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2011-2012 Winter Newsletter Highlights:
- Volunteers are always welcome to help at our March 17 reunion.
- Reservations received after March 3 will cost $15.
- 1960’s Summer School Memories by J. Lance Johannsen ’67
     Nick Jones creating a dust storm with his Rambler
     Glenn Holmes the bus driver
     Scuba diving in the pool
- Margaret Bagby still plays sax
- Gwendolyn Schlange is still involved in education
- Brandon Cordill ’98 chosen as a Navy Blue Angel pilot
- Oil derrick on Lyon Street in Hemet
- Class of 1946's reunion in conjunction with the HAA Reunion in 2011
- Class of 1966 looking for classmate information
- San Jacinto Valley, Past & Present compiling information for a 2nd volume
- Recipes:  Chicken Divan, Dill Dip, Pumpkin Crunch, Meringue-Baked Pecans,
  and Candy Buckeyes
- Tips for mailing your membership renewals and lunch reservations
- Alumni participated in December’s Tinsel Triathlon for Central County
  United Way
- A Season of Losses:  Al Fages, Joe Sallee, and Charlie Clark

2010 Winter Newsletter Highlights:
§      Donation from the Sue and Hillas Cole Foundation allowed us to award
        gifts to student activities.  Some of the thank you notes were
        published in this issue.
§      Hemet San Jacinto Genealogy Society working on a Local History Book.
§      Because of Bob Anderson’s passion for Hemet’s Music Program,
        someone donated a large sum to the program.
§      A sterling silver spoon with a picture of the old Hemet High School?
§      Pilgrim Peace Garden the brainchild of a Hemet alum.
§      Graber olive memories.
§      Beryl Penacho Andrews is 93 years old???
§      Mmm mmm good.
        Beef and Canellini Bean Soup and Pumpkin Pie Cake recipes.
§      Why was football jersey #21 retired?
§      A history of the Victory Bell.  San Jacinto won it back in 2010.
§      Reunion recaps from 1954, 1955, 1960, 1965, and 1968-69.

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Newsletter Editor:  Kathleen Howard Stearns