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Seattle roots: Roosevelt High School's class of 1957.
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Yearbook of the Association of Pacific CoastGeographers
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Nostrand, Richard L.
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ABSTRACT
In 1957, Roosevelt's sizable senior class lived entirely in northeast Seattle--within Roosevelt's old high school district boundaries and in Seattle's recently annexed Shoreline district to the north. By 1967, two-thirds of the class continued to live in Seattle and its north end and Eastside suburbs. And by 2007, two-thirds still lived within a 50-mile radius of Seattle. During the past 50 years, the trend has been for class members to disperse in successively greater outer rings--a common phenomenon in American urban growth. But after 50 years, for two-thirds of the class members to remain within a 50-mile radius of their high school homes is, I speculate, ...
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