Thursday, August 9, 2007

A couple stories from Bill McGaugh

The Cross Caper. I believe the night started with a number of people watching Batman (wham! bop!) over at Janet Stiles' house. When the show concluded, some people piled into a car and went riding around ... maybe to check the water tower and confirm that the correct number would be shining down on the school the next day. The water tower was looking fine. But, as we drove by the high school, we saw some lights on the Senior Lawn. Driving into the parking lot, we could see a truck. ... Follow this link to the Cross Caper. The Mr. Douglas' Christmas Present caper was more premeditated. A group of bored people decided that it might be fun to do something interesting, just to let Mr. Douglas (the science teacher) know we were thinking of him over Christmas vacation. So... Follow this link to Mr. Douglas' Christmas Present. Posted on 8/9/07; 9:27:03 AM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Memories, Comment [0]

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The Water Tower Gang of Four

The Water Tower Gang Here's an old photo that some folks might enjoy. Taken after one of the water tower painting episodes. Frosty Click on the image to get, eventually, to the larger size — Jack Posted on 8/8/07; 8:50:42 AM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Memories, Photos, Comment [0]

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

A little diversion into high school romance.

The Girl In the last small video, I was told to ask Bill about his crushes. ... I asked and then we went on a little tour with Bill, Donna, and Bill. Posted on 7/18/07; 8:22:26 AM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Reunion, Comment [0]

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The Guys talkin' shop.

The Guys talkin' shop One never knows what is going to be caught on tape. I found all the conversations very interesting, but being only one person, I did not have enough time to capture everything, these are just a couple conversations of the few I heard. Posted on 7/17/07; 10:39:25 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Reunion, Comment [0]

A little Reunion Smile - or two.

The evening of the first day. Hello friends. Here is the first small video of the 40th Reunion. It is one of the many that we hope will be hosted on YouTube. So remember to submit all the little videos you took and we can put them all out there, and all of our friends can see them. By the way, here is a link to the image gallery of the 40th ReunionImages of the 40th Reunion I have already spoken with a few friends who are mailing me their CDs full of the images they took. Those images will go into the same group of the class of 1967, so send your in as well. All images should be sent to. ... Jack Foster Mancilla 3462 Mount Everest Blvd. San Diego Ca, 92111 Posted on 7/17/07; 2:06:16 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Reunion, Comment [0]

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Reunion Update!

6:30 pm at Janet's for Friday the 13th chicken & salads, sodas & water /will be covered by class funds. Saturday 6:30-8:30 A.M. River Village for vintage car buffs/ Sunrize Cafe recommended breakfast Saturday 11:30-4 Live Oak Park $10 each Sweet Lelani's Bar-be-Que Sodas and keg provided. Saturday night 6'ish Brothers' Bistro $30 each yummy menu $30 each Sunday TBA 9-11 AM after head count on Saturday either breakfast on lawn at FUHS or at Denny's covered by class funds. (Cancellation will occur if lack of interest expressed on Saturday) Posted on 7/7/07; 7:03:24 AM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Reunion, Comment [0]

Monday, February 26, 2007

The Planning Committee

40th Reunion Planning Committee There is a modified Galleries page in the Navigation area. ... That page will collect all the images from the various places they are located. And! The reunion is coming together. If you jump to the committee image, everyone can comment on, and name everyone in the images. ... It would be nice if someone did that. Posted on 2/26/07; 12:42:06 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Photos, Comment [0]

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Reunion - Game On!

Friday Night Gathering 7/13 at Jan Stiles parents home. 707 Morro Rd. Jan’s parents’ home, corner of Morro and Fallbrook St. Smoking Area: away from the house/by the garage Saturday The Reunion Picnic 7/14 11:30-4:00 in Live Oak Park, catered by Sweet Leilani for Hawaiian bar-be-que (There will be some sort of fee for this) BYOB (water, soft drinks, beer, wine/no hard stuff allowed). Decorated table for all our memorabilia/photos. “Memorial pics” Saturday Night Music, Dancing, and Drinks 7/14 6:30 at Estrella’s in Bonsall or Brothers’ Bistro in Fallbrook. We are trying go get a band so that there will be music, dancing and food (No host bar, no host food) Sunday Brunch and a last chance to be together 7/15. The brunch will be at Renee’s Ingold’s house (no cost) Posted on 2/25/07; 10:47:38 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Reunion, Comment [1]

New page - Contacts

There is a new page for contacts. You can click on the email addresses of the people with email addresses, and send them an email. If you see that someone does not have an email address, write directly to the email list and ask about them, maybe someone can put you in contact with the person you are looking for. The Contact page is here -> Contacts Mail to the email list The Fallbrook67 class email list Posted on 2/25/07; 10:20:17 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept., Comment [0]

Friday, February 16, 2007

New page - Deceased

There has been a new page added to the Navigation area to the left. ... It is for people that have passed away. Deceased Posted on 2/16/07; 6:20:34 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept., Comment [0]

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Dear Friends - Steve Price is saying hello!

Dear Friends, Play here, requires Quicktime. Forty years of a long and winding road leading me back home. It's been a great trip. After graduation I worked at the Frosty during the day and attended Palomar J.C. at night. Four months later my father passed away. That was tough. I still miss him a lot. Six months later I got drafted out of school because I was a unit shy of a student deferment. Just prior to being inducted into the Army I got into the Air Force and was assigned to a base in Idaho. My commander was also the squadron football coach, so until I got hurt I played a lot of ball. I got sent to a base in northern California for surgery and got to convalesce there for a few months, in Berkeley for a few days during the People's Park demonstrations with Harold Neufeld, and back in Fallbrook. Shortly afterwards I was discharged and back on the streets. I traveled a bit, spent a few months on an uninhabited island off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Went to Oahu for a few months. Hitchhiked up and down the west coast having the great hippie adventure. Around 1972 I hitched into Flagstaff, Arizona. I was stunned with the clarity and beauty of the sky and the Peaks. Flagstaff was a small town of about 15,000 with another 15,000 university students of which 2/3 were young women...party town. I worked as a cook in bar/restaurant that one of the local bands played in every weekend. From my kitchen serving window I had a great place to listen to them. I offered them lots of unsolicited advice on mixing the sound and when they hit the road they asked me to go with them to be their all-purpose roadie/manager. In a blue school bus with a long-haired wizard painted on its side, Freaky Frank and the Fabulous Pistons hit the trail for fame and fortune. After a year we ended up in Tucson instead. Being one of the first bands to play something other than country music in Tucson, this group and many variations of this band became one of the top performing bands in the area. The lead guitar player later became the lead in the Steve Earle Band. The producer from the Blue Oyster Cult offered us a recording contract that the band just couldn't get behind, and after a few years in the bar scene, I needed a change. Through a friend's encouragement I started working in a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed kids. I had had a lot of experience with that working with the guys in the band. I started as a classroom aide and later became the supervisor. There I met and fell in love with my beautiful wife Rose. We got married in '78. She finished her teaching degree and started teaching in '79. I enjoyed working with kids and in the classroom so I too decided to go back to school and I got my teaching degree in '83 from the University of Arizona. I loved teaching. After ten years of teaching math and science at the middle school level I became an Instructional Coach/Evaluator of teachers for the next four years. I also supplemented my teaching salary working as a baseball umpire. Eventually, I worked my way up to the collegiate level and umpired Pac-10 games for a number of years. I turned down an opportunity to umpire in the Mexican professional leagues. That would have been too much time away from my family. I umped for ten years and that was great fun. In 1987 my daughter Arianna was born. I believe this occurred during the 20th year reunion. While some of you were already grandparents, I was a father for the first time at 38. Arianna has been an absolute joy in our lives. In 1997 I became the principal of one of the poorest elementary schools in Tucson. It was also the lowest performing school in the county and one of the lowest in the state. During our 30th year reunion some of you may remember how excited I was to get this position. It has been a great honor for me to have the opportunity to serve this community. In 2004 my school received the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Award for being the most improved school in the state of Arizona based on our gains in student achievement over a four year period. We are now considered a Nationally Recognized School of Excellence and one of the top performing schools in the county. Pretty cool. My daughter is now in her second year of college and hopes to be accepted into the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU next year. She is a great kid and we have a lot fun traveling together. My wife, daughter and I have traveled fairly extensively throughout the US, Europe, Mexico and parts of Asia. We've made many friends around the world. We hosted two daughters of some German friends so they could attend high school here in Tucson with our daughter. Traveling has opened our minds and hearts to the different cultures of the world and it is the antidote for ethnocentric homophobia. My wife and I are looking forward to retiring in a couple of years from education and are blessed with good health. I'd like to close with Louie Armstrong's, "It's a Wonderful World", playing softly in the background, at least it is in my head, and wish you all the best. I look forward to reconnecting and catching up with you all. Posted on 10/18/06; 3:21:52 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Bios, Comment [1]

Monday, September 25, 2006

The Last Brats Notification. And a few Images.

Julie Lawrence Naldret, circa 1964 Let me preface this post by saying that the image to the right, or Julie's name under the image, link to a single page that I scanned out of my Senior yearbook, 1964. The faces that you will see if you click on Julie's image to the right, are the Freshman faces of the class of 1967 that run from, Lorus Hatch to Julie Lawrence, and there are quite a few in the middle. — Jack The last posting about the "BRATS - Our Journey Home" movie before the event. ... We have had one person say that they have seen the film. Here is what Julie has to say about the film. Hi Jack, I purchased this DVD at my ISB reunion last month and it is so wonderful I can't describe it. I found so many similarities it blew me away. I discovered I AM NORMAL!!!! Or as normal as can be. Have a great time and have a java for me too. Thanks, Julie There have been a few people that voiced interest in seeing the movie, and meeting beforehand, so I have made reservations at ... 5:30pm Friday the 29th The Longboarder Cafe 228 North Coast Highway Oceanside, CA, 92054 Right now, the reservations are for four people, so please R.S.V.P. by clicking on this email address ijak@mac.com, or call me at 619 218 2929. I'll see you there! Location is, they say, everything, and the Longboarder Cafe has it in spades. Straight up from the Oceanside Pier and right across the street from the California Surf Museum (and the very pretty Oceanside City Hall, too) the corner cafe does a brisk trade in breakfast and lunch fare best described as Southern Californian. Omelets bursting with avocado and sprouts, south of the border egg dishes, "scrambles" of eggs and fresh veggies lead into fish tacos, wraps and huge leafy salads. Posted on 9/25/06; 4:03:32 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Memories, Reunion, Comment [0]

Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Brats are Back - Join us!

Oceanside Public Library at the Civic Center There are several people interested in the showing of this film on the 29th. I will be driving up to Oceanside tomorrow to scout out a good coffee shop, or restaurant near the Public Library, so that we can park our cars and meet before the film for a cup of coffee, or tea, and then walk to the Library together. The film start time is 7PM. I will be at the location from 5:30, until we walk over. My cell phone number is 619 218 2929 if you get lost, or need last minute directions. This page will be updated tomorrow evening with the exact meeting location. If there is any child of the Military that you would like me to research, let me know, and I will ask about them at the meeting afterwards. — Jack --About the film-- "BRATS - Our Journey Home" is the first-ever documentary about us - about growing up BRAT - and how that has profoundly affected our lives. September 29, 7.00pm - Open to all. Free Admission Oceanside Public Library at the Civic Center 330 N. Coast Highway Oceanside, CA Q & A session with writer-director Donna Musil follows each screening. Posted on 9/23/06; 4:40:42 PM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Memories, Comment [0]

Saturday, June 3, 2006

Mrs. Thurman's kindergarten class of 1954

Mrs. Thurman's K class of 1954 Mike Loskota scanned and sent this image. If you click on the image to the right, you will goto the thumbnail. ... I know it seems a little silly to have a thumbnail page, but when there are two, or more, images in a collection, the thumbnail page is a good thing to have. ... Anyway, if you click on that thumbnail page thumbnail, you will go to the individual photo page that is large enough to see the faces and read the names. ... Thank you Mike! Posted on 6/3/06; 8:40:25 AM by Jack F. Mancilla Dept.Memories, Comment [0]