"Mi casa es su casa"

Welcome to the home of the Tucson High School Class of 1960 web site. Please bookmark this page or make a note of the address: http://www.ths1960.com/.

En Español: Bienvenidos al hogar de la clase 1960 de la escuela secundaria de Tucson del web site. Bookmark por favor esta página o anote la dirección: http://www.ths1960.com/.

There were approximately 560 of us who graduated in 1960. Scores of others were a part of the class but either graduated elsewhere, graduated later, or didn't graduate. But, once a member of this class, always a member of this class. This web site is dedicated to all of those who were a part of the class for any length of time.

We intend to keep this web site alive as a continuing tribute to our class. It will be a place where you can always find e-mail addresses, photos from the past, and information about plans for the next reunion.

This counter shows the number of hits on this site since the last reunion, the 45th reunion, October 2005. Este contador demuestra el número de golpes en este sitio desde la 45.a reunión, octubre de 2005.

Take a look, we have more than 200 classmates listed on the e-mail page. You may be able to contact some friends that you have lost touch with over the years.

If you are not yet listed on the e-mail directory page, you can be added if you send an e-mail to any of us listed below:

IF YOU CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, PLEASE LET ONE OF US KNOW SO THE EMAIL DIRECTORY IS UPDATED AND CURRENT!

For information about the 50th reunion, click on the rearview mirror in the upper left marked "50th Reunion Info."

February 5, 2010

No more updates until Feb 15 because we will be in Tucson for the meeting on Monday and for the rest of the week and to soak up some sun (rain?).

February 4, 2010

You are all invited . . . to a reunion planning meeting in Tucson on Monday, February 8th, at the El Parador Restaurant on Broadway at 11:30 am. RSVP to Yvonne Tellez.

El Parador

2744 East Broadway Boulevard
Tucson, AZ 85716-5385
(520) 881-2744

Lunch Menu

February 2, 2010

After the "save the date cards" were sent out, some were returned undelivered. Our list is now back up to 103 names of classmates that we can't find. Do you know how to contact any of the people listed below? If you do, please send the info to our Chief Investigator, Yvonne Tellez, yvonnetellez@gmail.com.

January 24, 2010

Pat Fleming Hackett sent an e-mail with her new e-mail address. She also added that she plans to attend the 50th reunion in October.

pihackettlady@aol.com

January 20, 2010

Received an e-mail from Francine Smith Buechler with her new mailing address and e-mail address.

grandfranb@verizon.net

January 15, 2010

Diane Dennis LaVetter recorded the proceedings of the reunion planning committee meeting held on October 26, 2009.

Click here to read the minutes of the meeting.

January 14, 2010

Here is the 1960 edition of our yearbook, The Tucsonian.

January 10, 2010

BULLETIN

The DoubleTree Hotel is now accepting reservations for next October's 50th reunion.

The special price is $119.00 per night per room.

Reunion reservations at the DoubleTree Hotel. A block of rooms is reserved for us and open for reservations to be made. The dates of the reunion are Friday, October 15 thru Sunday October 17, 2010. Call the Tucson local number: 520 323-5266 and ask for the block of rooms set aside for the 50th Reunion of the Tucson High Class of 1960. The hotel's address is 445 S Alvernon Way Tucson, AZ 85711-4198 and their web site is http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/TUSBTDT-Doubletree-Hotel-Tucson-at-Reid-Park-Arizona/index.do.
 

January 7, 2010

Other THS classes' web sites you may wish to visit:

1953    http://www.ths53.com/

1958    http://www.ths1958.com/

1959    http://www.ths1959.com

1965    http://www.swtraffic.com/ths

1969   http://www.classreport.org/usa/az/tucson/ths/1969/

1975    http://www.reuniontime.com/reunions/az/tucson/ths/1975/

1982    http://www.geocities.com/ths_reunion82/index.html

January 3, 2010

Carol Dutiel sent in her e-mail address.

ctaylor6@peoplepc.com

December 24, 2009

As you may know, our class president Franklin Gee suddenly passed away in October. Evey Fink Bendalin spoke about Franklin at the Reunion Planning Meeting in Tucson on October 26th at the El Parador restaurant. Here is what she said:

December 23, 2009

Here is the link to Tucson High School (now called Tucson High Magnet School)

Take a look. http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/thms/

Some of the other schools in Tucson you may be interested in checking out:

Mansfeld:  http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Mansfeld

Roskruge: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Roskruge

Safford: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Safford

Alice Vail: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Vail

Spring: Alas, Spring is no more and there is no link to click on.

Sam Hughes Elementary School: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Sam_Hughes

Miles Elementary School: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Miles/

Peter Howell Elementary School: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Howell/

Tucson Unified School District: http://www.tusd.k12.az.us/

(Any others that should be listed here?)

December 22, 2009

If you look at the upper-left side of the screen, there are some rear view mirrors. Each one leads to a page or pages. Take a look at the one called THS History.

December 20, 2009

Patricia Delfs Walkden updated her THEN and NOW photos. Take a look.

THEN and NOW Page

December 20, 2009

Here is the revised version of THEN and NOW. It is revised to add several new THEN and NOW pages and, of course, to remove one, Franklin Gee.

December 20, 2009

For those of you who don't live in Tucson and who have not seen our old school recently, here is a quick trip around the campus. It takes 1 1/2 minutes to drive around completely (if you stick to the speed limit, which we never did 50 years ago).

December 12, 2009

Some of us remember the rules issued (or reissued) by Dean of Girls Calanthe Brazelton at some point during our four years at THS. The rules included a ban on wearing red dresses because they got the boys excited and no patent leather shoes because they were shinny and acted like mirrors reflecting up under the dresses of the girls which got the boys excited too. Was there any more to the rule that you can remember?

There must have been some validity to those rules, there was even a book on the subject written in 1975. (Thanks to Kari An Salyer for finding a copy and sending it).

December 11, 2009

The movies in the late 1950s. We went to drive-ins a lot. We didn't really care what was playing, did we?

We went for the popcorn.     

Yeah, right! But there were some very good movies made in those years. Do you remember? You do? Which movie won the academy award in 1960? Can't remember?

What about music?   Which songs won Grammy Awards in 1960?

The answers are on the page we call Do You Remember.             (about half-way down the page)

December 5, 2009

Did you have a record collection when you were a high school student?

December 4, 2009

Or this one?

December 3, 2009

How many 45s did you have?

December 3, 2009

"What? You're having my baby after only one. . . "

December 3, 2009

Bramble McFee has a new e-mail address:

brammcfee@yahoo.com

December 1, 2009

Added a new THEN and NOW page for Caroline Edmonds Amos. Take a look.

Click on the link to go directly to her page

Caroline Edmonds

November 29, 2009

Alicia Cheechoff Bellantoni - This info was sent in by her long-time friend and our classmate Sylvia Avenente Dickinson.

Alicia and Ernest Bellantoni were married April 15, 1961 and relocated to San Diego where they currently live.  They have four adopted children and ~8 grandchildren.  Alicia was diagnosed with a rare form of Cushing's Syndrome in the '80's.  As a result of  Cushing's Syndrome, Alicia today is bedridden and dependent on her husband and a team of in-home care givers.  Alicia has undergone numerous surgeries and treatments and specialists in the field have studied her carefully but they don't have any solutions.

While Alicia is alert and loves to hear from friends, she cannot operated any equipment.   Please take a minute and send her a card or a note. I'm sure that would light up her day.

    2828 Dove Street
    San Diego, CA 92103-6124

 

November 27, 2009

Tom Gentner was a member of THS1959 but many of us knew him.

November 26, 2009

And this one. Do you still have your copy?

November 25, 2009

This card was recently mailed to all classmates. Some of them were returned undelivered. If you did NOT receive one of these cards, please send your current address to us so we can update our records and make sure you get the forms when they are mailed out next March. You can send address changes to Yvonne Tellez, yvonnetellez@gmail.com.

November 25, 2009

Hear is another tidbit from our past.

November 24, 2009

This article from our junior year was sent in by one of our classmates:

November 21, 2009

Added a new e-mail address for Sylvia Avenente Dickinson.

repat91@gmail.com

November 19, 2009

You remember our foreign exchange student, Michele Dumonteil, who attended THS in 1959/1960. We have just reestablished contact with her and here is her e-mail address. I just posted a THEN and NOW page for her. She is planning to come to the reunion in October. Her e-mail address is posted below and she will enjoy receiving an e-mail from her friends from school.

michele-rochaix@orange.fr

November 19, 2009

Photos from the 45th reunion, informal Friday evening festivities.

Photos from the 45th reunion, Saturday evening, Part I

Photos from the 45th reunion, Saturday evening, Part 2

November 9, 2009

Here is another photo saved for the past 50 years by Patricia Delfs Walkden.

November 7, 2009

SPORTS: The Badgers finished the season by soundly beating Rincon/University High School by a score of 45 to 8. The Badgers record for the year was a disappointing 4 wins against 6 losses. OK, so much for football. On to basketball.

November 3, 2009

Here are some images from the 40th reunion. If you were there, this should bring back memories. If you were not there, here is a chance to see the event.

November 1, 2009

Carroll Gommel Mueller has a new e-mail address:

Carroll709@gmail.com

October 29, 2009

Himmel Park

Many of us spent a lot of time at the pool at Himmel Park during the summers. It looks exactly the same today as it did 55 years ago. For those of you who don't live in Tucson these days, you might enjoy taking a look at this short slide show.

October 28, 2009

Computer Training 101. This came up at the reunion planning meeting and has nothing to do with planning the reunion but might be useful information.

There are several keyboard shortcuts that have been around since Windows Version 1. They all involve pressing two keys; first press and hold the Control key and while keeping it pressed, press the second key briefly. Then release both keys. Got it?

Here are the short cuts:

To select all of the files in a folder or all of the text on a page or a list of e-mail addresses, Control-A. Whatever is selected can then be copied.

To copy everything selected, Control-C. Anything copied can be pasted elsewhere.

To paste the stuff that you copied, Control-V.

To delete the stuff that you selected, Control-X.

To undo whatever you just did before, Control-Z. This one can be very helpful if you just screwed up deleted something that you didn't want to delete. Try Control-Z to undo the delete.

October 28, 2009

Added a new e-mail address to our directory for Natalie Clark Hoxie. I understand that she is recovering from a health problem and so you all could help her by sending her an e-mail to wish her well.

npclark3@gmail.com

October 27, 2009

Jim Cohen contributed another old photo with some people you may recognize because they eventually went to THS. This photo of the 3rd grade class was taken at Sam Hughes Elementary school. That would have been the school year of 1950 - 1951 (I think). Also thanks to Linda South Lenoir for helping to identify some of the people in this photo.

October 24, 2009

Evey Fink Bendalin reported that Franklin Gee, our class President, died last night of a heart attack. He was on the phone talking to his sister when he dropped the phone and died.

October 24, 2009

Do you remember Invictus? Fifty years ago your English teacher told you to memorize Invictus by William Ernest Henley? Well? Do you still remember how it goes? If not, here it is again so you can refresh your memory.

OUT of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

October 15, 2009

We have located two classmates, Janice Brooks Moore and Mary (now Susie) Andrew Todd, and added their e-mail addresses to our directory.

                                                                                                                    moorescabin@centurytel.net                                  uofalady@cox.net

October 12, 2009

I received an e-mail today from Angie Lopez informing us that Raul Lopez died on July 19, 2007 of leukemia. She said: "He had a wonderful sense of humor even to the end.  Five days before he died we had a party for him.  He jokingly called it his going away party.  He lived a very spirit-filled life, and thus he died the same way."

October 8, 2009

My mother kept all of my report cards, even the few that had good grades. Do you remember what they looked like?

I only needed 3 classes to graduate so that is all I took. I was only there in the mornings that final year. One of the classes I took was Advanced Sales (Distributive Education). We studied salesmanship in class and then worked at a local store in the afternoons. I worked at JC Penney in the men's department during the first semester and Dave Bloom and Sons during the second.

I Photoshopped the grades out of the image so nobody would know how bad a student I was in those days.

I think the number 393 on the left side is the number of times I was sent to the dean's office during the semester and 06 refers to the number of times that I was really at fault for the disturbance. LOL!

We lived near the university until UofA bought our whole block and we had to move. We moved East of Rincon and I could have transferred to Rincon but both my sister and I decided to continue at THS where we started.

October 7, 2009

John Haygood attended Tucson High for 3 1/2 years as a part of our class. He moved to Hawaii for his final semester of high school and graduated there. Some of you may remember him. He may attend the 50th reunion next year.

jhaygood@swbell.net

October 6, 2009

Did you loose your THS diploma? Would you like a replacement? If you would like one, I'll be happy to make one for you. All you have to do is send me an e-mail with your name as you would like it printed on your diploma and the address to mail it to.

(I sent an e-mail to each of the officials listed on the diploma but none of them responded saying that they disapproved so I assume it is OK.)

September 22, 2009

In 1987 a move was made in Tucson titled "Can't Buy Me Love." It starred a very young Patrick Dempsey. The movie was filmed in Tucson High School and on the school's campus. The story is about a nerd who pays the head cheerleader $1,000 to pretend to be his friend for a month so that others will consider him to be cool and acceptable as one of the popular students.

The cheerleaders' dance routines were choreographed by Paula Abdul. If you have never seen it, now is your chance thanks to YouTube.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

September 4, 2009

If you tried to send an e-mail to Dottie Wielang Rowley and you got an error message about the e-mail address, it is because we had it wrong. Her e-mail address is not dottie@ivds.com, it is dottie@ivds.net.

Dottie@ivds.net

September 1, 2009

Added a new THEN and NOW page for Robbie Philipson Borth. Take a look.

August 28, 2009

Kari An (Carolyn) Salyer has a new e-mail address:

kasalyer@cox.net

August 26, 2009

Received an e-mail today from Bob Walker, THS1961, enclosing an old photo from Sam Hughes Elementary School. It was his 6th grade class photo (a year after our group). I thought I would post it here because you may recognize some people who later attended THS.

Thank you so much Bob.

August 13, 2009

Here is a change or correction to Susan Kinkade Underwood's e-mail address:

munderwood3@sc.rr.com

August 7, 2009

Have you looked at our THEN and NOW pages? There have been some updates lately. Take a look. There is a rearview window in the upper left called THEN and NOW. Just click on it and it will take you to the pages. If you would like to have your own THEN and NOW page, that can be arranged. Just send an e-mail to WEBMASTER.

July 29, 2009

Thanks to Vicki Harper Holland for sending us a new e-mail address for Pat Moran Benton.

pmbenton42@hotmail.com

July 19, 2009

Marilyn Ash Tarrant reported the passing of another of our classmates, Barbara Ice. Barbara was also the wife of one of our classmates, Gilbert Mungia. I'm sure we all extend our sympathies to Gilbert and the rest of their family.

Here is the article from the web site, Tucson.com:

July 16, 2009

Lorna Castor Evans sent us an e-mail with her new e-mail address:

levans15@sc.rr.com

July 15, 2009

Thanks to Felicia Sanders May for sending us the e-mail address for Joann Cardon Downey.

JLCDOWNEY@YAHOO.COM

July 14, 2009

While searching for missing classmates, Gary Freeman came across information that another of our classmates, Henry Olivas, passed away on June 12, 2004.

July 12, 2009

Lois (Call her Michael now) Robinson Jones has a new e-mail address and an update to her THEN and NOW page.

michael7099@att.net

July 11, 2009

Yvonne Tellez found another lost classmate, Bill Barnes.

wwbarnescda@hotmail.com

July 9, 2009

Here is David Warner's current e-mail address:

sandiegodaw@yahoo.com

June 23, 2009

Our ace detective Yvonne Tellez located two new e-mail addresses to add to our directory:

Susan Brainard Harte

sbharte@cox.net

Kena Milberg

hippie1942@aol.com

June 19, 2009

Added Neal Manning to our e-mail directory.

nealmanning@msn.com

June 16, 2009

Noelle Kelsey Nichols has a new e-mail address:

frenchirishlass@yahoo.com

June 12, 2009

Thanks to Gary Freeman for sending in the e-mail addresses for Dawn Wright Beckley.

Summers: fredgolf1@frontier.com

Winters: fredgolf1@msn.com

June 11, 2009

Here is a new e-mail address for Charlotte Quihuis Bell sent in by Fran Tegarden Johnson:

tomcharbell@msn.com

June 8, 2009

Thanks to Butch Farabee for sending in a new e-mail address for Larry Ellermann.

lellermann@esbarch.com

June 5, 2009

Carrie Johnson Bonello sent an e-mail with her new e-mail address.

Bonellomc@gmail.com

June 2, 2009

Two new e-mail addresses thanks to Yvonne Tellez.

John Frerichs

jedafrerichs@yahoo.com

(no photo that I could find)

Arthur (Buddy) Wood

KatArt@Q.com

June 1, 2009

Here are two additions to our e-mail address directory sent in by Yvonne Tellez, Alex Hubbard and Emil Nastri:

maerhubbard@earthlink.net

enastri@cox.net

May 26, 2009

We received an e-mail today from Janet Herstine with an e-mail address to add to our directory.

janetherstine@sbcglobal.net

May 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from David Turner, THS1958. "I am from the class of 1958.  I know the Frazee family quite well, and Paul passed away a few years ago." Later, Gary Freeman's research turned up the exact date which was 02/28/01.

Paul Frazee

April 26, 2009

We located another classmate, Patricia Escalante. She registered on classmates.com as a member of THS1960 and I was able to contact her there. She said this about herself: "I went to THS in 1957-1958. Do you remember Art's Hamburger stand across the street from the old Greyhound bus station. My mother was married to Art. I had a few friends from THS before I went to Phoenix Union. I uploaded a photo of myself and grand daughter." [She didn't mention which person is Pat and which is her granddaughter]. Pat now lives in Sahuarita, AZ.

patzzz@cox.net

April 12, 2009

We heard from another classmate, now living in the United Kingdom, Sam Semoff.

sam.semoff@somaliwomensgroup.org.uk

April 5, 2009

Yvonne found a current mailing address for Caroline Edmonds. Fran sent Caroline one of the Save The Date Cards. Caroline sent an e-mail to Diane and now we have an e-mail address for Caroline Edmonds Amos. Our system is working very well indeed.

datajim@yahoo.com

March 30, 2009

Here is an e-mail address for Jean Weinzapfel Bennert courtesy of her sister Judy Jones. Judy is on the Badger Foundation Board of Directors and is letting Jean use her e-mail address at the Badger Foundation for class communication so if you want to send Jean an e-mail, it will go to Judy and she will pass it on to Jean.

tucsonbadgerfnd@msn.com

March 28, 2009

Posted an updated to the THEN and NOW page for Johnny Lyons. (THEN and NOW pages can be found by clicking on the rearview mirror icon in the upper left labeled THEN and NOW).

Recently Diane Dennis LaVetter and Marilyn Ash Tarrant updated their pages and a new page was added for Fran Tegarden Johnson. Take a look, see what they look like and what they had to say.

If you have a THEN and NOW page, now is a good time to update it with a more recent photo and updated remarks. Your remarks can reflect on your life or you can reminesse about your high school years; whatever you want people to read about you is OK. Send updates to Paul Deutsch for posting here.

If you don't have a THEN and NOW page, you can have one. There is no cost and we have no limit on the amount of space this web site uses. Send photos and remarks to Paul and I will create a page for you.

March 26, 2009

Yvonne Tellez has taken on the job of tracking down classmates and today she sent us contact information for two of them. Yvonne should have been a detective.

Carolyn Griff Herring

ron.herring@msn.com

Nellie Larriva Hernandez

snellytpd@hotmail.com

March 20, 2009

Last week Fran mailed out the Save The Date cards to everyone. Several of them resulted in finding out some sad information and now we know that two more of our classmates have passed away:

Mary Helen Campas

Passed away on January 7, 2009 of kidney failure.

Terrell Trabue

Passed away in 2004 of colon cancer.

March 19, 2009

We received this e-mail today:

"Hi,

I hope it's okay for me to e-mail you an update on Dave Bachmann. Dave passed away on December 7, 2007. His heart simply wore out. Dave was always very proud of Tucson High and the band. I'm sure he would have enjoyed attending his 50th reunion.

Thank you,

(Mrs.) Jonalie Bachmann"

March 15, 2009

Received an addition to our e-mail directory today, Rosemary Northway Cheek:

rjcffgt@aol.com

March 13, 2009

Benedean Bobbitt Siler has a new e-mail address:

jsiler@centurytel.net

Linda Navarro Rincon has a new e-mail address:

Linda.Rincon@comcast.net

March 10, 2009

Butch Farabee has a new e-mail address:

Butchfarabee@comcast.net

Fred Gladden has a new e-mail address:

Fredgladden80@gmail.com

Ted Gladden has two e-mail addresses; one for the summer and another in the winter:

tgladden@cox.net (winters)

tedg@gvtel.com (summers)

February 27, 2009

Added a new page to the THEN and NOW section for Fran Tegarden. Take a look by clicking on her link below her picture.

Link To Fran's THEN and NOW page