This is going to be so much fun! Can’t wait to see everyone. Sally, the music is great, brings back fond memories of the Friday night rec dances! Where did the time go? How did I manage to live this long???? See you all soon! Jennifer Gregg Loustalet
Thank you Sally for the GREAT music!!! I sat and listened to it for a long time. Suddenly I was back at the Burlingame Rec center on a Friday night! I look forward to seeing you and Dave at the reunion! Thanks again!
Sadly, please add Pamela Ann WELCH Alvarado to the “In Memoriam” list of our classmates who have passed away.
Thank you.
Jane GRAY Hanson
Greetings from Tahoe! I am soooo excited about seeing everyone again and catching up on all our adventures over the years. My registration is in the mail.
See you in September!
Debi
I am very sorry that I will not be able to attend the reunion (unless you postpone the date just for me). I will be in Houston that weekend attending an Amigos de las Americas conference.
It would have been good to visit with old (very old) friends —
Nick Sky
I received news last night from Dom DeBari that Domenic Vellucci passed away yesterday morning (6/18/09) in Post Falls, ID from complications of diabetes. I knew him well and always enjoyed hearing about his latest exploits. He had a great disposition and optimism that knew no bounds. I will sorely miss him and his phone calls from Idaho.
Spring, 2009
Dear BHS Class of ’64,
If life is really only one day long, as so many of the fascinating characters I have met in my life from all spectrums of philosophy and belief attest, then, for me, it was a heck of a morning.
In large part, those few “hours” encompassing my actual four year time at Burlingame High School were heavenly: not every day, of course, as the general traumas of adolescence took their toll. But, often, there was a natural ecstasy and the primary reason for that was, in retrospect, easy to understand: friendships made and sometimes held throughout the ensuing years, along with the simple knowledge that we are all in this life experience together and no matter what the circumstances of one’s daily existence, there is a great comfort in the fact of humanity: better by far to be amongst a sea of classmates, than to have none. Better, too, to have adult figures, teachers, to guide one along the paths of knowledge, even though these grown-ups were not necessarily perfect, some were certainly inspiring, although indeed we saw as well some with glaring imperfections.
There were times when authority was a drag and the concept of “Lord of the Flies” sounded pretty neat. But, in the final analysis, I felt, as I sensed did many others, safe. And within that safety, came an ease of growth, of having fun, sometimes carefree, sometimes too carefree, but nevertheless the ability to explore many areas of human experience.
Not bad. Not bad at all, as that great patriot and my friend President Ronald Reagan said of his Washington years, and I say in all humility of my high school years…and now even sweeter, in the early evening (and hopefully that is still the hour) old friends have made it possible to re-visit the pastures of our youth. Who knows what we were, or what we are now, or even if we are, although it seems at least likely? The joy I think is in the presumed being. The white pillars atop the front steps of the mini-campus which was for me the primary symbol of BHS, and that I see often in my mind, are comforting.
I look forward to seeing you all again, a mere forty-five years, nay, really forty-nine, since the experience was born.
With humble appreciation,
Cap Weinberger, Jr.
Hi Dennis,
Margy here. Thank you and your fellow committee members for taking on the planning of our 45th Reunion! It’ll be great fun to see our fellow classmates again. I’m looking forward to it. I know it’s alot of work putting it all together. Thanks for taking it on.
I have a question for you. Is it possible to see the list of those people who have responded (or not). I’d like to see if I can encourage some of those who have not responded to join in the fun. I thought a personal note of encouragement might help. I’d need help with contact info – if I were to take this on. It would only be meaningful to write to people I knew, but perhaps if the list were posted, others might do the same. What do you think?
Thanks, Dennis.
–Margy (Metzger)
Hi, Dennis,
Great website, and very well written. I am impressed! Will see you in September, if not before. I leave for Germany in six weeks and will be there until August 25th, but hope you will all keep me informed.
Registered for the reunion. After looking at the pictures – we are definitely going to need name tags - we’ve changed – slightly.
Looking forward to meeting many past classmates.
Jay Gandolfi