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Name: Steve Bunch ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Jul 17, 2011, 9:49 am - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: Alta Loma, Ca

Message: I drove my car to Good neighbors day yesterday and enjoyed talking with a few old friends and met some new ones. I walked around the campus and noticed a few changes, the new cafeteria, no senior square, no high dive pool and the girls locker room is being renovated. Other than that everything seems to be the same. While I was sitting next to my car at the car cruise, three current students noticed my moth eaten lettermans jacket that was in the car. They were excited to see it, one of the guys said to the others, "Dude look at that lettermans jacket, it's prehistoric" It kind of brings things into perspective, just when you're thinking of the memories that seem to have occurred a short time ago, someone is around to remind you that we're dinosaurs. Then again think about how valuable fossils are!
Hey Steve, thanks for the story and for coming out to the Good Neighbors Day event.
Name: Catherine Robuck ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Jul 17, 2011, 9:14 am - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: san pedro CA

Message: Good morning Cougars, Sure was fun at the concert last night! I saw Karen and her Honey, Bob, John Baker, met a girl named Maria (she had a lei on her leg-got the surf spirit) from Torrance who fell for a Haw. Cougar Carl Johnson, saw Chevy John and wife sittin in the grass whom I waved Hi to a few times, he seemed puzzled but I remembered him from Fosters and loved their car and truely this is the city of "Good Neighbors! Lotsa fun people like Judy, She's got Personality and I really love reading what she says on Cougartown. This girl by me who couldn't sit still asked me to please dance with her and it was like, oh yea, break my arm. She knew all the old dances, COOL and so we thought we were rockettes, not only hearing the great music but feeling it too! Good exercise, right?. Saw Bob Dylan the night before at OC ampi-theatre which was very nice, he's still Rockin good at 70 yrs. old and so are us Cougars! It was soo nice moving once again on Cougar grounds, Halcap field and I do remember those many laps we did at PE!!! This is a warm up for seeing many more Cougars at Aug. reunion. I'm so excited!! Love and the Best to all our Cougars. Life is sweet so make your day Beautiful!!!!! Cathie
Hey Cathie, great seeing you there last night along with many other Cougars. A rockin' good time on good ol' Halcap, for sure. Thanks very much to David and Carrie Marks, and the Legends of Surf music along with Al Jardine's son, Matt for putting on the best 20 buck surf show I've seen since the 70s.
Name: Theresa Valenzuela ~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-Jul 17, 2011, 7:40 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Valenzuela
Class: 1971
City & State: Hawthorne, CA

Message: Hi Everyone, Who's going to the Tony's. I was hoping to see some of the guys I went to school with. Where is Rick Salmon, David Uribe, Mark Garcia, Robert Ferri, Scott Armstrong. Where is everybody. Hope to see you all there. :-)
Name: Larry, loretta, Eric Cuiper ~~~~~~~~~~ Sat-Jul 16, 2011, 3:31 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Morelli
Class: 1960
City & State: Hawthorne, Ca

Message: It's after 2 and we just got back from the Good Neighbors Day Fair. We had such a nice time. So nice to see so many friends. We meet and spoke to HHS Robotec Students, and Da Vincie High Students. Nice group of young Kids. We met this young Football player, by the name of Michael Davis, Defense Captain for HHS. He was going around and introducted himself and Thanking People for all the support in helping out with their athletic department. Such a pleasant young man. We all need to keep an eye on him, think this young man is going places. We hope so. He was impressed with Cougartown and wanted to meet John Baker. The cars were fun to look back in time, some really brought back memories. Larry was having a great time talking, he saw Jan and Judy and it had been awhile since we had seen them, it was good talking to them. Eric was at the Da Vinci booth and one of the adults who works for the school, turned out to be a friend he had not seen in years. He was having a nice conversation with the students, very knowledgable, he found them very interesting talking with them. It was a fun day for all of us and on the way out all those pictures of old Hawthorne gave a good up on the old Hawthorne. Always a Coug!! Those who are going to the concert tonight have a great time.....
Thanks Loretta and yes I talked with Mike Davis and was very impressed. He wanted to thank all the Alumni for their help in donating to the team. He's also getting a great workout on the blocking sled that was funded by our Cougars. Another one I talked with was a robotics student named Jonathan. He was talking about the bad rap Hawthorne High gets and wants everyone to know the Robotics team at Hawthorne is one of the top teams in the country. You cannot believe these robots they build. Maybe we'll just have to have a Cougartown Robotics show and see. These kids are teaching the DaVinci students robotics. Anyway, I've come home, fed the dog, and now it's time to go back for the concert. If anyone wants to see David Marks along with the Legends of Surf Music, tickets will be sold at the gate and the concert starts at 7pm. There will be grass seating too, right in front of the stage so bring your lawn chairs, walk through campus to Halcap and you are there.
Name: Judy Degrazia ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 11:55 pm - HHS Time
No E-mail
Message: So, tomorrow we shlep to HHS again. Janny is leaving very early in the morning.. said something about wanting to be the first in line at the cafeteria's side window to get a tamale and chili. Why is it that we've never had chili like that again after high school. Then top it off with a coconut cream pie. I gave him 2 bucks as that's all it cost in the early 60's. I never ate once in the cafeteria when I was a Freshman because I knew the scags were waiting for me somewhere to initiate me.. (don't forget I was a stupid Catholic school girl) I just knew they would smear lipstick all over my face and maybe cut my hair in the restroom.. I wouldn't mind all that attention at all now.. I think beauty spas charge for it. See you there Sidney.
Judy, Now how could we forget that. It is now 4:30am, I'm ready and I'll meet Janny in the snack bar line.
Name: Sharon Leach ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 6:00 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Moore
Class: 1966
City & State: Long Beach, CA

Message: Happy birthday Janet Murphy!
Happy Birthday Janet.
Name: El Rojo ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 3:40 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: JACOBSEN
Class: 1960
City & State: Kuna, ID

Message: Hey Fitz a big hi to you buddy and happy B-Day to Jim Isadore and a very close high school friend Micky Wood from our class of 60. It's horrible though to hear of the tearing down of the girls locker room. Jeez I have so many fond memories of being in there.(:))! MAY THE COUGAR BE WITH YOU!. Jake N Jude.
I bet you do Russ, Happy Birthday Jim.
Name: Sharon Leach ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 3:34 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Moore
Class: 1966
City & State: Long Beach, CA

Message: John Crotty, it's great to see you back on CT. We missed you man. Computers can be the pits sometimes. Hope to see more of you on CT. JB hope to see you tomorrow at Good Neighbors' Day.
I'll be there.
Name: John Baker ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 3:12 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1962
City & State: Lomita

Message: For all interested Cougars, there's a nice article on David Marks and his Concert at Good Neighbors Day in today's weekend section of the Daily Breeze. Please take a look.
Name: Betty Rodriguez ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 1:44 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Kean
Class: 1969
City & State: Kingman, AZ

Message: Carmageddon - I thought my sister was teasing me - or that she's suffered a stroke or something. They're REALLY going to do this???? I'd be stocking up on Bud Light. . . .
Name: John Crotty ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 12:46 pm - HHS Time
No E-mail
Message: Computer kept crashing and crashing. Went thru hell with earthlink and dell. Finally went out and bought a new one...so I've been "out of service" forever it seems. Anyway, too bad my car is a '67....too new for the show...oh well, too late to do it now anyway.
Hey John, No it isn't. We have a 72 Corvette in the show. Please come on down in the morning around 8am. You can sign up at the gate.
Name: Dean Karels ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 11:07 am - HHS Time
Class: 1965
City & State: tustin,ca.

Message: Hey Paco when you're at the wall say an AMEN for me, thanks Dean
Name: Howard Paco Duran ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 9:18 am - HHS Time
Class: 1961
City & State: Lake Forest

Message: The Duran Clan, minus sister Kathy, will not make it to "Neighbors Day", we'll be touring Washington DC, The White House, Camden Yard and a lot of the Smithsonian's. I'll be at the "Wall" and will try and photograph the names of a few of our Cougar Brothers who lost their lives in Nam. Have fun and drive safely.
So you pick the Smithonian, White House, and Camden Yard over "Good Neighbors Day"? Your loss man. Have a great trip buddy and we'll see you when you get back.
Name: Bob Jensen ~~~~~~~~~~ Fri-Jul 15, 2011, 8:31 am - HHS Time
Class: 1971
City & State: Greater Los Angeles

Message: old girls locker room? Where is the "young girls" locker room? Hey Judy, are you going to let him call you old.
Old-New not Old-Young
Name: Robert Fitzgerald ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 11:40 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1960
City & State: Santa Ana, Ca.

Message: A Big Happy Birthday To My Buddy Mike Wood Up In The High Country Of Kern County
Happy Birthday Mike.
Name: Ingrid Jones ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 10:30 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: schulte
Class: 1984
No E-mail
Message: It is with sad news that I have been informed by a classmate. Class of 1987 Scott Henderson passed away this morning due to double pneumonia. Our prayers and loving thoughts are with his family.
Very sad to lose our friends, Ingrid. Our sincere condolences to you and Scott's family.
Name: Dale Hahlbeck Jr ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 8:35 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1975
City & State: YORBA LINDA CA

Message: Hello Cougars Is It True The School Board Is Tearing Down High Schools..With HHS In There Sights?? Why?? H1 Out!
Not tearing down, renovating. HHS is one of them. First to go is the old girls locker room.
Name: Linda Huthmaker ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 8:07 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Huthmaker
Class: 1963
City & State: Torrance, California

Message: Hi C'Towners, Cougar sighting, today. Coach and Mrs. Sid Semon came into "Parks and Recreation", City of Torrance, today. So good to see them, again! Looking well. See you on Saturday. Take care, Linda
Great sighting Linda, thanks very much and see you there.
Name: Jim Frederick ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 2:43 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1969
City & State: Santo Borracho Az,

Message: Well .... I figured the "carmekeden thing" Is going to be hard for us out here in SFV ... So i figured if i ride my bike over the Topanga pass to Malibu via a boat from Malibu to Playa Del Rey .. Then ride to HHS It should take about 12 Hours!..Only thing is , I,ll will run into all those hippies chicks in Topanga! Then all the surf buuies in " Malibrew " Then all the gang bangers hanging out at Playa Del Rey . Then all the cute flight attendants along Impreial. Funny .? . I remember riding our bikes on the 405 when it was under construction! Have a great time ya all, will be far away from everything! But if anyone is coming down from the north be forwarned!! the 405 will be closed between the 101 and the 10 from friday night until Sunday. Enjoy!
Thanks Jim
Name: Sharon Macdonald ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 10:03 am - HHS Time
Maiden: Badger
Class: 1963
City & State: Bruceville, TX

Message: Good Neighbors Day sounds like it will be a great event. Hope everyone who attends gives a report for the rest of out-of-towners next week. What is the take on "carmegeddon" from Cougars in the area?
The Valley people will have a problem but the OC gang can get here, I'm sure. It will be shut down from the 101 to the 10, basically the Sepulveda pass. It really keeps the "in the area" people at home so there's no excuse to not join us for Good Neighbors Day.
Name: Sharon Blomsterberg ~~~~~~~~~~ Thu-Jul 14, 2011, 7:26 am - HHS Time
Maiden: DeGrazia
Class: 1964
City & State: Torrance

Message: Just a reminder for Good Neighbors Day on Saturday we'll be there with the Haw VFW booth and on Sunday is the VFW breakfast from 9 - 11:30. Haven't seen Jan in days. He claims he's been busy tearing down the firework stand and putting up the Good Neighbors booth and making sausage gravy for the breakfast. I say it's time to take his credit card to the house of exfoliation/mud bath and beauty spa. I'm officially a Haw widow. If I want to see my husband I have to show up at what ever he works.
I saw Janny at Nathans with a big nasty redhead named Rhonda World (could have been her working name). He said something about fireworks all right but I wasn't really listening.
Name: Sharon Branigan ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Jul 13, 2011, 11:55 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Bierman
Class: 1976
City & State: San Clemente, CA

Message: Since it's all Sharon all the time I guess I better get started writing. I stopped in at HHS today to drop off some treaures for the Boosters club-they are planning a silent auction fundraiser during Good Neighbors Day on Saturday. I am very grateful to Maryann Dowell and Wade Greasby who helped pull together silent auction items: player cards autographed by Mike Scott and Mike Colbern (73) who both played professional baseball. Also included is a selection of inaugural season baseballs from the Arizona Diamondbacks, generously donated by Mike Colbern, and some other items that will help raise money for the team. I was so pleased to see Principal Mark Newell, and to meet Coach Kanach (a handsome young man!) who told me they won their first competition this weekend at a passing conference. So the team is off to a good start! I hope there is a great turnout for the event, and be sure to bring your checkbooks so you can take home a little piece of HHS and MLB history, thanks to the two Mikes. Okay you other Sharons, you can take it from here.
Hey Slats, Thanks very much for the help. I wish I had known you were going to be there. I was there too, but probably later than you. 6pm
Name: Sharon Leach ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Jul 13, 2011, 7:41 pm - HHS Time
Class: 1966
City & State: Long beach ca

Message: Good one Sharon.
Name: Marilyn Ross ~~~~~~~~~~ Wed-Jul 13, 2011, 4:06 pm - HHS Time
Maiden: Wisham
Class: 1956
No E-mail
Message: My sister and I are planning to be there for Good Neighbors Day. Hope some 50's "kids" show up.
I'm sure they'll be there Marilyn.

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