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Class of '50 classmates that are Gone but Not Forgotten.

Jerry Ablesen
Stephanie Ainsworth-Barnes 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                  Tom Sutherland
Ferris "Tommy" Thompson
Tony Wynn
Paul Zednichek

'50

Gary Dayton '49/'50
Imperial Beach CA
gdayton65@gmail.com         Please note, I have changed my email address,
I still receive the aol mail but am slowly changing over.

11-20-08 we went to a hear a fantastic speaker. He is famous world wide, but I had never heard of him, I am sure many of you probably have.

Here is a link to his website, there are links from it to many clips from his speeches, believe me it is worth a few minutes to watch. I just wish all could have been there.

http://barryasmus.com/ & http://barryasmus.com/video/wmv/video-BarryAsmus-Full-Speech-lg.php

11-20-08 Richard Edwards

Gold Coast Retirement Center 13881 Dawson St Garden Grove CA 92843 Room 243B Richard's cell 714-514-9595 http://www.goldcrestretirementcenter.com/home.html

I found Richard Edwards again thanks to his bit in the Wildcat. I tried AA and didn't get a response from them, at least not yet. I had copied Paulette with my letter to AA and she had his current address. I did a Google Earth search for it and it showed a large complex that looked like a retirement type structure. Then I did a Google search for the address and got the map location and phone #. I called the # and got him. We must have talked for over an hour. He has a cell phone and that # is: 714-514-9595, he said the weekends are free as mine is, but I am sure he would love to hear from any of you that remember him. He has lead a real rough life, on drugs since HS and in prison many times. He finished his HS in prison and got his diploma. I had a pix of Denny, Pete and Richard that I took at the '50s 40th reunion. Richard looked like he was the president of some big corporation. Sadly when all of my hard drives crashed I lost it, I may run across the actual photo some day. Richard said his sister, Marilyn died of lung cancer a few years ago, she was originally married to Paul Tamietti, (Mercury Fence Co), I see Paul in the Wildcat. Richard mentioned Don Montgomery and said he knew him way back when and that his mother had remarried and he took the Montgomery name. Richard said he kept calling him by his original name and Don told him if he didn't call him Montgomery he wouldn't talk to him. I forgot to ask him again about the old story about him breaking into a drugstore in Monrovia. The story goes, cops were waiting for him inside when he came in through the roof, & that he said " Don't shoot, it's me Richard", nothing like being famous and on a first name basis. Richard asked about a reunion and I told him about the '50s 60th coming up in 2010 on the Midway, I hope he can make it. He is on oxygen and it seems to me he uses a wheelchair or did when I talked to him a few years ago. They say the good die young and he was as bad as the come, still a great guy that went down the wrong road. When you look over at the left column it makes you wonder how someone can abuse them selves so much and survive, so much for what the doctors say.

Does anyone have a picture of Richard? If so please send it to me.

Click below for a Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving, thanks Marilyn.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=HY27482779

Click below for another Thanksgiving video, thanks Donna.

http://www.cpmsglife.org/tg/2006tdm1.html

Montecito CA 1963 Before the fire. 11-15-08

I was working for Engineering Science out of Arcadia in 1963 and got sent to Montecito to relieve inspectors for their vacations. I was only supposed to be there 6 weeks and then go on to one of several other jobs as resident engineer. As it turned out I was there for over 9 months and got a call about 3PM to turn in all my paperwork and be in Arcadia that night. I met with my boss, Leonard Melburg about 8PM and we went over a water improvement plan consisting of over 100 pages and a large spec. book, this in about an hour. Leonard said I would probably have some questions, but I had to be in Valley Center at 8AM the next morning. That is another story.

Back to Montecito, they were sewering the entire town, it had been on septic tanks that were failing for years. The contractor was out of Belmont CA, it was a large contractor but had the worst field leadership I had ever seen. Most of the digging was real bad with rock/boulders, narrow streets. If I remember right they had 12 different crews working in different locations. ES had 6 inspectors and a resident engineer trying to keep them honest. The job was bid for one year and a million dollars; it took 2 years and two million dollars. They had an offer to sell the job at the bid opening for a million, what they had won it for and they turned it down. One example of how inept they were was on one of the sites I was watching they were able to use a trencher. I left and the trencher was moving along great. I came back and it was stopped. I walked up to the operator and asked him if he had broken down. He said no, they were using the string and stakes in the trench to lay pipe with. I couldn�t believe it, for lack of enough string and metal stakes they had lost half a days production. They had one guy that should have been fired day one or never hired. Here is a list of stupid things he did. He climbed on a cable backhoe and folded the boom back into the house/cab. He high centered a small bulldozer on top of a manhole with a man inside it. He was helping the powder man when he was setting charges. He had watched him before and thought he knew what to do. The powder man had been setting the charges, usually about 100 at a time using shooting wires that he would hook to the charges and then instead of using a detonator like you see on TV he was touching it to the battery of a piece of equipment. Dilbert helped him alright, as the powder man was hooking up to the charges and standing on all the loaded charges dingbat hooked up the other end. The powder man was real lucky, he had done a great job of choosing the size of the charges and none blew out. Blowouts did happen quite often, I was parked about a half a block away and a rock the size of a soft ball flew at me and went through the windshield of my car. I was standing alongside at the time. There were some more things he did but I can�t recall at the moment.

Many of the sewer lines went through back property easements and they were full of poison oak and ivy. The surveyors didn�t seem to be bothered but the party chiefs wife got it for washing his clothes. I was immune for most of the job and near the end I got it in my eyes, not fun. What was really funny was several property owners wanted the poison oak replanted not too many volunteers for that job.

We had to run a cast iron line on the beach in front of a bunch of little beach houses. When I say little most of the lots were 10-11 feet wide, the houses were like mobile homes with bunks on the side. What was funny was the contractor never could figure out a Tide Table and was forever getting caught with an incoming tide. The cast iron pipe came in 40 ft lengths and had to be cut for each little lot. I never got used to the noise the cutting process makes, the cutter is tightened around the pipe till it breaks, the sound is like a cannon going off, I jumped every time.

There were some real interesting people living there. On the beach was Jaffe who owned the little green mint company. William Joyce of shoes by the same name was president of the sewer board. We used to have coffee at a drugstore and an heir to the Liggett and Myers tobacco family would be there. There was an old lady that drove a 1936 Ford Phaeton (sedan roadster) that was like new; she was a McCormick of the farm implement family. There were a few more that I don�t remember. One time we were on the state highway that runs through Montecito inland, a small 2 lane road. We were digging over 20 feet deep and had to stop traffic for 30 minutes at a time with a permit to do so. One irate driver was ranting and raving that he was going to call the governor, and sure enough, about a half hour later here comes the highway patrol checking on it. He had called Pat Brown, the old man himself. Nothing came of it.

Another funny thing that kept happening all over town was when they were digging they would dig through a small pipe, usually 2" galvanized and water would be pouring out of it from the uphill side. They would cap it off and pretty soon someone would come by and say their spring water supply had stopped. Then the contractor could go with them to the source and shut it off while the repaired it. Back in the 1920s I guess there wasn�t any good local water and the rich folks would tap a spring up the hill and have a pipe run to their estate. Montecito was a place many Hollywood types and other wealthy folks had retreats.

I had very deluxe accommodations while I was there. I rented a second story room, one of three, in the upstairs of an old 1800�s house. This had the bathtub down the hall. It was in Santa Barbara and cost $30/month, it wasn�t much, but I wasn�t there all that much, I did build a model airplane though. These old places had 14 foot ceilings and all the gingerbread. ES didn�t pay too much in the way of subsistence. What was real funny about this was the IRS wanted to deny my deduction of the rent for 9 months, they said I was there too long and should have moved. I won with the argument that they were using hindsight and that I was sent there for only 6 weeks.

See what happens when you don't send me your stuff, you get mine, otherwise it would be a blank page.

Jim Regan is combining his Book page with the '50's 60th and I will be posting updates there. Things are moving fast, be sure and stay alive to attend.

7-10-08

Jim Regan advised me today that the carrier Midway is set for the '50s 60th on Oct 2 2010.



Stay healthy my friends, a take off on the beer commercial. Check out the latest on Jim's page http://madcatsalumni.org/book_review%20'50%2060th.htm

Day457 Our Son Is Born

Saturday, 19 July 2008

Wind ESE 20 knots, Course NE, Speed 4 to 5 knots, Position 7*24s by 96*01w

Now I know why his girl friend was getting sick all the time and had to get off.

The 1,000 day sailing site is on day 552, I follow it almost daily, here is the site again.

http://1000days.net/home/index.php

Reid & Soayna's baby boy.

Reid is single handing his 70' boat.

10-24-08 Barbara finished the last Sheldon book and sad there are no more, me too. Try one and you may be hooked too.

10-11-08 Bruce Staller '54, advised that he and Mariellen are reading the Sheldon books and have read almost all of them.

9-27-08 Barbara is still reading them and must be better than half way through all of them, and she hasn't been a reader till she started Sheldon's books.

July 30th I sadly finished the last Sheldon book, I have read all 19 of them and Barbara who hardly ever reads is now reading them. As of 8-29-08 I think she has read about 5 of the 19 and she is still going strong.

Jim Regan has ruined my spare time, he got me reading, and now I read a book every 2-3 days. My latest is Sidney Sheldon, he wrote 18 novels and an autobiography. I have about 3-4 to go. I have been getting most of the books from our local library which is part of the San Diego County system. Here is an interview with Sheldon done in 2005 shortly before he died in 2007, at age 89.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRbn9VAGkA4   He also did Broadway plays, TV shows, directed and produced movies. In his autobiography he tells of the struggle to get started, amazing story. I even have Barbara reading his books now and she hasn't been a reader.

1917 Sidney Sheldon is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1937 Sheldon arrives in Hollywood where he finds work at Universal Studios as a script reader for $17.00 a week. With collaborator, Ben Roberts, he also writes a number of "B" movies.

1941 Sheldon joins the Air Force serving in World War II as a pilot.

1942 Sheldon has three musical hits simultaneously playing on Broadway - the revised "Merry Widow," "Jackpot" and "Dream with Music".

Mid-'40's Sheldon returns to Hollywood where he begins a long career as a successful screenwriter with MGM and Paramount Studios.

1948 Sheldon wins an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. The film also wins the 1947 Box Office Blue Ribbon Award for its screenplay.

Sheldon is awarded the Screen Writers Guild Award for Best Musical for "Easter Parade," starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. He receives the Box Office Blue Ribbon Award for its screenplay, as well.

1951 Sheldon receives the Screen Writers Guild Award for Best Musical for "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.

1959 Returning briefly to Broadway, Sheldon wins a Tony Award as co-author of the musical, "Redhead," starring Gwen Verdon.

1963 Sheldon begins a new facet in his writing career with the creation of the "Patty Duke" television show. He writes an unprecedented 78 scripts in three years for the series.

1964 Sheldon creates, produces and writes "I Dream of Jeannie" in his co-production capacity with Screen Gems. He writes all but two dozen scripts in five years, using three pseudonyms, while simultaneously writing scripts for "The Patty Duke Show."

1967 Sheldon receives an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for the hit series "I Dream of Jeannie."

1969 Sheldon's first novel, The Naked Face, is published and wins an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

1974 Sheldon's second book, The Other Side of Midnight, hits the New York Times bestseller list, going on to hold the paper's then record of 52 weeks on the charts.

1975 Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror is published and becomes a bestseller in both hard and soft cover.

1977 Sheldon's fourth novel, Bloodline becomes a #1 bestseller.

1980 Rage of Angels is published and goes to #1 on the bestseller lists the week before its official publication date, staying at the top for 18 weeks and on the lists for 42 weeks.

1982 Sheldon's sixth novel, Master of the Game, debuts at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and stays there for 11 weeks.

1983 "Sidney Sheldon Day" is celebrated by Mayoral proclamation in his hometown of Chicago.

1986 Another Sheldon #1 bestseller, If Tomorrow Comes, is published.

1987 Advance orders for Sheldon's eighth novel, Windmills of the Gods, are the heaviest in publisher, William Morrow's history. The novel debuts at #1 two days before its official release date.

1988 Sheldon's novel, The Sands of Time, debuts on the New York Times bestseller list before its official release date. Advance orders exceed one million copies.

Sheldon receives a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1990 Sheldon's tenth novel, Memories of Midnight, a sequel to his first blockbuster hit, has a record first printing for publisher, William Morrow of 1.1 million copies.

1991 Sheldon's international bestseller, The Doomsday Conspiracy, is published.

1992 The Stars Shine Down is published and sets record breaking sales for the author.

1993 Sheldon receives the prestigious Prix Literature 1993 at the Deauville Film Festival.

1994 Sidney Sheldon publishes his thirteenth novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, a dazzling novel that sweeps readers into the frenetic world of a big San Francisco hospital.

Sheldon is named National Spokesman for Libraries For The Future.

1995 Sheldon is honored by libraries across the country, the American Library Association and The Los Angeles Public Library, with their Honorable Citizen Award.

Sidney Sheldon's fourteenth novel, Morning, Noon & Night is published.

1997 Sheldon is honored by The Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Translated Author in the World.

The Best Laid Plans is published with an initial printing of one million copies.

Best Laid Plans hits New York Times Bestseller list

1998 Tell Me Your Dreams is published and hits the New York Times Bestseller list.

1999 Sidney Sheldon honored with "Great Authors of the Twentieth Century" Stamp and it is declared Sidney Sheldon Day by Mayor of Beverly Hills

2000 The Sky is Falling published.

2004 Are You Afraid of the Dark? published.

2005 Sidney Sheldon's memoir, The Other Side of Me, is published.

2007 Sidney Sheldon passed away on January 30, 2007. His wife, Alexandra, was by his side.

Here is another link. This has his daughter telling about her dad. http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/features/sidneysheldon/meet_ss.html

The book that Bruce Staller is raving about on the new '54 page I have read and also his first book, I have his 3rd on order at the library. Interesting story about the author, sounds similar to Sheldon's.

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.

http://asktcl.com/

(3)

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

A little flying fun.

Or, why I like the beach.

Here is a link to a Jukebox that plays songs from 1950 to the 80's by year.
Betty Peterson's sister sent it to me. I had it before on one of my puters but
it got lost in the shuffle/crash, whatever. Each year consists of the top 100
songs and they play in random order. Just pick out the year that you, well
you will think of something/someone. http://www.tropicalglen.com/index.html
The best part is it's free, they do ask for donations if you like it.

Cassy approved this page.

She isn't too sure about you though.

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=en

I 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/

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.