AGUILAR, SAM
ALEXANDER, PAUL
ALLINGHAM, PAT
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
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
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
SHARP, PEGGY
SHOOK, JOHN
SIDEBOTHAM, ROBERT
SMITH, WILLIAM IVAN
SPANN, MARJORIE
SPERL, DAVID
STICH, ROBERT
STOLTZE, JEAN
SWANSON, JOHN              TOWN, DICK                     TUTTLE, DONALD
USSERY, GLORIA
VIGGERS, JAMES
VINING, RICHARD
WATENPAUGH, JOHN
WILLEY, MYRNA            WINNETT, EARLINE
WOEHLER, WALLACE
WILSON,ARLEEN
WRIGHT, JACK
YORK, JANICE
ZATINSKI, MELVIN



 

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PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR OUR

MAD ALL-CLASS REUNION

ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER  USS MIDWAY MUSEUM

OCTOBER 1 -2, 2010

 

OUR PAGE

1953

MONROVIA, ARCADIA, DUARTE

HIGH SCHOOL

Issue 144

 

1953                 2010

KATHI PHELPS HENRY

EDITOR

E MAIL: writekathi@juno.com

SNAILMAIL: PO BOX 1162     

Sierra Madre, CA 91025

TELEPHONE:  (626) 355-7892

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Happy 4th of July

 

INDEPENDENCE DAY

 

This has been around for a few years, but thought it good to remind us, where we all came from.   Great time to grow up

How’s This For Nostalgia?  All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

 It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?


 
 Nobody owned a purebred dog?


 When a quarter was a decent allowance?


 You ' d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?


 Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?


 You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn ' t pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
 

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?


 It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?


 They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did it!


 When a 57 Chevy was everyone ' s dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
 

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?


 Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
 and saying things like, ' That cloud looks like a... ' ?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?


 Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?


 And with all our progress, don ' t you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.


 When being sent to the principal ' s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn ' t because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.


 Didn ' t that feel good, just to go back and say, ' Yeah, I remember that ' ?


I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

 Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody
and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale , Trigger and Buttermilk.


 How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.


 Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.


 Newsreels before the movie.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines.


 Peashooters.
 
 

 Hi-Fi ' s & 45 RPM records.


 78 RPM records!


 Green Stamps.


 Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do You Remember a Time When…
 
Decisions were made by going
 ' eeny-meeny-miney-moe ' ?
 Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, ' Do Over! ' ?
 ' Race issue ' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


 Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?



 It wasn ' t odd to have two or three ' Best Friends ' ?


 
 Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren ' t 30-minute commercials for action figures?


 ' Oly-oly-oxen-free ' made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
  
 

 The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?


 Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?


 Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?


 If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!

 Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their ' Grown-Up ' Life . .
I Double-Dog-Dare-Ya!
          
 

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SHIRLEY ANNE MERGET '53 COPAN -

After expressing her final farewells Shirley Anne Copan passed away peacefully to join her daughter, Patricia Lynn Chute Edwards, who was waiting for her with open arms, on April 25th, 2010.

 
Shirley who was born in Monrovia, California July 26th, 1935, had a heart big enough to share with her four children; Teri Sorensen, Lauri Moor, Arthur Chute, and Patricia Chute Edwards, who preceded her in death; her 10 grandchildren and her 8 great-grandchildren; as well as her beloved AA family.
Her love and goodness will forever remain in our hearts.  Her family and friends will miss her tremendously but we will be comforted in knowing she is out of pain, and at perfect peace.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Citrus Valley Hospice in
West Covina.

A CELEBRATION OF SHIRLEY'S LIFE WILL BE HELD MAY 23RD FROM 10:00 TO 4:00
AT CABRILLO PARK, UPLAND, CALIFORNIA

 

MONROVIA DAY ALL CLASS REUNION LUAU

Put on a lei and join us at the Aztec Hotel Patio, 311 W. Foothill Blvd. on Monrovia Day at 5:00PM, Saturday, May 15^th. Enjoy lots of great food, companionship from days gone by, music and drinks (No host Bar). You get all this for $10.00 ea. payable to the “Monrovia High School Alumni Assn.”.  You may send it to: Bob Humble, 305 S. Cedar Dr., Covina, CA  91723, or pay in check or cash at the door. For food count, please RSVP Bob at 626-966-6897.       . See you there.

 

 

 

APRIL, 2010 UPDATE ON THE 1953 SCHOLARSHIP FUND

 

The 1953 Scholarship fund stands at $26,144.23 as of April 6, 2010.  A NEW contributor is 1953 classmate Richard (Dick) Grund bringing the total contributors to 93.  Thanks for remembering the scholarship and our classmate, Robin Kipp

 

A $1,000 scholarship will be given in June, 2010 to a worthy Monrovia High School Graduate by the class of 1953.         

 

            Background on the fund established at our 50th reunion in 2003.  Duane Gray volunteered as chairman and suggested that everyone contribute $200 and we could reach our goal of $60,000 to keep the scholarship operating in perpetuity by the interest generated.  Based on the current economy, that probably will not be the case.  The Monrovia Schools Foundation invests your money conservatively to keep it safe.  The $1,000 will be awarded annually to students until the account is depleted.  The WOW was established if a contribution of $1,000 or more is made.

 

To Send A Donation to our 1953 Class Scholarship Fund:

Make your check or money order payable to:

MSF (Monrovia Schools Foundation) Class of 1953

P.O. Box 2447

Monrovia, CA 91017

 

Be sure to indicate the name you graduated with.  If you wish to remember someone with your contribution please so indicate.  The number after a name indicates how many contributions.  If underlined it is a recent donation.

 

We thank and honor the following contributors (note gals are listed by their maiden name if we have it).  Some have donated in honor or in memory of another as written in italics.  We have 93 contributors as follows:

 

Anonymous - 2

Alfred Alarcon - 2

Richard A. Alutin

Robert Alutin - 2

Carol J. (Anderson) Wilmsen

Norma E. (Andrews) Foltz - in memory of her sister, Carol Andrews Fuller

Meredith (Babeaux) Brucker

Thomas R. Bandy - in memory of Thomas M. Harvey

Jerry & Celeste Binnings

Jack W. Beschta - 2

Cynthia (Billig) Davis  - 2

Nancy (Billman) Thompson and George Thompson

Eugene Bishop - 3

Donna (Bliss) Vinton

Richard R. Bolton - 3

Lee Brown

Wanda Joanne (Bullard) Bartlett - in memory of husband,

         David L. Bartlett  5  HURRAY !!!!

Keith Burns

Mary Jo (Burns) Dalmont

Kay (Carrol) Collins - 2

Kazon (Collins) Allen

Katherine (Coopland) Horn - In memory of Charlene Gray Niendorff and Carol Sue Ross King - 3

Evelyn (Cox) Carpenter & Dennis Carpenter  In memory of Phyllis Carpenter, MHS '57 - 2

Dennis Carpenter - In Memory of Don Ellis - 3 (see above)

Audrey (Crellin) Beatty - in memory Helen & Bert Luebbers - 2

Marg (Crusan) Stockett

Katherine (Delaney) House - 2

Sandra Dunn – in memory of Eileen Jessen

William Dyer

Sally (Eggstaff) Welsh

Loween (Falcon) Mayer - in memory of Myrtle Franklin

Floth, Paul & wife, Oleita

Patricia (Fortner) Kinnan and husband Jerry - in memory of Vivian Elmgren  - 2

Viola (Fuehr) Panman - 2

Joe Garcia

David George

Janet (Gervais) Crandall

Charleen (Gray) Niendorff (deceased)

Duane W. Gray 3  HURRAY Mai Le Gray Scholarship

Jack E. Groat - 2

Richard (Dick) Grund - in memory of Robin Kipp

Pat (Herr) Overshiner

Joy (Hobbs) Friedmen

James J. Jameson

Veeva (Hamblen) Presnell - in memory of Patricia Hamilton & Patti Franz - 2

Ann (Hayes) Hobbs - in memory of Patty Franz Clark

Joseph R. Henry

Susie (Hester) Taylor

Richard Hoon - in memory of Roger Hoon & Diane Hoon

Gail Howard - 4

Stan and Jolinda Hughes - 2

Robert Irone Jr. - in memory of those mates that are no longer hanging around to contribute - 2

Gretchen (Kambeitz) Cacciotti

Arthur Kendall (deceased)

R. J. & Diane Koch

Shirley J. (Martin) Minter

Mariellen (Matthews '54) Armas Staller - in memory of Paul Armas '53

Dennis C. Mavity

Kathy McClanahan - in memory of Arlene Wilson   

Fleur Mitchel

Marilee J. Musgrove-Brown - in memory of Phyllis Cooper

Bert and Arlene Munsell

Rene (Napier) Eder - in memory of Vivian Elmgren, MAD History Teacher - 2

Marilyn (Nollac) Spears - 2

Jocelyn (Orth) Pyle - 2

Joanna (Payne) Jones - in memory of Gail Bermeister - 3

Kathi (Phelps) Henry - in memory of Charlene Gray Niendorff - 2

Pat (Pilon) Garman

Roger Pollard - in memory of Gary Adams ‘54

Joe Rayle - in memory of Clyde Harwick and Chuck Collins - 2

Mary Ellen (Romney) MacArthur, Ph.D. - in memory of Thelma Thompson, mentor and friend

Sally Ann (Scharfe) Jacobs

Lasley (Scholl) Biven - In Memory of Art Kendall - 3

Barbara (Scott) Ruff

Fred Selin, in memory of wife Norma - 5

Kathleen (Shepherd) Campbell - in memory of Patty Franz Clark - 3

Patricia (Shimp) Mordecai

Larry Shoberg - 2

Bob Shugert - In honor of Phil Parker

Carolyn (Snyder) Jordan - In memory of Muriel Holmgren, Robert Long, Ed Ryan - 4

George Soetje - In Memory of George Meyer - 2

Charles and Mariam (McFarland) '52 Stein - In Memory of Bernice Carpenter - 4

Marilyn (Strauss) Carpenter

John A. Sturgeon - in memory of Art Kendall - 4

Marlene (Teigen) Weaver - 2

Marlene Town - in memory of her husband Dick Town

David Walling & Waly - 2

Bruce Wasserburger - in memory of Art Kendall

Carol (Weber) Bryan

Stewart Weitzman

Peter Wynn

 

Go Green MAD!  Those that want to go for a  “Hurray” ($1,000 or more) will have “Hurray” and your name in GREEN on Our Page, 1953.  But, Only if you wish.

 

Thanks to all of you

 

 

A TRIBUTE TO ROBIN KIPP by John Holmstrom

 

I first met Robin Kipp when he entered the Duarte school's seventh grade. We became pals, riding bikes, playing softball, and going to the Saturday kids matinee's at the Monrovia movie theater. Robin lived across the street from the rear of the Big Sky Drive In theater, known and loved by many, many M.A.D. students over the years. After the eighth grade we both went to M.A.D. high school where Robin got very good grades and was  an outstanding football player and pole vaulter. I got not so good grades and was third string center on the "B" football team. Our friendship grew in those  four years which featured  hanging out at the Frontier and  Carpenters Drive Ins, me cleaning an Arcadia hamburger stand up every morning before school and Robin pumping gas near the Monrovia airport plus working on our cars, listening to Hunter Hancock and Art Laboe on the radio playing what was then termed  "race" music.  (Robin's patient mother always came into his room and we previewed our new records for her!) We also started a social club as seniors, called the  "Centurions" for some reason but it was just an excuse to have parties!

 

Robin was always a gifted, effortless athlete and a patient person. I admired  him for this and I realized he was special in that he treated everyone the same: with  kindness. I  don't ever recall him getting angry or being rude. I also  remember Robin and I and four or five others jammed into a tiny motel room in Costa Mesa one Bal week, happily  playing  poker  and watching TV.  After graduation baccalaureate  services Robin and I along with George Soetje,  Larry 
Johnson, and Tom Matthews bought front row seats at the Los Angeles Follies burlesque theater in L.A. to celebrate!  We also enjoyed taking dates to China  Town's Grandview Gardens cafe that had Zep Meisners trio to dance to.

 

When I was discharged  in l957 from the  Army  Robin was to be married to 18 year old Judi and he'd waited an extra few weeks until my release so I could be his  best man. Why did he want to be married and to a 18 year old kid I wondered? How could pal Robin and I have  fun together if he was married, right?

 

Well, Robin and Judy were married over 50 years. To say it was a "successful" marriage is an understatement. Robin developed into a very accomplished  architect and an ever gracious and supportive Judi ran their homes and was a librarian. I  traveled for many years, making films and living in four states plus being in 45 countries but somehow we got together every few years or so. Our friendship was almost seamless. We just enjoyed being together, talking about the present and future more than the past, and we were both so grateful that we loved  the "work" we did.

 

When Robin and Judi retired to a lovely home near Palm Springs they  spent time remodeling their contemporary home, buying exquisite modern pottery, and visiting their son Steve up north. Robin's  beloved  Porsche was his immaculate joy.  When I visited  we'd have breakfast by their pool and make an effort not to reminisce (too much!) about the past or  complain about the present, like many people.  Through all the years Robin was  a steady, sane friend.

 

Robin passed away February 25th, my birthday as well as Dick Grund, his Wildcat track mate, who drove in from Texas for the Palm Springs funeral. Afterwards, on my way home to Hollywood, I stopped at my old Duarte school, just off the freeway and now a restaurant. On one of the walls is an old school picture of a scruffy bunch of eighth grade boys posing with their baseball mitts and bats. The back row shows Robin and me, two skinny kids, unaware of what life held for us, our  innocent faces alive with  the expectation of playing baseball on a sunny California day. That  image is the one I'll  always "see" when I  remember my dear friend, Robin Kipp.                                   

 

From: holmstromfilmvid@att.net
 

 

Judi Kipp, can be reached at (760) 776-8216

 

We send our love to Judi and their son Steve.

Christmas 2007