This will be an abbreviated Readers Digest version!

Married to Robert (Bob) 46 years.  Children all grown and educated, and self supporting!

Grandkids are a delight and have the makings of a great girls basketball team.

Our global travels have stopped for now, but all is looking better. Bob is 6 months cancer free, after a 3 1/2 year battle.  The treatments beat him up but he is on top now.

When not seeing grandkids, family or friends we spend winters in Naples, Fl, Summers in Chicago, Il and the rest of the time in Aiken, SC.

Favorite things nowadays are a lot of walking, reading and needlework.

Looking forward to the reunion, all take care.

                                                                     Juanita Andrew Hord

I have not changed - a bit smarter and still learning. I am very young “39" and holding.

I have been married twice, divorced from Ted (Pomona) after 15 years (Ted died of cancer in 99'). Married Chet and became a widow after 13 years. (Chet died of cancer in 90').

By Ted I have two daughters that I am very proud of. Marian is married and has two children, Tasha, who is a Mommy to Adam and Brandon; Derrick, who is Daddy to Jarick and stepson Jadon. Marian is a bookkeeper and lives in 29 Palms. Brenda is married and has one daughter - Samantha, (Sam is the hunter in the family). Brenda is a school teacher and lives in Texas.

Now for me, after I divorced Ted I went to work for Alpha Beta Bakery in La Habra and worked there until I met Chet. Chet promised me if I would move to the Desert with him I would never have to work again. He lied - but it was fun. For a living - I have cut wood, worked for a realtor cleaning houses, collected dead Yucca used in fertilizer for a company in Northern California, driven a dump truck, tractor and used a shovel to dig trenches for putting in leach lines/septic tanks & hand grading (Chet and I had a Tractor business), I have worked as a bookkeeper, receptionist, cake decorator, office manager in a lumber company, waitress, domestic housekeeper, Convention Services setting up booths, sales, and whatever else they wanted me to do, I also worked for companies that built wind machines in Desert Hot Springs, I worked for a septic pumping business (smelly job), and in property management.

After I divorced Ted, I attended Mt. Sac taking management courses until I met Chet and moved to the Desert. After Chet died I went to the College of the Desert in Joshua Tree and graduated when I was a great grandma with my AA in Computer Science.

Before all of this I had a lot of fun with Chet and our friends going 4-wheeling with our dune buggy, picnics, dancing, partying. Now the most exciting thing I do is go to Laughlin once or twice a year.

I have a house in Landers with 15 acres. My Mom lives with me. We have two inside cats and two outdoor dogs. I have a friend that lives in a trailer on my property and he is my grounds keeper.

My experience as student body president at CHS taught me a great deal about public speaking, running a meeting and confidence. My next year, as a freshman at Stanford, taught me a lot about humility. I was in way over my head and it was the worst year of my life. I learned what "cream of the crop" meant, and I was milk (skimmed). Fortunately, after that year I realized I needed time to grow up so I worked for a year at General Telephone and at Stan Rugh's Shell station. In 1958 I volunteered for the draft and spent two years in the Army - the whole time at Ft Ord, California (Monterey). Not bad duty, but I had hoped to "see the world".

During my time in the Army, I met and worked with a guy from Upland. We became good friends and golfing partners. His sister came up to visit one time and as she walked across the street to our office upstairs in an old wooden building, I remember thinking she was really cute. Her name was Patty Smothers, and she was nearly engaged (or so she said), but I pursued her and we were married in June, 1961 (was that really 45 years ago?). After I got out of the Army in 1960, I began college again, but this time at Cal Poly Pomona. I graduated in 1963 with a BS in Business Administration. Patty got a "PHT" (Pushing Hubby Through). I joined IBM three days later in computer sales in Los Angeles.

My career with IBM spanned 28 years and 3 months in LA, Riverside, back to LA and then to Tucson for the last 20 years.  During this time I was responsible for all size accounts, but for over a dozen years I represented IBM to the University of Arizona, the City of Tucson, and Pima County, all large accounts. Building a long-term relationship with these customers provided some very good years. I retired in June, 1991 as sales manager in Tucson.

Since 1961, when my brother Don bought a small ski boat, we have vacationed along the Colorado River and on Lake Havasu, near what was to become Lake Havasu City (founded in 1964). When I had the chance to retire a couple of years earlier than I had expected, we jumped at the chance to move to "the river".  We love living in Lake Havasu City (pop. 42,000)!

We started Bartlett Tours, Inc in 1993 as a semi-retirement business. Our first five tours were to places in Arizona and were done in rented 15-passenger vans. Patty and I both drove and took from 3 to 9 passengers on those tours. Our 6th tour was to California with 46 people. That's when I first knew that we could make it in the tour business.

Since that first tour in 1993, we have escorted 76 tours with over 3,000 passengers. As we got experience in shorter tours, we started going further and longer and started including one or two cruises each year. We have taken groups to Washington, DC, New England, the Canadian Rockies, the British Isles, a Europe river cruise, Alaska (three times), Italy, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. During the summer, which is our "off" season, Patty and I spend time with friends and on the lake and travel to scout new trips. This June we are traveling to Russia to scout a 14-day river cruise on the Volga and Neva rivers, with three days in Moscow and three days in St Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). We are offering this Russia river cruise to our travelers in June, 2002. We thoroughly enjoy the traveling and have a very loyal following here in Lake Havasu City. Our motto is "With Bartlett Tours, it's the experience".  We're certainly enjoying our "experience".  Patty and I are having the best time of our lives!  We'd love to have CHS friends join us on future tours!

Oh, by the way.  We have two children and five grandchildren. Denise lives in Cancun with her husband Marty and their four children. Bret lives in Phoenix and has a daughter.

We look forward to seeing many of you in Claremont.

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	VISUALIZED	REALIZED
Careers	1	6
Vocations	Lawyer (Wretch!)	Engineer, project administrator, construction equipment manufacturing company owner, exotic car manufacturer (big mistake!), marketing manager, author/publisher-engineering books (current)
Colleges Attended	1	12 by 1962 counting the places I attended night school
Years to Graduate from College	4	6
Number of Wives	1	3 (one at a time)
Number of Kids	2	2 + 1 Stepdaughter
Own/Drive	Chevys (GM at least)	Fords

SOooo ..... after all the twists and turns and ups and downs, I am very happily married to Wanda. We have been together for seven years and live on the remnants of my grandparent's ranch outside a little country town called Kelseyville in Northern California. We own a small publishing company (engineering books) which we started five years ago with a computer and a ream of paper. It is FUN and it pays the bills. When we work, it works! We are not grandparents yet, but hope to be before we end up in walkers. It is peaceful here. As Wanda says, we dig in the dirt and live a clean life.

I hope to see you in Claremont and find out how your life turned out!

After CHS, Mt. SAC, then the US Army (Military Police), stationed in Oklahoma(yuk), then Germany (very nice,  except I got caught in East Berlin the day they put the Berlin wall up). In 1962, became a Police Officer for the City of Upland, then in 1964, a Deputy for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department. Married Gay McBee (Class of '57) in 1964. We have two children, Rob, aged 33, now in the US Coast Guard, and Marina, aged 32. Marina has been severely disabled since the age of 15 months and lives with us. I retired from the Sheriff's Office in 1985 and we moved to Seal Rock, Oregon, about three hours north of Wayne's house in Bandon. We live in a geodesic dome house overlooking the ocean and love it here, spending most of our time "puttering around the house" as old folks do, and caring for our daughter. We hope to able to see you at the reunion.

Once upon a time, in a land far, far, away, like in Orange Ca. , lived a crotchety koot named Roger. He was very blessed because he had a beautiful wife named Roberta. And when he was good, which was not often enough, he got to go to Oregon. OK enough... What have I been doing.. since the ‘50’s reunion... Well, Sailing, tennis, and bike riding.. but that was before the back surgery. That was my Valentine’s Day present. Since then I have been recuperating. I was off work for 2 and a half months. Like how many dots are there on the ceiling..? And programmers/QA people never really do any physical work, so my doctor let me go back early. Let’s see now, bike riding is still out for right now because I don’t stretch enough. I was going to start playing tennis this weekend, but we went to the beach instead. The recovery has been great, “want to see grandpa’s zipper..? And when we get back from Oregon, we have another wedding to go to in October. By then I ought to be out of money and ready to retire.. hmm.. there’s something wrong with that statement. Somebody also told me that you retire that you have a lot of time to get things done. Now was that Wayne or Gordon.. oh well. 2 more years.. maybe.. Oh yes, and all that other stuff. Married to Roberta, my 2^nd wife, and hopefully I’m a better person now, for 11 years. I have 2 sons living in Portland, Roberta has a son and daughter living in Hawaii, and one son living in Santa Ana. Together we have 6 grandchildren, none of which live close by. Three of the grandchildren are coming from Hawaii to visit with us in September and we get to visit with the 2 Oregon grandchildren when we come to Bandon. And that is really really soon. See ya there..!

                                                                     Roger Bonzer

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After grad. i went to MtSac for a year - was on swim team & did chorus for Brigadoon - fun but did not really enjoy some of office classes, so, Fall of '57 went to work for the (then) General Telephone Co. From Repair Clerk to Dispatch then 150 day Strike & back in as Customer Service Rep. During this time i had taken vacations out in Wickenburg AZ at Remuda Guest Ranch. Soooo - when i got fed up with traffic & smog, about 1967, i got a job at the ranch. Started as housekeeping, then kitchen help, waitress, head waitress, office help, & office manager. At 1st during the summers went up to Lake Vallecito CO at a sort of ranch called Wits End (ranches in Wickenburg at that time all closed summers - no air -conditioning). There i helped in office & housekeeping then cooked for crew & for hunting camp in the fall. Did some wrangling then too!! Another couple summers did waitressing at a cafe out of Cooke City MT - out of the N/E corner of Yellowstone. Super country, bears at the cabins, snow 4th of July!! While still working some at a changed Remuda I helped some at the brand new, built from the ground up, Wickenburg Inn & Tennis Ranch (just north of Wickenburg). Then about 1978 i went to work for them full time. 1st at the switchboard & the bar, then helping in reservations & then in charge of reservations department. This lasted 'til some idiots took over the Inn & decided to get rid of all older (age & years) employees so they could put their relatives in place. After job hunting for some time i went to work for Best Western in north Phoenix at the 800 reservations office. Worked there for a while then worked for a while for a Co. called Anasazi also 800 reservations but for quite a few different hotels/motels all across the country. Did not work out very well (& FAR to drive & bad hours) though very interesting. Meanwhile the Wickenburg Inn had changed hands again & was now owned by Merv Griffith. People i knew worked there & I was hired "again". Really enjoyed the crew & most of guests - did Front Desk then Reservations again. Had a heart attack during this time but completely recovered & so far so good!! Summer of 2000 came & on the way to the 50's Re-Union stopped to visit a friend from back in Phone Co. days. Everything clicked & i ended up quiting/retiring(early) from the Inn & moved to the Wrightwood (CA) area to live with Walt Vos - my current companion/significant other, partner, or whatever term you want to use!! Growing up in Claremont we all saw Mt Baldy from the south, now i can see it from the north - fun! we see mountains to our south & high desert to north. Some snow but not too much where we are at 4800. I enjoy taking pictures, reading, helping at Library, visiting relatives & lately keeping up with other '56 grads in the So. Cal area. Hope to see EVERYONE AT THE 50TH Re-Union.

Awhile before Mrs. Hull made her mark on us, I think I read the book and the movie came out for "Little Women". I related strongly to Jo--active, sportsy, not as pretty as her sisters, and kind of bumbling, but concerned for others. She wanted to marry a professor and run an orphanage, as I recall. I went off to Stanford and met my professor (math) in sophomore year and we married before junior year. It was one of the best decisions I've made, and we had two boys and then adopted 2 mixed-race girls. I told him I wanted 8 kids (an overreaction to being an only child!), but he figured I'd tone down once reality hit. And that it did, with a lot of challenge, adventure, and that was as close to an orphanage as I got. But it was part of the total "world interest/centeredness" that we have shared, which I partly can credit to my family missionary background (China), and partly to being raised in Pilgrim Place. Our Christian faith has also been an influence.

Norm taught in a Black college in Georgia one year, which made an interesting situation with our girls, and otherwise we lived in Iowa City to finish degrees, Berkeley one year, Pullman, WA, for 19 years, Hawaii for 17 years, and retired here in Washington on the Columbia River 3 years ago. From Hawaii, he was sent on demographic work all over Asia, so I traveled with him to China, Japan, India, Thailand, and we have been to Indonesia twice, once for our son's wedding to an Indonesian. One of our daughters married a Japanese fellow (Hawaii), so we have quite an international family.

I have been medical technologist (lab, NOT nurse) for my career, but family has been first in priority. As a med. tech, I became very concerned with the problem of drunk driving, which was brought into strong focus for me when (in Hawaii) I cared for a 10 yr. old boy, his father, and the drunk driver in the ER. This driver killed 5 people, including the boy's mother and grandmother. I testified at the trial and it became one of the most famous drunk driving cases in Hawaii. It was like the nail in the coffin of plenty else I'd seen in my work, and I devoted my remaining years there to volunteer work in Mothers Against Drunk Driving. I headed a committee that helped to get the strongest law in the nation passed in an area of closing loopholes.

I also enjoyed quilting and outrigger canoe paddling in the ocean all my Hawaii years. It's a very special place.

Now we have children settled in Hawaii (business work), Idaho (ER doctor), Virginia (int'l. integrated pest management work), and Georgia (going to college), and with 6 grandchildren spread over 3 of those, we are traveling a lot to see them. In between we revel in our views of Mt. Hood out the front and a bit of Mt. Adams out behind, and snow in winter and wonderful seasonal change.It will be great fun to see whoever is at the reunion, which we hope we can attend.

I owe a lot to the Class of 1956. My family moved around a lot as I was growing up. We had some great experiences, including living in a migrant workers shack in Pear Blossom, with one light bulb, no refrigerator, and traditional outdoor plumbing. We never lived in one place more than two years, so I did not develop socially. When I entered Claremont High School I was shy and introverted. All of you: Ed, Tom, Erik, and too many special people to list here, helped me to develop social skills and come out of my shell while maintaining my after school job (Can you guess what? A solitary trap line consisting of 25 gopher traps in orange groves near my home at 3800 North Gary Ave., La Verne). The Class of 1956 was great at welcoming everyone into activities, from the trivial (e.g. standing around Wayne Scherer’s car, sharing the concern over the drips in the maroon paint job, or trips to Mount Baldy) to the important (such as collectively meeting Ms. Hull’s expectations). I marveled and rooted for our football team and went to class events. I will always be thankful for these sharing and growing experiences.

After leaving Claremont High School, I enrolled in Pomona College and then after one year, transferred to U. of California, Riverside. They were just putting in lawns and planting trees! I graduated in 1960 from UCR with a B. A. in Chemistry, then received a Ph.D. in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in 1964. In 1965 I was awarded a National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in chemistry at Stanford University. In January 1966 I joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Oregon, and was advanced to full professor in 1972. This is the only job I have ever had, and I retired from full time service in 2003 and will finish my last teaching assignment in 2004. I am will remain active in volunteer work at the University of Oregon. Like Bob Raney, I have had a hand in establishing some endowments to help future generations of students.

This part will make you laugh, especially those of you with grandchildren: Being so involved in teaching and research, I did not get married until late, in 1985. I have a wonderful wife, Karen. We have two teenage boys, Daniel and Austin. We have lived in the same home for 18 years: 2550 Charnelton Street, Eugene, OR 97405.

Highs in career: I was fortunate to receive the highest teaching award given at the University of Oregon, and my share of invited lectures at conferences and other universities. My research group published over two hundred articles, and these brought some research awards. Lows? None really, other than exhaustion at times, and the realization that I could not satisfy all the students – some would hate chemistry and everything associated with it. In research, I never got the “brass ring” – a major discovery. Research is a lot like prospecting. Chemists get a “grub stake” (grant or contract) and go out and dig for gold. After a lot of digging or panning, some is found – enough for the next grub stake. The joy is in the search, and there is always the chance that the next turn of fortune will lead to the mother load. Very few get rich or famous. Most prospectors die poor but happy. What counts more than happiness?

I have taught over 7,000 students. Each term we are evaluated by the students and the results are made public. My favorite complement, which I have heard from many different students over the years:

“Dr. Griffith is a great teacher. My other science teachers are so intelligent that they cannot get down to our level. Dr. Griffith isn’t like that.”

I was just getting to know the Claremont High School Class of 1956 when we all graduated and went our separate ways. I am looking forward to continuing to get to know you at reunions now that I have time to attend.

Cordially, Hayes Griffith

Before coming to CHS I was the top student in my class in 7^th grade and in 2^nd place for 8^th grade graduation. This was at Mt. Baldy. I was the only 7^th grader and there were 3 in 8^th grade) CHS seemed huge and easy to get lost in, but I soon met some lifelong friends there.

After CHS I went first to Mt.Sac JC and then to Chaffey. I had a job beginning in high school and through my years at JC at Seepy’s chicken ranch. I also worked at Claremont Hardware. About 1959 I went to work for my father who had a truss manufacturing plant on Alexander in an old Lumber yard across from Vortox.

In 1960 I met Beth and in 1961 we were married. At that time I was a truck driver for Jackson Lumber and Truss.

In 1962 we built our first home in Upland on 24^th St. In 1963 and I started my own truss company at the Alexander site after Jackson Lumber moved to newer quarters at 1^st and College.

By 1965 we had 3 daughters and I had moved my business over to the old Claremont Lumber yard at 1^st. and Berkley. 1966 and I got my general contractors license and we built several more houses in Upland.

In the early ‘70s my father invented a lightweight truss system for use on mobile homes. I joined him and we went nation wide with the product and I opened a plant in Elkhart Indiana. I obtained several patents relating to this industry.

We moved our family to Woodland in 1975 and I restarted the Jackson Lumber and Truss Corporation to build trusses in northern Ca. During the rest of the 70’s and until ’88 I ran the truss company and restored some old houses that we kept as rentals for our retirement.

Beth started a Travel agency in ‘76 and with that we saw a lot of the world.

1988 and we both sold our businesses, retired, and moved to our cabin at Lake Tahoe, and then in ’89 to San Clemente. We became real estate agents for a while until we built our dream home on a hillside overlooking the Pacific.

1999 we moved back to Woodland to be near our daughters and our 5 grandchildren. We restored an old bungalow style home in the historic part of town to live in for the rest of our lives.

We owned our own airplane for about 20 years and my other hobbies are fishing, sailing, computers, and restoring old cars and homes. My latest is golf that I took up last year.  We purchased an old motor home that we have been traveling around in (classic ‘77 GMC). We just remodeled our cabin and have done some home exchanges with people all over the world. We have plans to do a lot more traveling and exchanges.

After graduating from CHS I went to college in the Midwest for a little while before dropping out and coming back to California early in 1958. I roomed with Jim Bassett in Palmer Canyon and Larry Armenderez in Laguna Beach, and mostly just goofed off for a while. Eventually I went back to school, got a little more serious, and ended up graduating from UC Riverside in 1961, and getting accepted into graduate school at UC Berkeley.

I went to school in Berkeley from 1961 until 1966 when I got my PhD in Physics. As everybody knows, Berkeley transformed from a pretty normal college town into the protest hot spot of the nation during those years: the Free Speech Movement, Sproul Hall Plaza demonstrations, Mario Savio, protest marches on Oakland, etc., etc. I never participated, but I saw it all. Mr. Polos and Barbara Altschuler were both in Berkeley around this time, and I would see them occasionally. I married my first wife, Isis, in 1965, and in 1966 we headed East.

I spent the next 6 years bouncing around in research jobs at various labs and Universities in Gaithersburg, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, and Pittsburgh. Both Isis and I really hated the East (especially the Winters), and couldn’t wait to get back to California. I finally got a job in California in 1972, and we headed back to Berkeley.

I worked at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in the hills above the UC Campus for ten years, from 1972 to 1982. This was intensive research work, and although Berkeley was always the home base, the job involved a lot of traveling in the US, England, Europe, and Asia. So these were the years when I got to see the world. At various times we lived in England, Switzerland, and Germany, and I made trips to many exotic places including Krakow, Hiroshima, Tbilisi, Edinburgh, and Moscow. My daughter Anne was born in 1974, and spent a lot of her early years on the road.

My LBL years were great fun, but I eventually began to get serious about making money, and realized that academia was never going to pay off. So in 1982 I left LBL, and took a job with a small company in LA, Arete Associates, that does contract research work for the Defense Department. While at Arete, I did a lot of work with a bigger company, Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) in San Diego. In 1989 they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, and I moved to San Diego and took the job that I still have today. Through a combination of savvy management and luck, SAIC has made a killing on Internet technology and managed not to lose it all, so now I’m reasonably comfortable and close to retirement.

Isis and I divorced in the late 80s, and in 1990 I married my present wife Adele. We live in a pretty suburb of San Diego called Rancho Bernardo, and for a while Dick Cundiff lived a few doors away. Anne married two years ago. She lives in LA and works as a freelance writer and drama critic, and we see the two of them several times a year including going on vacations together. My Mom lived on University Circle for nearly half a century in a house she bought from Dave Benson’s family in 1952. We were neighbors of Dave Clark’s family across the street during high school. My Mom passed away in 2000, and in June of this year I sold her house so that now all my connections with Claremont are severed except for the memories.

A little Claremont history: My connections with University Circle go back to the 1930s when my grandparents bought their retirement property extending from Eighth Street up to the Circle (next door to the Veague family whom some of you may remember). The property is now broken into separate lots, but I was told by one of the current residents that it’s been put on the National Register of Historic Places as the “Kelly Compound”. The residents of University Circle hold an annual block party and they’ve promised to invite me each year as a “resident emeritus”. I’ll miss it this year because it’s on the same weekend as our CHS reunion, but I’m looking forward to going in the future.

The house I bought in Rancho Bernardo in 1989 was located a short distance from a riding stable. I’ve always liked horses, and in 1990 I bought one and boarded him at the stable just for casual trail riding on weekends. Little did I know. To make a long story short, I now own six horses boarded at three different stables, and a truck and horse trailer. I ride in competitions most weekends, and have traveled as far as Texas and Oklahoma to compete. When people ask me if I won’t get bored when I retire I just have to laugh.

After high school, I went to Chaffey College, graduated, then on to San Diego State University. In between, I worked at Kaiser Steel until a strike shut me out but it turned out well because that job gave me a small financial cushion to help complete my education. In l959, I started employment with the Boys Clubs of San Diego, thinking that would be good part-time work while finishing school, not realizing then it would become my career profession. That commitment shelved my plans to become the first Norwegian President of the United States.

Upon graduation, I moved to Glendale to take my first full-time job with the Boys Club of Hollywood. Then the many job moves began: Fallbrook, CA, Aberdeen, SD, Des Moines, IA, Ontario, CA, back to Hollywood on the National staff, concluding in Buena Park, CA. I figured 30 years was enough, although I always enjoyed the thousands of children with whom I worked, and never confined myself exclusively to a desk! While waiting for my wife, Mary Anne, to retire, I taught school at the elementary and high school levels and taught cooking and woodworking classes for the city of Duarte, CA. We moved to Flagstaff, AZ in 1997.

My oldest son Rick, his wife and three sons (15, 12 and 10) live in Minneapolis, and Mark, just one year younger, his wife and two daughters (20 and 18) live in Topeka. We will be visiting both families in the fall.

Mary Anne and I are both volunteers, she more than I, because an ongoing remodeling project on our home keeps me busy. I give tours at the Riordan Mansion State Historic Park here in Flagstaff. We couldn't fit volunteering in during our working years, and are now finding it both fun and rewarding.

Woodworking, construction and music presentations are my chief interests. I own a collection of 30,000 recordings from the 1920's - 1950's which started as a hobby, then in the 1980's blossomed into an avocation. Seniors comprise the majority of my audiences. They select the music from their youth and I bring their requests to their senior communities, play the music and provide trivia about the orchestras, vocalists and songs. My brief association with big band radio stations from the west coast to the Midwest greatly enhanced my knowledge of classic American music and ability to effectively entertain.

There is never enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do and I'll die with a thousands things still undone. But I'll be happy, fulfilled and pleased that I was fortunate to have grown up in a wonderful small town with equally wonderful friends, many of whom I hope to see this November.

Russ and I live in Keno,OR about 10 miles s.w. of Klamath Falls, OR

We have three children: Richard, married to Chris, three kids (our only grandchildren!), living in Elverta, CA, Rich is an engineer working for Hewlett Packard.

Katherine Miner Wayland lives in Connecticut, no children. Bradley, an electrician, not married, lives in Citrus Heights, CA

Russ is shaking his head in disgust at Calif. energy dilemma. He was on the Calif. Energy Commission back in the 70's and was one of the minority members warning that new energy plants needed to get on line fast! Don't bring this subject up at the reunion unless you're prepared to get an earful!!

Since retirement Russ and I have been the U.S. distributors of an Israeli author. His books are really eye-openers to what is really going on in the Mideast and what is the real agenda of the "Palestinians". Our interest and love for Israel has grown as we have made three trips there during the past 5 years. We've learned so much about the Hebrew roots of our Christian faith. Presently we are involved in a Messianic Fellowship.

Look forward to seeing you all in November.

Gray Noland Miner

1) Schools: Stanford, B.A.; UCLA, M.B.A.

2) Marriages: Diana (1960-1997); Janice since July 1999.

3) Family: four kids who all graduated from Pomona College and further punished the Raney scholarship fund at various graduate schools. Ten grandchildren of different varieties ages one through six.

4) Work: I have been in the investment counsel business since graduate school. Twenty years with Scudder, Stevens & Clark; with several others started our own firm which we subsequently sold to U.S. Trust. We run around twelve billion on the West Coast primarily for wealthy individuals, endowment funds, foundations, etc. We have offices in LA, Orange County, SF and Portland. I am the Chief Investment Officer.

5) Messing Around: Stayed active in various sports-for the future probably more sedentary things like darts and dominoes. Various charitable boards, grandkids.

6) We live in Pasadena and stay in touch with some homeboys-Mike Gray, the Hearsts.

                                                                     Best regards,

                                                                     Bob Raney

1960  Graduated from University of Arizona, BS,BA (Econ.)

Entered the U.S. Marine Corps and after completion of OCS was commissioned a 2ndLt. Larry Armendarez and I were in the same platoon/class and became good friends.

1962 Graduated from flight school in Pensacola, Florida and became stationed at El Toro, (Orange County) Calif.

1964 Flew helicopters in Viet Nam for most of the year finishing with approx. 80 combat missions.

1965 Left the Marine Corps as a Captain.

Got married to Pat; had our 40th anniversary last July, 2005. We have four children; Holly (Dep.Sheriff/Sgt.), Heidi (Business exec./human resources), Heather (Psychologist) and Erik (Real estate and finance) and 3 grandchildren.

1966-1970 Test pilot for the aircraft division of Hughes Tool Co., Carlsbad, Calif. Began real estate career on the side.

1970-1973 Law school at Pepperdine School of Law. Graduated with a JD.

1973-2003 Continued real estate career, specializing in commercial properties, forming/running syndications and development. I'm now basically retired as son Erik has come into the business.

2003-Present Read a lot and try to stay in shape. Have taken up the guitar and banjo but am not any good, just a glutton for punishment. Pat expects to retire in 1-2 years and then we'll do some traveling and maybe buy a 2nd home in the Sierras (Bear Mountain area). We've lived in Carlsbad, Calif. since 1978; Huntington Beach and Playa del Rey prior to that.

After graduation from CHS ( and leaving behind some of the most fun days of my life), I attended the University of California at Berkeley, Chaffey College, finally graduating from Cal Poly, Pomona, in June 1961 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a pregnant wife and a one year old son. (Note - when I was attending Cal Poly, it was an all male school, and they didn't allow women until the year after I graduated. Hmm.) I did bounce around colleges, but didn't change majors.

After 10 years in industry in SoCal, I kept a long term promise, became a rat-race drop-out and moved to beautiful Bandon-by-the-Sea to become a cranberry farmer. I could not have asked for a more enjoyable life-style that has provided for me and my family extremely well until the last two years, when we hit the skids like every other form of agriculture in the US today. Probably the most rewarding part of being a farmer is raising my children in an atmosphere that city living just could not compare too.

The farming life style allowed (forced?) me to become involved in many agricultural related activities including serving three terms on the Ocean Spray Board of Directors, advisory boards, committees, and I'm still involved with the Bandon Cranberry Water Control District. I have been involved in church and civic activities including being on the Board of Directors of our local hospital for too many years.

Although having a number of personal set-backs and misfortunes, as we all have experienced, the achievements, successes, and accomplishments that the Lord has provided for me greatly overshadow all the downside aspects that this road of life has taken me on. I am probably most proud of my children and grandchildren. Son Greg and wife Kathy have two sons, and live just outside Portland, so I get to see them several times a year. Son Guy and his wife Noni have two sons that live 1/4 mile away on the adjoining farm and actually run the farms while I try to be semi-retired. Daughter Bonnie and husband Rich have twin daughters and live in the "main house" here on the farm. (I live in the apartment over the garages). My family is very close to each other and to me in every way, and all are Christians. What a blessing to me my family is.

Although most of my time is spent of farm related issues, I still try to squeeze in time to putter with my "toys".  For you "car" guys, my toys include a show quality '57 T-Bird, highly modified '55 T-Bird driver, '55 Nomad nearing completion, '40 Ford 2 door sorta started construction, and last hour production '57 T-Bird waiting for all other projects to be completed.

I have enjoyed life, and still anticipate what each new day will bring my way. I would really like as many of our class to attend the reunion as possible to share new and old times together again. What an outstanding group of folks make up our class!

After graduating from high school, I worked at Aerojet for one year and then married Jim Balch in June 1957. We had three boys, Bob, Bill and Gary. I stayed home, doing all the "mother" things such as PTA, Little League, etc. until Gary was about 10 years old. I then went to work for the Pomona School District as a typist clerk and then Office Manager at Westmont School, where my children attended.

In 1973 we moved to Glendora to the home where I still live. During this time Jim worked, mostly in aerospace as a Purchasing Agent. In 1985 he and three other guys formed their own company called Electro-Motion. It was very successful, but unfortunately one of the owners died and Jim's alcoholism grew progressively worse. I know most of you remember him as a fun, jovial person, which fortunately, he was during most of our marriage. We stayed married for 31 years and then I decided I just didn't want to live with his problem anymore. I don't want to dwell on this, especially when he's not here to defend himself. Jim was killed in an accident on January 1, 1997. He was crossing a street, in pouring rain, and was hit by a car and killed instantly.

I am thankful to have three wonderful sons, all of them so different from the other. Someone once said that Bob and Bill were like having Ronald Reagan and Willie Nelson as brothers. Bob and Lisa live in Goleta, CA and have three children (Jeff, Lauren and Dan). He and his partner started a Venture Capital business. Bill and Sheila live in Stark City, Missouri and raise turkeys (42,000 of them) for Butterball Farms. They have 10 children (Zechariah, Hannah, James, Jed, Luke, Micah, Jesaiah, Julia, Daniel, and Elijah). They home school, no TV, and everyone works on the farm. Gary lives in Glendora and is working in construction.

I retired from my job, after putting in 30 years, in June 2000 and have begun to get involved in as many things as I can. I volunteer at the hospital and still substitute at the schools once in a while. I love to read and work in the garden (when my old bones allow me to) and doing counted-cross stitch pictures (one for each grandchild)! I've really enjoyed helping to plan all of our reunions. The one in San Clemente was especially enjoyable because of the location and many people that showed up. I hope we can get another good turn out this year, and I really look forward to seeing you all again.

Here is my post high school life story...I started Chaffey Jr. College - got bored - joined the Marine Corps. (That is an extreme cure for boredom). I didn't do anything glorious, but I have always admired those that did. After returning home I received my BS degree from USC in business and later my MBA from Pepperdine University. Kay and I were married in my senior year at USC - so this August, we celebrate our 46th wedding anniversary. She is a wonderful lady. We have a daughter Anastasia and two terrific grandchildren - Edward (11) and Madeline (8). The grandchildren are real joys in our life.

Career stuff - I worked in the private sector for awhile, then I went to work for a combat support defense agency within the Department of Defense. With a little diligence and a lot of good fortune, I was able to work my way up the ranks to a senior position within the agency. When I retired, December 1999, I was the Deputy Commander of the Western District. We were responsible for military, and NASA procurement contracts with suppliers in the western United States. Our organization consisted of over 5,000 civilian and military employees. We administered several hundred billions of dollars in government contracts. We answered to the Agency Director who was a Major General. As you might imagine, it was a challenging job that required a tremendous amount of travel. I enjoyed my job, and I like to believe I was reasonably good at it. During my career, I was awarded a few medals, the highest was the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal awarded by William Cohen, the Secretary of Defense. The award for which I probably made the smallest contribution, but I prize the most, is the unit citation awarded to the Agency during the Gulf War in 1990.

Kay and I decided at the end of 1999 to retire while our health was still good, and we could enjoy retirement. So, We are very fortunate - a little money, some free time, and our health. I like to do computer related activities, like programming, and digital photography. Kay and I enjoy traveling. We try to take a couple trips a year.

The fates of life have been kind to us. Kay and I hope life has been good to you as well.

After graduating I went to Pepperdine College for 2 years, majoring in Psychology. I enjoyed being a Songleader again and singing in the chorus. Met and married Bill Belcher. After his graduation we moved to Quantico, VA and became a US Marine family. The military life took us to Hawaii, San Diego, Columbus, GA, Jacksonville, NC, two tours to Viet Nam (I'd go to San Diego to be near family), Virginia Beach, VA, Natick, Mass., back to Quantico, and lastly Colts Neck, NJ.

We had three wonderful children, Bill (who later married Teresa), Kathy (married Derek and Sheri (married Greg). We're very proud of all of them. During those years I took up oil painting, which I still enjoy. Each time we'd move I'd find another college and take classes in Psch. or art or whatever I needed. I also got involved in several sales companies and won some awards.

Bill and I divorced in 1982. I met and married Wes (Mike) Michael. He had two children, Wes (later married Ana) and Karen (married to Lee), who I've always enjoyed. After Mike retired from the Navy we moved back to San Diego and he went to work for General Dynamics, Convair. My favorite job there was with a company that made cultured marble. I went into homes and designed ways to beautify their bathrooms or kitchens with our products, and was even saleswoman of the year. Convair closed down after being there 10 year so we moved to Havelock, NC to be near Kathy and her husband Derek and the Cherry Point Naval Air Station, where Mike got a job with NADEP, working on the jets and helicopters. My favorite job here was as a preschool teacher with 3 year olds! I loved them and they loved me!

I've been able to go to London with my friend Lys Wakefield and to Naples with Mike on a business trip.

Mom (Lillian Vogler) passed away at 94 in 2002. She made a point of enjoying her life. She loved traveling and visiting her children and grandchildren. My Dad, Don, had passed away in 77. I miss their telephone calls and visits. Some of you may remember her as the HS secretary in '53. I have done volunteer work at the nursing home where mom was staying, and Habitat for Humanity.

Mike and I have 8 grandchildren between us: Jillian, Claire, Wes lV, Justin, Amber, Megan, and the twins Ali and Lili. They keep us young! I've been to all the reunions except one, thoroughly enjoyed them, and value all my lasting friendships with my classmates. I'm truly looking forward to seeing you all again this November!