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Try to recall the way it wasBy ERNESTINE WISEMANSome of them are clamoring to get out. A few are anxious to get together to discuss how it was whentheywerein.High school graduates. Then and now.About the time one adjusts the thinking that June is for the brides, along comes an invitation to attend a reunion of former high school classmates.One attends, that is, if one can be located.The problem of tracking down high school classmates seems to increase in direct proportion to the number of years between diploma and reunion dates. Committee members planning reunions for two high schools learned the axiom almost at once.Graduates of San Leandro and Hayward High Schools, classes of 1954. are having reunions in June. Saturday is the first to be held and is for San Leandrans. There were 400 of them and Pat Lawrence Sanches of the committee is hoping twice that many (half of them spouses) will show up for the party at Top O’ The Inn, Emeryville, for the dinner-dancethat has been planned.There has been some trouble locating a good manv of the classmates.Well, we can lell the committee where some of them areTwo of them work for us. (It was a good year for journalists, apparently.) Dave Perry and TinkaSchmidt Davi have both worked out of the Hayward office. Davie is assigned to a sister publication in Uvermore-Amador Valley and Tinka after moving away for a few years, now accepts an occasional assignment. She married Vic Davi, another 1954 grad.Then there’s San Leandro policeman, Craig Long: Ed Bordanaro, who hung around town and became a well-known photographer, and Marian Marsh, who left town and became a member of San Francisco Opera Company.Hie rest of the class members might try calling Pat—she lives on Via Bregani in San Lorenzo— and ask if the reservations arc closed.SOME HOMEWORK was done on the Hayward grads of 1954, as well.Gil Hvder still lives in this area. Doris Horwood Knorr lives in San Leandro and Melody Kidder Speer in Fremont. They KNOW where they are. too. They’re members of the reunion committee looking for the others to tell them about the June 29-party at Willow Park Country Club in Castro Valley.Then there’s Dick Beith. who started his own E.T.Mag Wheels business in Contra Costa County, winch was sold recently for a sum reported to be in excess of $1 million!He also is the owner of a race car which he calls ‘Die American Kids Racer” and which he hoped to enter in the weekend's Indianapolis 500.Carolyn Almond Neeper is living and writing (ditto journalism at Hayward! in New Mexico. She has authored a book. “A Place Beyond Man,' which will be published in October by Scribner.There is one person who won’t be here when the bell sounds for the reunion. She is Sally Willetts Rinkeif. And she is excused. She is expecting her first chi Id this summer!
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Daily Review
Hayward, California, US
Tue, May 28, 1974
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