Hubert "Hub" Shovlin

Hubert "Hub" Shovlin, 88, passed away September 18, 2009.

A dignified and moving military burial service was held on September 23rd in the Willamette National Cemetary to celebrate the passing of Hubert Shovlin, and to acknowledge his service to our country s a U.S. Marine Corps officer in both World War II and the Korean War.

Hub was born and raised in Denver where his accomplishments as a high school athlete earned him an athletic scholarship to the University of Colorado. He played football there from 1939 to 1942 and was awarded a bachelor's degree. After graduating from college, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and was commissioned as an officer.

During World War II, he served in both the Guam and the Iwo Jima campaigns. He would later serve in Korea where he fought in the grueling Chosin Reservoir battle and, as a survivor, became a member of the legendary "Chosin Few".

After his military service, Hub obtained his master's degree from the University of Denver and moved with his family to Portland. He was quickly hired by the Portland Public Schools to teach high school science and coach both varsity football and track at Cleveland High School.

Following his successful career in the classroom and on the field, Hub acquired his administrative credentials and became a vice-principal for the district. He worked at Grant, Wilson and Jackson high schools until his retirment.

In the years after he retired, Hub continued to spend time vacationing at the Oregon coast and enjoyed countless hours in the compay of his family and friends.

All who knew him will miss his quiet, commanding, generous and loving nature. Donations in his name may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Mel Krause

Our friend, and fellow alum, Mel Krause, passed away recently. He has made so many contributions to our school that the Hall of Fame was renamed in his honor. He will be missed. The article below was published by the University of Oregon letterman's club shortly after his passing. Double click on the article below to read.

The Cleveland Alumni Newsletter of November 2008 carried the following information about Mel in recognition of our school's Athletic Hall of Fame being named after him.

To recognize and thank Mel Krause for his
significant contributions to both Commerce and Cleveland High Schools and to the education and coaching professions, this Athletic Hall of Fame was dedicated in his honor

Feb. 22, 2008

Achievements

Football, basketball and baseball athlete at Commerce

Professional Baseball-Northwest League 8 Seasons

Voted to 50 Year Anniversary All Star Team-Northwest League

Coached two high school teams to State Basketball Championships

Coached High School Team to State Baseball Runner-Up Title

Coached University of Oregon Baseball Teams from 1970 to 1981

Health and Physical Education Department Chair at Portland Community College

Co-founded Commerce-Cleveland High School Alumni Association

Vice President and Scholarship Committee Chair of CCHSAA

Won Pac 8 Northern Division Baseball Championship and two co-Championships

Rollie Truitt Award for Contributions to Amateur Baseball in Oregon

Leo Harris Award for outstanding U of O Alumni Contributions

CCHSAA Athletic Hall of Fame

University of Oregon Hall of Fame

Portland Interscholastic League Hall of Fame

Oregon State Sports Hall of Fame

Oregon High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame

Ted R. Ahlberg

Ted was a many faceted man and lived a very active life. He was an athlete, thespian, aviator, war hero, business man, entrepreneur, volunteer and a wonderful husband and father.

Born at home in Estacada, oregon, he was the first of four boys. As a young man, Ted was very involved with athletics-mostly football, basketball, track and golf with a little fast pitch soft ball thrown in. As a member of the Commerce High golf team in 1938, they won the Portland League golf championship. In 2005, this team was inducted into the Commerce-Cleveland High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ted continued to play golf until his late 70's. He was club champion at Green Meadows Golf and Country Club in 1971 when he was 51 and, in 1998, he shot a 78 when he was 78 years old. Pretty remarkable.

After graduation from high school, Ted became involved with the Studio Theatre in Portland. He was in four productions.

Ted enlisted in the Army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and was accepted into Air Force pilot training. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corp and flew B-24 bombers. He served in the European Theatre flying long range missions out of Italy to Germany, Austrian and southern France. Ted flew 35 combat missions and 15 support missions during his tour of duty.

On one mission to Northern Italy, Ted's plane lost 2 of the 4 engines, both on the same side of the aircraft. He was able to keep the plane airborne for 600 miles before finding a small field and bringing the plane in safely. For this, he received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Another mission close to Chrismas 1944 did not fare as well. Bad weather combined with a malfunctioning altimeter to result in a crash that cost three crew members their lives.

After the war, Ted returned home to his wife Veramay and daughter Suzanne. Four more children (Aprilanne, Theodore Jr, David and Douglas) were born to raise the Ahlberg count to seven. He lost Veramay to a lengthy illness in 1996 following 54 years of marriage.

Toy trains were his passion and he ran a related business out of his basement for several years. He was also one of the founding members of the Pacific Northwest of the Train Collectors Association.

His volunteer efforts benefited the Salvation Army, Goodwill, Kiwanis and the Luepke Senior Center in Vancouver, Washington.

In 1998, Cora Jackson came into his life. Cora and Ted had known each other through train collecting for years. They were married in 1998.

Ted lived a wonderful, full and active life. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

Robert Lee Hahm-May 4, 2009

Robert Lee Hahm age 80, Passed away May 4 2009 at the age of 80 years old .
he was blessed to celebrate his 80Th birthday April 16 with his children,grand children and great grand children in attendance. April 4Th of this year he was diagnosed with small cell metastatic cancer and soon passed away. At his side was his son Daryl Hahm (the oldest of his twin sons) and Daryl's wife Beverly.

Bob was a long time resident of Oregon, his homes were Portland, Eugene and Newport for the last 10 years.

Bob had a lifetime love of theater and Frank Sinatra.

Bob has left behind 4 children Danny,Debbie and twins Daryl and David.

Bob retired from the southern Pacific railroad in 1989 and occupied his time with cribbage tournaments and walking the Beach's of Oregon.

his final thoughts and words were " I did it my way".

He was cremated and laid to rest with his grand mother in Portland.

Kathleen Burns Maher

When Kay Maher's son, Creighton, went off to fight in Vietnam in 1966, she had a shrine to the Virgin Mary built in the woods on her family's suburban Portland property. Every day, she would walk through a field and into the woods to pray quietly for her sons safe return. Her son returned unscathed a year later.

When Kay Maher's husband, Ken, was stricken with stomach cancer in 1991 and told he had just weeks to live, she reassured her children and grandchildren that their father and grandfather would be fine. Her husband beat the disease.

When she herself was brought down by a mas­sive heart attack in 2001, requiring 24-hour nurs­ing care for more than a year, she rehabilitated herself and learned to walk again, to the amaze­ment of her family and doctors. Her will power and courage prevailed.

"She lived her life with such grace and with a pos­itive optimism that things would work out for the best," said another son, Michael Maher of Seattle.

Surrounded by her children andd husband, Kay Maher died of congestive heart failure on Jan. 26, 2008, at the family summer home on Lake Mayfield near Mossyrock, Wash. She was 85.

She was born April 16, 1922, in Portland, the last of Robert T. and Margaret Burns' eight chil­dren. Her Scotch-Irish father was a candy maker and owned the Spokane Candy Co. Her Irish mother oversaw the family from their Kelly Avenue home in Southwest Portland.

Kay's early years were spent mingling with her siblings and friends, exploring her Italian-Jewish-Irish neigh­borhood, bicycling to Lake Oswego, and swim­ming in the Willamette River. It also was'an upbringing marked by a hard­scramble existence due to the Great Depression. But with the character she would exhibit in later years, Kay quietly persevered.

In 1940, she graduated from Commerce High School (now Cleveland High School), where she was vice president of the student body. A year later, while swinging to the big band sounds of Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet and the Dorsey Brothers, she met her future husband, Kenneth
K. Maher, at a University of Portland dance. They were married on Oct. 2, 1943, in Portland.

Between 1961 and 1973, Kay was her hus­band's secretary and aide while he served in the Oregon State Legislature. She met and knew numerous figures from the political world, including President John E Kennedy, Oregon Governor (and later U.S. senator) Mark Hatfield, Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Oregon Governor Vic Atiyeh and Portland Mayor Mildred Schwab. She was a member of Immaculate Heart and St. Charles parishes between 1943 and 1948, St. Clare parish in Portland between 1949 and 1975, and St. Yves parish at Silver Creek, Wash., from 1973 to 2008.

Family was central. Her first child, Patricia, was born in 1944. Creighton, Patrick, Richard, Stephen, Michael and Kimberly followed between 1946 and 1964. In 1970, Kay and Ken adopted Anthony "Tony" Bradley of Los Angeles, who was being passed from relative to relative as a young boy after his mother died. A few years later, the Maher family welcomed Guillermo Chamorro into their home after Chamorro's father was killed in Nicaragua.

From the late 1940s until the mid-1970s, the family lived on 10 acres below Mount Sylvania in suburban Southwest Portland. It was a perfect place for her rambunctious brood to run with abandon, build forts and trails, and excel in numerous sports. The Lake Mayfield summer home and its grounds-turned by Kay and her husband and children into an arboretum of native Plants and trees-were one of the joys of her life.

Kay was proud of her children's accomplish­ments and the diversity of their interests and pursuits. Her openmindedness and support allowed her children to live their lives as they saw fit. She helped raise-among other things and at various times in their lives-an artist, a painter, a doctor, a child psychologist, a chief executive officer, a veteran, a business owner, a marathon director, a poet, a writer, and a mother of triplets.

"My mom was extremely nonjudgmental," said another son, Stephen Maher of Wenatchee, Wash. "Her Catholic faith was her guiding light, but she never flaunted it and she accepted every­one, regardless of their religion, race, ethnicity, looks or money. "She was extraordinary in how she embraced people and spread her love. She was extremely kind but it was never done with any fanfare. It just hap­pened. Looking back, I can't recall one time when she ever said anything negative about anyone."