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Seaside Basketball
Longtime scorer’s table teammates, Alice Olstedt and Denny Vaughn.
Seaside remembers Vaughn,
quiet steward of Gulls athletics
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CREMATION
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By GARY HENLEY
Seaside Signal
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To the many athletes and
followers of high school
sports in Clatsop County, he
was the guy at the scorer’s
table in Seaside who always
wore shorts.
To Seaside, Dennis
“Denny” Vaughn — who
died at 77 just over a week
ago — was much more.
On the surface, you can
fi nd his name on the list of
Seagull booster club mem-
bers and in the school’s Hall
of Fame, plus all the work
he did for the Astoria Golf &
Country Club and the coun-
ty’s junior golf program.
But, “that was all just
the tip of the iceberg, as far
as Denny was concerned,”
said longtime Seaside stu-
dent-athlete, parent and fan
Mark Truax. “He wasn’t a
teacher or a coach to me,
but he certainly was a men-
tor. He did a lot more behind
the scenes — stuff he didn’t
want credit for.”
Vaughn began his teach-
ing career at St. Mary, Star
of the Sea School in Asto-
ria, then moved to the Sea-
side School District and
taught for 30 years, retiring
in 1999. He coached fresh-
man girls basketball in addi-
tion to boys golf, and was
inducted into Seaside’s Hall
of Fame for meritorious
service as an educator and
coach.
He took the boys golf
team to the state tournament
12 times.
He “left me a great pro-
gram, and many of the stan-
dards he set we adhere to, to
this day,” said Seaside boys
golf coach Jim Poetsch.
“Even though he was no
longer coaching, he never
left the program. He helped
run the Seaside Invitational
and district tournaments,
and donated shirts, rain
gear, balls and lots of money
through the years to the Sea-
side golf program.”
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The tribute table for Denny Vaughn at the Astoria Golf & Country Club.
cipal Jason Boyd said, “he
was my seventh grade social
studies teacher and golf
coach. Denny genuinely
cared about kids. He was
very devoted in making sure
the youth of our community
had the best opportunity to
grow.”
Tributes
poured
in
throughout the county fol-
lowing Vaughn’s passing.
Jeff Ter Har, a local busi-
ness owner and photogra-
pher who graduated from
Seaside and is a big sup-
porter of Gulls’ athletics,
said “What a great person.
I was in his fi rst class when
he started teaching here,
and my daughter was in his
last, with a lot of Ter Hars
in between. Truly a great
teacher, golf coach, and
most importantly of course,
a devoted Duck.”
“I’m deeply saddened
to hear of the passing of
Denny,” said Dan Foss, a
former Astoria boys golf
coach. “He was the patriarch
of Cowapa League boys
golf from the ‘80s through
to the mid-2000s. I will miss
his professionalism and gen-
uine friendliness. He cared
tremendously about kids. It
was an honor to know such
a wonderful man.”
Scorer’s table
teammates
She may not have known
Vaughn the longest, but
Alice Olstedt was one of
those who knew him best.
You can’t sit next to some-
one at the scorer’s table for
countless games and not get
to know them.
Vaughn operated the
clock while Olstedt kept the
scorebook for Seaside bas-
ketball, and she spent count-
less hours sitting to the right
of Vaughn at Gulls’ home
games.
“Like so many of us,
everyone
knows
little
bits and pieces about Mr.
Vaughn,” Olstedt said. “We
spent a lot of time talking,
but Mr. Vaughn didn’t talk
about himself. He wasn’t
that kind of guy.”
Vaughn graduated from
Central Catholic High
School in Portland and later
the University of Oregon.
“He was a huge (Ducks)
fan,” said Olstedt. “He had
season tickets for football,
but was a huge fan of Ore-
gon women’s basketball.”
She added, “He was so,
so generous … and I don’t
think people knew that. He
was a Seaside booster donor,
and had his name on the
sign in the gym and on the
sports schedule. But he was
the fi rst person to pull out
money when kids were sell-
ing raffl e tickets at basket-
ball games.
“He always gave money
to whomever was running
the halftime hoop shoot
so that kids who might not
have money to shoot could
shoot.”
And Vaughn went a lot
further than that, Truax said.
“When Kyle (Truax’s
son) started playing golf, the
next thing we know, there’s
a set of Titleist golf clubs on
our porch,” he said. “Denny
had 47 sets of clubs, so he
gave Kyle one. He even
gave Kyle an Oregon bag,
and Kyle used it, because
Mr. Vaughn gave it to him.”
The Truax’s are big Oregon
State fans.
“Another kid needed
glasses, and Denny was
there for him,” Truax con-
tinued. “That’s the stuff that
nobody knew about, and he
didn’t want people to know.”
Seaside remained within strik-
ing distance of fi rst place in Cowapa
League baseball, with a 13-3 win last
Friday at Valley Catholic.
The Gulls improved to 5-3, while
Banks continues to sit atop the league
standings at 8-0.
Seaside spotted the Valiants a 2-0
lead in the top of the fi rst last Thursday,
but the Gulls answered with two runs
in their fi rst at-bat, and added two in
the third highlighted by a double from
Jarred White, on their way to a 12-2
win over the Valiants.
Seaside was set to play
Tillamook twice this week, and also
was to host a nonleague contest
Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Broadway
Field with Knappa.
Gulls softball tops Valiants
Seaside snapped a 2-2 tie with six
runs in the second inning, and the Gulls
cruised to an 11-6 win over Valley
Catholic in a Cowapa League softball
game last Friday at Broadway Field.
The bottom half of Seaside’s lineup
had the big day off ensively, as Erin
Owsley was 4-for-4 with a double, and
Emma Taylor was 3-for-4 and also had
a double. Ila Bowles had two of Sea-
side’s fi ve doubles.
Gracie Rhodes was the winning
pitcher, allowing 10 hits and one walk
with four strikeouts.
Last Thursday, Seaside snapped
a 2-2 tie after three innings with four
runs in the top of the fourth, and the
Gulls added three in the fi fth to pull
away for a 10-5 Cowapa League soft-
ball win at Valley Catholic.
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Scorer’s table etiquette
“He was very particular
about how things should go
at the table,” Olstedt said.
“People thought he some-
times made mistakes with
the clock, but I can tell you,
it was the clock, not Mr.
Vaughn.
“We were kind of super-
stitious at the table. Things
had to be set out a certain
way. He knew where he
wanted the clock. The home
and visitors books always
had to sit next to each other
so you could communicate.”
Olstedt added, “I was
hoping so much that Mr.
Vaughan would be there for
the fi rst home game at the
table in the new gym. It will
be pretty hard to not have
him on my left.
“Every year, towards the
end of the season, he would
say, ‘Well, I think I’m going
to retire from doing this.’
And I would smile and tell
him I needed him there. And
every year, he would show
up.”
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Valiants win Seaside
girls golf invite
Seaside was the host team
last Wednesday for a Cowapa League
girls golf invitational at Gearhart Golf
Links.
Playing under Stableford scoring,
Valley Catholic was the big winner
with 206 points, followed by Astoria
(146), Seaside (134), Banks (114) and
Tillamook (104).
Individually, Lily Reed led Asto-
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Rouda (39), Annalyse Steele (36), Ava
Davis (31) and Xochitl Perez (14).
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