The new gym (2011)

Some of the hard-working committee members

The weekend sped by, full of smiles and getting to know folks again, or for the first time.  From Harry's Hobrau Friday night to the very last moment at Flood Park on Sunday, we were busy.  We even ran into each other at the motel breakfast rooms (I knew I shoulda combed my hair and put on lipstick!)  See the comments (and add one yourself) at the page called "We had fun!"  And check out the photos in the latest photo album (and send your own to Leone for posting).  Email sequoia60list@aol.com

The next Alumni Association picnic on the campus will be August 20, 2011 for all classes.  Our next Class of 1960 reunion will probably be in 5 years.  But our next HUGE CAN'T MISS IT REUNION will be the 100th - August 20-22, 2060!  Plan now to be there.

No need to dress up this much - just be there!

It isn't a prom! (Can you identify these two prom dates?)  It is a reunion!  And we have attendees coming from the US and Canada, from Hawaii and Virginia and New Jersey and Vermont, not to mention Washington, Oregon, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Indiana, Arizona, Nevada and Redwood City!  Check out our photo albums for new pictures and the Classmates and Guest Book entries for messages.  Sequoians may we ever stand, as stands our patron tree.....okay, maybe we'll sit.  It's time to gather and chat and chat (and maybe bop a little to a tune or two from the late 50s and early 60s).  Go Getum you know who!  See you Aug 20-22.  And watch this space for further postings in the days, and even years, to come!

Janice Marks Gord and husband Gary

Three days after our graduation ceremony, Jan Marks married Gary Gord, and on June 20 of this year they celebrated their 50th anniversary!  Talk about a success story!  They have 2 kids, and a grandkid.  Jan was a bank teller before they retired to Penn Valley.

Craig Fraser, Linda McAbee, Dennis Querantes and Gary Trantow in June 1956- five months before Elvis Presley's movie "Love Me Tender" was released.

We were all listening to "Heartbreak Hotel" "Blue Suede Shoes,"and "Be Bop A Lula." These four Sequoians were "Standing on the Corner" - possibly "On the Street Where You live."  Truly, "Memories are Made of This." And remember these profound lyrics of 1956? "Tutti frutti, aw rutti.  Awop-bop-a-loo-mop-alop-bom-bom.

Cathy Kalteren Williams and Lynn Bruneau Bruce at our 45th Reunion.

New class photos have been added to the photo album called "When We Were Young." If you view the album as a slide show, you'll need to use the funny little arrows at the bottom to be able to read the names of all of those in the picture.  If you view it as a page layout, you can read the names well, but the pictures are smaller.  Click on them and they get bigger. Go ahead -- look at them both ways.  And thank Alene Kremer and cathy Kalteren for their contributions to our collection on this site. 
Even if you weren't in any of these classes, you probably knew someone who was - and it is incredible to see how we dressed (and how well we behaved) way back in grammar school.

Please get your reservation in -- please, please come to the reunion.  You won't realize how important you are to everyone's memories until we walk up to you and ask: "Who did you used to be?"

The reunion is just around the corner, and we are getting quite nostalgic.
Alene Kremer sent us several class photos and this shot of  Girl Scoot Troop 213.  This was probably about 6th grade at Lincoln School.  But it might be 7th grade at McKinley, since it appears that some of the girls are wearing lipstick.  I recall heading off to Robinsons on Broadway to buy my first lipstick with Darla Risinger on the day we "graduated" from 6th grade! All the girls but Gloria were in our Class of 1960.  Left to right, top to bottom:Mrs. Kalteren, Alene Kremer, Carol Barsotti, Kathy Kalteren, Mrs. Koral, Bobby Monette, Gloria Bergen, Darla Risinger, Peggy McNichol, Ann Longo, Margo Koral, Joan Friegang, Sarah Dicome, Nancy Witte, Lynn Bruneau.
  
I'll be adding Lincoln and McKinley class photos from Alene to our photo albums ln this site this weekend.  And watch this space for some more pictures supplied by Kathy Kalteren. 

Thanks to all of you who are sharing memorabilia, making reservations, and  helping to make this summer's reunion a wonderful event.  Be sure to post a message on this site!

The reservations are coming in and folks are getting excited!  We know that coach Bob Anderson will be among the former teachers and coaches who will be attending the Sequoia High Almuni Association picnic on the campus Saturday Aug 21 - an optional event for us.  The flyer for the picnic is posted at http://www.sequoiahsalumniassoc.org/   You can make your reservation using this flyer.  The cost is $30 per person. 
On a sad note, we lost a classmate in June.  Dave Baross passed away on June 10, the 109th we have lost.  
We all are reminded of the importance of enjoying life and each other.  So get your reservations in, if you haven't done so yet.  And "we'll be together then - you know we'll have a good time then."

Well, our plea for help let us find a few more lost classmates.  The name of his brother was all that was needed to find Bob Jones. 

And now the full information, including where to send your check and how to also send a check for the Sequoia High School Alumni Association Picnic that same weekend, is posted under Details of Events. 

So let's get those registrations in, send messages via the Classmates or Guest Book pages, and sign on the Who's Coming Page. 

It will be here before you know it!