August 26, 2022

The 2nd Annual Fund Raising Golf Tournament for the Team Crawford Athletic Foundation will take place on Monday, September 26th.  Contact Mike Levas if you have questions.  His email is mglevas@gmail.com

Ever wonder where ladybugs go in the winter?  This week's Outdoors column from Ernie Cowan '62 talks about the changing of the seasons.  Click HERE and enjoy.

Sally Rice Fox '74 visited the old neighborhood and took a couple of shots of Crawford.  Click HERE to see both photos enlarged.

Dietra Anderson Davis '62 forwards the Girls' Dress Code for 9th Grade Horace Mann Graduation issued March 13, 1959.  Click HERE to take a look.

Robbin Nolan reports the recent passing of her mother Sandra Seigler Savary '62.  Sandra's husband Ken Savary '61 passed in 2012.  Services for Sandra are below:

Viewing: Monday 8/29 4pm to 8pm

Funeral: Wednesday 8/31 2pm to 4pm

El Camino Memorial Park 5600 Carroll Canyon Rd. San Diego, CA 92121

August 19, 2022

 

It's been a while since anything on the comics page tickled my funny bone.  I'm pretty sure this recent Bliss cartoon is actually a Golden Oldie.  

Somebody didn't get their Fry Day email last week and called somebody else to see if I was OK.  REMEMBER, the Fry Day emails are available -- and archived -- on the Colt Corral Blog.  Check there before you assume the worst.

Phyllis Schwartz '72 got some nice ink in last Saturday's Union-Tribune.  Her new book comes out in 6 weeks. Click HERE to read the article.

The ex-wife and widow of Ron Mollick '62 -- Bernadine Berlin Temple and Beth Shepherd Mollick -- report in to tell me that Ron now has a nice plaque at the Virginia Living Museum.

Ken Benson ’64 died August 13, 2022.  After graduation from high school he went to Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas and became a minister.  After a few years, he served in the U. S. Air Force at Fort Ord for four years while attending medical school and became a urologist.  He had private practices in both Brenham, Texas and then Brownwood, Texas.  He then moved to Lubbock, Texas where he retired in 2014 when he was no longer able to operate and practice due to ALS.  Survivors include his sisters Kathryn Benson Billing ’67, Kristina Benson Cosgrove ’71, and Kerri Benson Tweed ‘72 

August 12, 2022

Nearly all of the tributes to Dodger announcer Vin Scully, who died last week at 94, feature the 1988 Kirk Gibson game-winning home run against the Oakland Athletics.   I had forgotten that Dave Duncan '63 was Oakland's pitching coach for that series (and several others).  That's him, looking a little dejected, on the right.

The Cross Country Championship Rings came in a while back.  Click HERE to take a look at photos of happy champions.  (Note: the first photo is actually a video of the players opening the ring boxes.  It, for some reason, turns sideways almost immediately, so be prepared to get a crick in your neck)

I thought San Diego State graduates might enjoy this campus aerial taken by Union-Tribune photographer Nelvin Cepeda.  It appeared in the Los Angeles Times this week.  Click HERE for an enlarged view.

 

My husband Bill Wolf ’68 was a door gunner, then crew chief, with the 129th Assault Helicopter Company in Vietnam.  He’s pictured in his Huey in this shot -- Kathleen Lally Wolf ’68 

Some Colts have mentioned Crawford graduates who didn't come back from Vietnam.  They may not know about the page I've devoted to them.  Click HERE to take a look.  The photo above is of my buddy Ron Davidson, whom some of you had as a coach at Horace Mann.

August 5, 2022

The Class of '67 Lunch Bunch and some hangers-on got a guided tour of the new construction at Crawford on July 21st.  Gail Schindler Fogelman took pictures.  Click HERE to take a look.

Jack Tempchin '65, who wrote Peaceful Easy Feeling for the Eagles, says he goes to the beach each day and writes a song on the spot.  You can listen to them at BEACHJAMS.COM.   Click HERE if you wanna hear Peaceful Easy Feeling.

 

Gary Juleen '64 shares a photo of himself and Tony Dow taken last January.   Big brother Wally on Leave It To Beaver, Dow passed away July 27th.

Dan Burton '66 shares a black and white snapshot taken during his tour of Vietnam.  Looks like a giant toaster in the foreground.  Click HERE to view the Colts Who Served page.

Doug "Stud Muffin" Kvandal '66 recognized a younger, slimmer version of himself in last week's mystery photo.  He thinks it might be the 1966 Crawford Handball Champions.

Steve Fontana '69 dug out his class photos from 2nd to 6th Grade at Rolando Park Elementary.  Click HERE to take a look.

Vicki Holeman Sawders ’62 died suddenly at her home in Los Lunas, New Mexico on July 25th, with her husband William and son Jon at her side.   Although she had very few early symptoms, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer shortly before her death.   After graduation Vicki obtained her A.S. degree in dental assisting.   She and her family moved to Bend, Oregon in 1975.  Her husband William, known as “Bill Jay” at KOGO radio, took the job as Operations Manager at KBND in Bend. Vicki worked in the medical field for nearly thirty years.   She and her husband retired in 2006 and moved to La Pine, Oregon. When her husband’s back went out from shoveling snow, the couple moved to sunny and warmer Los Lunas, New Mexico in 2017.

Our older sister Carolyn Reznikoff died on May 20, 2022 in Portland, Oregon.  Our family moved to San Diego from St Louis, Missouri in 1954.  Carolyn attended Andrew Jackson, Montezuma and Hardy elementary schools and graduated a semester early from Crawford, Class of '65.  She studied sociology and psychology at Pitzer College and went on to get an MSW from San Diego State. She worked as a medical and hospice social worker in Portland, and upon retiring, became a skilled basket weaver using and gathering many native materials -- June Reznikoff ’66 and Laura Reznikoff Olson ’70