1/28/05 Added Rick Jochim
6/16/03 Updated Nancie Ashworth, added Janet Kensinger
Seaman
5/18/00 Added Walt Mack
11/16/99 Added Brian Smith
11/2/99 Added Doug Klassen
10/23/99 Added Bill Jones
Nancie Ashworth
June 2003
I am so happy to hear that a reunion of sorts will be held this summer. I wish
I could attend and win the prize for traveling the furthest, however, since
I have moved to Vermont it's really hard to get away. Yes, I miss the beach,
but NO, I don't miss the traffic. I had been living and working in the Escondido
vicinity since graduation -- including 20 years teaching junior high. I was
READY for a change.
Now I am an English professor at one of the oldest colleges on the east coast -- Castleton State College. I LOVE IT!
Sometimes, I must admit, I really miss the connections of friends from what will ALWAYS be considered home. So, if you feel inclined, please write. My family, all the Ashworths, are still in and about Escondido. Joanne is in Laguna, Hank is at Pebble Beach, the famous John (cha-ching) Ashworth (of Ashworth apparel, etc) is in Carlsbad, Sarah is in Escondido (her youngest just graduated from OGHS), and Mary is in Temecula. Mom is at Castle Creek, the former Circle R... and Dad is there, too... ashes resting on the second hole (be sure to say hi if you play through).
I just completed a Vision Quest in Moab, Utah -- several days of insight, four of which were solo, water only. All I can say is WOW, another change in life.
Hope you all have a GREAT time this summer. If you have a hankering to wander east and see what it's like to actually experience an AUTUMN (yes, the leaves are spectacular), know that I have a guest room and will welcome you with open arms (and free meals!)
Love
Nancie Elizabeth Ashworth
Class of 69
September 1999
Hello! Hello!
Short bio? Oh, my goodness!!!
It's been 30 years! How "short" do ya want it? Been there, done
that? Oh... well.... it has been quite the little drama, but I'll
leave all that out... fodder for future novella.
This September my son, Geoffrey, turns twenty-five. My, how time flies
when you're having fun! How can he be that old when I don't feel much
older than the day I left OGHS? Makes you wonder! In addition to
setting him off on the path of life, I count among my accomplishments BA, MA,
and PhD's in English Lit and Writing. I teach. I write. I travel.
I like best to combine all three and often conduct workshops for teachers and
trainers. My favorite city is Paris. Favorite food is sushi (Sushi on
the Rocks in La Jolla). My favorite movie is Young Frankenstein.
Still love to dance, but now it's to Ricky Martin. And....I just learned
to ski (EEEEK). I am married to a wonderful man who packs my lunch every
morning, but I retain the name Ashworth because it's embroidered on everyone's
golf clothing and I find a warm, decadent pleasure in being vicariously connected
to my younger brother John's multi-million dollar company despite my life as
a poor, humble educator. I live in the North County area, but have a home
in Vermont to which we plan to move in four years. I still sing in the
car, don't use the name Nancy, and love coffee ice cream. All the rest
is yours to know if you ask.
Ciao
Vickie Behrens Martinez
I have been married 6 years to my
wonderful husband George. We both work at Hewlett Packard Company and have been here
for 25 years. I
enjoy crafting and working in my garden in Ramona. Hope to hear from some of you
soon.
Hazel Chamlee Bowman
After 25 years in banking (14 of
those spent in Chicago), attaining lofty titles and serving as a director on various
boards, I started my own
business as an event planning firm located in Arizona. Married for 19 years to
Howard Bowman, I have 5 wonderful stepchildren and 5 terrific
grandchildren. Travel remains one of my passions. Excursions in the past few
years have included an expedition through the Amazon from the upper tip of Peru, through
the lower portion of Columbia and nudging into Brazil, sojourns to Russia, Thailand, the
Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and most of Europe. Next stop, exploring ancient Mayan
ruins in Guatamala with a swing-by through the Panama Canal (November 1999) and then on to
Istanbul where a private chartered yacht will be waiting to explore the islands down to
Greece.
Dawn Cleaveland Cundiff
Hello from Dawn Cleaveland Cundiff in
Harlan, Ia. Yes I'm alive and kicking in the midwest for the past 10 years. Just returned
from Valley Center yesterday and regret that I will not be able to attend the big 30.
I will get the opportunity of returning on Oct. 30 when my son's team from Drake
play USD there. I hope that you have a great time and I appreciate all the time that you
all have spent on planning the reunion. Good luck and if I can help give me a mail.
John Granger
Graduated UCSD in 1974 and have never
left America's finest city. Currently Director of Training & Employee Development at Stellcom, Inc. in Sorrento Valley. Happily married to wife
Karen for last 10 years (we're DINKs); love to scuba dive in the Caribbean and Hawaii,
invest, develop web pages, spend quality time with friends and family, and play drums in a
rock 'n roll band (still jammin' after all these years...). For more info please visit http://jkgranger.com
Rick
Jochim
January
2005
Sorry I couldn't make it to the 35th - I am in Afghanistan right now, last
year chasing Talibanos and this year building a government from scratch. Other
than that, things are just cruisin' right along. I
raise horses near Glendo, Wyoming when I am not adding retirement points
to my long and convoluted military career (taking the scenic route you might
say)
Let's try for the 40th - My Best to You,
Rick (Lieutenant Colonel if anybody asks)
Karen Johnston
Have had the info about the reunion for several months,
and just took the time to check your website. Thanks for all of the time
and effort you and the others have invested in bringing back old memories.
I haven't attended the past reunions and very rarely see any of our classmates.
My sister and brother in law, Kay and Jerry Fenton, still live in the area,
Valley Center, and were both teaching at O.G. until this past school year.
Anyway, they have kept me informed about some of our classmates, but the lists
of names and the little bit of information you have posted about different people,
makes me very nostalgic. I hope to come to the reunion, but because I
am a teacher and school will have just started it might be a little bit difficult,
but I'll sure try.
I would like to give you updated information on how to contact me. My
email address is: johnka1@ix.netcom.com.
I look forward to getting in touch with friends and classmates and again appreciate
your efforts that have made this possible. Thank you.
Sincerely, Karen Johnston
Bill Jones
After OG, I attended
Palomar College for one year. The Letterman's Club gave me a small scholarship.
About the only thing I did at Palomar was run a fairly good mile; and lose my
student deferment (remember the draft?). Anyway, I joined the Navy just
before they drafted me.
The Navy made me a Hospital Corpsman and gave me away to the Marine Corps.
Within about a year, I was in Vietnam jumping out of helicopters.
Surviving that, I came home and tried school again. While still in the
Navy, I got a Bachelor of Science degree from George Washington University and
a Masters from Webster University. I also got married.Colleen is from
Minnesota, but I met her in San Diego. We have been married almost 23
years and have 3 kids. Anastasia is 21, Billy is 15, and Tom is 14.
We lived in Escondido until 1988.
In 1992 I retired from the Navy and we bought an old farm in the hills of South
Carolina. I actually have built mountain bike trails on the land as I
have been a cyclist for a number of years. (My barefoot running got me
a good case of arthritis of the knees)
I am a Physician Assistant (PA) and work with a Nephrologist, or kidney specialist
in private practice in Spartanburg, South Carolina. My boss & I have
about 2500 patients of which about 300 are on dialysis, or "the kidney
machine". I was political for a time, working as the President of
our state PA organization for a few years, but now just work in my practice
and occasionally do medical lectures to groups of Doctors, PA's, and Nurse Practitioners.
Probably the best thing I have done professionally was to go back to Palomar
College 16 years after "flunking" out and being the Director and Principal
Instructor of the EMT training program. ( I got a "C" when I
took the class in 1970.) Success is the best revenge.
If y'all get anywhere near Charlotte, North Carolina, give us a call.
Bill BillyBonk@aol.com
Janet Kensinger Seaman
I'm currently living in Kingsland,
Georgia about 43 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida. My husband of 31 years
and I settled here after he retired from the Navy after 28 years and almost
as many moves. I still practice as an RN and have currently returned to school
to persue that elusive degree. We have 2 adult children and almost 2 grandkids.
Thanks for the opportunity to say "hey" to everyone. I look forward
to future communications. Yours, Janet
Arney Kovin
If you have a senior year book my picture
is next to Nancy Ashworth. It seems they got my name backwards and that is where I
ended up.
I have been with the National Park Service for the last 30 or so years and have lived in
Tetons, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, and am presently at Point Reyes National
Seashore just north of San Francisco. I have moved around alot and this is the first
chance/opportunity I have had to attend a reunion. I am looking forward to it.
At any rate, you have my email address and I hope to hear from some of you.
Doug Klassen
Since 1969: Motorcycle
racing, hang gliding, dirt track car racing. Between hospital visits,
owned my own business and since 1981 have worked for Volkswagen of America,
Inc. Currently Facility Administrator at the Volkswagen Arizona Proving
Grounds. Current hobbies: Motorcycling and dog training. Visit http://members.aol.com/bigairrm80/
Looking forward to seeing you at the next reunion (2001?) Sorry to see that
I missed the 30th reunion. I was at the 10th which is a small story in
itself. The 2001 gathering is something possible.
Reading through the list of classmates on the web page was fun and a little
sad. I noted that Jim Manley has passed away. Jim was one of the
funniest people I ever met. He and I had a drama class together at Palomar
JC and Jim could make anything (including the Viet Nam war) funny. Any
idea how he died?
Walt Mack
Married, three daughters.
Oldest 26 and teaching English is Japan. Twin 17 year old daughters that are
juniors at Valley Center HS. I am in the electric car business. Golf carts, and
the new electric car from Ford, "Think". My wife is a flight attendant
for American Airlines. We live in Valley Center. I went to college in Colorado
on a baseball scholarship. And a whole lot of other things in between.
Walt
Christina Morones
Have managed through down-sizing in the
corporate world to work at Hewlett Packard Company for 27 years. I have never left
San Diego. I missed the 20 year reunion--this one should be fun! Susan Fox and I have
managed to stay connected after all of these years...she will flying out here from
Colorado to be at the reunion.
Roger Redding
Great
to hear from you. I can't wait for the reunion. It just scares me
how many years have gone by.
I'm working in Aberdeen, Washington for a construction company building a prison.
Aberdeen is a great place to live if you like rain and mold. The
average rainfall is around 90 inches a year. The fisherman like it.
Still married to Sue (Jauregui). Can't believe she put up with me all
these years. We will see you all in September. Add my E-Mail address
to your listing. Love to hear from others.
Brian Smith
Thank you for all your hard
work in putting the reunion together, sorry I couldn't make it, I was out
of town on a business
trip, although I was able
to make contact with a few of my old friends. In case you know me. When I got
out of high school I served in Vietnan for 2 years and I am very involved
in
the prison ministries. I have seven great kids, Most are grown up now. I'm
self imployed, have been for around 30 years, I also am a published author,
inspite
of my bad grammar and spelling and I also have a loving wife that puts up with
me and I live in Ramona, ca.
Dennis Whelan
College has been the best thirty years of
my life. I wasn't the best student even in High School, but have kept at it steadily. I
finally completed my undergraduate degree in 1979 in Art Studio at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. What took me that long, I cannot account for...it was the 70's.
I began in Architecture at San Luis Obispo immediately after OGHS. Mike Williamson and I
were classmates. Neither of us finished there.
I eventually did my Masters in Architecture at UCLA in 1983, and lived in LA for another 6
years while completing my internship and Architectural License. I returned to San Diego to
practice Architecture for 8 years there, before returning to UCSB with the idea of working
on a PhD. I secured a position in the Campus Planning office and earned my Planning
Certificate to make a living. I now work with the development of the University here as a
Campus Planner.
After turning 40, my tolerance for BS went way down, and I couldn't imagine spending 7
years writing a dissertation for extremely brilliant and eccentric faculty members who I
have to work with daily. And so I have become a happy bureaucrat. Its sort of my own
little city, like I had made as a child in the backyard out of mud and twigs, only I don't
have the absolute power to crush the undesirable elements under my heel as I did then.
Living in Santa Barbara makes up for many work-related adversities though.
I can hardly find the Escondido I knew now when I visit. I think the population was around
10,000 when I was born at Palomar Hospital. One
point of pride, I was a student and employee of Charles Moore, the architect of the
California Center of the Arts, next to the new Escondido City Hall...two fine buildings
that are notable exceptions to the banal city of 130,000 today. Does anyone remember
Ting's Pharmacy?
During Undergraduate days, I discovered some latent athletic tendencies while on the
Rowing team. I continue to train and compete in Masters rowing, last year winning the
single sculls at the International GGV regatta in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
As for the personal: not single, not married, not telling...until we meet again.