbell receives the annual Alumni Medal at the Port Townsend High School Alumni Banquet.

80 years ago (1937)

Sam Peach, prominent member of the Port Townsend High School Class of 1937, is awarded the coveted Alumni Medal at the annual banquet held in honor of the seniors Saturday morning.

Byron S. Klock of Oak Bay wins the fly-casting accuracy event and places fourth in the 5/8-ounce plug event “to win the silver loving cup for the best all-round performance” in the Rhododendron Festival fly-casting tournament Saturday.

60 years ago (1957)

“Hot fishing” off Port Townsend and Cape George means that from 8 to 10 silvers are being caught in a single outing, with from four to five fish per boat considered normal. The largest fish brought in was a 14-pound king salmon.

Cecil Foy, valedictorian of the Class of 1957, receives the Alumni Medal, presented to the top graduate since 1909.

The Port of Port Townsend calls for bids for a walkway and floats and for pilings at property recently acquired by the port in Hadlock.

35 years ago (1982)

Although there is underlying excitement in receiving a gift of approximately $200,000, the City of Port Townsend will proceed thoughtfully before spending the inheritance left by lifelong city resident Ruth Seavey Jackson. (So began the process that resulted in the Jackson Bequest Sculpture, including the Tidal Bowl, on the downtown waterfront. It has since been removed.)

Hadlock Days will take another move toward credibility this year with the fourth annual event moving up from Lower Hadlock to the Kivley Center in an attempt to handle the growing crowds more easily. The event was previously held along the bay, with about 5,000-6,000 people attending the two-day event, and the sponsoring Hadlock Lions Club decided the center, where there is plenty of space, would better handle the crowd at this weekend’s events.

Port Townsend will host its first world premiere – more or less – on Friday, July 30 when the Uptown Theater shows “An Officer and a Gentleman,” the Paramount film that was shot in Port Townsend a year ago. The film opens in Seattle and Port Townsend on the same night. “It will be a ‘word of mouth’ movie, not a ‘Star Trek’ or ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ type of movie where lots of pre-publicity and promotion pays off,” says a Paramount public relations representative.

The first pontoons arrive for the Hood Canal Bridge restoration project, which the state hopes to have completed by October.

(Sources: Leader Collection; Jefferson County Historical Society Museum and Research Center, 13692 Airport Cutoff Road, Port Townsend; Jefferson County Historical Society, 379-6673, jchsmuseum.org; jchswa.org, the online search site)