Terry Lee Maple

I enjoyed the information provided by Perry Teaff. I didn't recall that he was a member of our class, but if he is anything like his sister, he must be an outstanding person. Anna Teaff made a big impression on me. She is one of those strong female role models that I was blessed to know. Because I was active in campus politics, I knew all of the senior leaders but of course they bsarely noticed me. Hilltop had an outstanding debate/speech team and I initially aspired to join them. At Hilltop Junior High, Hank Sieradzki and I were debate partners in the 8th grade. Our teacher, Dean Leptich, held a competition and Hank and I won out over all the ninth grade teams. It was quite thrilling. As a result of our performance, Mr. Leptich recommended us to the high school debate program. On the first day of class, we were so intimidated by the skills of the experienced debators who were selected to speak to the class (a powerful introduction to say the least) that we immediately transferred to journalism. It was a good move since journalism helped me to learn how to write and I eventually worked closely with Mr. Brelsford when I was elected student body president. Hank's family moved to Riverside before his senior year but I stayed in touch with him. He and his wife visited us just a few months ago. He went to Brown, then Bryn Mawr for a Ph.D. in classics. Since classics is not a lively field in academia any more, he ended up teaching Latin and Greek to elite private high school students in Rhode Island. He was the smartest kid I knew in high school. I kind of regret not reaching my full potential as a public speaker, but I admired people like Carl Bandelin and Pat Borunda who were so accomplished. When the ASB presidents took over a CV Rotary Club meeting (a club tradition), I chose Carl as my "entertainment". He delivered a powerful speech on prejudice. I remember him ending his speech with the words "prejudice is a God-damned thing!" The room got quiet but it was quite effective and moved the adults in the room. Carl was an excellent football player also; our MVP in 1963. The best speech I ever heard at Hilltop was Borunda's campaign speech when he illustrated the voters choice with the story of the man who held a small bird in his hand . . . Pat was fated, I guess, to become ASB Vice President. The power of his speech vaulted him ahead of a lot of other kids who were better known. He was a strong leader and later became head of the urban indian program in Portland, Oregon. We had some great ones almong us, but none greater than my hero, Anna Teaff!

Gail Eileen Dillon (Boone)

Bruce Wilson

You are welcome Gail

Terry 

Perry and Penny are class of 1966

That Borunda speech is the one I was referring to

There are are a number of Teaff  folks

Anna, 1962

twins Perry & Penny, 1966

Peter Teaff, 1960

And thanks for the updates

I'll have something for ya later

I still think it is something that Peg Marston (!) is 98 years old

AGE conquers all!

But we can fight back

I am now back at high school weight of 172*, but whereas I could once run a 10K in 36:36, I feel like I am accomplishing something if I turn in a 66:00.

* High praise goes out to those Yasso Chocolate Frozen Yogurt Bars (@ only 80 calories)

Bruce Wilson

I want my Maypo

Not that one.

Bruce Wilson

Another ASB_man,  Brian (Reeves),  my next door neighbor.

Some may recognize the guy standing with him

Frederick (Fred) Longworth, Jr.

To Terry Maple:

FYI, in the autumn of 1963, I completed for the Hilltop team in the county-wide forensics contest held at SDSU (then still San Diego State College).

I competed in impromptu and extemporaneous, and on the same day I won 2nd in impromptu and 3rd in extemporaneous. The impromptu 2nd got me into the state finals in Santa Barbara.

Fred

Bruce Wilson

Always thought of Hank and Nancy Nixon as smarties.

From my paper route collecting routine, I discovered that both Hank and Nancy studied alot more than me, Leon Stallings, and Butch Hindman. :)

Bruce Wilson

Say Terry

How about you seeing if you can talk Hank into providing a recent foto.

I do not want to show up at the next Classics Conference and not be able to recognize the man.

I will work on Carl.

Freddy V, I am afraid, is a lost cause, despite several attempts from several of us.

Bruce Wilson

News of the old Petco Park

Jordan Thompson (lives in CV, attends Helix????) and Torrey Pines Senior Kevin Sim both were selected to be among 55 nationwide participants in the 17TH annual  "Perfect Game All American Classic" at Petco.

I did not catch his age but he measures in at 6-0, 160.

Have they abandoned weight training (and the dread 'roids) these days.

Get the boy a Finis Jones buckle please.

Frederick (Fred) Longworth, Jr.

Bruce,

You replied to my post . . . alas, your reply appears to have been deleted.

As for the laser discs, it used to be that George Brownyard at Con Pro Video serviced them. After that, Voice & Video did them. At some point Pioneer stopped providing parts. I heard in the scuttlebutt a couple of years ago that there was a guy in L.A. who still provided some level of support on them.

I continue to operate Classic Audio Repair on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights---25 years!!!. We'll be moving next spring because the strip mall was sold and the new owners are following the gentrification trend that devoured North Park.

Hope all is well with you.

Fred

Bruce Wilson

Hi Fred:

Not only have I slowed down with age, but i guess my fingers have gotten fatter too. 

In re-arranging things to make them more "logical" I lost my messages to you.

Thanks for your info. 

You may see me at your shoppe since I am out and about more these days.

We were talking on here about funny things we all remember

So, I recall that you took a bunch of paper money down to the bank and traded it all in on coins hoping to find some valuable collector item coins

I had real grown up jobs from about 1976 to 2001 (a spacey odyssey?) so I did my 25 years too

I admire your longevity

EDIT

I thought I could find what I actually said, but can't

Anyway, I said I always thought of Fred as a very smart guy and congrats on his forensics successes

Bruce Wilson

Hi Jackie!

I sent you a pm 🎶(private message)

All youz other guyz, especially if you're still in SD

I drove all the way from Point Loma to CV on surface streets yesterday (a lot of it on the old HarborDrive)

An interesting journey to say the least

Reminded me of taking the bus from PB to CV in Sevenrh grade

Patrick Borunda

My thanks to Terry Maple for his kind words (#3442 above) regarding my ASB presentation.  When I read it and realized the last news he had of me was my time at the Urban Indian Program (UIP) in Portland (OR), I thought  "Wow, it really has been a long time."

UIP was an early stop in my career.  I used a $3,000 planning grant from the City to build a $1.5 million multi-service agency with 40+ employees in ten months. That $1.5 million was a lot of money in 1974.

My "real" profession was management consulting in strategic planning; it was a perfect fit for me and I practiced for 38 years across multiple industries with clients that anyone in the business world would recognize.

But I regularly practiced "social entrepreneurship" as well. After the Urban Indian Prgram, about 20 years later, I was asked to take over an organization called ONABEN which provided small business consulting to four tribes in Oregon.  We built it out to service thirteen tribes in four states, creating 289 new reservation based small, privately owned businesses with annual revenues of over $40 million in just four years.

Later, I was recruited to take a Virginia-based non-profit's economic development grant program and turn it into a loan program. In eighteen months we created the first Indian Country national intermediary lender (a community bank that made loans to other tribal community-development banks) capitalized at $2 million with leverage capacity for roughly $6 million.  That was a rich experience.

A few years after that I was asked by a board colleague at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to examine the issue of capital access for housing on reservations in Arizona. For a number of reasons, lending on trust lands is one of tthe trickiest issues in the financial world. I commuted from my ranch in Washington State to Arizona for about three years, building an independent loan fund servicing all twenty-two tribes in Arizona from scratch.  We immediatley leveraged our seed capital of $2 million into over $6 million of housing construction.  Everyone in Arizona State government said it couldn't be done (getting the tribes to cooperate)...I guess they under-estimated "Lancer-Spirit," huh?
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Bruce Wilson

Thanks for your public service(s), Patrick, a most impressive set of accomplishments.

Bruce Wilson

I was going to start back down the Local mural road, but got sidetracked so

Here is one from PA

  Is 

J's were something else in 1963

But here are three well known ones

Bruce Wilson

OBVIOUSLY this is in no way an inclusive list nor a contest of any sort, just us mentioning someone who stuck in mind for one reason or another.

So, let us not forget Dan Schweers in that list of smarties.

Why, here's Dan now:

Looking trim and grinning and staying light on the portions.

His story is an interesting one. I am glad I looked him up. 

Bruce Wilson

Funny 

I can remember when there was no Torrey Pines HS

And  Lane Field was the place for classics

Like Al Schuss

Terry Lee Maple

One of the rarest gifts bestowed by our creator is the gift of leadership. Pat Borunda is a born leader and anyone who meets him will recognize his unusual talent. Of course, he is also an exceptional orator and his abilities at the podium were honed through hard work and preparation. I was priviledged to be his running mate when he was elected governor of the California-Hawaii-Nevada district of Key Club International. It was clear to me then that this young man was going to be a formidable leader. His account of his career is gratifying as I wasn't aware of the rest of his story. I've worked in the nonprofit world myself and his record of success is remarkable. In high school we walked among some intellectual giants, but it is unfortunate that so many of them failed to keep in touch with the rest of us. I was a close friend of Hank Sieradzki's and stayed close to him as we both ascended to adulthood; I admired Fred Longworth for his intellect (but he was also a bit of a squirrel, as Coach Pruett would say). It's good to know that he has succeeded so admirably in his chosen career. Pat spoke softly but he carried a big rhetorical stick. It was a joy working with him and I wish him continued success. I'm hoping Par, and Fred, and Hank choose to join us for the next reunion. There are many tales that remain untold, a good reason to spend quality time with your classmates. I turn 73 on September 10th; when is that next reunion anyway?  

Bruce Wilson

Kind of a tickler (hee hee)

Have to clean this up a bit and explain why it is showing up here.

Three of my crushes and one of Terry's who I also liked a lot as a friend.

I located Jim Frese when Frank was murdered, but got no response back.

Brad and I have talked a few times. Who is that between Phil and Brad

Why no Montel?

RIP Leanne, Jo Ann, Mona, and Jeannie..

Bruce Wilson

Dog Day Afternoon

Our dog Susie (1955). The old house on Minot, with a lot of upgrades, sold for over $500K recently. Funny thing they did not change many of the windows (e.g. the ones shown here).

Contests you say? 

Long time arm wrestling champion had/has a gym out in Spring Valley.

Frederick (Fred) Longworth, Jr.

Bruce,

Yes . . . from about my age ten, Mother would drive me to the Bank of America in National City and we would pick up a $50 bag of pennies, which I could go through looking for rare coins.

By the time I was about fourteen, I had a collection worth a couple of thousand dollars in the money of the time. As part of their systematic repression, my parents took my entire collection away from me, stuck it in a safe deposit box, and told me if I needed to access it, I could.

I never saw it again until I was a student at SDSU, and made a big scene over their "theft" of the collection.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Thanks for the good words!

Fred
 

Bruce Wilson

Great story Fred:

As Art Linkletter used to say (sort of) "parents do the darndest things".

I only knew that you did it, not how successful you were.

I should have put some of my paper route money away instead of buying Sir Guy shirts and suede and alligator shoes? Yikes!. At least I wasn't bitten.

Bruce Wilson

Speaking of the mid-fifties, where is this?

Hint: Vincent Price had a house nearby.

Bruce Wilson

85 degrees in CV today. Is it just me, or are other folks becoming less tolerant of heat? Heat did not seem to bother me as much a few years back.

Jim Hawes

Bruce,

The picture looks like Imperial Beach at the foot of Palm Ave? If so it looks earlier than the mid-50's. In 1955 we lived in a beach house a block south of where the pier is located. The house just south of Dempsey's Tower was owned by the Davies family (Davies Motors), but I recall a boardwalk and houses to the north side of the tower.

Some interesting history of IB here: http://sunnycv.com/history/exhibits/trv.html

They were still trying to find an answer to the Tijuana sewage problem in the 30's!