1920

1929

1930

1934

1936

Alvin Flannes Jean P. Francis

William Fentress Bill Ferantte

Perry Morrison   Blanche Mowrey

Mary Louise White             Alice Wilkinson

Walter Self Sarah Seymour

1944 

Joe Coombs    Roger Jensen

 

Donna (Marto '57) Smith

Happy Jack, AZ

dogtrainerone@yahoo.com

Note new email address 10-3-09

**** So glad someone is sending stuff to me for your Golden Cats page.

     Much thanks to Rocky Rockwood, '38 for the beautiful photos he

     sends....Keep it coming Rocky.

On Thursday with some sun a short walk around the Hayden Bay gave me a couple wildlife images.

As  I walked around the west end of the bay our resident Great Blue  Heron landed right by me but

since I have dozens of photos of his (hers?) cousins I didn't click the shutter.

 

Out at the point the breakwater logs had this mix of Gulls and these Double

Crested Cormorants.

 

And out in the eddy in the Columia were 10 or so Western Grebes (last year I

counted 100)

 

 

On Friday David Seesholtz and I did a four and a half  mile clockwise loop in

Salmon Creek.

 

As we started we were seeing no bird life  so I took these of the meadow in a

horse pasture and the wild roses along the trail

 

While resting at our turnaround point several Cedar Waxwings entertained us. They

were really out of range for my 450 mm equivalent telephoto but I shot away

anyway......hand held,  cropped and sharpened in Photoshop.

 

We saw Towhees but got no photos so I went to my archives from previous hikes

and pulled up this one

 

A nice little side stream comes in from the south

 

Many dog walkers were out on the paved trail and since I take lots of photos of

faces added this to my collection

Happy Trails'  

Rocky '38

 

 

 

 

* * * just in from Hank Morris, class of '47

 

    Another "Golden Cat (Kitten) to add to 1922
 

Hi Donna:

I recently learned that a classmate of my Mom's (Hazel Peterson, 1922) passed away just

short of 104! That's probably a record for that class. Helen Church Giebler.

Helen Church and my mom were buddies going back to grammar school at Wildrose.

 

Helen will be remembered by some as a teacher at Mayflower. Interestingly, her earliest

teaching days were here in Ventura. Helen was married to Harold Giebler, later a teacher

and basketball coach at Elliot in Pasadena. Before that, they lived and taught in Galveston, TX

before returning to Monrovia.

 

Their daughter Ellen Anne, was my first real girl friend. She and Jan were both in MAD '49.

 

 

As an EMT here in Happy Jack, I have finally convinced Emergency Services, to put in place, trained service dogs. They have now been introduced to help cut costs.

Canines have been used for police work, search & rescue, tracking, service dogs and a variety of other tasks.  Now they're assisting Paramedics and EMTs and doing so at a much lower cost. 



See the example below..........................

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breathe, damn you, breathe!

 

* * * from Rocky Rockwood, class of  '38.....

 

Donna,

My yearly visit to my alma mater CALTECH is timed to be at the spring bloom peak and

while I've sent images in the past  many have not seen the Pasadena campus so here are a

few new and old.

 

Starting at the east side of the campus at the Athaneum, where our Half Century Club lunch

is held, we walk west along the student houses

 

 

Caltech is coed now and looks like it sows it's seed early

 

 

At the end of the Olive walk where the old Thrope Hall stood in my day are waterfalls and

 turtle ponds and the tall Milican Library beyond

 

 

along the way the Bookstore columns are headed with appropriate designs

 

 

 

 

Near the turtle ponds is a small succulent garden with some unique specimens

and the use of water features in gardens
 

 

 

other walks on campus show off the perfusion of blooms-

 

Thanks Rocky for sharing these photos with others that may have attended Caltech.
 

 I used to drive by there a lot chasing girls in Pasadena till one caught me.
I did stop out front once when a cop pulled my roadster over.
--
Love to all Gary

 

 

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR OUR

MAD ALL-CLASS REUNION

ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER  USS MIDWAY MUSEUM

OCTOBER 1 -2, 2010

 

OK, all of you other Golden Cats....