FULLERTON NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT POW WOW
Click on "Comments" below to get the hot link to the article printed 3-9-2006. The second comment contains the content of the article, although the photo didn't copy.
I am going to try to upload the photo here.
Earl Gibson (web master of the '53 web page) has a great view of the newspaper at http://www.fuhsalumni.com/wpe1.gif
posted by Connie @ 6:12 AM
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Here is the hot link to the news article about the alumni POW WOW luncheon in the Fullerton paper:
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:Fullerton News-Tribune; :Mar 9, 2006; :News; :5
Fullerton students to pow wow over memories
Fullerton Union High School classes hold all-school reunion.
By BARBARA GIASONE FULLERTON NEWS TRIBUNE
The enthusiastic conversation at the dining room table is infectious.
“Look, we’ve got more than 700 coming,” Pat Vierra Zima tells Connie Stafford Van Horn as the two double-check the computerized reservation list. “Barney will find a place for them.”
“It’s a good thing you were a saver,” Van Horn tells Zima, thumbing through a photo album that has captured seemingly every event in their teenage years. “You’ve got to bring that.”
Van Horn dashes to another room to check responses to the latest blog while Zima unfolds a panoramic photograph of her high school class.
The women, friends since elementary days at Ford School and Wilshire Junior High, are caught up in the excitement of planning a reunion that has taken nearly a year to package.
On Saturday, approximately 720 Fullerton Union High School alumni will converge at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove for the eighth annual “All-Class Pow Wow Luncheon.”
Barney Blashill (Class of ’49) always volunteers to handle the schematics for the tables. The retired caterer and banquet manager has the obvious credentials to successfully deal with all age levels.
“But the real reward is seeing people come in and all of a sudden recognizing somebody,” Blashill says. “You can see the eyes meet; it’s electricity.”
Lois Putman Givens prefers to take care of the reservation checks, an often thankless and time-consuming job.
She’s one of many who will share memories of favorite teachers, activities and learning that have been benchmarks throughout the school’s 113-year history.
“I’ll never forget Coach William “Uncle Willie” Martin,” Blashill remembers. “He made us do our best.”
Earl “Hoot” Gibson has captured many of his remembrances on an Internet link to the Fullerton Union High School Alumni Web site.
Van Horn takes pride in her freshman year in 1949 when the class was the largest at 600 and football was “king” for four years of city championships.
For Zima (Class of ’53), it was the Pow Wow parade that snaked through the downtown, ending at a carnival on the football field, that she remembers.
Zima’s husband, Bob, watching the women chatter incessantly about their high school memories, says he finds the alumni interest amazing.
“I went to a small high school in Illinois, and I’ve never been to a reunion,” he adds. “There’s this amazing camaraderie even though they all didn’t go to school at the same time.”
His wife agrees the spirit is contagious.
It was that enthusiasm that prompted the Class of 1948 to launch an all-class gathering after its 50th reunion in 1998. Jay Hobson, Bill White and Bob Fulton figured if they set a date, found a place and spread the word, the alums would come.
The first two reunions were held in 1999 and 2000 at the Quail Inn at Lake San Marcos. An ongoing buffet allowed anyone to come. No money was collected, no deposit necessary to hold the facility. Sixty attended.
The Class of 1949 was asked to take over in 2001 with class representatives from the ‘40s and ‘50s. The idea snowballed until organizers like Phyllis Munn Bolinger realized they needed a large facility.
Receipts indicate Crown Plaza Hotel last year served 590 attendees with the bill totaling $15,000.
“I really think we’re going to outgrow this,” Zima said. “I’m going to suggest next year we hold the reunion in the school gymnasium.”
(The picture didn't print on this blog.)
CONNIE STAFFORD VAN HORN , left, and Pat Vierra Zima check out a Fullerton Union High School alumni directory as they prepare for Saturday’s eighth annual "FUHS All-Alumni Pow Wow Luncheon" at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove. More than 700 graduates are expected to attend.
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