2004 San Francisco Balboa High School Alumni Gangplank vol 36 Some Gossip
2004 San Francisco Balboa High School Alumni Gangplank vol 36 Some Gossip
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| ALUMNI ACTIVITIES-2003 AND 2004. (warning Pictures
have been re-arranged) (1) Yippee! Our bleachers are restored thanks to Joe O'Donoghoe and the S.F.Residential Builders. Here's Joe with Mayor Brown, a contractor and Kathy Andrich. (2) Hall of Famer Mike Murphy ('60) took Bal's baseball coaches George Elsner and dad Fred (now in Iraq) on a tour of Pac Bell Park. (3) Bud and Sue Coletti and Jim McLennan (S'50) drove their vintage cars (stuffed with lads and faculty, and festooned with orange and blue balloons) around the track to the exhilarating Theme from Rocky and to the delight of the students at the Homecoming Game in September. (4) Here's the "Almost Famous Singers" of '68 plus, singing at our November Awards dinner. (5) The alumni shared a booth with Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval at the Excelsior Street Fair. There's Dorothy, Viclde, ,Gerardo, Em and Gladys. (6) Don Montgomery and family dressed appropriately at the alumni vs varsity basketball game. (7) At our "Pat on the Back Dinner" the brand new • Nick Kafkas trophy for Outstanding School Spirit was presented to Jamilyn Jangar. Ms.Gray, Jamie, Nick and Emily are happy about it all. (8) That's "The Price is Right" . winner Al DePueci ('44) hitting a home run, when in his prime (was that last week, Al?) |
| WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING ALL THESE YEARS? The "Mission" statement in our By-Laws is that our Main purpose is to Help Balboa High School and also to Foster alumni activities. Have we met our "obligations"? Yes, we have. On April 16,1970, an organization meeting was held in The Little Theatre (Now named the Salvatore Billeci Little Theatre), the purpose of which was to organize A Balboa Alumni Association. The meeting was sponsored by the 100 BUCS, guided by Nick Kafkas, faculty member and 100 Bucs sponsor. Since 1970, with your help, we have raised hundreds of Thousands of dollars to help Balboa, it teachers, students, Sports, music, art and other departments. We have given Tens of thousands of dollars as scholarships to deserving Seniors. We have had an annual family picnic and Varsity Vs Alumni basketball game for almost every year. Every Other year we have an Athletic Hall of Fame and Hall of Merit Awards dinner, to recognize and honor those Bal Grads who have brought honor to Balboa through their Accomplishments. We publish from one to three Gangplanks Per year. We help with class reunions. We have named Certain facilities at Balboa in honor of former teachers And members: I'ne Kena case yins i»ym, i fte urron Quails Boys Gym, The Carl Mitchel Field, The Archie ChagonJian Stadium, the Robert R. Chase Hall, The Salvatore Bilfeci LittleTheatre, The Emily Powell Library Building, the Nick Kafkas Quad.The Don Hofvendahl Hail, The Hummel Hall, The Leta Wheeler Library, the Rudy Ramirez Library Office, and the Calvin Simmons Auditorium. Annually we have a fabulous Vaudeville Show in May. We have had special testimonial dinners And theme dances, Days at the Races, many alumni Cruises. We saved Balboa from closure in 1991 and In 1995, through the el^rts of Solange Russek f81) Beautiftil Balboa was named San Francisco Historial Landmark #205, See the plagues in front of Balboa. We have accomplished our goal of Having all 114 graduating classes embed their bronze class numerals in front of Balboa (thanks to Dorothy Benvenuti Orchid). We have had dozens of Balboa Onuses and vacations. We have had four "Come Back to Bal Days". We meet with administration, faculty and students at Balboa regularly. AND, that's only the "tip of the iceberg**! And many projects are *in the works'. |
| Speaking of "rodding", Andy BriziO ('50), known as The Rod Father", and who was inducted into our Hall of Merit in November, has skipped town with wife Sue and now live in the Mother Lode area, close to ranches of Don Neathery, Emily Powell, and Bob Barnes and Louie Coscarelli. Stephen E. Diamond (S'62) when at Bal was student body president, "runner up", Cheer leader, homeroom class president, lead actor, wrestling winner. And he announces he is "Royalty", (send self addressed, stamped envelope for Steve's nobility record.). But before he started searching for the Holy Grail, while at Bal, he was a member of the Greater Excelsior Auto Enthusiasts i.e.. The Centurions. Involved with Eric and Jim Langer, and Great Highway events and Joe dark and Gary young. They drove around a lot—destination was mostly a drive in restaurant. (Those cool 50's when "drive-in" meant a restaurant, and not a shooting.) Would you like a tour through Bal and our Museum? Call Emily 650-851-8101 or Dorothy 707-762-6162
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John Richards (S'67) teaches 8th Grade English at Centerville Junior Hi in Fremont. Guess who the principal is? Garo Mirigian! Lots of loyal Bucs in Millbrae: Charles ('38) & Cecelia 'Cull Andrews (42). They help us fund the Gangplank and we thank you, May of 1937 was a great day L.The Golden Gate Bridge opened. Al Hawkes (F'37) recalls that there was no auto traffic allowed, only pedestrians, and he thinks schools were closed. This - reporter wore a little Spanish "fiesta" hats. The first person to make it across was a Bal - co-ed, and we lost the photo and article (it's in our infamous 'black hole'). 'Wondering what Val Webb Gaede ('73) has been up to? She is Director of Children's Ministry at St. Johns Lutheran Church in Wheaton, ILL. Has taught Kindergarten, has a Masters Degree, and Bacherlor's Degree. Married with 2 sons—- The whole family loves sports. Val will always be thankful for her great experience at Balboa, and can still fit into her JROTC Drill Team outfit! We just found out that Geezer Dick Sridgman'S dad used to own the MarVal horse stables in Daly City. (that's before Westlake was developed-Probably lots of cabbage farms there then. Dick inherited and owned them for many years. Dick and his family are expert horse people. Some of us remember when there were stables and horse to ride in McLaren Park. |
| Barbara Tehaney Wise (S45), also known as one of the "three Barbara's",while not extolling the virtues of The Gangplank, hangs out with Barbara Mattson Campbell (S'46), and Barbara Coyle _______(fill in last name). Here' a Private? message to the 3 Barbara's: geezer Bill Weber (F'45) who lives in Caldwell, Idaho (has 12 grandchildren) says; Hello. he thought you were a terrific trio!!! Bill will never forget going to Bal, then working eight hours after school with his now deceased baddy Jimmy LaFayette^.ag,^ Now we know why Bill and Jim slept through class! The Mission/Geneva/Excelsior Lions Club was the scene last month of the High School student speakers contest. The winner, a Mercy High student, will go on for more competition. Joe Farrah (f46) was master of ceremonies and the judges were: Nick Miller Eichinoff, Maurice Fitzgerald and Emily Powell (all of F'46), and Frank Gelini (S'47), They did their civic duty while enjoying dinner and reminiscing about Bal. Ellen Berg Kilbarn? ('39) big sister to Mildred and Ray Berg, who lives in Port Townsend, Washington, visited Bal and our museum with her husband last month. Dorothy Benvenuti Orchid (F'45) was there as a "decent". Pat Slattery has never forgotten her tour of our Museum..Thanks for your donations of$$$ and your senior sweater. We feel so guilty! why? 'cause Paula Hope Dalton (805-486-0418) and Pauline Kosmopoulous Barbieri (707- 585-9345), 1954 classmates, wrote that for FIVE years they have been disappointed because (after 3 letters and two calls to the editor, who wishes to remain anonymous 'cause she's ashamed of herself) they have asked for the following to appear in The Gangplank. Here it is: HAS ANYONE SEEN OR KNOW HOW TO REACH THEIR BUDDY GERALDINE TREVERTON?? (F'54). If you know, call Paula or Pauline Anthony Smith class of Something", is a counselor at Bal now and it's good to see him wear his senior sweater on Senior Sweater Wednesdays. Lenny Barranti's (F'55) ^Leonardo's^Deli in Millbrae. Want a copy? Send stamped envelope. Tom DeMerritt (S'56),ofthe famous DeMerritt family: Granville and Warren, when he isn't fixing his driveway, sends us news (some sad, like obits, and some good). He read a story about "The Oldest Rookie Cop"..that's Danny Hampton! He retired as a S.F. cop, but then signed up with the Millbrae P.D. (hence became a rookie, again).Some years ago, Danny was inducted into our Hall of Merit for Heroism in the line of duty. His brother Jim Hampton ('61), our first president, with the Oakland P.D.!!! Brother''(and^^ family humorist) Tony is with the S.F Fire Dept. We should all feel more secure, 'cause the Hampton's don't believe in retirement! Clifford Graves (S'56), described in a Chronicle article 5/03, as being "a dashing, dignified figure"-Wow! was formerly head of the S.F. Redevelopment Agency until for some (stupid?) reason the Brown administration dropped him. But that didn't stop our "dashing, dignified Clifford"—he has surfaced as L.A.-Mayor- Appointed head of Community Development Office, of Los Angeles. Our loss, LA'S gain. Cliff is the brother of the late Wilbur Jordan Graves (S'47) for whom our Military library in the museum is named thanks to Larry Rideout (S'47). You just never know what you'll find when looking for books with Amazon. Corn. We found a book entitled "Whitman's Wild Children", by Neeli Cherkovski, inspired by the philosophy of Walt Whitman It contains poems by 12 poets..one of whom Is Philip Lamai»ia, ('43?) Philip started writing poetry in Junior High. Probably best source of Philip's books is at City Lights Bookstore, S.F. He still lives in San Francisco. I have to stop now.. It's time out to read some of Philip's ''poetry! Shirley Lenet Wohlman (S52) is happy to be member. Two of her sisters also went to Bal: Patricia Lenet Palmer (dec'd) and Peggy Lenet Brewington, (S'47). Shirley lives in Gig Harbor, WA and Peg is in Anchorage, Alaska. "A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart. |
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Class of S 1968 Post Reunion Shoutout *author forgot there was another class attending too F67
A very special thank you to John Connelly for being our great Master
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2004 San Francisco Balboa High School Alumni Gangplank vol 36
kim jong brockman Kim Brockman Judy Suhr joyce dunn linda zenn