Joan Hamblin:
CLASS OF 1946
Billinghurst Junior High SchoolClass of 1946
Reno, NV
Joan's Story
I left Billinghurst in April of my 7th grade, but the short time I was there left a big memory on me. I remember a "homonymn" contest where all the students were to collect as many homonymns as we could in a period of a few weeks. "Flour and flower, strait and straight", etc. I also remember a ping-pong contest. I telll my children and grandchildren that I was the 7th grade ping-pong champ, but that is not quite true. We moved to Stockton just before the finals, but I was one of the last four standing, maybe even one of the last two. I also remember being in the girls' restroom on one of the upper floors and dumping water on unsuspecting students standing in front of this beautiful building. I guess it is al...Expand for more
l torn down now and replaced by some modern structure.
I live in Danville, CA, have six kids, 21 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. I have served as a school board member for six years in Hayward, CA, I wrote a newspaper column for nine years in the San Ramon (CA) Valley, lived in Guatemala with my husband for 18 months as a welfare missionary for the Mormon Church (we helped the poor people of Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, and Honduras). I played the violin (in Reno, I studied with Marguerite Westbury.) I fondly remember ice skating on Virginia Lake, VJ Day, going to the movies, eating 25 cent hot fudge sundaes at the Rexall Drugstore. My father was the manager of Roger's Jewelry in Reno.
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