Diane Raymond (Ball)

Wow, Larry, maybe you were in my class.  Do you remember your teachers?  I had Mrs. Hiccumbottom, for Kindergarten; Mrs. Fields, for First Grade;  Mrs. Tecumsah (yes, related to the great Chief), for Second Grade; and Mrs. Wells, for Third Grade.  I guess, they didn't take a photo for Kindergarten.  Jerry Marco, Ruthie Bryson, and Barbara Ryan were in my First Grade class.  Jerry and Barbara were, also, in my Second Grade class.  Jerry Lollis might have been in all three classes.  Wish they had put the names on photos back then, because, now, I just can't remember everybody.  I started Pueblo Vista, when it was brand new, in Fourth Grade and we were on Double Session.

Diane Raymond (Ball)

Larry,

John Mikolajjick is part owner of Mid-City Nursery.  His brother, Walt, was in the grade below us and became a Music teacher at Solano Community College in Rockville, CA.

Diane Raymond (Ball)

The Delete doesn't seem to be working.  I saw that somehow I had sent a message twice, and I've tried to delete it, but it just won't go.  Oh, well!  

Sammy Dent

Does anyone rember hollween 1962 at Naps high. Well it was lunch time , and there was a sidewalk that went by the old archery range. The dean of boys was about half down the walk, One side of the walk was the seniors and other side were the juniors. As the dean had walked about half way both juniors and seniors let go with a salvo of water ballons,eggs and tomatoes, It was like a battlefield ,I dont recall anyone getting hit on either side It sure was funny tho.Does anyone remember it?

Sewell West

sounds alot like senior-junior Hollween at the notch. Not teachers, but cops.

Janet Neely (Coats)

Margo - I did go to Federal Terrace School.  I only remeber, vidvidly, that one of my classmates stuck me in the eye with a pencil.  Still have the lead mark to this day. I also remember Mrs. Wardlaw spending extra time with me cause I was not very bright.  I started 4th grade at Napa Junction with Mrs. Heath.  5th & 6th grades were combined then so I had the same tearcher two years in a row.  Mr. Shiller.  Wow, I didn't realize so many of  us went to Federal Terrace.

Margo Lanpheir (Holland)

Mrs. Edwards was our first grade teacher at Federal Terrace.  We also saw a picture of a very young Debbie German in that 1st grade class.  Mrs. Fister taught one of the second grade classes and Mrs. Shreve taught one of the third grade classes.   A  girl who looks like Barbara Ruha was in the 3rd grade class.

Debbie German (Hammond)

Say what! You have a picture of me at Federal Terrace! I would love to see that. My mom didn't keep much.

Diane Raymond (Ball)

Do any of you remember a Mrs. Tafoya?  Taught Kindergarten at Federal Terrace.  She signed my promotion card, and all this time, I thought I had Mrs. Higginbottom (loved that name).  It must have been my younger brother.

Lynne Brooks (Lindahl)

Hello Janet and Margo,

I too went to Federal Terrace school, and we three all lived in Rancho at least for a short time ... so long ago, but I remember some good times as kids.

Lynne Brooks Lindahl

Christine Robin (De Woody)

Hello everyone. Some of us are planning lunch on Saturday at the Embassy Suites coffee shop at about 1:00pm. Please come join us. No reservations, just show up.

Linda Huber and Chris Robin

Margo Lanpheir (Holland)

Lynne~  I spotted your picture in a Napa Junction photo along with Howard T.,  and of course, Larry Hamilton, Larry Eades, and John Chapdelaine.

  I will look again at the Federal Terrace class photos.  I have class pictures of grades 1-3 for our class of kids.  Diane went there too but she had a different group of teachers (my younger brother had the same group of teachers as Diane but a year later)

Kenneth Owen

Lynne, is this the school that we always walked to every day when we passed by your house? (The one in American Canyon). I could never remember its name, but that sounds like the one. I think I went to 5th and 6th grade there.

It's killing me to not be at the Reunion. I still hope to get to Napa one day and see as many of you as I can.

Diane Raymond (Ball)

Ken,

Sorry, you won't be able to attend the Reunion.  You will be missed.  We do have a Memory Book for purchase if you are interested.  It is $25.  I believe Debbie German Hammond and Cissy aka Charlene Taylor Brazil posted a post with the link to order one, if you're interested.   I believe the school you might be thinking of is the one on the hill called, "Napa Junction".

Margo Lanpheir (Holland)

Ken, I remember you from Napa Junction but I'm not sure which classes & teachers you had.  American Canyon has 2 elementary schools, a middle school (junior high), and a beautiful high school now.  It has really grown. ~Margo

Larry Adams

American Canyon has THREE elementary schools now...  Napa Junction, Donaldson Way, and a new one, built about 5-7 years ago, Canyon Oak Elementary.  Canyon Oak is in the Vintage Ranch subdivision, north of American Canyon Road and near American Canyon High school.

American Canyon High School has a current enrollment of about 1,800 (four grades) and a capacity of about 2,400... yeah, I know, when did Napa Valley USD build extra capacity in any school.  ACHS also has solar lighting, two big banks of solar panels on the hill north of the school, and thermal wells for heating and cooling for average temperatures.  But not for extreme heat like this, then they have to use supplementary AC.  Also open with a football stadium and a swimming pool, and a gym with two regulation basketball courts.  Very NICE school, and fantastic school spirit.  If you get a chance, take a tour, or at least walk the campus while you're in the area...

Larry Adams

My parents moved around a bit until they bought a house in Napa...  I went to Kindergarten in Richmond, first and maybe second grades at Carquinez Heights, third and fourth, and started fifth, at Federal Terrace.  Then moved to Napa and re-started fifth grade (thanks to the agricultural delay in school), and sixth grade at Alta Heights.  Then four years at Ridgeview and two years at Napa High.  

Janet Neely (Coats)

Cheryl Colbert also went to Napa Junction.  I think my favorite part was hanging upside down on the monkey bars.  Lynn - I also remember we played together.  I think that at one time our parents were friends.  Ken- you used to live across the street from my now (for the past 50 years) sister-in-law, Jerilyn Green.  I had such a crush on you that I used to walk to Jerris house just to see if you were outside. The Greens had 3 girls Jerrilyn, JoEllen and Barbara.  Does anyone remember what happened to Janet Lewis who also lived in Am Can?

Paula Quandt (Libby)

Debbie:

I got a fb msg. from Maie, asking if we were going to the reunion.  I told her we are not, since we recently returned from Napa, after being there for 5 1/2 mos. I've not heard from her since.  She lives fairly close to us here, in SoCal.

Paula Quandt (Libby)

We lived on Foothill Blvd., so we had 1st. hand knowledge of lots of things going on at The Notch.  Not all of them good, but then again, not all of them bad, either.

Kenneth Owen

Janet, thanks for the kind words. Yes, I remember the Greens quite well. Always enjoyed going across the street and playing with the Amarillo Drive gang, It seemed like we were always gathering in the Green's front yard to play. Great memories for sure. My mom lived in that house until 4 years ago. At that time we placed her in a home until she dies last year (at 94 years).

Yes, American Canyon was the school I couldn't remember. For many months (until I got a bicyle) I walked to school, gathering various other classmates along the way. Then we would stop and get Lynne and Lori Brooks and march to school as a gregarious gang of 5th and 6th graders.

My favorite class (forget the teacher's name) was the one where we made models depicting California Missions ... out of carved-up bars of soap. Anyone remember doing that? Must be why I wanted to be an architect for many years.

Larry Hamilton

Ken, Lynn, Margo and Jan. I remember all of you from our days at Napa Junction and Ridegeview (riding the bus too).  i started at Napa Junction fresh from a farm in Indiana (did grades 1-4 there). I was in Miss Elliot's class during 6th grade and had Mr. Pinter for 5th grade.  The attached picture is of him and also I attached a picture of a fire department presentation.  I recognize alot of kids in that photo. I found these on the american canyon website. Didn't Mr. Shiller walk with a cane?  I seem to remember that a bunch of the girls in Ms Elliot's class got in trouble for unladylike behavior at the back of the playground haha.

Larry Hamilton

orrrrrr my 6th grade teacher's name could have been Ms Whitney..not sure ha ha

Bruce Erricson

Wow!!  There are all sorts of reunions going on.  That's great!!  Never even heard of Federal Terrace, but it sounds like an OK place.

Pat Hartle would like to know if anyone knows how to contact Becky Burris.

3 days & counting...

Diane Raymond (Ball)

Bruce,

Federal Terrace was in Vallejo.  The housing tract was just off of Sears Point and Somona Blvd.  Just before one goes over the causeway.  They have torn all the housing, there, and put in some wooden smaller homes.  The original homes were for Mare Island Shipyard workers, I believe.  They were one long strip of homes, altogether.