Reactions SHSers had upon receiving their notification that they had been "found" will pluck at your heart strings and some will make you laugh.

de Primero Reaccion

You found the correct Mel Burns. Between 1954 (Lord that is over 40 years ago) and 1959, my sister - six years younger - and I attended school in Sevilla. In fact, when we arived in 1954, we were the 3rd and 4th students in the American School. The other two were David Lerner and his sister - and their Dad was the first principal.
I have for years and years wondered what happened to the Elaine Barrows, Bobby Boregas, Nancy DeMarcos -- and a host of others whose names I cannot remember, but whose faces remain crystal clear. My last year in Sevilla was my sophomore year in high school, and I truly missed something by not being allowed to finish there.
But, we came back to a SAC base in western Oklahoma. I finished there at Elk City High, went to college and USAF flight school, and the rest is old news.
God Bless you for finding me. I have had a large void in my life wondering what happened to all my friends.
(Melvin Burns '61)

Got your letter last week, read it, jumped for joy, and left it at my Mom's house. Just absolutely forgot to bring it home (I hate these mature moments, aka brain cramps.) So I guess I have been found.
(Chuck Tigue '63)

Received your letter today and immediately went to the Sevilla High School web page. What fun!! Like so many others, Sevilla was the school of my memories.
(Sandi Fountain Drummond '66)

Great to hear from someone from so long ago....I was in the fifth thru the eighth grades when we were in San Pablo, but I still have fond memories of that time in my life, especially the Teen Club....
(Doak Thomas '65)

Of course I'm the Robert DeVillar you're looking for! What a wonderful surprise! od, it's really great that you're doing this.
(Robert DeVillar '62)

It seems kind of strange talking to you after all these years, and yet it seems like only yesterday that we talked on a daily basis. I like the idea of putting together a list of Sevilla alumni. I particularly like all the email addresses. This could become a real interesting experience.
(Mike Ellis '63)

What a surprise to hear from you! How did this get started? I have often wondered if we would all be able to find each other again. There are so many people I'd love the chance to speak with. We are such a unique group.
(Cynthia Candelaria '64)

Thanks for dropping a line! Hard to believe that after all these years SHS alum are still congregating.
(Tom Heath '62)

I was feeling old before I read my email...but now, uh, did you say Granddaughters?
(Hugh Yarbrough '62)

Got a note from Jim Harrison re: SHS Toros..I never actually got that far in the system, but I was at San Pablo from 63-66 (3rd thru 6th grades) Does that count? I would like to be part of the SHS gang if you will allow me the liberty of doing so. It really was a great place, wasn't it?
(Kevin Peterson '72)

I was a 1963 graduate of Sevilla Dependent High School. We arrive in August 1962. Your name is not familiar to me. Maybe you left before I arrived. Unfortunately, while I am in contact with several alumni, none of them are computer literate...the dummies.
(Floyd Lasley '63)

Well, Hello!!!! Yes, we do know each other (or did in that other life so many years ago!)....It is really great to hear from an SHS person - I look forward to "talking" again.
(Elaine Barrows Kemp '62)

I am excited about the possibility of getting some of those of us that went to Sevilla High together and cyber space is as good a place as can be found since we probably live all over the world. How did you get my email address? I was (in Sevilla) after you were, but it is still neat to hear from someone that had been there.
(Tom Law '68)

Well hello stranger. Yeppers, I think you got something there.
(Janis Walker '67)

OK! OK! I know I'm not the best "get back to you real soon" kind of guy, but that doesn't mean I'm not thinking about y'all. I hope all this comes together. I have been with the Disney organization for the past 27 years...the amazing this is; I'll bet 'most everyone has been here at WDW , so close and yet so far.
(Paul "Topper" Eggeling '63)

My sister fowarded an email from Val Waldron Moreland. Although I did not graduate from SHS, I attended 7th through half of freshman year....how fun after so many years!
(Linda Andrist '66)

I am glad you "found" me.
(Junior Herrera '62)

Thanks for the note and most of all for the web page. I stayed up late last night looking.... was a blast to see our faces....looked over the "found" list and there were a number of people I'd like to talk to...
(Les Wollam '62)

You found her!
(Jim Bryden, husband of Suanne Hendryk Bryden aka Suanne Frances Hendryk '63)

It is so great to hear from you. I've been thinking about setting up a SHS web site and low and behold, I get an email from you. WOW.
(Pat Ellis Little '65)

I hope you remember who I am...Thanks for the letter about SHS. ...it's good to be back in touch.
(Ron Mazzarino '66)

What a surprise to receive your letter and what an exciting time we live in with this "internet" thing.
(Pris Osborne Hellums '63)

I must admit I am really just getting started in computers, but I will become proficient quickly or die trying!!!!
(Paul Wagner ''65)

I just received the alumni list you sent today...I've already gotten a lot of enjoyment looking over the list and finding some names of old high school friends.
(Pat "Bud" Hinson '63)

GREAT to hear from you. I received your letter today and was wondering when we would get around to doing something like this. Looking forward to talking to old friends.
(Frank Camarillo '67)

...I just received a letter...I must say it was a pleasant suprise. I have lost touch with everyone from Sevilla High.
(George Hyatt '63)

It's exciting to have people to share memories with for a thrilling part of my life.
(Betty Beard '65)

I was so excited to get your letter. I can't believe I was just recently thinking of getting out my Reunion stuff and contacting someone - anyone!
(Pat Thomas Carr '60)

You really have done it now............I'm alive, I'm electronic, I'm temporarily at uschips@aol.com Will have a new server in Costa Rica after June 1st and will pass it on. Don't know what to say except it's good to found again and I'll do whatever it takes to get to the next teen club dance. Poker afterwards?
(Chip Furlong '61)

It has been so many years. I never dreamed that I would ever have an opportunity to fellowship with you or any of our High School classmates again. This is a wondersul surprise and a joy to my heart. Over the years there has always been a void that could not quite be explained or understood, it was just there. Thanks to yours and Elaine's efforts, I feel that that void has now been filled. Thank you so very much! I know that my brother Wayne is feeling the same, as I am sure everyone is. I had planned on getting a new computer but had just been putting it off until he called, so excited about being found, he couldn't wait to tell me. I browsed through the web site today. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thanks for the memories. Your old found friend,
(Ken West '62)

....the chance to relive the chapters in our lives that many of us have held in our hearts, for me some 35 years now. It has enabled me to speak via E-Mail to friends that I have not seen since 1965 and it is as if we have been together a life time. Although we all knew each other in another life-time so to speak, there is a bond that no one can quite explain....and when I sign off, I smile and feel 17 again. Who needs Viagra anyway? Ha!
(Lynn Sances '65)

"I bless you both for the energy and enthusiasm you have put into this classmate search.... Druci knows how awful I am at letter writing, but that doesn't mean that I have forgotten. I hold you all in my heart with fond and loving memories and am looking forward to establishing more memories now that you have found us."
(Pat Stevens '60)

Now that I've been found I don't want to get lost again.
(Laurie Joynt '71)

You don't know what this means to me. You might think you do, but you really don't! You and Druci have given this "old man" a very special gift. For 38 years I have spent untold hours thinking about my Sevilla experience. I have told stories of my SHS life to countless others, and have come to tears many times just thinking about it and the people who were such an important part of those 3 years. I'm sure that this has come about as the result of my holding the vision that I would someday come across someone who was a part of my long lost life of soo long ago. I just didn't know who that someone would be, and now I do!!! And as it is turning out it won't be just one someone. It will be difficult for me to wait until June '99! So now that you have found my hiding place...don't be such a stranger!!!!!!!!! Thanks again.
(Ron Gregor '60)

What a wonderful Christmas present! Found your site over the holidays and visiting it certainly triggered a flood of wonderful memories. So glad I found you. Hopefully, someday we can reconnect with the rest of the class of '70!!
(Paula Mont '70)

I can't believe I found a page dedicated to SHS alumni! The fondest memories I have of my youth (youth - what's that?) all have to do with the time I spent at Seville High School: favorite teachers, being in school plays, dances at Teen Town at the Santa Clara housing area, and just the whole experience of being in Spain. It was a wonderful part of my life that I will never forget. When I found this page, I spent hours combing over every word of text and discovering long lost names. If anyone who reads this remembers me, please send an e-mail. I'd love to make contact.......
(David Davis '69)

Unbelievable! I just found this site and I'm thrilled to see that so many people have already participated. I attended SHS during the 69-70 school year (8th grade). Then I moved to Zaragoza and the dorm school before eventually moving to Sembach Germany. I now live in Columbia, SC. I would love to make contact with anyone who knew me but especially Mike Berlin, Deborah McKay, Vicky Theriault, any of the Wrights (Debbie, Zeb, or Doug), Carol and Tina Gipperich, Frances Andrade, and too many others to remember or list now.....
(Dan "Danny" Linton '74)

Great to finally hear about Sevilla, other than a few words that Sally gets every year from different people. I am living in Washington D.C. after 24 years of following my husband Craig all over the world. He was a F-15 pilot and a Colonel in the Air Force. I have lived in many places around the world. Would you believe I've bumped into 2 people on plane flights going to opposite directions. Once Pete Hampton in 1985 on a Northwest flight on his way to Korea. Then two years ago with Danny Mungeon in the halls of the Pentagon to meet my husband. I asked for directions and recognized the face then saw the name plate. He then escorted my daughter and myself to my husbands office; we spent the afternoon entertaining each other as well as my husband and the people in his office to hear stories of Joanne's first boyfriend in Sevilla. My daughter is now 16 and I'm not telling my age.
We are now retired from the Air Force and I am working on my Master's Degree here as well as working at the graduate office at the University to help adults and military members come back into the world of Academics. I may be on my way to Ph.D next year after finishing this track in Psychology and eventually teach at the University. The students and I would have a ball as well learn what is new in the field of Academics and Career Counseling. A far cry from the title of school's "Best Dancer". I finally made up for the loss of classes at Sevilla and the idea of partying was the most important agenda at the time. Still like to party, but I have finally found my true love in the academic world, and believe it or not I also have had 3 years of college Spanish and a tour in Panama. Hope to hear from some of you soon.....
(Joanne T. Rapacik Bernhard '68)

I WAS IN SEVILLA FROM '62 - '65 AND JUST FOUND THIS WEB SITE. I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A LONG TIME TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND I AM ON CLOUDS. PLEASE EMAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT'S WHAT. THANKS......
(MICHAEL BOTHNE '68)

I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THE SHS PAGE AND READING THE COMMENTS OF ALL THE FOUND FOLKS AND THINKING TO MYSELF THAT WE ARE SO ALIKE. IT'S LIKE WE ALL LIVED IN A VOID FOR SO MANY YEARS; WE ALL NEEDED A PLACE TO GO WITH OLD FRIENDS WHO UNDERSTOOD US AND LIVED THE LIFE THAT WE DID. LETS FACE IT WE'RE NOT NORMAL FOLKS. I USED TO BE A LITTLE JEALOUS OF MY PEERS WHEN THEY WOULD ALL TALK ABOUT SCHOOL REUNIONS AND I KNEW THAT THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN FOR ME. ALL MY FRIENDS WERE LONG GONE. THATS WHY WHEN I FOUND YOU GUYS; IT WAS ONE OF THE HIGHLITES OF MY LIFE. THANKS TO YOU AND ELAINE, ITS GOING TO HAPPEN..... I`M GOING TO A REUNION!
(Joe Love '62)

I just found this web site and am on a bitter sweet memory trip. I attended SHS during 1968-1969, my sophomore year. My father was U.S. Army. We didn't live on base, but in a small Spanish village by the name of Alcala de Guadaira. It was a beautiful and carefree time of my life that I'll never forget. I played football, sang in the school choir, and kept score for the local intramural basketball leagues, which were supervised by Sgt. Therriault. My father got orders for Zweibrucken the following year and I moved on to Kaiseslautern H.S. to finish my junior year. I'm trying to locate Debbie Lehmann who attended SHS at this time and lived on San Pablo Airbase. Also, I would love to hear from anyone who knew me. Please contact me at jcolla@hotmail.com. Go Toros! Kind Regards,
(Joe Colla '71)

I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have heard from you and Val Waldron today. I feel like I have been "touched by an angel". There has been a big hole in my life where memories of my two years at SHS settled. You know what I mean? This is just so wonderful. Thank you so much....
(Billie Payeur '64)

For the last few days I have been telling everyone how happy I am that I have found my classmates from Sevilla High School. It is almost like being back in high school and I am about to open a door to very special friends that I have missed for such a long time.
Its amazing that even as I write this email my thoughts are filled more than ever about living and learning in Spain. I have visited t he SHS web site many times in the last few days and can only wonder how much time and effort it has taken to get this database put together.
I look forward to being on the database and all the exciting communications that it will bring. If I can help in any way, please let me know. Thanks again and hope to hear from you and others soon.
(Del Olson '62)

Received a telephone call out of the blue from Dick Yates, '64--asking if I am the Robbie Wagner from Sevilla High--guilty--I am still in shock--being a typical male from the 60's I did not write, communicate or talk to anyone except the person in the room with me at that time, be it girl or guy. I went to college and forgot my friends--but at the same time I bragged to everyone that would listen what a great time I had going to high school in Spain--I lived Black and Red. No one in college could believe that I had to sing at my own graduation, or that I could drink beer legally ( I had money) in Spain. I remember Semana Santa, Feria, Rota, the Proms, the dances, the teen club (Juan and his dirty pictures) et al, the good times and the bad times, the Cuban Missle Crisis, Kennedy's Assination (I was making out with a girl at the time as we waited for the shuttle bus, that stopped and we cried). We did not have TV, we listened to Armed Forces Radio, went to movies, the pool and hit the library. I think I read most of the books about war, and science fiction they had, but I remember Mr Chase reading of the Martian Chronciles the most. In looking back at my high school years I remember very clearly that we lived in a secluded piece of the world, we were an enclave of USA in the middle of a foreign country. We else would your maid take her Folgers coffee can, go out to the bushes and bring back her lunch to boil "escorgot anyone", or you Levi's get stolen from the clothes line and the next day the Guardia return them to you no questions asked. High school was a past time that always lives in my mind. Tonight, with Dick Yates call, I was 15, I was 16, I was 17 and I was 18, I was not 54. A telephone call erased 37 years, isn't memories great.
(Robert "Robbie" K. Wagner '64)

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