Here are seven pages of graduating Seniors from O'Dea High School (one of 7 of Seattle's Catholic Highs) in 1940. 83 Young men in total. With their graduation taking place about 18 months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of them enlisted in the various branches of the military or in the merchant marines during World War II. When I have come across a page on the web for one of them, I have linked to it. Many only show up in the 1940 census. Feel free to send me links to any of your relatives that appear here.

[Editor's note: I grew up looking through this and assumed that it was my dad's annual. There are several inscriptions that didn't fit for a guy named Jack or John, but I had thought it was just a mistake or perhaps boyish pranks. I recently separated the front endpaper from the front cover and saw that this copy actually belonged to a freshman, Charles E. Dixon. I hope he doesn't mind it having gone missing for these many years.]

From The 1940 Olympian

Gene Voiland . . . . . Editor
Tom Barber . . . . . .  Associate Editor
John Gordon . . . . .  Managing Editor
Bob Beattie . . . . . Business manager

Walter J. Aegerter, Roscoe A. Balch, Robert L. Bammert, Thomas M. Barber, Robert E. Beattie, Frederick J. Bentler, Nicholas A. Branica, Harold C. Bridge, Donald M. Brown, Carl A. Buck, Walter F. Clark, Jack A. Clynch

Theodore P. Cummings, Bernard C. Cunningham, William S. Dahlem, John F. Daly, William J. Dermody, Melvin J. Deweese, Roger J. Dixon, Arthur E. Doran, Francis E. Doyle, John S. Epps, Donald J. Fiatti, Terence J. Fitzpatrick

Edward W. Funsfinn, Edwin R. Gardner, Robert F. Gilman, John F. Gordon, James G. Gower, Guy A. Granger, Jean A. Gregg, Kenneth R. Guichard, Edwin J. Halliwell, Edward M. Higgins, Richard J. Hoss, Robert J. Hughes

James F. Hyatt, James J. Johnson, Edward S. Johnston, John F. Kinney, Mark A. Knowlton, William A. Mack, John P. McClean, John E. McKay, Francis S. McKee, Jerome F. McMahon, Donald E. McMichael, Wilby E. Means

Michael H. Moynihan, Vincent M. Murphy, Vincent A. Nastos, Theodore A. Niehoff, Paul H. Nomura, Francis A. Nute William J. O'Brien, Robert L. Odom, William C. Pechiney, Donald R. Peck, John J. Perry, Wade A. Peterson

Anthony J. Poplawski, John F. Redmond, Clark E. Rogerson, Edward W. Rowe, Eupert R. Rudolph, Dennis J. Ryan, John E. Ryan, Patrick J. Ryan, William H. Secker, Marvin E. Seymour, Patrick J. Shaughnessy, Leo B. Sprauer

Joseph M. Swarva, Albert J. Sweeney, Donald G. Tembreull, Kenneth W. Thomas, James B. Tyo, John W. Van Horn, Eugene E. Voilland, Hugh P. Wallace, Richard J. Walsh, James E. Woods, Joseph T. Zipp