Charles Lawrence and his twin sister Laura Catherine were Nos. 7 and 8 of nine children born to Orcas Island pioneers Oberlin and Sarah (Cadwell) Loos. Always Lawrence to his family and Orcas friends, he was Charles (sometimes Chuck) to everyone else. He graduated from Spokane University and then attended Bellingham Normal School (now Western Washington University) to get his teaching credentials.
His first teaching job was in a one-room school in Deer Park near Spokane. After two years he went to Grandview in the Yakima Valley where he taught fifth grade.
On June 6, 1942, he married Doris Taylor (another teacher in Grandview) and was drafted later that summer. After a year and a half at Camp Young in the Mojave Dessert, he returned to Washington and was principal of the Hanford Grade School—at the time the largest elementary school in the country because it ran on two shifts, there being so many families in the area because of the Hanford Project. After the war he was at Columbia High School in Richland. In 1949 he returned to Grandview, this time as high school principal (and a half-year as superintendent during Mr. McClure's extended leave of absence).
Finding that he preferred working with the students rather than dealing with the duties of administration, in 1953 he took a guidance position at Mason Junior High in Tacoma where he remained until his retirement in 1974.
His first teaching job was in a one-room school in Deer Park near Spokane. After two years he went to Grandview in the Yakima Valley where he taught fifth grade.
On June 6, 1942, he married Doris Taylor (another teacher in Grandview) and was drafted later that summer. After a year and a half at Camp Young in the Mojave Dessert, he returned to Washington and was principal of the Hanford Grade School—at the time the largest elementary school in the country because it ran on two shifts, there being so many families in the area because of the Hanford Project. After the war he was at Columbia High School in Richland. In 1949 he returned to Grandview, this time as high school principal (and a half-year as superintendent during Mr. McClure's extended leave of absence).
Finding that he preferred working with the students rather than dealing with the duties of administration, in 1953 he took a guidance position at Mason Junior High in Tacoma where he remained until his retirement in 1974.
Charles Lawrence and his twin sister Laura Catherine were Nos. 7 and 8 of nine children born to Orcas Island pioneers Oberlin and Sarah (Cadwell) Loos. Always Lawrence to his family and Orcas friends, he was Charles (sometimes Chuck) to everyone else. He graduated from Spokane University and then attended Bellingham Normal School (now Western Washington University) to get his teaching credentials.
His first teaching job was in a one-room school in Deer Park near Spokane. After two years he went to Grandview in the Yakima Valley where he taught fifth grade.
On June 6, 1942, he married Doris Taylor (another teacher in Grandview) and was drafted later that summer. After a year and a half at Camp Young in the Mojave Dessert, he returned to Washington and was principal of the Hanford Grade School—at the time the largest elementary school in the country because it ran on two shifts, there being so many families in the area because of the Hanford Project. After the war he was at Columbia High School in Richland. In 1949 he returned to Grandview, this time as high school principal (and a half-year as superintendent during Mr. McClure's extended leave of absence).
Finding that he preferred working with the students rather than dealing with the duties of administration, in 1953 he took a guidance position at Mason Junior High in Tacoma where he remained until his retirement in 1974.
His first teaching job was in a one-room school in Deer Park near Spokane. After two years he went to Grandview in the Yakima Valley where he taught fifth grade.
On June 6, 1942, he married Doris Taylor (another teacher in Grandview) and was drafted later that summer. After a year and a half at Camp Young in the Mojave Dessert, he returned to Washington and was principal of the Hanford Grade School—at the time the largest elementary school in the country because it ran on two shifts, there being so many families in the area because of the Hanford Project. After the war he was at Columbia High School in Richland. In 1949 he returned to Grandview, this time as high school principal (and a half-year as superintendent during Mr. McClure's extended leave of absence).
Finding that he preferred working with the students rather than dealing with the duties of administration, in 1953 he took a guidance position at Mason Junior High in Tacoma where he remained until his retirement in 1974.
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