Last Blog Reunion Update

Dear Reunion Attendee:

It’s now just one week before we get to see all of you. What an exciting journey this has been for us. We have been so fortunate to be able to chat with just about everyone who’s coming, and now to connect the faces with the names will even make it better.

We have a few things to let you know about before the event.

1. Reunion start time: We have moved the time up to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, September 25 for registration. We have a lot of people coming, so this will help to get everyone through the registration area to pick up their name badges. The bars will be open so you can start socializing. Note: Registration is by last name or maiden name.
2. Parking: Self-parking will be sponsored. Please keep your ticket and it will be validated when you leave for the evening. You will need to park in the underground parking garage located off of Union Street. Union St. is a one-way street, going west, and the entrance is just west of Los Robles Ave. on the right hand side of the street. There is also valet parking at the entrance of the hotel, if you wish.
3. Attire: People have asked us about the attire for the evening. It is “casual” and has a theme of tropical/beach (just like the 47th reunion, if you attended). For instance, I will be wearing crop pants and a flowered shirt. Gary will wear a Hawaiian shirt and either shorts or pants. Remember, we will have great music to dance to so you’ll want to make sure your shoes are appropriate for dancing.
4. Memorabilia for the Muir Museum: The curators of the Muir Museum have indicated that they would love to have any memorabilia from 1959 for the museum. If you would like to bring that to the museum on Saturday, Sept. 26, they will be very happy to receive it for our class. Jackets, cheerleader outfits, pictures, etc. would be most welcome.
5. Directions for Saturday Activities: Directions for the Saturday activities have been printed up and will be available on Friday night.

If you have any questions about the upcoming weekend of activities, please call us at 818-790-1959 or email us at: MuirReunion@gmail.com.

We will see you very soon.

Mary

Saturday Lunch

Dear Classmates,

We have had a great response to the Mijares lunch on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at Noon (12:00 pm), with over 85 people planning to attend. We are providing you with directions to the restaurant and to remind you to wear your name tag from the Friday night dinner.

Please remember that your margaritas, beer or alcohol drinks are an extra expense. The full lunch buffet, non-alcoholic drinks, dessert, tax and gratuity are included in the $20 payment you sent in.

Restaurant: Mijares

Address: 145 Palmetto Drive, Pasadena

Directions from the Westin Hotel:

Go south on Los Robles Ave. and turn right onto Del Mar Blvd.
Continue on Del Mar Blvd. to S. Fair Oaks Ave.
Turn left onto S. Fair Oaks Ave. and then turn right on Palmetto Drive

(just before you get to California Blvd).
Continue to 145 Palmetto Dr. which is on the right.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

You may want to print this out and bring with you.

Thanks, we’ll see you soon.

Full House

Dear Classmates:

We have had several responses from our email this weekend regarding the space available for the reunion. Apparently, there are more classmates that want to attend this reunion that haven’t already sent in their reservations. This is great, but creates a dilemma. The current space and room setup for the event will not accommodate an increase in attendance. Therefore we were advised we were at a maximum capacity for the room setup.

We made a call to the hotel this morning to discuss a possible increase in attendance. They said they could make changes to the room layout and move the banquet tables to another area just to accommodate the extra people. If you have decided to attend this reunion dinner event we will need your commitment by sending in your reservation and money ($95/person) to be received no later than September 15th. Otherwise, we will not make any of these changes.

Please let us know ASAP if you are coming.

Reunion Committee

Registration List for Reunion Dinner

Registration List for September 25, 2009 Reunion Dinner

Name, Last
First
Married Spouse or Guest

Akins
J. Duff

Alexander
Wanda

Anderson
Wendy
Greer

Averill
Wendy
Marilee France

Ayala
Genevieve
Carta

Babbe
Susan
Olson

Bailey
Daphne
Thabet
Vladimir Petrov

Baird
Sandi
Valenzuela

Baker
Carolee
Allen
Del Allen

Becker
John

Bennett
James
Joyce Bennett

Berenger
Brian
Theresa Berenger

Bernhisel
Ralph

Biller
Sheila (Gay)
Cooper
David Cooper

Binkley
Barbara
Galyean
Art Galyean

Birchall
Don

Bishop
Harold

Blake
Glenna

Borsook
Rolinda
Baker

Brock
Andreaon
Hardy
Patrick Hardy

Browder
Eileen
Sturm
Wendy Benton

Brown
Diana
Nasser
Riad Nasser

Bunch
James

Butner
Thomas

Byler
K. Larry
Ann Byler

Callaway
Velda
Pierce

Cannon
Dick

Carr
Betty
Ruby Roberson

Cassou
LeRoy
Gayle Warwick

Chalmers
Murray
Karen Chalmers

Chambers
Carol
Krumm
Jack Krumm

Clark
Carmelle
Knudsen

Clausen
Barbara
Anderson

Clay
Pearl

Cole
Tommy
Aileen Cole

Cole
Sharon

Collister
Jim

Culver
Diane
Watkins
John Watkins

Davider
Suzanne

Davis
Jim
Rita Davis

DeBussey
Jane
Singleton
Gary Singleton

Dellsite
Howard
Beth Dellsite

Dembrowski
Bob

Donan
John
Diana Donan

Dorland
William
Lynn Dorland

Dowse
Tom
Mary Dowse

Duffy
Maryann
Sturtevant

Dwiggins
Sue
Becker

Edwards
Lynn
Kathryn Edwards

Eliason
Eric

Eliason
Michael
Stephanie Eliason

Ellis
Constance
Carter

Emerson
Betty
Kiser

Feldman
Arlen
Elsa Feldman

Forbes
Gail
Farrell

Foster
Woodbridge

Fujitani
Donald
Miyuki Fujitani

Ganguin
Daniel

Gibson
Penelope
Jones

Glass
Joanne
Keith
Dennis Keith

Gomez
Laurence

Grant
Jeffrey
Nancy Grant

Greene
Lewis
Carol Greene

Gregory
Maralyn
Franklin
Ellis Franklin

Hammer
Michael
Francesca Hammer

Hammond
Robert
Patricia Hammond

Hammond
Richard
Sandra Hammond

Harrison
John

Hartong
Betty
Newlee

Hawkins
Joseph

Heath
Christina

Hernandez
Celia

Hershey
George

Hesse
Henry

Hixson
Richard
Inge Hixson

Holder
Catherine
Smith
Curtis Smith

Horton
Jeffrey
Marcy Horton

Howe
Linda
Eichhorn
Don Eichorn

Hughes
Laurel
Tiffany
George Tiffany

Hunnicut
Joanne
Vaughn

Hyde
Anne
Porath
Arny Porath

Innes
Nancy
Dodd
Gary Dodd

Jacobsen
Karen
Miller
Robert Miller

Johnson
J. Lindy
Hill

Jones
Brian

Jones
Dennis

Kadomoto
Katherine
Phillips

Kalbach
David
Mary Ann Kalbach

Kaminski
Larry
Donna Kaminski

Kelley
John

Kersten
Beth
Saul

Kittell
Jim
Janet Thompson

Klages
Nancy
Hall

Klann
Gary

Kliem
Edward

Kline
Patty


Komatsu
Christine
Iwamiya

Lambeth
Linda
Schott

Larson
Karen
Kathan

LePera
Bonnie
Bishop

Liljenwall
Christine
Martin

Lofton
Pat
Brown
Les Axelrod

Lohrman
Eileen
Bushong

McCreery
Nancy
Billings
Tom Billings

McFarland
Locke

McKay
Paul
Mary McKay

McKay
Neil

McKee
Walter
Karen McKee

McKeever
John

Meadows
Wayne
Jeannette Meadows

Meeks
Jim
Ann Meeks

Mertes
Brian
Diane Mertes

Merwin
Camilla
Tosney

Meyer
Peggy
Green

Meyer
Lynn
Regina Meyer

Miller
Anne
Chapman
John Chapman

Missall
Stephen
Lucia Missall

Mitchell
Linda
O'Connor

Moore
Gayle
LeRoy

Moss
Diane
Turner
William Turner

Mottola
Phyllis

Mounday
Kathryn
Kaiser
James Kaiser

Mouw
Marshall
Claire Mouw

Nelson
Linda
Bradstreet
Peter Bradstreet

Neugebauer
Monika
Monhoff
Fritz Eisenreich

Norris
Dona
Jeffries
Keith Jeffries

Nyquist
Ann
Anderson
Jim Anderson

Okamoto
Janice
Mizuhara

Olson
Sue
Robbins

O'Neil
Brian
Luz O'Neil

Patterson
Doris

Pennington
Juliana (Jill)
Hazlett

Peralta
Marie
Montanez

Plank
Georgia
Ritchie

Pluss
Mary
Smith

Proffitt
A. James

Provost
William
Pat Provost

Prudhomme
Joan
Petersen
Kenneth Petersen

Ramirez
L. Daniel
Nancy Ramirez

Reed
James


Reinhard
Kathleen
Robert Reinhard Dale Reinhard

Richardson
Cheryl
Jamerson
Reginald Jamerson

Robbins
Doug


Robertson
Dan
Steve Schullo

Rodriguez
Enrique (Rick)
Norma Rodriguez

Ross
Murray

Rumsey
Joan
Evans

Rutishauser
Hans

Salz
Mel
Mimi Salz

Sampson
Mike

Schwartz
Nita
Clapper
Sherman Clapper

Smith
Gary

Smith
Barbara
Wulbrecht

Smith
Denny
Judie Smith

Smith
Laverne
Mary Smith

Somerville
Thomas
Sue Somerville

Spain
Carol
Minster
Bernard Minster

Spencer
Carolyn
Biller
Bill Biller

Stack
Cathy
McLane

Stedfield
Don
Susan Stedfield

Sullivan
Carol
Barclay
Sam Barclay

Terrazone
Delores
Robledo

Thomas
Pamela
Collins

Thompson
James
Anne Thompson

Tilley
Barbara
Howard Berry, Jr.

Uebbing
Virginia
Powell

Valenzuela
Kathy
Thompson

Van Dine
Karen

Varian
Spencer

Ward
Bill

Warfield
Margie
Gill
Maggie Frank

White
Roberta
Medina

Whitney
Bill

Wilson
Maggie
Evans

Wilson
Evelyn

Woodson
Loren

Wright
Mary
Falvey

Yamamoto
Lester

Zeman
Robert

Zibas
Dalia
Ward

Zombro
Ann
Bicknell

Zube
Suzanne
Seilstad

Saturday Lunch @Mijares

Dear Classmates:

We have had a great response from those wanting to attend the Mijares luncheon on Saturday, Sept. 26. Because of this response,
the event will be a BUFFET and require us to pre-pay.
Here are the details.

Buffet Lunch, Saturday, September 26, 2009, 12 Noon
Mijares Mexican Restaurant, 145 Palmetto Drive, Pasadena 91105

Classmates will meet in a Mijares Banquet Room to accommodate the group's size. The menu will consist of salsa & chips, traditional tostada & taco buffet with grilled chicken strips, carne asada strips, rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, jalapenos, pico de gallo, flour & corn tortillas, soft drinks and cookies. The tax and tip are also included. The special MUIR Reunion price for all of this is $20.00 per person.

This is a great deal! Margaritas and beer will be extra.

Please make your check to: Gary Smith/Muir Reunion, for $20.00 per person, which covers the entire cost of your lunch
(excluding beer & margaritas).

Send your check by September 1 to:

Muir 1959 Reunion
4623 Grand Avenue
La Canada, CA 91011-2318

Thank you very much!

Carolyn Spencer Biller,
cbiller@sbcglobal.net or 714-544-0609

August Update

Dear Classmates:

We now have over 250 paid reservations for the reunion event on Friday, September 25, with more reservations coming in each day. What a great event this will be! We have hired a wonderful DJ to play great music for listening and dancing. The Westin Hotel is a great location (four-star hotel) and they have extended the reasonable room rate of $109 (plus tax)/night until September 1 for our event. You can’t beat that.

Not only do we have a phenomenal response to the big dinner event, but we have many people signing up to attend all the other activities so far. The Athenaeum and Mijares lunches will be well attended. Over 80 classmates and guests are going to the museum and 40 people on the bird walk. This certainly goes beyond our wildest expectations.

We do not want you to miss out on this opportunity to get together with your classmates for a great weekend of reminiscing. If you have not already sent in your reservation, please do so right away. We will be meeting with the hotel next week to finalize all the details. If you have misplaced your invitation and reunion information, please give us a call or email us and we will be happy to send another one out to you.

Call us at (818) 790-1959 if you have any questions.

We look forward to hearing from you, and most of all seeing you next month.

Your Reunion Committee

Reservation Deadline

Hi Classmates!

This is a reminder that the reservation deadline for our Muir 50th Reunion is July 20, 2009. It’s just a short time before we will all be gathering at the Westin Hotel to renew our friendships. What a grand event this will be!

We have a great group of classmates who have already registered for the reunion, as well as the other activities offered over the weekend! There are many of our classmates who have also taken advantage of the wonderful rates for the rooms we have blocked at the Westin Hotel. Sounds like a great party to us! If you have not made your reservation at the hotel yet, please don’t wait too long. We don’t want you to miss out on those discounted room rates.

The link for the hotel reservation: Muir Class of 1959 - 50th Reunion Celebration

We have also heard that there are some really good airfares right now for traveling as the airlines are in a fare war. The internet is a good place to look for them.

This committee is working very hard on all the details to make this a memorable event. This is a significant milestone. Please don’t miss out, as this is the last one we are coordinating.

If you have any questions about attending this reunion, please give us a call at 818-790-1959.

We hope to hear from you soon.

The Reunion Committee

New Hotel Rates

Dear Classmates:

We are very pleased to say we have a steady flow of reservations coming in for the Muir 50th Reunion Celebration.

As a point of interest, we have been able to secure a block of rooms at the Westin Hotel for the wonderful rate of $109/night plus taxes (approximately $126). In order to secure these rooms you will need to click on the attached link and place your reservation as soon as possible. You can also call the Westin Hotel at the number listed in the link.

Muir Class of 1959 - 50th Reunion Celebration
If you have already made a reservation, please call the hotel to see if you can get it converted to the lower rate.

We would appreciate it if you would pass this information on to those classmates who are not on email, so they can also take advantage of these great rates too.

If you have any questions, please give us a call at (818) 790-1959.

Looking forward to seeing you in September.

Mary & Gary Smith

It's In The Mail!!!

Hi Classmate.

We are pleased to announce that your invitation to the 50th Reunion Celebration, scheduled for the weekend of September 25-26, 2009, will go in the mail this week. If you do not receive your invitation by June 12th, or you have moved and you don’t think we have the correct address, please give us a call at (818) 790-1959. We have a deadline of July 20, 2009 to return your Registration Form. There are several activities listed for you to participate in during the weekend.

Note: The Golf Tournament location has been changed and will now be at the Scholl Canyon Golf Course with a more affordable cost. This is a great course and will be fun for all you golfers.

We are very excited about the plans and look forward to seeing all of you at the reunion.

The Reunion Committee

South Pas '59 Reunion...

something else to do on saturday night???

check out this website!!!

http://sphsaa.org/Class_of_59/ClassOf1959.html

Warning!!!

Dear Classmates:

Please disregard any reunion event cancellation notice from Classmates.com that may come to you. We deleted an old event on the website that had the wrong information contained in it and Classmates.com sent out a cancelled event notification to everyone. This sounds like the reunion has been cancelled, which it has NOT. That is a very unfriendly website! We do NOT rely on it for communication, except for posting the reunion event. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We are finalizing all plans for this 50th reunion event on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Please call us for any questions about the event.

Thanks.

Mary Pluss Smith
818-790-1959

February Update

Dear Classmates:

It's been a couple of months since the last email communication and we want to keep you updated as to the plans for our upcoming 50th reunion event on Friday, September 25, 2009. The first deposit has been submitted to reserve the Westin Hotel in Pasadena so we are formally locked in for that date. This is very exciting for the committee. Thanks to all of you who so generously donated to make this happen.

We are actively finalizing all the details for the reunion weekend. The response to attending the reunion has been terrific. If everyone who plans to attend comes, we should have about 380 people at the reunion. That would be a fantastic turnout. We hope you will start making your plans so you can get good rates on travel and lodging. We suggest the internet as the best place to look for bargain rates. We talked with the Westin about getting a good rate on rooms but we have to guarantee a block of rooms and pay for them if they are not used. We cannot make that commitment. There are a lot of good hotels in Pasadena including the Westin.

The following activities will be offered on the reunion weekend:

Friday, Sept. 25, 2009:
· Golf Tournament at Brookside Golf Course. Please contact Lynn (PW) Meyer at lynnmeyer1@aol.com or call him at 510-881-0814 to make arrangements to play in this shot gun tournament.
· Noon lunch at the CalTech Athenaeum. Please contact the reunion committee at 818-790-1959 to make a reservation for lunch and conversation at this lovely historic location (Einstein slept here).
· Reunion dinner event: 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. at the Westin Hotel.
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009:
· Bird walk in Eaton Canyon, 7:30 a.m. Please contact Carolyn Spencer Biller at cbiller@sbcglobal.net or call her at: 714-544-0609 to go on this bird walk with Jim McKeever (classmate) who has a great deal of knowledge in this area.
· Muir Alumni Museum: The museum will be open on Saturday morning with information provided by the museum curators. The time is to be determined.
· Saturday evening: Informal get together for whoever is in town and would like to gather to have drinks, dinner and reminisce. We will meet in the bar at the Westin hotel and go from there.

Please keep in touch with us if you have any questions about this great weekend. Also, please pass this information on to those who may not have email. Mailings are only sent periodically, and fortunately, most of the classmates have email.

We look forward to this great event and seeing all of you in September.

The Reunion Committee

NOTE: Date and Location Change...

Dear Fellow Classmates:

We have had an excellent response from those who want to attend the Muir 50th reunion next year in September 2009. At this time we have over 325 people who plan to attend which is great but has presented us with some challenges with the facility we had tentatively booked for September 26, 2009 in Pasadena. We have actually outgrown the facility which has necessitated a change in our location and date. After researching a lot of locations and costs, the committee is looking at the Westin in Pasadena which will hold everyone who wants to attend at a reasonable price. Due to this change, we have decided to move the event to Friday, September 25, 2009, a day earlier. This is because all the costs for the facilities are about twice as much for a Saturday event. We hope this will not be an inconvenience and you will still be able to attend as you planned.

If you told us you planned to attend and cannot make it a day earlier, please email us back ASAP. We have to sign the hotel contract by October 1, 2008 to guarantee the date and make a significant deposit. The change of day will allow us to keep the cost down.

We would like to hear from everyone on email regarding this change.

We will get back to you soon with more details.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Reunion Committee

June Update

Dear Classmate.

The June 20 target date for returning your questionnaire has now come and gone and so far we have received 180 of the 440 questionnaires we sent out in May. We would like to thank all of you who already sent them back to us. We really appreciate the response. Of those returning the information we have about 210 people who say they are planning to attend the reunion. This is wonderful news and a great response. The more people we have, the better the celebration.

We are following up on email because we already spent quite a bit on postage with the first mailing. Please return the questionnaire so we can make sure all of our information is updated. That way, you will receive everything we send out, either by mail or email. If you are not interested, just send it back indicating that and we won't keep bombarding you with emails and correspondence.

The plans for the 50th reunion are really taking shape. On Friday, September 25, 2009, we are planning a great golf tournament with a no-host mixer in old town Pasadena on Friday night (for those who are in town and want to get together). On Saturday morning, September 26, 2009, we have a tour planned at the Muir High School Alumni Museum which is nostalgic and enjoyable. Saturday night will be the big celebration/party at the University Club of Pasadena.

We don't want you to miss out on this milestone event for the great class of 1959. If you need another letter, form or lost list, please let us know and we will be happy to send you one. We have actually located some of the people on the lost list from the tips we have received from you. A big THANK YOU for your help!

Our email is: MuirReunion@gmail.com and our phone number is: (818) 790-1959. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions about this reunion.

We're all looking forward to hearing from you.

Mary & Gary Smith
& The Reunion Committee

Latest Message From Reunion Committee

Dear Muir 1959 Classmates:

We hope you are all in good health and having a great 2008!

We want to let you know that we have recently booked

the University Club of Pasadena

for our upcoming Muir "50th" class reunion.

Please save the date:

Saturday night, September 26, 2009.

We know it's a little early but we hope that you will plan to be there to make this the best reunion ever. Please pass on any information to those who may not be on email. We are currently trying to update and gather email addresses so we can save money on the cost of snail mail. Mailings will also be sent but email will be our primary mode of communication. If you know of any classmates who need to update their information, please have them either call us at (818) 790-1959 or email us at muirreunion@gmail.com.

More details of the reunion will be sent out soon as we progress with the plans. Please keep in touch with us so we can keep our data updated and keep you informed. Thanks, we look forward to hearing from you and seeing all of you there.

The Reunion Committee

Tentative Date Announced...

The omnipotent and ubiquitous reunion committee has reported that we have a tentative date for our long anticipated 50th reunion...

Saturday, September 26, 2009...

Mark Your Calendars!!! Save This Date!!!


Additional details as to time and place will be posted here as they become available...