Thank You, Class!

I received a San Antonio book today (thank you, David Kriese) signed by many of you at the reunion. I cannot tell you how thoughtful that was. I truly was touched. Not being exactly a high-school enthusiast in the day, I was surprised at how much fun this whole experience has been. I'd say the grown-up version of us is much better than the teenage version.

Let's keep in touch!

Shawn at the Popular Table

It's official. Shawn Timlin is at the popular table.

See more pics in the class photo album.

What Did You Think?

What a blast! Thanks to Bill and every one else involved in this great weekend.

In the comments section below, please share your thoughts about the reunion.

Posting Pictures

I've had several questions about how to post images to the CLASS PHOTO ALBUM. I'll write detailed instructions by Tuesday, but if you're a little bit savvy ... start by creating your own account at www.flickr.com, and upload your pictures there. Then go to Churchill photo album and click on the link that asks to be invited to the group.

It's not that difficult ... Even Scott Combs managed to do it.

Hang tight ... more details to come.

Too Late Harold

Sure, now that he can't have me, Harold Huggins wants me.

See more pics in the CLASS PHOTO ALBUM (keep checking back for more...)

1983 GRADS - SIGN IN HERE

Let us know what you're up to. Click on "Comments" and tell us where you are and what you're doing.

What? She rides a Harley???

Paige Wanless, sweet little thing, now rides a Harley. What's up with that?!

GOING THE DISTANCE

Check out your fellow classmates who are making great strides to get to the reunion:

Carla Segesman - Cancun, Mexico
Julie Jacobson - Minnesota
Julie Reeves - New Jersey
David Duncan - New Jersey
Jodi Petlin - Montana
Cathey Coker - Alabama
David Kriese - Colorado
Andrew Lee - Ohio
Doug Pashoian - New Mexico
Anne White - Florida
Sarah Colvin - Maryland
Jeff Donaldon - Florida
Kirsten Robinson - Mass.
Andie Ximenes - California
Jennifer Wimmer - Michigan

If you live in San Antonio and aren't making the effort to come, shame on you !!

Any other trekkers out there?

Larkspur - 5th Grade

How cute we were in 1976! Remember the bicentennial festivities? 50 Nifty United States...I still use that song when I try to answer Jeopardy questions.

Charlie Paulette sent this picture of 5th grade at Larkspur. There's a bigger image at our class photo site on flickr.

Forever relegated to the bottom row: Judy Shelton, Charlie, Kelly Koger, me and Jeff Pyle.

You'll also see our beloved Tommy Maurer and many more familiar faces -- Brian Brust, Susan Carter, Aaron, Dan Oines, David Dylla, Lisa Kotzebue...

WE REMEMBER

Please share your memories of our former classmates who passed away too young:

Noel Burris, Bobby Cisneros, Nancy Dennett, Jason Hidy
Tommy Maurer, Deanna Brieden, David Hardage
Kelly Sawyer, Doug Collins, Ted Tollette

(If there are others that should be remembered here, email me.)

Who had the worst bangs?

Vote in the poll in the right-hand column

Wes Putman, Julie Reeves, Gina Neesvig, Sean Page
Fern Hime, Donna Abbott, Zelda Ayala, Cathey Coker

Eisenhower 8th-Grade Drama

Thanks to Robert Stocker for passing this along. You can see a larger version of this and a similar picture at the Churchill Class of 1983 Photo Album.

You might recognize Mike Martin, Cliff Simpson, Adolf Ramirez (best dressed in our Churchill senior class), John Walls, Barbara Arden, Stephanie Lewis, Michelle Uretsky, Julie Reeves, a couple of Melissas, a couple of Karens, Heather Johnson, Doris J., Kelly Franklin, of course Robert Stocker, and a lot more.

See Them at the Reunion

Man, I miss my curling iron.

GREATEST CLASS BLUNDERS AND PRANKS

fROM THE 10-YEAR REUNION DIRECTORY...

"....taking Kim for a ride the day I got my license and wrecking my car." Beth Anderson

"Randy Arnold and I showed up late and soaking wet to Physical Science final exam." Claudia Arreguin

"Mike Martin's truck." Don Crook

"Getting fake IDs and going to New West for Drink or Drown Night." Dian Ebert

"Bob Bull set me up with a friend of his brother's. Holly Barth and I dressed up a male friend and had him pretend he was me." Galen Dickey

"Swimming in the fountains at North Star Mall for a Sociology experiment." Doris Jaeger

"Convinced the entire school I had amnesia with the help of Greg Lee and Scott Lasiter." Keith Kirkman

"Sneaking the car out when we were Freshman." Misty Neely

"When I took my parent's car for a WASTO party and a "friend" was driving me home and we had a accident." Alison Lewis

"The night Mary Wyman and I tied a dead deer head to a statue's head in Mr. Tucker's (math teacher) front yard." Jerry Organ

"Fumbling three times on Lee's 20 yard line my Sophmore year and having Coach Centeno rattle my helmet, bench me, and put David Baker, a Freshman in for me." John Roy

"Dance Team practice when Mardi Sherman got caught imitating Ms. Angell's dance." Renetta Quintana

"While papering a friend's house, I was stung by a bee and had to be taken to the emergency room for an allergic reaction." Paige Wanless

"Shelly and I switched on our teachers Mrs. Burns and Mr. Glaze." Sherri Whitehurst

"Toilet papering the wrong house and getting caught." Evamarie Smith

"I was boring in high school - I never did anything wrong." Lanisa Yates

PARK MAINZ's BAND PLAYS AT FOLKLIFE IN JUNE

Parke Mainz has a classic rock band called HOTHOUSE which is made up of 2 Dallas firefighters and 2 arsonists (so Parke the firefighter claims).

They have been together 11 yrs will be playing at the Folklife Festival in San Antonio on the below dates.

Fri. 6-13 8:00 on stage 6

Sat. 6-14 12:00....4:30....and 10:00 (usually our best show)

Sun. 6-15 6:00 (not such a good show cuz the band has been floating the river in Gruene all day)

Churchill Now

This is what our humble school looks like now. I wonder if the cafeteria food has changed.

A Saturday BBQ at the school is planned, with lots of fun rides and play things for the kids.

Will adult beverages be served?

Homecoming Hotties

Dallas Happy Hour !

Brent Yarbrough, Pat Reilly, Bill Kaiser, Scott Watson, Mike Martin & Robert Stocker "kick back a few" and share memories of old times while making new ones.

NEW! Class Photo Album

We just started a photo album of Churchill 1983 alums. Here's Julie (Reeves) Campbell and her family of red-heads.

To see what your classmates look like now, visit the photo album.

If you want to include your own pics, email them to me or (preferably) ask me how to upload them yourself.

Who do you keep in touch with?

Since launching this blog just a couple of days ago, I've heard from about a dozen old (and I mean old) Chargers who have collectively kept in touch with probably half the class.

For example...

• Diana Ebert works at USAA with Melinda Guerra (now Reeves), Sandy Huerta, Ginger Callen and Melanie Felder.
• Doris Jaeger (now Gold) and a band of Churchill chicks (Helen Lopez, Rose Herrera, Carol Robinson, Diana Ebert, Karen Brumley and others) get together monthly in San Antonio and they "laugh ourselves half sick."
• Mike Martin sees Don Crook, Steve Oines, Dan Pollard, Mitch Huffman and Doug Pashoian at least once or twice a year. He played on a volleyball team with Susan Carter a couple of years ago. He saw Dwayne Baker recently for the first time in 20-something year and says, "He hasn’t changed one bit. That is one handsome boy."
• Cliff Simpson is heading to New York next week and plans to have dinner with Jim Benedict.

In the "Comments" section below, let us know who you're hanging out with, and who you'd like to track down.

Yearbook quotables

Senior Year Yearbook Quotables and Memories

Some of the below do not do justice without a photo, but here goes:
"Mr. Perry prepares for a day of teaching (blunder) physics."
"Mrs. Liz Swayze reads a story (The Velveteen Rabbit) to her government class."
(Rumor has it Mrs. Swayze may show up at the reunion sometime...)

"Colonel Fred Oldinsky and his wife tear up the dance floor at the Jr/Sr. Prom."

Senior Art Students painted a mural on the "Senior Dining Room." (Is that still there???
You'll have to come to the Saturday gig at the school to find out...)
Bill Kaiser showed up at Buckingham Ball in tennis shoes and armed with a cane. (What???)
M*A*S*H'S final days were celebrated on February 28, 1987 by dressing up in character and coming to school in costume.
Questions we asked our teachers:
"When is it due?" "Does this get a grade?" "Can I write on the back?" "How long does it have to be?" "Do I have to get a tardy slip?" "Do I have to volunteer?"
Questions we hoped our teachers would not ask us:
"Will you read your paper aloud?" "Where is your homework?" "Would you see me after class?" "When can your parent see me about this?" "Is everyone ready for a pop quiz?" "Will you read your note to the class?" "Would YOU like to explain the lesson?"
(Any of the above coming back to haunt you as a parent and/or teacher???)

We had 6 students graduate with a 99 plus average: Ian Dick, Jan Ju Lan, Kirsten Robinson, Brenda Tyler, Sherri Whitehurst and Stephanie Wissinger....any of you out there????

TEEN'S LIFE WOULD BE DULL MINUS NEW TECHNOLOGY
"How would teenagers live without M-TV, Pioneer Stereos, cars, electric curlers, microwaves, electric guitars, pocket calculators, video games, access to computers, electric typewriters, one-step cameras, blow-dryers, walkmans, and electric pencil sharpeners?"


"Kaepa-the shoe with two laces"
"Spanish students depart for Mexico; culture awareness objective of trip"
"Spring break nearing; coast-bound again?"
"Best WC swimming season boys second, girls fourth"
"Commended Merit Students"
"ROTC ball"
"Chargers roar past opposition Matadors, Owls, Brahmas, fall"
"Junior Achievement"
"Exellence acheived at speech workshop"
"Churchill tops again; chosen exemplary school"

Many thanks to the former Chancellor staff for providing these memories...Hopefully I'll have some more time to add to this--and hopefully it gets you reminiscing--enough to get you to post a comment and get to the reunion!!! RSVP TODAY!!!

Don Harris Today

The gift of gab has served Don well. He's been a sports broadcaster for San Antonio's Channel 4 for 17 years, and has two Emmy nominations under his belt.

Dan Pollard Today

And we thought this guy was just a jock. After majoring in econ at A&M, he got his MBA there, and now "solves a broad range of real estate problems." Dan lives in San Antonio.

Mike Martin & Don Crook Today

Mike sent these pics of him and Don Crook. Send in your (real) pics and we'll get them online.

Cliff Simpson Today

Wow, big surprise. Mr. Debate Hero is an attorney practicing in Texas. Churchill prepared him well. We hear it was a tough choice for him choosing between a football or legal career.

John Scannapieco Today

John Scannapieco was that soccer-playing, Republican-loving Bostonian with a cool lake house and ski boat. Now he's a big-shot lawyer in Nashville and actually does some pro bono work for the little guys. Has he gone Democrat on us?

1983

Gotta love those bangs.

Sean Page Today

It must be something in the Churchill Salisbury steak. Here's yet another attorney, Sean Page -- football star turned litigator. He practices in San Antonio.