Greetings, to each and every one of you ex-Hilltop Lancers. It's been a long time coming. Hard to believe forty years have passed . After graduating high school I attended college at Southwestern. That was soon cut short when the U.S. Army sent me off to Vietnam. After being wounded there, I spent about six months in hospitals in San Diego and San Pedro, after which time the Army decided I was of no use to them so I returned to college.  I received my AA degree at Southwestern and then attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where I met my future wife. My art studies led me to to California Institute of the Arts in Valencia where I received both my B.F.A. and an Irvine Scholarship for my M.F.A.  In the interim, I obtained a California Teaching credential from Point Loma College, having to do my student teaching at Hilltop High of all places. From there I went to work as an Assayer doing testing of precious metals for a company to inform them as to the purity of the gold and silver they would buy and sell.
   Around this time , I was reaquainted with my friend from college, and her two children. We were together for twenty two years before getting married in 2005. I worked as a photographer, photographing products for catalogs, great job if you can keep the work coming in.  I worked as a finished carpenter, a general contractor building custom homes, and back to being a high school art teacher, then to teacher  for the California State Prison.
   We lost our son Bradley to a tragic car crash shortly after his seventeeth birthday. He was to have been a high school senior that fall.  We will never get over the hurt and loss of Bradley.
   While teaching for the Prison's, I was talked into becoming a parole agent for the state and that is what I am doing today along with my art of which will always be a part of my life.

David and I have been married 47 years and have 2 adult children--Brooks and Casey.  Our son and his wife, Maria, gave us two beautiful grandchildren. 

Hannah is 5 & in kindergarten and Gabriel is a year.  We think they are pretty special and are fortunate to see them all the time. Can't believe we have been out of school for 50 years but the road map on my face does reflect the years.   Just doesn't seem possible in so many ways but then again it seems like forever since we were those carefree teenagers without a care in the world....now look at us!  Wow.....    Looking forward to the 50th reunion.  

Hey Lancers! It will be good to see how you all have been spending your time since high school – so many many years ago. I have spent the bulk of the past fifty-five years in public education as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent of schools. I retired at the end of 2011, although I continue to teach educational research for National University. For the past twelve years, I have been pursuing past loves, i.e., playing guitar and rock ‘n roll, photography (dangriderphoto.com), alpine skiing, travel, hiking and backpacking, and standup paddle boarding. I share most of my time with my wonderful wife of thirty years, Gayle.  Between the two of us, we have four remarkable adult children and twelve beautiful grandchildren.  While life has been challenging at times, as I’m sure it has been for all of you, it has also been good to us, blessing us with good health, amazing family and friends, and increasing opportunities to be of service to others. I will most likely miss the reunion, but wish the best to all my “old” Lancer friends.

Greetings all.  Nipomo is currently called home.  Shortly after the 20^th, I gave up smoking, returned to a healthy lifestyle and rediscovered my love of running.  Since then I have run 6 Boston and a total of 9 Marathons.  Most recently, I had a dismal (hopefully temporary) effort in 2007 San Diego Rock ‘n Roll Marathon.  I have enjoyed running in international track events in Europe, Australia and the US, though I’m NOT national class, it sure is fun.

I retired from a career has a software engineer and analyst at the end of 2006 and besides running, enjoy reading about what interests me at the moment, tending my gardens (where I grow my own organic fruits and vegetables) and traveling.  People ask me what I can possibly do with all the free time, but alas, everything now seems to take me twice as long to do half as much.  I’ll stay retired, thank you.

Artist on my running I-Pod with the most tunes: Tom Waits, who I admit I was listening to and had no clue he was a former classmate until Paul Rowe told me at the 20^th. We never met in high school, but he has ridden my ears through thousands of miles, and he is far better than Advil.

Married 39 years to Chuck and have four children, and four grandchildren.   Moved to Pennsylvania in 1971 and have been here ever since.   Work for Wise Potato Chips, (those on the east coast will know them).  Enjoy travelling and playing with my grandchildren.