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.

1/15/2010 UPDATE! .. Also, when you return to this page you should hit your refresh button each time as it may not reload the changes automatically due to the ram memory

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 - .... (Updated Frequently) Read Bio's & Emails from Classmates and info from Peppy, etc... This link is also posted off the bottom of this page. Send photos of family, grandkids, dogs, pet spiders .. whatever.... and speaking of pet spiders .. check ours out ..



I helped organize the 20th .. but due to old age and now running on reserve don't have the energy anymore...so .. This website is it. I will not be doing any DVD or CD's to show at the reunion.
Even if Becky and I can't make it for some reason I will post all the Photos of it here on another couple post 50th pages.

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, th 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)
This photo may also have been from one of prof Frances's shows

The 40th reunion?


Spring of 1957 these 2 photos (above and below)








Fall of 1956 - (These 2 photos above)


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!


1959/60




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?

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

1. GO TO OUR 50th EMAIL PAGE #1 -
   See more photos & Read Emails from Classmates.
2. GO TO OUR 50th EMAIL PAGE #2 -
   See more photos & Read Emails from Classmates.
3. Go to our Other SVA Reunion's
4. NEW - Shenandoah 50th Class Reunion of 1959
5. Visit Dave & Becky's Dental Site
6. Visit Dave & Becky's Private Railroad
7. Visit Lynn Hoag's Sun Country Garden Club on Face Book.