AGUILAR, SAM
ALEXANDER, PAUL
ALLINGHAM, PAT  ALUTIN, BOB
ARMAS, PAUL
ARNOLD,  DONNA    
BEAUCAIRE,  ARLENE
BECKSTROM,  ERIC
BOLLINGER,  BOB
BOWER,  MARTHA   BRIDGEMAN, LEON
BROWN, CRYSTAL
BROWN, CURRY
BURMEISTER, GAIL
BURT, WALTER
CAMPBELL, ROBERT
CARPENTER, JAMES
CLARK, PATTY FRANZ
CLARK, ROBERT           COLLINS, CHARLES "CHUCK"
COLLINS, GEORGIA
COOPER, PHYLLIS CARPENTER         COPE, ROBERT
DASNEY, SHARON
DAVIS, MARILYN
DAY, JAMES
DE GROOT, MARLENE JOYCE
DENKEWITZ, JACK
DUARTE, VIVIAN
EASTIN, JEANNIE
ELLIOTT, KATHLEEN
ELLIS, DON
EVANS, WALTER
FRANKLIN, MYRTLE
FULKS, VALERIE
GENTRY, THOMAS
GOODELL, HARRY
GREGORY, LARRY
GRAY, CHARLEEN
GROOM, DONALD
GUSSETTE, ROBERT
HALL, JAMES
HAMILTON, JEAN ROBERTA
HAMILTON, PATRICIA
HAMILTON, ROBERT
HARTMANN, RONALD
HARVEY, TOM
HARWICK, CLYDE     HENRY, KATHI
HIGHTOWER, NEIL
HOLMES, LOIS JEAN
JELINEK, GEORGE
JEREMY, JOHN
JESSEN, EILEEN
JESSEN, TOM
JEWELL, PATRICIA     LOU
KENDALL, ART                            KIPP, ROBIN 
KIRCHGESTNER, MARGOT
KLINGER, RICHARD
LANGDON, ANN
LARSEN, KEITH
LEWIS, TOMMY
LORENZINI, RAY
LOWRY, LANDON
LUTES, GERALDINE
MACHADO, RAY
MATHEWS, THOMAS
MATZINGER, MARTA
MC CAUGHNA, DAN
MC CLANAHAN, ARLENE WILSON
MC COY, CHARLES          MEYER, GEORGE MARSHALL
MUSCAT, JOHNNY
NIENDORFF, CHARLENE GRAY
NISSEN, BEVERLY
NOWA, HAROLD
OSTERGAARD, DEWARD JERRY    OVERMAN, MARY BETH
PARKER, PHIL
PASLEY, LAREE
PELOS, BUDDY            PLIMPTON, RICHARD WAGNER
PURBAUGH, GLEN
PURBAUGH, JIM
ROBERTS, DONNA
ROENNE, EVELYN
ROSS, CAROL
ROTH, CHRISTINE          SCHOLFIELD, MARILYN MINER                    SERGI, FRANK
SHARP, PEGGY
SHOOK, JOHN                SIEGRIST,  BILL
SIDEBOTHAM, ROBERT
SMITH, WILLIAM IVAN
SPANN, MARJORIE
SPERL, DAVID
STICH, ROBERT
STOLTZE, JEAN
SWANSON, JOHN             

TOWN, DICK                     TUTTLE, DONALD  Tyron, Valerie
USSERY, GLORIA
VIGGERS, JAMES
VINING, RICHARD           WALLING, DAVID
WATENPAUGH, JOHN
WILLEY, MYRNA            WINNETT, EARLINE
WOEHLER, WALLACE
WILSON,ARLEEN
WRIGHT, JACK                   

 WYNN, PETER MATFIELD
YORK, JANICE
ZATINSKI, MELVIN



 

'53      

David George

dsueii@gmail.com

HE'S BACK

 

Sorry to be away from this job and I do consider it to be important. I've been temporarily honoring a relationship I began in 1976 when, during my USAF career, I became associated professionally with the RAND Corporation. They're headquartered in Santa Monica and if you've walked along Ocean or Main lately, RAND is the fish-shaped building next to their former buildings across from SM City Hall. This current assignment and most likely my last for them took me a month including traveling to Wash DC and Dayton OH. There's been clean up work since my return. Now though, back to the page update.

 

I GET LETTERS

 

Thanks to everyone who's been kind enough to write and say hello and express support and interest in having the page continued. I've heard from Harry (O'Hara) Yates, Stan Hughes, George Calderwood, Dave Winkler and Mary Lynn (Scharf), Lasley (Scholl) Biven and a few I'm not including now because I mention them later on. I've undoubtedly missed a few names whose emails I forgot to save. It means a lot to hear from you former friends and classmates and to know there are folks logging on out there. That's reason enough to sit here in Auburn and endeavor to keep us all in contact through this newsletter site maintained  so well by the webmaster efforts of Gary Dayton (49'/50'). It can't be done without your help though, that is, anyone reading, this so please let me know what's going on and send in any adventures or information you care to share with the class of 1953.  

 

A SAD OPENING NOTE

 

 

Shortly after taking on our page updates I learned from one of the aforementioned names that Bob Cope had passed away but the writer was unable to provide any details. I consequently deferred putting any reference to it in the page. Recently Joe Rayle sent me the following note:

 

Dear David, Sorry to have to add bad news to the site. Enclosed is a message board for the Silver State Classic Challenge Open Road Race about the passing of Bob Cope. (MAD '53) We participated with him at these events for several years and his success was impressive.  Joe Rayle

 

I'm going to simply ask Gary to put the link in next to the yearbook photo (below) of Robert Stanley Cope who passed away on 15 December 2011. My apologies to Bob's family for not recognizing his passing sooner but the circumstances are as they've been written above. I remember Bob as being outgoing and friendly to all even though I was not a close friend. I asked Sharon if she remembered Bob and she just affirmed that he was always friendly to her and added "very good looking."

 

The details are in the link, no need to repeat them here. I'm sure Gary can put it in so that you can just click on it below but in case you can't, I just copied and pasted into my browser's address bar and it does lead to the right site.

 

http://silverstateclassicchallenge.hoop.la/displayForumTopic/content/257853619015390050/reply/lastReply#lastReply

 

 

A TRIP TO EASTER ISLAND

 

I suspect if our class could pool travelogues and experiences we'd pretty well have the world blanketed. Here's a submission from Ann Hayes Hobbs and Pat Fortner Kinnan along with the two pictures they included. Enjoy.

 

Hi, David:

Ann and I thought you might want to include our adventure in the MAD web site.

Best wishes,  Pat

 

 

 

Here we are on Easter Island in March 2011. Ann Hayes Hobbs and Pat Fortner Kinnan being amazed by the giant moai. There are almost 900 of these mystical statues on Easter Island; their history remains somewhat of a mystery to scientists. We were traveling with Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT) and this was an optional pre-tour destination. The OAT itinerary included a cruise on the Chilean Fjords to Tierra del Fuego and a hike up to the monument on Cape Horn. We traveled to Patagonia to see the gauchos; spent time visiting Buenos Aires where we celebrated St. Patrick's Day, a huge holiday in B.A. The adventure ended with explorations to the Iguasso Falls in both  Brazil and Argentina. Magnificent!

 

David again. A few years back I plucked out a few pics of a similiar trip that Sharon and I made with mutual friends to Argentina including Patagonia and Iquasso Falls. Kathi had asked me to write about it. I can't write up a whole trip (oh, maybe our trip to Vietnam last year sometime later) but here's two pictures Pat didn't include; one of Iquasso Falls (a very small piece on the Argentine side) and a shot of Sharon and me getting high in Patagonia. Sorry to steal your thunder Pat and thanks again. 

 

 

 

 

AND NOW, A LAW NOTICE

 

My name is Donald Lewis Law and I graduated in 1953 and I am sorry about Kathi passing away. I am 76 now and I am living in Post Falls, ID along with George Soetje who lives 30 miles above me in Sagle, ID and raises 14 Wolves. We are still in good shape and I presently working in a corporation called GST, Inc. which is an Idaho corp. We have several web sites and are doing things such as making ethanol fuel, zeolite to reduce nuclear problems, and electrical grounding.

 

You can see the web sites below

 

https://gstgrounding.com

 

https://gstgrounding.com/gasohol.html

 

https://gstgrounding.com/zeolite.html

 

So these sites keep me busy working on research and presently we are working with the University of Idaho on a 50 acre plot to plant our special cold Sorghum Hybrid, which in cold areas of the USA will make 2 crops and in warm areas 4 crops and each crop will produce 700 gallons of ethanol 100%. So sometime this year we will build a full facility to produce ethanol for $1.20 per gallon and will sell it for $2.00. So we shall try to make enough to overcome the gas prices in the future. Every engine will run on ethanol and did so from 1890 to 1944. See what Ford did and ran all his cars on ethanol along with Germany during the war when we chopped off fuel to them.

 

Dr. Donald L. Law

2811 E. Ferry Landing

Post Falls, ID. 83854

208 773-7151

 

I hope the balance of the 1953 group is still up and going strong.

 

 

CAN YOU NAME THIS 1953 CLASSMATE?

 

I've decided to end on a low note this time and provide a little teaser. Here's a picture of one of our beloved classmates doing what he loves the most, supervising someone else working in a kitchen. I won't tell you his name but he's a subject in my soon-to-come coverage of a recent event held in Ventura CA involving Wildcats from 1953/54 and hosted by our mystery man. Hint: he lived three houses down from me from about third grade through MAD. No prizes for a right answer though. Check it out!

 

 

 

 

 

1953                 2010

KATHI PHELPS HENRY

RIP

Mariellen and I attended Kathi Phelps Henry’s funeral services last Tuesday.  Many of our ’53 & 54 classmates were there.

The picture below which Kathi painted was on the cover of her services folder….

 

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Pat Pilon Garman and I thought it would be good if Kathi had a dedicated seat in the newly rebuilt MHS Auditorium.  Her daughter, Kristi Simon, agreed.  So far Kristi, Lasley Scholl Biven, Marilyn Nolack Spears and Mariellen and I have made tax deductible donations for Kathi’s seat.  Please join us. 

 

Make a tax deductible contribution to:Monrovia Schools Foundation-Kathi Seat and mail to MSF, attn: Bruce Staller, P.O. Box 2447, Monrovia, CA 91017.  A receipt will be sent and you will be honored on the ’53 webpage….Bruce Staller…stckpkr13@gmail.com

 

In addition to or instead of the auditorium seat Kristi suggests that you may wish to make contributions in Kathi’s memory to:

 

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11-30-11

Very sad to read about Kathi's passing.  She was a real sweetheart.

 

 In high school she was a regular in our youth group on Sunday evenings at the Arcadia Presbyterian Church and I remember her and Sue Childress were the "sweeties" and the "lookers."  She remained a devout Christian all of her life as evidenced by all her writings on the webpage. 

 

Virginia and I sat with her at some MHS dinner or reunion about 5-6 years ago and Virginia and her "clicked" together immediately and throughout the evening.  Virginia only met her that one time but remembered her each time I mentioned her or the '53 webpage.  I still have some of her art work and photos taken on her trips.

 

Her webpage was always upbeat, loving and had wonderful thoughts.  Though living miles away and only seeing her a few times over many years, I always felt I knew her well and loved her.  I will miss her writings and her enthusiasm for people. I'm so sorry we will miss her service tomorrow, Tuesday. (11-29-11)

 

Bob Huntington '54

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Sad News, Kathi passed away 11-17-11, here is the information from her daughter Kristi.

Kathi Henry, my beloved mom passed away unexpectantly and peacefully on the evening of Thurs November 17th.

 

It appears to have been her heart.

 

In remembrance  10-15-01  Issue #1 Class of 1953 she wrote

My passion is people

MY ethnic background is bicultural ( Irish).

My legal last name ( Henry) is my mothers maiden name .

My home during high school was in Arcadia down the street from the fire station on Wheeler street.

My education after MAD, where I was an art major, was in anthropology, archaeology and history.

My interests are in art, photography, music, drama, travel, and writing.

My family includes a daughter and 3 grandsons ( 12,15 &18)....now (22,25,28)

My goal is to pay off my debt and retire from the Auto Club in 2003 ( that, she did).

My latest enjoyment is being editor of our page, 1953

 

" I haven't accomplished a lot but have had a great time living"

 

A daughters editorial correction :   My mom accomplished more than most, she enriched and touched, with her heart and laughter so many. She was a fabulous mother and grandmother. Her spiritual life with the Lord was unrelenting.  And Yes she had a GREAT time living right up to the last minute!!

 

See attached photo taken the night before she passed away PAINTING. on Nov 16th  

 

I will truly miss her, we will miss her.

 

Services

Tues Nov 29th 11:00 am

Hope Church

6116 N. San Gabriel

San Gabriel, ca 91775

 

A luncheon following

   

She will be missed, note the pix was taken the day before she passed away.