Steve Pyatt:  

My Reunion Notes and Comments to the RHS Class of 1970 A Thank You to the Reunion Organizers I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed every part about “Reunion Night”. John Abbott and Jamie Daniel did a nice job as the MCs of recognizing all of the team members and asking them to stand and/or make some comments. RHS Class of 1970 Reunion Committee: Marilyn Mays, Sherry Drewitz Jones, Kathy Poole, Anita Pagdilao Ogden, Cindy Hardy Munz, Toni Jacobs, Terri Reed Conklin, Diana Testa, Faith Carter, Katie Poole, Maryann Garcia-Kelly, Steve Rojas, Dennis Soto, Kevin Mowll, and Sam Trad. The Reception Desk ran smoothly and it was easy to find names tags. Thanks Diana Testa and Faith Carter. The Party Schedule/ er, “the Program” was nicely designed and gave us the plan for the night’s festivities. Note: A big screen tv ran a video montage, courtesy of Keith Johnson and Kevin Mowll, depicting about a gazillion photos from 1970 – many contained within your 1970 Makio and on the Facebook page. Probably several other classmates also contributed some photos as well. Thanks to Keith and Kevin. I kind of expected a somewhat typical “rubber chicken” dinner and was pleasantly surprised to have the tri-tip and the scrumptious salads and fresh fruit. I thought dinner was great – so thanks to Steve Rojas for nailing down the Redlands Country Club as a venue for dinner. He (Steve Rojas) generously mentioned to me that “the ladies” - basically ran the show and he was somewhat along for the ride. I imagine “the 4 amigos ” contributed more than noted. John Abbott provided lots of comic relief while he and Jamie Daniel recounted various comments from and histories of classmates, comments about the HS tour, and comments about the committee contributions of the late David Dangermond. Thanks John & Jamie. Thanks to Sherry Jones, Felice Hubbard, Sam and many others for posting all your photos to the Facebook page. Comments about my Video # 1 – Keeping Up with Sam So – before I shot these little videos, I had already greeted Sam and several other people in and around our table. But, I didn’t know that Sam was playing the role of official (or semi-official) “Reunion Night Videographer”. At the start of the video, Carolyn Riddell sees that I have my cell phone up, while I’m starting to shoot a video of Sam – the “Videographer”. She probably thinks a joker/lunatic is on the loose – she may be right. 😊 Initially, it clearly looks like “serious” Sam is a bit surprised that someone (anyone – joker – or - lunatic ) is actually following him around. (An aside: Sam shot a lot of the video posted up on the Reunion Facebook page and has also contributed lots of other photos over the years. I thought it might be nice to show “Sam at work” – doing nice stuff for all of us; that documents and memorializes the Class of 1970.) As the video rolls along, Sam, smiles and waves at me and then asks “Am I bothering you?” And then says - “I’ll stop if you want. There’s more people that like this, who are at home and couldn’t come.” I jokingly responded by saying “I’m sorry, what’s you name again?” Sam smiled, took a few steps and said - something that I can’t quite make out – perhaps you can determine what he said. To me, it sounds like he said “You’re just kidding me” OR “I said for [the 10th time, I don’t work around jokers or lunatics].” I then finished by saying “I think I know who you are”. He replied “Sure”. Comments about my Video # 2 – Quizzing Sam Trad “the Promoter” while he was taking still photos . The comments on this video all came out pretty clear. Thanks Sam for just being a great sport. My Comments to the Reunion Attendees To you - the “Survivors”: Bey...Expand for more