For people who attended Crawford High School or would have attended if they hadn't moved -- or just have fond memories of San Diego in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
Good News!!!! Turns out the local nine didn't work over Bill Center '63 with their bats. The complete paragraph read: Padres beat writer Bill Center previews the Padres' season, plus capsules on each division and season predictions.
Click HERE to check it out.
Three Colts made the list of The Top 50 San Diego CIF Basketball Players, issued Wednesday by the San Diego Hall of Champions. You'd have to be Bill Center '63 or Joe Naiman '82 to be good enough to name the three. Luckily they're both on the committee to name the Top 50 San Diego CIF BASEBALL Players, which they will do this Spring. Click HERE to read the Union-Tribune article. Click HERE to see the list.
I'm not exactly sure how he got into it, but for the last seven years Dave Folck '67 has been restoring vintage gas pumps. (NOW I know why he was so excited about San Diego Photo #4 on my web site) Click HERE to check out some of his work.
Valerie Hood Kennedy '68 (that's not her picture) wrote to tell me how wonderful I was and that she still sees her high school pals Cheryl Knowles Shelton and Karla Hilger Medlock, as well as her Horace Mann PE Coach Ms. Wangard (THAT's her picture). THAT sent me back to a weekend in 1967 (I think) when Ms. Wangard and I were two of four people in a cramped Mustang headed for Las Vegas. Click HERE to go to the Ron Davidson link on the Faculty Obituary Page and read about our trip. Ron was also a PE Coach at Horace Mann. He died in Vietnam a year after this photo was taken. I think you'll enjoy what folks had to say about him, if you haven't already seen this page.
Remember last month when the snow level got down to 1000 feet and mountains you didn't know existed were dusted with the white stuff? Kim Kerr Cook '75 forwards a spectacular San Diego panorama taken from Point Loma by John Lyons. Click HERE to check it out.
Click HERE to read the Golden Anniversary Pacer from March 9, 1961
There would appear to be a whole bunch of Colts who enjoy the Fry Day emails but don't really know about the web site. It's filled with all manner of Crawford stuff. Click HERE to go to the home page, then click your way to lotsa fun.
Mike Rossman '62 will be hosting the first Class of '62 Golden Reunion planning committee meeting at Terra, his restaurant in Hillcrest on Tuesday, March 15th at 5:30 PM. Ad Hoc Chair Bev Wickstrom encourages all interested classmates to attend. "Bring an idea -- or another '62 grad," she says. Click HERE to access the Terra website contact page.
8-year old Oceanside resident Nikki Hahn is the star of a hilarious video put together by Tom Hanks for the Jimmy Kimmel show. Click HERE to read about her in the Union-Tribune. Click HERE to watch the seven-minute video. (I just figured out if you click on the thingy in the lower right hand corner of the video it fills up your whole computer screen -- it's like being in the front row at the movies.)
Nathan East '73 is one of five finalists for the Bass Player of the Year award at this weekend's Oasis Jazz Awards. I don't know when or where the awards will be held, but you can click HERE to go to the Oasis Jazz Awards website.
Last Sunday's Union-Tribune had an article about the late Henry Boney, his family, and the many supermarkets they started. I thought it might bring back some memories. Click HERE to enjoy.
The 1953 Chevy Belair belonging to Ernie Dronenburg '61 was the Hot Rod of the Month in the February 23, 1961 issue of the Pacer. Click HERE to enjoy this Golden Anniversary Pacer.
Joan Embery '67 was one of 15 San Diego Women honored this past Thursday for volunteerism and philanthropy. Click HERE to read the article in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
I've been inundated with links to last Saturday's Centennial of Naval Aviation Parade of Flight. The best I've seen is San Diego photographer Nathan Rupert's Flickr slideshow, sent to me by Ted Hazlewood '63. Click HERE to see the Parade of Flight. Be careful if you click into Nathan's other photos. You might end up looking at shots of Playboy Bunnies and Halloween costumes in the Gaslamp -- and I wouldn't want THAT to happen.
Ron Jagodinski '62 shares then and now photos of the sailboat he made in Mr. Olive's shop class at Horace Mann and then entered in the 1957 San Diego Union Model Yacht Regatta. Click HERE for the rest of the story.
Remember the great photo taken by Jim Weetman '64 when he ditched school to watch President John F. Kennedy's motorcade on El Cajon Blvd? Jim, who now goes by James Daigh, tried to sell the photo to the then-owner of Rudford's Restaurant. In the meantime the new owner of Rudford's apparently heard rumors about the photo and located it on our web site. We put he and Jim together with a successful result -- a large mural on the west side of the eatery. Jim shares a couple of snapshots of the restaurant. Click HERE to take a look.
Click HERE to watch a three-minute clip from a Frank Sinatra fundraiser held in Saint Louis on June 20, 1965. Johnny Carson substitutes for an ailing Joey Bishop. The story of how this video surfaced is fascinating. Click HERE to read about it.
Holy Cow!!! The 50th Anniversary Reunion of the Class of '61 promises to be something special. It's going to take place on October 15th at the Westin Emerald Plaza Hotel in downtown San Diego. I think it was once known as Shapery Emerald Towers, because Sandy Shapery '61 was responsible for its construction. Turns out Sandy lives atop of the hotel in a two-story penthouse -- and he's hosting a pre-reunion cocktail party there. Email Prudy Milazzo Stephens to reserve your spot. Click HERE to take a tour of the penthouse.
Jim McCorquodale '61 is the male featured in the Senior Sketch portion of the February 9, 1961 edition of The Pacer. Click HERE to read all four pages of the Golden Anniversary Pacer.
Bob Richardson '61, on the occasion of his grandson's 11th Birthday, forwards a photo of his Campus Lab School pals on the occasion of his OWN 11th Birthday. That's Bob's yearbook photo at the left. Click HERE to see the 1954 shot.
