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Iris
Buss-Newman
Favorite Memory:
The roller rink on South (?) base. Writing poetry for the newsletter.
Whitewashing the DHS letters.
Biography
I'm the mother of a 33 year old, have two black labs, am recently
widowed, and work as the Human Resources Director for a high tech
company in Oregon.
I still write poetry (more as a catharsis), love snow skiing, country
music, and Tom Clancy novels. I'm preparing to take scuba diving
lessons and hope to practice in Hawaii before long. :-)
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Gordon Hansen
Favorite
Memory:
I remember the first year we made it far enough in football to play
Needles (we lost). That was possibly the longest ride home. I remember
that someone(?) poured gas on the Boron football field and branded
it with DHS. I remember the cheer Bo Bo ski dy dotten Desert High
Yea! I remember Mr. Bledsoe, Mr. Thompson (Band), Mr. Boyette. Yeah,
I remember planting the grass between the class rooms that first
year.....and much more
Biography
After I graduated I moved to Spokane with my Mother will Dad went
to Germany. I tried Spokane Community College but not hard enough.
Ended up in the Air Force, married, went to Okinawa with wife, had
a daughter, took up Karate, came back to States, got out, opened
a Karate school, had another daughter, became 'jack of all trades--master
of none', went back to school (Oregon Institute of Technology), got
a BSMT, got hired by Boeing, have grand-daugther, and haven't learned
how to punctuate a long run on sentence.....
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JOHN LUDEMAN
Email: nasa_az@hotmail.com
Favorite
Memory:
BASKETBALL GAME AGAINST MOHAVE, SCORED 16 AND REBOUNDED 16. SENIOR
TRIP AND GETTING TO KNOW BETTY JO.- SUMMERS AT THE O CLUB POOL,
PLAYING DRUMS IN THE 4 PIECE BAND AT TEEN CLUB WITH LARRY SELF,MICK
YEAGER AND I FORGOT THE OTHER GUYS NAME. TOO MANY YEARS.
Biography
BUMMED AROUND AFTER GRADUATION FOR SEVERAL YEARS TILL 71 WHEN I
STARTED WORKING AS A SALESMAN FOR A COMPANY BASED IN DENVER. TRANSFER
TO PHOENIX, AZ. IN SEPT. 71, MARRIED IN JUNE OF 73, MARRIED FOR
25 YRS IN JUNE OF 98. HAVE 4 CHILDREN, 3 STILL AT HOME. A DAUGHTER
23, WHO IS MARRIED AND LIVES IN SALT LAKE CITY, A SON 21 GOING TO
COLLEGE, A SON 18 GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL, AND A DAUGHTER 13, 1st
YEAR JR. HIGH. QUIT JOB IN DEC. 1996 AFTER 26 YRS. STARTED A CHAPTER
OF NASA (NATIONAL AUTO SPORT ASSOC.) PUTTING ON HIGH PERFORMANCE
ROAD RACING DRIVING SCHOOLS AND RACING EVENTS. YES MID-LIFE CRISES.
SO GLAD I MADE THE CHANGE. I'VE DROPPED 45 LBS. AND ABOUT 15 YRS.
LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE AGAIN AND EXCITING TO GET UP IN THE MORNING!
A
update on previous bio. Divorce started in April 98 and is just
about complete I hope in the next month. Working for a company out
of Denver and traveling extensively in Kansas and Southern Nebraska.
Live in Colo. Springs but only get there 2-3 days a month and that
is the only time I can check email. So if somebody emails me please
be patient.
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Steve Cherry
Email: scherry@ntps.com
Favorite
Memory:
Playing on the 'C' Basketball team with Ron Johnson, Tom McIntyre,
Kelly and Sam Hotchkiss, John Rogers, Ron Hindmarsh and others.
Golf team with John Rogers, Mike Statz, Terry Gunn, Mike Dingus,
Roger Marling, and (?) Mitchell. Getting stuck in the bus in the
snow all night on Walker Pass with all three basketball teams and
cheerleaders (Diane Beeler, Jan Hoyt, etc) on the way back from
the Kernville game.
Biography
I only attended Desert for my freshman and sophmore years and then
moved to El Centro where I graduated from Central High. I attended
the Air Force Academy with Desert classmates Jim Anderson and Ron
Hindmarsh. I don't know what Ron's doing now, but Jim's a 737 pilot
for Southwest based in Phoenix. Other Desert alums that were at
the Academy then included Larry Howerton, Mike Howe, and Mike Dingus.
After graduating from the Academy, I went to Purdue to get a Masters
in Aero and Astro. I flew as a fighter pilot and forward air controller
in the Air Force and then came back to Edwards to attend the Test
Pilot School in 1979. I worked as an F-15 test pilot at Edwards
from 1980-83 and 1988-92 with a four-year tour as an F-18 test pilot
with the Canadian Air Force from 1984-88. I retired from the Air
Force in 1992 and have worked as test pilot instructor at the National
Test Pilot School in Mojave since then.
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DOROTHY
HOWERTON REGAN
Email: DREGAN@AVUHSD.K12.CA.US
Favorite
Memory:
MY FRIENDSHIPS, SCORPIONETTS, TEEN CLUB, THE UNIQUE TIME AND AND
MIXTURE OF STUDENTS THAT BONDED US IN THOSE DECADES
Biography
I am currently a teacher at Quartz Hill HIGH SCHOOL
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Guy Rathbun
Email: : grathbun@kcbx.org
Favorite Memory
Running track in 100 degree heat wondering if this was normal behavior.
Waiting in class to see if Mr. "Okay meatball, you can come out
of your coma now" Fergeson would smile. Knowing, at the time,
how fortunate we were to be in a small school.
Biography
Oh, no, it isn't someone's memory of me being a nerd. I WAS one!
I was the one who could not tell anyone that my favorite music was
1920s jazz and pop. Following graduation....or, more precisely,
when Desert High recommended I leave, I joined the Coast Guard.
After four years I returned to my first duty station, Morro Bay,
California, in order to attend the local (Cuesta) Community College,
and from there, Cal Poly University at San Luis Obispo, CA. After
a five year stint as a radio reporter, and news director, I took
a part time position as Telecommunications instructor at Cuesta
College. When I was offered a full time position as the Program
Manager at the public radio station (KCBX), I accepted and cut my
teaching load to one class. My passion remains 1920s jazz and pop
(this is definitely not to be confused with Big Band Swing). Several
years ago I began remastering the original 78 recordings attempting
to remove as much surface noise as possible. The finished product
is transfered to CD for distribution. It's a never ending appreciation
of the artistry that was so plentiful before our time. Once you've
heard a Bix Beiderbecke cornet solo sans surface noise .... ah,
but I digress. Another passion is driving around the British countryside
(after all, they do drive on the correct side!) visiting small towns,
pubs, and Roman ruins. Least I forget the joy of sucessfully producing
a radio play or drama. The most enjoyable, but pressure filled,
was the live on-air presentation of "Sorry, Wrong Number."
Those phones must ring at exactly the right time, or else! I've
been married once, divorced as many times, and have an incredibly
talented step-daughter in her Junior year at Dickenson College,
PA. I'm too impressed with her abilities to think that I had anything
to do with the results. That must be about it. Since no one at Desert
High between 1961-1967 will remember me, I don't know to whom I
am writing (Mrs. Lindsey would be proud of that sentence). Be that
as it may (a colloquialism thrown in to offset the prior, more proper
form), does anyone have knowledge of the whereabouts of Charlie
Lightner, Harry Parmaly, Rene Linpinsky, Joe Hearn? To list everyone
would be unnecessary. Is there a list of grads? What happened to
that great bowling team?
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Terry Williams Scott
Favorite Memory
Watching
the amazing transformation of the gym into a magical place for our
holiday dances and gatherings. Bowling and skating at the southbase
facilities.
Biography
If anyone would have told me in 1958 when I first came to Edwards,
that I would still be here 42 years later, I would have told them
they were out of their mind. But here I am still enjoying life in
the Antelope Valley. I am married with two beautiful god daughters
that I love to spoil, I work for Lockheed Martin as the Chief of
Operations at the F-16 Combined Test Force. It is a job I have had
for a number of years and still find it exciting and challenging.
When not at work I am deeply involved with an emergency room based
program,Antelope Valley Hospital Sexual Assault Response Service,
that provides crisis intervention for sexual assault survivors of
all ages. I have done this for 11 years and continue to have a passion
for the work we do. I am especially fond of working with the children
and watching their recovery process. They are truly amazing. I still
bowl (thanks to Stan Duel who put me on my first bowling team) but
I also enjoy golf. I very much look forward to hearing from some
of the early '60's grads.
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Terry Gunn
Favorite
Memory:
The
Closeness of everyone.
Biography
Currently live at Lake St. Louis, Mo. Been married to Terri for
26yrs. Have 2 Daughters. One a senior at Fl. Southern. The other
a Pilot, Student and this year was an NFL cheerleader for the Phoenix
Cardinals. Been a pilot for TWA since 1967. Have 5+ years to go.
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JOHN ROGERS
Favorite Memory:
GOING TO BALBOA BEACH FOR EASTER BREAK WITH BICKNELL, JACOBS, TROTTER
AND A HOST OF OTHER PARTY ANIMALS. THOSE GREAT PARTIES AT THE GENERALS
HOUSE (BRANCH) WHEN ALL THE PARENTS WERE OUT FOR THE EVENING. WALKING
THE WALLS FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMUTES. THE "O" CLUB POOL
AND GOLF COURSE PARTIES (aka THE 6TH HOLE LATE NIGHT SNACK BAR &
LOUNGE. THE FOND MEMORIES GO ON AND ON. Biography
I HAVE BEEN LIVING IN SOUTH FLORIDA SINCE 1963 WHEN I LEFT EDWARDS.
THE ONLY DETOURS WERE COLLEGE AND THE AIR FORCE FOR 4 YEARS. I HAVE
A SON THAT IS SOON TO BE 30 YEARS OLD. GREG IS A FIREMAN IN WEST PALM
BEACH, FL. IF YOU ARE EVER IN SOUTH FLORIDA, DROP BY. ALWAYS AN OPEN
DOOR FOR THE OLE CLAN. HOPE TO BE AT THE REUNION IN AUGUST.
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Michael B. Clark
Favorite Memory
The uncomplicated years in high school. Playing sports with a lot
of really good athletes, Tom Mulvey, Kent Kluver, Chuck Whitrock,
Roger Atwood, Rick Yellen, "Butcher" Fields, the Ludeman
brothers, and golf with John Rogers and Chuckie Ludwig. Seems to me
like all the girls were prettier back then. Life was good.
Biography:
Since I left high school went to Bakersfield College and then to Sophia
University in Tokyo. I joined the Army, spent some time in Special
Forces, and became an Intelligence Officer,worked mostly in Eastern
Europe, and the last eight years on active duty was spent doing counterterrorist
work in 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force). After 26 years I retired and worked
for the AF as an Intelligence Operations Specialist for 3 years, left
there and did some international security consulting. While a consultant,
my golf game was good. I am now the Manager for Behavorial Research
and Training Development for SAIC out of McLean, VA., and the golf
game has suffered. About 10 years ago I ran into Mike Dickerson at
a meeting in DC, and occasionally talk to Chuck Ludwig. I would not
have known about this except Chuck called my parents to see when I
died. Fortunately for me I am still here. I am married and my wife
is an AF Flight Surgeon, and we are scheduled to be here another year.
If you get to San Antonio, TX give me a call. There is always plenty
of cold beer and a good cigar. 210-481-1869
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Patti (Pat) Lewis Spurgin
Favorite Memory
The Scorpionettes, Parades, Football & Basketball half-time
performances, dances, Louie-Louie!! Teen Club and fixing up the old
NCO club, scrubbing the fireplace so that it could be used. Wish teens
now-a-days could have such a fun place to go to and be involved in
something extra-ordinary!
Biography
I have been married for over 30 years. My husband, David, and I
have four wonderful sons...two are married and a third to be married
next July 4th. Seems that is the only way I can get my girls! We
also have one grandson,Anthony, and another grandson on the way
(due date Oct). I work at All Saints Catholic School in Dallas,
Texas and live in Plano, Texas. I met my husband while I was a stewardess
(flight attendant) with Delta Air Lines back in the late 60's in
Dallas. As required among Texans!...all our children were born in
Dallas, even when we lived in another state, we came back to Dallas
to have them. Have a wonderful year to all my friends from DHS.
UPDATE: 2003 -Still happily married-34yrs, still have 4 wonderful,talented
sons,and with their help have three gorgeous daughters(they are
more than daughters-in-law)and two wonderful grandsons(Tony &
Charlie).David(my husband)is Dr. R. David Spurgin, a psychologist
in private practice(yep,we needed one in the family!)John(#1son-33)B.A.
in English(Mrs. Lindsey would be proud)is Mngr w/Homecomings-wife,
Jennifer,a teacher,they have 2 sons; James(#2-30)BFA in Art &
MA in Theology is teaching Jr.&Sr. Theology @ Ursulin Academy
in Dallas-wife,Brandi, VP BofA working with Energy Corp.; Kris(#3-27)MA
in Architecture employed with BGO in Dallas-wife, Andrea,a teacher...all
3 boys met their wives in College(Univ.Dallas/Univ.N.TX/ TexasTech.Univ.respectfully).Geoffrey(#4-22)an
artist-drawing,painting,music(guitar,mandolin, drums,keyboard)and
he writes music-single-has his own band locally. As for myself,
I am no longer working outside the home...diagnosed with M.S. in
2000; doing okay, but the heat in Texas is really the pits! I was
never a NERD,and Mr. Ferguson can verify! Hopefully one of these
days, I will be able to make a reunion.
My Dad died in 1997. Mother living in Denver,just celebrated 81
birthday - doing fine.
I was sorry to see all the great people listed on the Memorial page.
They will surely be missed.
I would enjoy hearing from you, each of you bring a smile to my
face and a fond remembrance of the good times in my teenage years.
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William Steshko
Favorite
Memory
Teen Club, Mr. Thomson & the Band, Pals - Pat Saunders &
Doug Lackey (many more), Being arrested (with a group) for curfew
summer after graduation, the Balboa Beach trip (esp the cops and
Bicknell), Mrs Lindsey's English class (I still hear her!)
Biography
BA-Math fm U. Texas (NROTC scholarship)'68; MA- MGT fm Webster U.
('89); 26 yrs as Naval Officer: Destroyers, in-country Vietnam,
San Diego, with the Marines in the Pacific, Helo and Aircraft Carriers,
Germany twice, Iceland, finally Washington DC. From VN on, worked
Intelligence field where I remain as a Defense Contractor supporting
the technology sector. Married 22yrs, son 18 (Excellent Athlete
- go figure), daughter 20 (Musician, Junior @ Xavier U.). Haven't
thought of Desert High in decades, but enjoyed reading about many
of my class mates - hats off to those responsible.
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Michael Page
Favorite Memory
The golf course never did figure out what happened to all that beer...Looking
back, after a career in the Aerospace industry, we had a front seat
to an awful lot of history in the making.... I remember getting out
of class to watch the B52's drop the X15, Mike Vandiver and a couple
of other guys and me were on the 9th hole at the golf course one day
and watched a pair of SR-71's take off. We didn't know what they were
at the time.... Out running the Air Police in their ford econoline
trucks.... Drag Racing out on the road past the dump. Mike Riddle
Drag racing his dad's new Plymouth...I let Diane Wood drive my car
one time, and she jumped the curb and knocked over a stop sign just
down the street from her house....The Hotchkiss brothers going into
town to wup ass on AV guys....the more I write the more I remember...
Biography
After high school, it was off to the Army and Viet Nam. DaNang 65-66,
got back and stationed in Sacramento area. Wore out my new Plymouth
GTX driving back and forth to Edwards. I was making a serious move
on Nancy Gugliotte (class of 65). As things worked out, she let
out just enough rope to catch me and we were married in 68. We promptly
set out for Germany (I was still in the Army) where we spent the
next 3 years. Had a great time, but decided that a military career
was not what we wanted to do. I got out in 71 and we moved back
to the Antelope Valley. I went to work for the Air Force as a civilian.
In 73 we had all the desert we could stand and I transferred to
the Air Force Academy. Had a wonderful time in Colorado, but career
called and we moved to Tucson where I went to work for the Air Force
Plant Representatives Office at Hughes Aircraft. After 4 years in
Tucson, I got the call to go Albuquerque to the Headquarters for
the Air Force Contract Management Division. Up to this point Nancy
had been a "follower" in a two career family. In Albuquerque
her career took off first as an Editor for the Defense Nuclear Agency
and then as a Contract Administrator for the Phillips Laboratory.
We spent the next 15 years in Albuquerque where I ended up as the
Deputy Director of the Quality Assurance Directorate for the Contract
Management Division, I managed 1200 "civil servants" at
28 different Contractor locations across the country. I have been
blessed with the ability to thrive on pressure. During the Reagan
years my guys were buying $20 Billion a year in Airplanes, Satellites,
and the like, and yes, they also bought those famous $600 toilet
seats and $10,000 Nuclear hardened coffee pots for the C-17. During
our Albuquerque assignment I spent a lot of time in and around the
Valley, due to the various Contractors located there. I took early
retirement in 1990 and spent a few years consulting for the Aerospace
Industry. After 5 years of way too much road time consulting Nancy
decided it would be a good idea to get a real job. I accepted a
job with Fluor Corp, an international construction firm that had
gotten into the environmental remediation business for the Department
of Energy. We spent 3 years in Cincinnati and are currently located
in eastern Washington at the Hanford Site. You can't begin to imagine
the Nuclear waste and toxic material legacy that the Cold War generated.
40 to 50 years to clean it up, if we get the technology developed
quickly.......Nancy and I will be married 33 years in March of 2001,
we never got around to starting a family, just dogs and toys. Nancy
retired from the Department of Energy in 98 and is enjoying doing
all the things that she missed for 29 years while she worked. She
started Nancy's Flowers and Gifts last year and is busier than ever.
She also spends time at a local hospital as a volunteer and was
leader of the "stich and bitch" group of her ladies club.
(I love that name for a group of middle aged women drinking coffee
solving the worlds problems) We still get back to the Valley as
Nancy's folks and sisters MaryJane and Donna and niece Stephanie
and nephew Joey are all still there.
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Sherry Dingus Schneider
Favorite Memory
Majorettes,
the flush, throwing eggs at the Air Police from the General's lawn.
Biography
|I met my husband Earl Schneider at Edwards AFB and we were married
in 1966. We have five children, one boy and four girls, ages 33
to 15, and two granddaughters. With two of the girls getting married
this year, we will soon have a lot less money and a lot bigger family!!
We are in the midst of changing email addresses so I can be reached
through my sister Judy.
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HOWARD A NASE
Favorite Memory
I ENJOYED THE KIDS AND TEACHERS AT DESERT.I THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY
GOOD SCHOOL.
Biography
I ONLY LIVED ON BASE FOR A VERY SHORT TIME, FROM 1959 TO 1961. I
GRADUATED FROM EIGHT GRADE IN 1960. PROBABLY NO ONE REMEMBERS ME,AS
I WAS EXTREMLY SHY. I WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE CLASS OF 64. AFTER
HIGH SCHOOL I SERVED 4 YEARS IN THE NAVY, WITH TWO TOURS IN VIET
NAM. I HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR LOCKHEED FOR 32 YEARS NOW. IAM MARRIED
AND HAVE THREE KIDS AND TWO GRAND DAUGHTERS AND TWO GRANDSONS. I
JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I ENJOYED GOING TO SCHOOL AT EDWARDS AND
THOUGHT MOST OF KIDS WERE REAL NICE. MY FAVORITE TEACHER WAS MR.
STARR. I REMEMBER MIKE RIDDLE, MIKE SHAFFER, HAROLD FIELDS,TOMMY
STUBBS,GUY RATHBUN,AND A LOT OF PRETTY GIRLS.
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Judy Hanvey Farmer
Favorite Memory
Letterettes, Larry Self playing Saberdance on the piano before chorus,
Honor chorus, the Balboa trip.
Biography
After school I got married and we had a daughter. After he came
back from Nam we couldn't pull it together and got divorced. Had
another disastrous marriage and twins. Dated a truck driver who
taught me how to drive. Bluffed my way into my first driving job
and bought my first eighteen-wheeler in 1970 and drove for 25 years
before getting off the road in '95. I live in Mobile, Al. now and
was hired by my last company as the Safety & Compliance Officer.
I met my present husband in '87 on the road and we have been married
11 years. He is an Apache and we like to attend powwows throughout
the Southeast. I volunteer with our local fire rescue and since
I have lots of pets also volunteer with the Humane Society. I belong
to a Mardi Gras organization , too. We are not as wild as New Orleans
but have just as much fun. Would love to hear from anyone who might
remember me.
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William (Bill) Hamilton
Favorite Memory
The trips to Balboa, and hay ride.
Biography
After leaving the Coast Guard Academy in 1966, returned to LA where
I met and married my wife Joyce in 1970. Kicked around in various
management jobs there, in Florida, and finally in 1975 moved to
Atlanta. Returned to college in 1991 to get a degree in Accounting,
passed the CPA exam in 1992, and am now Controller of a heavy duty
truck dealership and part owner of a truck leasing and rental company.
Adopted our son Mark in 1986. He is now 22, married and proud father
of his 2 year old daughter, Cheyenne. Hope we might have a 40 year
reunion. Look forward to hearing from you.
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Rick Yellen
Favorite Memory
1)Beating
Bishop my senior year of football after planning that revenge for
a whole year. 2) A bunch of us guys raided the gold course beer stash
and the APs came and chased us off. Bob Gaston's car was suspiciously
parked near the scene. We phoned up the APs and told them his car
had been stolen awhile ago-- and we actually expected the APs to believe
us! Ah youth.
Biography
Got degree from San Jose State and then UCLA after which I worked
at 3 different jobs of varying interest. Finally got into computers
in 1973 and moved to Tasmania where I taught at a university for
4 years then went to Singapore for 3 years where I did the same
thing. Came back and got my PhD in Information Systems and taught
at U of North Texas for 12 years. Now work out of my house as a
self employed consultant. Married to Elaine for 20 years and have
3 daughters-- which proves that God does have a sense of humor.
Perform in community theater about once or twice a year.
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