Everyone's Blog Posts - Woodbridge American High School Alumni Network

Found Rechinda Sampson Class of 91

2009-10-31T22:35:33.000Z

Hey everyone.. Rechinda found me on MySpace so she should be on this site too and on facebook..She asked for me to share her email for all those wanting to get in touch.. rechindasampson@yahoo.com

Moving 97.5 in Phoenix, Arizona plays the valley's music from today and back in the day!

2009-10-25T21:47:20.000Z

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to hang out with my favorite morning radio talk show hosts, Lukas and Nina D! They bring it in the morning with the mostest! I have the best time listening to their talk show in the morning on the way to work! They really get my day started--I have listened to lots of morning talk shows and they are by far the best!! If you want to stream them live: www.moving975.com and select the listen live link!

Update about Next Overseas Brats Reunion in Washington DC Aug 2010

2009-08-22T20:42:01.000Z

Warriors- Here is an update from Joe at Overseas Brats in case anyone wants to start a Woodbridge Contingency for this Reunion in Washington DC.

OVERSEAS BRATS Homecoming 2010,
August 5-8, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Reston, in Reston, VA,
a suburb of the Washington, DC metro area.

Details are set and online. Visit: http://overseasbrats.com/Homecoming.asp

Gwen

I am now an attorney.

2009-08-19T06:18:31.000Z

Hi guys, sorry I have not written in awhile. I am now a Lawyer. My office is in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Check out my webpage at http://www.daleroller.com/

My update...

2009-08-15T12:13:32.000Z

...coming soon.

In transition yet again...

Reunion Pix

2009-08-13T18:22:55.000Z

Finally got my pix from the reunion up....

Isabel Sophia

2009-08-11T14:16:26.000Z

On August 5th at 2:17 my youngest son Aaron welcomed his first child into the world and our family. She weighed 7lbs 4oz. and is the pefect picture of health. Now I have one grandson and one grand daughter I can die a happy woman. It is truly one of my greatest pleasures in life watching my children now have children and to feel so incredibly blessed to be a part of this amazing journey called life.

VEGAS, VEGAS, VEGAS!!!!

2009-08-01T22:03:58.000Z

So great to see everyone! I was nervous (as I'm sure we all were) about recognizing everyone, but was so excited, it didn't matter that there were a few flubs. Of course, I mixed up the Loves, just like I did in high school (well, there were a lot of them!). I also knew a lot of people from my brothers' classes, '78 and '80. Found out that Big O and Tony "Mr. Vegas" Everett are grandfathers! Drove down with Chuck Gilbert from the Bay area, and had a great time listening to music and stories. (Chuck even indulged me by listening to my endless questions about the various geological features we passed on our trip!)

I don't mean to be abrupt, but I just realized that if I start listing people and incidents, that I'll neglect to mention someone, or something, and that would be terrible. Suffice it to say, it was great to see old friends, and make new ones.
Even after all this time, I know that Woodbridge really was a special place.

Denise and David

2009-07-31T03:46:37.000Z

Did ya'll tie the knot or not??? I haven't seen any postings of the occasion......

Purchasing Woodbridge video

2009-07-30T21:12:47.000Z

Hi Ricky,

I would like to purchase the Woodbridge High School video. Where should I send a check and in what amount? Thanks!

What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas

2009-07-29T10:01:53.000Z

Visit my page and check out the latest 09 Reunion photos.
I will Blog an entry very soon about my entire experience........
Also, soon to be available.... A look back at Woodbridge High School through the years by Ricky Hart and narrated by Dr. Seligman. This will be available for order in the next couple of days and as a bonus, you will receive the entire commentary by our very own Dr. Seligman.

Thanks for the memories Warriors. You made this my very favorite reunion.!!!!!!

Check out the photos.

See you at the next reunion.

Ricky

Vegas Reunion!!!

2009-07-26T23:41:18.000Z

Well tell us all how much fun you had!!!! For us poor souls who couldn't get there....we want all the scoop, the pictures, the drama (if there was any).....you know TELL IT ALL!!!!

Woodbridge reunion, Vegas bound!

2009-07-23T11:39:42.000Z

9 hours til my plane takes me to a great weekend in Vegas! Can't wait to meet everyone that will be there. Eric, you promised anyone from "87" a drink, Chrissy and I will be collecting!

109 Plus Warriors in Las Vegas for Reunion at the Strat!

2009-07-22T00:00:00.000Z

Final Paid count- not including all the other warriors who went to Vegas and had their own parties!

109 went to the reunion! THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING OUR REUNION!
80s have 60!
70s have 47!
90s have 2...

First Name Grad Name Last Name Total by Class

Class of 1976 4
Debbie Baechle Torok 1
Barbara Carter Ferg-Carter1
Tammy Lokken Clawson 1
Catherine Sullivan Glick 1

Class of 1977 11
Peter Bigelow 1
Nicholas Chando 1
Othal Frazier 1
Chuck Gilbert 1
Joyce Hellstern Nowicki 2
Kathy Kruczek 1
Michael Loy 1
Maureen Miller Allen 1
Catherine O'Donnell Loy 1
Donna Woods 1

Class Of 1978 24
GwendolynBrenner Waddell 1
Denise Bateman 1
Phil Coats 2
Cheryl Dennison Faulk 1
Deanne Dortch Peel 2
Marty Faulk Faulk 1
Jackie Gould Rambler 1
Theresa Gonzales Vela 1
Michelle Lange Sawyer 1
Darren Love 1
Karen Nelson 1
Linda Nelson Knight 1
Carol Plecenik Leonard 1
Toni Reynolds Kirkton 2
Renee Rochelle 1
Marty Sawyer 1
Artie Scott Veazey 1
Harold Seligman 2
Sharon Seligman Lomayesva 2

Class Of 1979 8
Carolyn Chando 1
Terry Lokken Markley 1
Raul Gonzales 1
Debbie Hart 1
Tanya Ireland 1
Marc Pfisterer 1
Susan Sullivan Butterworth 1
Tony Washington 1

Class Of 1980 5
David DeLeon 1
Terri Harrington Jackson 1
Ricky Hart 1
Ricky Love 1
Rico Moya 1

Class Of 1981 3
Brian Hodge Hodge 2
Kim Lokken Armatti 1

Class of 1982 2
Jeffrey Honaker 2

Class Of 1983 4
Holly Huckans Marcotte 1
Robert Orozco 2
Mia Rochelle Rios 1

Class of 1984 8
Rosalind Crook-Duckett 1
Lisa Du Pont Stang 2
Charles Halt 1
Kenneth Lopez 1
Ron Orozco 2
Joni VanMeir 1

Class of 1985 9
Delondra Hodge Adkins 2
Tracy Huckans Hanshaw 2
Dawn Wilson Albright 1
Mary LaBarre 1
William Pappert 2
Michelle Petty Rankin 1

Class Of 1986 10
Tina Burden 1
Dorien Boyer Oliver 1
Steven Connor 2
Robert Engelke 1
Heather Gallaher Bradley 1
Elizabeth Kennedy DeOllos 1
Jill Longoria Belarmino 2
Tanya Preusser Hawks 2

Class of 1987 8
Dana Albright 1
Robert Engelke 1
Eric Hartel 2
Christine Mietz Diamond 1
Sandra Niebling 1
Chuck Skovira 1
Christian VanMeir 1

Class Of 1988 3
Cheryl Coleman 2
Lisa Pelton Broadus 1

Class Of 1989 7
Dirksen Kelley 1
Jennifer Wessels-Young 1
Stacy Moore Broadus 1
Curtis Smith 2
Alea Talbert Pence 1
Marianne Wenzel Parker 1

Class Of 1991 1
April Wenzel 1

Class Of 1993 1
Tonya Talbert Williams 1

A little reminder during stressful times.

2009-07-15T17:56:03.000Z

Speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly...

hey people!!!!

2009-07-06T00:17:19.000Z

sorry its been a while very busy here with the new house , work, and my new projects. as of now MADMAXXTV is up and running on youtube, check it out there will be a new one every week. please pass the word, hoping to get found, or at least known. life is great!!!! sorry cant afford to go to vegas, wish i could, talk to you soon, spencer- madmaxx

Jackson Wade Has Arrived!

2009-06-27T21:31:08.000Z

He came 2.5 weeks early and on Anthony's birthday! He arrived 6/18 @ 10:30 a.m. by emergency c-section. We brought him home on Father's Day. All is well and we are adjusting wonderfully to our new life.

Facebook

2009-06-15T05:04:02.000Z

All my Woodbridge friends are invited to check out my Facebook profile. Search by using timfields@hotmail.com

Tim

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

2009-06-11T17:34:34.000Z

She said that we would meet again some sunny day.

Pictures and Yearbooks

2009-06-10T21:22:11.000Z

I just checked out Chuck Gilbert's Tweeter account and he has all his yearbooks posted from 1970 to 75. He's done a much better job and presentation than I can, so I suggest you visit his site at http://ow.ly/d940 for a better look. Thanks Chuck

Hiya

2009-05-31T04:30:38.000Z

Okay, first of all, I'm not a blogger. Chances are, this will be my last blog on this site.

If you want to get in touch with me, especially if you are the class of '88, then email me, or use the message system (hopefully I have it set up to send me notifications).

It's been over 20 years since we graduated, and I forgotten most of you. I tend to live in the now, but occasionally I get the nostalgia feeling and would like to get in touch with some of you. Hell, I forgotten most, if not all of my friends while in high school.

Well that's about it really.

Oh, one other thing. Yes, Peggy (Lesson) and I got married. No we are not together. Let's leave it at that.

Paul

My Family Blog

2009-05-28T04:43:52.000Z

You can check out what me and my family have been up to at my family blogsite
www.scotifilaricans.blogspot.com

History of the World, Part I (well, my world anyway)

2009-05-26T04:49:46.000Z

So many things have happened in the last 17 years, I don't know what to begin with. I suppose I'll start with a brief history of where I've been, and what I was doing there, and then expand on that later as time permits.

After graduating from Woodbridge, I went to college at University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. I did not go to Albuquerque by myself. For reasons that I am not certain of, Nickie Wauchop also began attending school at UNM. Also, for reasons I am not certain of, my dad suddenly had PCS orders to Kirtland AFB. Of course, Kirtland AFB is located in Albuquerque, NM. I found this amazing, because I had been told my parents were considering orders to Alaska. However, shortly after I decided that I was going to UNM, my dad had orders to the same place.

Fortunately, they did not require me to reside with them. The lived in a suburb, about 45 minutes away from the school (and the base). I resided in the dorms - so while I had my independence, I also had the security of knowing that they were a short distance away.

The most profound statement I can say about that time was that I played a lot of volleyball. A typical day consisted of me getting up about 9:30 am (my first class was at 8, my second was at 9) so I could make my third class of the day on time - volleyball class! (This was also the only class I had that took attendence). After my 10:00 volleyball class, I'd often stay and "audit" the 11:00 volleyball class. I'd then grab a quick lunch, and by 1:00-1:30 I'd be outside playing volleyball on the grass courts. A much different game than the indoor games in the morning! I'd stay there until 4 or 5, and then head in (mind you, Chemistry class was at 1).

I DID actually manage to attend most of my classes the first day (though not Chem!) and pick up a syllabus, so I at least knew when the tests were. And as anyone who's ever known me might expect, I breezed through the tests by reading the covered chapters the night before. For Chemistry, I did have to attend the labs 1 hour/week, so every now and then I'd ask one of my fellow lab partners when the next test was and what it covered. That worked reasonably well, until one day I was showing one of them my fancy $200 calculator that you could program formulas in, input the variables, and it would give you the answer. She asked if we were allowed to use it on the tests. I replied "Well, you're not supposed to, but. . ." to which she asked if I had used it on the test yesterday. I regained my composure quickly after bluring out "what test?"

All was well, however, because the professor dropped your lowest grade, and my lowest grade happened to be a ZERO! Feel free to hate me at this point.

Life continued in this manner until finals week. Now, for some reason, my roommate decided to wait until the week of finals to buy a Sega Genesis. Trouble Trouble Trouble. This made it a bit more difficult for me to find the time to actually read the material that the tests were going to cover, so I didn't bother. Priorities. I looked at the clock one day, and realized I had 15 minutes until my Chemistry final started. The choice was to dig out my calculator, run across campus and take a test that I was ill-prepared for, or continue playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

I beat Sonic the Hedgehog that day.

Things were still OK, grade wise - so with no final (and a professor that wouldn't let me make up a final without a REALLY good excuse - I did visit him to try to make up the final but realized that there was nothing I could tell him that would allow me to take the final late) my chem grade was not an A or B, but I still managed to pull off a C. Feel free to REALLY hate me at this point.

The big turning point for me came after I took the final in my macrobiology course.I did actually manage to find time to skim the necessary chapters. Not fully read, definitely not study, but skim. I went and took the test, and for the first time in my life, I had a test that blew my mind. I literally did not have a coherent thought for 2 hours after taking that test. I kind of stumbled around the student union in a daze. At this point, I realized that I was not ready for college. While I was certainly intellectually ready, I was so tired of and bored with school and did not have the maturity to drudge through the material and attend class, I realized that I was not in the right place for me at the time. I called my mother later that week and arranged to have lunch with her that day.

During lunch, I explained to my mother how the test had blown my mind, and how I realized that I wasn't really ready to learn anything at college, and so I was dropping out after only a year. I then told her of my plans for the future - I was going to join the Navy.

www.busyartgirl.blogspot.com

2009-05-21T19:03:33.000Z

A glimpse of activities from life in Austin :)

Christine's 40th birthday surprise.

2009-05-18T01:51:29.000Z

It has been several weeks since my awesome short weekend, but I finally edited the video and picked a few photos to upload to the site. Thanks to Christine's husband Pat, I had this trip planned since late february, plane ticket bought, just hoping that she would not find out that I would be there for her birthday weekend! All went perfect, I landed on friday, May 1st at 11 am, Pat picked me up and I spent 4 nervous hours at her house until she got home from work. We had a wonderful 4 days of catching up from the past 10 months and said our goodbyes monday morning with the thought that we will see each other again in Vegas in July. I could not pass up the chance to surprise her! Now, I gotta think of something ever better for our 50th birthdays!

PURE Grips Video Shoot

2009-05-08T14:30:34.000Z

I am off to Charleston, SC in 2 weeks to shoot a video for our website. Our marketing company, which is based there, has hired a film crew and has reserved a private country club for the shoot. Exciting things are happening for this young up and coming company. We have such an interest from such a variety of groups and people. Our General Manager starts on Monday and I am so excited. We are growing fast and lots of projects on the horizon.

Partners will be in town next week for some meetings with a Sports Agency here in Scottsdale, the week after, my parents are visiting for a bit then in June my Niece will be here also. Good to have live-in dogsitters..lol. Dropped off 450 grips to Arizona State Univ. golf program...WHEW, it has been busy, busy, busy...

Hope everyone is well.

Reunion

2009-04-28T00:30:00.000Z

Doesn't look like I will be going to the reunion:( I would love to see everyone but we have a time share that weekend.

Okay Iam alive I have just been busy and since my wife has got me signed up I need to say hi to ever…

2009-04-24T03:12:20.000Z

Okay Iam alive I have just been busy and since my wife has got me signed up I need to say hi to everybody and to let you know that I am not ignoring you all its been a hecktic week but I do look at the pictures and do remember the faces Im remembering some of the names but it has been along time and I guess you can say Im getting old. But thats okay it is coming back as I look thru the pics I start to rmember. So be patient with me and dont be offended I am remembering.

HOME

2009-04-13T21:10:08.000Z

echos in silence , patience and grace. all of these moments i'll never replace.

peolple i've loved i have no regrets. some of them living some of them dead,and all i want is to be home........

Repressed Artist

2009-04-10T02:58:23.000Z

Yup. That's me. The guy who went to art school who now manages a cell phone store. However, the dream isn't dead. Not at all. I've been doddling some ideas in my sketch book for years. Capturing ideas and concepts for graphic stories that I want to tell and have been wanting to tell since High School. Some people might recall a Friday the 13th comic I used to do, but if you were part of a select group of people in my Senior year you might've been privy to Jonstone. Jonstone started off as a comic strip that i drew one day in Mr. Gardener's class. He was a Private Investigator in the not-so-distant future. It was more comedy than action.

Well, over the years I've done a lot of plotting and background work on this stuff, and when the time is right I plan on developing these ideas into an online comic strip. I talk more about these ideas in a future blog (when time permits).