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Dianne Beeler Charloff
Favorite Memory
Football games - especially the one where I got thrown out of because
I smelled like beer - that was because we used to use beer to set
our hair and it rained during the game - so I did smell like beer.
Biography
Now working for American Eagle Airlines - have been a flight Attendant
for 5 1/2 years. Just accepted position as Manager of Catering for
Miami Hub.
UP-DATE:
They keep changing don't they! Lately I've been remembering the
parties, the ball games, the pep rallies and all the good people
that were at Desert at the time. What an wonderful place to be at
the time of all the history making events taking place.
Update - am back in Jupiter
Florida. Still playing flight attendant for American Airlines. Had
back surgery in May. Have made a nice recovery. Scheduled to go
back to work 22 July.
Is anyone planning something for
us in 2001 - the big 40 for us. Let me know - will be happy to help
out.
Am presently in Chicago - transferring
to Miami 28 June. Permanent home is Jupiter, Fla Am flight attendant
for American Airlines - also retired accountant. Would love to hear
from everybody
This updates my prior bio - note
e-mail address change.
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Ronalee Crafton Mac Queen
Favorite Memory
Great friends, Scorpionettes, a fantastic teacher-mentor, wholesome
values, my physics-lab partner, bus trips and the tuba section of
the band.
Biography
Will work on this later, have been surfing the DHS websites and
I'm bleary- eyed.
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Vincent Morgan
Favorite Memory
Friends, stamp club, Latin club, Roman banquets
Biography
I am the founder and pastor of the Russian language congregation
at Grace Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY. My ministry has taken me
to the former Soviet Union several times. We also have a large house
near JFK Airport in New York City which has been a favorite stop
off of missionaries , Russian government and former government officials
and many others. While I was a student at DHS Nikita Krushchev was
Primier of the Soviet Union and America's arch enemy. Today his
son, Sergei, is a good friend, has stayed in our house, and is has
now become an American citizen.
I have written one book, "A
Harmony of the Four Gospels" in Russian. I haven't written
any books in English.
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Mike Samuels
Favorite Memory
Sports--Teachers--Classmates Going to a small school is a real advantage.
Everyone has a chance to get much more envolved.
Biography
After I left Edwards, I spent a little more than a year at Oakland
City College and realized a chemistry major was not it for me. I
left for Alaska (my father was still in the Air Force in the Anchorage
area) and worked for the Civil Service on Saint Lawrence Island.
The nearest civilization was an Eskimo village! I left Alaska and
joined the Army in early 1963. There was electronics school in El
Paso Texas, an assignment in Connecticut (where I met my wife Laurel)
and 18 months in Germany. I left the Army in 1967, got married and
traveled to the Bay Area. I've been working here ever since. All
my jobs have been engineering positions for various hi-tech firms.
I'm currently at Hal Computer Systems, located in Campbell. We have
two sons. (28 and 25 years old) Would love to hear from any of my
DHS classmates and would also like to know about any reunions which
include our class.
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Priscilla
(Strozzi) Ekedahl Peters Pulsifer
Favorite Memory
What a gift we all were given to be able to attend a small school
where everyone was known to us and no one was a stranger. A friend's
daughter here in Redlands attends Redlands High School with a graduating
class of over 1700. She has only 2 close friends and a dozen or
so major acquaintances. Doesn't that sound lonely? And only her
parents are allowed seating at graduation ceremonies because of
space limitations. And this is a relatively small town!!! We were
truly blessed.
Biography
I listed all my married names because I've been to a reunion or
two and never had the same name twice. My first husband is deceased,
my second was an attorney (not to offend anyone but the demise of
THAT union should be explanation unto itself) and my present husband
gives proof to the old adage..."the third times a charm!"
I work for the State of California, Employment Development Department,
three days a week and putz around with my wood working and decorative
painting the rest of the time when I'm not playing golf. I want
to thank my dearest "best friend" Ronalee Crafton McQueen
for "finding" me (I didn't know I was lost!) and opening
my eyes to all this. I gave Mike Ludeman chapter and verse of my
"story" so if anyone is interested, I'd love to hear from
you. If anyone knows where to find Mike McCrystal, Diana Gardner,
Stan Deuel, Jolane Owings, let's get them on board. I hope to hear
from so many of you!!!
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bob
revai...aka butch revai
Favorite Memory
are you kidding...
Biography
I have no idea what anyone thought about me...I came in the middle
of my senior year...and joined the army just after graduation...I
joined with leo duncan if anyone remembers him...I don't recall
anyone else...but the real me is still alive and kicking...after
having been officially dead twice...just ask my sister Peggy Cruz...and
will be at the next reunion...so see you there...bob revai ps: I
just remembered one more person...Rick Burbine...who lives in Hawaii...this
I know cause his wife sends me a christmas card each year...that's
it...as I tell my two sons...high school is one of those necessary
evils they have to go through on the way to adulthood...yikes
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Al Brown
Favorite Memory
My teammates and classmates.. our coaches (Boyett, Fisher &
Escalante) and teachers (not forgetting Mr Ferguson who finally
taught me that you COULD think your way thru geometry, Mr Crum who
taught me to pour acids into water, not the other way around and
if I remember correctly, Mrs Jones who taught me enough spanish
to make a real fool of myself whenever I try to speak it. Mr Andrews
was the first (and last) history teacher I had that made history
interesting.
Also can't forget whitewashing the
Big "D", going to the varsity football games when I played
"B". The school dances, including S. Hawkins, Pep rallies,
getting out of class to lay out on the school grounds to watch the
X-15 drop, the skating rink and the NCO pool.
My least favorite memory left a "memorial"
for quite some time. Some of you may remember one of the outdoor
basketball goals being slightly bent. Well, when the Lions Club
(my dad and many of your dads)were finishing the work on the center
field fence on the baseball field, I was given the task of going
to get refreshments for all...I jumped in my dads 58 Buick Stationwagon,
proceeded across the field, onto the basketball courts and that
stupid basketball goal just jumped right into my path... I showed
it...and smacked into it dead center. Most of the dads on the field
just looked at me like I was from New York City or outer space.
Frankly, I was wishing I was anywhere but where I was at that time.
Oh Well...time heals all....lolol
Biography
I don't think anyone thought I was a nerd, maybe just a little too
shy. Sports was so much of my life that I had no idea girls were
even around. Boy,was I stupid...!!! Okay, okay, so you might classify
that as being a little nerdy...`DHS had the best looking girls of
any school anywhere, it just took me until my junior year to figure
that out and then I always fell for the one's that were already
attached...Some of you know who you were.. and it you don't..I'll
never tell..!
Putting all of that aside, Cline
Perry, Clyde Paulk, Cal Massey, Dan Fannin, Jimmy Curtis and a lot
of other guys I played sports with, really helped me fit in to DHS's
small community. DHS was the first school I ever attended where
everyone knew everyone else and it really made a difference to know
that you were not just a faceless body in a crowd. Even if you weren't
close friends, everyone always had a good word for you. Thanks to
all you that made my high school years worth remembering..!
Anyway, graduated, joined the army,
got married, had 3 kids (2 girls 1 boy), left the army, got divorced,
lived the single life for the next 13 years, met my present wife,
Linda, playing tennis at Cerritos College, got married again, no
kids, but we have 6 between us, and 10 grandchildren between us,
and one great-grand daughter. Started our own business in 1981 and
haven't had time for a vacation since. Getting real close to retirement,
and I think I am looking forward to it. Plan to do a lot more fishing
and a little more hunting. We have settled in Rowland Heights CA
until we decide where we will retire to, then ...
Anyone that would like to contact
us and get together to remember old times, b-b-q some good steaks,
down some cold ones (NA of course...yeah, right) and see who can
tell the most lies about high school, can email us at LindalCo1@hotmail.com
It would be great to hear from any DHS alumni anytime..!
Just an update...Linda and I finally
sold our home in Rowland Heights CA and moved to Norco (and it is
not just a one horse town). We enjoy the country setting, the horses,
the strange smells (?), the wind and dust (just like Edwards and
Rosamond), the acre of land to mow (yeah, right...thank goodness
for gardeners) and the friendly people we have met. Almost ready
to retire...but still working (much more slowly now) manufacturing
tricycles for preschools and school districts. I think Jim Myer
has a business not too many miles up the road from me. Would love
to hear from any of you...my email is listed above.
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Willis
Wayne Abercrombie
Favorite Memory
My favorite memories are the people I knew.
Biography
It took an additional year and another summer to finally get
my diploma. I was supposed to graduate in 1960. However, I did get
my diploma handed to me privately by whomever the principal was
at the end of August, 1961.
After leaving Desert I spent two
years in the borax mines and five years as an entertainer. (you
might remember my records)
Even though I didn't graduate with
my class, I have graduated three times since then. I got an AA in
Ventura in 1967, a BA at Calif. Lutheran in 1986 and a Master's
at UOPhoenix in 1999. I spent 20 years with L.A. County Sheriff's
Department, 13 years with Prudential Healthcare and Aetna US Healthcare.
I am working with an Import company here in Ventura County at the
present time.
I have been married twice and have
two kids of my own. My son who was a "dustoff" pilot in
Kosovo and is a CHP officer now. My daughter is a mom and home teacher
of my three grandsons. My wife also has two. We're waiting for more
grands.
I had an e-mail from Jerry Woods
a couple of weeks ago and I would like to hear from anyone else
who might remember me.
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Bob Jennings
Favorite Memory
Getting to know people from all walks of life.
Biography
I still live in Boron. I am the mine's only sheetmetalman. I
have been at the mine for 38 years. I have been married twice. I
have two children by my first wife & two by my second wife,
Pat...we have been married for 29 years. All of my children are
married....two of them giving me grandchildren....6 in all. I love
to fish & camp...in an RV, of course. Would love to hear from
anyone who remembers me. I am currently working on getting a list
of all the email addresses of the class of '61. Other years are
welcome to email, also.
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RICK BURBINE
Biography
This is being submitted by his brother, who just happened to
come across the page ... He is married ... to the same woman for
35+ years, has three children,two boys and a girl, lives in Hawaii,
is a retired Master Sargent from the Air Force, has lived all around
the world and would appreciate you dropping him a note or two
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Dollie
Poe
Favorite Memory
 Cheerleader,Band,Teen
Club, Swimming Pools,Roller Rink, Movie Theater,Sports Games.
Biography
I moved to Edwards in 1953 and left in 1961. Being there so
long I knew most everyone. I Moved to San Bernardino after graduation.
I pursued Careers in Cosmetology, Cosmetology Instructor, Medical
Assistant, Dental Assistant, Reflexology, and Educator for Tammy
Taylor Acrylic Nail Products. I have owned my own Hair and Nail
Salon. I'm Divorced and have two children, Kevin (38) and Delene
(39). Through the years I have lived in California, New Mexico,
Florida, Orgeon, Arizona and Texas. I'm retired now and live in
Georgia with Sig Berkow, a High School Sweet Heart. How fortunate
for the both of us. It would be wonderful to hear from anyone who
remembers me. Love, Dollie.
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