May 13, 2022

Apparently The Raven has fallen off the wagon.

Janet Jensen Collins spotted this coffee cup at a Denny's.  I'm not sure what it means, but it's unique enough to share.

Did you see that the Social Security Administration released the most popular baby names for 2021?  I went ahead and researched the most popular names from 1951 -- 70 years ago.  William and James are still around, but the once-popular John is just a distant memory.

That's Gary Juleen '64 on the right.  Do you know the guy on the left?  (Answer below)

The May 10, 1962 Pacer had news about the ASB officers for 1962-1963.  Click HERE to get the skinny.

Looks like the May 11, 1967 Pacer also had news about ASB officers for the upcoming school year.  Click HERE to get the scoop.

Ron Mollick ’62 passed away May 7, 2022  in Newport News, VA where he resided most of the last 54 years.   He graduated from San Diego State with BS and MS and earned his PhD from North Carolina State University.  He taught biology at Christopher Newport University in Newport News from 1968 to 2011. We have two daughters and six grandchildren.  He was able to have both daughters on hand in his final days and died peacefully in my arms.  He was very fond of recalling his youth growing up with his family in San Diego, on Esther Street and his days as a student in Southern California -- Beth Mollick

My dear friend and classmate Carol Heimrich passed away on April 6, 2022 in Santa Monica, CA.  She died of complications, while receiving treatment for cancer.  Carol was very active at Crawford during our three years there.  She was voted "Most Likely to Succeed " in our Senior Year -- Louise Neil Abdelnour '63

Charles Michael Kuner ’69 died at home in Topeka, Kansas on May 8, 2022. Jenny – his wife of 37 years, the mother of his children and the music in his life – was at his bedside.   Mike was born in San Diego. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from San Diego State University in 1974, majoring in Psychology with a double minor in Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. In June of 1977, he was awarded a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in Christian Education from Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, followed by doctoral work at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.  Mike became an avid home winemaker, producing his own label, The Preacher’s Cellar.  He appreciated his family’s indulgence while the kitchen was taken over by bottles, fermentation tanks, assorted equipment, and the smell of fermenting grapes.  Mike used a quote attributed to Albert Schweitzer: “The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.” The indelible traces of love left behind by Mike Kuner in the lives of so many will multiply love in the world like sweet grapes on an unending vine.

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Actor Christopher Lloyd is on the left.  You remember him from the Back to the Future movies.  I loved him as Jim Ignatowski in Taxi.  Gary doesn't say what their relationship is but I suspect the Julian resident is Lloyd's apple pie connection.