Happy New Year to the Class of '64!

Life has certainly gotten in the way and this is my first visit back to the class web site in a long time. It is great to see how well it is being maintained by John and Janice (and others, no doubt). THANKS! My last Class activity was the '60 in 06' cruise to Ensenada. I had a great time and it was such fun to catch up with those who came along.

My husband, Glen, was in a serious auto accident in 2003 and suffered a spinal injury. A quadriplegic now, he is living life from a wheelchair but his health is excellent otherwise and his attitude even better. Unfortunately, our dancing days are over, but we've learned the tricks of travel and challenge ourselves to visit family and take fun vacations (Maui, Sun Valley . . .) on a regular basis. And while i didn't really quit training, I did back off from the big swim meets for a few years. It is nice to be back into a more aggressive competitive routine again although i am certainly getting slower!

We still live on Whidbey Island but a move to Issaquah, WA is in our future. (Does anybody want to buy a waterfront home on a gorgeous island?) Life as a homeowner has been tough since I was spoiled by a do-it-yourself husband, so we plan to move to a retirement community where the maintenance will be done by someone else! We will live much closer to Glen's 3 kids and our 6 grandkids and be able to see them and enjoy their activities more. My son (now 41) is still living in LA but we see him a few times a year.

I am saddened by the loss of more of our classmates. We need to take better care of ourselves! No more accidents! Let's get in heart-healthy shape out there! See your doctor regularly! I am planning on being at the next reunion and I hope to see you all there too!

Cheers!
Sally

Updated email address: mg-jackson@hotmail.com. Mike (LHS '65) and I would love to hear from you! Stay healthy! Mike and Glenda Broughton Jackson

For the last 15 years I've been teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, courses in human services and in criminal justice. I've been doing research in domestic violence and offer training to law enforcement offices on domestic violence and on hate crimes. Lately, I've also been offering technical assistance to social service agencies on how to improve their information systems. I still think of those I knew at LHS from time to time.

Happy New Year everyone, enjoyed reading all of your notes in the guest book. Just recovering from a flood and drying out all of my year books so decided to see what was on the web site. Anyone know how to get a yearbook after all of these years? jjm

Found a new casino table game at the Pala Indian Casino in the San Diego area. It is called Bases Loaded Poker and is a baseball theme card game that combines elements of Black Jack, Poker, and Pai Gow. What a kick to play. . .it takes a little thought and some strategy to win.

The web site is www.basesloadedpoker.com and there is a video available to learn about the game. If any classmates are in the casino business, it might be worth taking a look at and if anyone finds themselves at Pala, give it a try. At least one cruise ship line is testing this new game for their casinos, so don't be surprised if you run into it while vacationing.

Bob Schellenberg

Hi Tom,

I changed the configuration to allow up to 6,000 characters.

Thanks,

John Rosique

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Sorry about the way this note is posting, but for whatever reason this site only accepts a very limited number of words. Part 1 is 2 post down.

The country is 96% Buddhist, 3% Moslem, and 1% everything else..with more Hindus than Christians. Thai people have a great appreciation of the fine Universities and hospitals that the missionaries brought as a part of their missions, and have great respect for the missionaries as good people; they just don't buy the religion. We Just return on January 31 and will be returning in April

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California real-estate has been very good to me, so I am now able to enjoy my hobbies. I had a 50 ft pleasure boat built that no fishing takes place on. Fishing is too much like work, and I had to have my right wrist reconstructed because of all the fish I picked out of nets with it.

I love travel and have seen the world as a backpacker from the pyramids of Egypt, to the Great Wall of China, to the monuments of the Khmer Empire including Ankor Wat.

I, also, love my motor cycles that I have them both here and in Thailand where I have a vacation home and spend about half the year enjoying the Thai culture and people.

My life partner is Thai, born in Thailand; he moved to America when he was 8 years old. This is where my love of all things Thai begins. Thailand is one of the very few countries in the world that has never been a colonial possession of a European power. Thailand has complete freedom of religion and every Thai king for over 150 years has had an American, Christian, Protestant, missionary, teacher, but, by their own admission, missionaries have been abject failures at converting the Thai people to Christianity. Thai people listen politely and then say, "That's your journey, not mine." Thailand is a completely different mind set and way of thinking. Visit Thailand...it is a real eye opener showing that western culture doesn't have very many of the answers as to how to live ones life. The country is 96% Buddhist, 3% Moslem, and 1% everyt

What a delight reading through all of the messages!!!! So let's see, I now have to fill you in on 42 years in just a couple of paragraphs.

The day after I graduated from Lakewood I went to work for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the most incompetent organization in the history of the world, and continued working for them for the next 40 years, retiring in 2004. The first five years were as a Recreation Director and the next 35 were as a teacher, with a couple of side tracks into administration. The kids were amazing, awesome...and any other superlative one would care to add, but the School District is run by a "Ship of Fools."

Beginning in the early 70's I became involved in serious commercial fishing. First with a 20 ft gillnet boat that quickly turned into a 30 ft gill net boat, and from there I moved into a 50 ft albacore bait boat...that shortly became a 86 ft albacore gig boat that I ran all the way to Midway Island in pursuit of fish during the summers, in the winter I sent the boat to Alaska to pack herring and spring salmon.

In 1978 I adopted one of my students whose home situation was disastrous. He is now 41 years old and is still running commercial fish boats in Alaska. I am particularly proud of this part of my life because not only was I able to give a kid a way out of a life of misery and drugs, but I was one of the first openly gay men in California to be allowed to adopt.

California real-estate has been very good to me, so I am no

Hi everyone! Just found the website and its quite a flashback! Special HI to Sherry Mulford, and does she know Marilyn is in Canyon Lake? Sorry to finally read about SD passing in 2005, does anyone know what happened with him?