Be Still My Heart!!

Margaret Richardson, Barbara Hobart and Diane Dawson take a break in the Richardson Patio after 8th Grade graduation from Horace Mann. All three went on to graduate from Crawford in 1959. Click HERE to see an enlargement.

All Hail Crawford High School!!!

Where's the airsickness bag? Just rediscovered three aerials from Crawford's very first years. Click HERE to see if your house is in the photo.

You haven't changed a bit!!!

Dennis Hoolihan and Tom Adams pose for the camera of Leslie Herrmann at the Class of '70 40th Reunion. Click HERE to see ALL of Leslie's photos. Remember to click on the little photos to see them enlarged and to read the captions.

Remember the SATs?

Nancy Watson Wingo '62 shares her October 1957 Stanford Achievement Test Results plus a letter from Horace Mann Principal C Russell Henzie

Who wants cookies?

Linda Johnson Smyth '74 sent us this photo, circa 1963, of a brownie meeting at the Adams' house in Oak Park. Click HERE to see the photo, and some names, greatly enlarged. Hey -- what's that down in the lower left corner?

Summer Mimosa Madness

They're at it again!! I think it's at an undisclosed location somewhere in Point Loma, but I'm not sure. One can only imagine the merriment that takes place when these Class of '72 hotties meet. Click on Summer Mimosa Madness for a larger view (although what they sent me wasn't very large) and a photo caption with the names and phone numbers. Ha! Ha! Fooled you! No phone numbers.

The Road to Bali

Marcia Jaffe '65 is alive and well and living in Sausalito, CA with large stretches of time spent in Bali, Indonesia with the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, which she founded.

Mystery Solved!

Sheldon Sarfan '61 is positive the mystery girl in the 1954 Campus Lab School Student Council photo is Virginia Miller -- it says so on the back of his copy of the photo. Bob Richardson '61 claims he can now sleep at night, except we don't know what became of Virginia. She's not in MY Crawford database.

1959 Thomas Brothers Map Book

This 1959 Thomas Brothers Map Book of San Diego will bring back memories for some of you of a time when you went out the Alvarado Freeway, or down the Wabash Freeway, or drove through Balboa Park on the Cabrillo Freeway -- and there was NO freeway to Mission Beach. You had to suffer through the traffic circle at Frontier and Rosecrans.

Luncheon at Lido's

The monthly Class of '64 luncheon at Lido's in Lemon Grove took place on July 28th and John and Nancy were invited to join the youngsters. Nancy took this photo. Click HERE to see an enlarged version with the names of the attendees.

The Class of 1960 is Golden!!

The Class of '60 Reunion Committee met on July 27th at the La Mesa home of Elizabeth Kousens Zellerman. Click HERE to see a big picture with a caption. The reunion will be held the second week in October. Go to the 1960 Email Page and contact Sandra Harrison Barlau if you have questions.

Mystery Solved!

Apparently, after consulting with Betty Mayfield Piccard '75, Bob Richardson '61 was able to identify Rozelle Mystery Photo #54. Click HERE to see the answer.

Can You Help Us?

We're part of the 1954 San Diego State College Campus Lab School Student Council and Bob Richardson '61 has forgotten some of our names. Click HERE to see the big picture and the names Bob remembered.

Be Still My Heart!!!

You're looking at Ron Jagodinski '62 posing with his Studebaker Commander in front of the Jagodinski family home in Del Cerro in February 1961. Go to Cars We Drove to School for the rest of the photo.

The Clanton Gang is coming!!

I know it looks like a Hollywood set, but this 1895 photo was taken on the main street of a now bustling San Diego County city. Click HERE for the enlargement -- and a chance to actually read the name of the town on a building.

Songs of Camp Palomar

Dietra Anderson Davis '62 forwards her Camp Palomar songbook, circa -- I assume -- 1956. All together now: "See him there, the Zulu warrior; See him there, the Zulu Chief, Chief, Chief." Click HERE to revisit the best times of your life -- or the worst.

Oscar's Drive-In

Fred Dickson '61 may be the 100th well-intentioned person to send me the "San Diego In The Good Old Days" email. I always scroll through just in case there's something I haven't seen. The anonymous author of this email has pilfered a couple of Oscar's images off of my web site. I thought this was a good excuse to take another look at the Oscar's menus. Click HERE for the 1952 menu and HERE for the menu at left.

Isn't that Kathy Najimy?

Linda Scheider Crawford '75 thinks the girl in the top row, second from the left, in the Euclid Elementary photos sent in by Virginia Wick Hagins '75 is their classmate and star of Sister Act and other Hollywood productions. Click HERE to take another look, although the enlargement at the left gives you a better view.

Crawford Facebook Site

Victor Perez '71 has established a Facebook site for the Crawford Alumni Association. Some folks say they've used it successfully to find old school chums. Victor's got his hands full, however. Says he's had to block eight people for nudity, pictures of drug use, and dropping the "F-Bomb". Click on Facebook to check it out.

Holey Guacamole Batman!!

Leo Castro '69 says New York Times best-selling author Greg Bear '68 will be hosting the Friday panel of which Scott Shaw '68 will be a part. Click on their names to check out their web sites. Returned tickets are now available. Click on Comic Con to learn more.