Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

Bruce Wilson

Amazing about Mr Rice jumping at 97. He oughta run a marathon. I'd do it with him.

Seriously though, we got Michele's dad "The Bull" on one of the Honor Flights back to DC.

It was great for him and all the others to get personal recognition.

His line after getting back home

"If it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German or a Japanese right now"

TRUE

Bruce Wilson

Poignant story of Frank Manchel

WWII veteran dies on last leg of Honor Flight

A 95-year-old World War II veteran spent his last day alive being honored for his service to the country. 

(Teri Simas/Honor Flight San Diego via AP)

Frank Manchel, an Army technical sergeant during the war, was on a flight back from an all-expense-paid visit to Washington put together by Honor Flight San Diego when he suddenly collapsed and died Sunday. Manchel was on the flight with his son, Dr. Bruce Manchel, who was accompanying his father on the visit.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wwii-veteran-dies-on-last-leg-of-honor-flight

Bruce Wilson

Mr. Rice redux

Tom Rice, 97, from San Diego, California, was among some 200 parachutists who filled the Normandy skies of France for the 75th anniversary of the invasion as they leapt from vintage C-47 Dakota planes in what was a moving sight. They were honouring the airborne soldiers who jumped into gunfire and death ahead of the June 6, 1944, seaborne invasion. Their engines throbbing, the C-47 transporters dropped group after group of parachutists. Mr Rice jumped in a tandem into roughly the same area he landed in on D-Day near Carentan, a town among the main targets for the paratroopers. He said: 'It went perfect, perfect jump. I feel great. I'd go up and do it all again.' They jumped from the C-47s in Second World War colours and other aircraft, aiming for fields of wild flowers on the edge of the town.

Bruce Wilson

1932 Ironwood Michigan 

Yearbook

Jim Hawes

Shout out to Terry Maple for recommending the book. Now it is going to be a movie! Good thing "Enzo" wasn't a Pug, couldn't make that scenario into a movie! 

Bruce Wilson

Long time

No La Bamba

So 

Note marimbol (key board) and quijada (Donkey jaw)

instruments used by the musicians are varied but come from the stringed and percussive families. In The Port and along the Rio Papaloapan one is likely to see arpas (harps) and occasional  panderos  (tambourines) while further south one might run across a  bocona  (a four string bass), the  quijada  (literally an asses jaw), and violins. But no matter where one is, one will see  jaranas  (a six to ten string instrument, from 18” to the size of a small guitar, that is strummed) and  guitarras de son  (4 strings, various sizes, and plucked with a long cow horn pick). Though most people don’t realize it, the  tarima is another essential instrument. A  tarima is a platform about a foot high, approximately the size of a piece of plywood and usually made of cedar planks. This is where the dancers pound out the rhythms, interacting with the other musicians sometimes following and sometimes dictating the direction of the music. The roots of this music are Spanish and African. The belief is that for the slaves, who were deprived of their drums, the  tarima was the replacement.

Ritchie stuck with guitars

Bruce Wilson

The knewz that does not fit!

Long time no Vredenburg,, LaHaye, or Bandelin 

Sure I have corresponded with Carl and have a bit of info on Robert,

But damn  John, we were on the Little League Mortuary Yankees together where the heck are you?

Ted Testa has passed

My younger brother used to best him regularly in chess and I blew him away by doing three consecutive struggle ups on the bar when he said none of us "weaklings" with the boxer shorts could do one

Thereafter we were just one big happy family of three, Simply Semper Fi right? Fright?

Say Corinne did you get my note the day after the Annual Halsey St block party where I discovered that our old house on Minot just sold for $580K

Say Jackie I did not know of your brother's fate! Such a sad story. Condolences. He made it one year longer than my brother Woodie and many more than Jim Probert, Cathy Emerson and Mona!

Johnny Mowatt was a funny guy who left the building too early also

Bruce Wilson

Bruce Wilson

So was it Carl or Rusty who was the banjo player? Shayne?

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

George Bracey Gillow

ROHR Facility--End of an ERA

Rohr's latest successor, Collins Aerospace, plans to cease manufacturing operations in 2020.  All of the existing facility will be torn down.  The City of Chula Vista is trying to decide whether to turn the property into residential, commercial, industrial or a combination of these.

There will certainly not be a large manufacturing facility there.

Bruce Wilson

That was my guess too, Gail

Did I ever tell about when I was almost given Rusty's old surfboard

What happens in Pasadena stays in Pasadena, right Noel

Around the time of the twenty year reunion

Well George all things must pass

I withdrew my job application

I know everybody in this one, but I cheated

Miss ya Jimmy

Bruce Wilson

Guess who

Bruce Wilson

Our hair was perfect, right Johnny.

Kay Kozuye Ochi

So, Bruce, who is that lovely lady (seated)? We traveled in parallel universes during high school; I don't know many of the folks you are talking about ;-D It's okay. You really got around.

Bruce Wilson

Hi Kay:

Since I was thinking I might have worn out my welcome on the 1964 page, I have branched out.

Met some nice and interesting people from years gone by.

That foto is Penny Teaf (twin of Perry Teaf - both class of 1966) and sister of the initimitable Anna Teaf.

I really liked the photo.

And who is this guy? He is hanging on a wall at El Zarape  in San Diego, did not go to Hilltop, maybe Montgomery ?

His lineage may begin here

The answer is blowing in the Wind (heh heh)

Rosalee May (Rosie) O'Day (Mason)

Bruce Wilson

I respect what Mr. Rice did for us in the war and thereafter.

He has a wit about him. 

Told me that not only was Rice Canyon named for him, but also Rice Krispies and then changed my grade to a B+, saying no A for you son, you do not work as hard as you should.

I wonder how he has avoided the dread cancer and whether any of us will make it to 98, 99 or 100.

Hi Rosie

Bruce Wilson

​It is said that Zimmerman queried Quetzalcoatl with regard to his famous anthem of 1962

Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god of wind, air, and learning, wears around his neck the "wind breastplate" a , "the spirally voluted wind jewel" made of a conch shell.ann

I

Bruce Wilson

Kay:

Here's Anna (HHS 1962). No known relation to Mr. Mowatt.

When asked an opinion of Dylan's song? Rumoured that:

She just grinned and shook his hand, "no" was all she said.

Bruce Wilson

Would it not be something if Stella Gerlein checked in or for that matter Cheryl Chase.

Anyway Mr T. Rice, Rosie, Frank Gregory, and I have all jumped out of an airplane in some fashion.

These I know for sure  and in at least two cases the dread cancer was not avoided, but successfully treated.

Anybody else.

Bruce Wilson

And why am I not working on my many required tasks I have assigned

Lunch break :)

Got a couple faux antique mirrors and a faux cat

May not be obvious but I can still fit into my 1978 Heart of San Diego Marathon T Shirt

Bruce Wilson

Guess who?

I will be surprised if anyone knows this guy, but his family played a significant role in my life.

He did go to to HHS.

Bruce Wilson

Apollo, not the theatre

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums