This seems to be an event that has people coming out of the woodwork to attend. Just connecting with this website has put me in touch with friends from elementary school and friends who live nearby in New York. I wish you all a great party and hello to all my old friends. Reading the list of recipients of Rob's email made me incredibly nostalgic, and very sad not to be there. I am surely sorry not to be making the trip, but I trust that you will all party on! Janie Rice Peckenham
I am so close by I'm sorry I couldn't make it to see everyone. I hope to see you all at the 50th reunion! My memories were of being new to the school my junior year... and how nice everyone was to me at La Canada and how much I loved the drill team...and that group of "Rowdies..!! Please tell those who get to San Dimas or want to meet in La Canada in the future that I'd love to be included! Take care y’all. Jill Cochrane Litchfield
Thanks for writing! Yep, I've been out here in Carolina since 1981 (though I spent one year at SoCal, to make things confusing). I'd love to come out for the reunion but I have to teach and man the helm over here. I discovered the webpage awhile back but wondered why no one found me in the age of Google. Jerry Griggs
I'm sorry that I can't attend the reunion. Aid Africa is having a board meeting and a big fundraising dinner that same day and I'm very involved volunteering with them. Thanks for the offer though. Have fun at the reunion. It's nice to hear how everyone is doing. Elizabeth Herndon Lanski
I'll try to go to the reunion, and maybe it will happen! I would love to see you guys, and I am saddened to see that some people have died. Life is too short! (even though I am a bit younger than most of my classmates, we are ALL getting old!) Jeannette Bulinski
Hi all! Sorry not to be in LA for the big event! I had such a great time at the 10 and 20 year reunions! It is so great to see how everyone has done so well from the class of 1969! Hope to see ya in the future! Love to everyone! Peter Neal
Sounds good to me, really wish I could be there! Please tell all hello for me and e-mail me with the details of all the events! Best wishes to all, and if anyone is coming to Texas or Costa Rica please get in touch with me! Hope to be at the next reunion!! Yvonne Adams McConnell
Yes, it is a bit hard to articulate, but true... time, distance, and a modicum of nostalgia does have a way of blurring the "groups we hung with" forty years ago into the good feelings, recently felt, of being "a class"; and... just perhaps, a very poignant one at that. 1969 was a turbulent time for so much of the outside world. Back then in La Canada, many of us had, I feel, just a little bit more of a reprieve from the maelstrom of politics, strife, and the adult world that would soon enough carry us along. So, today, whether we were either in "this crowd or that"; jocks or JD's; hip or obtuse, we all had one thing in common... a then quite verdant, lovely enclave of a town to call home. A place where nervousness over going to the Youth House Dance, heart-throbs and heart breaks, inside tears and ribald cheers could, and did, overshadow most outside trauma. And a place where teens on the verge of being "those who would inherit" otherly burdens soon enough, could still run-like-the-wind on an oval track, kiss in the darkness of a traffic-less moonlit curb, and feel an unseen sense of togetherness... a place of a small towns waning years; a little vale of kindred identity. Rob Nye
