PUBLISHED BY THE BURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION - SPRING EDITION 2016 – Editor Rusty Knudsen Ragozzino Knudsen, ’74, Rusty Knudsen, Co-Presidents ’74, Dave Steil, ’74, Jeff Tateosian, ’74 Principal’s Message Judy Falk Chiasson & Terry Naylor Treasurer, Laura Hesselgren, ’75, Jan By P. Di Yim Privitera, ’75 and Dennis Zell, ’90 Advisor You are all amazing and so committed to supporting BHS alums! We could not do what we do without you. We offer you all of our appreciation and a big cheer as we complete 2015-2016 and look forward to a big year ahead! Judy Chiasson, ’59 and Terry Naylor, ’59, Co-Presidents BHS Alumni Website Is now “OFFICIAL” CO-PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGE Dear Panther Alumni, We have made the move to an “Official” Return to Burlingame! BHS Alumni Website, which is where you With the whirlwind of activities that occur will get the newsletters, reunion on campus in the spring, it’s easy to go As we wind up an exciting school year, the information and all things assigned to from one event to the next without a activities at the Burlingame High School Burlingame High School. Don’t be fooled chance to reflect on how special our Alumni Association ramp up. We’ll hold or confused with other sites like annual events are to our students and school. These are defining moments when Board elections on May 16, when we Classmates.com or AlumniClass.com. By we reminisce about high school. present our Alumni Scholarships and their own admission, they are not affiliated Alumni of the Year Award, consult with with BHS. Please follow your alumni and The weeks leading up to Spring Break are upcoming reunion committees, hold our school activity on the only sanctioned full with athletics and student-driven golf tournament, promote our Alumni Website dedicated to Burlingame High activities. This past week was particularly apparel, expand our website and publish School Alumni. If it doesn’t say, “Official pleasing and enjoyable because of the our exciting and newly expanded Panther Website Of The Burlingame High much-anticipated International Week that Postscripts. School Alumni Association”, then it has become an annual tradition at BHS. isn’t. You will find us on the website listed What many people don’t realize is that all Our Leadership class organized this event of these activities - all of the organization, below at http://burlingamealumni.org/ with a special activity every day to Please sign in and register on the BHS all of the recognition of outstanding celebrate the diverse backgrounds of our alumni, all of the fundraising, all of the Alumni site today. students. One of the highlights was the reunion support and high school tours, all Cultural Assembly, which showcased a Past Alumni Newsletters (called Panther of the writing, publishing, website series of short routines where students Postscripts) can also be found online as producing, alumni tracking and offered musical performances in our well as Hall of Fame inductees, Alumnus theater. To the enthusiastic applause of communication – all are done by a of the Year, In-Memory of alumni and soon relatively small group of hard working, the audience, the Cultural Assembly the Photo Gallery section. We also have began with an electrifying guitar rendition volunteers dedicated to the only OFFICIAL a new Reunion Guide that gives many of the Star Spangled Banner and finished BHS Alumni Association. ideas and suggestions, including a with an energetic Bollywood dance by our timeline if your class is just starting to plan The Board meets monthly in the Alumni its reunion. Find more under Reunion Leadership class. Other delightful acts Room at BHS, but much of the actual work Section on page 3. included Poly dances, American tap is done by individual committees dance, Chinese fan dance, Irish dance, throughout the year. With gratitude to all, Tahitian Dance, Russian dance, American we honor the following BHS grads and pop culture dance, and Hawaiian dance. members of the BHSAA Alumni Board of We staff are privileged to share these Directors: Arleen Hipsher, ’53, Peter formative and wondrous years with our Cleveland, ’58, Connie Mills, ’59 students. Go Panthers! Secretary, Len Lubrano, ’64, Linda McLaughlin, ’67 Historian, Dianne Cal-Hi Sports editor to comment, “it BHS Alumni – Lifetime Members Panthers In The News probably is the biggest upset in state history”. Lifetime membership donations to the Doc Scheppler class of ’72, has been Congratulation’s Doc. Job well done. BHS Alumni help support your Alma Mater coaching basketball for many years. His in many ways. The fees collected go latest stint as coach finds him at the For more on this game, please check out towards funding Hall of Fame and other southern tip of the Peninsula in a small Alumni events that help raise money for quiet town called Los Altos. Similar in the link below of an article written in the San Jose Mercury Newspaper. You’ll be athletic programs as well as provide funds many ways to Burlingame, both have used towards scholarships that are populations of about 30k people, both are glad you did. It is a great read. awarded each May to a select few very affluent and diverse cities and both http://www.mercurynews.com/high-school- students. sports/ci_29646985/norcal-girls-basketball- boast beautiful downtowns. Oh and both pinewood-coach-doc-scheppler-floating High Schools share the same mascot, BHS would like to acknowledge the “Panthers”. Newest Lifetime BHSAA Members as follows: Doc has thrived as the Girls Head Eileen Cairns ‘76, Carla Demas Farris Basketball coach at Pinewood School, a ‘74, Valerie Fick ‘58, Elizabeth (Betsy) 210-student private school in Los Altos Fowle ‘60, Margaret Giuntoli ‘58, Roger Hills California. He has won (6) six state Graham ‘67, Louise Marie Hall ‘62, championships while the head coach at Tracy Hazlett Scheck ’84, Micki Pinewood and he was also recognized as McCloskey Kell ‘73, Dianne Ragozzino State Coach of the Year in 2014. Knudsen ‘74, Sue Kell Peletta ‘74, This year Doc took his team to the State Richard Sherrod ‘73, Jeff Tateosian ’74 Championship again. And although they and Steven Taylor ’63. did not win their 7th Championship, this was one of those seasons where the WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR journey was the reward. CONTINUED SUPPORT OF BHS. To be a lifetime member, please register and join the dedicated BHS Alumni web BHS ALUMNI site at http://www.burlingamealumni.org APPAREL We are pleased to announce that you can IN MEMORIUM show your spirit by purchasing apparel from our website and the BHS Alumni Dottie Lawson Sherman ’77.....…...11/15 Store. There you will find Pro-Celebrity Ted Glasgow ‘53…………...………..12/12 Polo Shirts, ¼ Zip Sport-Tek Sweatshirt Jeanette Beggs Conroy ’56……...….1/16 and Black Hoodies from Port and Chuck Harrison ’73………………..….1/16 Company along with Baseball style hats in Thomas Kimbrell ‘76….….…………..8/13 Red and Black. The proceeds will support Chuck Lawson ’73……………….……6/15 our scholarship program and other student Lorne Chisholm ’40……………………N/A activities. Thanks to BHSAA Board David Slate ’60…………………….…..1/16 Member Len Lubrano ’64 for championing Chuck Bayse ’52………………………5/15 Doc is in Back Row arms outstretched this effort. Doc’s girls made it to the playoffs, and Below is a picture of the actual Logo with two double digit loses late in the season at home to Miramonte and in a section championship against Archbishop Mitty, they found themselves winning the Northern California State quarter finals vs Bishop O’Dowd placing them against the #1 seed in the tournament and the #1 nationally ranked team, St Mary’s of Stockton, California. http://burlingamealumni.org/catalog.php St Mary’s came into this game as the heavy favorite as they were the defending To place your order, go to the site above. Please look at the approximate state Open Division champs and were on a measurements to determine size. All 57 game winning streak. But that’s why items are unisex. There is a slight you play the games. Doc’s girls rallied variation between brands and it seems the and drained their 3’s, (reminiscent of the t-shirts run a little small. The qualities of GS Warriors) hitting on 19 that night to the shirts are very good. We hope to see prevail in a shocking 72-69 upset win at you wearing your BHS Alumni apparel at San Joaquin Delta College, prompting one all the BHS events. BHS Alumni Reunions The Committee for the 50th Reunion of school. His name: Lorne Chisholm class Burlingame High School Class of 1966 of ‘40. We learned to fly at Mills Field (SF Coming this Fall & Next Fall JIm Boswell, Cindy-Biggs Weiss, Barry International) in 1942, graduated as pilots, Frazier, Betty Biglin-Stoddard, Steve flew in WWII, and had a couple flights deLaet, Nancy Chandler, Carol Daniels, together as civilians in recent years. Did you know you could schedule a tour of Fritz Ericksen, Devlin Harless. the school as part of your reunion? Most Please continue to supply us with any 50’s reunions tour on Friday afternoon. Linda emails, phone numbers, or addresses or McLaughlin conducts the tours. She is missing classmates. [email protected] BHSAA’s 2014 Alumni of the Year, former [email protected] Barbara Duncan Hewitt, class of '55 BHS teacher and she is Mrs. Beeman’s [email protected] email us your intentions. wrote in to say: “My husband, John (Dean of Girls in the 1950’s and 1960’s) Basye, class of '55, was the brother of the granddaughter. You can contact her at late Chuck Basye, class of '52” His obit [email protected].