Congratulations on your
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF GRADUATION
And a very successful reunion.
Be patient, you are about to see many, many pictures, but they take time to download.

On Friday night, Liz and her husband Ed Anderson hosted a beautiful reception at the hotel and everyone stepped back in time and greeted each other as if those 50 years had not  come between them.

Jim Filippo, '49 stops to chat with an old friend.

Jack and Rosemarie Wilson

Priscilla Green Zgraggen brought her lovely daughters.

Dick and Lupe Malavear Voss

Mike Orlich would not approve of the scarf, Pat.  Remember how he always made us sit in class with wet stringy hair?

Name tags will help and the print was nice and large, thanks, Loretta!
 

Bob Varni, Pat and Barbara McCool, Rusty Johnson Schmidt

Loretta DeBello Hughes and classmate enjoy.

Once inside the reception hall, 50 years vanished and everyone felt as if they had just walked away from their alma mater.   

It was time to eat, drink and be "very merry"!

After the reception, some found their way to the hospitality suite to see what was happening and to "kick back" with old friends.

Morning breakfast in the dining room for Liz and Ed
and an anxious group. 

          Ray Ward and his yellow school bus was taking the group to Jefferson for a tour of the "new" campus. Some had not seen their alma mater in 50 years.    Principal Al Sinor was waiting to show them the new and the old.   Remember, the gym and swimming pool are almost the same as in our time.

Remember how the school buses whisked our Indians off to places like Brisbane, Bayshore, Sharp Park and other places on the coast?
Yep, just like that!

     Meanwhile, Sally and I were getting the hospitality suite ready for the afternoon party for my "high and mighty happy" seniors.  I was but a mere freshman when they were ruling the halls.
    Our suite wasn't quite like other suites that we've worked in--no kitchenette.  Sally did an awesome job with the food, even though she had to work from the "bathroom" sink.   (We cleaned it very, very well!) 

      I had brought copies of the 1950-1951 Totem Poles, so everyone got to see what they had been up to 50 years ago--much laughter, a few tears and lots of knowing smiles.

     Then it was time for the big event--the dinner and dancing.     Some of our teachers were there, looking as if they had just stepped out of our yearbook--, Mike Orlich, Elman and Elsie Rose,  Bianca Ratto Caserza (not pictured) and Sally greets Elizabeth Hall and Marjorie Erickson.       

You graduated in 1951 and my daughter, Sally, in 1981.   These were her teachers, too.

Bob Varni and Al Johnson introduced the teachers--and Al…  well, Al hadn't changed too much, maybe a little more dramatic and certainly fun with that deep sexy voice.   

Class President, Bob Kalinin

Pat McCool and Bob Kalinin presented the Class of  '51 and Jim Filippo the Classes of '49 and '50.  You had to be there for their  special introductions and the wonderful things they had learned about their classmates which they shared without shame.

A little music from the juke box in the cafeteria or was that a band on the stage?     Whatever, our guests were on the dance floor.

Looking at this picture of Bob and Carol Davis Gallagher, it reminded me of how many JEFFERSON couples were there.  
I didn't catch them on camera, but there was Ed and Janet Schreiber Cereghino,  Bob and Sharon Storch Varni, and Art and Pat Fawcett Lauffenburger.

It was a wonderful weekend and I'm so glad I had been asked to attend.
I just love reunions. 
Don't miss out on any chance you get to see old friends.  

1951 CLASS OFFICERS

Fall

Spring

President--Jack Wilson
V.P.---Bill Evans
Secretary---Jeanne Brant
Treasurer--Joy Siegen

President--Bob Kalinin
V.P.--Mansel Roland
Secretary--Elaine Pinasco
Treasurer--Dot Foley

THE GRADUATES OF THE CLASS OF 1951

We Know We Found...our faithful members.
Jeff Alumni Members 1951
Those highlighted in blue attended  the reunion.
 

Borelli, Gerry Tamburini
Broome, Gayle Speizer
Cereghino, Ed  
Davis, Carol Gallagher 
DeBello, Loretta Hughes
DeLosa, Richard  
Evans, William
Fawcett, Pat Lauffenburger
Gallagher, Bob   
Giannecchini, Leo
Green Priscilla Zgraggen 
Henzi, Eleanor Wright  
Holcomb, Pat Gigli
Holtzer, Robert
Huntington, Shirley Gibbs
Isaacs, Diane Green
Johnson, Rusty Schmidt 
Kalinin, Bob

 

Malavear, Lupe  Voss  
McCool, Pat
Molino, Joan Belli
Mizer, Beverly  Oudijk
Nottingham, Lyn Lang
OBrien, Valerie O'Brien
Ostrem, Ann Ray
Rosa, Margaret  Rapoza
Siegen, Joy Wedel
Spinetti, John   
Storch, Sharon  Varni
Straubel, Elizabeth Anderson
Varni, Robert  
Wilbanks Kenneth
Wilson, Jack  
Worthington, Gene
 

Liz Straubel Anderson

Jefferson Alumni

We think we found them...
but you might have better information.


Austring, Pat Wilson
Baldetti, Marie 
Banfield, Nancy Day
Benning, Dolly Yorks
Blowers, Tom   
Brekle, Gloria Settrini
Bunner, Barbara  Grimes
Burnch, Beverly Shields
Cady, Lorraine Drake
Carle, Jane McDougall
Carroll, Bobbie Brumm
Chapman, Olive Barros
Comer, Larry
Constantini, George
Cortapassi, Loretta Obertelli
Cunningham, Terry   
Delfino, Peter
Disch, Conrad
Espinoza, Donald
Fitzgerald,  Richard
Galatolo, Barbara Stein
Galindo, Ed
Gardella, Thelma Sievers
Gardner, Barbara Yates
Giorni, Robert 
Hale, Dianne O'Keefe
Hebert, Diane Baumgartner
Henzi, Eleanor Wright
Hewitt,  Bill
Johnson, Al 
Johnston, Kathleen Bailey
Koff, Dolores Silacci
Larson,  Gary
Larson, Toby
London, Jeanne Ferro
Maffei, Frank
Merino, Magdalena Scoma
Miller, Beverly Young
Nicolini, Les 
Olsen, Carol
Owenby, Joyce Savok
Palm, Ronald
Parres, Ray Parres
Picchi,  Roy 
Pinasco, Elaine Perata
Quickert, Christine Walsh
Reagan, Jean Dill
Record,  Ray   
Reed, Donna Jones
Remmer, Lorraine  Pappas
Ritter,  Bill
Roland, Mansel 
Ross, Ken
Russo, Louis
Savok, Joyce Owenby
Shipman, Barbara Poole
Sims, Richard
Stamos, Lukas
Stein, Barbara Galatolo
Thompson, Fred
Urcuyo, Norma Fiani
Verningo, Robert
Villalba, Yolanda Calloway
Vullmahn, Louise Brunk
Ward,  Ray
Wilson, Susanah Haness

These are wandering 1951 grads and if you can help us with any information to find them, just click on the buttons above.

Allen, Ann
Anderson, Ray
Anderson,  Laverne
Ayers, Agnes
Bloom, Robert
Bollinger,  John
Bublak, Charles
Bull, Anita
Burroughs,  Roger
Chun Fat,  Pat
Cooper, Jack
Cooper, Helen
Costa, Jeannette
Deusher,  Pat
Donley,  Katherine
Fisher, Beverly
Foley, Dorothy
Folger, DeWayne
Gates, Barbara
Gonzales, John
Graber, Lila
Gray, Vera
Green, Diane
Greene, Cathy
Hammond,  Alice
Hansen,  Larry
Harrison, Richard
Hitz, Duane
Hodge, Carol
Holliday, Charlene
Hutchinson, Gayle
Jackson, Dolores
Jenkins, Lawrence
Kennedy, John "Jack"
Kleim, Max
Klepfer, Virginia
Kyles, Barbara
Lack, Noreen
Lagomarsino, Robert
Lauderdale, Merrietta
Lobsien, Dolores
Lowrey,  Mark
Mahan, Joseph
Marshall, Martha
Mason, Robert
Massoni, Gloria
Mears, Paul
Miller, Ora
Mink, Robert
Moore,  Joseph
Morgan, William
Morris, Mary Lou
Peden, Carol
Perrazzo,  Fred
Perry, Frank
Poe,  Ellen
Poe, Helen
Reynolds, Ted
Rocco, Elaine
Roggenbusch, Victor
Saumer, Barbara
Settrini, Gloria
Shields, Claire
Smith, Alberta
Stanton, James
Thomsen, Theador
Torres, Evelyn
Van Kirk, Marjorie
Walker, Nancy
Watkins, Gloria
Yates,  Barbara
Young, Jean
Zappetini, Leo
 

Quite different from the school you visited on Saturday, May 19, 2001.
 

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In Memoriam
We will always remember the time we shared together.