January 2023
TO MY FELLOW GRADS: So the holidays are over and the new year has started. I hope you folks got through it all with good cheer and little or no stress. Someone told me recently that the reason that the days seem to go much more quickly is because we don’t have that much time left. Morbid, yes, but probably true. We will have our usual coffee get-together on the second Wednesday of this month, January 11. We’ve returned to our old Starbucks at the corner of Clairemont Mesa Blvd. and Dianne Ave. We meet from 10 a.m. to about noon and just share our lives and our friendship. Different folks show up at different times, but everyone is welcome!
BUZZING
FROM YOUR CLASSMATES:
FELLOW
HORNETS, A LOVE STORY FROM DICK JACOBS (’57): I
transferred to Lincoln from San Diego High in 1955. I first noticed
that Lois
Huguley (’57)
would sit on the base of the LHS flagpole after school and wait for
her dad to pick her up. I also happened to sit behind her in Mrs.
Kramer’s class which helped break the ice. But things rally warmed
up at the 1955 “Hello Hop.” She had her brother Louie
(’59)
take her onto the dance floor near where I was sitting and
fast-danced so I would notice her. We became a couple for most of our
Jr. year and all of our Sr. year. We both then went to San Diego
State and were first pinned and then got married in 1960. She
graduated in ’61 with a teacher’s credential. So, 62 years later
after a son and daughter produced seven grandkids and two
great-grands (with one more on the way), Lois fell victim to an
aggressive tumor on her liver. She entered Palomar Hospital last Nov.
24th
and elected to enter Hospice care on Dec. 14th
and went back home until she passed away peacefully in her sleep on
Dec. 20th.
We are Hornets and Aztecs for life. (Our condolences to Dick
(jake1@cox.net). He and Lois were one of several couples who were
both ’57 grads.)
Victoria(Jackson) Freiheit (’56)
regrets not being able to attend the monthly coffee get-together as
she has been named Senior Pastor of her church in Chula Vista. She
has moved into the parsonage there. She also mentioned that her
husband, Willie,
died
last July 22. She’s also proud of the Hornets winning the state
football championship…
..A
couple of months back,
Nielsine (Power) Archibald (’57)
mentioned that her children have a relative way back in history who
was hanged as a witch. So Noel
Barker (’55)
writes an open note to Nielsine that a great, great
many-times-removed grandmother, Abagail
Barker, was
a “reformed witch” in Salem, Mass. Noel and Nielsine were
neighbors in Paradise Hills…
Eric “Ricky” Smith
(’57) an erstwhile historian for Vintage Hornets, found an article
in the Evening
Tribune
in May, ’58, featuring a panel of LHS seniors discussing whether
there should be a physician specialty for teenagers—such as what
there is for babies and geriatric patients. The panel included Bill
Hultz, Barbara Shulford, Bernadine Hawthorne Eleanor Trujillo and
Russ
Boehmke. The
article included a large photo of the group. Their general consensus
was that they thought that your regular family doctor could handle
teens just fine.
WRITING YOUR MEMORIES FOR THE LHS BOOK
Myrna (Mortensen) Hawkins (‘58) is still in the process of creating a book for classes ’55 to ’59. If you’re still thinking about writing something for the “memory book,” you still have time. You can write as many pages as you want. Ideally she would like to get at least 10 stories from each class. Call Myrna at 619-751-2458 for more info.
EDITOR: Pat Stalnaker (’57): pat.stalnaker@gmail.com Please send stuff to me for publication. Keep in mind that if you’re sending information for the newsletter, send it to me and not Darrel Lawrence who sends the newsletter out. Don’t forget to include your graduation year and your maiden name if you’re female. Thanks!!