Remembering Our Class of 1977 Fallen Panthers

 

Franklin High School's Class of 1977 - 50th Reunion

Greetings!

Our 50th Reunion for Franklin’s Class of 1977 will be here before we know it in 2027…  

Our 40th Reunion was planned in six months.  With everyone's help and utilizing the power of Facebook & emails, ninety people attended our reunion on October 7, 2017 at Mijares Mexican Restaurant.    Alfred Davis, Candi Garcia Groves Maldonado, Colette Bernal, Debbi Harris Foss, and Vicky Nishinaka Leon were on the committee and received A LOT OF HELP from Candi’s daughter, Elizabeth Groves.  

With our 50th Reunion, we will have more time to plan, and we already have a list of the people and their contact information from the last reunion.  However, we realize that email addresses may have changed in ten years, so please take the time and complete the Google Form at https://bit.ly/Franklin50thReunion so that we may have your contact information.  I promise not to sell your email addresses…

Alfred, Candi, Colette, Debbi, and I are back on the reunion committee, but we would love to have you join us!  We will be meeting at the Panera Bread restaurant in La Canada, but you may also join the meetings online via Google Meet.  Please check the box in the Google Form if you would like to be on the 50th Reunion Committee.

Feel free to email me at victorianishinakaleon@gmail.com if you have any questions or suggestions.

Please SHARE this information with others in the Class of '77 on Facebook, Instagram, emails, texts, and while catching up on the phone...

Hope to see you in 2027,

Vicky Nishinaka Leon

#FranklinHighClassof1977

Thanks to Esther Quintanilla, our Franklin photographer, for sending us these photographs!

Thanks to Esther Quintanilla, our Franklin photographer, for sending us these photographs of the Class of 1977's 40th Reunion.  Esther is also a part of the Franklin Homecoming Court this year.  Esther has given everyone permission to download copies of her photographs.   If you would like to have Esther photograph your family or business events, you may contact her at Quintanilla.esther24@gmail.com.

Join the Class of 1977 at Franklin's Homecoming Game on Saturday, October 13, 2017...

UPDATE:  The principal is bringing light snacks for us in the Parent Center which is next door to Franklin's outside cafeteria tables. 

Thanks to everyone who attended Franklin's Class of 1977 Reunion.  We have been invited to participate in Franklin's Homecoming Game "parade" around the track before the football game on Friday, October 13, 2017.  Franklin will also have a section reserved for us during the game.

If you would like to be a part of the parade, you will need to be at Franklin's outside cafeteria tables by 5:00.  You may purchase the $10 tickets for the football game beginning at 4:00.

Sorry, but the $1,500 to rent a bus was beyond our budget, so we will be walking around the track like the other groups during the pregame Franklin Homecoming ceremony. 

Please fill out the form below so that we will know how many people to expect.  Feel free to email me at vleon999@yahoo.com if you have any questions.

Hope to see you on Friday for the Class of 1977's Reunion #2,
Vicky Nishinaka-Leon

Send us the links of your photos from the Class of 1977 Reunion on October 7, 2017!

We would like to have everyone send us the links to their photographs from the Class of 1977's 40th Reunion.  Please email Vicky Nishinaka-Leon at vleon999@yahoo.com and send us the links so that we can add them to this post.

Matt Hogen was our official reunion photographer.  Go to https://www.facebook.com/losangelesca2017reunion/ and see Matt's photos posted on October 14, 2017.  Matt has given everyone permission to download copies of his photographs.  If you would like to have Matt photograph your family or business events, you may contact him at 916-715-5445.

Thanks to Esther Quintanilla, our Franklin photographer, for sending us photographs of our 40th Reunion.  Go to https://franklinhighschoolclassof1977.blogspot.com/2017/10/thanks-to-esther-quintanilla-our.html to see all of her photos.  Esther has given everyone permission to download copies of her photographs.  If you would like to have Esther photograph your family or business events, you may contact her at Quintanilla.esther24@gmail.com.

Thanks to Marlo Pardo-Lopez who helped us with the two opportunity drawings.  The Class of 1977 was able to give $562 to the Franklin Educational Foundation.  See Marlo's reunion photographs at https://www.facebook.com/marlo.pardolopez posted on October 8, 2017.

Imelda Lozano has posted the Class of 1977's 40th Reunion on her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/imelda.lozano and her Instagram account at Imelda Lozano @meldy1959. 

Sylvia Martinez continues to collect shared Facebook photographs from a bunch of people's Facebook pages at https://www.facebook.com/tia.martinezdoyle.  See Sylvia's Facebook posts on October 7th and 8th.  

On October 8th, Ann Smirke posted photographs and videos on her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/antoniaann.smirkeLW.  See great photos of the 40th Reunion and the San Pascual Elementary School After Party the next day...