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Jim Barger (1963)

This was one of the Picnics where Dave Ferns did not show up.  he usually is there,   Jim B

Theresa Eve (1964)

Jim Barger, enjoyed your posts with all the family gathering in Woodland.  Woodland has some lovely parks. .  

Glenda Smith (Stone) (1968)

Mike Miller (1966)

Class of 1966 - The Younger Years

Anyone know who these people are? School I think was Dingle. Teacher?

Joel Childers (1966)

Mike, I didn't go to Dingle, but I recognize the guy in the front room in that snazzy striped shirt.

Don Murdoch (1962)

Mike and Joel,  This photo was definitely after 1960.  I don't recognize anyone including the teacher. I graduated Dingle in 1958...

Mike Miller (1966)

Thanks Don. As stated, this was the eventual class of 1966. 

Mike Miller (1966)

Well done Joel. And I still wear that shirt today. Although it is just a tad bit tight. But it makes me look slimmer.

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Hi, Mike, Susan Pasanen here. I don’t think that is Dingle. I think that is me in the second row, second from the right. I think that is Krissy Frazier, second row, second from the left. My family left Woodland for three years after I finished third grade and we didn’t return until I was in the seventh at Lee School. I will ask my mom when I talk to her this evening but I think my sister Linda and I went to Fremont (?) School. My dad John Pasanen taught at Dingle at the time. Sorry I don’t remember my third grade teacher’s name. Or do you think that is second grade? Sorry, not to be of more help, Susan

Marilyn Millsap (Thompson) (1961)

I went to Dingle School.  I had Mr. Pasenen as a teacher in the 7th or 8th grade.  I remember I liked him! And all the Dingle School pictures I have are posed outside on the front steps of one of the entrances on Elm Street.

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Marilyn, my dad moved the family back to Indiana where he was a minister for a few years, then to Michigan for a year, before coming back to Woodland. I am not sure when he was Associate Pastor at the Christian Church and when he went back into teaching. I think he taught at Lee when I was there. I remember it was the first time I went to a school where he taught. I am thinking he taught math or was subbing for someone who did; I was never in his class.

I am pretty sure Dingle pics were taken outside one of the entrances like you mentioned. I was surprised that Mike posted a picture where I actually recognized myself and others, plus him. : )

Wish I could remember that teacher’s name. Susan: )

Don Murdoch (1962)

Susan, I had your Dad for math in the 8th grade at Dingle.  Great rerspect for him. He was strict but fair.  He was the Principal at Yolo Continuation school in the middle 70s. I had a few dealings with him on unruly students when  I was with the Yolo SO.  He also officiated at my second wedding at the Christian Church in 1982.

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Don, thank you so much for remembering him. And that he officiated at your wedding. : ) Thanks, Susan

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

OK, just got off the phone with my mother, Shirley, 93, who is at Alderson Convalescent. We talk every night. The school was Freeman School and was just finished after we started first grade at Maxwell, so our class transferred over there. She doesn’t remember the teacher, but I have sent her the photo. I was looking at some others in the photo. Linda Denny might be to my right? Lorraine on my left? Donna Turnbow might be in the center of the second row? Is that Mike Buse next to you, Mike Miller? Is Steven Deal in the center of the first row? We lived in a little house on Fiske and my mom thinks that you, Mike Miller, might have lived across the street from us? My mom, Shirley Pasanen, says that she was the first PTA president of Freeman School. Anyway, not sure about others in the photograph. Thank you again for posting it; i don’t have anything from those times. What fun trying to remember, Susan : )

Mike Miller (1966)

Thanks Susan for your response. That is Mike Buse next to me. I remember we were best buds. Also Ken Kolb first row in cowboy shirt. We did live on Fisk. I remember walking you home from school. That was a bit of a walk for kids that young. Not safe to do that nowadays. I wish I could remember the teachers name, Miss Ranier? I found that pic along with others I will post shortly. Tell your mom hi for me.

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Mike, thank you for remembering Ken Kolb. I kept looking at him, knowing I knew him. My family was gone from Woodland for those three years. When we got back people had grown up so much. I think I had forgotten all the kids on our street. I will ask my mom about Miss Ranier and I will say hello from you. Thanks, Susan

Lynn Drumright (Black) (1961)

My husband told a story about Mr Pasenen after he had just gotten out of the military. He was teaching at Dingle I think.  This had to be in the 1952 or so.  Anyhow being rough 8th graders my husband and one of his friends started giving John a hard time. John walked over picked up one of the boys and threw him through the door out into the hallway where he sat for the rest of the class.  The entire rest of that year no one gave him any more problems. Sure couldn't do that today. Anyhow he was a great man he also officiated at our wedding in 1962 and was a good friend to us. 

Joel Childers (1966)

I went to Maxwell school in kindergarden and first grade. I seem to remember Mrs. Gunther was our first grade teacher but I could be mistaken. Funny how the brain works. All I really remember from Maxwell school is  walking home and chewing on sour grass from someone's front yard. Oh yes, and my favorite subject in kindergarden was graham crackers and milk and a nap. 

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Lynn, just talked to my mother on the phone. She seems to remember you and your family. My dad was in the Marines; he dropped out of high school to enlist when he was 17. He went to Iwo Jima where he was wounded when he was 19. He came back to San Francisco to get his high school diploma, married my mom, went on to get his teaching credential from SF State. Guess he got hired by the Woodland School District and Dingle was his first posting. My mom got a kick out of the story you posted about the 8th graders. I think because he had dropped out of school all those years before, he really felt that having a continuation high school was important, which is why he accepted the job to start one in Yolo at some point.

Thank you for your post and for the story, Susan : )

Don Murdoch (1962)

The USMC tattoo on his arm made him look even meaner.

Mike Miller (1966)

Maxwell, Freeman, Dingle, Beamer, Lee. I went to them all. Why so many. Family's were growing after the war, both WW2 and Korea. Homes were being built along with schools to accommodate such growth. I just found another class photo from a year or two early and a couple from a year or two later. My scanner is out of commission so will send later today.

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Don, that tattoo was on the arm he almost lost on Iwo. It was his pitching arm. He had been scouted for a major baseball team before he joined the Marines. He spent a lot of time playing baseball during his lifetime and coaching baseball. His girls team at Lee was a winning team, I remember. During the last year of his life when he had hospice care, they took him to watch the senior baseball teams he had been playing on. He loved the game. He touched a lot of lives, I think. Thanks, it is fun to hear about him from others, Susan

Mike Miller (1966)

Class of 1966 - The Early Years

Ok, round 2 of guess the mugs. I'll take responsibility for the intelligent looking one, bottom row, 2nd from left. I also recognize Dinwiddie and Rademaker top row. Susan, are you there (if you are, sorry for not recognizing you)? Perhaps Don Jones top row? I get a kick out of the expressions on some of those angelic faces. Obviously the photographer was "One Take Phil"'. Teachers? School?

Susan Pasanen (Lehman) (1966)

Mike, I don’t think the photo came thru?

Donald Daily (1961)

Susan

Your father married Cheryl Lawley and myself at Marys Chapel. Don Winters was my best man. John was always a kind man. Cheryl and I were married til her death in 2009.

Don Daily