Reunion Update!

Well besides the fun we had the night before Thanksgiving, we also tackled some more stuff for the reunion. Juliet, Sondra, Shawn & I met on Saturday at Lions Gate for an unofficial food tasting and room viewing. Now that I have personally seen the venue with my own eyes - I see why this is *THE PLACE* for a rockin 20 year reunion! Things we want you to know and start thinking about -

**Staying at Lions Gate: The website does not really give justice to the rooms. Lions Gate, formerly McClellan Air Force Base, is a very unique place to stay. It's like a mini-community as opposed to your traditional hotel/resort. So it's our very own 'neighborhood' for the reunion weekend & people can consider staying in typical hotel rooms, suites, dog friendly units or even 2000sf houses that sleep 16!


**Childcare: Because of how this place is set up, it is a great place for families. If you would be interested in bringing your kids - we are thinking about coordinating child care during the actual reunion on Saturday night. Sondra Shrader works at Oakmont High School & knows some of her students personally who have child care experience and we would hire them for a minimal per-child fee. Important - PLEASE leave a comment to this post if you might consider childcare so we know if we should set this up. Feel free to email Sondra directly (her email is listed below on left side) if you have questions, suggestions or concerns about reunion child care. Update: we decided to throw up a poll regarding childcare. Voting does not lock you in to anything - it's just for us to get an idea.

**What's on Tap: Here is a snap shot of what it's looking like so far -
Friday night: Casual reception at Lions Gate *this may be no host, still working that out
Saturday day: Possible family/kid friendly/sporty/picnic/hangout/something
Saturday night: Reunion! Adults only. Food, drinks, and of course - 80's music!!!
Sunday: Breakfast is included when you stay - so those still standing who want to plan to mingle one last time before they head out - feel free.

**Cost: Too early to tell you but we are on a mission to keep it minimal and as inclusive as we can! Details will be in the official invitation which will go out in early 2009.

NBT was GOOD TIMES!!!

Thank you to all of you who showed up for the Night Before Thanksgiving adventures. We started at Malabar in Folsom and ended at Players on Fair Oaks. What a night...I think I'm still recovering. Here's a few pictures...


Upper left - The first picture shows people reacting to Justin Timberlake who showed up at Malabar. Some of the ladies were in tears, some had to reach out and touch him. Just kidding - that is Pat Nooren, Amy Bywater & Jen Harold. The forehead behind Jen Harold is Dave Roth. The purple hair along the bottom is Pfilipa Keintz.

Top Center - Juliet Coberly & Stephanie Becker

Top Right - Temple Roberts, Kelly Rodgers, Shawn Reed & Dina Davalos

Bottom Left - Tim Coffman & Dave Roth ('89), Josh M. ('90), Kevin Costa & Tim Creech ('88)

Bottom Center - Mike Gardner

Bottom Right - Tim Coffman & Pat Nooren up front, background right side Tab Hinckley, Jen Hamilton & Michelle Fletcher chatting it up.

You outta be in pictures...

Sondra is ready to start collecting pictures. We would like pictures from high school and previous reunions if you got 'em. Please email pictures to Sondra at: smyles214@gmail.com

Here are some examples just for fun! :)


Pictured:
Top row - Nate Barnhardt & Pat Cavendar; Amy Anderson, Mike Crawford, Amy Lux, Mike Piscottia (Jesuit), Scott Wilson & Denise Duey; Andrea Cast
2nd row: Darren Brown (88) & Juliet Coberly; Temple Roberts, Dave Roth & John Fuglar (10Y Reunion); Aaron Crist & Shawn Reed
3rd row: Jenny Tampas, Lisa Szyper, Jamie Henderson, Farid Senzai, Sondra Shrader, Kristin McCarthy & Jolie Anagnoston; Kristin Parks, Shelley Chambers, Sue Revere, Becky Sherman & Missy Gardner; SR Year DC Lawn T.P.

Busy bees...

Just wanted to let people know that we have been working behind the scenes to nail down a reunion venue & date. Last week Shawn, Juliet & Sondra met and explored some of the options we have considered. We're down to just a few and just need to confirm available dates (it's looking like our options might be the very end of September or mid-October based on what's available) and other event details. Once it's a go - you will hear from Juliet so stay tuned everybody! Thanks ladies for all the research, phone calls and driving all over the greater Sac area!

Hook us up!

It's been great so many of you have been showing up around here! We still need to find lots of people though. We had over 400 people in our graduating class! If you see someone is missing from the list to the left and you know their working email address, please make sure to send that to Juliet at juliet.farmer@att.net and we'll keep updating. A Del Campo class of 89 group has also been formed on Facebook so if you haven't stumbled upon that yet - check it out.

I've had a couple people ask me where they can email pictures for the reunion. Sondra Shrader will be collecting those down the road a bit so stay tuned. We'll post an announcement when she's ready to roll with that. In the meantime, start scanning your favorite old pictures people! We want to capture as many people as possible - so step up and represent!

Cheers,
Temple

Reunion Revolution!

Not only do we plan to go big (as in attendance) for our reunion, but we also plan to go green. That means we need your current email address to ensure you get invited to the shindig, as we’re "e-viting" all the way. It also means if your email address changes, keep us up to date. And for those of you who don’t have email (that’s SO 80s, btw!), we’ll send the Pony Express to your pad, so send us your snail mail address.

We will also be sourcing out eco-friendly plates, utensils, etc. and plan to recycle all the bottles and cans we will surely produce via beverage consumption.

Go Green, 89!
Best,
Julie(t)

If you build it...they will come...

Well now that Juliet has been spreading the word - people are starting to visit this place of ours here in cyberspace which is great! If you leave a comment, please make sure to leave your name - first and last - (unless you intentionally prefer to remain anonymous) so that people can see who's showing up around here - and reconnect with old friends, etc!

Keep those comments coming - and don't forget to cast your reunion votes (see left side bar)!

Many thanks,
Temple & Co.

I'll Stop the World and Melt with You

Any good high school dating stories?

Maybe you went somewhere with that babe you met at Sunrise Mall? Perhaps you asked that total fox from History class to go to Leatherby's for ice cream. Or maybe it was more of a group thing...a bunch of you spent the day walking around Oldtown Sac. Whatever it was that brings back fun memories (or maybe not so fun?)...do tell...

Everybody's Working for the Weekend!

Most of us had jobs in high school...especially by the time we were seniors. It's funny to look back at some of the places we worked. I know a good handful of us worked at a very politically incorrect place called Po'Folks for example. Our work uniforms made us look like we were on the set of Little House on the Prairie. Once in our little get ups we would spend hours serving people lemonade in mason jars, along with fried okra & catfish. All the while being bullied by some huge guy named Ray. Good times. Ugh.

The cool thing about having friends that worked at food places was when you would stop in and they would hook you up. I know many fast food and yogurt places where the "hook up" was standard. Or, there were the trades. You work in a strip mall for example and would trade ice cream from your place of employment for pizza from the teenagers working across the way.

What about you? Where did you earn your weekend dollars so you had money to buy outfits at Miller's Outpost and Contempo? (ha ha)

Pictured: Kelly Rodgers at MacDonald's on San Juan
(picture hijacked from Andrea Cast's collection on Facebook - thanks A!)

Lost Classmates

Twenty years is a long time, and amidst all the marriages, divorces, kids, jobs and mortgages, we’ve lost some of our fellow classmates.

Some, such as Paula Keith and Brett Bickford, died while we were still at Del Campo. Those losses were tragic and, for many of us, the first time we had to deal with losing a peer.

We may be older now, but it’s still just as hard to hear about the passing of former classmates such as Kelly Henson, who died unexpectedly in a house fire just before our 10-year reunion. Or Darryl Nelson, who battled cancer and lost the fight in May 2007. In addition, the war has claimed a fellow graduate --Army Sgt. Ron Coffelt was killed by a makeshift bomb in Baghdad in July 2007 during his second tour of duty.

As part of our 20-year reunion, we plan to recognize these losses.

We ask that anyone who has a funny story or photo to share regarding Paula, Brett, Kelly, Darryl or Ron to please email it to juliet.farmer@att.net.

We also realize that there may be others we’ve lost, so please let us know if there’s anyone we’ve overlooked.

Thanks,
Julie(t)

(pictured below are Avri (noted below), Darryl, Ron & Paula)

LOST & FOUND
Since the original post, we have also learned the following classmates have passed on as well (hopefully this list will stay short):

Avri Paul - Hodgkins Disease (2002)

Tim Mann - Influenza (2002)

(Thank you to those classmates who have helped us to identify others &/or have provided pictures from members of the Class of 89 who are gone but not forgotten.)

Brave enough to share your most embarrassing high school memory?

Here’s mine, for all the world to see:

It was freshmen year and I was walking towards the halls on the lower quad. I happened to be passing by the JV football team who were hanging out on the brown hexagon tables just outside the cafeteria when a stupid bird crapped on me – right on my forehead. I remember trying to turn my head (away from the view of the gawking football players) and closing my eyes while gritting my teeth thinking “pleasedon’tletthemseethispleasedon’tletthemseethis…” Too late – someone (Jason Smith? Dave Tornell?) yelled, “Temple just got shit on!” and the whole team busted a gut at my expense. I high tailed it down the hallway towards the bathroom. Timme Sherman had been amongst those laughing that day but he did come down the hall to see if I was ok. He knew how horrified I was. Hands down one of my most embarrassing moments in high school - and ever for that matter. Dang blasted birds.

Anyone else brave?!

Hot For Teacher?

Who was your favorite teacher back in the day?
On the flip side...who was the teacher you dreaded the most?

Vacation all I ever wanted...vacation had to get away...

(DC students at Dillon's Beach)

From team travel to road trips - Young Life adventures to family outings - camping to cruises - there were some really fun getaways in high school. Have any favorites?

Where were you when it happened?

In 1986, most of us witnessed the tragic Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster. Do you remember where you were at the time?

Heads Up!

Hey! Just an update about the blog, reunion, etc. Thanks Julie(t) (Coberly) Farmer for agreeing to be the contact person for the reunion next year. It will be great to have someone local to nail down a venue, field calls, etc. In the next few weeks, this blog will be getting a major face lift with the main intention being to serve as a reunion site. You might notice I removed the poll to vote on the preferred month. I did that because of the feedback I'm getting on the side about a possible Sept/October event. When I get the blog "reunionified" I will put the poll back up and make sure to include those months as options (sorry to those 8 of you who had already voted).

My main job is going to be to maintain the blog, help collect pictures from the masses, market the reunion on the internet, rally up people for this and that - all in collaboration with
Julie(t). Cindy (Shute) Halloway is also helping. If anyone else who happens by here would like to help, let us know. I think we are good as far as getting the ball rolling but as the event gets closer we may need some extra hands.

So at this point I need to ask for help with one little something. If anyone has a copy of our class picture - the 11x17 one where everyone is outside on the lawn (or somewhere) at DC - I'm in desperate need of finding that sucker. I looked in my stuff because I thought I had that, but no luck. If you find it and mail it to me (hard copy) I promise to mail it back. If you can scan it and email it to me - even better!

While rummaging through my "back in the day" stuff, I did find lots of treasures. I still have my "Blasting Out - Free at Last" class of 89 DC t-shirt with all of our names on the back. I also found my 89 tassel and grad cap. Fun! But the really good stuff is in the yearbooks I started to thumb through. Laura was right, it's good times to look through these and see what people wrote. I had forgotten that our own Jen Ham was Queen! Queen Ham!!! That made me smile. I had forgotten a lot actually. I guess that is what happens when in high school your priorities are boys and parties. Anyway, after Laura's comment I was a little nervous when I saw Dave Roth's name on the inside front cover just as I was getting started - but he was very kind to me. After 1/2 a page of harrassing me about making Mrs. Brito have a break down in Spanish class, he said, "I wish you the best in whatever you pursue in the future. You're capable of acheiving anything Temple. Just NEVER quit." Thanks Dave...no wonder 19 years later it's still you giving me pep talks (inside joke ;p). So if you still have 'em, sometime within the next year, start thumbing through your yearbooks to get yourself in the spirit.

We got the spirit...yes we do...we got the spirit...how 'bout you! This has taken a very cheesy turn...

Cheers,
Temp

Attention DC Class of 88!

Hey 88 - your 20th year reunion is just around the corner! For information please visit www.delcampoclassof88.blogspot.com



Have fun!

Happy Birthday Becky!

Hope you have had a great bday!!!

Wanna plan a reunion?

So...we are a year away from the reunion. We are looking for a planner. Hold up...I hear you and I know what you are thinking. Many of you have suggested that I step up and plan this sucker. Well unfortunately I won't do that for 3 reasons. (1) I don't mind helping out but I don't want to have to be responsible the night of the reunion. There. I admit it. I'd rather kick back and enjoy the evening with the rest of you guys. I have this horrible vision that the reunion person gets stuck after it's over helping to clean up or something while all of her (or his) buddies take off to carry on the party elsewhere. Nu-uh...I'll be following that party train where ever it might be going. Pfft. You know it! I'm also sure this is completely irrational and that really it's me just being immature and wanting to regress and partake in teenage like behavior. So be it. (2) Doesn't it make better sense for a local person to plan a high school reunion? I live in another state! A neighboring state...but still... Despite technology and the internet I'm still going to play that card. (3) My husband is not supportive of my taking on this project since we have plenty of other projects that I need to be focusing on. Usually he's a really supportive guy when it comes to "Temple stuff" but when I ran this by him...well, he had a point. There are a lot of things we need to tackle without this distracting all of my attention. Like last year when my mother-in-law accidentally pulled down our living room curtains and broke the rod - you would think that would have been handled by now but nope - I still need to get the curtains replaced. My bad. I also am in charge of the new area rugs that were supposed to help us keep our new carpet in good shape - instead I just keep having the carpets cleaned more often than we should be because it is insane what two toddlers and a dog can do to carpet that was way too light in color for our lifestyle. Again - my bad. It doesn't help that part of what has distracted me from this is party planning...I planned our annual holiday party, a big summer BBQ and backyard kickoff party...my oldest son's 4th bday party...and lots of smaller in between shindigs. I love planning parties! My husband knows this and his vote? Curtains and carpets my friends. I have enough that already distracts me from the more important matters in my chaotic life (like this blog for example) without planning our 20th year reunion.

Dang...you would think this is Tab typing this post! ;) Focus Temple...focus....long story short...

Anyway - any takers? Or do we have to get someone nice and schnockered at Shawn & Dave's party and get them to commit?

Anyone?

Hello?

And here we go...

Well some of us were privy to a whirlwind of emails that went around today regarding Obama vs. McCain...wow, we have come a long way from the days where the biggest opinions we had were in regards to Duran Duran vs Def Leppard, preppy vs rocker, Vans vs Converse, or wine coolers vs cheap beer! While I'm not a huge fan of politics myself, I do appreciate the importance and I love the dialogue between so many of us who have known each other for several decades. I'm fascinated how different we all are considering how we were all aligned back in the day before politics played a more significant role in our lives. Regardless of your political affiliation, nobody can deny that this is a very historical time in our country. I wanted to invite you to keep up the conversation here. The consensus so far is some of us are for Obama, some for McCain and some of us...well some of us would rather have a beer and watch the rest of you guys duke it out. So - what are your thoughts??? Regardless, VOTE! Cheers! ~T

Happy Birthday Amy!

Happy 37th old friend! Have a GREAT birthday.

Shawn & Dave's pre-reunion party

As most of you guys have heard via email, Shawn & Dave are in cahoots planning a pre-reunion practice party (any excuse to party - right?! right). They mentioned a theme party. I immediately thought of this picture Shawn sent me. 80's party!!! Any theme will be fun. But I really would like to see Steve Stillwell in his parachute pants.
Clink-clink!
Temp

From Liz Novak:

Hello!

Just wanted to send you guys the link for my nephews caring bridge page. He was diagnosed with cancer last month. He had surgery to remove a tumor in his brain and now is going to start radiation and chemo to kill the remaining brain tumor and hopefully anything else floating around! He loves getting messages on his site so if your up to it- feel free to jot him some words of encouragement! http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/niknunn

xo!

Liz Kleczek

Happy Easter!

Hi y'all - just a quick Easter shout out. Hope the bunny is all kinds of good to you & yours! Thanks to Sue, Amy & Shawn for jumping on the myspace train...the rest of you are missing out. Chickens! ;)

Miss you all.
~Temple

No Laura...this is the best blog post ever...

Happy anniversary Laura!
A year ago today Laura learned she had cancer. Since then, she has not only kicked that cancers ass, but she has shown us all how to tackle one of life's greatest challenges with grace, courage, humor and determination. This blog would not have been created had it not have been for Laura's blog. Think of all of the fun memories, funny pictures, reminiscing, reconnecting with old friends and laughter that would not have happened! Laura, thank you first and foremost for fighting. You are one strong sistah! Secondly, thanks for having a hand in bringing all these crazy people together in cyberspace. The memories and stories that continue to surface are sooo funny. It's awesome as we slide ever closer to that 20th that we have a place to dish out old memories from back in the day - what halarious times...even if we were idiots putting ourselves in really bad situations. Finally - Laura, thank you for being a part of our lives, from those crazy drunken highschool days to these days, it's great to have you around.

Since this blog is in Laura's honor, feel free to share any memories about her that you feel compelled to (smile). Think of it as her continued therapy as I'm certain many of us have Laura flashbacks that will make her smile - and smiling is good for your health.

Lastly - Laura, wtf is thumping in the hooptie or whatever (dare I ask)?!

Just back from Tahoe

So we just returned from the 4th annual Tahoe trip. We think we finally found "the" cabin - it's a keeper - thanks Becky for coordinating the trip and finding a rockin place to rent. This year Becky, Kelly, Tab, Ham, Amy & my family and our chilluns (I think there were 12 kids ages 0-9 if I counted correctly) made it up. Jeff & I had to cut out a day early since Wyatt came down with a nasty bug - but it was really fun while it lasted. A few of the ladies (I will not mention names) got their drink on Friday night and it was very entertaining to watch the effect of rum & coke or vodka & orange soda on people who haven't gotten schnockered in awhile. Good times! I heard something about sledding in bathing suits - what went down after we left you people?! It was dumping snow! Can't wait until next year to do it again. If Tab or Becky have video of the sledding shenanigans (in bathing suits or otherwise) I will add it here if they say it's ok.

Brianna Denison

I'm not sure how many of you have heard about this story - but our community here in Reno has been hit hard by a tragedy. In late January, Brianna Denison, 19, was abducted from a home in the neighborhood next to campus. She grew up in Reno and was home visiting for winter break (she went to college in Santa Barbara). She had gone out with her friends to a concert and later that night slept on the couch in her friend's livingroom. The sliding glass door next to where she was sleeping had been left unlocked. In the morning when her friends woke up - Brianna was gone. Her cell phone and shoes were still there.

In the weeks that followed, the entire community seemed to rally in hopes of finding Brianna. I have never seen a campaign like this for a missing person. Posters of Brianna were everywhere - the casino marquis, in drive-thru windows, on every telephone pole, etc. Search and rescue teams made up of hundreds of volunteers combed the fields closest to campus for weeks hoping to find some trace of Brianna. Reno is still a small town in the sense that everyone seems to know someone you know. We have a friend who owns a car dealership and the police where there (and at every dealership) seeing if anyone tried to get rid of a car fast. One of the parent's in Korey's classroom was telling me her friends ex-husband was turned in as a possible suspect and interviewed. Another parent told me everyone in her husband's office were interviewed. The talk about this case has been constant and everywhere - in the line at the grocery store, on the radio - and of course on the news and in the paper.

This past weekend, Brianna's body was discovered in a field near my home (not the one right at the end of our sreet for those of you who have been here - another field about a mile away). Brianna had been strangled and her body dumped there over a week ago (perhaps longer, they haven't said yet). Until recently, most of the fields had been covered with snow. A man walking during his lunch break discovered her body. It was horrible news.

DNA evidence had linked Brianna's abductor to a serial rapist who has assaulted 2-3 other women on and near campus. They assume the man is local and have a possible description. They think he either lives or works near campus or on our end of town since he dumped her body down here. Women around here are rattled to say the least to know a serial rapist and now murderer is on the loose. Oh - and one of his rape victims told police there was a baby shoe on the floor of his truck - so this guy might be a Dad. They think he blends into the community really well and it's probably someone that family and friends would never imagine would be capable of these crimes. It's beyond creepy...

Brianna's favorite color was blue and today Jeff & I went to a birthday party with the kids and there were blue ribbons everwhere - on car antennas, front doors, light poles. Where Brianna's "missing person" posters had been now show posters with the sketch artist drawing of the potential suspect. The community is outraged and the manhunt has begun.

I wanted to post something about Brianna's story because I hope it reminds everyone to be safe. I can think back on my life (and our lives) and think about many times we made dumb decisions (leaving doors unlocked, walking around in dark neighborhoods, hanging out with boys we didn't know very well, the list goes on). We are all very lucky. In addition, I just hope people don't forget about this young woman who died way too early. My heart goes out to the Denison family. I cannot begin to imagine their pain. I know I will never forget Brianna. For more information about Brianna, go to http://www.briannadenison.com/.

Be safe,
Temple

Happy Valentine's Day!

First I want to make sure to say Happy V-Day specifically to Sue...she & I survived many a rough Valentine's Day back in the day and I always think of her when this day rolls around. Cheers to you Sue! To everyone else - I hope today is a good thing and not a day filled with hang ups. I'm wondering what your best and worst Valentine's Days have been - any takers?

Kids sure make it more fun - that's for sure.

Less than 10 days until I see lots of you in Tahoe - can't wait!

xoxo,
Temple

2008...let the countdown begin!

So it's official...we are less than two years away from our 20th. Some of our elderly friends who stop by here on occasion know their time has come - it's your year class of '88! Dust off your party pants! Kathleen should have a pre-party so us babies can see how the older and wiser kids will handle their 20th. Practice, practice - right? Help us youngsters out. (wink)

Actually any excuse to party with any of you old friends would be great. Maybe we can have a few get togethers for old time sake. We can hit the Bluffs, Sadek Court and whatever other old school haunts we can think of. We can also gather at some nostalgic concerts to keep our '80's rocker spirits alive. Shawn & I might be off to Vegas in April to catch Def Leppard, Styx & REO Speedwagon (jealous??? laughing???). Anybody have a banana clip I can borrow? Which of you did I loan my cropped denim jacket to? On to other things...some of us will be doing Bay 2 Breakers this year - make sure to keep ourselves agile enough to get down at the reunion. Maybe this is the year to start ressurecting the annual night before Thanksgiving thing at Marie Calendars...does that still happen? How did that ever land at Marie Calendars by the way?! Or - there's always Players...

Anytime I see any of you is a good time by the way. Here's to a great 08 to all of you!

POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME!!!!!!!!!! lol...

Cheers,
Temple

PS - Dave, the rumor is true...you were on a tentative list for being t.p.'d in the not so distant past. I'm privy to this information only as a bystander as it was not my idea. But you can talk to Amy ByH20 about the list. She knows we don't "fork" around if a few cocktails have been consumed and we're in the neighborhood, you never know what can happen.