SMHS Survey Results

Today and Tomorrow

Occupation Today Admin/Mngt 7.5% Arts/Design 5% Entertainment 6.25% Education 18.75% Engineering 5% Finance 12.5% Homemaker 3.75% IT 5% Law 5% Medical 10% Media 2.5% Real Estate 3.75% Restaurant/Hotel 1.25% Sales 6.25% Retired/semi-retired 7.5% Volunteer 3.75% Other 6.25%

Note: Numbers do not add up; some people do

more than one thing!

Today and Tomorrow

5 Years From Now Basically the same thing

40.5%

Retired 19% Enjoying life, family 8.8% Traveling 8.8%

Note: Numbers do not add up; some people answered more than one thing!

Other Activities

Drinking Mai Tais on a beach in Hawaii On a beach, under an umbrella, reading a book Changing the world in some way Fly Fishing Golfing Mission Work NFL Linebacker Organizing our 45th reunion in Newport Beach Parish minister Sleeping Trekking in Tibet Working my ass off to get my kids educated

Occupations 146 responses Accountant Administrator Of Special Needs Trusts Artist Assisting A Charity ATM Business/ Nerium Anti-Aging Creme Rep Attorney Attorney Attorney Attorney Attorney Attorney Attorney Attorney/Ed Specialist Attorney/Education Specialist Auditor -Title Insurance AVP & Instructional Designer At Jpmorgan Chase Beancounter Bookkeeping Builder Business Man Buyer At The Boeing Company CEO Of Mesa Indsutries, Inc. Certified Nurse Midwife Chief Financial Officer Commercial Interior Design Commercial Property Manager Commercial Real Estate Company Owner: Public Relations Firm Specializing In Corporate Events And Videos Computer Engineer Consumer Product Designer Corporate Finance CPA Cpa Dentist Dentist Director Of Lower School (School Principal) Director Of Training, Management Consultant Disabled - Temporary. Right Eye Surgery (Retina) On 6/26/12 Educator/Musician Electrical Engineer Elementary School Teacher Engineer English Professor Executive Director, Human Resources Executive Producer, DGA 1st AD Finance

Financial Planner Financial Planner Finish Carpentry And Fine Woodworking FT Mom/PT Freelance PR/Writer Genetic Counselor Graphic Designer + Illustrator Graphic Designer + Illustrator HD Television Makeup Artist Health Services Researcher And Body/Energy Healing Homemaker Homemaker Now, Was In Publishing And Employee Benefits Homemaker, Resort Property Mgr., Community Volunteer Hospital CEO Hospital CEO I Volunteer In Animal Rescue And Am A Grandma Information Technology Project Manager Interior Designer Investment Advisor Investment Advisor IT IT Manager For Dod Instalation Just Retired From UCLA To Move To Germany Librarian And Archivist Librarian/Homemaker/Volunteer Manager Manufacturer's Representative Marketing/Advertising MD Anesthesiologist Medical Field Musician Newspaper Journalist Non-Profit Finance Manager Not Working Do To Dissablity From On The Job Accident. Nurse Practitioner Office Manager Office Manager For Local Fire Dept. Owner /Lead Instructor Rocknroll School/Camp Part-Time English As A Second Language Teacher Pediatrician Petroleum Geologist Physical Therapist And Pilates Instructor Physician Physics Professor Pilates, Personal Trainer, Yoga Instructor President

Occupations 146 responses Producer/Director Product Marketing Engineer Programmer Analyst Project Manager Real Estate And 501 (C) Executive Director Real Estate Broker & Classic Auto Restorer Real Estate Broker/ Property Mgmt/ Developer/Remodeler Registered Nurse Registered Nurse, Administration Residential House Design Restuarant/Hotel Industry Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Media Services Executive Retired Middle School English Teacher; Audio Describer At The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Retired RN Senior Manager/Surgical Sales Sales Director Self Employed - Computer Tech Self-Employed Consultant (Retired From Public Sector) Semi Retired Semi-Retired Small Business Owner (1 Husband, 5 Daughters, 5 Cars With 8 Tires Each, Etc) Software Developer Stay At Home Mom Stockbroker Tax Officer

Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher - High School - French And Spanish Teacher Of The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Teaching Training & Instructional Design University Administration University Professor (Spent 33 Years As Hospital CEO) V.P. Of Purchasing Vacation Rental Owner And Quickbooks Proadvisor Venture Capital, Founded 3 Companies Before The VC Biz Volunteer, Care Giver To Mom, Writer/Director/Producer Writer/Editor

Five years from now, I will be… 143 responses Academic Consulting Attorney Or Judge Being A Grandmother Being Outta Here, On A Boat, On An Island. Building Business Peaking So Busy Installing Bwts Ceo Of Mesa Dreaming Of Retirement Changing The World In Some Way! Continuing To Work Doing The Same Doing What I Love; Helping To Make Life Better On The Planet Don't Know Drinking Mai Tai's On A Beach In Hawaii! Easing Into Retirement Enjoying Grandchildren!!! Enjoying Life Enjoying Life Enjoying Life And Traveling. Not Sure If I'll Be Retired By Then. Enjoying Life, Bird Watching Expeditions, Try To Stay Healthy And Somewhat Fit. Enjoying Retirement And Traveling Finishing Up My Last Year Of Teaching Fly Fishing!!!!!!!! Golfing And Traveling Having Fun (Just Like Now!!) Hoping To Giving More Back In The Community International School With Music Division Kiteboarding, Wakeboarding, Surfing, Standup Paddleboarding Living In A Forest, Retired And Doing Good Things Looking Forward To Retirement Managing Our Real Estate Portfolio/ Developing/ Remodeling Maybe Retired And Living Part-Time In Montana And Hawaii Mission Work More Art More Marriages And Grandchildren More Of The Same, And Enjoying It. More Retired More Traveling Less Bookkeeping Nfl Linebacker No Predictions! Not Much On A Beach Under An Umbrella, Reading A Book

Organizing Our 45th Reunion In Newport Beach Painting + Music + Traveling Via Volunteering Painting + Music + Traveling Via Volunteering Parish Minister Pediatrics Photograoher Playing Golf Every Day Pretty Much The Same Thing Pretty Much The Same Things! Camping, Surfing, Traveling, Working, Raising My Kids! Probably The Same Producing&Directing Public Health Retire And Travel Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired Retired - Part-Time Consulting - Traveling - Volunteering! Retired (Second Time) And Have Time To Write Books Retired And Living In Spain! Retired And Living The Good Life. Family,Friends,And Good Health. Retired From Ft Time But Involved With Family Farming Retired Homemaker Retired Living In Spain Retired On A Sailboat Retired!! Retired, Traveling, Enjoying Life Retirement Retiring And Continuing To Perform Music Retiring And Traveling Retiring And Traveling To Visit My Kids/Grandkids Running A Private School Sales Same Same Same Same Same Same

Five years from now, I will be… 143 responses Same Same As Above Or Retiring? Same Old. Same Or Retired Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing Same Thing - Working Same, But With More Leisure Self Employed, In A Larger Business Self-Employed, With A Growing Computer Services Company Semi Retired Sleeping So Many Choices! Still Counting Beans Still Doing Makeup Art, Oil Painting, Enjoying My Grandchildren And Family. Still Practicing Law And Traveling Still Practicing Law And Traveling With My Husband Still Retired Still Teaching And Having A Blast! Still With Jpmorgan Chase Still Working Still Working Still Working Still Working And Playing Still Working In Private Schools

Teaching Teaching Teaching And Writing The Same The Same Thing Thinking About Retiring Traveling Traveling Traveling And Enjoying Retirement Traveling More Traveling More, Volunteering More, Visiting Children And Grandchildren More Traveling, Having Fun, Volunteering Traveling, Racing Cars, Having Fun! Traveling, Working, Volunteering, Writing Travelling Travelling A Lot More Treking In Tibet Unfortunately, Still Working Working Working Working Working & Enjoying The Next Generation & Friends Working And Having Fun!!!! Working And Traveling Working As A Trainer For The Baby Boomers! Working In A Different Field Working My Ass Off To Get My Kids Educated Would Like To Be Cruzing On Mars Writing/Editing/Looking For Work

Songs of the Past

• Allman Brothers Blue Sky • America Horse with No Name • Association Cherish • Beach Boys Good Vibrations • Beach Boys Fun, Fun, Fun • Beatles Here Comes the Sun • Beatles Hey Jude • Beatles Revolution • Beatles Yellow Submarine • Blood, Sweat & Tears Spinning Wheel • Blood, Sweat & Tears And When I Die • Buffalo Springfield For What It’s Worth • Carol King Tapestry • Carole King You've Got A Friend • Carpenters We’ve Only Just Begun • Cat Stevens Moonshadow • Cat Stevens Wild World • Cat Stevens Where Do the Children Play? • Chicago Make Me Smile • Chicago Saturday in the Park

• Circle Drive Dirt Band( EY, Eric Mattheissen, Paul Merrill and me on the drums) GLORIA!

• Crosby Stills and Nash Suite: Judy Blue Eyes • Crosby Stills and Nash Find the Cost of Freedom • Crosby Stills, and Nash Teach your Children • Don McLean American Pie • Donovan Mellow Yellow • Doors Light My Fire • Eric Clapton She’s Waiting • Elton John Rocket Man • Elton John Your Song • George Harrison Here Comes the Sun • Grateful Dead Casey Jones • Iron Butterfly Inna Gada Davida • James Taylor You've Got a Friend • James Taylor Fire and Rain • Janis Joplin Piece of My Heart • Janis Joplin Me and Bobby McGee

Songs of the Past

• Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick • Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced? • Joe Cocker Let's Go Get Stoned • John Denver Poems, Prayers & Promises • John Lennon Imagine • Johnny Nash I Can See Clearly Now • Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon • Laura Nyro Up On the Roof • Led Zeppelin Ramble On • Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven • Led Zeppelin Black Dog • Lee Michaels Do You Know What I Mean? • Maggie May Rod Stewart • Monkees Daydream Believer • Moody Blues Tuesday Afternoon • Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline • Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky • Otis Redding Sitting on the Dock of the Bay • Peter, Paul and Mary Leaving on a Jet Plane • Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon • R Dean Taylor Indiana Wants You • Rod Stewart Maggie May • Rolling Stones Brown Sugar (from a Pep Rally we did Senior year!) • Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter • Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers • Rolling Stones Satisfaction • Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil • Seals and Crofts We May Never Pass This Way Again • Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water • Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Waters • Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Waters • Steppenwolf Born to be Wild • Steppenwolf Born to be Wild (I thought it was a wild time in HS) • Steve Miller Band Joker • Steve Miller Band Space Cowboy • Tower of Power You Ought to be Having Fun. • Tower of Power What is Hip • Who Won't Get Fooled Again

Songs of the Past

OTHER COMMENTS

• Anything from the Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater • Anything from the Rolling Stones. • Bad memory - have no idea. Sang in church choir for 4 years, so strong memories of many from

SMHS, including trip to Hawaii in 1970. • Can't remember... • Can't remember... • Can't remember, which is a sign of old age. • None comes to mind • ONE?! I Think We're Alone Now, California, When a Man Loves a Woman, Brown-Eyed Girl, Bob

Dylan, Alone Again Or, Light My Fire, Spirit in the Sky, Dock of the Bay, My Baby Sent Me a Letter, Are You Going to San Francisco, Alone Again (Naturally), Dancin' in the Streets, I Know Something About Love, Black Magic Woman, Nights in White Satin, Hot Town Summer in the City, Lazin' on a Sunny Afternoon, You+ Me + Rain on the Roof, etc etc etc

• I had to look at a Google web search to jog the memory. I remember when KHJ did an hourly contest. Every time they played Snoopy and the Red Baron, you could call in to win a prize, so I'm going with Snoopy.

• Mainly the 3 dog night concert in the auditorium" But also too many to list. • Any song from a musical theater production!!!! • Cannot think of a specific song

Influential People, Positive and Negative 113 responses

• Math teacher, Mr. Kanner. • My close friends and their parents who always treated me like part of their family. • Jack Bradford • Paul Clopper and every last one of us drama groupies gave me such hope & self esteem

for life. • Terry Dillinger • I can't remember negative people but there were so many great friends, including Leslie

W., Marilyn L., Mary R., Tara K., Suzy L., Bev. B. and many more! Just mentioning the ladies :) As far as teachers, I still tell stories about Mr. Clopper...he made rules and stuck to them (in a swirl of cigarette smoke!)

• Terry Dillenger • Paul Clopper- positive. • As far as SMHS itself goes, no one person had great impact. The extreme value of SMHS

is the synergy created by the bits and pieces of everyone’s contributions. It was because of SM that i got my favorite word--serendipity.

• Parents • Madame Boyer--influenced me to keep at it with French • Mr. Mooney because he made me think and question • Mary Bennett • Else Hoibraaten • Boyfriend • King Stuart • The whole class of 1972 did. • Paul Schickle • The Emillions • Joe Horton • Pete Adanalian • Craig rousselot • Bill Strangman • My friends had the biggest positive impact on me. • Going through 12 years of school with all the same kids was really good. • Coach Mooney • The cross-country boys, but especially Will Ross. • Paul Clopper • Bill Mahoney • Ms. Fenner -- She made me wish I were a better writer. • Positive - Swim and Water Polo Coaches • King Stuart...public speaking and competition with the SMHS team...VERY positive • Tiger!


• Jackie Freed • Tony Thacher • Ms. Fenner-English! So hard but taught me great English. • Rob Hambleton • Mr. Shickle, the Latin teacher. He believed in me, when other teachers thought I was a

delinquent. • My 5 girlfriends • Ms. Palmer. • Miss Fenner • Mr. Bradford • Coaches Mooney and McNamee • Miss Schoenfeld • My friends on the swim teams and water polo team. • Coach Bill Maloney-Positive • The older brother seniors when we were sophs who sold me the drugs • The Art teacher...what was her name? She hated me!! The Drama teacher...his name?

He hated me because I was too shy. • Mr. Say - wonderful teacher • Coach Bradford • Mr. King • Miss Schonfeld • Paul Clopper, the best. • Paul Clopper - an amazing man! (positive) • Paul Clopper • Pat Ryan • Now THAT is just too difficult to answer! All my wonderful friends + some terrific

mentors/teachers...! • King Stuart (Speech) was a very positive influence on my life and the source of many

happy high school memories and experiences. • Mr. Stuart, public speaking and debate teacher - positive • Basketball teams, coaches friends • Cindy Leishman • Wendy Shelton • Kathy Knudson • Mr. Clopper • Paul Shickle (Latin) • Gordon Peterson (Biology) • Fortune Gordien (Track Coach) • King Stewart


• Ms. Schoenfeld, my group of friends • My brothers • I appreciate several teachers: Cheuvy, Clopper, Boucher, Brimmie. They taught me so

much. They took personal interest in me in those impressionable years • J, my HS sweetie or M, after he threw up in my dad's car after having one too many... • Connie Cunz was a wonderful friend and was like the big sister I never had. • Patty Gill was a sweet and loving friend. • Mr. King Stuart • Miss Schoenfeld • My friend's unconditional love. • Mr Clopper • Mr. Jack Bradford, who gave me guidance and the opportunity to find my abilities

through hard work. • Mr. Mooney • Burt Kanner - coach • All of my classmates were terrific, everyone was unique, life did not get any better than

growing up in San Marino in the 60's. I was a super lucky kid to have my two sisters, one brother, my fantastic mom and dad and a safe loving home.

• Because of Paul Clopper I am never late for anything. • My English teachers • Barbara Horral • My friends • Terry Dillinger (personal finance) and Mrs. Strauss (biology) were the BEST teachers. • Maureen ? PE teacher. • Dorothy Fenner • Mme Tuttle • My two very best friends with whom I am still in contact even though we are many

miles apart. • King Stuart, Speech & Debate Coach • I can’t get this down to one person. It’s the bits and pieces from each, each an

ingredient in the soup made the soup. • Jack Bradford, positive • Jack Bradford • Ms. Leona Schonfeld and Ms. Dorothy Fenner, Mr. Patrick Ryan for their life-teachings. • Paul Clopper • My Gang of 5 : ) • My friends, and some of the teachers • King Stuart - definitely positive • Mr. McNamee - I just thought he was a very nice teacher.


• Leslie Littler Pichel she was a true friend. • Mr. Shickle, the Latin teacher. He took the time to ask why I was getting in trouble all

the time. He allowed me to graduate, with a grade of "D" in his Latin class. Sad to hear that he died awhile back.

• Paul Shickle, my Latin teacher. He demonstrated the importance of loving what you do, and he really cared about his students.

• Paul Clopper • Mr Clopper, Drama Class, really started to help me get over extreme shyness • Positive: Jack Rankin, King Stuart, and the many, many friends who encouraged me and

believed in me. • Mr. Bradford • Mr. McCreery. • Paul Clopper • Mr Brooks, • Mr Ryan • Ms Schonfeld • Mr Rankin • The many friends I had • Leona Schoenfeld • Positive--Friends and teachers • Mr. Rankin, who took the time to introduce me to a coach at Fairfax High School

(moved there in my junior year). • My junior year English teacher Leona Schonfeld • Paul Schickle • Michael Miller • Debbie Hoyt • Glenn Stuart - positive impact. RIP • Clopper and my friends like Ukropina, Weber, Smyth & Rousselot. • Tom Smyth, Brock Boutelle, and Kim Latham--all positive. • Chris Boland (Wright) • Mr. Clopper - very positive - have used the techniques I learned in drama in my work life • Paul Clopper - very positive • Good friends who gave me positive experiences • Miss Fenner and my biology teacher junior year (dark haired woman whose name I can't

remember.) • My gang of 5 : ) • Miss Schoenfeld • Coach Mickey MacNamee


• Scott Daley, Tracy Totten, Paul Bruder, Tony T and Brian Booth. Rich McDonald, Jeff Burwell Teri Bowen

• Mr Clopper • No one from SMHS comes to mind, but my mother had the greatest influence on my life

during my high school years. • L, who broke my heart. • Once I told S “hi” near the lockers, and he sneered not to EVER talk to him again! He

was mortified to be seen talking to scum like me. • Mr. Clopper and King Stewart both very positive • Mindy Trotter, Kathy Murphy, Wendy Shelton, Connie Williams, Barb Van Kuran, Nancy

Brown, Brad Baylies, Barb Herzberg and Cindy Brigham were all great friends and had a positive impact on me at SMHS

• Nobody at SMHS, but at that time in my life, my mother had the biggest impact on me. • Paul Clopper • Miss Healy (sp?) Negative! • Mrs. Bryant Positive! • Rankin • Clopper • Shoenfeld • Gertrude Nesbitt • Maureen Bryant

Conversations with my 18 Year-Old Self

• "Listen to your parents' advice!" • Allow yourself to mature and to know you are worthwhile...don't let anyone try to take

that away from you. • Always maintain a positive outlook. • Appreciate my parents • Be a better listener • Be negotiable. • Be passionate. • Be patient, be kind, travel a lot and follow your heart • Be patient. Enjoy the now. Life will present itself all in good time... • Be patient...your life is just beginning • Be true to yourself; you will find your people, even if it doesn't seem like it now. • Be yourself and enjoy life the best you can • Be yourself, give yourself credit, stop doing such stupid things, marry the right person.

Above all, be sincere. It's easy to be negative, be positive. • Before you start college, have a clear idea of where you want to be heading and what

you want to be doing when you leave college. • Believe in your intellectual ability, take leaps of faith earlier, start on travel list sooner. • Believe in yourself and follow your dreams! • Buy stock in Microsoft. Never grow old (mentally). • Cannot trust everyone • Cherish each day and don't sweat the small stuff • Chill out! • Choose your friends well and stay close, or buy real estate near the beach and they'll

stay close! • Curb your wild side and stay in college. • Do more now; don't put off rewarding yourself • Do not burden yourself with the little things • Do not let fear of being alone hold you back from anything. • Do what you love to do, you will be doing it a long time • Do what you're good at, or like to do for yourself - follow your strengths. Don't do

things because you want to be "cool" or to be popular. Look outside yourself and your little world to see what's out there to explore and learn about.

• Don't be so cautious and afraid--try more sports even though you aren't real coordinated--just do it for the fun of it--it is OK if you're not the best; question things more--there is more to the world than just San Marino and/or California

• Don't be so hard on yourself. You have to love yourself before you can love anyone else. • Don't be so shy. • Don't bite off more than you can chew (San Marino was a very protected world) • Don't get married at 22. My first marriage lasted 5 years. I remarried at 28 and have

been married for 30 years. • Don't let anyone crush your belief in yourself, nor your abilities.


• Don't listen to other peoples’ judgment of you. Have a passion and you'll be rewarded. • Don't take it all so seriously. You are fantastic just as you are. • Don't take things so seriously. • Don't worry so much - enjoy every day as if it were your last. • Don't worry so much! • Don't worry, it all turns out great! • Don't worry, Life is good. • Dream big and make your goals accordingly? • Drop out. I regret that I, in poor wisdom, put you through the many years of

indoctrination and brainwashing to learn to follow authority, especially false and wrong authority. Get out of this now and lets go back and I help you have the dream you always had and to hell with what they think. Do what you love, the quality of that work and its income will take care of themselves.

• Dude, chill. It'll all work out. • Enjoy each day and don't get excited about the stupid stuff. • Enjoy every moment, be yourself and don't care what people think of you. In the end

your happiness is the most important. • Enjoy life. It is so short! • Enjoy stuff now before everything hurts • Enjoy your innocence while you can responsibilities come soon enough • Figure out your passion and pursue it vigorously • Find God ... early in life, and avoid a lot of the problems caused by alienation from God

and self. • Find the one person to share your life with. • Find yourself and then be yourself -- don't let others define you or limit you • Finish College NOW • Focus • Follow your bliss • Follow your dream; don't follow the boy. • Follow your dreams • Follow your own path and be true to the callings of your heart. • Follow your passions • Follow your passions • Follow your passions. • Freedom isn't free, Love takes commitment and Integrity is everything • Get a scholastic tutor and don't drink • Hang in there. It'll get better. • Have as much compassion for yourself as you do for others. Meditate [more]. Don't be

such a perfectionist + enjoy the moment! • Have confidence! Be strong! You are never alone! • Have fun, be more confident and outgoing, don't be shy! • I do not have an eighteen year old. But if I had one, I would say to save that money


• I still think and act 18, why think beyond that? Being 18 forever is the greatest, I feel sorry for those that think, grow and act old. I streaked a golf course 6 months ago with a good buddy. Yes, we had been drinking a little. However, my wife and a lot of people got a great laugh! I am still a very fast runner.

• Invest in Microsoft • It doesn't matter what people think of you. • It gets better. Really. Oh, and you might want to consider a career as a dramaturg. • It will all work out! • Keep dancing! • LEARN A MARKETABLE SKILL! • Learn to be a better listener and political debater. • Life gets better and more interesting! • Life is an ever changing experience, stay flexible, take joy in the small things, and count

your blessings daily. • Life is unpredictable. There will be disappointments and most people will face

unexpected hardships. But stay positive because life can quickly change. Keep a sharp eye out for opportunities and take action. Stay focused and disciplined. Enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

• Like gets better and better! • Like who you are, you are an interesting person. • Listen to your father say, "Go to Dartmouth College!" • Listen to your mom. Don't be afraid to ask questions. • Listen to your parents but know one thing loud and clear. They claim to know your best

interests, but in fact they are only interested in their own interests. You know best what you want, you always did since you were 3 years old. Listen to them, nod your head and go right back to what you were doing. Remember that a time will come that they are gone and what life will you have had? So don’t live for them because when they die you will be left with THAT. Good parents don’t force their way about life, they look at the kid, assess the kid as he/her really is and works to amplify that into careers and life that truly define the kid, not the parents or extensions of parents. We come into this world not knowing how to be parents or kids and in fact we never learn. At some point two questions must occur yet they seldom do--How do I be a better parent to you? And...How do I be a better kid to you?

• Live each day as if it's your last • Live each day to the fullest; keep positive • Make a u-turn back to the one you turned away from • Maybe you should start a little company and call it "Microsoft" • Microsoft dummy, Microsoft! • Never drink on an empty stomach! • Never ever settle for second best. Do something that scares you everyday • Not sure, but whatever I could have told my 18 year old self, I probably wouldn't have

listened anyway. • Not to take myself too seriously, and that the Beatles were right--all you need is love.


• Only take advice from people who understand you. Pay attention ask questions

• Relax • Relax and enjoy the life God has given you. • Relax, and enjoy each moment. Seek out and get good college/career/life advice from

wise adults in your life who know you. • Relax...life is truly a great adventure and you haven't even started • Relish every moment, it goes by soooo quickly • Remember that every decision that you make now has a consequence. • Same thing that Steve Correll said to the teenage boy in "Little Miss Sunshine" while

they were standing on the pier. • Seek God, and find out why He created me. • Seize the day, live each moment to its fullest, love well, be grateful for life and your

special, unique talents and gifts - and give them to the world to make it a better place. • Set myself straight, work harder in school, make more friends. • She will look just like her mother when she gets older • Stay in college. Get a therapist. • Stop smoking dope! • Study hard. Do your best. Don't worry, at all, what others think! • Take care of myself • Take math and stay in school • Take more risks and always be true to yourself!!!! • Take more time to play • Take time to enjoy being young. Keep your options open and explore as many of them

as you can. • The sun always comes up in the morning. • To be more outgoing and don't be hesitant, try things without worrying about what

others will think • To have patience • To remember than any decision made has consequences. • Travel, experience the world and meet lots of people. Leave California and grow • Treasure your family and friends - every day is a gift • Treat people the way you want to be treated....don't burn bridges and don't sweat the

small stuff. • Trust that the right things happen in the right time and in the right way. • Try out for the musicals. Don't be so shy. No, you're not fat. • Work your butt off today because your future depends on it! • You are going to have a really happy life. Enjoy the ride. • You are great just the way you are and blaze your own trails • You are one of God's miracles...embrace life and people and don't get

overwhelmed...life is a challenge but there is so much joy to living and loving fully...stick


close to God and trust Him completely. (My 18 year-old self might not get it, but my 58 year-old self does :)

• You are so much more than a pretty face! • You were right...you never will use high school algebra, cling to what you know is true &

unchanging, and have more fun. • You will make it through the tough times.

MEMORIES…BEST AND WORST

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• Senior musical! • The best and worst are intertwined in: football games and "after-game" dances,

sleepovers at Bonnie Ulf's house with a million other girls, cruzin' around San Marino in Dad's Malibu on Fri/Sat nights, Pep try outs, Rob U.'s locker above mine, our grad party night, long talks on the corded telephones with boyfriends, Twohey's onion rings and Winchell's donuts, the bonds of friendship that were cemented for life - you know who you are!

• Best memories - my girlfriends • Worst memories - my math teachers • Wearing grey, black or blue anything...yikes....one free dress Fridays a month....sneaking

out to Bobs Big Boy for fries & blue cheese dressing in La Canada. Late nite study sessions during any theatre production rehearsals

• Participating in sports, friendships, learning about people, relationships and life. • Best: Flag, Omegas and drama classes/ productions. ( I also loved that I could walk to HS

easily from home, didn't have a car till I was a senior in college) And of course... my friends!!

• Worst: Mr. Armendariz making me cry. • My grades sucked, I could of done better • SMRA- Good times and good laughs The basketball team Football (and post) games

Actually getting a part in a musical and enjoying it. College acceptance letters- phew. Some really good friends!

• Involvement in Sports programs • There was no one best or worst but there were moments. A bad thing was whatever

bad I did to myself. SM introduced me to drugs and drinking and while I’m all for experimentation and adventure these things in the end did what, make me wiser or just kill brain cells? Fortunately SM was also the site of quitting all that. A good moment was kissing L. A person just hasn’t lived until that kiss. My my. A unique and marvelous thing in all the world. There are many more moments--friday night football, being suspended and other sessions with Mr. Braun; wise and special words from teachers, protesting the Viet war in the streets. Demo Day. Lacy Park. Parties, especially at the house on Oak Knoll. The moments don’t end. There are also oddities and mistakes. Odd that I loved holding C more than anything in this world yet nothing ever came of it. How can that be? Mistake that I drove a truck for … and mucked up a terribly important order which still haunts me; mistake that I let N, J, K, C...how did I let people like this slip out of my life? It just can’t be yet there it is. Many of you take amazing moments in stride like they are usual or nothing but I never had anything of the quality of SM experiences in any other time or place.

• Getting out • Best memory was being the bottle dancer with Dave Parker in the musical Fiddler on

the Roof


116 responses

• Worst memory was Frank Haltom's coaching of both wrestling and tennis--I hated him at the time, and felt his coaching techniques were destructive and drove me away from both sports

• Winning the JV league championship in basketball. • Friends, football games, Classes that interested me, school plays and leaving campus for

lunch. Our cars were pretty cool too. • Post football game concerts; "demo nights" in the Senior parking lot. • Worst memory is tearing the mesh screen curtain in the auditorium, and Mr. Clopper

"saying" to me a few suggestive words. • Best memory is having my first beer at Rob's house. • After game parties. • Sports with Brudus (best) getting drunk with Boother and Addy (best) • Hangover from getting drunk with Boother and Addy (worst) • Since I came in my sophomore year, it would be making new friends and playing rock

and roll with those friends. • My best memories are of my friends. • Friends! • The swimming pool. • Worst: Mailing a dog muzzle to Mr. Bradford. • Best: I'm not telling. • Best - Fiddler on the Roof • Worst - Football cut short • Best -- Hearing students in the lunch court sing my Beatles parody songs from the third

issue of The Lampoon. • Senior Year was great. Finally started to kinda come into my own. • Too many good ones to count. • Being in the senior musicals, playing sports, Chattic youth group. • Spanish with Hanna, I got horrible grades for talking every class with Mitch • Lunch (off campus) at Caroline Miller's • Too long ago... • The lifelong friends I made • Best: Jr yr: Flag team/student council/ SM rep Bullock's Teen board/Delphians • Football games, rivalry days, powder puff football, off-campus lunches, • Playing with my band at the dances and playing on the 1972 League chamionship

baseball team • Best - swimming on the first girl's swim team at the school. I am sure there are some

bad but after 40 years - who remembers!! • What could have been and what was blown


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• The worst were the clicks and how it made me feel if I wasn't part of them. • It was just a fun time of my life. I would not change a thing. • Running cross country on Coach Bradford's team. • Best: all of the theatre work, on and off the stage. • Worst: so much rejection. • Friends and friends • Worst: suicides of classmates were traumatic + heartbreaking. • Best: sleepovers with girlfriends. Climbing out my bedroom window + creeping thru

Huntington Library at night. Summers at the beach. Concerts! Assemblies with live music (Kaliedescope!). Driving.

• Best memories were a theater production, a summer debate camp in La Mirada with the Debate Squad, and having the chance to dance for gym class credits.

• Best - friends, teachers, activities • Worst - the pressure to conform • Best...basketball and going to the Friday night football games • Plays, Omegas, Drill Team, Class Officer • Dating, Driving, Ditching • Best would be senior year when everything came together in a positive way and my

future path emerged; another best memory is getting the girls' dress code changed to allow pants

• Graduating..... :-) • I really enjoyed helping to create the Fiddler on the Roof show and all the theatre

friends. • Best: Friday night football games, In-n-Out burgers, drinking beers in Harry Hunt's panel

truck, learning to drive a stick shift on Paul Bruder's VW at lunchtime • Worst: my failed romance with D • I just didn't like high school. I was very shy and as a result often overlooked. • Hanging out with Jean, Lynn, and Kim! • Foot ball games, stage crew, car rallies. • Best - working on stage crew • Worst - PE Classes • carefree days with friends • Swimming, water polo, being madly in love • All memories are good, dating and making out with babes (I will protect the names) was

just one of my many highlights. Taking my Z28 Camaro to a racetrack on the weekends was great, my mom and dad never knew, but they know now. Someone please tell me what all the animal questions are about?

• Sports were the most rewarding for me to create my work ethic.


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• My best memories were pranks with friends. Like the time I was arrested (in a full length dotted swiss dress) trying to take the "R" out of the John Birch Society's big brass sign. Or the time I was arrested (shall we say escorted home) while dressed in a fedora and PRETENDING to rob a bank on Huntington Drive. Or the time I was arrested trying to spy on the monks. Or the time I wasn't arrested breaking into a health club and trying on all the old ladies bathing suits. Or the time we outran the cops after breaking into the Huntington Gardens to ring the Japanese gong. Or the time ...

• Riding the booster bus to CIF playoff games freshman year, eating double brownie ice cream desserts at The Lodge (I think it was called) with the girls, pasting up "The Titan Shield," skiing at Mammoth, summers in Carpinteria

• Best memories: Intimacy with my girlfriends, comraderie with my teammates in sports • Graduation! • TP'ing Maureen's house with a group of girls from drill team, Jim Baugh's smile and

universal kindness to all, Rob Hambleton's dress sense, Tony Thacher's sense of humor, Patty Gill's sweet nature, Shelley Solloway in Fiddler on the Roof, and more....

• So many wonderful memories: great place to go to high school, great classmates, Friday night football games with Twohey's hot fudge sundaes sometimes afterwards, assemblies (Three Dog Night and the hypnotist and elections stand out), Senior musicals, teachers who were mostly inspiring, losing classmates to suicide and the "We Care Days" that followed, being a part of a group of people who went from the bottom of the barrel (freshmen) to the top of the stack (seniors) with growth and changes, Grad Night party: London and the double decker bus and the ballroom and being out all night under the stars with people I had known for so long and who were all scattering in so many directions, thinking we were the best class ever.

• Best: Enjoyed friendships & camraderie in group activities; like Amicians, Drill Team, Debate Team

• Worst: Getting caught with a joint in Lacy Park • Senior pranks • (Best) Two CIF cross country titles. • (Worst then, one of the best now) Getting busted by Jack Rankin for launching water

balloons into the quad at lunch. • Great education and good times playing with cars with my buddies. • Brigadoon with my brother and the best Fruma-Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof. Being in

love, ridiculously deeply so. Olivera Street and a special-once-in-a-life dinner and train ride. Days on the beach in San Clemente. Car-tag through Pasadena after basketball games.

• Senior parking lot, parties, friends, boys!! • My best friend Leslee committing suicide • BEST: Friendships, Sports • WORST: Having to quit swimming.


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• My friends are part of my best memories, my worst are running the mile around the school, the stupid dress code, my locker

• Best: great quality education, great town, lived most of my childhood in San Marino • Worst: cliques • Worst memories were Algebra & Chemistry classes - ugh. • Best memories were speech & debate tournaments, eating lunch outside on the lawn,

and the apple machine over by the cafeteria... • I liked seeing my name listed with the graduating class on the cement blocks (which

now are gone??) • Walking through the quad, the way it was with the past years classes in concrete, being

part of that history. I felt proud and connected. • Not knowing who I was, and showing off with my VW dune buggy, driving crazy all the

time, getting drunk, etc. • Scoring beer with Bruder and Parker at MacGuire's, but only when "Mrs. Mac" wasn't

working! • Friday night football games • First day in drama class when I had to go up on stage by myself and talk....thought I was

going to pass out with fear! • Lots of good memories. My high school years were wonderful, magical years of growing

up in a great environment that I thoroughly enjoyed. Eating lunch on the courtyard lawn with friends (and having the sprinklers go off!); attending events like Coronation Ball, Prom, dances, etc.; working on San Marino's float in the Rose Parade; speech tournaments; lots of good friends.

• Good friends eating lunch together out on the lawn. Great teachers' encouragement. Looking back we didn't know how fortunate we were to be at SMHS. What a great start for the rest of our lives.

• Best: Fiddler on the Roof • Worst: My skin problems • Football games, powder puff, not being asked to the prom, being in plays and "Fiddler,"

going to In & Out Burger for many lunches and to Shakey's after football games • Camping trips to Big Sur and Baja, getting excited for learning from some truly inspired

teachers, summers at the beach, hanging with friends anywhere! • Best memories--Friends, teachers, Rivalry Day, Homecoming, PEP, Omegas, Football

Games and after parties, Senior Musical--Being with friends. • Best: east parking lot crowd, sneaking into the Huntington Library and San Gabriel

Country Club late at night with friends. • Worst: sitting bored in class • Archery and "individual sports", Chevy, grey skirts etc.,


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• Terry Sexton took the time to put together a surprise going away party for me-and I was truly surprised! Thank you Terry-great fun & gave me great strength to move forward in a very different environment.

• Best memory is winning CIF Individual Doubles with Geoff Clark in 1972 • Best: long hot summers with visits to the beach and hanging out outside at night, Lacy

Park, music, curiosity, learning • Worst: I suppose the usual high school angst: judgement, cruelty, loneliness, • Musicals. best & worst. • The friends, tennis, Fiddler on the Roof, Granny Smith apples for 10 cents out of the

apple machine • Best - Friday afternoons at Ukropina’s, Football games, After-game dances with the

most beautiful girls in the USA, Backstage in the drama dept., Fiddler on the Roof, Burnouts in the east parking lot, Taking an ax to the speed-bumps in the east parking lot, Finally becoming good friends with little John Moore after he beat the shit out of Phil Stathatos and me in the 6th grade, Bitchen Senior Pranks, Winning Rivalry Day as both a Junior and a Senior

• Worst - 3-in-a-bed exercises in Freshman football, Miss Templeton's math classes, When the administration put speed-bumps in the east parking lot to try and stop us from doing burnouts

• Best--Tom Smyth rising out of a coffin behind the teacher in the little theater for Government class. Performing "Only Living Boy In New York" at the talent show.

• Best - friendships - my lifelong friends who I still see and treasure (Suzy Lloyd Lippard, Cindy Leishman Lyon, Wendy Shelton, Kuwata, Laura Fogwell Majovski, Mimi Gallinatti Hackleman, Lynn Martin Snowden, Jean Poulson McGilvray)

• Best memories are my friends and all the great, silly, fun things we did. Having people crawl in through my bedroom window to chat and having my parents open the door to find a room full of people at 11:00pm

• Best: Hanging with my girlfriends and falling in love for the first time. • 1st day there in homeroom wondering were in the world I had landed! • Baseball 1972 ( 23-4) 7-0-5 saves Tony, Tommy, Todd and Pete & All Rights Reserved

Playing gigs and assembly Losing to TC 55-0 THEN scoring 2 Tds in a scrub JV game and beating TC 20-14

• Overall, they are good memories - I enjoyed friends, a wholesome environment, healthy & innocent fun. I'm grateful for having grown-up in SM and for the experiences many of us having in common going back to elementary school.

• Best - laughing and Friday nights with my friends. • Worst - the cliques - just hated them. • Friends, SMRA, Rivalry Day, Pranks, Sports, Three Dog Night - all good. • M stealing from me - worst.


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• I loved being involved in musicals, speech team, powder puff football, various track meets, and SMCC Chancel Choir.

• DRAMA AND SPEECH WERE THE BEST • Calling each other "studs", getting to go off campus for lunch in our junior year -

Alhambra McDonald's, Care Day, assembly with 3 Dog Night, senior parking lot, CIF championship game, and those summers off!

• Best - the great education that I received • Worst - the clicks - I found them to be awful • Theater. • Lunch in the central courtyard...football & basketball games...plays...friends • Car rallies • The Bo Diddly Concert. Going to 1465 Rubio Drive for lunch

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

My politics have changed since high school. 50.7% (71) 49.3% (69)

I am more religious than I was in 1972. 34.0% (48) 66.0% (93)

I am more spiritual than I was in 1972. 66.2% (92) 33.8% (47)

I followed the career path I set for myself in high school. 22.9% (32) 77.1% (108)

I loved my high school years. 44.4% (59) 55.6% (74)

I liked my high school years. 82.7% (105) 17.3% (22)

I hated my high school years. 12.8% (15) 87.2% (102)

I have a dog(s). 56.3% (80) 43.7% (62)

I have a cat(s). 36.5% (50) 63.5% (87)

I have fish. 11.8% (16) 88.2% (120)

I have reptiles. 5.8% (8) 94.2% (129)


If I could, I would move back to San Marino. 12.6% (18) 87.4% (125)

I currently live in San Marino. 5.7% (8) 94.3% (133)

I have a bucket list and I am working on checking things off. 42.6% (58) 57.4% (78)

I have experienced great joy. 96.4% (135) 3.6% (5)

I have experienced great disappointment. 72.1% (101) 27.9% (39)

I am happy. 95.7% (133) 4.3% (6)

I am satisfied with my life. 87.9% (124) 12.1% (17)




POLITICS • That time, many of us were liberal. For me i became more conservative and these days i see the fallacy of both sides and am creating

my own set of politics. • Was republican tending and now fully a democrat • I have always been a republican • Strangely, both yes and no • More conservative • I have gone from an ultra conservative to a right leaning moderate • Obama is a socialist, no kidding • In 1969 I was leftist. Then I saw both sides. Now I see the fallacy of both. But politics and parties are not the problem. Ron Paul

understands the problems and has the guts for it. I would not have voted for him in 1970 but I would now. • ... Really ... More conservative • I have change and I am still morphing my politics • I've always been a staunch republican and proud of it! • Slightly more conservative • In high school, I had no political opinions. • Not changed--I thought like a conservative, old lady in high school and now I have the experience to justify my thinking. • I had no politics in high school. • I had no clue about anything to have a strong opinion! • Sonoma county made me much more liberal. • Living in Sonoma county made me far more liberal. • Much more liberal

RELIGION

• I was never religious, there is no value in religion which is the rules, power, buildings, people and money. Faith is another thing and maybe i have more faith today than 1970.

• Tend to Judaism philosophy but basically agnostic • I couldn't be less religious than I was then. • I am a Christian and very involved with church now and serving other. • In 1972 I didnt know what I believed. Today i see that religion, not God, has killed the world. There is a difference between faith and

religion. Religion is the buildings, money, power, people, control, rules, rituals and I dont buy any of it. Faith is faith and i accept what anyone believes in terms of God, if any. But all religions are wrong and I’m not a member of anything.


• Nature is my deity • Same • I had just converted to my religion (Mormon) in 1972 and I've remained committed to my faith since then. • More spiritual • My faith is now my own faith. • I would say I am more spiritual

SPIRITUALITY

• I always was more spiritual than religious. But really what is spirituality other than a buzzword? • All I know is that I didn't create the universe • It's maybe more accurate to say that I'm more awake • Always been a seeker of spiritual experience.. • I’m more thoughtful about it and see that things are not what they seem. • See religion • Our lives have been blessed in many ways. • I tried Christianity, (born again all that crap), explored Kundalini yoga at U of O, self realization fellowship later and Buddhism, explored

the Ba’hai faith and eventually landed in a place where I don't really care about religion, it all seems like a form of brainwashing, and it's not logical, so I guess that makes me Agnostic. With all that said, I do love Jesus (the self realized rebel) and I believe I have received special guidance in my life and clues from "above" in raising my children and surviving.

• Hopefully • At 57 understand the concept of spirituality.

CAREER PATH FROM HIGH SCHOOL?

• I had two dreams since I was a kid and nobody in HS knew them. I’ve been forced to veer on my path so many times but I haven’t lost the dreams and actively work on them and progress every day. Will I succeed? Independent thinkers have the hardest time and sometimes I hate the way I am. I don’t need help to change, I need help to finish the dreams. Some might say that if a person hasn’t succeeded by now they never will but you’re not in my shoes. I am the type who doesn’t execute the war strategy until I know I'll win. Call it a late bloomer if you want.

• Career path in high school? • N/A: I didn't set a path then • In a roundabout way • REALLY?? Who knew what that was??


• Generally - thought I'd be the next Joni Mitchell or Van Gogh, but i can still go for it! • I didn't have a career path in high school • I did not have a career path in high school except to go to college • I knew I would be an artist • My family are all entrepreneurs, I always knew I would be entrepreneur and a party / reunion planner • No, I travelled and was an adventurer instead • Fisheries biology, medical research, English literature, ...? • I'm a mom and that's what I wanted to be • I was supposed to be an artist.....lol • I'd be in jail now if I did • What career path? • Didn't really have career plans in high school. • I didn't have much of a career path set in high school, but didn't imagine then that most of my life would be spent raising children. After

college, I worked for several years and, later, I was fortunate to stay home with my kids. • I didn't have a CLUE of what I wanted to do! Only that I wanted to travel and I have. • Had no idea what I wanted to do in high school. • I didn't know what my career path was in high school.

LOVED HIGH SCHOOL?

• I loved my SMHS years despite awful problems with parents and with myself. I don’t know how I survived. At least I don’t have bad dreams about it anymore.

• This is not obvious. • There were high points and lower points, but all were learning experiences that propelled me into adulthood. • Loved the theatre department, Clop. • High school sucked • To be realistic- somewhere between "like" and "love" • It gave me the love of art and confidence in my abilities • I loved every day, every classmate, every event! • No, most definitely i did not. • Very much. San Marino time was a highlight of my life and it definitely shaped my thinking in the future in the most positive way, all

thanks to all of you. • It gave me the tools for the future


• Not my favorite time of life • Bittersweet! • Good, bad, overall fun • Some yes, some no • I had great friends.

LIKED HIGH SCHOOL?

• Just said I loved my high school years. • Along with strong dislikes. • See above • No, most definitely I did not. • Wish I had listened in English and History better. • Good and bad! • San Marino High School was the first of many adventures... • Lots of ups and downs • I enjoyed a great many friendships and good memories. • Junior and Senior years • Not really • Somewhere in between liked and disliked high school. Through no fault but my own, I felt very insecure during those years and wouldn't

want to go back. • I had good experiences, good friends and plenty of teenage angst and lack of confidence

HATED HIGH SCHOOL?

• I hated trying to grow up in an atmosphere of being ahead of my time but being too young for it. I wish I could have my mind as of today and start HS again. The outcome would all be different. I don’t want the time back, I have no regrets, but if I did re-live it, Ii would make very different choices not because my choices were bad but because the choices I would make now would give me huge leaps of progress.

• So-So • Hate is too strong a word, but overall a tough time to be alive. • See above • Hated is maybe too strong. I liked parts and disliked parts • Alcoholic father, parent divorce, living in the city...


• I did not hate them, but was anxious to move far away • Not now and just a few times back then • Good and bad! • Hate is too strong of a word. But I would not relive those years. • Freshman and Sophomore years • I wouldn't say "hate" but it was definitely NOT my favorite time of life.

PETS DOGS

• But we've had 4 Scottish terriers and plan to have another within the next year. • I never liked dogs. • 2 • 4 • 10 year old yellow lab • Granddog - Pug • Hate diarrhea-mouthed yappers et al and their owners • Papillion fun dog • 2 • Three golden retreivers • Yellow lab • Used to; really want another one but I travel too much • Last dog i had was in my 30s. Would love one, but haven't lived in right situation for one. • Labs • 3 dogs • Happy - 11 pound Peek-A-Poo (Best Dog EVER!!) • Daughter is allergic! • Why this question • Aspen, our Saint Bernard • Have outlived 3 rescues - all beloved • Two Australian Shepards • Dooney, Loui, Penelope, and Lilly • Many many dogs


• Older sister has a dog (Alaskan Huskie mutt, 16 yrs old) • Two, a German Shepard and a Weimerauner • 2 labradors • Does a grand dog count? • One 14-year old wonderful dog that will be the last. The kids are grown and we'd rather not have the responsibility. • Not now • 3 • Golden retriever

CATS • I did. They died. • 10 • Only begrudgingly • Cats are cool • One • Daughter is allergic! • Why this question • Have also outlived Mr. Smith! I sold the family silver to pay for his vet bills. • No. I had cats all along and each died. My heart couldn’t take it and now i don’t have any. • Bee Bee, Big Boots, Moon Pie's Sister • Nine!!! • 4 cats • Two • 2 • Lily, she is 15, and I adore her. • Yes, I could become a 'cat lady' in time • Charlotte and Emily, the lovely Bronte sisters.

FISH • They died too. • I ate the last one last night...salmon! • A pond and creek full • I fish and then I eat them • Left them with a nine year old, they didn't last long. • Several ponds full, just not at home


• Stupid question • Weird question.

REPTILES • My son had lots of snakes, lizards, iquanas--our basement was like the Everglades • Would love some big ones!! (does my husband count?) • Toads, Frogs, Turtles - all in our pond • Why this question • Only on my shoes • Not my style. • A ton in the yard • 2 hamsters • Only when my cat brings them in • Stupid question • Very weird question

WOULD I LIVE IN SAN MARINO?

• It's great to visit but I love life in Raleigh, NC. • Yes, if a rich girl would adopt me, who shared my point of view and promised no parties with or for ultra-conservatives. • I like northern Virginia/DC • I have done that. • At one time I would have leapt at the chance, but not anymore. • Maybe • Why? When you live in paradise? • Colorado is just too beautiful! • Part time! • I graduated on Friday moved to Newport on Saturday, have not been back to SM since. • Most definitely NOT • Contented with where I live • That’s an interesting question. Recall that what made SM great, that time, were us, the kids, not the Bircher overly conservative

parents. I would move back if I could have what I had, not that the same kids grew up to be Bircher overly conservative parents too. • No reason to • For a long time we were thinking about moving back but now we no longer have that desire.


• But it's funny, sometimes I have dreams where I am living at our house on Sierra Vista. • My elderly parents still live in San Marino and, while I want to help them, I'm doing my best NOT to move back. • Though San Marino is a beautiful town, I've discovered that Sonoma County is my real home.

I LIVE IN SAN MARINO NOW

• Would like to move to some were near/on the water • NO, I live in Newport Coast and work in Newport Beach • No way • You would know! • I live in sub-marino... ;)

MY BUCKET LIST

• Next on my list is para-sailing at the beach with our kids. Should be interesting since our son, Robbie, and I are somewhat afraid of heights.

• Here is what happened. My long career dream hasn’t materialized yet and look at all that time spent on it, 40 years already. That one thing IS my bucket list. If I added 10 more things, I’d need 400 years to finish it.

• I am too young for this, I hope • Every day something leaves my bucket • I don't know what a bucket list is. • Just take it whatever goes by. • Later • This question is a little different • It is already overflowing • Way too young and healthy for that!! • Traveling to places in the world I haven't been • Just certain countries I want to visit ... Costa Rica, maybe Peru. And I want to tour eastern U.S. starting in Florida and heading

northward, and train back through Canada. • Not a formal list, but we look forward to continuing and hopefully increasing our travels, helping our children and grandchildren, and

serving in our church and community. • Plenty more to do! • Somewhat • I prefer to see what the moment presents


GREAT JOY?

• At many times - our wedding, birth of our children, skiing in Vail on a sunny morning, any day at the beach in the Outer Banks, spending time with close friends, finishing 1/2 marathons!

• Once. Maybe once. Was that worth 58 years of the other? • Marriage and children • In raising my three children • I am so very lucky to live where I live and be surrounded by beauty and excellent friends and family. • My immediate family (wife and 2 sons) have brought me great joy and fulfillment • I experienced no greater joy than the birth of my children • Simple joys are the best! Hiking the Rockies with my girlfriend, loving my granddaughter, cooking with my husband, big family dinners. • The birth of my grandchildren. • I remain kind, respectful and giving to all I meet. I play every day, pray every day, love my family and friends • Every day • (Children and Grandchild - here soon) • Many times and the hits keep on coming!!! • At the birth of my boys! • Yes, often, and appreciation for beautiful birds, flowers, etc • My family and faith are a source of joy. I noticed many of our classmates have passed away which makes me mindful of how precious

time is so, yes, my joy has been great. • Having two wonderful daughters who are now my best friends has given me enormous joy.

GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT?

• Too private to write about them. • Absolutely and it doesn’t end. We are best friends. I know there is a rainbow in here somewhere. • In losing my husband to ALS • A business set back in 2005. Fortunately, have recovered. • Life is tough -- treat everyone like gold and you get gold back. • Every day • (Divorce) • What does not kill you makes you stronger • Hasn't everyone?


• I think my worst years were high school, hate to say it. • Of course I've experienced disappointment and trials, who hasn't? • Who hasn't! We all get disappointment in life - it's how we deal with it that counts. Overall, my life has been healthy and blessed with

many wonderful things • My mother died when I was 25, and sadly, she never got to meet my two daughters.

AM I HAPPY?

• I think it's just my nature. • Women always ask that, now I know who made up these questions. Ok I’m not yet happy, go ahead and hate me and write me off.

Remember I’m working on my plans. Eleanor Roosevelt said that happiness isn’t a goal, happiness is the result of other goals. Wait for the result.

• I have been described as the jolliest bitter man. • For the most part • Some things could DEF be better, but this is true for us all! • I enjoy my work, family and friends. • This is too simplistic and will result in an overbroad response • Doing an oil painting is one of my favorite hobbies • Always. • Yes I am super super happy, every day I wake up is a blessing! • Intermittently content • Yes • Very • Single and self-employed, what could be better! • I am level. Pretty happy. I have a crazy boyfriend, he's younger than me and we disagree on politics but we still love each other. • My husband's business is successful despite the economic mess in CA, I enjoy my family--I have much to be thankful for. • And am very content with life and myself. • I am mostly happy, but happy is different from what I thought it would be.

AM I SATISFIED?

• Life is what we make it.


• I wish I could go back and not be born. Don’t misunderstand me, there is so much greatness and beauty in life. It’s just that I didn’t need to see 3/4 of it. Think about that. But I’m more than satisfied that I hung onto good dreams and goals despite the whirlwind of opposition around me.

• I am never satisfied. • Wish I did not get injured on the job • I have been damn lucky. I am grateful. • Yes and no. Could be better, could be worse. I'm grateful for what I have. • I feel truly blessed • I love my life • I have worked hard but for the most part it was worth it. • Yes, my life is what I made it -- I love my wife and kids. Every day is UP (almost), awesome, fun and still party every weekend! • Not yet • Yes • I'm delighted to be alive and will be satisfied when it is done, hopefully! • Overall, yes. • It's always evolving • Absolutely! • Because of my family. • I have a good life

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