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Benjamin "Buddy"
Pagoni
Favorite Memory:
The students, including Bev McGuire,Linda Boe, Lynn Ridgeway,
Donna Ward, Shirley King, Lee-Ann Dalton, Cathy Childs,Gary
Strickland, Tim Engle, Mike Price, Frank Dukes, Chris Cotton,
Becky O'Neal, to mention only a few.
Biography
Went to DHS in 67-68. Naturally, the AF moved us just before
my senior year to CT. Joined the AF and while in the Philippine
Islands met Steve Card, a member of the DHS wrestling team.
Met with Gary Stricland and Cathy Childs in 1971 at Charleston
but lost contact soon after. Tim Engle made contact about
4 years ago and moved somewhere in CA. I contacted DHS 9-11-97
to see if there was any class reunions for the latter part
of 60's/early 7o's and was advised by DHS John Robinson of
this website. I'd like to see just how many of my class mates
I can locate. Thanks for the time. Ben
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Pam (Shenefield)
Long
Favorite Memory:
Too many to name, but, perhaps the Car Smash and the Bonfire
with the effigy of Techachapi. Teacher Miss German. Not having
to run cross country. Many, many friends. Remember giving
Bob Cherry answers to World History tests, helped him keep
that grade up, so he could play football.
Biography
Never one of the brightest or most popular, think I got along
with most, and knew most everybody, though they might not
remember me now. After graduating Desert High School attended
Airline school in Minneapolis, Mn, and eventually returned
to Edwards and worked AAFES, until met my husband, now of
26 years. Continued living at Edwards AFB, until August of
1973. Move to Seattle, Washington, quite a change from the
desert of Edwards AFB. Lived in Seattle and Everett, Washington
for the next 16 years. My husband worked for GTE Data Services
as SR. Computer Operator and Production Control AnNalyst.
We moved back to California, to Sacramento, due to a job relocation,
and have been here since August 1989. Have raised a family
of 3 beautiful daughters. Now have a wonderful son-in-law,
a beautiful 7 year old grandchild and the most incredible
grandbaby, Elizabeth born just on the 15 September 1997, in
Loma Linda, Calif. Remained a stay at home Mom, for 16 years,
but was plenty active with schools, being a room parent, PTA'S,
Girl Scouts and Brownies. Now with one daughter married, 1
a Senior in High School and 1 a Sophomore, I have resumed
working part time for Prudential, Ca Realty as an administrative
assistant. I have always been interested in crafts, photography,
family history. Have researched both my husbands and my own
family, back a few centuries on a few lines and have published
Family Histories on 4 Family Lines so far, with too many more
to go. Did attend the Oct 1994, Class of 69, 25th Reunion.
Was delighted to be reunited with Ed Hawkins, my big brother,
Bev and Paula Norton, who were friends as well, as next-door-neighbors.
Saw many friends and was delighted to catch up over the many
past years. Am still looking for some of those who left before
Graduation, as did a great many of people. John G. Kennedy,
class of 69, last known to be in Greeley, Colorado August
1969. Michael Van Brunt, class of 68? Worm?? Jimmye King Betty
and Grace Stewart Write to me rplong@rcip.com
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Dale
Barnes
Favorite Memory
Football at desert,
the great looking girls,Lynn Ridgway,Becky O'neil,June Oliver,Jeanne
Jackson,Jane Kirking,Chris Bunn,Sue Miller,Vickie Smith, Lynn
Taylor,Sue Bock,Dee Olsen,Donna Ward, just to name a few.
My best friends ever Bob Cherry, Rudy Gonzales,Mike Vanbrunt,Dave
Demek,Dave Stroman,Jay Kavanagh,Jeff Arnett,Bob Swenson,Lanny
Gookin, John Foster,Mark Swann, the list goes on and on and
on. Teen club, My Dad's home brew,going to CIF in track. I
don't have just one favorite memory of desert the time I spent
there (about 1 1/2 years was the best time of my life,because
of the people I spent it with. Thank you all very much.
Biography
I know I was not
thought of as a nerd back then the only person that we thought
of as a nerd that I can remember was Kevin Stickney and he
is probably pulling down a couple hundred grand a year somewhere
laughing at all of us now. As for me well I went to one semestr
at Antelope Valley JC. then I left home in 1969 and went to
work. I drifted around from one job to another never keeping
one for more than 5 years untill 16 years ago when I went
to work for Fleetwood Travel Trailers in San Bernardino.I
am currently living in Rialto Ca. with my 4th wife, ya thats
right wife #4. You know what they say if at first you don't
get it right try try again, well I did. I have 4 kids of my
own #girls and 1 boy Jennifer 26, Stephen 23, Kimberley 20,
and Amber 18, 1 grandson Russell 4 months, 8 step kids from
all my ex's and current wife. But still it's been a great
ride.
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Linda Julian Dorsett
Favorite Memory:
There are so many it's hard to choose. Football games and
assemblies.
Biography
Currently, I live an hour north of Dallas. I have been here
since 1994. Before that I lived and worked in Washington,
DC in various political jobs for the Republican administrations
since 1979. Before that I was married and lived the HiHo??
life as an AF wife. I have a son Christopher, 21 who is a
senior at Texas A&M university...GIG EM Aggies!!!! Home
is a 30 acre farm with 6 horses and 3 dogs. Pottsboro is a
lake town on Lake Texoma (Largest manmade lake). The last
three years has been nothing but grad school. In July, I finished
a Master's in Counseling Psychology and have discovered that
to do school counseling in Texas I need a teaching certificate.SOOOOO
by next spring I will have a teaching certificate and a second
Master's in Special Education. All this work just to have
the summer's off with my family!!! Anyway, I love all DHS
almuni and love to visit if anyone comes this way. Give a
hollar.
UPDATE: I have finished
school and I now teach 7-8th grade special education. The
biggest news is son, Christopher has just graduated from pilot
trainig. My dad pinned his orginal wings on him. What a tear
jerker. Now Chris is on his way to F16 training. Loved the
pictures from the reunion.
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John Kennedy
Favorite Memory:
Pam Shenefield, Mike Van Brunt, Steve Jennings, Chris Cotton,
Nelson Cochrum, Holly Odneal, Bob Cherry, Peggy Storms and
all the other classmates that made living in the middle of
nowhere bearable.
Biography
I didn't actually graduate from Desert because my father was
transferred to Ubon, Thailand during the summer after my sophomore
year. We moved to Greeley, Colorado and remained there after
he retired in 1968. After graduation from a school greatly
inferior to Desert, I attended the University of Northern
Colorado for a short time. (Actually, they threw me out because
I enjoyed being a college student much more than I enjoyed
going to classes.) I then spent 4 years in the Air Force as
an electronics technician and after being discharged in 1975
went to work for Storage Technology Corporation in Louisville,
Colorado and have been there for the last 23 years. During
that period of time I obtained a degree in aerospace engineering
from the University of Colorado at Boulder and am currently
an Advisory Development Engineer with the DASD Enterprise
Business Group which designs and supplies IBM with all of
their mainframe disk storage devices. My wife, Nancy, and
I have been married for 27 years now and live in Longmont,
Colorado. We have two sons. The oldest (25) is married (no
grandkids yet) and was recently discharged from the Army.
He is currently finishing up some degree work that he started
before going in. Our youngest (23) is a police officer with
Colorado State University and is finishing a business degree
to supplement his law enforcement degree.
I've often wondered what happened to all of you since we separated
and want to thank Nelson Cochrum for tracking me down today
and telling me about this web page. I hope to see all of you
at some future reunion and any of you who still remember me
please feel free to send me an email.
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Boni King - Schreiber
Favorite Memory
All my friends; school and
playing jokes on some of my teachers; my brother, Anton teaching
me how to roller skate at the rink; the flush; parties in
garages and dancing my feet off; the teen club, working with
Rene Lipinski in the snack bar and drulling over the guys;
and of course, chasing Kenny Schreiber all over the base and
never being noticed.
Biography
In 1968, as a Junior, I moved
to Clearwater,Florida and graduated a half a year early. Then
became a jack of all trades: Secretary, Nurses Aide, Veterinarian
Tech and Office Manager, Doctor's Assistant/Receptionist and
my most treasured profession...Interior Decorator. In 1997,
I was pursuaded to relocate to Petaluma, California. December
31st, 1998, I married my favorite guy from Edwards...Yes,
Ken Schreiber. This year I have begun creating crafts, dolls,
teddy bears and embroidery with my business "Boni's Treaures"
and signed up February 1st as an Independent Beauty Consultant
to sell Mary Kay Cosmetics, which I did also in Florida for
several years. Now life is all about having fun and no stress.
It's great being back in California and living in Sonoma County.
Happy at last!
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Rudy
G. Gonzalez
Favorite Memory
The teen club, going
out into the desert, and the people !!
Biography
Where to start...
I'm living in San Diego and left DHS in my soph year (67),
grad and went to college in San Diego. I have a son 17 and
a daughter 20, livin as a single dad. Does anyone know how
to get a hold of Sue Bock?? Would be nice to say Hi ... My
life has been formed in many way by my experiences at Desert.
All the best to all of you !!
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Maridene Morrison
Olson
Favorite Memory
The teen dances and the other
activities the military tried to make sure we had to do.
Biography
I have filled this out before,
but did a rotten job, so will do it again. Currently living
in Southwestern WI in Vernon County, also known as the Hidden
Valleys. (This area was featured in National Geographic some
years ago because of it's beauty.) I have been married for
30 yrs to a now retired Chicago Cop and we have a married
daughter. (I will be a grandma in late Jan 2001 -- YAAAAAA!)
My daughter and I are partners in a full-service bridal salon.
(The only one in a 35 mile radius!) It is fairly successfuly,
we are fairly successful but still have much to learn. It
is great being in partnership with my daughter! My husband,
Jack, and I live on 70 acres in a 4 yr old house we designed
and built, have three horses and a little ol' doggie Frisco,
who is a neurotic Border Collie that barks at everything.
My hobbies include "WORK," lots of gardening and
reading as much as I can when I have the time. I have been
a volunteer EMT in my little town of LaFarge, but due to owning
the business don't get to take as many calls as I would like.
My work experience when living back in Chicago was that of
an administrative assistant for lots of years. When we moved
to Wisconsin and ran out of things to do in the house, I took
the EMS course, passed, then took a full time job as an Exec.
Secy in a non-profit Lutheran nursing home. It was a great
job, but the business opportunity came up and we were able
to take advantage of it. Again, I look forward to meeting
up with folks at Edwards. Thanks for tolerating bio-version
II!
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Zada Schriever
True-Courage
Favorite Memory
Arriving at Edwards as Carla
Mathison's "cousin" and getting on the Drill Team.
Learning to drive in that old car with the manual
transmission. Thanks,
Desert HS. that was the best thing you taught me all year.
There are so many people I know who can't drive a standard!
Going to the Pool and Teen Club Dances. Passing notes to Dave
Stroman every day between classes. Getting my braces off and
having the "best kisser" in school, Dave Demmick,
take me out for "Kissing lessons" with his girlfriend,
Theresa's, permission. Living across the street from Chris
Cotton who was oh so good looking and "mysterious"
and admiring from afar. Hanging out with my friends, Linda
Julian, Becky O'neal, Susie, Carla, THom, Bill Hanvey, Dave
D, Clay, Holly and Ann Odneal. I remember going with Ann to
get her hair cut and she told the later to take off two inches
and she left two inches! But it looked good. Backyard sleep
overs that had everybody in the backyard, unbeknowst to our
parents. Do you really think they didn't know? Being a French
waiter at the Junior Senior Prom. Going to the homecoming
game with Bill Hanvey. My going away party, being "kidnapped"
and then thrown in the Teen Club swimming pool with my hands
tied behind my back. Thanks a bunch!
Biography
I only had one year to attend
Desert, which was quite crushing but probably for the best
academically anyway. My dad, who had been base commander at
Edwards, retired and we moved to San Antonio TX. I started
"civilian life" for the first time. My last two
years of high school were horrible, probably about the worst
of my life. I was suddenly at a place where people had known
each other since kindergarten and it was one big clicque.
I made it through with zero social life. Went to UT Austin
where I met my future husband after the first week of school.
We married when I was 19 and I graduated from UT in 1972 with
a History Degree and a future which was meant to be a mom
and work in my husband's pharmacy when we could afford to
buy one. The mom part worked out. My husband left me for his
bookkeeper and I was faced with life with a 10 month old and
4 year old. Thank you husband #1, it was the best thing you
could do for me. I went on to go back to school for the longest
time.... I became an on and off student for about 20 years,
going to school at night, raising kids, working and advancing
professionally. I also married again in 1985 and am lucky
to be married to my best friend. In case you're wondering,
it must have been fate, because my first married name was
true and my second husband is Courage and that's how I got
the name, True-Courage! I have two gorgeous daugthers, Cari
26 who is a CPA (passed the CPA exam on the first try!) and
just bought a house down the street from me and Nikki, 22,
who just graduated from UT Austin and will be working in a
homeless shelter for Immigrants for a year. Then she'll be
off to law school in NYC to specialize in Public Interest
Law. She is still convinced the "Revolution" will
come. She is a throw back to the 60's all the way! I have
just left my job of 20.5 years with Harte-Hanks, Inc. They
own the Pennysaver in CA if any of you are familiar with that.
I wanted to put my MBA, which I finally earned in May 1999,
to work with a new challenge at a relatively new Biotech company,
ILEX Oncology. It is an experience to change after all these
years and I am feeling my sea legs after just one month on
the job, but it is enjoyable! One of my funniest "Desert"
related experiences has been talking to a friend of mine in
a professional group in San Antonio. He is a very well respected
man in the Treasury Management Circle around here and he was
telling me he attended a high school he was sure no one in
San Antonio had heard of, Desert HS in Edwards CA. We laughed
and have since traded stories and hopefully he'll be attending
the reunion as well! If anybody out there remembers me.. send
an email. I have to say thanks to all my Desert friends for
giving me one of the best years of my Youth!
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Angelina Greer-Ladda
Biography
After
Graduating from Desert in '69 (great year) I decided to pursue
my dreams of college at Kansas State University. I came out
with a bad headache, but I was carrying my degree above my
head. (I majored in Journalism with a minor in Psychology)
I moved to Fayetteville Arkansas (go hogs) and met my wonderful
husband Richard who swept me off my feet. We got married 2
years later. We're now co-owners of a multi billion dollar
corporation and we have a very large home in the boone-docks
of Fayetteville. We had twins, a girl (now 27) named Laurelle
and a boy (now 27) named Richard Jr. I also gave birth to
a second girl, that we named, Fiona. She died of a seizure
at age 2. I am now retired after working for 20 years as a
Journalist for The Morning News.
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Jeanne Jackson
Favorite Memory
Initial memories of finding
myself suddenly in the high desert of Southern California
are the stark blue, cloudless skies, the smell of the sagebrush,
and the dry air. Tumble weeds, Joshua trees and sand storms.
Oh! And the HEAT! "Where in the hell have we been transferred
to now?" I asked myself. Then school started and I found
myself surrounded by other students who had lived a similar
life to my own, a veritable colony of service brats. No one
asked what my father did for a living, we all just launched
into the litany of the bases where we'd lived during our relatively
short lives. For the first and last time I was around people
who truly understood my transient beginnings. The small size
of and phenomenally subsidized Desert High allowed almost
any student to become involved in almost any endeavor. This
welcoming ambiance and the high quality of most of the teachers
helped me blossom socially as well as academically. The rest
of my life has been based on those experiences. Whenever I
tell tales of my high school days, they are always of Desert
High in 1967 and 1968. Every time I say "Desert High
School", I hear a chorus of "Ra" and the sound
of drums in my head. I still tear up when I hear a marching
band as it takes me back to one of the most wonderful times
of my life. Beautiful!
Biography
I will attempt to outline the
major events of my life over the past thirty(30?!)years. Itís
a challenging exercise to look back over a life, to pick out
the important parts and not bore the reader out of his or
her mind. I will endeavor to be brief. My father was transferred
to the Pentagon in the summer of í68 pulling me from the wonderfully
small Desert High class of 60 students in my graduating class
of 600. It very nearly killed me. Needless to say I did not
make the transition well. Changing high schools is the ultimate
brutality inflicted on the children of servicemen. In 1971
I found a job working behind the scenes at the Arena Stage
in Washington, D.C. I met and moved in with an absolutely
useless actor, who shall remain nameless and who taught me
that external beauty ain't all it's cracked up to be when
what you're really looking for is a good conversation. We
lived in Chicago and New York and when we broke up I landed
in San Diego. There I got a job selling airtime for a radio
station and met the man I have lived with for twenty-six years.
(This number, like the one associated with my upcoming birthday
this year, is completely out of control! He and I should have
traded each other in a looong time ago.) From San Diego we
moved to San Francisco where I completed my B.A Degree in
Social Psychology in 1977. Then Neil, my husband, dragged
me kicking and screaming to the L.A. area. We bought our first
house in Northridge, CA., otherwise known as the armpit of
L.A. We were very close to divorce and we weren't even married
yet. (True feminist that I am, we lived together for seven
years before we did finally marry.) In 1978 I got a job at
KABC Radio as a screener/program coordinator and worked with
Toni Grant (a true nut-job), the very egocentric Michael Jackson
and Ira Fistell who hosted, of all things, the sports show.
The involvement with this radio station led me to believe
that there was something very wrong with how businesses were
run. (Turns out radio is just particularly sleazy.) Being
a take-action kind of person, I decided to return to school
to obtain a Masters in Organizational/Clinical Psychology,
training myself to be a communications consultant for businesses.
I loved the study but hated the reality of the corporate world.
Consultants are hired by the upper echelons of companies to
fix the lower echelons when in fact the problem is almost
always the upper echelons. During my Masters work Neil and
I moved to Manhattan Beach, CA which is just south of LAX
along the coast. We've lived here now about nineteen years.
(See? These numbers are ridiculous. We're not old enough for
these numbers!) Of course, we moved three times within this
community. Still an Air Force Brat at heart. As the corporate
world was giving me a serious stomach ulcer, I went back to
my original love- ART. Contrary to my father's advice that
I do something meaningful with my life and art simply
wouldn't
do, it was time for me to pay attention to what had meaning
to me, not to him. For five years I worked in stained glass,
doing commissions, then moved on to the much more expressive
3-D world. I swore up and down that I would never have any
children. On September 7, 1987 at the age of 36 I gave birth
to my daughter, Taylor Jackson Ross. See what happens when
you use words like "never"? She is the light of
my life and is now thirteen-years-old. I have absolutely no
idea what I did with my time and the structure of my life
before she arrived. After a couple of years of intensive mommy-ing,
I went back to my artwork to find that clay as a sculpture
medium spoke to me. For ten years I worked in the studio behind
my house making surrealistic images, combinations of humans
and animals, and taught figure sculpture at the local Adult
School for six of those years. Like a fool, I let myself be
snared for three years as the President of a nonprofit organization
called the Golden State Sculptors Association. It was a non-paying
job that very nearly ate me alive. One of the duties that
I actually enjoyed as the Pres. of GSSA was to write a monthly
newsletter. This experience led me to a couple of paying jobs,
one working as a writer for Art Calendar Magazine and as a
contributing writer for the Art Foundry Journal. In the spring
of 1998 I created my last sculpture. Who knows what happened.
It seems that the sculpture muse moved out and the writing
muse moved in. I have no control over any of this and canít
seem to explain it to my mother or anyone else for that matter.
Since then I have been writing my heart out and took classes
at the UCLA Writerís Program for a solid year to hone my skills.
Last year I got three hundred pages into a psychic thriller
and find I canít figure out the ending. The end better come
to me soon or Iím going to have to move on to another story
before I go nuts. This history clearly indicates that I am
a true obsessive-compulsive personality, unable to do anything
less than a hundred percent. Fortunately my daughter keeps
me firmly grounded in reality so I donít turn into the fanatical
recluse that this obsessive nature would naturally lead me
to embrace. The fact that I have been fortunate enough to
follow one dream after another is not lost on me. But still
I can find the time to bitch about this, that and the other,
not to worry. As Truman Capote once said, "God gives
you a gift and then hands you a whip for self-flagellation."
My whip is ever on the ready. In the beginning of this diatribe
I said I would be brief. As you can see, brevity is not my
strong suit.
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