Thanks to BHS’68 classmate Mike Katzman who has produced the following video invitation to our 50th CLASS REUNION!
We have received the sad news that the husband of BHS’68 graduate, Teri Hill Clark, has died. BHS’67 Jerry Wade Clark “went steady” with Teri for four years during junior and high school, then they were married for forty-seven years, totaling an astounding 51 years in all! I do believe this is a class record!
From the Class of 1967 blog:
After five years of struggling with colon cancer and dementia, Jerry Clark passed away on June 2, 2018, at the age of 69. While Jerry was born in Glendale, CA and raised in Burbank, CA by his parents, Clifford and Gertrude Clark, Jerry’s heart was always in Carson Valley, having been a Douglas County resident since 1974.
Jerry is survived by his high school sweetheart of 4 years and wife of 47 years, Teri Clark. Jerry raised two sons here in Carson Valley, Wade and Nicholas Clark. He was the kind of father who taught his boys how to camp, hunt, fish, play football, baseball, and whatever other sport they decided to pursue. If Jerry wasn’t coaching or assistant coaching, he was at every event cheering on his sons.
Jerry was the owner/technician of Clark Dental Lab for over 30 years and passed on the principled work ethics to his sons that had been passed on to him by his father.
Jerry loved tying flies and making the poles, woodworking, and was an Open Water PADI SCUBA instructor.
At Jerry’s request, no services will be held, rather he requested you send comfort to Teri and Wade by sending memories/stories whether the stories make them laugh or cry.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to “Reno Police Foundation” with “Dedicated to Hashimoto Widows and Orphans Fund” as the memo; The community Foundation of Western Nevada, 50 Washinton St. #300, Reno, NV 89503 as Jerry’s and Teri’s son, Sgt. Wade Clark works for The Reno Police Department or to Tahoe Youth and Family Services to continue the fight against substance abuse so other families might not lose a child to substance abuse as did the Clark family when they lost Nicholas.
Jerry Hill and our classmate, Teri Hill Clark in 2015.
We extend our deepest sympathies to Teri and her family.
From Classmates.com:
Summer is about to start, which means that school reunion season is almost here!
Less than excited about the prospect? We can understand. Truly. Maybe you haven’t kept in touch with anyone, or you have less-than-fond memories of high school, or you’re worried that you won’t have anything interesting to talk about.
Well, perhaps one of these reasons will persuade you to attend:
1 You need to feel young again. For some reason, a lot of people who attend reunions come away feeling like everyone else got old except for them. You, too, can be one of those people! But also…
2 You won’t have to pretend that you’re younger than you are. Keeping up the façade of a younger you gets tiring sometimes (trying to figure out how old you were supposed to be in 1978 is making your brain hurt). At the reunion, nobody will care how old you are because you’re all the same age.
3 Your social calendar could use some excitement. Don’t pass up the chance for a party, especially one that involves tons of reminiscing and embarrassing stories.
4 You’ll have someone new to share cute photos with. Your friends are getting a little tired of all the adorable pet/baby/grandchild photos you keep posting on Facebook. Here’s a chance to expand your social circle!
5. Everyone else is going. Peer pressure. Just like in high school.
Here’s the important information:
Even if you told us previously that you’re thinking of coming, here is where we take your money! You may have RSVP’ed or been contacted by Classmates.com. However, please go to the Registration Page to officially register.
50th Reunion FAQs – This page is updated continuously, so please check it frequently.
RSVP Guest List – check out the names in Red, meaning these people have paid.
Reunion Questionnaire – Even if you are not coming, please fill out the Questionnaire!
Senior Class Photos of Attendees – Pictures THEN
What people look like now! – Pictures NOW
50th Reunion Cruise – Questions? Contact John Wray
Memorial List – Classmates who have died
Alumni Snapshots – Results of the Reunion Questionnaires
See what you’ve missed. Check out the Burbank High Class of 1968 blog.
If you haven’t seen it already, Life magazine issued a special commemorative issue called 1968: The Year That Changed the World. You can buy it online from Amazon or at your local bookstore.
Revisit 1968, one of the most pivotal years in modern history, a year that saw profound changes in everything from politics to race relations, music, art and culture.
We were the Class of 1968, and we lived through tumultuous times: the war in Vietnam (“Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?!”); Johnson’s speech to not seek re-election (“I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President”); the assassination of Martin Luther King and the ensuing riots and fires across the country; the assassination of Robert Kennedy after he won the California presidential primary; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; and much, much more.
Popular culture during that time also turned out to be memorable—how about the Beatles and their trip to India to study Transcendental Meditation, followed by “Hey, Jude” and the “White Album”; Bob Dylan; Janis Joplin; the Rolling Stones; the Doors; the movie Planet of the Apes; the television show, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In… Beautiful Downtown Burbank!
… we lived through it all, and graduated in June 1968 with a ceremony at the Starlight Bowl.
Now it is fifty years later, and it’s time to PARTY!
Here are the important details:
What: Burbank High Class of 1968, 50 Year Class Reunion
When: Saturday, October 6, 2018 • 6:00 PM
Where: Angeles National Golf Club, 9401 Foothill Blvd., Sunland
Cost: $75/person for buffet dinner
RSVP Guest List – check out the names in Red
for people who have paid
Reunion Questionnaire– even if you can’t come to the Reunion,please fill out and submit the questionnaire
Senior Class Photos of Attendees
The Big Game was always Burbank vs. Burroughs
If you check out the Wikipedia article on high school rivalries, you might be surprised to learn that Burbank High School is listed along with John Burroughs. Remember them? the Indians? Our cross-town rivals?
The annual “Big Game” between cross town rivals the Burbank High School Bulldogs and the John Burroughs High School Indians is the last regular season game, and last league game, for both schools. It takes place at Memorial Field located on the campus of John Burroughs High School and draws an average attendance close to 10,000 people.
In fact, BHS’68 Tom Cartmill‘s favorite memory of Burbank was its victory over Burroughs in the football game of November 1967, when we were seniors.
There’s a recap of the game on Wes Clark’s Burbankia website:
1967 – Burbank 20, Burroughs 19. Undefeated going into the game, the Indians again scored 19 points. Burbank, however, on the 173 yard passing of Dale Cirscione and the 85 yard fumble recovery of Randy Ivie for a touchdown, scored 20 for one of the biggest upsets in the series. The win prevented Burroughs from going ahead, for the first time, in the rivalry.
How many of you were at that football game . . . and remember it? Post comments below!
Now, however, there is a new rivalry: Which Class of 1968 is going to have the biggest number of graduates at its 50th Reunion? Here’s the information about Burbank High’s 50 Year Reunion:
And here’s the invitation for John Burroughs:
Gary Robson, who is heading up the Burroughs’ class reunion, last reported that they have achieved 1/5 or 20% of their goal of 100 graduates attending the 50th Reunion.
If you check out the Burbank High 1968 Guest List page, you’ll see that there are 22 people’s names in red, which indicates that we have received your money for the banquet. Our goal is 150 attendees, and if everyone on the list sends in their payment, we should be fine. Right now, though, we’re just under 15% of our goal.
The clock is ticking, though . . . the Reunion is only 4 months away!
Here are some important links:
RSVP Guest List – check out the names in Red
Senior Class Photos of Attendees
A few people feel conflicted about attending a 50th high school reunion, not just our Burbank High Class of 1968. I have to confess that without having the Ceralbus handy, I really don’t remember very many people in our large 600+ person class. And after all, it’s been 50 years! Egad!
For others, high school was a painful experience, a time of rejection and loneliness. Teri Hill Clark wrote on Facebook, “Feel like I’d be sitting on the sidelines like at a dance at John Muir!”
Carla Robinson Pollard said she sat with a bunch of women at the 40th reunion who considered themselves “unpopular,” and they all agreed that forgetting the time in high school was not a bad thing.
If you search the internet you can even find a blog post called “Snow Crash: Don’t Go to Your 50th High School Reunion,” where the author writes: My high school experience was not so great. It was a period in my life of great uncertainty, social isolation, and near-calamitous life choices. Somehow I pulled out of it in time, and I now think high school was something I survived, not something I enjoyed. The reunion did what I guess it should have— it reminded me that now is the most important time of my life, not the past.
What was more interesting were the comments to that blog post:
The biggest learning for me, overall, was that I was not the only student who felt alone back then, and that my isolation had much more to do with my circumstances than with myself or any malicious intentions on anyone else’s part.
This gave me the opportunity to take a good look at my life as it was, how far I have come and how thankful I am for how I live today. I have taken care of myself. My friend told me I was the best looking woman there. Nevertheless, a former jock who is now a sloppy, fat, bald man with a flowing beard said he couldn’t remember me when I tried to make conversation with him. A former cheer leader who is now barely moving and unrecognizable would not look at me or return a smile. I guess sometimes old habits never die. But guess what? I will be at next year’s reunion — as a reminder to them that people change, that exclusion gets you nowhere, that compared to them, I am now both jock and queen.
I had a huge graduating class of 800 students and assumed when I attended my 40th reunion that almost no one would remember me. To my utter astonishment, as I walked into the hall and up to the reception desk, several people called out my name and exclaimed they thought I hadn’t changed a bit! Since I had very few close friends in school, I asked them how they recognized me after all these years. I was quite moved to hear that many people thought I was very friendly and dressed fashionably in school. I won the prize that night for having the most marriages (3) and can’t wait to go to my 50th reunion after losing 30 lbs at Weight Watchers and reaching my high school weight and also now having been married 4 times!
I guess when I think about it, my own 50th was partly a matter of realizing my life over the intervening years had been pretty good relative to a number of others in my class…..
I’m in the mulling stage right now. Sorta want to go; sorta don’t really want to go. And sorta don’t want to spend the $1,000 to $1,500 it’s going to cost me, between airfare, hotel, rental car, event tickets, etc. On the plus side, I can’t help but think it’s got to be one of the more interesting experiences we can possibly have, i.e., seeing people we knew in kindergarten but fifty years later. I figure they’ll all look like they’re wearing stage make-up to appear older for a class play… if I do decide to go, it will mainly be to see just a handful of people I still care about — maybe five or six of them— and share that experience together.
It turned out to be an eye opener. It was like group therapy with the entire group feeling like they were not popular and basically having awful memories with the good. I couldn’t believe that these people I thought of as the popular group were as insecure as I was. I loved it! You know, misery in your teen years is just part of growing into an adult. I know high school was just a mixed bag, and I regret not being more sensitive to others, however I never thought a tone would think my approval mattered. I know I’m a better person, a more caring mom and citizen from my Twiggy moments. Ha! My girls think it’s hysterical I would be embarrassed by being too thin! I hope we get a really good attendance for our fiftieth, as I want to greet and congratulate all the classmates I grew up with, for just coming together. I admire especially the classmates that were gay, so hard to be different back then, and so stupid of us not to get it. There are always plenty of people that made me laugh, that I’d forgotten about. Just heard about a classmate that recently had a heart transplant.
Never sure in life what may happen in the future, but I love being in the present, and that means embracing the past, and looking forward to the future, and maybe finding a few old friendships along the way.
Reserve YOUR place at the Burbank High Class of 1968 / 50 Year Reunion today!
Check out the Class Website: www.burbankhigh1968.net
Doris Adams, 1968
I had Mrs. Doris Adams for art at Burbank High. Did you?
Alan Landros ’70, sent us this:
Mrs. Doris Adams passed away at age 96 in March 2018. She was born June 17, 1921, her passing being just a little more than three months from her 97th birthday. After she retired from Burbank High she and her husband moved to Laguna Beach in the 1970’s. They moved to a retirement residence in Aliso Viejo near Laguna Beach a number of years ago. Mr. Adams passed away about nine years ago. Mrs. Adams continued being very involved where she lived, including teaching art classes. Up until the last few years she swam everyday, and continued to drive locally in Orange County.
In June of 2015 she attended our BHS ‘70 45th reunion at the Castaway in Burbank, along with her daughter-in-law, Linda Sherbert Adams – BHS ‘69, and her granddaughter, Kelly Adams Knott. Mrs. Adams enjoyed a wonderful long life. She had her 49th birthday on June 17th, the day before our class graduated from BHS on June 18, 1970, now almost 48 years ago! I was one of the lucky ones who was in Mrs. Adams’ art classes during my senior year at BHS, and was able to keep in touch with her over the years, especially the early years after being in her classes. Mrs. Doris Adams is survived by her family who loved her very much, her two sons and their wives, her grandchildren, and her six great-grandchildren.
This photo was taken on her 95th birthday in 2016.
Mrs. Adams, 2016
This photo was taken several years ago on her balcony where she lived in Aliso Viejo.
Mrs. Adams on her balcony
Here is a recent photo of Mrs. Adams and her grandson, Matt Adams.
Mrs. Adams and grandson, Matt
And before it’s too late…
We heard from Science, Math, Photography teacher and Junior Varsity Basketball coach Leon Frankamp recently who wrote: About three inches of beautiful wet snow here and the moisture is a blessing! My cancer has returned but no details until next week as to how much and exactly where. A biopsy will be done next week. But, I am confident everything will be OK! If you would share my info about the cancer with your address list, requesting prayer, sending prayer for my condition I would appreciate that very much! Again, thanks so much. With love and respect, Leon
(If you would like to email Mr. Frankamp, click here)
Bob Chamberlin, 1968
Our BHS’68 classmate, Bob Chamberlin, who started at the Los Angeles Times in 1979, was the first Times photographer to go into a war zone, traveling to El Salvador in 1981. He went to Haiti in 1985, where he photographed Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier two months before the dictator fled the country. In 1986, he became a senior photo editor and helped shape coverage on events including presidential election conventions, the First Gulf War in Iraq and the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. After the riots, he volunteered to return to the field as a photographer working for City Times in hopes of photographing healing in the city. On the Metro photo staff, he covered a variety of assignments in Los Angeles and he also worked as a weekend photo editor for the Sunday edition. He left the Times in 2015.
Here is Part 2 of his timeline.
APRIL 1993 – Married Diane Lynch in Berkeley, California which was on lock down because of the expected verdict in the re-trial of the Rodney King beating policemen. My best man couldn’t make it to the wedding because he was working on the beating trial coverage.
MAY 1993 – Studied Spanish in Santiago, Chile during honeymoon.
JANUARY 1994 – Went back into the field as a photographer for Central City edition City Times and became Photo Editor for the 5 Zone Sections of the Times. City Times was set up to cover central Los Angeles, the area most damaged by the Rodney King riots.
JANUARY 1994 – Worked on coverage of the Northridge Earthquake which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1995.
MARCH 1994 – Birth of my daughter, Ellen.
Aftermath of a brush fire in Glendora Bob shot on his day off. Family had lost their home and returned to survey the damage. He gave the father a couple of airline bottles of scotch from his trunk to soothe his evening. (Photo by Bob Chamberlin)
JUNE 1995 – City Times and the other zone sections were closed because of declining ad revenue. I returned to the Metro Photo Staff at the Times and became the page 1 Photo Editor for the Sunday Edition as well as a photographer for the rest of the week.
FEBRUARY 1997 – Assigned staff and Photo edited the North Hollywood shootout, for which the Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
JANUARY 1995 – JANUARY 2016 – Continued as photographer and Photo Editor, traveling and working locally.
OCTOBER 2003 – Assigned photographers and Photo edited the first day of the brushfires of 2003 when out of control fires burned in 5 counties from San Diego to Ventura County. 3,000 homes were destroyed. The Los Angeles Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2004.
MARCH 2006 – My mother died.
JUNE 2008 – Diane announced she wanted a divorce and agreed to stay in the same house for four years until Ellen graduated from High School. After doing the paperwork, I decided I wanted to come out of this time with something more than a divorce. So I got qualified to dry-suit dive, started studying theology and teaching classes at church and began to work on my black belt in Tae Kwan Do.
JUNE 2012 – My daughter Ellen graduated from High School, toured Europe and prepared to attend the University of California at Berkeley.
Retired fireman in the western foothills of the central San Joaquin valley who kept a vintage fire truck on his property. (Photo by Bob Chamberlin)
AUGUST 2012 – I received my black belt in Tae Kwan Do from Master David Johns at the San Pedro YMCA. Began teaching in the kid’s Tae Kwan Do classes there.
JANUARY 2016 – Accepted a buyout from the Los Angeles Times after 36 years in the Photo Department there.
JUNE 2016 – My daughter Ellen graduated from The University of California at Berkeley.
OCTOBER 2016 – I studied Greek in Greece and toured archeological sites around the country.
DECEMBER 2016 – Spent Christmas with my daughter Ellen in New Zealand.
DECEMBER 25, 2016 – My mother-in-law Ellen Lynch Gerwick died at the age of 94.
JANUARY 2017 – Attended two memorial services for her.
APRIL 2017 – Worked on a Habitat for Humanity site at the site of a burned down neighborhood in Weed, California.
MAY 2017 – Started to date Dr. April Herron, a theologian and Methodist Minister.
JULY 2017 – Served as a chaperone at a Sierra Service Project Junior High work site at Chiloqin, Oregon.
AUGUST 2017 – My daughter Ellen returned to the US after spending 10 months traveling in the South Pacific. Southeast Asia, India and Nepal. Drove her Volvo station wagon to the Bay Area for her after keeping it in LA with me for the length of her trip.
NOVEMBER 2017 – Drove April’s Volvo station wagon to Minnesota from LA to give to her daughter, Christina. Stopped to see my sister in Denver and cousins in Kansas and Missouri.
Bob Chamberlin
This has been absolutely fascinating, Bob, as you were a witness to many historical events. Thanks for sharing!
Bob Chamberlin, 1968
Our BHS’68 classmate, Bob Chamberlin, who started at the Los Angeles Times in 1979, was the first Times photographer to go into a war zone, traveling to El Salvador in 1981. He went to Haiti in 1985, where he photographed Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier two months before the dictator fled the country. In 1986, he became a senior photo editor and helped shape coverage on events including presidential election conventions, the First Gulf War in Iraq and the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. After the riots, he volunteered to return to the field as a photographer working for City Times in hopes of photographing healing in the city. On the Metro photo staff, he covered a variety of assignments in Los Angeles and he also worked as a weekend photo editor for the Sunday edition. He left the Times in 2015.
Here is Part 1 of his timeline. I asked Bob to share some of his best photos.
We graduated high school during a tumultuous pivotal year. Who knew!
I remember photographing Richard Nixon at a stop he made at Burbank High during the presidential campaign. That year started out with the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam and the capture of the USS Pueblo by North Korea. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. The Democratic convention in Chicago erupted in rioting. Richard Nixon was elected president. Apollo 8, a manned mission, orbited the moon.
Into all that we marched, fresh from BHS.
I feel that I learned to be a fly on the wall, an observer, which suited my personality and served me well in 45 years as a news photographer.
I enjoyed my history and English classes at BHS and it turned out that I got to watch history unfold before me in my career.
SEPTEMBER 1968 – JUNE 1970 – Attended LA Valley College, took journalism classes and worked really hard as I wanted to impress a woman I met in journalism. Photographed Angela Davis and my first demonstration in 1970 when then Governor Ronald Reagan shut down the California University system to avoid violent reaction after the Kent State shootings.
SEPTEMBER 1970 – JUNE 1973 – Attended San Fernando Valley State College and majored in Journalism. Photographed William Kunstler, Tom Hayden and some of the Chicago 7 defendants, The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Jane Fonda and was taken into custody on May 5, 1971 during a Kent State anniversary demonstration in Northridge.
MARCH 1973 – MAY 1978 – Landed a part-time night lab job at the Thousand Oaks News Chronicle where I learned my craft as I worked there for 5 years . Photographed joy, beauty and tragedy during those years and won a couple of State photo awards. Was the photo editor there for 2 1/2 years.
President Jimmy Carter points a water canon at the press boat as he toured San Francisco Bay. The press boat had accidentally drifted too close to the presidential tug boat and he was joking with us. (Photo by Bob Chamberlin)
MAY 1978 – JANUARY 1979 – Quit my job and traveled to Spain, studying Spanish in Valencia for two months. Then traveled around the US a little and went to Israel where I lived for three months in Jerusalem with my girlfriend who was doing a year abroad. Met Correspondent Dial Torgerson there and worked on a couple of stories with him including a memorial service for Golda Meir.
JANUARY 1979 – Returned from Israel and got hired on as a temporary photographer at the Los Angeles Times.
JANUARY 1980 – Hired full time at the Los Angeles Times.
MAY 1980 – Replaced injured Times photographer after Mount St Helens erupted in Washington to cover search and recovery for the Los Angeles Times.
The Mount St. Helen’s crater continued to spew out ash and smoke as they flew over. Bob was making photos when the helicopter crew chief started waving his arms sit down because they were afraid that the mountain was going to explode again. It didn’t.
Rescue worker smoking a cigarette through his ash filtering mask at Mount St. Helens. It had rained and the raindrops carried the still-circulating ash all over the countryside. You can see ash drops on top of the VW van. (Photo by Bob Chamberlin)
SPRING 1981 – Went with Dial Torgerson to El Salvador to cover the civil war shortly after Maryknoll Nuns were murdered.
Aftermath of a Death Squad hit in San Salvador in 1981. Bob was across the street from his hotel, walked out after breakfast and found this scene. (Photo by Bob Chamberlin)
Davy Croakette, the frog, was the winner in his heat at the Calaveras County jumping frog contest. The guys put their frogs down and then launched themselves to scare the frog into jumping. Bob’s frog image won a 1982 National Headliners Award. “I had a fun free trip to Atlantic City,” Chamberlin says. (Photo by Bob Chamberlin)
SUMMER 1983 – Dial Torgerson and a freelance photographer Richard Cross were killed on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua.
SUMMER 1983 – Worked on story about Latinos in Los Angeles which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Community Service in 1984.
SUMMER 1984 – Covered the Olympic Games in Los Angeles as an editor and photographer.
MARCH 1985 – Photographed story about a man in Missouri who was released after serving 5 years for murder that he didn’t commit. Another inmate confessed to the crime.
SUMMER 1985 – Studied Spanish in Madrid and traveled around the Iberian Peninsula.
FALL 1985 – Photographed story about brutality in Haiti and was the first media person to photograph Baby Doc Duvalier in 5 years. He fled the impoverished nation three months later.
JANUARY 1986 – 1994 Became photo assignment editor and then Senior Photo editor, running day to day operations at the Times at a time when there were bureaus from San Diego to Ventura County. Managed about 100 people.
JUNE 1987 – Traveled to China with my parents and met someone I knew walking on the Great Wall of China. Los Angeles Times reporter Ed Chen was walking up the wall as I was walking down. Neither of us knew the other was in China.
APRIL 1988 – Met Diane Lynch, my future wife, while studying Spanish in Antigua, Guatemala.
FEBRUARY 1990 – My father died in February.
JUNE 1990 – After traveling in Morocco, studied Spanish in Granada, Spain during a trip to rest after dad’s death.
NOVEMBER 1990 – Proposed to my girlfriend Diane Lynch during trek through the Annapurna region Nepal. Turned 40 during the trip.
APRIL 1992 – Organized coverage of the Rodney King beating trial verdict and stayed overnight at the downtown office of the Times as it was attacked, shot at and set afire on the first night of the riots. Continued to work on coverage throughout the following week and the aftermath. Los Angeles Times was awarded Pulitzer Prize for coverage.
AUGUST 1992 – Ran the Los Angeles Times photo coverage of the Republican National Convention in Dallas Texas.
continued in next post.
Abel Santoro came to Las Vegas because of a great job offer. With his career underway, a new home, and a happy family, he is fatally injured in what appears to be an accident. His young wife, Dawn, has little chance to grieve due to the looming threat of poverty—maybe even homelessness—for herself and infant daughter. She perseveres through false hopes and setbacks until an older married man, who has secret information about Abel’s death, offers a life of wealth and privilege for herself and daughter—with a mansion of their own to live in—if she would become his mistress and bear him a child.
Dawn tries to buy time, but fears that the man’s offer could vanish along with what might be her daughter’s only real chance in life.
In Tainted Visions, a young woman, whose simple world has been torn apart, must either surrender her dignity and freedom, or face challenges that will test the limits of her wits and courage.
Tom Tanksley, 1968
Sound interesting? The author is our Burbank High ’68 classmate, Tom Tanksley, who is offering a free hardback copy of his novel to the first five people who ask. He calls it fast-paced but complex women’s historical fiction, with themes of real world survival and a touch of sexual harassment. It could easily be read on a plane, “but not while multi-tasking.” Tom has spent the last thirty+plus years as a civil litigation attorney and mediator in Las Vegas (which he calls “Sin City”), representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He opened his own office in 1998, but prior to that he was involved in many cases, trials and appeals including multi-million dollar matters covered on the pages of Las Vegas newspapers.
Thomas Tanksley
Tom says that all he wants in return is a review of the book, and a comment posted on the website for the book which is now being developed.
He is planning on coming to the 50th Class Reunion, and wonders if anyone would like to join him in a round of golf?
If you are interested in taking up Tom’s offer of a free hardcover book, send an email with your address to burbankhigh1968@gmail.com and we’ll see that your request gets to Tom. Or if you are interested in playing golf, use the same email address.
Don’t forget that Registration is now open for the 50th Class Reunion! Find out who’s planning on coming by clicking here.
Burbank High Class of 1968 