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