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Smoke Signals
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In Memoriam
September 2020 - May 2021
FS = former student Fr = Friend FAC = faculty
Bob Silva............................................... 1952 Clarissa Bowman Dyer............................ 1940 Gary O. Maffia........................................ 1970 Joseph Robert Ziganto............................ 1970 Jean Wilson............................................ 1952 Alice Harra Carrerow.............................. 1942 Paul Francis Adams................................ 1972 Patricia Yowell Reynolds.......................... 1953 Betty June Clark DeLucchi....................... 1942 Terence Finnegan Coyne. ....................... 1975 Leo Ansano Amadei................................ 1954 Mary Virginia Styles Spiker...................... 1942 John Gutierrez ...................................... 1975 William Arthur Davey.............................. 1954 Frederick Judd..................................... 1943-? David M. Kush........................................ 1975 Rich Donner........................................... 1954 Elsie Bosch Peck.................................... 1943 John Joseph Kelly.............................. FS-1978 John Gaffney.......................................... 1954 Lois Claire Cahill..................................... 1944 Jesse Schouboe..................................... 2006 Lee Stewart Read................................... 1954 Ida Petron Balsamo................................ 1945 Albert Hollingsworth............................... 1955 Frances Airtaudi Bianco.......................... 1945 FACULTY/STAFF Walter Arends........................................ 1956 Lillian Ruffoni DeNardo............................ 1946 Guadelupe Arcelia Cabrera Conrad................... Albert Borges......................................... 1956 Patricia Gardiner Keller........................... 1946 ...........................................Special Education James Vernon Adams............................. 1957 Richard L. Abbott.............................. FS-1948 Marie Therese Hughes..........................Biology Daphne Baine Baker............................... 1957 Nancy Wise Barnes................................. 1948 Sue Ellen Geissberger................................ESL Jerry Eppler........................................... 1957 Rose Ellis Bringhurst............................... 1948 George Kerewicz............................................ Eldon Kelley, Jr....................................... 1957 Frank (Gene) L. Capra............................. 1948 .................................. Advisor to the Key Club Jim Laing............................................... 1957 Claire Norris Roudebush.......................... 1948 Nick Perez............................................. 1958 Irving Keith Sanders................................ 1948 SAN CARLOS HIGH SCHOOL Suzanne LaBerge-Backman..................... 1959 William R. Carsillo................................... 1949 Thomas Craigmile.................................. 1963 Ernest A. Bickell III.................................. 1959 Aura Berglund Monfort............................ 1949 Susan (Pearson) Hasbrouch..................... 1965 Clark Maxfield........................................ 1959 Susan Kellogg Tanklage.......................... 1949 Edward Mitchell...................................... 1965 Dennis Puppo......................................... 1959 Sue Chapman Campbell.......................... 1950 Edward A. Meyers, Jr.............................. 1966 Sandra Lynn Buckwald Vargas................. 1959 Gayle Somer Cromwell............................ 1950 Jean Mary Zaun Wilson............................ 1970 Wallace Earl Hughes............................... 1961 Jerry Drever........................................... 1950 Stuart Wayne Cardott.............................. 1971 Carolyn Harding...................................... 1962 Ed Webster............................................ 1950 Diana Maria”Masha” Austin Stockdale....... 1976 Carmen Tesolin Lutz............................... 1965 Nelson King Bell..................................... 1951 Cynthia Kaehler...................................... 1966 Joan Cherie McFarland Bohannon............ 1951 SAN CARLOS HIGH Faculty Bonnie Heiry.......................................... 1967 Jack Montgomery................................... 1951 Rich Donner............ swimming teacher & coach Timothy Allen Fitzpatrick......................... 1968 Carol Rose Fanos Roseberry................... 1951 Jerry Drever.......................................... coach John Purcell (aka Bambi Lake)............ FS-1968 Ray Anderson......................................... 1952 William Walti........................ Principal, 1969-73 Patricia Braegelmann Naus..................... 1969 Dino Ruffoni........................................... 1952 ................. Assistant Superintendent of SUHSD ••• SEQUOIA Clarissa Bowman Dyer (1940) During World War II, Clarissa volun- Elsie Bosch Peck (1943) worked for United Air Lines and the Standard teered to meet the wounded as they arrived for treatment in San Fran- Oil Company in San Francisco. ••• cisco and often spoke of how difficult it was to maintain her composure in the face of so much sadness and hurt. She was active in the Crippled Patricia Gardiner Keller (1946) In Los Altos she set up an after school Children’s Society and Junior League and was a model for many of the sports program for girls. Then, as a coach and teacher at Saint Francis League’s fund raising fashion shows. She chaired the League’s most suc- High School in Mountain View, Pat coached the girls basketball teams to cessful show, filling 1,200 seats at the Sheraton Palace Hotel — a record many titles during the ensuing 17 years. ••• not matched since. Clarissa was a founding member of the Northern California Chapter of the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Richard L. Abbott (FS-1948) entered the Army Signal Corp after college and served in Germany. He started a career at Pacific Bell, then Foundation. AT&T, working up through the ranks to Marketing Manager. He also be••• Betty June (Clark) DeLucchi (1942) worked for a year as a welder in came a successful real estate agent and broker, helping many buy their a defense industry plant before joining a US Army Nurse Corps training first homes. He loved the game of golf and played well even in his later program, achieving her RN certificate in 1946. She was an active nurse years, often achieving the prize of playing his age as well as hitting 7 for decades, with particular focus on Intensive Care and In-Service Train- ‘holes-in-one’. ••• ing. She was the author of four books; “Betty June”, her memoir of the Great Depression and World War II, is a noteworthy first-person account Nancy Wise Barnes (1948) followed her passion entering nursing at of that historical era in the San Francisco Bay Area. An avid equestrian, Children’s Hospital in San Francisco. Later she was in charge of newborn she built and operated the Lucky D Stables in Texas, achieving numerous nurseries at Sequoia Hospital. ••• awards for her riding skills, writing “Our Horses” about the people and animals there. She was an excellent swimmer, scuba diver, carpenter, Eugene (Gene) L. Capra (1948) In the early 1950’s Gene served in the U.S. Army as a weapons specialist and worked as a weapons instructor. seamstress, embroiderer, artist, and teacher. After returning home, Gene pursued his education and opened a dental ••• Mary Virginia Styles Spiker (1942) was the first girl to become a laboratory which he ran for over 40 years. ••• member of the radio club. Graduating during wartime, her part in the war effort was first replacing indicator lights in B-17 bombers, and later using Claire Norris Roudebush (1948) At the beginning of the Silicon Valley her radio skills at an FCC listening post in Hayward to monitor war-time tech boom, she went to work for Litton Industries working her way up to supervisor and retired after 25 years. Claire was very civic minded and radio broadcasts from around the world. involved with many local organizations, including the Red Hat Ladies, the ••• Frederick Judd (1943?) was a residential and commercial builder on 39’ers, Sequoia Alumni groups, and a Litton Retirees group (where she initiated monthly luncheons at Harry’s Hofbrau). She volunteered for many the Peninsula, and a lifelong outdoors man.
