Thank you Pam Rice Andresen for your sponsorship!! Big plans are in the works for all of you!!!

A big thanks to Rex Gammon and Rex Manufacturing for your senior rock sponsorship!! It is almost June and a month away from catching up with so many friends, and we know our class knows how to parteee!!!

Hey, we need help tracking down the "missings!"  Did you realize a bunch live in Coronado, or have relatives here?  Get with it guys, it only takes a couple of minutes to sign in & give a us a snapshot - in 30 words or less, YOU get to write your history (or adapt is as you please!)  Check in kiddos, Mr. Burge would give extra credit for creative writing! - Gwyn

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

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!!!

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 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

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!!

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!

Real sorry to hear about Geno,so many great stories. Well Im still living on an island. Have three great kids and two wonderful grand kids.. Hope to see everyone at the reunion..........Tim

Thanks Ledge for the sponsorship!! It will help make this fun for all that can attend!!

Thanks Gwyn for helping with your sponsorship!! We have a great class and will no doubt have a great time being together again!!

Way to go Rick Beede!!! Thanks for your support and help with this 40 year old party!! Time is flying and it won't be long before we all meet again!!

It's been a great ride. Hope to see everyone in July.Married   4 kids  2 Grandkids

John ,sorry to hear about Eugene the Jeep as you know he was a good buddy. Looking forward to seeing you all in July. Married 1 wife, 2 kids. . Yes, No ,Yes,Aranta, Blue dot at the base of the spine. Oops that was Mr Burges final exam sorry I had a senior moment.     JH

It is with great sadness and surprise that I inform you that fellow '68 classmate and my good, good friend Geno Horton, died on April 24th while snorkeling in the British Virgin Islands with friends. Geno had diabetes and apparently his blood sugar was too low. He passed out while in the water and drowned. I was fortunate enough to have visited with him about three months ago and we spent three days together fishing, eating and retelling stories from our youth. Geno and I became friends when we were in the 2nd grade. He was in my wedding. I can't tell you all the memories I have from growing up with Geno in Coronado. He worked as an electrician at a hydro-electric plant up in Big Creek, CA near Fresno. He worked there for about 38 years. He has 3 adult children, one of whom resides in San Diego. Geno loved the outdoors, watching sports, doing his job and being with his kids. He will be missed........

I sure do wish I can come-I coordiante an event that takes about 10 months of my year and it happens the weekend after reunion so the timing is not good for me. Dolng what I do professionally I appreciate all that the committee is doing to make the reunion happen. It is a lot of work! Bravo!

Thank you Robin for helping us make this reunion one we hope all will remember!!

OLD SURF DOGS RULE. STILL MISSING MR. DAVIS CLASS ON TRAVELS TO ANCIENT GREECE. ALSO WRITING ESSAYS IN ENGLISH CLASS W/ MR BURTON & NO MATTER HOW BAD IT WAS I ALWAYS GOT A'S (FOR EFFORT...I THINK). WHERE'S MY YEAR BOOK SO I CAN REMEMBER MORE NAMES? THANKS FOR EFFORT GUYS....MANY ALOHAS KEEP THE FAITH, KEITH ROBBIE ROBERTSON

Jonde, thanks from all of us for your donation and for helping get this reunion off to a good start! We're still hoping that you make it!! The Committee

Gigi, a big thanks for your donation to what we hope will be a fun filled time!!

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.

Hey how come no one has asked where Richie White and The Frost twins and me and a few others that are out here trying to connect with Bob Pickford and Kurt Kujawa and all the others that hung out at the Bank across from the 76 gas station??? Where is Karen Johnston she sang every Janis Joplin song like Janis. What a long strange trip it's been... Karen

Well, my dear friend Tricia Clark suggested I attend your wonderful reunion...and I thought, "I couldn't do that!"...then I thought..." but I would LOVE to!"  Many thanks to everyone who supported my attending..our reunion last year was quite small, and I feel like I knew everyone in the Class of 68 as well as I did my class of 67!  I am so looking forward to seeing you all on the 5th!  Carolyn Thomas sends her love.  She has personal commitments that are preventing her from attending...but I will stand in her place xoxo! See you all soon xoxo Love and hugs,Polly

I'm here ... Where is everybody? Oh ya Janis they are coming...In the mean time if anyone wants to connnect...start that conversation about where we've been, where were going.... hang on the beach or otherwise have fun...call my folks 435-2350 or cell 530/781-4914

I would also like to take a moment to remember my good friend Brian Hackett.I have so many great meomories with our music days playing in folk groups during and after CHS.  Brian could play just about anything  that he could get his hands on.  I know that my parents sort of adopted him into our family supporting his creative talents when perhaps others close to him did not understand.Before I went on to SDSU Brian was also in many of my art classes at Southwestern at a time when Southwestern had one of the very best art departments in the country with nationally known art teachers.  Brian rocked!  His work in some of the student shows was amazing.Brian's creative sprit and talent never got a chance to become what it could have been which is unfortunate as was his short time here.Brian's jounney was not an easy ride but I will always remember his kind spirit.

I have to say that the dedication to these reunion events over the years is nothing short of remarkable.  I really do appreciate what the reunion committee does to keep the spirit alive. Thanks again, John

Kudos to John McCartin for your Hotel Del Sponsorship!! Wow! Wow! Wow! We're rock'n and roll'n now!!!  See ya there..............

I sure have had fun reading about everyone, and to think we all just used to live for Bob's drive in and cutting class, so we missed Mr. Burges weekly test. Single mom and raised 7 children and 1 grand baby. I love life every minute, and probably will still be playing with power rangers when they take me to the Villa across from the Coro. Hosp. I refuse to grow up, and so should you. Being with the class of 68" was the best years of my life. Hey Rick Ellis, Tip Tisdale, and Bruce Haak were are you?CE5D

Thank you to Patty Player for your Key Hole Level Sponsorship!!  Glad you are joining us on this 50th year celebration!!

Thank you to Jamie & Susan Darnell for your Key Hole Level Sponsorship!!  Happy to have guests from the Classes of '67 & '69 helping us celebrate this big one!!

A big thanks to Tom Darcy for your Bob's Drive In Sponsorship!! Wow, only 12 days until we rock & roll!!!

Thank you to Janice (Hanecak) & Michael Andre for your reunion Sponsorship!!! More for fun & a scholarship!!

Thank you to Marty & Nora Spear for your Central Liquor Level Sponsorship!!  More help to make this a fun one!!

Thank you to Robin Keehn for your reunion Sponsorship!!  More party fun!!

Thank you Curt Oliver for your Long Bar sponsorship!!  We're on our way!!

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.

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.

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!!

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!