Our Main Pre-Reunion FIRST Page
Class of 1960
Our 50th High School Reunion
Shenandoah Valley Academy, April 16 & 17, 2010
(THE PRE REUNION PAGES #1 - #5)
Another of Doc & Becky Hemp's Unofficial Web Sites
7/12/2011 Update ... Website is finished of our May 27 - June 6 2011 SVA/MILO/LLU Western Reunion ...
Where Les
& Maggie Chafen, Becky and Myself Dandy Dave Hemp hosted many from the above schools .. about 150 folks
at our home ... Shenandoah West .. This new website has no links to it from anywhere .. but .. If anyone
from any of these afore mentioned schools or anyone that might know any of us especially from the 1960's
era just email me And I will send you the link to these 13 photo pages including movies of our
steam, electric and diesel engines.
AFTER PERUSING THIS WHOLE PAGE CHECK OUT THESE TWO VIDEOS
See My 8 Minute Video of Graduation and Class Night 1960
(Click Here)
When at youtube click on the 380p arrow and change it to 480p .. It downloads much faster and looks good too.
Watch Billy Hooker's Video of OUR 50th SVA 1960
High School Reunion
GO TO Our (ACTUAL & POST) 50th SVA 1960 High School Reunion Page
UPDATED OFTEN
I am dedicating this page to our Class Sponsers of 1960, The Strickland's, the
Testerman's, And .. to us 4 year alumni, Dean Paul B. riley who passed away Nov 30,
2009. I am so glad I got to spend time with him at a recent reunion.
UPDATED 4/24/2010
Today just added photos of Dean Roy Battle and Copie Senior
.. Also, when
you return to all these pages you should hit your refresh button each time as it
may not reload the changes automatically due to the ram memory. Also as you cruise thru
these pages and links bookmark often as there may not be links back ..and remember ..you can usually
right click on your mouse and or hit the back arrow at the top left corner of your screen to
return too.
You will see very very few websites like ours as I learned 16yrs ago and hand type all my HTML
in by hand and don't ever use any of the automatic features and frames included in all the new
stuff developed to be kept short and load ultra fast to sell products. It is very time
consuming my way for sure .. but is part of the hobby aspect .. just like I do 100% of the welding
and 99% of the plasma cutting on our railroad.
Peppy (Lord) and Don Clark
Peppy is the mover and shaker for this
reunion.
After finishing and perusing this cool page ..
GO TO OUR 50th EMAIL PAGE #1 - ....
(Updated Frequently) There are now 3 email pages as of 4/10/10 ....
Read Bio's & Emails from Classmates and info from Peppy, etc... All email links
are posted off the bottom of this page.
Please send text and photos by regular email and not in word documents... Also
put the word Shenandoah in the title somewhere as our spam folders get over 1000 emails
per day and that is the only title I will scan for ... Thanks ... See everyone soon.
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(A note from Dave (doc hemp)
I left home at 13yrs old and came to this boarding school for the full 4 years.
I worked year round and usually at two different jobs daily there ... $.39/hr.
The Dairy, the kitchen below the girls dorm (THE BEST!) and hall monitor, etc.
I was head of the underworld while also maintaining the reputation as
the quintessential preacher's kid and all around nice guy to most students &
faculty.
I could write a very funny, interesting book on those 4 years!
It was at this school where I developed my fierce and honest independencey, and
made a lot of wonderful friends! Guys and Gals!
These 4 years molded me into the person I am today .. It is and was a wonderful
Place to learn core values. Values that one does not have to be an SDA to
appreciate.
I am sure some of my old girl friends will agree (grin)
Elder Frances gave this reading to me to memorize .. When & Where I am not sure.
The 40th reunion?
Spring of 1957 these 2 photos (above and below)
Fall of 1956 - (These 2 photos above)
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Lynn Hoag was my room mate and best man at
Our wedding in Crescent City CA June 30, 1963
Lynn is one of the finest persons I have ever
met in my life & I am honored to have been
able to have known friends like him from SVA!
1959/1960
When we built our Virgina style ranch home in 1976
we named our place Shenandoah West as shown above
This b&w photo was taken by Jacque Williams
Pep and Don's beautiful grand children
THE SHENANDOAH HALL OF SHAME
Davey Boy the Hempster
Jenson Hall is where I spent my Freshman year ...Fond memories, head flushed
in camode by Senior Richard Crowther ... And later I rolled thousands of BB's
across his linoleum floor at 3 am and pounded on his door.. ouch that hurts
the bare feet!
I also short sheeted him with shaving cream deep down between the sheets. I
remember he blasted his feet right thru the folded part of the sheet! ..
Sweet!!! And ...He never found out who did it!
This is also where my room mate, Paul Rice wanted to bet on everything from
which fly would fly
first, to when he said the 5th car passing by would stop .. he ran into the
middle of the road waving his arms and almost got killed and I still won
as it slid sideways around him and kept going.
He once bet me $10 he would
jump off the middle roof of Jensen Hall .. he did and he won ... but ..
I made $50 betting other kids he would do it .. oh .. And he broke his leg ..
True story! .. And .. When I ran up to him the very 1st thing he said was
"PAY UP I WON!" (he was bummed when he found out I made more than he did).
Principle Akers may remember this one .. we were going home on break and I
Bet Paul $20 that if I stapled a $1 bill to a post card it would still be there
when it was delivered to me back at school. The bet was on! ..I wrote on the
post card .. to the postal employees ... I have bet $20 that this $1 bill will
still be on the card when it is delivered .. My friend said you guys are
dishonest .. I say you are honest! ..WHO WILL BE RIGHT? ...(I also stapled it
about a thousand times just to help things out!) We got back ... No post card
... We get called into Elder Akers office .. Betting is wrong boys! ... BUT ...
The Dollar was still on it ...and ... Paul did pay up afterwards too!
Paul also posted a top ten list of the best dressed girls on campus every week ..
I don't know if any of you girls remember this .. darn .. I wish I had thougt of it
to this very day ... man did he get the attention of every girl on campus!!!!!
And .. he got all of them to sign the cast on his leg .. really!
Paul hated boarding school from the first day because he had no T.V. .. He
knew all the shows .. T.V. and Betting was all he ever talked about! ..He
told me his folks had sent him there to get him away from his obsession with
T.V. (which was pretty new at the time). That was his only year there. Have
never heard from him again .... wonder why?
Jan 1960, Less Chafen leaning out the door
Me again in Jan 1960 Just bein cool
Other than a few bedtime songs for the kids
I never did get any good on this dang thing!
Geeze .. I have had 3 hairstyles in my life ..
following photos show all 3 .. am now back to
What I started with in high school.
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Lynn & Liz Hoag sent us a CD but it was in a format I couldn't open. But
here are a few photos below I copied off their Sun Country Garden Club on
Facebook. I will put more up when I get another CD. There is also a link to
the Face Book site at the bottom of this page. I will also post their Christmas
letter on our email page. Be sure and order all your seed, garden, irrigation
& hot house items from Lynn & Liz.
Email Dave & Becky
