Birthday: April 23, 1946 Address: 61 West Delaware Avenue City: Newark State/Prov.: DE Zip/Postal Code: 19711 Occupation: Retired/ Dean's Scholar Marital Status: Committed Relationship No. of Children: 1 Graduation Year: 1964 From Kenneth : Lived most of my adult life on the East Coast (NYC, DC, Florida) with shorter spells in London, Louisiana and San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and Palm Springs.
Now in Newark at the University of Delaware (40 miles south of Philadelphia) where my long time partner is an Associate professor, our son is a Senior, and I'm a Dean's Scholar conducting research on the Transilvania peasants of Romania.
Get home to California 1-2 times a year. My sister is in Antioch and my brother lives in Palm Springs. Catch up on the Bay Area local news and the Pirates almost daily by reading the online Contra Costa Times.
CHRISTINA "KRIS" ARATA (O'BRIEN)
Birthday: January 29, 1949 Address: 2276 N BROADVIEW PL City: BOISE State/Prov.: ID Zip/Postal Code: 83702 Occupation: BUSINESS MANAGER Marital Status: Married No. of Children: 1 Graduation Year: 1966 From CHRISTINA "KRIS":
HI TO ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS IN THE CLASSES OF 1964, 1965, 1966, AND 1967. I'VE LIVED IN BOISE,IDAHO SINCE 1968, AND DON'T GET BACK TO CALIF OFTEN. I'VE BEEN MARRIED TO MICHAEL O'BRIEN FOR 30 YEARS AND HAVE ONE DAUGHTER, (HER FATHER IS RAY RODRIGUEZ, CLASS OF '65) AND I HAVE 2 INCREDIBLE GRANDCHILDREN. I'M STILL WORKING ( MANAGING MY HUSBAND'S MEDICAL PRACTICE) BUT WOULD LOVE TO RETIRE NEXT YEAR. WE LOVE TO TRAVEL AND HAVE MANY PLACES IN THE WORLD WE STILL WANT TO EXPLORE. DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL MAKE IT TO THE THE REUNION, BUT I WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST.
Linda Arata
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Birthday: April 01, 1943 Address: 3297 Madrone St City: Antioch State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 94509 Occupation: Retired Marital Status: Single No. of Children: 3 Graduation Year: 1961 From Linda: Sorry I won't be able to come. my daughter and Grandson will be visiting me.
Gail Ascanio (Pearson)
Birthday: August 02, 1944 Address: 4068 Granada Dr. City: Pittsburg State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 94565 Marital Status: Married Graduation Year: 1962 From Gail: Class of 1962...hope to see you at the 60's decade reunion in August...buy your tickets early...I hope our class has the biggest turnout...Gail
Angelina Ayala (Johnson)
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Birthday: November 21, 1949 Address: 1657 Kingsly Drive City: Piitsburg State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 94565 Occupation: Office Manager Marital Status: Married No. of Children: 8 Graduation Year: 1967 From Angelina:
We were high school sweethearts, Gordon and I married in Dec 1967. Traveled and lived across country alot, made our first home in Lemon Grove, CA for 6moths .Gordon enlisted in the Air Force during high school , he went to Boot Camp in Texas; (just miss being sent to Viet-Nam) was stationed to Vacaville-Travis AFB; then sent to Albuquerque, New Mexico-three yrs.
Moved back to Southern Cal; lived Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, job transfer to San Antonio and Austin,Texas back to the San Diego area to Poway, CA., yet again traveling now across the U.S. to Cumming, Georgia ( North of Atlanta ) finally another transfer now back to Northern Calif moved to Danville in 1989. Later moved to San Ramon. Wanted to live outside of the area we found a place out in the country, Manteca.
In 2003, we started our own business, were called Barefoot Pools; swimming pool contractors here in the Contra Costa Cty/Tri-Valley /Alameda and surroundings areas. Gordon specialty since 1974 reasons why we moved he was the best and started many offices for company we worked for.
Before coming back here we were briefly in Fresno; now make home in Pittsburg. Like all the traveling but this was one long road trip - 42 yrs worth, I became such an expert packer now!!
In 1969 started a family and it grew to a large family 8 children; Cecilia, Gregory, Raquel, Theresa, Gabriel, Rebecca, Reuben and Ramon. (In between we lost 2 children) Now we are grandparents of 26, and just recently our son and wife annouonced that they are having their first baby; this will make it 27 coming Jan 2011.
We have three cats, Aleya, Sassy, and Fi-Fi plus a box-turtle ToTo that keeps taking off hiding in the bushes ( she blends in real good ) but comes back out for more lettece and her other goodies, then does all over again.
Drives Gordie nuts!!
Now we have our oldest grandson Nicholas living with us for his senior year. This August 19th, he is going to the auditions for "American Idol" in San Francisco. Can't believe I agreed to take him 8 years ago, so here I go with the crowd of songbirds everywhere; and I mean thousands of them.
All in all, it is nice to be back where I started from and hope to many great years here. I have good memories of Pittsburg and well as sad ones but all in all we’re are family and Pittsburg is Home. Changes happen for the best yet we don't want to let go. It is part of us; "our youth" but we have our memories.
We live in the good times many which they had. Life is blessing, we must cherish the friendship of the past and build new relationships for our future.
Hope we can make connections in August.
God Bless You All !!
Mike Banister
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Birthday: June 12, 1947 Address: 3242 Kansas St. City: Oakland State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 94602 Occupation: Lawyer Marital Status: Married No. of Children: 2 Graduation Year: 1965 From Mike: After college, I served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia/Eritrea with my then wife. Went to grad school then spent the summer of 76 in Tunisia studying Arabic. Went back to grad school and became a librarian for 9 years. Then law school, and for the past 20 years have worked at Cal. DOJ.
Cynthia Boschke (Cardinale)
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Birthday: September 14, 1949 Address: 1134 Steven Drive City: Pittsburg State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 94565 Occupation: retired Primary
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A little personal info, I have been married to Pete Cardinale, a retired Pittsburg Unified School District Principal, for 39 years. We have 3 children, Jeff, Kourtney and Kylie. We also have 5 grandchildren with one more on the way in August. I have been disabled for 11 years so I no longer work which is OK since my grandkids are my life!
Jill & Jim Brisbin (Bugni)
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Address: 2287 Treana Ct. City: Tulare State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 93274 Occupation: Retired Teachers Marital Status: Married No. of Children: 2 From Jill & Jim: 3 Grandchildren
John Cardinale
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Birthday: July 05, 1950 Address: 16221 Paradise Rd. City: Pioneer State/Prov.: CA Zip/Postal Code: 95666 Occupation: Semi-Retired Marital Status: Married No. of Children: 2 Graduation Year: 1969 From John: Life is great in the Sierra foothills.
Dave Dave Romanoski (Romanoski)
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Birthday: November 01, 1946 Address: 45 Gaffney Rd. City: New Milford State/Prov.: CT Zip/Postal Code: 06776 Occupation: Publications Admin. Graduation Year: 1964 From Dave : I usually go by the name David Roman