SI's Class of 1969 and the 45th Reunion Web Site
| on Dec 2nd, 2011 are now posted in the Photo Album. Next year's luncheon will be on Friday, Dec 7th, 2012 |
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Blast From the Past: Take a look at this article regarding SI's April 7th, 1967 Jefferson Airplane concert. The photos, however, seem to be from some concert at the Avalon Ballroom. This was contributed by an anonymous "friend of SI's class of '69". It was an article published in the April 27th, 1967 issue of the Catholic Monitor. The text, in case you are too sober to read it, says "The Dance". Added 10/27/09. Frank Dunnigan ('70) wrote a great article for the Western Neigborhoods Project website in which he describes the last days of the old SI and the transition to the new Sunset location. He truly captured the mood of the transition. Included are some tales of petty larceny and he even names somes names (yours truly included.) This is a wonderful trip down memory lane and a must-read for all SI grads. Check out his article at outsidelands.org. And if you really want to feel old, remember...the "new" SI is now older than the "old" SI was when we graduated! Added 9/3/09. While not SI related, most every SI grad spent at least some time at the Marin Town & Country Club drooling over all those teenage girls. While it has been closed since 1972, John Martini recently got in to take pictures. According to John, Check out this article from the Las Vegas Sun regarding the Summer of '69. I have re-enabled the Discussions link in the page banner at the top of each page. This will allow you to post messages to the guestbook where we can carry on planning discussions for all to see. Supposedly this is a spam-free service, however that remains to be determined; we shall see! I recommend creating a user account so that your name (whatever you pick) will be visible. Email addresses are not needed or displayed. With the web-based photo viewing album, users can choose to view a slide show or manually scroll through pictures; you can even add comments to make fun of your classmates. Individual photos can be emailed to friends and can even be submitted for photo processing (at some cost, of course). The photo album is here. |
SI Archive photos
There is a site that has many, many photos from SI from the 1800's to the present. You can even purchase some of these for $500 each !!! Fortunately, browsing is free. Check out the SI Archive Photos Site or the entire set of pictures at this link.
Talking Like a Native
John Martini dug up this old article by Chronicle writer Carl Nolte
titled "Talking Like A Native", which describes the tribal characteristics
of our vanishing breed - native San Franciscans. SI even gets a mention
about halfway through. Although the story is a few years old (e.g., the reference to broadcaster
Van Amburg on KGO), it's still pretty relevant today. Read it here!
40th Reunion
All pictures of the reunion and golfing are posted in the Photo Album
There is also this video snippet of Mambo No. 5.
Old 35th Reunion Web Page
You can still check out the 35th reunion web page for old photos (of older farts!)
Old 30th Reunion Web Site
You can still check out the old 30-year reunion web site for old photos (of old farts!)
Nostalgia time!
If you don't already feel old enough, you will when you read some of the events that were happening around the time we graduated. Here is a list of events and music that made up the Year of 1969.
How much do you remember?
You spent all those years learning about history, literature, science, geography, and math, and what do you remember? Let's see if you still know some of the things you learned--or should have learned--when you were in school. This is a simple
10-question test. Any SI grad should get at least 70%. More tests on various subjects are available at
Encarta.
If you had Mr. Parker for Chemistry, you should try the 10-question Chem test. However, I disagree with their answer to #7 and have proof here (middle of page) to back it up.
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