Karen Etsuko Tachiki (Savel)

I have found a pamphlet from Hilltop Drive Elementary PTA that my mother must have kept in her archives. I have scanned a few pages of it and will have to work on how to insert them from my scans to a message here. There are lists of PTA officials...maybe our parents? and teachers. Thought the teacher part would jog a few memories. Stay tuned...

Also wanted to mention that a classmate of ours, David Gray happens to be a neighbor of mine. Ran into him on a walk about a week ago and he evidently has been living on my street for a while and being sort of oblivious to my surroundings I didn't realize we were neighbors. He returned to Chula Vista to look after his mother and is soon to move back to Houston so his wife will be able to look after her parents. He did mention in our short chat that he has lived in many places since 1964. He served in the military in Vietnam and then live in various places in California and for a number of years in Houston Texas. If anyone in reunion land has been trying to find David I can report that he currently lives in his old family home and so you can find him there.

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

Karen Etsuko Tachiki (Savel)

Karen Etsuko Tachiki (Savel)

Because I need a lot of help with posting on the website, I wasn't able to figure out how to add some text to the images of the pamphlet. The explanation is those images are from the pamphlet that my mother had so carefully saved in her world from Hilltop Drive Elementary School. I think the last of them has the names of teachers for the year that we all would have been in the sixth grade. 

Treasa Struble (Skiles)

Wow, Karen! What a find! Thanks for sharing. The year I was in 6th grade, I believe 4 of my siblings were also at Hilltop Elem. We represented 6th, 5th, 4th, 2nd & K.

Bruce Wilson

Thanks  Gail. Like Bo said,  listen to my heart go bumpity-bump.  

I'll go out on a limb and guess that your pronunciation, which is what we all used, is easier than the phonetic one a ways back.

One of the 1965 girls, who didn't make it into the photo even further back, has her offical Sioux papers. She's related to Crazy Horse (not Neil's band, the real one). Incidentally I am told that, Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó is more appropriately rendered as "His-Horse-Is-Crazy"

Thanks Karen: 

In the world of trivia it is very surprising what use a few historical documents can be. So there were indeed 3 fifth grade classes and 3 sixth grade classes. Too bad no middle initial for Mr. Thomas Hall. It would have helped us in looking for him.  George is checking to see if any of these folks taught dancing down at the driving range.

It seems that Mrs. Treais was promoted from Fifth to Sixth between 1956 and 1957.

Michele ran into David Gray a while back too and I even had his email, but misplaced it. It's probably in my stack with the Hilltop Drive Elementary group photos.

Treasa. I hope you asked for the group discount at the spaghetti dinners. Gary Baldwin and I, implausibly enough given even a glance at the photos a few posts back, used to tell people that we were brothers. Even with brother Gary on board though we still would have only had four concurrently in K thru 6.

With the names in front of me I'm still struggling with teachers prior to Fourth Grade. I'm leaning pretty heavily toward Mrs. Konopisos for Second. This is the period when I was getting checked out to see if I was brain damaged because I never talked. Who knows?

As I write this, I'm recalling seeing some of the E, S, N report cards around here somewhere. There should be some names therem no?

Correction:

It was Castle Park and Danny Cassel. Don't ask me how to spell Lindy.

Bruce Wilson

The continuing story of Chula Vistans. I first literally ran into Mr. Goggins when he was doing a 24-hour run out at Mission Beach (he didn't look the same as the rest of the folks participating). I was thinking that Point Loma to Windansea & back was a pretty long run. I don't remember how long it took, but it sure wasn't anywhere near 24 hours.

2012

Remember the Navy SEAL who attempted to break the Guinness World Record for most pull-ups in a 24-hour period on the Today Show last September? Well, Chula Vista nativeDavid Goggins was at it again this weekend, attempting to break the record while visiting his mother in Tennessee.

Plenty of resuls if one Googles Goggins..

Bruce Wilson

Speaking of tall black men, it's about time for a little [more] gratuitous name-dropping.

I was over at UCLA on the weekend and it reminded me that I used to run the 4.2 mile circuit around the campus with Mr. Wicks pictured below from time to time. It probably looked a bit incongruous (and we're not talkin' the Congress of Racial Equality here, that's another story) with Wicks weighing in at 6' 8', while I was just about 5' 11" (without heels). 

I woiuld also run into Coach Wooden doing his laps around the top of Pauley Pavillion when I went inside on rainy days. As I recall it, he was a counter-clockwise kind of guy, while I went clockwise. He was very precise, you might even say that you could have set your clock by his laps.

I never saw Kareem on campus, but ran into him on the streets of Westwood one day.

Bruce Wilson

Placeholder for the long lost trumpet player, my old friend John Romero (CPJHS 1959). I have to clean this up.

Could be Burger there with the U.S. flag trying to obscure his identity. I think he's heard that I'm looking for him.

Bruce Wilson

I really don't know how tall Ted Hawkins is, but this is dedicated to those who know that it's dedicated to them.

Bruce Wilson

Great as Ted's version is, nobody matches Sam's at the Harlem Square Club, 1963.

I'd even give you a ride on my Ducati if  ... 

Bruce Wilson

A CV long timer retires. Ray Jindra (HHS '62).Coached all over, but last at HHS.

http://hs.utpreps.com/news_article/show/629319?referrer_id=599134

I was going to hang it up at 2001, but Ray is a good man.

Bruce Wilson

Some may call this old news, others may call it our South Bay heritage. Either way, speaking of Oscars

Oscars San Ysidro (called to our attentionby  Dennis some time back) is taking applications for "fountaingirls, waitresses and car hops",  Must be neat appearing and size 10 [or less?]. April 26, 1956.

April 4, 1958 - A gust of wind ripped roofing from Oscars at 731 East San Ysidro Blvd.

Bruce Wilson

Shades of Corinne:

Very little inflation in the old houses market, this one sold for $1.00 too.

A small home in Hillcrest, built in 1925, left the plot of land on the corner of Vermont Avenue Monday morning moving east along Howard Avenue, to be hauled to a storage yard in Otay Mesa before being relocated to a new lot in Chula Vista. Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune — Peggy Peattie

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/mar/28/hillcrest-house-san-ysidro/

John Carleton Cowherd

I've been going through some old documents and found this.  Sorry it's sideways, It loaded before I could edit it.

Bruce Wilson

Thanks John.

Michele was in Hawaii by then.

.. Yo Adrienne

I wonder what happened to John Campbell and Gerry and Dickie Hanano.

Strange coincidence Bill Elliot popped up in a dream the other night.

John Carleton Cowherd

Bruce,  Thanks for fixing it so we can read it.  I also have our senior graduation program and vespers program.  I'll get them up later.  I'm off to the gym now.

George Bracey Gillow

This from Chula Vista Star News of May 3, 1964:

Bruce Wilson

Congrats to that 1964 Math Squad.

Nancy was in my Adv. Algerbra class - so I knew (she'd finish the tests in about 1/2 the time)

Danny Schweers - I just knew

Fred - I suspected.

Phil - I did not know about, must have been in another class

Suzanne - I did not know about and she lived right across the street

Sandra - I did not know about and she did not live right across the street

We've kind of accounted for all the "what ever happended to"  on that page except Suzanne.

Anybody know?

Don't be shy Sandra, feel free to step in and take a bow. :)

I do not recall any of the Math folks graduating to The Mod Squad, which brings me to Parmely.

What's up with Mark?

Bruce Wilson

I never ran into any of the Math Squad here, though this photo is from about five years after high school. 

George Bracey Gillow

HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: A 2001 Home Predicted in 1967

The video below is from a Walter Cronkite show called "The 21st Century" done in 1967. It shows the home of the future predicted for 2001. It is about 25 minutes and worth while watching.

This was done a year before the first mouse and computer graphics were demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart (1968) and two years before the Defense Department implemented the ARPANET (1969). ARPANET evolved into the Internet.

Lots of what was predicted did not happen. But some was accurate like the large TV and home computer functions.

Interesting that house construction, today, is much the same as it was over 100 years ago. The frames are made with 2 x 4s, then tar paper, chicken wire and stucco. Not much progress here.

This is a possible house of the future. An owner could select any design such as ultra-modern or historic.

The house would be build with advanced materials such as composites. Modules will be made with large 3-D printers.

The walls would be fire proof, insulated, sound proof and able to withstand tornados and hurricanes.

High efficiency solar cells would be imbedded in the walls--inside and outside.

The house would be highly technical where all cooking, cleaning, laundry and maintenance would done by automation/robotics.

Here is the Cronkite show:

George Bracey Gillow

MOUSE AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS DEMONSTRATION --1968

The late Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1963. The first one was made of wood.

The patent for the mouse was called "X-Y position indicator for a display system". Engelbart later called the device a mouse and notice in the video he apologizes for the name.

This video is of his first demonstration of a more advanced mouse and computer graphics that he and his assistant developed. Done in 1968. There is a longer version of this video on YouTube showing the entire 90 minute demo.

Michele Lynette Adney (Aldrich)

http://www.knp7.com/chula-vista/lady-gaga-explains-why-shes-moving-to-chula-vista-california/

Interesting!!!  Keep your eyes open .... you never know who you might run into. 

George Bracey Gillow

These are from March 1, 1964 and January 16, 1964:

Bruce Wilson

Well Michele:

You've left us all gaga!

Keep a sharp eye out.

Convent of the Sacred Heart (class of around 2004)