
Fullerton Indians
Class Of 1964

- What's Happening "2021"
- Your Memories...Back When ?
- Interesting Stuff
- 55th Reunion Photos
- 50th-Friday Photos
- 50th-Mack Woolley Service
- 50th-Saturday Photos
- 50th-Sunday Photos
- 40th Reunion Photos
- 35th Reunion Photos
- 25th Reunion Photos
- 1964 Senior Class Memories
- Our Military Veterans
- In Memory
- Classmate Connections
- Ladies Friendship Luncheon 2015
- Community Photo Gallery
- The Guys Page
- Elementary/Jr. High Schools
- Then and Now
- Trivia Page
- 1964 History
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PROFILE UPDATES
UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS

• | Bruce A. Reno 3/8 |
• | Carter (Rich) Boehm 3/18 |
• | John R. Snell 3/18 |
• | Nancy Gowen (Keil) 3/20 |
• | Steven Rutkus 3/20 |
• | John Yackey 3/25 |
• | Leslie (Lee) Mapson (Woldt) 3/31 |
• | Donna Stemple (Hudson) 4/2 |
• | Rosalie A. Baur (Wasson) 4/3 |
• | Bill Brown 4/3 |
• | Brenda Schnabel (Campanis) 4/6 |
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JOINED CLASSMATES
Percentage of Joined Classmates: 42.3%
A: | 193 | Joined |
B: | 263 | Not Joined |
WHERE WE LIVE
Who lives where - click links below to find out.
3 live in Alabama
14 live in Arizona
2 live in Arkansas
254 live in California
10 live in Colorado
1 lives in Connecticut
5 live in Florida
5 live in Georgia
4 live in Hawaii
4 live in Idaho
4 live in Illinois
1 lives in Indiana
2 live in Kansas
2 live in Kentucky
4 live in Maryland
2 live in Massachusetts
1 lives in Michigan
2 live in Minnesota
3 live in Missouri
7 live in Montana
6 live in Nevada
1 lives in New Mexico
2 live in New York
1 lives in North Carolina
2 live in Oklahoma
8 live in Oregon
5 live in Pennsylvania
3 live in South Carolina
1 lives in South Dakota
3 live in Tennessee
7 live in Texas
7 live in Utah
2 live in Vermont
2 live in Virginia
16 live in Washington
2 live in Ontario
2 live in Mexico
1 lives in Norway
1 lives in Philippines
1 lives in United Kingdom
45 location unknown
WHO'S ONLINE NOW
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If you would like to submit a personal announcement to be posted, please use the "contact us" option. Just send whatever you would like posted on the site and I will put it on for you. We would love to know current happenings in your lives. |
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If you are a Fullerton High School Alumni, Class of 1964, click on this "Classmate Profiles" link, then click on your name to register on the site. Create your profile, and please don't forget to add some recent photos of yourself, your family, children and grandchildren. It's FREE to join, totally secure & password protected |
Thank you for reading my recent "All Class E-mail" of March 1, 2021. If you did not see it, I was basically asking for your help in making our site a little more exciting and interesting by simply updating us on "What's Happening With You in 2021". A few of you responded and I thank you profusely, but I would be thrilled to receive a lot more. Please just take a moment (use the "Contact Us" Form at the top of this page) and give us an update on what is going on with you. I will take your information and put it on our new page titled "Whats Happening 2021". Now that Covid is winding down (hopefully), we should all have a renewed zest for life! Let's get back to friends and relationships and reach out to each other. To see what a few have been up to, click on the gold button.
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Doug was a Retired Attorney, living in Southern California and passed away due to Covid 19 and Heart Issues. Rest in Peace Doug. (Thank you Chris Daniel for this information. If anyone has more information on Doug's life and family, please forward to me and I will post.) |
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Thank you to Patrick Kapsner, Class of 66, who forwarded the following information to me. I am sure that most of us remember Ron Gardea. He was an all around great guy. The FUHS Class of 1964 send Prayers for Peace & Comfort to Rons Family. |
n Loving Memory Ronald Richard Gardea loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, in Mission Viejo, CA, surrounded by family. Ron was born April 15, 1947, to loving parents Arthur and Irene Gardea. Ron will be remembered as the most loving and devoted husband to his wife, Leslie, and an amazing and proud father to his three children: Bradley (wife Brandy) from Bishop, Jeffrey (wife Anabel) from Aliso Viejo and Jennifer (fianc‚e Kelly) from Aliso Viejo. He is survived by his eight cherished and adoring grandchildren (Clarissa, Nathan, Cameron, Samantha, Jake, Branden, Chase and Friday). Ron is also survived by three loving brothers: Jim (wife Marla) from WA, Dave (wife Susie) from Indiana and Steve (wife Shannon) from Colorado. And Uncle Ron was a favorite of his many nieces and nephews. In addition to family, he leaves many cherished friendships which he treasured. His sense of humor, smile and love of life, were endearing to both family and friends. At seven years old, Ron's family moved to Fullerton, CA where he grew up. He attended Fullerton Union High School and loved his high school years and maintained many of his high school friends to this day. He was "Ronnie" to his high school friends. At FUHS Ronnie was an athlete on the swim and water polo teams. Ron was very modest about his school swimming and water polo career where he was a Champion CIF Varsity swimmer and water polo playernever losing a water polo game or swim meet in 4 years. It was his ability to shoot left and right handed in water polo that drove the competition crazy! Ron later graduated from Cal State Fullerton. Following college, he had a very successful 40 year top producing sales career in the printing business. And in later years, he became an Orange County realtor. With his kids Brad, Jeff and Jennifer he was a sports Dad, coaching all their soccer teams as well as teaching the boys to sail on his Hobie Cat catamaran. Ron had so many interests and passions. They included tennis, skiing, water skiing, sailing, fishing, photography, and golf, golf, golf! Oh, did we say golf? He also loved traveling with his wife Leslie. They had so many incredible experiences traveling the world. But Ron's favorite place was always Hawaii. Leslie and Ron married on Oahu and they celebrated every anniversary in Hawaii never missing a year of their almost 20 year marriage. Hawaii was their "home away from home." While Ron's passions were many, his greatest passion was his family. He was so very proud of his three children and 8 grandchildren 4 boys and 4 girls. His grandkids were the "light of his life". He embodied the phrase "if I had known grandkids were so much fun, I would have had them first!" He was a fun Grandpa. The kids often called his sense of humor goofy, and he was totally good with that. He spent so many quality times supporting them with sports, school, camping, teaching the boys to fish in Bridgeport, attending endless hockey games, soccer games, dance and cheer recitals, school plays, summer surf camps and school graduations always being the official photographer. He left the grandkids a legacy of life lessons and fun times and memories to last a lifetimeand so many documented in his beautiful photos. Ron lived life to the fullest. He saw the positive in absolutely everything, every day. His wonderful sense of humor, and smile were so special. While Ron faced and overcame some health challenges in life, heart surgery and cancer, he never ever gave up or complained and went through it all with amazing courage. He fought the good fight and always remained positive and optimistic. He appreciated every day that God gave him. He was truly a happy man. Rest in peace Sweetheart, Dad, Grandpa. We love you so much. You gave us so much love. You will remain in our hearts FOREVER. A Celebration of Life is pending. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association or The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. |
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SEPTEMBER 2020
AMAZINGLY, WE ALL LIVE WITHIN MINUTES |
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"July 2020"
Dear Classmates...........Having to forward bad news to you is certainly not something I like doing, but it has to be done so that we can honor our classmates that have passed and pray comforting words for their loved ones. Please keep our two friends and their families in your prayers for peace, understanding and comfort. |
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Bill Brown sent this photo of a 1958 Fullerton Pop Warner Football Team |
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Our Dear Friend and Classmate, Bud Dean lost his wife, Fran, on October 24th, 2019. Fran had been waiting for a lung transplant when she passed away. Bud and Fran were married 22 years and had a wonderful life together. They both had children from previous marriages. They were members of the Wild West Reenactment Group for 13 years and performed all over Orange County and surrounding areas. I remember seeing them at the San Juan Capistrano Swallows Day Parade many years ago. Bud has remained close to Ed Bell all these years and Ed has been a great support to Bud during this time. Blessings for peace and comfort to you Bud, and your family from your friends at FUHS. |
The 55th Reunion Photos can be seen by clicking on the left column entitled "55th Reunion Photos". There are not very many, but thank you to Nancy Hinrichs and Steve Maurer for contributing the few we have. If anyone has more photos, please contact me through the "contact us form" and I will let you know how to send them. |
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Message from Committee Chariman,
Virginia Robles
The reunion committee want to thank all that came to celebrate being FUHS Indian. We also want express a Big Thanks to all the support given this ‘newby’ Committee by our retired Committee who gave great advice, walked us through solutions of possible problems! THANK YOU! “We are the Indians, the mighty, mighty Indians!”
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.
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MAY 9, 2019 LUNCH BUNCH
MORENOS IN ORANGE
Come on Down the 2nd Thursday of each month
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Fullerton Recently Spent $4 Million restornig Hillcrest's Fountain and Great Lawn. It is Beautiful! Water is flowing from the fountain again for the first time in 40 years.
Both were projects originally built for the city by the Works Progress Administration, an agency borne out of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policy to move out of the Great Depression and get people employed by doing public works projects.
Hillcrest Park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1930's Hillcrest Park Fountain & Great Lawn
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2018 "Pow Wow"
Class of 1964
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The "Boys" Nite Out 8/10/2017
L to R: Ron Romo, Terry Amick, Chuck Torrez, Bill Darke,
Steve Maurer, Jeff Layton, Ron Kenny, Bill Bales
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LESSON FOR THE DAY......."LEARNING ENGLISH"
1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 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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February, 2017...........Paula Hunter sent us this awesome photo she took while on a Safari in Africa. She calls the photo "Elephants at the Watering Hole". It was taken in Massai Country at the foot of Kilamanjaro and is stunningly beautiful. |
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Hey there Class of 1964.........Do you remember John Goddard? He was such an amazing and inspirational man who came to our assemblys in the Plummer Auditorium every year, telling us of his latest adventures. When he was only 15 years old, he listed 127 lifetime goals for himself. He has passed on now, but if you would like to read more about his interesting life and many achievements, please "click here".
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Claudia (Schneider) and Jim Looney celebrating their "50th" wedding anniversary. Their son, Chris and his wife Anisha, hosted a fabulous evening of dinner, dancing and lots of memories with family and friends at the Center Club in Costa Mesa.
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Diane (Key) and Wayne Ostreich celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary on a cruise to Alaska
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Scott Haith wrote this article for the
Cowboy Lawyer Newsletter
Message from Steven Goeser: I am looking for contact information for Chris Knudsen. If anyone has any information on him, please contact me through this website.
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Keep Scrolling Down.....
There's a lot more
Click here for the "Trivia Page".
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Did you know that a bunch of classmates meet every month for lunch and they are called The "Lunch Bunch". The class of 1965 also meets there on the same day. The lunches are a lot of fun and every month someone new shows up. They start at 11:30 every 2nd Thursday of the month. The location is Moreno's in Orange, CA. They have a beautiful patio and there is always lots of room. Hope a lot of you will be joining in the fun.
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Take a look at the page titled "Your Memories". "Click Here" to read the stories that our classmates have sent in. Please send me your stories using the "Contact Us" tab. There must be SO MANY more great stories.
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Can you remember what you paid for fast food at McDonalds in the early 1960's?
"Click Here" to see the 1960 McDonalds Menu that Bob Miller found and sent in.
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Other Memories: Senior Corner, The Bull Rings, Prom, Sock Hops, Hillside Drive-In, Hillcrest Park, The Teen Center, Fox Theater, The Turntable, Harrington Lumber Company, "La Chiquita" Boege & Bean, Harris Drug Store, The Pillowry, Pow Wow Parade, Pep Rallies, Spadra, Harvard, Drivers' Ed, Drive-In Movies, The Bean Hut, Fullerton Bowl, The Underground Bookstore, Moore's Ice Cream, Judy Lynn Bakery, Balboa Island (how could we ever forget 15th Street)
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$$$$ 1962 Prices Compared With Now
Click Here to View Them
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Bob Miller has sent us this great link of 4,500 songs and videos from our youth....
Click on the link below to listen
http://www.1959bhsmustangs.com/VideoJukebox.htm#
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More Memories........Thanks to Virginia Robles
for sending this great YouTube Video
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Try as we might
Happy as we were,
We can't go back.
So go forward
but keep in touch once in awhile. :)) Tracey
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Take a peek at the "Classmate Connections" page. This page is all about connections with classmates since high school. I encourage you to please send me photos and/or stories of classmates that you have connected with over the last 50 years.
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"GOING FORWARD" Thanks to the generous donations received from our Classmates listed below, we will be able to enjoy this website, dedicated to the FUHS Class of 1964 only, through the year 2022.. Thank you to all! |
"DONATIONS" Thank You to these classmates for their Ernie Manuel |
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Elementary and Jr. High Photo Page
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Check out the "Guys Page"
Cars, Trucks & Motorcycles Welcome
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PLEASE SEND YOUR PICS
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Mack Woolley is the only
classmate that we know of that died in Vietnam.
Please "Click Here" to go to the "Memory Page",
click on Mack's name and read all the
wonderful comments about him.
Click on the Orange County Register article below:
Fullerton Class of '64 gives military burial vet deserved
By the way........once you have signed in, you have the option of sending an email or message to a classmate directly from their profiles. You can also post comments on their profiles and leave rememberances of our departed classmates on the Memory Page |
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Willie Ugh says: "Do you remember these words"?
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.
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