Don Deyne

THANKS! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!

Peggy Steiner (Miller)

Jim,

Happy Birthday - hope you have a wonderful day.

Cheryl Thurlo (Burke)

Genevieve Vasco (Jackson)

HELLO Classmates please come to my house in Bellflower on August 6th just drop by for a minute if you are around. Love to see you call for info 562 355 7156.

James Bushnell

Thanks Cheryl, it was nice to see you Saturday morning. I was so tired the next day after standing in the sun and all the activities they had at 4 Seasons. Must be getting old ha ha.

Don Deyne

GRAB YOUR GRASS SKIRT (COCONUTS OPTIONAL)
FOR A POT LUCK LUAU AND POOL PARTY

SATURDAY AUGUST 6, 2011 - 2:00 PM

HOSTED BY GENEVIEVE (VASCO) JACKSON

9924 BELFAIR ST, BELLFLOWER, CA 90706

RSVP TO GENEVIEVE AT 562-355-7156

Patricia Hamilton (Denham)

Hey, Cheryl, Jim you are so close to one of our favorite restaurants.  If you haven't tried it yet and like Italian food you should try it.  It's called Guys and its right around the corner from you.  Family owned and operated. North on Highland Springs to Ramsey turn right.  It's a couple blocks down on the right.  You'll love it.

Lynne Scales (Thurman)

I keep checking in to see new photos from Genny's party yesterday, I hope who ever went that you all got to have a really fun time.  This is one of the downfalls of living in North Idaho, it's not just a hop skip and a jump away.

I am just waiting for my brother and sister in law to show up, the left CA yesterday and should be here at about 3 or 4 today.  Let the party begin, lots of skiing, sky skiing, wake boarding, and plain old fun at the lake.  I am so glad he makes the effort to drive up and see us.

My dad will celebrate his 86th birthday tomorrow, can't believe that he will be 86 and he still races his flat bottom boat.  GO DAD

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful summer.

Love to all my pirate family.

Lynne

Geneva Jacobs (Deyne)

We had a nice  time at Genee's on Sat.  Mirtha & Lonnie have pictures.

Good food, great friends.     Hummmmmmm  "Pineapple"  yummy !!!

Lynne Scales (Thurman)

Thanks for the update Geneva, glad it was fun.  Can't wait to see the photos next.  I am shocked you and Don don't have photos, you guys have sort of been the PHS photographers.     Love ya

Mirtha Camacho (Rayburn)

Genevie,  Thank you for hostessing the gathering, I think we all had fun and enjoyed ourselves.

Lynn,  I agree Don and Geneva are usually our historians of the fun things we have been doing since our 40th reunion. I think Lonny may have been the only one that took pictures, but unfortunately he is not as computer savey as others and it take forever to see the pictures he takes. I still haven't seen the ones he took from my son's April birthday, daughter May graduation and his June birthday. So unless Don and he somehow get together when he is in town it may be awhile.

There was some talk at the party that maybe we are going to try to get together again for the homecomming game and drinks afterwards. It has been difficult, but we are trying to keep our group in this area together so that we do not loose touch.

Lynne Scales (Thurman)

Mirtha,

Thank you to Lonny for at least trying to get us some photos, we appreciate all the photos that everyone posts.  Don and Geneva, your photos and extra links for shirts, etc. are always apprecaited too.

I hope that you all had a great time at Genny's house, I am sure it was a fun filled time as usual when any Pirates get together.

Does anyone have any idea or any news on our 45th?  Do we have a committee for that?

I gues I will end this with a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MOLLY.

PS:  One more thing, my son the police officer is going to be on the show COPS in the fall. They have been riding with him all week. They got one pursuit that they want to air, they seem to just want the pursuit type calls.

Carol Maddex (Switzer)

Pat Kuester (Bowen)

I was just checking up on you, Carol, to make sure you'd posted something.   Good girl.  Sorry I missed Genevieve's party.  Glad everyone had a good time.  I went to a family friend's 100th birthday party that day.  When I got there, no party.  He had an aneurysm on his aorta that burst the day before.  Believe it or not they operated and he did wonderfully through the surgery.  Does anyone remember the Harkemas from school?  It is their father.

Glenn Black

I was just emailed this information from Neta Johnson Anderson (Reta's Sister)

Very Sad.

Glenn Black

PS- To my last post, again from Neta :. His funeral is at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier on Friday August 19 at 11:30 p.m.

I will be out on the Golf Course on Friday with this round to celebrate Ron in his glory days! Here is to you Buddy. 

Mark Overstreet

Hello All,

Thank you Neta for informing us so very soon. When I first saw your note I was hoping that it was good news, since I was over at his house Saturday looking for him. 

Ron and I go back 56 years. kindergarten at Captain Raymond Collins.  I still have a little note book that my aunt gave me to write down what the kids gave me for my birthday, so I could remember to give a thank you note to them. It read, "Ron Dumphy, cap gun".  We shared a lot of fun times together, in high school and then in college and then as family men. I must say he did look out for me on a number of  occasions when we were young.  Life can have many twists and turns, and at times it's not the way we plan it to be, but we do what we need to do and do what we can to make life as breathtaking as we can.  

 As long as I've known him, he had a big laugh and liked to joke a lot. That got us into "hot water" with many of our teachers in junior hi and high school. It also got Ron through some difficult times in life.  Sports was very important to him. Some of you may not know, but after high school, he attended Cerritos Community College and then went to Cal State University, Northridge. At Cerritos he was on the track team, throwing the javelin and was a shot putter, and went to the Calif. State Meet.  He wanted to be a kicker for a professional football team. He tried out for a team in the early 1970's.  He has a son and daughter and was very proud of their accomplishments.  I'm glad that our children got to meet each other got to play together even if it was only a couple of times. 

It doesn't seem that long ago, that we were reading Treasure Island in an elementary school reading group, joking around with Mr. Mertz in a 9th grade Math class, driving aroundParamount in his "souped-up" 57 Chevy, having a beer at the CSULB 49er club, watching our sons play a game on the computer. 

I scanned photos of him from grade school to last October, when Gary Buice, my wife Rosa, and I had a few drinks with him at the Seahawk on South Street. I put the photos onto a CD and  will  give it  to his son and daughter. I'd be happy to post the photos somewhere for others to view, but I'm not sure where. Any ideas?

God Bless my friend Ron and all of those who are dear to me.

To my good "old" friends,  may we share some good times together in the future. Life is short and I plan to cherish as many moments as I can.  Let those that you care for and love know that you love them, be good to each other and be good for each other.

Sincerely,

Mark

Tom Fordham

Sorry to hear about Ron our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. 

Peggy Steiner (Miller)

Mark,

That was wonderful story you told about Ron.  It is so sad to lose another Pirate.  Thank you for sharing an our prayers go out to his family and his dear friends who knew him so well.

Mark Overstreet

If you look under Ron's Classmate Profile, you'll find a number of photos that I posted of him.

If anyone has a photo of him, I'd appreciate you posting it under his site. 

Sincerely,

Mark

Lynne Scales (Thurman)

Mark,

Thank you so much for you kindness and your caring heart, I appreciated your stories of Ron. I love hearing all about the great friendship you had through out the years.

My most memorable moment of Ron is from PHS, when he was our big football star. He was injured at a game and had to go to the hospital, I remember taking a car load of girls to the hospital to see him. He was our  HERO.  God rest his soul, be a peace Ron you were loved by many.

Lynne

Peggy Steiner (Miller)

Mark,

Thank you so much for posting the pictures.  A wonderful memory.

Mike Lampman

Hi everyone. Thanks for all of the updates recently posted. Especially about Ron. While we try to remember all of the good times during our younger years we sure don't want to hear about     our friends and loved ones falling on harder times later in life. Ron Dumphy and Don Hodges were two of the highest profile athletes at PHS. It sure wouldn't have surprised me if they went on to pro careers in football or some other sport. Mark, you are a good man, thanks for your comments and posted photos on Ron. They were well done. Ron would have thanked you for that. I know I do. Those were certainly the glory years for him. How young he looked in his prime. I think we all did back then. But we remember all of our loved ones who pass on in our memory. They are part of who we are now and our past. We sure have a void when they are   no longer with us. This seems to occur more and more often as we get older. Ron's service is tomorrow    at 11:30pm per Glenn. I want to know what Glenn is doing golfing at that time of night. A hui ho everyone.       

Gary Buice

Many of us remember Ronald as a funny guy, a good friend, a great athlete, a man who walked down mean streets without himself being mean, but he was also a car guy.  He got his first car, a 1957 Chevy, as a basket case from his brother-in-law when he was only 14 years old.  He spent a couple years working on it to get it running having such adventures as standing on the bumper pouring gas from a can straight into the carburetor when the fuel system wasn't working. Can you picture a teenager of today driving today with his own personal gas jockey standing on the front of the car?  His next car was a 1956 Chevy with an altered wheelbase with the back tires mounted right behind the doors.  The front end was like a dragster with the wheels which tilted back and forth to steer it.  Both these cars were street racers, fast but temperamental, and we often had to cruise in his mother's Oldsmobile when they were broken down.  It was just as fun!  His next car was a 1965 Chevy, one of the newer cars in the PHS parking lot in 1968.  It had AM/FM radio, a rarity back then, so we could occasionally hear a long song like Alice's Restaurant.  We double-dated for our Senior Prom, and to travel in class, Ron borrowed some chrome reversed wheels for one day and we switched them onto his car that afternoon.  I saw him a lot in the first few years after high school but then only a few times after I moved to Nevada.  Last fall Mark managed to get all of us together for an afternoon.  What a blast!  A few days later, Ron spotted me hoofing it in my old neighborhood.  He gave me a ride back to my mom's house and we spent a few hours shooting the breeze in the front seat of his car.  Just like the old days.  Man, I'm going to miss that guy.

Mark Overstreet

Those were some good words Gary. 

I realized that our friendship (Gary) goes back to 1956, first grade, that makes you the closest (interpersonal) person I know except for my own mother!  You take good care of yourself so I can post this again in twenty or thirty years.

I posted some of the photos of Ron, his family and friends that were exhibited at his funeral. They are on his classmate profiles.

Also, I posted photos of some of our other "old" Paramount friends on my classmate profiles;

Steve Tanakawa, Millard Thacker, Doug Farina, Randy Farina, Tom Farina, Dave Wright, Neta Johnson (Anderson), Greg Brandel.

Our conversations seemed to have picked up as if we had been talking to each other ony a few days ago.  We must have done some good bonding at Paramount when we were young. Being a small school as it was, it enabled us to know each other well. Plus, many of us went to the same elem., middle school and on to high school together. Many of our parents stayed in the community. It was a good place to raise children.

I must include Marsha Miller and Phillip Robinson as two other people that I've known for 56 years, since kindergarten. 

Bless you all, "Be Good, and Do Good", Always,

Mark

Glenn, good luck seeing the ball tonight at the golf course!