Anaheim High ‘64 - 45th Reunion

Geri McGuff sent in 41 pictures that she took at the Reunion.  They have been added to the Reunion picture collection on Flickr.

Please mail your Reunion pictures to Mike Balmages, 1442 Irvine Blvd., Suite 218, Tustin, CA 92780.

Jim Watkins sent in pictures to be added to our Reunion collection on Flicker.  Some of Jim’s pictures are of the Reunion but most are pictures of themselves that ‘64 alumni sent to Jim.  I’ve added these pictures to the Reunion pictures previously sent to me by Marny Fricker Foltz.  All of the pictures can be found here.

Pictures from the 45th Reunion can be found here on Flickr.  So far, only Marny Fricker Foltz has sent me pictures for posting.  Please email your pictures to me at mbalmages@balmagesdavidson.com or mail them to me at 1442 Irvine Blvd., Suite 218, Tustin, CA 92780.

Thanks,

Mike Balmages

I enjoyed the below email exchange between ‘64 classmates and friends Jon Lehan and Lynn Heusinkveld regarding the Reunion and several other topics. Jon is a Superior Court Judge in Mendocino County and Lynn is a retied lawyer in Hawaii:

— On Tue, 10/27/09, Lynn Heusinkveld wrote:

Dear Jon and Annett,

It was wonderful visiting with you.  Thanks for coming out.  I hope the AHS reunion went well.

I am a little more than ½ way through Stephen Hunter’s Pale Horse Coming.  What an awesome author.  It especially grips me as a Louisiana boy who went to 2nd grade in an all white school, worked with the blacks as a lot boy on my Uncle Dick’s Chevy store, and still has friends and relatives there.  The Municipal Pool in my 2nd home town was closed to whites when it got integrated and I had to start going to the country club pool south of town.  …

Sister Laura and I visited Louisiana a summer or two ago and the area still simmers in racial stupidity technically integrated but de facto segregated.  …  I am anxious to see Earl’s Pale Horse comes together—all in all a great book … (In this book lawyers are semi-deluded whimps, cops are real action figures and the collective state of Mississippi had their heads up their ass back in the early 50s …—maybe I should take another shot at offending Jim Blansett and send a copy of this book review to him.  Why not?  He does not want my political views any more, but this is just too juicy to keep to myself—sorry to offend, but hey I’m a retired attorney …

How about someone telling me how great the reunion and how much I missed.  I will get off this rock when the market turns, but just enjoy being marooned in paradise in the mean time.
 
Aloha,
Lynn
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Lynn,

Just finding your email before getting into bed, as its 12:15 in Mendonesia.

glad you’re enjoying Pale Horse Coming. It’s one of the best of Hunter’s books, and although we’ve read all of the Bob Lee Swagger stories, I mentioned to Annett that this book about Earl Swagger might just be too graphic to suit her tastes.  … This book is not for sissies, and the ending had me glued to the pages.

Your comments about Louisiana reminded me that my Dad was born in New Orleans and grew up there … .  And of course part of Annett’s family was in North Carolina and owned the land that eventually became Duke University.  There is a family graveyard on the Duke campus reserved for her family when the land was transferred so many years ago. (the Rigsbee Graveyard is what it’s called.)  We’ve been there and have seen the small stones that designate where the slaves were buried along side their owners.  That was certainly a different time and place.  …

the reunion was more fun than I could have ever expected.  Seeing old friends was good, and especially seeing classmates that weren’t really “friends” back in the days, but easily became friends at the party.  I enjoyed my former neighbor Sylvia Schmidt a lot, although we were never really too friendly in school.  And Les Choi, Mike Balmages, Mike Rees, Jim Watkins, Candy Hintenberger, Doug Egan, Marnie Fricker, and many others.  Especially enjoyed spending quiet time talking with my Phi Kappa Tau brother Bob Bryce about our lives, the war, and how it affected and impacted our futures.

I had asked Mike Mikulics to attend, and he did with his wife Marilyn.  It was a pleasure to share our table with them along with Les and Toni Choi, and Candy and her husband John.  Mike looks great and really fit for his 80 years.  Strong as a bull, and sharp as a tack.  We shared many thoughts at our table, and I was glad to be able to introduce him to the group as he was the only teacher there.  Pat Rawlings will appreciate I know how he was able to mold his students into thinking adults.  I know he appreciated my comment that I treat people in court the very same way he treated and addressed us as his students in the classroom.  Respect teaches respect.  I admire him very much and was so glad he was able to join the class.

There was a small, but friendly turnout.  There were no individual introductions per se, but Tom Larson did a fine job of putting on a fun program, and a few of us did brave the dance floor toward the end of the evening thanks to Mike’s good mix of dance songs.  More rhumba now that the standing and shaking we did in 63-64.  Even a tango or two, and a foxtrot.  Imagine. …

ok, there’s a preliminary report.  … It’s now 1:00am and I need to start resting up for my courtroom adventures that kick off too early tomorrow morning.  I’ll send you a copy of the reunion cd of pictures when I receive it. …

take good care. 

much love, A and J

For a pdf copy of the Reunion Playlist, click here.