SANTA CRUZ HIGH PEP BAND '54-'55 -----------
IVANO SAYS: Bring on the Band! Len Klempnauer, SCHS Class of '54, makes the following announcement:
KTEH-TV, the PBS channel in San Jose, will spotlight the Santa Cruz High School Class of 1954 in its next edition of "This Is Us," a show featuring interesting people within the station's viewing area.The Class of ‘54 segment will be telecast on Sunday, May 31, at 6 p.m. Since January 2000, the ‘54ers have been getting together every month for dinner or lunch, and KTEH was interested in finding out why they have remained so close for more than five decades.KTEH sent a four-person crew to interview the local grads on Feb. 25 at the DeLaveaga Park Golf Lodge restaurant. The TV staff circulated among the diners to “eavesdrop” on their conversations during the lunch and interviewed seven individually who had varying interests while teenagers:o Nick Pagnini of Zayante, one of two Class of ’54 board surfers before the days of wetsuits and fiberglass boards.o Nancy Jellison of Santa Cruz, a teenage carhop at the Cross Roads, a local drive-in diner in the Fifties, who married after her junior year but remained in school to earn her diploma.o Chuck Filice of Salinas, a three-sport letterman and All-Coast Counties Athletic League (CCAL) selection in football and baseball.o Ruth Mitchell of Santa Cruz, a topnotch female beach volleyball player when the sport was virtually unknown outside Hawaii and Southern California.o Dick Lippert of Carmichael, a hot rod enthusiast noted for his lead foot and outracing local gendarmes.o Cookie Ruschin of San Jose, an outstanding actress who was invited to the Pasadena Playhouse high school drama tournament in her senior year.o Len Klempnauer of Capitola, class president who was instrumental in getting the monthly get-togethers started.Also scheduled to be interviewed but unable to attend were Lorraine Voight of Santa Cruz, a ‘54 cheerleader, who was ill, and Rod Jensen of Aptos, a top scholar and recipient of a full-ride NROTC scholarship, who was away on business.In addition to the seven interviewed, 40 more classmates, spouses, guests and members of other SCHS classes attended the February lunch.A total of 118 different members of a class numbering about 265 have attended one or more of the informal monthly affairs over the years.*****Of course Chuck Filice and Nick Pagnini are Italian-Americans. Chuck's uncle owned and operated the Anchor Bar on Pacific Avenue and Nick's father owned and operated Roy's Market in Felton for years.I received a preview DVD of our part of the one-hour show (we're on for seven minutes), and a lot of still photographs are used as backgound shots, including the one attached of the SCHS Pep Band that was published in our '54 Cardinal yearbook. Most of Pep Band members were in your Class of '55.
-Len-
4 comments:
Great article. I could id a few of the guys in the PeP band, like jim
charagioli,ken olson, bruce hanson, don binsacca. Brought back a lot of memories. Funny I don't recall Ruth Nielsen being such a hot shot vollyball player. But she was certainy something to see in a bathing suit. The blond bombshell from Santa Cruz High and San Jose State. HOT-HOT-HOT!!!
SS
That's really cool!
JM
Ivan:
It appears that not all of the photo was included as some of us are missing. I will not try to name those not shown as I would probably miss someone. I think Jim Ceragioli and I changed hats which is why his is over his ears in the photo. I think that I can name all in the photo which is pretty good for an old guy.
Wes
Ivan,
Wes is right. Two guys were cropped from the Pep Band photo that appeared on KTEH-TV's "This Is Us" program because another photo, which overlapped it in the '54 Cardinal yearbook, was sliced off.
The IDs in the yearbook read, sitting: Ted Anderson, Jim Ceragioli; second row: Russell Brock, Larry Pepper, Don Kirby, Bill Deans, Wes Pringle, Bruce Hansen; third row: Jerry Cunningham, Will Peter, Ken Olsen.
Len
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