STEDMAN CLOCK DAMAGED

Willa Stedman Vanderburg '53, Shirley Stedman Laroff '49, and Jim Vanderburg '53 hold one of the faces of the damaged Stedman clock.

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MARK MARTINEZ, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Friday, October 26, 2007
Fullerton clock strikes uncertainty
Strong winds topple prominent Fullerton clock, which now has a cloudy future.
By BARBARA GIASONE
The Orange County Register

FULLERTON – Time stood still early last Monday when violent winds whipped a city tree into the landmark 1910 Stedman street clock at 109 N. Harbor Blvd.
Branches smashed the glass, the neon tubing and the metal support – knocking the timepiece from its cast-iron pedestal.
The metal hands were stopped at 4:30.
On Thursday, Willa Vanderburg and Shirley Laroff were in a storage area at the city maintenance yard assessing their late parents' treasure that was given local historical status in 1997.
"I'm shocked," Vanderburg said.
Laroff chimed in, "Well, it's compact," after seeing how the face and mechanism of the 14-foot-tall post clock had been reduced to a 24-inch-high pile.
The pedestal and historical plaque remain on the sidewalk.
The Stedman sisters circled the crumbled clock lying on a pallet. Lyman Otley, the city facilities superintendent, said it took three men to remove the broken, 200-pound clock from the sidewalk in the windstorm.
Laroff said her fondest memory was of her father, town jeweler William Stedman, recounting how he and his cronies got together one night in 1940 and lugged the clock westward across the street from its original location at 112 N. Spadra Road (now Harbor Boulevard). He wanted the clock near his new store.
The clock had become the property of Stedman and his wife, Frances, when they bought Stalmer Jewelers in 1929 on the east side of Spadra.
In 1995, the city signed a 99-year lease with the Stedman family to restore and maintain the clock after vandalism and car catastrophes had damaged it through the years.
The next year, the clock was taken down and separated into 11 pieces before it was stripped to its metal, sandblasted, soldered and painted. By New Year's Eve, the restored clock had working dials, neon lights and a new coat of black paint for a dedication ceremony.
Otley contacted a clock repairman to estimate costs to fix the timepiece.
"I was told it could run as much as $15,000 to restore the clock or $10,000 to build a replica using the original face and hands," Otley said. "It would be nice to save the original clock, but I really don't know if that's possible."
City officials have yet to decide whether to restore or to replace the clock.

(Notice that there is a comment posted below about another historical OC clock.)

FUHS TEACHER- MR. MOORE

Floyd Moore died August 28, 2007 at his home in Eskaton Lodge in Granite Bay, CA.
This news was sent to me by Mike Johnson, FUHS '58.

FUHS TEACHER- MR. ARMIJO

Armijo, Louis Victor, age 82 of Fullerton, passed away June 27, 2007. He is survived by his wife, Ella; daughter, Vicki; son, Bill; six grandchildren, Joseph, Shantelle, Lindsey, Matthew, Nick, David; and eleven great-grandchildern. He spent his lifetime helping people and will be remembered for his endless story-telling and his kind heart (transplanted). Many will recall his role in Tom Brokaw's book "The Greatest Generation".
(Below information relates to July, 2007)
Visitation is 1:00-3:00 Sunday, at McAulay and Wallace in Fullerton. Church services will be at St. Phillip's in Fullerton at 1:00 Monday, July 2. Burial is pending at Riverside National Cemetery. McAulay & Wallace Mortuary assisted the family.
Published in the Orange County Register from 7/1/2007 - 7/2/2007.
Notice
Mike Johnson, FUHS '58, sent me this news.

GLENN DEVENEY, FUHS '60?

This article was just sent to me by Mike Johnson, FUHS '58
Glenn is not listed in the FUHS directory so I am quessing at the year that he graduated.

Monday, August 27, 2007
Police mourn beloved sergeant
Glenn Deveney, 64, dies after a long battle with cancer.
By BARBARA GIASONE
The Orange County Register

FULLERTON
The police and City Hall communities today are mourning the death of retired Sgt. Glenn Deveney, who died Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 64.

Deveney retired 10 years ago after 32 years with the Police Department, where he worked every detail. Affectionately called "Sgt. Motor Mouth" by his co-workers, Deveney was an imposing figure at more than 6 feet tall with white hair. He loved nothing more than stopping on the street or in the office to greet and chat. "If he met you on the sidewalk, the conversation would be interrupted continually by passersby shouting 'Hi Dev' or 'Hi Sarge,'" city spokeswoman Sylvia Palmer-Mudrick said. "He was just that kind of guy who loved everyone and everyone loved him."

Police Chief Pat McKinley said even after Deveney retired, he stayed on as a "fixture," keeping in touch with all the retired police officers.

Fullerton was Deveney's town. He went through the school system, graduating from Fullerton Union High School, Fullerton College, Cal State Fullerton – and then returning to he college campuses to teach criminal justice.

When he was discharged from the Marine Corps, he applied to the police department. Chief Wayne Bornhoft told Deveney to return in a year. The proud Marine followed orders and launched a career that took him from patrol to administrative positions.

"He was strong-willed, and an incredible patriot," McKinley said. Deveney told friends that when he retired, he wanted his legacy to be: "Tall guy with white hair, talked a lot and always treated us fairly."

He is survived by his wife, Flo, and daughters Kelly, a dispatcher at FPD, and Kerri, who works at the Anaheim Police Department; two brothers and four sisters.

(This was written August 27, 2007.)
Graveside services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Loma Vista Memorial Park, 701 E. Bastanchury Road. The family asks in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Glenn Deveney Memorial Fund at Fullerton Community Bank, 200 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, for dispersal to Deveney's favorite charities.

CAROLINE (TERRILL) KUDELL, FUHS '36

Our wonderful Pow Wow class rep for the class of '36 died Oct 6. Her daughter is Maureen Conner Peltzer, FUHS '54.

(Picture taken by Connie at the 2007 Pow Wow All-Alumni Luncheon. It's on the Pow Wow Class Reps blog.)

Kudell, Caroline Louise, 88, of Fullerton, passed away October 6, 2007. Services will be held on Monday, October 15 at 11:30 a.m. at Eastside Christian Church 2505 E. Yorba Linda Blvd in Fullerton. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to National Cancer Research, St. Joseph Hospice 1845 Orangewood Ave. Suite 100A, Orange, Ca 92868 or any cancer fighting organization.
McAulay & Wallace Mortuary
Published in the Orange County Register from 10/13/2007 - 10/14/2007.
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