POW WOW 2012 IN JEOPARDY?

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LATEST UPDATE (APRIL 28, 2011)
Lee Ann e-mailed me after she saw this message on the blog and told me that she had been told by someone that she would be contacted later and given the details about hosting, but she hadn't been contacted yet. She said that the class of '59 was eagerly awaiting its turn. Thank goodness, we have made contact and the fun begins. Thank you, class of '59. Please contact Lee Ann if you want to be part of FUHS alumni history.
Her e-mail address is on  http://www.fuhsalumnionline.com/alumni.htm
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The class of ’59 is the next in line to host the luncheon. Anyone in that class can be involved, but no one has volunteered yet. Someone who lives close to Fullerton needs to act as the link to the class (which would entail attending about 4 committee meetings and keeping the class informed and helping rally volunteers from the class to help with tasks like typing or proof-reading or decorating the tables on the day of the luncheon or handing out the name tags, etc). There are several people from other classes who have volunteered for years to do the major tasks, but they need help.

It’s now up to you, the class of ’59. Are you the people who are going to be known as the ones who enjoyed the fruits of others’ labors for years, but who let the alumni down when it was their turn to help? Are we seeing the beginning of the end for this yearly event? Your Pow Wow class rep has done a wonderful job keeping you all informed for years. She always does her part helping the luncheon.
(You know that the volunteers who have helped for years will keep the luncheon going, but is it fair to let only a few do all of the work?)

Anyone in any class who wants to volunteer to do any task, large or small, and help preserve the luncheon, please email Connie. CVANHORN@PACBELL.NET

Several classes do not have a Pow Wow class rep to contact their classmates and pass on class news and the luncheon invitations. The alumni in these classes will need to rely on word of mouth from their friends in other classes or on checking the blog. If you want to volunteer to be the rep for your class, email Connie.
(I am going to post this on the Pow Wow 2011 blog too.)

BOB C. SMITH, FUHS 1961?

Smith, Robert C., 68, passed away March 25, 2011. A life time resident of Fullerton and Fullerton High school graduate, he leaves behind loving wife, Sandra; daughter, Kim Benavides; sons, Chad Smith, Ray Weaver, and Bill Weaver; and 10 grandchildren. McAulay & Wallace Mortuary
Published in Orange County Register on March 29, 2011
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CLASS OF '45- RON LUNDEEN SURFACES

LATEST NEWS:
Ron has emailed me so I have his address now, but he is going to put it on  http://www.fuhsalumnionline.com/alumni.htm so you only have to email me to get it if you can't wait until April 7. By then his message will be buried in my more current email and will perhaps never be found again. Hope you friends find each other.
Connie


Here is a copy of a comment that I found on the 2011 Pow Wow blog in the "Pow Wow Reps Read and Email Me" post.  Ron, you need to email me at CVANHORN@PACBELL.NET  or find friends on http://www.fuhsalumnionline.com/alumni.htm
(in 40’s directory, Don Sorsabal, Pow Wow class rep for '45,
has a current email address)

Blast from the past!! Ron Lundeen Class of 45 and wife Ellie live in Arizona (Oro Valley) Ron Left Fullerton in 1943 and finished high school in Corona, CA. Returned to Fullerton in 1957 for several years, Would love to hear from Classmates!!


March 24, 2011 10:13 AM

NEED PHOTO OF GUNNAR HANSSEN'S VISIT IN 2006

In the fall of 2006, Gunnar Serck Hanssen, FUHS' first foreign exchange student, returned for a visit. The only photo that I have of that is the one that was in the paper online. The image is low resolution for the Internet, so it wouldn't be good for publishing. Does anyone have a good-quality image of this event? Please contact me: wayneanddi_ca@yahoo.com.

Diane Oestreich
(1964 Pow Wow Class Rep)

FROM A FRIEND IN SENDAI, JAPAN

Here is an e-mail message "Blessings (Japan earthquake)" sent to Gerry Campbell (Pow Wow rep for the class of '43) from her friend Chris.

Monday, March 21, 2011 2:34 PM
To: "Gerry Campbell"
From: Chris
Anne Thomas is a friend of a good friend of mine. Her house is in Sendai, Japan, where she´s been living for the past 10 years. Her e-mail is very moving and I think it´s worth reading.
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Hello My Lovely Family and Friends,
First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you.
Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.
During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets.
Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, "Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another."
Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.
We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on. But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.
There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun. People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.
Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled. The mountains are Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.
And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.
They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend's husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.
Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don't. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.
Thank you again for your care and Love of me,
With Love in return, to you all,
Anne

TOM DOLLARHIDE, FUHS 1943

Tom and Verna at the Pow Wow luncheon in 2008. (Picture taken by Craig Mathews,  Pow Wow class rep for the class of 1967.)

(In Orange County Register 3/14/2011)
Dollarhide, Thomas, 86, of Fullerton, died on 3/5/2011.
The Omega Society

(I finally found my newspaper that had the one line obit. I couldn't find the obit on-line. Evidently the Omega Society obits don't get put on-line. I typed above what I found in the newspaper.)
He had a Fallbrook address starting in 2007.

He attended many Pow Wow luncheons, but stopped coming in 2008.

Gerry Crowley Campbell and Ken Sigmund (Pow Wow class reps for the class of 1943) think that this is "our" Tom.

Can anyone confirm this?
Pat Zima, '53 Pow Wow rep, emailed me:
Joe Juarez went to school with Tom. These guys all played ball together. Joe said that is Tom that you read in the paper.

Tracy Mitchell Krause (Pow Wow class rep for 1982) found his picture posted on the Pow Wow blog in 2008. 

http://fuhspowwow2008picscraig.blogspot.com/2008/04/tom-dollarhide-43.html

Tom's obituary in the Orange County Register March 22:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.aspx?n=tom-dollarhide&pid=149558824

Dollarhide, Tom, of Fullerton, California, passed away on Saturday, March 5, 2011 of renal failure. He is survived by son, Tom Dollarhide of Hemet California and daughter, Lori Shepherd of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Memorial services will be held at Riverside National Cemetery, 22495 Van Buren Blvd., Riverside, CA 92518 on Thursday, April 7, 10:00 a.m.

Published in Orange County Register on March 22, 2011
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Picture on the Register obituary:



CONNIE'S COMPUTER IS DOWN- PLEASE READ

This message is especially for the Pow Wow class reps:
My computer is down. I am using my husband's computer and the Yahoo browser will only let me "reply" to a message that was sent to me recently so I need for all of you reps to email me at CVANHORN@PACBELL.NET

I need to ask you a question about the contact list that I send you each fall.

I have a new computer, but it's going to take awhile to get it ready to use and to create a new address book.

If anybody else usually gets messages from me and hasn't emailed me in the last month, it would be a good idea for you to email me too.

PET HUMMINGBIRD VIDEO

This email message was sent by Earlene Skelton Boyd, FUHS '53.
This guy found this baby hummingbird after it was attacked, and he nursed it
back to health until it decided to stay and be his pet. Very charming video,
and be sure to have your sound on. The song in the background is almost as
good as the video itself. ENJOY :-)
http://www.wimp.com/babyhummingbird/

NANCY MUNGER POLTE, FUHS 1948

Polte, Nancy Jean December 31, 1930-February 17, 2011 Nancy was born in Hollywood, CA. to Don and Ruth Munger on December 31, 1930. The family moved to Yorba Linda in 1931. Nancy was raised and went to elementary school in Yorba Linda. She graduated from Fullerton High School in 1948.. .the same High School her parents attended 25 years prior. Nancy met her future husband, Ernest A. Polte, while enrolled at Fullerton Junior College in the fall of 1948. After Ernie graduated from Stanford University they were married in June, 1951. This was soon followed by the births of 3 sons, Larry, John and Jeff. The Polte family moved from Fullerton back to Yorba Linda in 1961. After Ernie's successful teaching/coaching career (Water Polo and Swimming) at Fullerton Junior College, Nancy and Ernie eventually moved to San Clemente in 1992. Retirement life was good until Nancy was first diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease 10 years ago. Despite her gradual physical decline caused by this insidious disease, Nancy maintained an inner strength and dignity of spirit until her final day on February 17, 2011. Nancy is survived by her husband, Ernie (of almost 60 years) and by her 3 sons, Larry (and wife Joy) of Placerville, CA., John of San Clemente, and Jeff (and wife Robin) of Pt. Hueneme, CA. Nancy is also survived by her sister, Joyce Smith, her nephew, Brad, her niece Beverly, 7 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren. Nancy Jean Polte's primary goal in life was to be the best mother and wife she could be. She succeeded! She taught us to sing, to dance, to laugh, and to fully appreciate the beautiful, simple things in life. Nancy was a gifted artist and seamstress. She gave her all and asked for little in return.. .She was the "wind beneath our wings." Nancy will be dearly missed by all those who knew her. Services were held in San Clemente on February 20, 2011. Lesneski Mortuary

Published in Orange County Register on March 3, 2011
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