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Friday, November 3, 2023

November 3, 2023

 


This'll be my last Witch Cartoon for a while.   I couldn't resist Gary Larson's take on Zelda's Gingerbread Cottage.

'69 Classmates Karen Smith Takizawa and Sharon Whitley Larsen, friends since 4th grade, pose for a photo in Tokyo on October 19th.  Click HERE for a larger photo and the rest of the story.


James Daigh '64, known at Crawford as James Weetman, has a book out about his 3 years in the Arctic with the United States Air Force.  Click HERE to take a look on Amazon.


The Joe Courtney photos just keep coming.  Recognize this lonely stretch of University Avenue?  Click HERE for an enlargement and some other photos from the neighborhood taken around 1953.



I've added a couple of Joe's photos to the Hillcrest Sears page.  Click HERE to take a look.



And I've added a 1954 KFMB Channel 8 video to the Frontier Housing page.  It shows one of the homes on its way to Tijuana, Mexico.  Click HERE and look for the link.



He didn't exactly say he'd been in therapy, but David Morgan '71 is now able to talk about what he went through trying to secure the recipes from Don Jose's restaurant when it went out of business.  Click HERE and scroll down to Ruth's Salsa Recipe.




Jim Dyke '66 shares his Kindergarten class photo from Andrew Jackson.  Click HERE to see it enlarged.



Dietra Davis Anderson saved her program from the 1960 production of Annie Get Your Gun.   Click HERE to check it out.



Lynn Lovette Gambardello '62 passed away September 14, 2023. She is survived by her husband and classmate Joe Gambardello.  Click HERE to read the wonderful remembrance passed out at her Celebration of Life.  Looks like she achieved her goal of becoming a Cosmetologist.