I first met Harold at Jane Adams Junior High. I remember he was one of the cutest boys I'd ever seen. We were in the same algebra class together and because of so many absences, I fell behind. Harold knew I was struggling and offered to help me. He was kind then and always. We became very good friends, with a passing romance that we chose to keep on a friendship basis. He was a very good friend until I finished school in January of '58. I never saw him again, but I always remembered him with great fondness.

Growing up Harold Ellis was my best friend. We met in the 5th grade at Maple Leaf Grade School. We did everything together from that point on--1st dates, snow skiing, water skiing, golf, tennis, basketball and baseball and so on. Two days after graduating from Roosevelt, Harold and I went into the Coast Guard with Jerry Franks and Tim Schlosser. Harold entered the UW in December of '58 and graduated in 1962. He went to school in San Francisco to study Podiatry and upon graduation married and had a son. He was a Podiatrist in the Seattle area until his untimely death in the mid 90's. Harold was bright and fun loving and a very loyal friend. Someone once said that the tragedy inherent in true, good and brave friends is that they have to leave us one day. I think that they are probably okay, while those of us who are left behind are not. I will always be grateful that I had a chance to meet Harold and to be his friend.

Harold and my older brother Tony were friends so he was around our house a lot. Harold and I and Pat Imbery took dancing classes together in grade school. I think Skip Getzendaner and Johnny Jacobi might have been there too. Anyway, Harold lived down the street on the way to Pat's house and I used to have to go by his house to see her...I thought he was the cutest! Specially when his Dad bought him the '57 Chevy! My mother and Harold's mother were dear friends which is how I know about him after school. He eventually became a successful podiatrist and he was married with one child.