Anaheim High ‘64 - 45th Reunion

Hello Colonists!!!

IN FOUR WEEKS, former NFL Super Bowl Coach Jim Fassel and his fellow Colonists and friends will come together for the 1st Annual Anaheim High School Alumni Association’s Golf Classic on Monday, February 15th

The President’s Day tournament will be held at Western Hills Golf & Country Club in Chino Hills to raise funds for the AHSAA’s efforts to support the students of Anaheim High School. Events will include a silent auction, several raffle and non-golf prizes, and awards dinner open to all.

Cost to golf, including dinner, is $150 (dinner only is $35.)

Please send entry fee to:

Anaheim High School Alumni Association

P.O. Box 389

Anaheim, CA 92815

To sign up for golf or dinner, contact alumni@anaheimcolonists.com call Phil Anton, 714-815-9562.

For additional information on the AHSAA Golf Classic, visit www.anaheimcolonists.com

If you know of anyone who would like to Sponsor or Golf please forward the information about this to them…

Thank you all for your Support

The Anaheim High School Alumni Association

WHERE:

Western Hills Country Club

1800 Carbon Canyon Road

Chino Hills, CA 91709

Shotgun Start: 11:00am

For more information visit:

www.anaheimcolonists.com

E-mail: alumni@anaheimcolonists.com

Golf Chairman: Phil Anton (714) 815-9562

$150 Entry Fee

Entry Fee Includes: Cart—Lunch—Range Balls—Putting Contest—Tee Prizes—

Awards—Raffle Tickets—Dinner with “Special Guests”—Silent Auction—

Putting & Hole-In-One Contests—Goodie Bag

Dinner Only

$35

SPONSORSHIPS

Beverage:    $500

Lunch:    $500

Tee Signs:    $75

Foursome:   $540

Entry Fee Includes: Cart—Lunch—Range Balls—Putting Contest—Tee Prizes—Awards—Raffle Tickets—Dinner with “Special Guests”—Silent Auction—-Putting & Hole-In-One Contests—Goodie Bag—Exclusive T-Shirt

Golf Chairman: Phil Anton (714) 815-9562

This is from the AHS Alumni Association:

Thanks to Doug Eagan for 179 more Reunion pictures.

This is from an email from the AHS Alumni group:

Anaheim High School has been recognized as one of the top public high schools in the nation by U.S. News and World Report in its America’s Best High Schools ranking.

The magazine’s rankings are based on a complex statistical analysis that examines whether a school’s students – including the least-advantaged  – are performing better than expected for the average student in the state. …

The magazine, and its partner in the project, School Evaluation Services, looked at more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Only 1,800 schools made the list.

Anaheim High is one of 24 Orange County schools that were recognized for their overall excellence. Of those 24 schools, five are from the Anaheim Union High School District, Oxford Academy in Cypress earned a Gold ranking; Cypress H.S. earned silver; and Anaheim H.S., Hope Special Education Center and Western H.S. earned bronze rankings. …

AHS Principal Ben Sanchez said the school’s student body, faculty and staff were jubilant when they heard the news. “This is tremendous honor and a testimony to the hard work and dedication of all who are involved in the education of AHS students.”

Sanchez noted that the evaluation process includes three steps that examine how well a school serves its entire student body (average students, disadvantaged students and college bound students). “This shows that we’re succeeding in our efforts to meet the educational needs of all of Anaheim High’s 3000-plus students,” he said.

Dear Mike,

Do you know who I am? I hung around with Mike capps, Roy Taylor, Wayne Ford, and Don Elliot. I did not know to many fellow students. I was a tranfer in from Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton. I wish i got to know more of my fellow students. I am good friends with Mike Capps. He is on kidney dializes and doing ok. He is divorce from his wife after 35 years of marriage. I been married for 45 years with one son and grand daughter who turns 13 yrs old. my son lives in arkansas.

Please feel free and send me more information about the class reunions. We go to my wifes in Norwalk She graduated in 1962. Yours Truly,

Butch Houle.

P.S. Here is my e-mail address:  bigguy925@aol.com

Much thanks to John Alley for 56 more Reunion related pictures!

I want to thank Steve Walker, the OTH group, and fellow officers and friends of my husband for all the support and loving memories of Jim.  We are doing ok.  Saturday will be difficult but Jim will be with us all to get us through this like he always has.  I want you all to know his passing was relatively fast and somewhat painless which for me is the best blessing of all.  Also, Jim and I had discussed organ donation.  My husband has been able to help over 200 people (and their families) with his most generous donation.

It goes without saying, I will always miss my husband holding my hand or kissing me goodnight but he left me something that will be with me all my life, love in my heart and his wonderful friends and our family to check in on me once in a while to be sure all is well, this will make each day bareable.

I would like to share with you what I believe to be his last writing.  The day I got home, I found this hand written page on his desk next to his glasses.  To quote my husband “In police work we call that a clue” lol.  I believe these are things he had learned or heard through his life that had touch him and he needed to share.

If you want to believe in something,

Then believe it.

Just because something isn’t true,

That’s no reason you can’t believe it.

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true

Are the things a man needs to believe in the most

1.  People are basically good

2.  Honor, courage & virtue mean everything

3.  The power in money or the money in power mean nothing

4.  Good always triumps over evil

5.  True Love Never Dies

A man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in.

Again thank you so much for caring.  Blessings for each of you over this holiday season and in the coming year.

Linda Watkins

Jim Watkins wife forever

(jwwf)

a_wilderwoman@frontiernet.net

The following regarding Jim Watkins’ Celebration was received from Linda Watkins:

On 11/30/09 7:39 AM, “jwsbirds” <jwsbirds@frontiernet.net> wrote:

I am so sorry for not calling you this afternoon…  We have the following information for our family and friends.
Life Celebration for Jim Watkins:

Flahiff Funeral Chapel
624 Cleveland Blvd.
Caldwell, ID  83605
208-459083
Saturday   December 6th
11:30 am to approximately 12:45

In place of flowers/plants people are asked to make a small contribution in Jim’s name to Wilder Homedale area FFA (Future Farmers of America):
Homedale FFA
17555 Hwy 95
Wilder, ID  83676
Contact Person:  Dwayne Fisher 208-337-6054

Homedale Junior Bowlers Association.
Owyhee Lanes
Homedale USBC YBA
18 W. 1st Street
Homedale, ID  83603
Contact Person:  Tami Radford 208-337-3725

You are invited to come back to our home for lunch and time to share memories of your experiences with Jim.  At 2:30 Idaho time, we will be releasing helium balloons for our final farewell to my husband.  Anyone who can not join us here may purchase a helium balloon (or two) and at 2:30 (OUR TIME) let your balloons go with us in tribute to him.

I would like to tell you all how very very much our family appreciates the prayers and kind words coming in from Jim’s friends (co-workers, class mates, association buddies, etc.)  It does really help.

Linda Watkins
Jim Watkins wife forever (jwwf)

Jim Watkins passed away today. I do not know much more than that. I learned it from a Facebook posting by Jackie Ray, and then a posting on Jim’s page by his son. As you all know, Jim was the heart and soul of AHS ‘64.