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Hello Classmates from beautiful Idaho.  I just wanted to let you know that I have heard through the grapevine that we will NOT be having any more Reunions put on by the current Reunion Committee. Evidently, they have learned that there is not much interest by Classmates in having a Reunion. 
If some of you are interested in a Reunion and would like to plan a little get-together, let me know and I will gladly put the word out on our site.

Teacher: Wayne Daniels 
April 2, 1936 - November 15, 2025
Age at Death: 89
Wayne was born in Los Angeles on April 2, 1936, and passed in Anaheim on November 15, 2025. Wayne spent his early years in Whittier, California, where he developed a loved for education and nature. A proud graduate of Whittier College, he later earned a degree from Brigham Young University. Wayne dedicated his life to teaching, sharing his passion for biology at Fullerton High School from 1962 until his retirement in 1993. Even after retiring, he continued to inspire students as a substitute teacher for many years. Affectionately known as "The Tulip Man of Fullerton," Wayne delighted the community by planting 3,000 to 4,000 tulip bulbs annually in his front yard on N. Woods in Fullerton. His passion for gardening extended to his active involvement with local arboretums. Wayne also developed an interest in antiques after spending a summer with relatives in South Dakota, bringing back a trailer full of collectables that enriched his home. Known for his generosity, he was a beloved friend and neighbor in Fullerton. Wayne is survived by his cousin, Dennis Daniels, in Palm Desert, as well as relatives in the Dakotas and the extended family of the Santa Maria’s. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Christmas fund at Emerald Court in Anaheim.
 

8/28/2025...HUGE UPDATE FROM JERRY......

This week Jerry went to his congresswoman's office, Young Kim,  and gave them the following letter. He is  requesting that Fullerton Union High School is added to the list of schools the U.S. Department of Education and the DOJ will protect from mascot renaming requirements in a new California State Law.  The letter was accepted.  He also attached a link from the U.S, Department of Education stating the action they are already taking in this regard.  Read both below.
Jerry would like to encourage anyone to send letters/emails in support of this action.  GREAT JOB JERRY!!!

 Read Jerry's Letter 

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-launches-title-vi-investigation-connetquot-central-school-district-over-native-american-logo-ban

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 Earlier UPDATE......

Jerry Criner has been looking into this subject for the last few days and has made contact with the California State Department of Education.  He has found out some very interesting information and he welcomes any of you to contact him through our website if you are interested in helping him pursue this matter.

OUR BELOVED HIGH SCHOOL'S MASCOT HAS BEEN  "THE INDIANS" SINCE 1925.........Due to California's Racial Mascot Law, the school must change its mascot by July 1, 2026, unless an exemption is granted by a federally recognized Indian Tribe. This law prohibits public schools from using derogatory (?????) Native American terms as Mascots.  (When did the name "Indian" become a derogatory term??  I would think it would be an honor for a school to choose "Indians" as their Mascot.)  Anybody feel like contacting an Indian Tribe and pleading our case?

A Note to our Class from Cheri (Cher) Burges Bonilla:
I wrote "The Phantasies of Arnold Price" in my twenties when, in protest against the Vietnam War and civil rights issues, I left the U.S. for almosst four years to live and travel in Europe, Morocco, (and eventually in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas.)  Fifty plus years later I resurrected the manuscript, edited, etc and self-published it through Amazon.

BOOK OVERVIEW:
It's 1969.  Arnold Price leaves his secure, middle-class life in LA in search of 'truth'.  He travels from LA to San Francisco, tries to enter Mexico, hitchhikes on Route 66 to New York and from there to Spain, Morocco, Istanbul, Tibet, returning to the U.S., going across the country with friends in a drive-away car back to California.  The characters and experiences are based on experienes and people I met and knew during this time.  This is a satire of hippie life written in a style varying from fairly realistic to dream/drug-like scenes.  The chapter headings evoke the spirit of the quest and experience.

CONGRATULATIONS CHER ON THIS WONDERFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT...........FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT FUHS

Thank you to Virginia Robles for sending us this memorable clip of the early sixties Harmony Park Ballroom, featuring Dick Dale.  Enjoy and remember those great days!  Click on the link to view.

http://yellowrat.blogspot.com/2018/05/teen-beat-and-all-night-long-at-harmony.html 

Classmates:  Enjoy the following story and photo that Bob Middleton sent for you all to enjoy. I, personally, think YOU ALL LOOK GREAT!!  Keep doing whatever you're doing.

For the fellow classmates from the graduating class of 1964, I wanted to let you know that these four menaces of society are still upright and kicking, even though at a much slower pace than years past.  If you don't recognize these fellow classmates after 58 years, they are, from left to right, Craig Painter, Steve Christman, Bob Middleton and Mike LaMarche.  We all live on the Central Coast with Craig and Bob living in Carmel Valley while Steve and Mike live in Santa Cruz.  Besides the normal ailments such as Knee replacements, lung cancer, hip replacements and heart valve surgery, just to mention a few, we almost feel as spry as we did in high school.  (Ha, Ha)  We make sure we have lunch together at least once every three months so someone can brag about his most recent surgery.  As Steve said, in our youth, our conversations would be mostly about the "young ladies", cars and sports.  Today, all we talk about are different ailments we tolerate such as neck, shoulder and back pain, constipation, how long of a nap we take each day and the difficulty of just getting out of bed each morning.  What can I say.  I am sure we are not alone with these conditions. (Are we?)  At least we have so far mostly defied gravity and are still standing, even though it might be for just a few hours a day before, once again,  gravity takes over and back to our favorite recliner we go.  Isn't getting older GREAT!!??

Thank you to Claire (Heyworth) Towle for sending this photo of the Class of 1962, 60th Reunion.  It was held on August 24th, 2022 at Alta Vista Country Club.  Her husband, Dennis Towle is in this class.

As most of you know by now, it is unanimous amongst our FUHS Class of 1964, that you would like the site to continue indefinitely.  Thanks to the generous contributions from the following Classmates, I will renew the Website for 5 more years in October. A sincere "Thank You" to everyone who responded to my email.

Bruce Reno
Claire (Heyworth) Towle
Cheryl (Crispino) Gill
Dee (Unverferth) Fisher
Dennis Reed
Ernie Manuel
John Snow
Kathy (Dever) Snell
Kathy (Sherrill) Kirlin
Linda (Switzer) Clopton
Ron Romo
Gail (Wymer) Melanio

"Lunch with Beth (Kinney) Berndt & Claire (Heyworth) Towle".
Beth and Claire meet often for lunch and welcome anyone who would like to join them to contact either of them through our website.

June 2022

FUHS Guys (along with Anaheim High, Western High & LaHabra High), attending  The Leon Owen's Golf Tournament and Dinner.  It is an event that literally changes lives.  Bill Darke (class of 65) organized this group's attendance. Guys in the photo from FUHS are; Ron Romo, Ted Owens, Billy Vasquez, Jeff Layton, (Chuck Torrez, Bill Darke, Bill Bales class of 1965) and Tom Darke.

AMAZINGLY, WE ALL LIVE WITHIN MINUTES
OF EACH OTHER.
WE ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME REMINISCING ABOUT THE OLD DAYS AT FUHS AND DISCOVERING ALL THE FUN THINGS THERE ARE TO DO IN IDAHO. 
(L to R):  Phyllis Taylor, Cindy Edmiston,
Donna Stemple, Judy Vediner, Tracey Hanson        

Well folks, the 55th Reunion is over and it was a tremendous success.  It was smaller than some of our other reunions, but this gave us a chance to really sit down and visit with everyone.  The food was great and the set up was unique.  Our reception/appetizer/bar area was in the middle of the Embassy Suites on the main floor, with our dinner area in a separate room to the left and dancing and photo booth in a separate room to the right. Once again Diana decorated in her usual beautiful style with so many memories to look at and enjoy.  There were a few classmates that attended for the first time since our Graduation.  The DJ played a great selection of music and some danced the night away.  It was nice to have the Bar and Reception in a separate area from the Music, so we could visit without having to shout.

Thank you to Virginia, Mabry, Peggy and Kathy for making our "55th" a very special and memorable one.

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture..
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are animal organs .. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?  How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out , and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

AND...... - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?

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 FUHS ALMA MATER

Written by Lilah Esmay in 1912

We are proud of all thy prowess, Fullerton,

And we thy colors bravely bear.

We will be thy loyal subjects ever;

Joy and grief we alike will with thee share.