7/4/02
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PHS Alumni On-Line
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Jul 04, 2002
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4 Bulldogs today:
Mary Green Bozlee (`39)
Larry Green (`55)
Dennis Cresswell (`58)
Jim Pope (`66)
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From: Mary Green Bozlee (`39)
Someone asked who Edgar Brown was. Well I moved to Pasco in l926 and he and his wife lived just off Sylvester Street a short ways from where the stadium is now. He owned the land and had a gravel pit and sold gravel products to all who needed it and sand. He and his wife had one daughter named Leatha who also graduated from PHS.
I lived on Sylvester Street and walking to school he or his drivers would give us kids a ride to school if he happen to be going that way at the same time. I don't know if he gave the property to the school district or if he sold it but they were fine upstanding people. Several of the old neighbors there enjoyed them as kind and considerate friends. There were 15 houses between l0th and their street and Sylvester and Yakima on the south and we knew them all.
I enjoy the PHS news notes so very much but most are much younger than I as I graduated in l939 but my family graduated with some of the ones writing the notes today.
Mary Green Bozlee (`39)
Boise, ID
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From: Larry Green (`55)
As we once again celebrate the Nation's birthday, please keep in mind those who are no longer with us. Especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice in our Nation's time of need. Pasco has had its fair share of these people. Although there have been tumultuous times in our history when people couldn't agree about going to battle, that is one of the strengths of our country. To each of you who served in whatever capacity and to each of you who supported in whatever capacity those who served, thank you. Enjoy this 4th. Pasco and the Tri-Cities area have a long history of doing a good celebration.
Larry Green (`55)
Goodyear, AZ
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From: Dennis Cresswell (`58)
To Andrea Young Ware and other "youngsters" interested in that big hole in the ground that became Edgar Brown Stadium:
Edgar Brown was the Pasco businessman who owned the gravel pit that was located there. I don't how many years he mined it for sand and gravel, but the Franklin County Historical Museum has a 1941 aerial photo of Pasco that my family donated, and it shows up as a pretty big pit at that time. So he had to have been mining it at least since the 1930s, when that area would have been way out in the country.
Brown and our dad, Don Cresswell, were friends, and our dad suggested to Brown that, when he was finished mining the pit, it could be turned into a stadium. Brown liked the idea and donated the land to the school district. It was developed as a stadium in the mid-1950s. Anyone remember what year it opened? Seems to me it was about 1957.
Dennis Cresswell (`58)
Pasco, WA
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From: Jim Pope (`66)
To Ella Young (Schoeppach) Markham `65WB:
Haven't talked to Gary in years, but understand thru Hank Moore that he has done very well. Wonder if he still hunts and fishes much. The duck hunting in Tennessee is very limited so I do miss it. Instead have taken up turkey hunting a lot and do get frustrated being outsmarted most of the time. Ask Mickey about frustration when he taught me how to drive a stick shift. Took him a while to get me to catch on. Does he still stay in touch with Debovic (spelling?). Those years duck hunting on Clark and Mesa Lake are still great memories. Even on days of PHS football games when I barely got back to catch the player's bus. Caught some flack from Till over that one.
Jim Pope (`66)
Nashville, TN
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