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Class of '50 classmates that are Gone but Not Forgotten.
Jerry Ablesen
Stephanie Ainsworth-Barnes
John Akin Jim Ames
Gerald Bouch
Jerry Bradshaw
Richard Brandes
Richard Carlston
Charles Cope
David Corbin
Earl Crapo
Beverly Dierlam-Sommer
Richard Duntley
Vaughn (Buddy) Edgar
Allen Fleming
John Gates
Bunny Gillette
Carolyn Goen
Nancy Hetler-Saylor
Chuck Hoggatt
Doris Johnson-Randall
Max Jones
Walter Jones
Larry (Durkee) Keating
Cora Kinnard-Meinel
Edward Kemp
Robert Lee
Ron Lee
Richard Leonard
Bob Miller
Don Montgomery
Milan Moody Earl Mortensen
Betty Norman-Eggstaff
Kenny Palmer
Neil Peterson
Dave Pittman
Ann Rasey- Rethlefsen
Arlitha Rosedale-Wertz
Darwin Rosen
Dennis Selleck
Shirley Sherman
Bill Sink
Dorothy Snow
Beverly Turk Salter
Ferris "Tommy" Thompson
Tony Wynn
Paul Zednichek
'50
Gary Dayton '49/'50
Imperial Beach CA
Please note, I have changed my email address,
I still receive the aol mail but am slowly changing over.
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:16 PMSubject: Ray Brownood Service
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR OUR
MAD ALL-CLASS REUNION
ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
OCTOBER 1 -2, 2010
Did you get your card yet? I got mine, stay alive and be there. Only about 8 months to go.
3-8-10 Back from the Lake Havasu City Pioneers Celebration. We had a ball, so many old friends from back in the '60s. A few of you know many of them. Betty Peterson (Pete's widow), Pete's sister Shirley, Tom Griffin and many more. I will add a few pix of some of them. Below Shirley Peterson Roach Webster and her little boy Hal Roach. This was at an 80th birthday party for Shiley at Hal & Julie's house.
Betty Peterson and Barbara Dayton
Betty Peterson and sister in law Shirley Peterson Roach etc.
Below the first FHA tract in LHC, the street off Smoketree to the right is Sunflower. Pete & Betty's house and our house were on that street and probably under construction when this was taken around early '65. That is the airport on the Point straight ahead at the top. I did a lot of flying in and out of there.
Here is Barbara with Tom Griffin ('51). This was at a party after the Pioneer party Tom does all of Don Laughlin's engineering.
Here is a pix of a pix. Dotty & Joe Coomb's ('44) and Barbara and me. I had flown us to Vegas for a show. '66.
3-5-10 From Jim Regan
This story comes from longtime staffer Jim McConnell, the man we call, "The King" around the office. He writes a weekly Then & Now column. He gives us a bit of history today about Monrovia football.
THEN & NOW
Jim McConnellSay "wait 'til next year" one hundred times. When you're done, you will have articulated the mantra of Monrovia High football.
Few Southern California football programs have been as successful as Monrovia's. None have been as star-crossed.
In the 100-year history of football at Monrovia High, the Wildcats have had legitimate shots at no less than 24 CIF-Southern Section titles. Incredibly, they've failed to win any.
Monrovia High was founded in 1887, which makes it one of the oldest high schools in Southern California. The school first fielded a football team in 1898. In 1914, it was one of the founding members of the CIF. By 1921, Monrovia was in the running for a berth in the CIF-SS playoffs and took a 7-1 record into its regular-season finale against L.A. Lincoln. A win would have vaulted the Wildcats into the playoffs, but Lincoln won 33-0.
By 1927, under the guidance of former USC star Hobbs Adams, the Wildcats were back among the top teams in Southern California. Monrovia was 7-1-1 entering its final regular-season game against league rival Covina. The powerful Colts - two-time defending league and CIF-SS champs - prevailed and denied Monrovia a playoff berth.
The 1928 season brought more heartbreak for Monrovia rooters. The Wildcats went undefeated in nine games, but were held to ties against league rivals El Monte and Citrus, and Covina once again wound up representing the league in the playoffs.
The leading player on the 1927 and 1928 Monrovia teams was quarterback Willard Brouse, who went on to play for Howard Jones at USC.
After a couple subpar seasons, Gene McAlister took over as Monrovia coach and put together a powerhouse in 1935. It was quite possibly the best team in school history and among the greatest San Gabriel Valley teams ever.
The Wildcats, led by quarterback Leroy Zimmerman, end Johnny Lindell and lineman Lou Bowman, shook off an early-season, 7-0 loss to Pomona to win the Pacific League title. In one of the bigger upsets in Valley sports history, however, Monrovia was stunned by Muir Tech 14-6 in its final league game a week after the Wildcats secured the league title.
Even so, McAlister's team seemed to have shaken off that loss when it rolled over its first two opponents in the CIF-SS playoffs. That set up a championship matchup with Santa Barbara High at the Rose Bowl.
Monrovia was favored, but the Dons had other plans. They held off the Wildcats 14-12 in one of the most exciting Large Schools finales to that point.
The loss certainly didn't hurt the careers of Zimmerman, Lindell and Bowman. Zimmerman went on to star at San Jose State, played nine years (1940-48) in the NFL and made the All-Pro team in 1944. Lindell, who also was a star in baseball, basketball and track at Monrovia, opted for baseball and played 11 years in the majors (1943-53), most notably with the New York Yankees. Bowman went on to star at New Mexico, where he earned all-conference honors.
By 1948, Bob Blackman had taken over the coaching duties at Monrovia and guided the Wildcats back to gridiron glory. They went 9-0 in the regular season and qualified for their first playoff berth since 1935. As fate would have it, Monrovia's first-round opponent was Santa Barbara. Once again, the underdog Dons bested the Wildcats.
John Daniels assumed coaching duties at Monrovia in 1950, and his 1951 team was a beauty. The Wildcats, led by lineman Hardiman Cureton, rolled over 11 consecutive opponents. That set up a classic matchup in the CIF title game against Pomona, which also was 11-0. Pomona prevailed, though, 26-13 in front of a standing- room only crowd estimated at 25,000 at Mt. San Antonio College.
In addition to Cureton, who went on to star at UCLA and in the Canadian Football League, distinguished members of that 1951 Monrovia team included guard Jim Pullman, who went on to play at UC Santa Barbara; end Lawrence Ross, who played at the University of Denver and then in the CFL; and fullback Bob Ballard, who followed Cureton to UCLA.
Daniels fielded another strong team in 1952, when the Wildcats went 8-2. One of the losses, to South Pasadena in the first round of the playoffs, ended their season. The same story held true in 1953, when the Wildcats again went 8-2. One of the losses, to Fullerton in a nonleague game, didn't hurt. The other, in the first round of the playoffs to Whittier, did. The Cardinals rode the momentum all the way to the Large Schools championship game, where they were beaten by Santa Monica 34-19.
Monrovia fielded another strong team in 1957 that featured halfback Keith Lincoln, who when on to be one of the early stars in the AFL with the San Diego Chargers. The Wildcats were 7-2 that year, but a tough 31-26 league loss to longtime rival Pomona kept them out of the playoffs.
By 1959, Monrovia had a new coach in Mike Giddings. Everything clicked for the Wildcats, who took an 11-0 record into the CIF 3A Division championship. Unfortunately, nothing worked for Monrovia in that one, and San Diego High posted a 53-0 victory. San Diego, long a target of complaints from fellow Southern Section schools, knew the game was its last in the section, with the San Diego section due to open for the 1960 season. The Hilltoppers used their exit as motivation and swamped the favored Wildcats.
Don Robbins took over as coach at Monrovia in 1960, but the switch didn't change the Wildcats' luck. They put together an 8-1 season, but the one loss was in league to Arcadia, and it cost them the league title and a playoff berth.
Robbins guided Monrovia to an 8-0-1 record in 1962 and into the Large Schools playoffs. Unfortunately, they were matched up against powerful El Rancho in the first round and lost 19-0.
The 1965 season provided almost an instant replay of 1962. Robbins' team won league and took an 8-1 record into the Large Schools opener, where it once again was paired up with El Rancho and once again lost.
One of the more notable players from the Don Robbins era at Monrovia was wide receiver Fair Hooker, who went on to play at Arizona State and for six years (1969-1975) with the Cleveland Browns.
First-round CIF playoff losses again were the Wildcats' fate in 1966 (again to El Rancho) and 1968 (47-20 to Blair).
Tom Paton became Monrovia coach in 1972 and produced a series of outstanding teams. After going 7-2 in 1972, Paton guided back-to-back 12-1 seasons. The 1973 team, led by quarterback Doug Hopper, lost in the CIF-SS 3A final 14-7 to Crescenta Valley. The 1974 team lost to Santa Ana Valley in the 3A Division semifinals. Santa Ana Valley went on to rout Colton 47-14 in the 3A title game.
Perhaps the most notable Monrovia player during Paton's tenure was halfback Obie Graves, who went on to star at Citrus College and Cal State Fullerton and played two seasons in the CFL.
The 1981 Monrovia team, coached by Rick Watson, also reached the CIF semifinals. The Wildcats took a 10-1 record into that year's Northwestern Conference semis but lost to Antelope Valley, which then beat Burbank Burroughs 24-14 for the title.
In 1982, Watson's charges went 9-2-2 and reached the CIF Northwestern finale but lost 7-0 to underdog Verbum Dei.
The 1983 Monrovia team might have been even better. The Wildcats had an 11-0 record heading into a much-heralded Northwestern Conference semifinal matchup against Canyon Country Canyon. Canyon nipped the Wildcats 27-25, and that was perhaps the most bitter of all Monrovia playoff setbacks.
Among the many outstanding players on the 1982 and 1983 teams was Chris Hale, who went on to star as a defensive back at USC and play four years in the NFL.
It took Monrovia 14 years to get back to a CIF title game. The 1997 Wildcats were 12-0-1 entering the CIF-SS Division IX finale, but they came up short against Mira Costa, 28-14. Amazingly, the 1998 season was a virtual re-run, with Monrovia taking a 12-0 mark into the Division X title tilt only to lose 28-24 at Paso Robles.
Again in 1999, it looked like Monrovia finally would end its CIF jinx. The Wildcats, led by running back Akil Harris, were 12-1 going into a Division X championship rematch with Paso Robles, but this time the game was going to be played at Citrus College rather than far-off Paso Robles. Unfortunately for Wildcats fans, the site didn't make a difference as Paso Robles came away a 24-10 winner.
The 21st century brought yet another outstanding Monrovia team. The 2002 Wildcats were 11-0 heading into their Division X semifinal against Lompoc, but fell short. Lompoc went on to win the division title, a story that by then was all too familiar to the Monrovia faithful.
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3-6-10 We are off to Lake Havasu City AZ to attend a "Pioneer Celebration". It is for those of us who were there before 1974. We went there to work on the development in 1965 when there was about 500 people living there. Looks like it's about 56,000 now. From MAD Tom Griffin and his wife Dee, Betty Peterson, Neil "Pete" Peterson's widow, Pete's sister, Shirley Peterson Roach Webster. We are returning to the scene of the crime, so to speak. We had a lot of fun times there. I did a lot of flying out of there, that is where I finished getting my license. I even flew a doctor from Kingman to LHC for Bob McCulloch Jr's daughter one day. I flew my instructors family to his funeral in Yuma. He was killed in a plane crash in UT. There aren't a lot of us original Trico (our engineering company) members left anymore. Joe Coombs was Pres. and from MAD, he has been gone for quite a while now.
2-26-10 I finished reading one of the best books I have ever read; "Crazy for the Storm" by Norman Ollestad. I am pretty sure Genelle Cox is the one who told me about it. This is a must read, it takes place in our old back yard. There is a video about it but you should read the book first. Norman's dad wrote a book " Inside the FBI" and I guess he had J. Edgar Hoover on his rear. He worked for them for a year and was discussed with them and quit. I have bought this book and it is in the mail. The Storm book I got from the library.
2-25&26-10 I had a little home improvement project that I thought would only take a little while to complete. There was some paint peeling on the south facing fascia. I started to scrape it and found quite a bit of dry rot, the more I got into it the more it had to be replaced. Here is where I removed the old pieces, there were two here from a previous partial repair. The 1X2 pieces at each end are to hold the new piece while I fasten it, I used screws. To remove the old pieces I had to cut nails from the sheeting above. I have a small cordless saber saw that worked pretty good for this, they were about every 10" so there were lots of them. Below you can see the cable TV wires I had to remove and tie back out of the way. Also my trusty cloths line.
Below the new piece of 2X8 cut and primed.
Below the finished job. Cost $5.21 at Home Depot.
I had all the tools, primer, paint and fasteners.
2-20-10 Betty Peterson in TX thinks that IRS building in Austin the guy flew his plane into is where I worked for a while. I was working for a developer back in about '84.
2-25-10 Gary called and he had all the staples out of his arm and leg, I think he said there were 50+ total. The doctor was real happy with the healing, he said another month of no weight on the leg, then he could start using it.
2-19-10 Our son Gary in Reno came home from 10 days in the hospital after a car made a left turn into his Harley. He has on his left side a broken leg in at least 2 places with a rod in it, arm with a plate screwed to his shoulder, plus 5 broken ribs. Talking to him today he said before he left the hospital one of the doctors said he needed to have his gall bladder removed. Something to look forward to. He has decided no more Harley's.
Gary's Harley in the wrecking yard. The front wheel is broken loose and backwards.
2-26-10 Abby is about 945 miles below the Equator and heading south. Her blog gets pretty funny at times.
2-19-10 Abby crossed the Equator and is now in the Southern Ocean headed for Cape Horn.
What are the rest of the 16 year old girls doing today? See link below.
2-18-10 Check out Abby, the 16 year old girl sailing solo non stop around the world. She is right at the equator heading into the Southern Ocean.
2-17-10 We talked to Gary this evening, he is still in the hospital and still hurting pretty bad. He said he had a shower today (they have to wrap his left arm and leg in plastic), he said that felt great. Then he got to sit outside for a while and really enjoyed that. He said he is off the IV pain med and taking some by mouth. He sounded good, other than all the pain. His son Cory's wife, Kristine, was there and showing him a sonogram of his future grandson, this will be another Dayton, lots of girls, not very many boys in this family. He said no more Harley's.
2-10-10 Wednesday our oldest son, Gary, came home from work in Reno and took a ride on his Harley. He was coming back home and about 2 miles from home and going thru an intersection when a vehicle turned left into him. He said it happened so fast he never had a chance to get off the throttle. It hit him on the left side and threw him over the vehicle to the pavement. A fellow stopped and came over to him, Gary asked him to call his wife with Gary's cell phone. Gary couldn't get up, his left leg and arm were broken in several places, along with 5 ribs. Thanks to his helmet no damage to his head. He has a rod in his leg, a plate screwed to his shoulder and still has to have an MRI on his right shoulder, he said it really hurts. In fact he finally was in a part of ICU where he could call today (Sat) and had to cut it short as his arm hurt too much to hold the phone up to his ear. He said he felt like he had been hit by a train. He was in good spirits and joking some. He will be in a wheel chair for about 6 weeks. One of his daughter's father-in-law built a wheel chair ramp to their front door already. He will be living in their family room in a hospital bed for the duration. Their house is on 3 levels. Lisa, his wife, said he will have to go home in an ambulance as he can't get in a car. That is a few days off still.
Warren Alvord in black and Gary in red T shirt, Gary's Harley is the blue one. Warren had ridden down from Orange CA to see Gary Christmas time here at our house, they had gone to school together in Lake Havasu City. Gary brought his down on his trailer.
Saturday Jan 30 2010 Abby is having electrical problems, can't keep her batteries charged up and is putting into Cabo San Lucas to resolve the problem. She will restart from there, hopefully soon, check her website below for the latest. Check her Blog and Abby's Location for the latest.
Saturday Jan 23 2010 Abby Sunderland set sail from Marina Del Rey for a 6 month solo trip around the world in her 40' sailboat. That is no big deal, except she just turned 16 and this is a non stop planned trip. Here is the website and there are lots of videos and places to find out all kinds of things, the Blog gives the daily progress. http://www.abbysunderland.com/videos.php
This is Abby's brother and Abby, he has already made a trip around the world, quite a family.
Abby on Wild Eyes, as I write this she is down off Mexico on her way around Cape Horn. When she gets back she plans to get her drivers license.
Having fun here at the beach. We still are, can't beat this weather. Pix 1-9-10
Point Loma in the distance through the IB pier. I took a little bike ride to read and get these pix. I heard Chicago is digging out of a foot and a half of snow today. So much for global warming. Here is the link to John Coleman's take on that subject, he is our local weather man and he started the Weather Channel, 55 years of knowledge here.
http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a Click on the bottom right corner box to go to full page.
When you get done with that here is something to really scare you. http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/moden-binary-explosives/ Same deal with going to full screen, note this was made in 2006. There are a lot of other, not so serious items there too.
1-1-10 What a sunset out back at our house. The condos in the distance are on the beach where we used to live.
12-29-09 I had a nice long chat with Richard Edwards, he is still hanging in there in Garden Grove. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but when he was in prison way back when, he worked in the kitchen and actually served Charlie Manson. He said he was a weird little guy. I am hoping he can make it to the Midway Reunion in Oct. He is on oxygen, and uses a scooter to get around, he has lead a interesting life.
Denny Selleck, Neil 'Pete' Peterson, & Richard Edwards, MAD's 40th Reunion. Amazing, Richard is the last man standing.
Day 1000 falls on Jan. 16, 2010.This is quite an adventure, I have been following it since the start.
Reid has decided to stay down by the Equator and wait till Spring to return home to NY.
He wants to avoid the winter North Atlantic storms on the return. This will take him past
the 1,000 days, but with a well worn boat that sounds like a good idea.The latest is he is due back to NY in mid June. It looks like he
will be over 3 years when he returns.
This pix gives you an idea of the size of this 70' Schooner, that is Reid at the bow.
Lunch, probably for the rest of the 1,000 days, a big Mahi. Caught 9-5-09
http://1000days.net/home/index.php
6-22-09 If you have had a quiet day, click here for a little Volvo Ocean Racing video. http://www.volvooceanrace.tv/page/FeatureDetail/0,,12573~1694673,00.html Don't get too wet.
There still seems to be several who are new to the computer, Barbara won't even try, here is how to do Copy and Paste from "The Computer Lady". She gives great computer help and is worth reading.
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I have been getting a lot of requests lately for directions on
using copy and paste, or cut and paste, so I decided to address
this topic once again.
Before you can cut or copy text, you need to be able to highlight it.
There are several ways to do this.
1. Move your mouse to the beginning of your text, hold down the
left mouse button and slowly move the mouse to the end of the
text. When the text you want to use is highlighted, release the
mouse button.
2. With your mouse, click once at the beginning of your text.
Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard, and click once at
the end of the text. Everything between the first click and the
second will be highlighted.
3. Using the arrow keys move the cursor to the beginning of your
text, hold down the shift key while using the arrow keys to
move to the end of your text. This method works well for web
pages where the text you want to copy is larger than the screen.
4. Now we will copy what we highlighted. When you copy something,
you place it in a part of Windows memory called the clipboard.
5. To do this, you first highlight your text, and then click on
"Edit" and "Copy". Even though you can't see any changes, you
will now have your text on the clipboard.
6. To paste, you simply click where you want the text to go and
click "Edit" and "Paste".
Let's say that you want to send just this article in an e-mail to
your mother. First, you would highlight the article, then click
"Edit" and "Copy". Next, you open a new e-mail and address it
to your mom. Now click in the body of the e-mail where you want
the article to go, and click "Edit" and "Paste".
Your article is now in the new e-mail
An even easier way to do this, is to first highlight your text,
and then using your keyboard, press Ctrl + C.
This is the same as "Edit" and "Copy" and you will now have your
text on the clipboard.
To paste, you simply click where you want the text to go and
press Ctrl + V.
Not only is it faster and easier to use the keyboard shortcuts,
but it works in places where there is no "Edit" menu available.
If you can highlight the text, you can usually copy it.
For an illustrated tutorial on this topic, you can visit my
web site at: www.asktcl.com/copypaste.html
Elizabeth
If needed download the free Power Point viewer from this site
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyId=428D5727
-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=enI found this doesn't seem to always work with AOL, if you have
that problem download
Firefox from here, it works great. I use it to monitor the websites.http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Barbara thinks this is me every time she goes in my office or the garage.
This is hard work.
Our curb art address, fun things at the beach. The sloop is from a painting of our old sloop "Bluejeans". Below, the artist at work.
