March 12, 2021

 

A vintage Far Side from 1985.

I loved the headline on this little snippet about a study of twins that determined that Bargain Hunting can be genetic.  It appeared in the Health Section of Tuesday's U-T.  

This photo was taken off the English coast last month.  Turns out it's the opposite of a desert mirage, where heat from the sand makes a lake appear.  Here, apparently, cold from the ocean makes the water disappear.  Hopefully you can access the article in the New York Times and get the real story.  Click HERE.  

This is a photo of Jewish twins who were sent off to a concentration camp in 1943.  They miraculously survived and are alive today.  When Steve Lopez wrote about them in the Los Angeles Times, a fascinating story unfolded.  I hope the Times will let you read it.  Click HERE to check it out.

Do you remember that while we we were attending Horace Mann in the mid-50s a guy was building a wooden framed boat  on a piece of triangular shaped land just across the street south of school?  It was there for a long g long time?!  I wonder whatever happened to it -- Kay Ross Slater ’60 

(I'm guessing this is where Alpha Dental is today -- JF)

Remember Five Points, where Pacific Highway, Washington, and some other streets all came together?  Well, this ain't it.  I thought it was, and so did some other folks on Facebook.  It's actually a southbound view of where Barnett Avenue merges with Pacific Highway.  Click HERE for more details and an enlarged view.

Gilbert Navarro ’63 died December 20, 2020.  My brother was born in Redlands, California. Our family moved to San Diego in the summer of 1950.  After high school graduation Gil  joined the United States Air Force, then returned to San Diego after his discharge.  He went to work for Pacific  Southwest Airlines until they were bought out by US Air, after which he retired.  He and his wife Irene loved traveling, and Gil loved camping, hunting and 4-Wheeling.  He is survived by Irene, his daughter and son-in-law, Andrea and Kevin Keating and me --  Christine Navarro Hayes '61

Donald Johnston '69 passed away, according to an email from the Crawford Foundation.  Either he died February 21, 2021 or sometime during the month of February 2021.  That's all I got.