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to stop by since 27 July 1998!
CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1978
20th YEAR REUNION
(Under Construction)
(Please come back after Dec. 99, for I plan on updating this site during the holiday break!)
WELCOME...
fellow alumni/classmates and other visitors! This was me, Terry Barkhaus, (formerly Anderson) 20 years ago. Do I look like someone you used to know? Or you can see what I look like now
. I'm excited to be able to invite you to my new reunion page. There will always be updating to do on here, with your help, I hope. Be sure to come back often & watch it grow. So don't forget to bookmark it....
For starters, this page will have:
1) Highlights of the weekend
2) Pictures (as of 11 Aug 98)
3) A memorial page
4) A contact page (with email addresses)
For now, listed below are a few email contacts (and some personal homepages), in case you are interested in contacting any of them. Let me know if you'd like me to add yours to the list. As it grows, I will put them on a separate page.
Please stop by and visit The Class of 77 Website. Warren Vinzant has done an outstanding job!
Many, many thanks to Dee Walters, Karen Kain (Taatjes), Marcy Segura, and Shawn Russ who put in months and months of their time to make this reunion happen!!
CLASS REUNION
I was minding my own business a few weeks go when I got "the call" - that dreaded, shrill ringing of my telephone bearing news just short of a death in the family. It was a former high school classmate asking my assistance in our 20-year class reunion.
Could it be 20 years already? I shuddered. Cold chills went up and down my spine as tiny beads of sweat popped out on my forehead. What had I done with my life the past 20 years? My mother told me I'd have to deal with this some day, but I had laughed it off, just like I laughed off those embarrassing pink plastic curlers she used to wear in her hair. (I picked up a set at a garage sale just last week. Got a great deal on them, too!)
It's amazing how a brief phone call can totally turn one's life upside down. Suddenly, I began hearing those 1970s songs ) now known as "oldies") in a different arrangement, realizing that Mick Jagger was over 50, "Smoke on the Water" never did make any sense at all, and my "Seasons in the Sun" had literally faded into oblivion. Had the sun set on me already?
I glanced in the mirror. (Okay, I stared in the mirror.) Examined every tiny little crevice and pore, starting with my hairline, down past those patronizing "smile lines" to the base of my neck. No double chin yet, I thought.
The next few weeks were total stress. Each day began with a grueling training program - a 6:30am run in a futile attempt to bounce off that unsightly baggage that had somehow accumulated on my thighs overnight. I went shopping for the perfect dress - you know, the one that would make me look 20 years younger. I found out that they stopped selling them around 1975. Three dresses later, I came to my senses. There was only one logical explanation: I was having a mid-life crisis.
I realized that the funny, crunching noise I heard each night as I climbed the stairs was really my knees. I had seriously considered adding potty training to my resume as one of my greatest accomplishments. Bran flakes had become a part of my daily routine - and not because they were my favorite cereal. I held Tupperware parties just so I could count how many friends I had.
Life just hadn't turned out the way I'd planned. Sure, I was happy. I had a wonderful husband and two great kids in the center of my life. But somehow, working part-time as a secretary and mom hardly fit my definition of someone my classmates had voted as "most likely to succeed." Had I really wasted 20 years?
Just about the time I was ready to throw in the towel and my invitation, my seven-year old tapped me on the shoulder. "I love you, Mom. Give me a kiss."
You know, I'm actually looking forward to the next 20 years.
By Lynne C. Gaul
from A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Sent to me thru email by Melanie Anderson (Tate)
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If you have any pictures that you would like added on here, please send them to me via email (dtbarkhaus@msn.com). Also, please provide me with correct name spellings/maiden names and any other information you feel I may have missed. I am open to ideas, suggestions, and comments so don't hesitate in letting me know. Come back again soon and don't forget to sign the guestbook!!
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