Jim Williams:  

CLASS OF 1966
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San diego, CA
San diego, CA
Lewis Middle SchoolClass of 1963
San diego, CA
San diego, CA

Jim's Story

Stopped checking classmates.com years ago when no one from Lewis or Cleveland seemed to be logging on and with 1200 graduating from Crawford, I never seemed to know anyone who managed to pop up on the site. But turning 60 has resulted in more people dribbling in so it was time to upgrade my membership and peer out there (and back). After graduating from Crawford I barged through college in three years and began teaching at barely 21 in 1969. I have been teaching in the Santee School District ever since excluding a three year stint as a vice principal (bad idea ¿ back to actually working with kids). I have been teaching gifted 5th graders for the past several years at Cajon Park School in Santee. Married Merrie Warren (Helix High) in 1968 and we have daughter Dawn (37) in Poway with her 15 year old daughter Lorelei and 12 year old son Noah, son Michael (34) who owns a small carpet cleaning business in San Diego, and son Cameron (32) and his wife Alisa with their soon to be five years old Bryn who they adopted in Siberia four years ago. Cam teaches 5th grade gifted in Santee (Carlton Oaks) and Alisa teaches 4th grade gifted on the other side of the building. In the early 80¿s ¿the stage¿ called and I found myself producing and acting in live theatre in San Diego for 15 years. Merrie did a lot of costuming and direct...Expand for more
ing and our children started with child roles and have continued acting into adulthood. Michael recently had the male lead (Joel Grey role) with Alisa playing Sally Boles (Liza Minelli role) and Dawn as a Kit Kat Club girl in Onstage Productions¿ ¿Cabaret¿ in South Bay. Cam & Alisa have also appeared in Starlight Bowl productions. After 15 years of being in productions every weekend while rehearsing every weeknight for the next show, I took a break in 1995 and haven¿t been on stage since. Maybe when I retire. Merrie went to travel school in the early 90¿s and has managed a travel agency for some years so now we travel when we can. Have covered most of Europe as well as many islands, Turkey, China, etc. and will be off to Africa next summer. For those of you who remember my parents, they are still in the house on Amber Lake Avenue and are 82 and 81. My sister Deena is in Mukilteo (just outside Seattle) with her husband and will be a grandma next month. Brother Dan teaches high school music/band in Corpus Christi, Texas where he lives with his wife and her children. I would love to hear from everyone. It was so sad when we San Carlos kids went on from Lewis Jr. High to Crawford while our Allied Gardens friends went to Hoover and we lost touch. And Cleveland Elementary will always be magic. Jim Williams August 2008
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Wife Merrie & our son Cameron
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Granddaughter Bryn
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