October 2024 Volume 2, Issue 10
ROLL CALL:
In addition to thoughts and prayers to you and Jeri, I am conjuring up all the Mojo I can and sending your way! Warming up drums now! Bill Bill Lansville (September 7, 2024)
Adding wind chimes, piccolo and harmonica! Bill Lansville (September 7, 2024)
Those were really good articles to read and enjoy. Thanks! Most of you don’t know that I was not born in the U.S. My family entered through New York state. We had to have considerable money. We bought a panel Ford truck and drove Highway 66 from Chicago to Highway 395 and then went south to San Diego. I attended the old falling down Bayview Terrace Elementary School for fifth grade. I remember being so scared. The students didn’t stand to speak and just talked out. I guess I was afraid someone would get in bad trouble and get hit. To hear more, please let me know. Lorraine Cairns Barksdale. Lorraine Cairns Barksdale (September 7, 2024)
“Separator” is not working?????
WOW – Thank you Bill. What an amazing writer you are. Such interesting stuff. All the best. Judi Saville Judi Saville Schmauss (September 7, 2024)
I have a great memory of you in Costco. You were talking to a lady and her small boy as I approached and said HI – you looked at me and said “What is my name”?, Seeing you with your white hair and beard, I said, “Santa Claus” – and will never forget the look of amazement on the face of that little boy. I bet he has never forgotten it either.? Judi Saville Schmauss (September 7, 2024)
Bill, I was so sorry to hear about your wife’s stroke. Like a lot of our classmates turning 84, as I did yesterday, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much time there is left and the quality of it. This is the time when a lot of hazards of old age tend to catch up with us unfortunately.
I’m doing a fall colors cruise with my daughters in a few weeks, and a Caribbean cruise with one daughter in January. I’ve never been to either place but they’ve been on my bucket list for a while and I realize I’m running out of mobility and the ability to enjoy them without being a burden to my kids. Arthritis is really pulling a full body siege on me so I’m trying to do as much as I can while I can. I think of everybody in our class frequently and I love to hear what people are still doing. Nancy McElvain Servatius (September 7, 2024)
Hi, Bill. Don’t know how you continue to send out these MBHS newsletters, but bless you for doing so! Thought you’d get a kick out of these early publicity shots for Driving Miss Daisy. We are hot and heavy into rehearsals, and open here in Sedona October 4th. Break our legs! Blessings to you and all of us who keep on chooglin’
Joan Morris Westmoreland (September 8, 2024)
1958 MISSION BAYHIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA TAROGA i eBay Looks pristine (another ’58 Taroga for sale on eBay)
Walt
I recall Alice Kurashige. We to Bay Park Elementary and PB Jr Hi together too I thought she was quite cute. Only Japanese person I knew back then. We lived only about a block apart in Bay Paril We played violin together at PB Jr High, so she probably knew Frank Zappa too? Alice was a WAY BETTER VIOLINIST than I was! Somehow how Alice and i spoke on the phone about 20 – 25 years ago. I think she lived in Florida at the time. She was having a bad time with diabetes she did not go into details I do not recall she mentioned military service either. I always thought she was super nice but lost track after MBHS. Walt
Walter Andersen (September 8, 2024)
A terrific read, Bill. Thanks. Roni Parry Star (September 8, 2024
Now I see us face to face Roni Parry Star (September 11, 2024)
Roni Parry Star (September 11, 2024)
my own Taroga Roni Parry Star (September 11, 2024)
(Roni Parry Star kept sending this picture) Well, I’ve written the names 25 of us who are now beechgeezers, though I do prefer the terms Bucs for us. Afterall, we kept that sword in the buccaneers mouth and proudly wore our boyfriends letterman jackets.
I was secretly in love with Bill Rice a roni and lived in heart break hotel to see it on his girl friends shoulders.
How precious it is to have a real Taroga to hold and read. I’m still hoping to hear from those who worked on it.
While we now have all the time in the world, please let us share the stories of our 80 years on the planet.
I want to write about the teachers who inspired me.
Just yesterday in the pool a fellow science teacher and I were noting how just one inspiring teacher changes the whole course in a student’s life. Bud Wemple was one. He encouraged us to come back after school and do a project for the science fair. Anne Sargent and I did that. She won, but our friendship grew so that when she and her family went to England for a year, they invited me…..and that was just one thread in the weave of the class of 58.
More is my request. You all said I talked too much. OK, what about hearing from the rest of us.?
1000 went to MBHS, 90 of us can still celebrate that.
Nancy mc Elvain, dear cheer leader, please cheer us on !* Roni Parry Star (September 11, 2024)
Dear editor, I was a friend of Alice. She lived in Bay Park. We went through all five years of high school together. Alice and I joined Civil Air Patrol with Walter Schneider. In the afternoons while we were tearing around on our bikes, Alice practicesd her violin. I admired her for that. She was shy but determined. When it came to the proms, I arranged her dates for her and my folks drove us to their venues. The back seat of the car was full of our ball gowns. I wish I could add that to her story in Wikipedia. Cheers. Ronistar49@yahoo.com *
Roni Parry Star (September 13, 2024)
Harry W. Crosby, 1926-2024
IN MEMORIAMHarry Crosby  Dear San Diego History Center Members and Friends:It is with extreme sadness that we share the news of the passing of Harry W. Crosby, historian, photographer, documentarian, educator, and champion of the shared history of the Baja Peninsula and San Diego region.Crosby was born in 1926 in Seattle, Washington, and came to La Jolla with his parents in 1935, graduating from La Jolla High School in 1944. He then attended Occidental College.It was Harry’s love of history, discovery, and photography that led to nearly a dozen books on the history and culture of the Californias. His works opened the wonders of the Baja Peninsula to America and the world.The San Diego History Center is honored to have partnered in 2022 with Cinewest Production on the documentary The Journeys of Harry Crosby. Director Isaac Artenstein created an intimate portrait that highlights Crosby’s work along with showcasing the majesty of the region.I’m grateful for the opportunity of directing “The Journeys of Harry Crosby.” His enormous legacy gives us a deep sense of identity as well as love for our region. – Isaac ArtensteinThe documentary has been broadcast in both the United States and Mexico and can be viewed on line through public television. https://www.pbs.org/video/journeys-of-harry-crosby-sbilxs/We extend our sincere condolences to Harry’s family and friends. His true legacy remains his work, and celebrates his love of our bi-national region.  Bill Lawrence President & CEO |
Hi Bill….you probably have already heard of this…our science teachers were so special. I think of you and Jeri every day. Vonnie Vonnie Varner Martin (September 18, 2024)
Here are some precious pics of my high school days
Roni Parry Star (September 22, 2024)
Here is an interesting story. It might even make the Beechgeezer (sic).
Roni Parry Star (September 23, 2024)
MBHS MONTHLY BREAKFAST:
Always good see Phil Cherlin’s smiling face. He is preparing to pour syrup on his pancakes while Sheila Mura bites into her bagel at our monthly alumni breakfast held October 5, 2024.
BS, Bill Lansville and Orpha Higley…
BS holds autographed 1950 San Diego Padres baseball given to him by Phil Cherlin that includes the signatures of manager Del Baker, Max West, Jack Graham, Harry “Suitcase” Simpson, Al Smith, Frank Kerr, Al Olsen, Red Embree, Mike Tresh, George Zuverink and other names too faded to read. The ball was given to Phil’s dad by legendary Padres broadcaster Al Schuss. Phil recited Al’s famous home run call for all the classmates at the table: “There it goes…”
Sandy Jaworski Shortt’s husband, Tim, edits The Fan, newsletter of the San Diego Early Ford V8 Club. Bill Mann and Tim are holding the latest issue of The Fan with Tim’s classic V8 Woodie wagon and wife Sandy wearing her Padres cap on the cover. The cover headline reads: “Padres take the game with 3 consecutive Home Runs! And next game, Triple Play!”
The Padres swept Atlanta in the Wild Card Series and face the hated Dodgers in the opening game of tonight’s National League Division Series. Could this possibly be the year the Padres win the World Series? This team always breaks our heart.