I hope you are all staying well and happy. I know not everyone can be, though. If you care to, please email me at donna at woodka dot com with any updates - I will be more than happy to post them here.

Otherwise, we’ll see you in another five or ten years….

We all have those special people in our lives we count among our best friends - here’s me with my best friend, Judi Lyle Gould. I hope you all had a wonderful time catching up with old friends, seeing those we haven’t seen in far too long. I miss all of you already!

Like the twilight in the road up ahead
They don’t see just where we’re goin’
And all the secrets in the universe
Whisper in our ears
All the years that come and go
Take us up, always up
– Seals and Crofts

Anyone remember this song from the Towering Inferno in 1974? We performed it in ACE one year, and it was one of my favorites…

We may never love like this again
Don’t stop the flow
We can’t let go
We may never love like this again
And touch the sky
Though we may try

So, while we’re here,
Let’s give our all,
Release the dreams inside us
And set them free
Oh, while we’re here,
Let’s leave a mark
There’s a candle in the dark
It’s here to guide us

We may never love like this again
But through the days,
Beyond the haze,
I’ll see you reaching out to hold me
I don’t know just where or when
Still, I’m sure
We’ll love again
We’ll love again

– Maureen McGovern

CHS Construction

In this issue of the Coronado High Alumni Newsletter:

* View Photos of the Inside of the New Classroom Building
* Coronado Campus Demolition Begins
* Support Project Graduation
* Coronado Through the Decades Video Now Available on DVD

Virtual Tour of New Classroom Building
On April 20th a small group of “dignitaries” and the CHS Alumni
Association Newsletter Editor took a tour of the new two-story
classroom
at Coronado High. Photos can be viewed on Kodak’s Gallery website by
clicking here :

Coronado Tour

(Disclaimer: Notification of these photos posted on Kodak’s web site
is
meant for viewing only and is not a solicitation to purchase photos.)

Coronado Campus Demolition Begins

The CHS auditorium and the Band Room were vacated two weeks before the
end of the school year. Photos of the removal of the mosaic,
demolition of the Band Room, and the new parking lot can be viewed by clicking here:

Demolition

(Donna’s note: I really hope that mural is being preserved! It *defines* Coronado for me! It’s going to be strange to be there for the reunion and not see it.)

Coronado Through the Decades Video Now Available on DVD
The final performance in the Coronado High Auditorium was held on May
13th and is now available on DVD. The talent included Coronado alumni,
current students, and faculty. There are forty acts of song, dance,
music, and poetry with the highlights of the show being the Dons
Marching Band playing the CHS fight song and

the finale - the ensemble and audience signing the Coronado High hymn.
The two disk set is available for $20.00 which includes shipping. For
more information on how to order your copy of the Coronado Through the
Decades video please send an email message to Robert Swierski
.

For questions, comments, or if you change your email address, please
contact the newsletter editor
rp dot swierski at cox dot net.

Go Dons!

Robert Swierski, ‘66
Editor, Coronado High Alumni Newsletter

Debbie Lippmann has been a big success as a “manicurist to the stars”, and is now becoming a star in her own right, as a businesswoman and jazz singer. Debbie’s own line of nail care products is available at The Lippmann Collection, as well as at Nordstrom’s and many salons throughout the country.

Debbie also has a new album of her singing available on her site or at Amazon.
And it’s a very good CD, too!

Please check out Debbie’s great product line and support a CHS alumni!

My family moved in across the street from the corn field that became Coronado High School in 1959. These photos are ones my dad took of the initial construction of Coronado.

There wasn’t much to Scottsdale then. My dad came to Arizona from Ohio (where my brother and sister and I were born) to go to work for Motorola. We lived first in the Valley Ho Hotel:

We lived there for a few months while the house on Virginia Avenue was finished.

Arizona was a wonderland for three kids who loved to travel (I was notorious for getting car sick at exactly 4000 feet), camp, and enjoy the beautiful Arizona scenery and weather.

They tell me I almost walked off the edge of the Grand Canyon when I was two….

And I became a cowgirl! Back then, dressing up in western gear was all the rage. We all had cowboy hats, boots, toy guns, and all the cowboy attire. We would go to the Parada del Sol every year and the Scottsdale Rodeo.

In time, we all grew up and my sister, my brother and I all graduated from Coronado High School.

If you would like to post your stories about Coronado and pictures here, please drop me an email at donna at woodka dot com and I will be happy to set you up with a user ID and password for this blog. I would love to hear your stories, too.

– Donna Woodka