Thanks to Jan (Hanecak) for your sponsorship!! As we get closer we are only more excited for all of you to enjoy, have fun, and parteeee!!

We've invited several of the CHS teachers to the Reunion, and Mr. Valliere has already signed up to be there!Here is a note from another:Thanks so much for the inviation, but my wife and I will be in Lake Tahoe the week of July 5th, and then on to Ashland, Oregon for the Shakespeare Festival there.  Sorry.  Have a great reunion and I hope I can catch you guys next time around.SIncerely,Robbin L. Adair

Kudos to all of the members of the reunion committee for all the hard work they did to make this event the best ever.  A special thanks to the Fallettas for their hospitality over the weekend and putting me up and allowing me to sample from their wine selection.  The night in their kitchen after the event was memorable too with just a few of us catching up.  Looking forward to seeing Janet, Pam, Carol in the near future.  I am not so sure the tiki will receive a warm welcome but I have it on my patio for the moment.  Thanks for the e-mail Deb--maybe you and Greg will get down our way or us up to Santa Barbara.  Thanks to all of you!Janice Andre (Hanecak)

I recently found out that English teacher Roy Burgh and guidance counselor Paul Shaler both graduated from Coronado High!   I remember Mr. Burgh saying to me "William, What nice long legs you have!"   I still recall his poem in Canvas:   Thank God for the Pope Thank God for the pill And thank God for free will   If anyone is interested in Coronado High from 1940-50, I just wrote an article in Downtown News San Diego about Esther Painter Hagstrom who was the art teacher at Coronado from 1939-1952 (before Mr Luedtke). There is currently an art show of her work and some of her students at the Coronado library, thanks to the donation of her works by her granddaughter Suzie Hagstrom.

I want to thank you all for your dignity and class.  God Bless, Paul D. Morris

Thank you to Gigi (Mellon) & David Streitweiser for your Central Liquor Level sponsorship!!  Great to see you both at our reunion!!

Pam and I had a blast  Thanks

Our memories of bygone daysDays in sun, and those that rainSome so clear, others but a hazewhere do they go?after our last refrain They fertilize our lifeso that we may growthey're the strength of our rootsthat our flowers show Out of the haze an island appearsNo street lights and a ferry to cross.Like yesterday, after all the yearswhere time has gone, never lost Sandy beaches, and rocks in our headPlanes overhead and carriers in slipA grand hotel, for us, no bedand an school to learn friendship A green wave, colors never outdated  An orange avenue, that's a yellow brick roadEveryday a blue sky, rarely appreciatedA Free market, a bakery, to lessen the load Submarine races, on the beachOr the San Diego skyline sightDown the strand, was quite a reachMy favorite was the golf course at night Surfers finding their way to the shoreNorth beach the happening placeForget about the curriculum coreNo classes, for surfer, such a waste Bless their heartsthey tried their bestto teach us welland pass the test Burge, Adair, and Miss MenchWells, Adaskin, and Mr MillerEnglish was never for me a cinchAnd calculus was a killer Satterlee, Durand and Mr. GreenNo one had yet invented cell phonesPhysical education wasn't so keenbut history tells of a Mr. Jones Our life was like a Club MedTri-Hi, Tri M, Trilites,a nd  Tri SCheerleading, Junto, Sponsors, and LettermenInteract, Booster, Math, and Pegasus At night we were put at RiskThe world was ours to takeUntil late one night we did whiskto Aunt Emma's for a pancake Oh! how to get to Tijuanafinding a car without a lockBeing able to drink when you wannathen burying the senior rock! Forty years ago Our last walk through hallowed hallsThe foundation for a lifetimefor construction of the walls Not baggage, but a small valisecarrying who you areKeep it close, it will give peaceLook inside to find your star.

Are we having a test in Mr. Bennett's government class this week? I got a T- score of 52 last time and my mom said I can't watch The Smothers Brothers or Laugh-In unless i bring that grade up.

Yeah Rhonda (Eves) for your Tiki sponsorship!! Just about two weeks away!!

       I'm still reeling from the feelings, Folks.  Gotta give me some time to digest that glorious summer week in Coronado.  From Laura and I, deep appreciation and thanks.       I have amended my Classmates entry with our personal data and open invitations to you all for some future Northwest Gettaway.       As mentioned in it as well, Laura's photo journal of the Reunion, picnic and, unless I can convince her otherwise, the Rough-Water / Alumni Water-polo extravaganzas are to follow.  Regarding these latter two, the most favorable thing I have to say is that the Class of 1968 definitely WAS represented.      Stay in touch??Rick

Thank you to Keith Robertson for your Key Hole Level Sponsorship!!  Party Time getting pretty close!!

Looking forward to the 50th Reunion. Hope all are well and ready for the party.

Thanks to John Adams for your Coronado Bike Race Level Sponsorship!!  

Thanks Joe Ingalls for your Coronado Bike Race Level Sponsorship!!

Thanks to Kim For your sponsorship!! We continue to be on our way to a great reunion!!

Many many thanks to Rob for your sponsorship!! We are so grateful for the generousity of our classmates........and hope this helps more of you attend our big 40 party!!!

OMG...what wonderful connections with people and places! My heart is full...Thank you!Just got back yesterday to the land of smoke and fire! I want to turn right around and go back to Coronado!

A big Thank you to Rick & Laura Beede for their Chart House Level Sponsorship!!  Let's get this party rolling!!

A big thank you to David Cohen for his Central Liquor Level Sponsorship!!  One more month and it's party time!!

40 years....holy shit batman!  If I knew I was gonna live this long,  I'da taken better care of myself!Man, I only got a month and half, to purge the evils of forty years. I could ask for Gods help, but forty four years ago I started praying to Kon Tiki! You'da thought I would learned something from Mr. Jones class, but I think I got dropped on my head too often by ..Mr.Green Genes!Looking forward to the commisseration!

I have many fond memories of Sacred Heart and Coronado High. I will not be able to attend our reunion. I have really enjoyed  reading the reunion website. It is  fun to see what everyone has been doing over the years. It is hard to believe that it has been 40 years. I have been married for 36 years, David and I have six children. I worked for the Chula Vista School District for 21 years. I just retired last Wednesday. My goal was to work and pay for my kids to have an eight year catholic education and they did. Then it was for them to get a college degree,  which they did. Two also have their master degree, so now it is my time to relax. Take care.

Hmm, for those of you who escaped life on "the Rock," I'm collecting suggestions for an appropriate name for our local paradise.  Those of us who have returned (or never left!) have heard it referred to as:Leave-it-to-Beaver-LandMayberry-by-the-SeaBore-a-NadoAny more suggestions?  I couldn't WAIT to get out of here when I was 18, but then returned at 29 for all the same reasons - everybody knows everybody, you can't go to the store without seeing someone you know, and everybody tells your parents EVERYTHING!  What a difference when you are the parent!  Vote for your favorite, or send your suggestions!

This is a message from Don Bombardier: Enjoyed the 40th reunion! It was better than the 10th, 20th, or 30th reunions. It was nice to see people and get together to talk over old times. If anyone would like to keep in touch with me I would enjoy hearing from you. I look forward to the 45th reunion. PS I would like to thank John McCartin for his gift to the 40th reunion. Email: mrmalibu777@yahoo.com

A huge thanks to Karen (O'connor) for your Bob's Drive In sponsorship!! Getting closer to party time!!

An enormous thankyou to our 40th committee - you all outdid yourselves with each detail being so well thought out. The food was wonderful and all the memories devine. A special special thankyou to Janet & Tony for their warm hospitality, the whole week went by way too fast. I loved riding the bike around and just taking in the Coronado sites, what an awesome place. We were all lucky in 1968!!!!

Last October our good friend Bob "Lights" Lahodney passed away...I had known Bob since we were together in third grade.  Bob was one of the guys you knew was just a leader in our grade, and proved it year after year.  When were at Crown Elementary together, it was a new school.  Our class was to be the first sixth grade that had gone from first to sixth at the school.  I remember when we were in fifth grade several of us were constsntly in front of Mr. Presley and getting sent for punishment.  At the time punishment was a cricket paddle and a soccer ball.  The vice principle would have us bend over and grag ankles; then wack the socker ball into our rears with his bat.  Sometimes it would leave the pattern of the ball for days.   Bob and I had complained that there was no student council and that we had no input in the school.  The following year Crown, through our nagging allowed the first student election with one rule.  The President and vice presitend had to be a boy and a girl.  After elections Bob was elected president, a girl named Carol was VP. and I was secretary.  As you know from high school Bob was voted President every year there-after.  Even when suspended to the "Rat Cellar" Bob was elected President...   So, if you didn\'t know Bob well, this was the rest of the story you did know.     For "lights" Lahodney; the lights are still on...  

June 10, 2013 Dear Members of the Coronado High School Class of 1968, Many thanks for inviting me to your reunion on Saturday, July 6.  I am sorry that I will be unable to join you as I am on oxygen 24 hours a day and find it difficult to attend social functions. We have had 45 years since you graduated, 45 years of many experiences that you will enjoy sharing with your classmates.  Best wishes for the next five years when you will gather again for your 50th reunion. Sincerely, Charles Luedtke, Art Teacher

I forgot to say I promise not to use the $$ for my Botox treatments!?!

Hi everyone--  It's been a blast being on the committee planning the Reunion!   I am receiving the Sponsorship checks, and it's so exciting to get the mail each day.   Thanks to all of you who have donated - it's very generous of you!  And I guarantee that the committee is working hard to make July 5th & 6th extra special!   We encourage all of you to get your checks in for the event soon, too!   See you in July!Pam

To our reunion committee, John,Gwyn,Janet,Pam,Jim, ( and of course their spouses) What a wonderful evening! Thank you, for bringing us all together for our 40th.  It was such a wonderful evening, and too short to connect with everyone so I will look forward to the 45th.

What a wonderful, fun-filled week-end.  Thank you to all of the reunion committee - you did a wonderful job - thank you for making this all possible.  It was great to see everyone and remember old times.  John Little was hysterical as usual!!  I'm looking forward to the 45th.

Thank you to Tom & Jan Darcy for your Chart House Level Sponsorship!!  Helping to make this 50th even more fun!!

Thank you to Doug Kipperman for his Central Liquor Level Sponsorship!! Fun times ahead!!

Thank you Roz (Richey) Raue for your Ferry Landing Level Sponsorship!! Let's get this party going!!

A huge Thank you to John McCartin for his Chart House Level Sponsorship!! In Johns words, "John Little said I would get "special seating" at his Vegas Lounge Act if I made a donation!" May not be Vegas but we are trying to make it as fun!! See you there John!!

Thanks so much to Claudia (Kaine) for your Bob's Drive In sponsorship!!! Our class rocks!!

A big thanks to Loc for your Bob's sponsorship!! We're definitely on the count down to old memories and old friends!!

     Just learned that the man who was always one step above me (alphabetically) since 5th grade, my friend (and prompter of me to pull a fire alarm my senior year), Drew Lennon, may be unable to attend the reunion because of an overdue library book. It was originally due back March 19, 1968 and the overdue charges are now a little of $5800.00. The FBI has become invovled in the case. We need to come to the aid of this former Crawford Plumber little league player and raise the money so he won't be banned from the Crown City!  What say ye?

For John, Janet, Pam and the whole committee; thanks you did a great job.  There just wasn't enough time to get together with everyone.  So a 45th sounds good to me.Gwyn, yes I do remember giving you your first motorcycle ride.  You held on so tight I knew you were scared.  But maybe just cause you didn't have shoes.Sue Hacker, It was great to see you again.  Say hi to your uncle Jack for me.Holly, you look so happy.  Stay that way..Dean, you actually look better now than in High School.  I guess your just not that high anymore.Big John Mcleod, as you said only one of 305 people arrested at the keg party at the house 4 of were renting on "A".  I saw several others at the reunion that I think were also arrested that night.  Does anyone still have the Union Tribune from then?Thanks everyone, our class really was the best..

It so hard sometimes not to go though life being cynical, absolving yourself of blame, and losing your own happiness responsibility.  Poems, remind me, of that which I already know, but is so easily forgotten. I wrote this to remind me....Tides of love await you, to be foundAn open heart need not search, while love is all aroundLike waves upon the shore, pools that ebb and flowComing ever closer as you stand there, only to pull away and goNot knowing the ebb of the tide, each wave inching awayOr flowing to greet your toes, where planted in sand, they stayDo you anxiously run to meet it?Plunging feet firstOr wait to have it touch you, Savoring the thirst.Is there fear it will reach you? and wash away the sandOr too cold for your touch, so you test it, with your hand.Oh! to test the waters, for a temperature just rightNot committing to let it touch you, but knowing that it might.Maybe you take no chances and a step back awayNot wanting to touch the sea, not wanting to feel that wayClose your eyes and smell the ocean, feel the breeze in your hairHear the sea gulls speak their rhythm, sense the magic coming near Your heart can see the hope, the horizon upon the oceanIt feels the tides of love, all around,  set in motion.

Hello old friends. Sorry to have missed so much of the weekend until seeing some of you Sunday evening. The path has been long and filled with adventure since I was packed off to boarding school in the summer of '66. I live and work now in western Pennsylvania - just outside of Pittsburgh... I would love to hear from more of you as time goes by. Jim and Marina Stockdale 2410 Dutch Ridge Road Beaver, Pennsylvania 15009 412 260-0457

Thanks to Carole (Nix) for your sponsorship!! Just that much more help to make this fun, fun, and more fun for all!!

Many, many thanks to Rhinoceros Cafe and Mayson for your sponsorship! Will truly help make this a memorable weekend!!

Thanks to Corla for your sponsorship!! Your donation along with so many others will help make this event better and better!!

Thank you to Marilyn for your sponsorship! And many thanks for your help with the press releases to help locate our classmates!!

Just got an e-mail from Karen O'Connor asking, "This is a silly question but what is the attire for the reunion? I hope not old prom dresses or the likes."  I say, ABSOLUTELY!  All of you who still have a prom dress, and can fit in it, WEAR IT!  I double-dog dare you!  Looks to me from the old reunions we usually do Southern Calif casual - Randy considers a Hawaiian shirt dressed up, and the girls always look fabulous.  See you all there!

Just wanted to thank to everyone who has e-mailed me to say "hello" since I won't be able to make the reunion. It has been GREAT getting caught up! SUSAN CONCANNON...I've tried numerous times to reply but it keeps getting sent back! Wanted you to know because I'd love to keep in touch. Maybe you can check and see what's up. Oh, the joys of technology! The "Big Event" is almost here! (Remember the "Big Kahoona" from, wasn't it KGB radio station or something like that?) And to whoever posted the 4th of July Bike Ride picture, YES, I do remember those! Boy, were they fun! (Of course, didn't participate until after graduation. :>) Another great memory of summers in Coronado. Have a blast, everyone! Everyone have a great time.

hello this is my second try on the page...something about the security code...anyway..i will try again..great web site by the way...i am not sure i will be there but i will try..single, 3 kids,i son in law,three pugs, two birds and one cat and some fish...have fun at the pary

Many thanks to Avalee for your sponsorship!!! We are getting so excited to see everyone and just want all to have the best time!! And that definitely will help!