Valley High School
Class Of 1964
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PROFILE UPDATES
| • | Charles Barone 11/29 |
| • | Ed Vaillancourt 11/21 |
| • | Robert Lowder 11/15 |
| • | Richard Johnston 11/12 |
| • | -VHS Website Admin 11/11 |
| • | Geraldine 'Gerri' Rivera 11/2 |
| • | Leslie Fluke 10/30 |
| • | Katherine Zachary (Lowry) 10/20 |
| • | Carol Hargrove (Buhrman) 10/14 |
| • | Ty Juana Self (Hise) 10/4 |
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Official Website for VHS Class of 64
Updated November 27 2024
Happy Thanksgiving!
We have so much to be thankful for on this day, and every day.
We hope everyone is able to enjoy family, friends, good cheer and a moment of reflection.
Looking past the problems both personal and in the world, we live in a truly blessed country with limitless possibilites and so many reasons to be thankful, if we can only look beyond the gloom and doom brought to us daily by our sometimes relentless technologies and advertising media(s).
Be of good cheer, "For whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. be cheerful. Strive to be happy."*
Happy Thanksgiving November 27, 2024
(*Desiderada in part...)
Special Thanks and Respect to our Veteran Classmates
And to All Veterans on this Veterans Day November 11, 2024
Image and Display Credit: Glenn Fellows
The Image shown above was a large display at the 60th Class Reunion.
Over 100 Classmates served honorably in various branches of our Armed Forces. We owe a debt of gratitude for their service and sacrifice. It's important to also remember that the families of these classmates also shared that sacrifice (and worry, when their Servicemen and women were put in harms way).
We proudly salute our classmates (over 100 of them) and send our thanks and respect to all those listed in links below.
You can click on each name to be taken to their profile page.
If you like, please reach out and leave a message either public or private. Public means that all other classmates (and only our classmates) will be able to see the comments and any replies. Private means your comment is sent to a private message board and only that classmate can read and make a replies to it. Messages can be edited or deleted by you.
A rose next to their name signifies that they are deceased and they are in our 'In Memory' section of the website. You can leave a message there to share with classmates and the classmate's family and friends. (Our 'In Memory' page is one of several pages on our website that are open to the general public so that families can view messages left for their loved ones).
On this day, and every day, we salute our Veterans.
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Email Address Problems
We have received an increasing number of "email bounce-backs" on our web page. These notifications indicate that the email address shown in our system for a classmate is no longer current and messages sent out come back as undeliverable. Your web page administrators receive a report showing the classmate name and some addtional contact information. An attempt is then made to contact the classmate to get current email information. Please remember that if you change your email address and still wish to receive important notiffications from our system, access your classmate profile and update your email address. As the time for our 60th reunion (!) approaches, activity on our site will likely increase.
The new VHS Veterans Memorial
Years ago, a VHS classmate envisioned a unique memorial to the Vikings we lost during the Vietnam war. Eli Padilla (Class of '65) felt there should be a permanent reminder of the loss we share from that now long ago conflict. Our classmates should not be just names in a book or on a wall in DC. He wanted to remind our present day students of the cost we pay to fight for liberty (ours and others) in a hard world.
Many of us remember Eli as a star basketball player along side our own classmates, including Tony Scarton our class president. Eli went on to become a PhD professor at UNM; but he remembers well the disruption of our lives by this unpopular war (a redundancy, to be sure).
Nonetheless, many were called to serve and far too many didn't make it home. Or they came home forever changed; in ways today's students can't even imagine.
Shouldn't we remind and make personal the sacrifices we must pay, to have the freedoms we take for granted... in a world far less free than the one we share here?
Remember those carefree days in school? We had no idea, did we... How the world would change us. How it forever changed these young heroes, willing or not.
To learn more about the details of Eli's work (and others, including Glenn Fellows - Architect, from our class) Click on this link and learn and appreciate (and maybe even donate to the special Scolarship fund that Eli started) Click here...
And to our Veterans, where ever they are... today and every day: Thank you for your service.
If you missed our Veterans Tribute, you can find it here:
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