C. JeNeane Coleman:  

Hello - I never know what to write about myself, but here goes... After high school I went to college for one semester at Fullerton CC then started working on the Marine Corps LTA base in Santa Ana where I met my husband (married 47 years this June). He's from the south so we moved after he was discharged from the Marines and except for two years (where we taught in Florida) have lived in the same town where we went to and graduated from college. I graduated with an elementary education degree and taught for a while then went to work at the university. I am retired and still work part-time with the university in the environmental education office. My husband graduated with an agriculture education/business degree and was a grain inspector for about 20 years then we opened a café and he was chief cook and bottle washer. I took on the bookkeeper role so I was very popular on paydays. We are fortunate to live in a beautiful area near 2 lakes and a couple of rivers. Not the ocean but still not bad. Summers are always a blast. Our daughter was born in 1989 after 20 years of marriage (surprise!) and has kept us young. She is a 1st LT in the Army and plays the trumpet and has been in several university bands, marched with a Drum Corps, is a music/military science major/criminal justice major and is working on her master's degree in teaching English as a second language. Five years ago we added to our family by becoming guardians of a 16 year old, life is so much fun at that age we couldn't wait to go through it again ;). Both young ladies have flown the coop, living their lives and remembering us once in a while. As some of you may know, my father R.L. Platt, taught at Tustin High (civics) then helped create Saddleback CC and went to work there as an administrator. He passed in 1980, my brother in 2000, and my mother (who was a counselor at Santa Ana CC) in 2001... so all my ties to CA are now gone. I haven't been back since 2003 and still, to this day, miss the CA climate and remain California dreaming. One of my biggest memories of high school was sitting in Jack Clancey's senior English clas...Expand for more