Mike and Grove Dahl
- Updated June 2019
FIFTY YEARS... AND COUNTING
Mike and Groverlee in Rome, 2019
Dear Classmates,
It is so hard to believe that we
are already at 60 years out of Gridley High. It seems only like
yesterday when I was running the gauntlet in the hall to keep away
from seniors flipping us with towels, and Marty Larens yelling at us
for "supposedly " goofing off in band.
Since our last entry we still
have the same four grandchildren, but oh how they have grown. Katie
is a junior in college, Alysyn is a sophomore in high school, Lucas
a freshman in high school and Olivia is already a seventh grader!
They all get straight A's which only proves they don't "supposedly"
goof off at school like their "Papa"
Grove and I celebrated our fifty
years of "married bliss" nearly two years ago with all the family in
Mexico and I am including that photo. We have been blessed with
good health and a very healthy longing for adventure which has
enabled us to sneak up to nearly sixty countries in the world
visited. As you can tell by our photos though, travel is
"broadening" in more ways than one! We can't choose our favorite
countries to visit as all are unique and wonderful and remind us
however wonderful they are, we are still so blessed to live where we
do.....Politics not withstanding! (Still if you ever want to take a
great trip in the world we recommend OAT or Grand Circle. Contact
us and we can get you a deal and recommendation. ). Grove keeps a
trip journal on dahls.gridley59.com/ thanks
to Ken!
At home we continue to work in
the museum, hunting , food closet, Lions, Focus, helping fire
victims, school, and the like. With so many volunteer hours it cuts
into some of the traveling time and trips to our beloved Lake
Madrone! Still we try to connect as often as possible with our two
sons and their families ( Erick in Yuba City and Aaron in Chico).
They are still our absolute best "accomplishment in life"!
We look forward to our 60th
class reunion in the fall with all of you! We certainly hope you
attend or at least let us know what you are doing after all these
years. As Ken recounted, Gridley High's Class of 1959 is a very
special and unique "family"!
Phone: (530) 846-3190
Email:
gandmdahl@hotmail.com
Same address for forty-five
years and counting
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Richard & Sandra Bosenko
Updated August, 2019
In September of 1959,
I entered Chico State. The Friday before classes convened I met
Sandra, who 8 months later became my wife. We were married in the
Presbyterian Church on the CSU campus. We will celebrate our 59th
anniversary on August 27th.
Our
2 daughters were born in Chico. Tina our oldest lives in Biggs, CA.
with two of her four children, Daniel
(27),
Joelle (17)
and Izabelle (16).
Joelle and Izabelle were adopted from China.
Joelle is a senior at CORE Butte in Chico with plans to attended
Baylor upon graduation. Besides her diploma, she will have 30+ units
toward her AA Degree from Butte JC. Izabelle is a junior at Biggs
High School and is excelling, but not sure what she will do after
graduation.
Arielle (29)
is married to Christopher and they have two daughters, Wynter Rae
who turned 5 this past June and Lauryn Rae who will be two at the
end of August. They live in Kerby Oregon.
Daniel met his wife Liana while in New Zealand with YAYAM
International. They married 2 years ago and currently live in
Holland but are expecting to return to the USA in January 2020.
Kelli our youngest daughter lives here in Medford, OR, with her son
Ryan who will be 30 in September.
After graduation from Chico, in 1965, I took a position with the
University of California at Davis, Closed Circuit Education
Television Department for a year and a half, working in the
Veterinarian large and small animal surgery where I laid out the
Computer, Audio and Video requirements for the proposed new Library,
Veterinarian and Human Hospitals, which were completed in the early
seventies.
We
then moved to the Bay Area and worked for Ampex Corporation as a
design engineer. Ampex sent me to Newport News VA, where I was
responsible for the NASA back-up equipment used in looking for the
“Sea of Tranquility”, which later became the landing
site for Neil Armstrong’ Apollo 11 moon landing. All of the public
information and photos were from the Ampex System.
After Ampex, I joined Microwave Associates as engineering manager
designing Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTA),
which were used in space reconnaissance.
Next, Signetics as a technical chip design specialist.
Signetics moved to us Orange County, where we lived during the ‘70s.
During our time in Orange County, I worked in a variety of Technical
Sales and Marketing positions, Digital Equipment Corporation (1st
time),
Microdata, General Automation, and Honeywell.
In
May of 1970, Jesus Christ became Sandra’s, Tina’s, Kelli’s and my
Lord and Savior. We attended Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa for 10
years.
In
November 1974 a team of five (5)
from CCCM went to New Zealand where we taught bible studies and lead
evangelistic crusades all on the North Island.
In
1976 we purchased “Living Water Productions”, a
wholesale distributor of Contemporary Christian Music (Maranatha)
and Christian gift items. This provided many opportunities for
teaching, evangelism, and one-on-one ministries.
In
1980, I made 2 trips to Shanghai China, at the request of the People
Republic of China representing various U.S. computer and electronics
companies to set an automated assembly line. However, the real
purpose was to open an avenue to smuggle bible into China, all in
support of Brother Andrew. On the 2nd trip, I
hand-carried more than 1,000 bibles into Shanghai, as well as 30
Zilog Z80 microprocessor systems to complete the assembly line
setup. The following year Brother Andrews’s teams carried in more
than a 1,000,000 bibles, successfully. Zilog eventfully signed a
$25M oil exploration contract, offshore of China
In
August of 1980, we moved back to Chico, with the express desire to
share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, on the CSU campus. From this grew
Calvary Chapel of Chico, which I pastor for 4 years. During this
time I assisted in the formation of Calvary Chapel of Gridley, and
Calvary Chapel Oroville. Sam Allen was called 1984 as the Senior
Pastor of CC Chico, where he is today with an active and vibrant
fellowship.
In
addition to China and New Zealand, travels have included: Israel,
England, Switzerland, France, Austria, Malaysia, Hong Kong and every
state in the union except Alaska. Mostly for business, others for
pleasure but ultimately sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
In
1980, I walked with Arthur Blessitt from Virginia Beach VA. to
Washington DC a distance about 250 miles in 13 days, culminating in
the “Washington for Jesus” crusade. Additional,
Participation in other crusades included: Hollywood, Las Vegas,
Orange Country, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Pomona Fair, as an
outreach of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
Every Friday night for a year and a half we led witness teams on 1st
street in Santa Ana. This was the center of street living, porno
theaters, and alternate lifestyles.
In
1984 we returned to the Bay Area and the Electronic Industry. 1984
through 2009. First with Digital Equipment (2nd
time),
Tangent Systems, Cadence Design, High-Level Design, interHDL,
FasTrack Design, Tuscany Design Automation. Each of these was
involved with the computer industry or the software “Chip” design
software (Electronic
Design Automation, EDA).
Primarily they were start-up companies. Most were successful in
their product niche, which resulted in 8 out of 10 being acquired by
larger EDA companies.
In
July of 1998, we move to Medford Oregon, to be closer to Sandra’s
mom, the kids and grandkids. Tina was in Bend OR at the time and
Kelli in Medford.
I
became the CEO of Lava Logic (Washington
DC)
in 1999-2002 and traveled a lot.
In
July of 2000, Sandra and I spent the entire month vacationing in
Switzerland, Italy, France, and Liechtenstein. This was our 2nd
trip to France and Switzerland. Switzerland and Italy are some the
friendliest place in Europe.
In 2010 I became President & CEO of a multifunctional
start-up company, “ICR Systems”. After seeking to fund
unsuccessfully, we suspended operations in 2014.
In 2011 I became a Teaching Assistant in Medford School District’s
Special Education Department. The first two-year were in a ‘FOCUS’
classroom (Elementary 4th-6th grades,
with 12-15 students plus Teacher and 2
teaching assistances).
In 2014 I moved to Medford North (4
year High School)
creating lesson plans, testing, grading and recording, reporting
student progress, coordinate, schedules and review all IEP’s in
support of teacher’s caseload, teaching Algebra and Math
fundamentals. As of this update, I am beginning my 9th
year with the school district, all in Special Education.
In 2016, I was engaged to write a Business and Financial Plan for
Siskiyou Zip Line in Hilt/Hornbrook CA area. This has been delayed
back 3 to 5 years due to the Hornbrook Fire, which went through the
Zipline park location.
In July 2019 a merger agreement was signed, bringing together two
Limited Liability Companies. One focused on Country Clubs and the
other on Executive Resort. I am a minority partner in this new
Corporation. Now, all we need is a funding event.
We
still live on the 17 acres we purchased in 1998 here in Medford. We
still have Sandra’ Morgan mare, but I had to put my gelding down
about 4 years ago, I continue to teach in local churches
occasionally and share the Gospel at every opportunity.
We
have been truly blessed beyond anything that can be expressed in a
brief bio.
The
knowledge of our eternal relationship with God our heavenly Father,
Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit is foremost, of these blessing.
Second, a loving wife, who is a continual inspiration, as are our
daughters, 5 grandkids and two great-granddaughters. Truly, Sandra
and I are blessed
I
look forward to hearing what has taken place in each of your lives
when it is convenient.
May
the LORD Jesus Christ richly bless you! May He open your hearts to
the knowledge of His plan and will for your life. May your joy and
fellowship in Him be complete!
God
Bless you, your household, and your families,
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Don & Peggy Bell
Updated August 2019
Peggy caught me on Sadies Hawkins Day and the rest of the story is
our wonderful life together.
We
live at 28 Hill Dr. Oroville, Ca. 95966 Our phone number is
530-589-1466.
We
have 3 beautiful daughters, Kathleen, Karen and Kimberly. We have 11
grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
I
worked for Safeway Stores, Currier Bros. Store (now Raley's) in
Oroville for 37 years and retired in 1996.
Peggy worked for Pacific Coast Producers in Oroville for 35 years
and retired in 2004.
We
have traveled to all 50 States. There is so much to see in America.
We
went to Mexico every year fishing until it was no longer safe down
there.
We
traveled
to Canada for duck and goose hunting. We hunted Deer and Elk in most
of the western states.
Hobbies have included Softball, Basketball, Bowling, Fishing and
Duck hunting on my club.
We
just renewed our wedding vows in May for our 60th year at our
daughter and son-in-law Kim and Andy's home on Lake Oroville.
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Linda
(Koehler) & David Hughes
Updated August 2019
60th Class Reunion -
- - - - - - - - - Looking back
The one word which
summarizes my life to date is gratitude. I am grateful for
the numerous experiences, opportunities, influences, blessings, and
more than my fair share of good luck.
I experienced a
relatively carefree childhood living on a 4th generation peach
farm. I loved being a tomboy, even as I was taught the essentials
of reliability, diligence, sharing, and honesty. It was a blessing
to attend the small Manzanita elementary school, where I knew each
student and family, and to see with youthful eyes that we had more
in common than not. My graduating class was eight students yet I
did not run fastest, did not have the best penmanship, couldn't sing
well. I was being conditioned to do my best and to respect all my
classmates, a valuable life-lesson during all these ensuing years.
As a young bachelorette,
this schooling provided a steadying platform whether my position was
in government, nonprofit, or business- whether the situation was
demanding, boring, stimulating or perplexing.
I had many
opportunities to work with others when I lived in a small community
of farmers, fishermen, loggers, tree huggers, tourism businessmen in
the San Juan Islands in Washington. I volunteered to draft the
first management plan for the county's parks and beaches which were
spectacular but ignored. That led to membership on the Park
commission and later founding administrator of the nonprofit
conservation trust within the islands. Being engaged within a
disparate community on projects of long-lasting public value was
certainly educational, challenging and equally satisfying.
My greatest blessing is
my husband David. We share a curiosity about other cultures and
places. Being a guest in another culture is a special privilege with
associated confusion, blunders, and comedies. We have found rich
friendships during these travels, whether on European train trips,
Yosemite camping, or Utah skiing. During my Koehler genealogy
research, we searched for old homesteads, small town archives and
distant relatives across the Midwest, central Germany, and
Scotland's Orkney Islands. There we were delighted to meet Linda's
third cousins who continue to farm the family's ancestral lands.
I am still a farm girl,
says David. Wherever we are, I check out how people go about
farming. Currently my farm is a large sunny patio where I cultivate
a garden, lunches and friendships.
David and I continue to
be engaged in community, church and non-profit activities. We find
volunteering stimulating to the mind and satisfying to the soul.
Probably you have a
similar list of lessons learned:
1. An apple rolls down
a hillside faster than you can catch up with it
2. It is smart to give
up skiing before you burn-out your knees
3. It is more difficult
to climb down Half Dome than climb up
4. Learn which door
means "male" and which means "female" wherever you find yourself
More seriously:
1. never hesitate to
ask for help or advice
2. smile and laugh more
readily
3. try to leave the
Earth a better place
Live well
Sincerely,
Linda Koehler Hughes
August 29, 2019 Santa Barbara CA
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Ken
& Rosalee Smith Updated August 2019
We are so blessed
to be a part of such a wonderful graduating class. How many other
people do you know, other than our classmates, of course, that have
met their graduating class in a reunion every five years (except
year ten)? And how many people have you talked with that has enjoyed
four reunion cruises… and working on a possible number five?
I think that we
can justifiably be proud of our group. We have known each other, in
many cases, for more than 70 years! Amazingly, we still do not fully
know each other. For some reason we always have more to say to each
other than we have time for when we gather together.
I want to say to
each of you reading this that I am very proud of each one of you, if
that means anything to you. Every reunion has been an enjoyable
occasion, even though we have shared sadness with the loss of more
of our group each year. Perhaps that is what makes each reunion that
much more enjoyable, and important to us.
People tend to
stay away from reunions because of any of several reasons… people
will all be intoxicated… people are older… I’m fatter… everyone else
has done marvelous things and I’m still… (fill in the blanks)…
everyone travels the world and I’m still in Gridley. I have to say
that not only I have not felt or seen that at any reunions… well,
maybe after the first reunion…
😊
and I have not heard anyone complain about these things. I am proud
to be a part of the Gridley Class of ’59.
I was working for
Shifflet Brothers Trucking in Gridley before graduation, and with no
intent on college I was still there for the year after graduation. I
had a dream… not an ambition but a real, sleepytime dream that I was
an architect, and I enjoyed that work, so I decided to go to
college. Meanwhile, I had met Rosalee Shifflet, and on September 3rd,
1960, I married the boss’s daughter and we moved to San Luis Obispo
for Cal Poly’s Architecture program. Architecture had some major
problems then, so as a Junior I transferred to Chico State and we
moved up to Chico, with a major in Industrial Education and a
teaching minor in Biology.
Before I finished
with most of the requirements for a Master’s in IA, we were blessed
with Kenton in March 1964 and Kimberlee in December 1965. I started
teaching Automotive Engineering at Mission San Jose High School in
Fremont, CA fall of ’65, and turned in my key in June of 2001. I
taught Auto, Wood, Drafting, Motorcycle, Electronics, Biology and
Freshman General Science. In ’83 with help from parents we created a
computer lab and I taught computer programming in BASIC and Pascal
and computer applications.
We were the sixth
largest school district in California, and our Asst. Superintendent
in charge of Instruction fought our intent to offer computer
classes: “I’m not interested in getting involved with computers…
they are only a passing fad!” When we started the program (in spite
of his objections) he donated $500 from his own pocket as he
retired. Our intelligent principal, in her esteemed wisdom, stated
“They’ve written all the computer programs we will ever need” and
she shut down the computer program… in 1986, and we scrapped a
quarter-million dollar mainframe into the aluminum recycle bin. And
we wonder why education is in trouble?!
The auto program
closed because she said: “All our students are going to go to
college… they will not be working on their cars.” The last 15 years
of my career I taught California’s Health and Sex Education
semester-long course to mixed m/f, mostly Freshmen, and I loved that
gig. The kids taught me so much.
😊
Rosalee faced
breast cancer twice, different breast, different type of breast
cancer. I became certified as a Breast Health Facilitator for ACS,
and we ran a cancer support group here locally, which still exists.
I started another one that was in-house inside Safeway Stores’ main
corporate office here in Pleasanton. I am the only MALE Breast
Health Facilitator they have, so I have done corporate lectures on
breast cancer. We have a website BreastNotes.com that works with
breast problems, and we both are involved in running the
International Bra-Free Study. It is not for political or social
reasons, but for breast health. Twelve International studies on it
have proven beyond a doubt that the wearing of a bra causes lymph
stasis, and that allows carcinogenic chemicals in our bodies to
alter breast-cell DNA into breast cancer. To put it bluntly: “Bras
cause breast cancer!” I will answer your questions.
😊
Rosalee was an
accountant and an EA for more than fifty years, and we found how fun
cruising is. We found an annual job in Hawai’i that allowed us a
month’s vacation every year, giving us over a year and a half of
living in the islands.
Our son married a
school teacher and their oldest is a precision welder in Montana,
and his younger brother is an Air Traffic Controller in Shreveport
Louisiana. Our daughter’s former husband is Chief of Police in
Dublin, California, and their two girls are out of college, one is a
nurse preparing for a doctorate in Kinesiology and the other started
working with her degree in Administration of Justice. We are very
proud of each and every one and feel extremely blessed.
We have lived in
the same home in Pleasanton for nearly 40 years, adding onto it
because I could… and now we have to wash all of those windows. Our
daughter and girls still live in the vicinity and our son and wife
recently left the area to retire in Boise, Idaho. So, we are still
vertical and above room temperature, with aging showing in all the
normal places, but still very blessed. I have no idea how Rosalee
has put up with me this long. She wonders the same thing, I’m sure.
Hope to see you
in September, and think hard about joining us on the next cruise.
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Judy Gage & Her Son,
Antony Updated September 2019
After graduating in 1959, I
enrolled at Yuba College receiving my AA degree. Then onto
Sacramento State and my BA degree in Education. I applied to San
Juan District and began my 33 year career in Elementary Schools. My
further education earned me a Masters degree and Reading Specialist
Certification. I held the position of Reading Specialist for ten
wonderful years. I retired at age 55 and went on to accept part
time positions in teaching as well as supervising student teachers
and working for a publishing company during the next seven years.
I got the traveling bug
shortly after beginning my teaching career. My first adventure took
me to Guadalajara where I stayed with a family who welcomed many
young women who were studying Spanish. I met a variety of people
and had a great time. Not so much Spanish! An eight week trip to
Europe with friends took us to six countries. Friends in Alaska
gave me lasting memories. Also, sailed around the islands of
Tahiti.
My most profound adventure
took me to Costa Rica. At age 49, I decided to adopt a young
child. After much anticipation, I chose a five year old Special
Needs boy. As part of the process, I needed to travel twice to this
beautiful country. No time to be a tourist.
Our lives would never be the
same. From the beginning, Antony has been a warm and loving being.
He has just turned 34. Our traveling included a summer vacation to
Mendocino yearly from age five. One of our encounters introduced us
to the Special Education Director of the county. When I inquired
about what would be available for Antony, she suggested Fort Bragg.
The rest is history for us. We’ve been here for almost 20 years.
That move was quite an adventure. Picture us in our car with a
sedated large Golden Retriever, a bird in cage and packed to the
rafters. We were a sight!
The progress Antony has made
is remarkable. He has a part time job at a thrift store. With the
help of caregivers, he can live independently and at my home as
well. He has made some lasting friendships and is involved in
Special Olympics playing baseball, soccer and bocce ball.
I am very involved in all of
Antony’s scheduling and many activities. As well, I have time to sit
on a board that helps to support those with needs to participate in
recreation. I’m also involved with a woman’s group that are
politically active. Life has been good to us.
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Gary & Nora Carlin Updated September 2019
CHARLIE PFISTER
- DAVE CRANE - GARY CARLIN
CHGADA)
After high school I graduated from
Chico State with an AB in Biology and a BS in Crop Production; then
went to UC Davis earning an MS in Horticulture. Graduate studies
were interrupted by Local Draft Board 11 which forced me to choose
and Air Force was my choice. I spent 4 years active duty as a
commissioned officer in Air Weather Service (MAC) radar/flight line
instrumentation for the East Coast and in the Atlantic. I stayed in
the reserves to finish out a career, retiring as a Lt Col. I was
blessed with the opportunity in 1977 to teach all the orchard
classes at Chico State while my professor friend took a year
sabbatical.
I’ve been a farmer all my life,
concentrating on orchards and vineyards. I retired from peach
farming in 2002 and prune farming in 2017: now just dealing with
walnuts and kiwifruit. Hopefully the administrative workload of
Nora’s and my orchards & vineyards; plus being the managing
member/farmer of the Carlin Family Orchards LLC and the Corporate
Secretary of CHGADA, Inc. (an S-Corp farming partnership with
Charlie Pfister, Dave Crane and me) will keep my mind very alert.
We have 2 daughters and 3 grandkids
and nobody is interested in returning to farming. With the CHGADA
work force everything gets done and I can now choose the physical
farming activities I want to do and just oversee all the rest.
To stay active, my wife, Nora, and I start
the day with lots of activity: she goes to the gym 6 days/week for
an hour workout and I walk with fiends Monday through Friday on
Hazel Street between the back Biggs Rd and Hwy 99 getting in loops
of 2.5 miles and to warm up I spend an hour at the gym M W F. We
are “early birds getting the day started at 4:15 am, but we usually
put the chickens to bed at night!
My greatest pleasure is facilitating
our Men’s Group Bible Study each Tuesday evening at First
Presbyterian Church (no denominational ties with PC USA).
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Jim & JoEllen
Pitt
Updated September 2019
Jim and JoEllen live up in Quincy,
Washington, where they are involved with a local group of farmers. Jim said that he hoped that the pepper harvest would be
completed so they could make it to the reunion dinner. If this is
this year's crop, this may be a good sign.
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Gary & Susan Mills
Updated September 2019
A short bio: we
have been serving as full-time volunteers for our church, (The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), for the last 12 years
and expect to continue serving until health issues prevent us from
continuing. We are fortunate in not having to deal with major health
problems except for a triple by-pass heart surgery three years ago.
Doing well now, however.
Our church
service has been primarily with the construction department, the
department which has responsibility for the construction of the
temples around the world—there are now more than 200 of them; and
one is going to be built in Yuba City! When completed, an open house
will be held that will allow a tour of the building before it is
dedicated. I highly recommend attending the open house, (it will
probably last for about a week), to enjoy the unusual construction.
Our family
consists of four boys and one girl. They have given us eleven
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. They are scattered all
over: one in Chicago, two here in Salt Lake, one in Las Vegas and
one in Washington.
We enjoy living
in Salt Lake and taking advantage of the different seasons. We live
within walking distance of our church offices so our cost of
transportation is minor, (our total gas bill for last month was less
than $20).
We wish we could
be with you for the reunion, but we have a granddaughter that is
getting married the same weekend as the reunion so we are unable to
be there. We wish everyone a good time and look forward to the 65th!
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Barbara (Boyd) Pelascini Updated
August 2019
Bob & Barbara
Dear Classmates:
Congratulations
to the GUHS Class of 1959 on our 60th anniversary! Don't know how we
have reached this milestone so quickly! Guess it just happened when
we weren't looking.
I regret that I
will not be able to attend the reunion, but here is an update on a
few recent events in my family (look under 'ROSTER A-E' under
Barbara's name).
Barbara (Boyd)
Pelascini
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