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Vineyard Ave. 1st St. Vintage Hills Shopping Center 3550 Bernal Avenue Bernal Ave. Pleasanton, CA 94566 925-621-7660 Open Daily 8am-9pm Sunol Blvd. 680 www.newleaf.com www.facebook.com/NewLeafPleasanton Page 2ÊUÊMay 24, 2013ÊUÊPleasanton Weekly AROUND PLEASANTON BY JEB BING Whitney’s legacy: A gold record hen John Whitney packs up his office next month Was he retires as principal of Pleasanton Middle School, he’ll be sure to take the Gold Record and guitar that are the highlights of parallel interests he has in music JEB BING Pleasanton Middle School principal along with education. In Pleasan- John Whitney stands next to his Gold ton, he’s known as the dedicated Record of rhythm and blues songs on administrator from his years at PMS this best seller from the early 1980s and three years before that as prin- and the guitar he still plays with Annie cipal at Donlon Elementary. Yet on Sampson and her band. the rhythm and blues circuit, he’s the lead guitar player with Annie Sampson and her band, playing school ever since. He uses the word weekend gigs along the California “dynamic” to described middle coast and at well-known local clubs school students because “it’s such such as Half Moon Bay Brewery a dynamic age as they move from and Armandos in Martinez. Over childhood as young sixth-graders the years, after he graduated from to beginning adulthood as eighth- Cal State Hayward (now East Bay) grade teenagers. He knows them and before he settled down to a day all, even remembering their names job as a teacher at Wood Middle when they come back as parents Amador Valley School in Alameda, Whitney played to enroll their own children. In Optometric THE PARKVIEW EXPERIENCE and wrote the music for bands on fact, five teachers now at PMS at- stages at county fairs, festivals and tended the school, themselves, and even the Monterey Jazz Festival. are now teaching alongside several He missed out on Woodstock but teachers they had as students. would head there in a minute if With his teaching and adminis- there’s ever a Woodstock II. trative years behind him, Whitney For the Professional The students at Pleasanton plans to become more active again Attention Your Eyes Deserve Middle School know they have a on the music circuit. A look at principal with great musical talent. Annie Sampson’s band schedule Prescription Along with three others on the this summer will keep him busy Sunglasses faculty, he started a Rock & Roll if he signs on to the seven perfor- s56PROTECTION Club at PMS 13 years ago when mances she has scheduled through s0OLARIZEDTO he became principal. Every Friday, Aug. 2. They include the Iridium REDUCEGLARE the teacher/principal combo belts on Broadway in New York City on #ONVENIENT7EEKDAY out songs at 7:30 a.m. to welcome July 16-17, the Iron Horse in North %VENING(OURS everyone to campus, and it’s quite Hampton, Mass., on July 14, and, s 4REND3TYLED%YEWEARWITHEXCELLENT a scene with sixth-, seventh- and closer to home, Freight and Sal- FRAMESTYLISTTOHELPYOUREYEWEARNEEDS eighth-graders dancing, singing vage on Addison Street in Berkeley s h.O ,INEv,ENSES#OMPUTER,ENSES s 3PECIALTYCONTACTLENSCARE INCLUDING and applauding. The group also tonight and again at Armandos in entertains at assemblies and may Martinez on Aug. 2. Even as popu- #24FORNEARSIGHTEDNESSREDUCTION and scleral lenses for keratoconus even take the stage during promo- lar as Sampson’s six-member band ANDIRREGULARCORNEAS Assisted Living. tion exercises June 13 when eighth has become, another Gold Record s h$RY%YEv4REATMENTAND-ANAGEMENT graders and their families celebrate is unlikely. Whitney got his in the s -ACULAR$EGENERATION!SSESSMENT the move to high school. early 1980s when one of his songs s 3OFTAND'AS0ERMEABLE"IFOCAL Whitney, who holds a degree in was on a best-selling, long-playing #ONTACT,ENSES Inspired by You. biology, spent time in his early years album. Although some bands still s ,ASER6ISION#ARE ,!3)+ with his father Robert (now de- record on vinyl, Sampson’s record- Enjoy the independence you want with ceased), who taught physics at Cal ings are on CDs and even those are State Hayward for 30 years and was giving way to digital. Top artists the support you need. The Parkview’s a gifted teacher with a doctorate de- don’t pick up Gold Records any- s-OST6ISION0LANS!CCEPTED gree. John Whitney marveled at his more, some don’t even get credit s-EDICARE!SSIGNMENT!CCEPTED assisted living and memory care provide father’s rapport with his students. As for what they produce. s!SK!BOUT!!20$ISCOUNT the fast and tiring pace of playing Whitney says he’ll pick up the you the comfort, convenience, and care multiple venues on the West Coast pace as retirement sinks in, but he Dr. Barry C. Winston Faculty, UC Berkeley School of Optometry grew old, he seized on his father’s also plans to spend more time with Certified in the Treatment of Ocular Disease to experience a healthy, safe and success and signed on as a science his wife Liz, who teaches at Pied- VISIT US AT OUR WEBSITE teacher at Wood Middle School in mont High School, and their two BARRYCWINSTONOD.COM inspiring longevity. Alameda. At the same time, he re- sons: Ren, a sixth-grader at Pied- Black Avenue turned to college for an administra- mont Middle School near where his tion credential. mother works, and Colin, a junior Professional Offices Call, click or come visit today and Pleasanton hired him as a dean at Foothill High School. 4450-C Black Ave, Pleasanton at PMS, a position now called vice When asked about playing 925.462.2600 enjoy complimentary lunch. off Santa Rita Road behind principal, and after a year or so the Alameda County Fair or at Lynnewood Methodist Church sent him to Donlon Elementary as Pleasanton’s Concert in the Park, its principal. 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