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Friday, February 24, 2023

February 24, 2022


 

A Bliss cartoon from this week


Three Crawford coeds -- Michelle Hazlewood ‘67, Candy Groves ‘66, and Judy Sage ‘66 -- behind the Candy Counter at the Cinerama Theater, 5889 University Avenue in 1966.  Click HERE for an enlargement, a color photo of the theater, and news clippings from the opening and closing of the theater.


Steve Gunderson and Kathy Najimy weren't the only ones to work with the late Burt Bacharach.  Dennis Bishop reminds me that his brother Stephen Bishop wrote the lyrics to It's Only Love -- Bacharach wrote the music -- for the soundtrack of the movie Arthur.  Click HERE to take a listen.



Ernie Cowan's Outdoors column tells you how to attract migrating birds and where to find Spring's wildflowers.  Click HERE to check it out.



Separated at birth?  Ray Barner (right) thinks he bears a resemblance to World Wrestling Federation star Ric Flair.



Marcia MacDonald '62 passed away October 16, 2022.  Her childhood neighbor Dan Donovan shares a lovely tribute to Marcia, which I've posted on the Class of '62 Obituary Page.  Click HERE to take a look.


John Floodberg ’62 passed away peacefully, on March 30, 2022.  Born in Oneida, New York, John moved with his mother to Chula Vista at the age of four.  He was a San Diego resident the remainder of his life.  John began undergraduate classes at Mesa College soon after graduation. He joined the National Guard and married his first wife, Judy Thomas, in 1965.  Between 1965 and 1972, John worked as a draftsman for several architectural firms.  The first blueprints John put his architectural stamp on were for the Grove Gallery at the UCSD Crafts Center, built in 1982.  It was a collaboration between John and his childhood friend, Ron Carlson ’62, the Center's Director.  John and his current wife, Nancy Dickinson Floodberg, met in 1971 when he volunteered to bring the San Diego Mental Health Association's halfway house up to code; Nancy was the Director of the halfway house. They wed two years later and moved to a home in Pt. Loma – the home he lovingly remodeled over the years and where Nancy, their eldest daughter and her family still reside. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. As with any challenge he faced, he met this diagnosis with grace and determination.  He was preceded in death by his brother Ron Robson ’71

Click HERE to read the complete obituary in the Union-Tribune