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Submit your photo with all the names in order email to info@PirateReunion.com

Do you know these original Harbor Pirates?  Please email the names to info@PirateReunion.com The action picture was taken at Harbor's first ever football game, September 20, 1968 when we beat Watsonville 9-6.  The quarterback is number 17, Val Carpenter.

Thank you Fred Heinz -

The cheerleaders from left to right: Debbe Kolbe, Cheryl Spikner, Karen Orwig & Kathy Crompton

REUNION FUN

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August 2006 the first multi class reunion weekend with over 400 in attendance it was a blast – lots of old memories were relived and old friendships rekindled. Look to see who you remember from classes 1970-1989...
We are missing a few names if you know them let us know info@piratereunion.com

(For larger images click on the first photo and it will open a slide show)

Homecoming Weekend 2007

We got those interested together and had some fun Pirate Alumni Style.  Make sure you register and we will let you know when the next get together is.  Or let us know if your planning something.

REMEMBER WHEN……..

These answers came from those that attended the 1st Multi Class Reunion—please submit some of your own fun memories!

What was the most monumental event at HHS while you were there?

Some of the most mentioned;
THE TURKEY - How can you beat the day the boys let a wild turkey go loose in the library? “That was amazing, mean, but amazing.” Still many stories on who really did it!

THE SNOW – Snow at Harbor and ditching class to go tow people out of the snow or play in it! Hitting Arnie with a snowball!

THE POOL: The day the POOL was put in, opened….. I think the pool opened in 1975 so that was a biggie -- Fish and if I’m not mistaken food coloring in the pool. Sneaking in the pool - We worked for the pool - it was built after we left.

SPORT MEMORIES
Watching my friend Eric Peterson kick a game winning 43 yard field goal over Soquel was cool!
It was great when the football team won the MBL championship. My brother was on the team and it was always great going to the games.
Finally beating Soquel at football. I think that was in 1977. If I recall correctly, the final score was 10-7.

MISC MEMORIES

• During Spirit Week our theme was "Flush the Cards" (SC High) and we did a fine job of decorating the school- complete with a toilet on the library roof and crepe paper streaming from the eucalyptus trees...

• Dan Kakeldy being thrown off the telephone pole when electrocuted, First Surfing class

• We were the second class I think to start as Freshman - I remember there being no plants, no shade, having to trek up and down those stairs in the rain - it was pretty barren then. The following classes got all the good stuff! Also I remember the teachers were all about 27 (some are still teaching they were so young).

• Everyone was so nice and spirited

• Torturing Arnold Levine

• Nose In The Hole Ritual by Ron Mehuron

• We saw Harbor when it was brand new. I still remember the 1/2 high wall's between class room's

• Freshmen getting tossed in the creek

• The stairs turning into a fish ladder when it rained—water just rushed down

What do you remember most about High School?

• Junior year our powder puff girls ruled!!

• Marching Band. Going to the parades and school sports games.

• The sign by the clock in algebra: Time passes; will you?

• Hanging out on the lawn in the upper quad, producing concerts with Bill Graham to raise money for the school Playing football, basketball and baseball

• I liked going to the football games. I loved to yell for the spirit of it all. The dances after were fun to go to. The beach boy type bands were the best. During that concert it was announced that the Vietnam was over!1972

• Rowdy Rooters at the Basketball Games

• Beer parties at George Washington Park

• Kinda sad to say but the thing that sticks out most is being teased about having big boobs....it was hard being 14 with 34 E cup period.

• Football games at Cabrillo. Hanging out in the H building before school finishing homework and being harassed by the freshman boys!

• Sneaking into the senior party as a freshman and dancing all night with the object of a huge crush, getting home at 4:30 a.m., and getting grounded where I couldn't get my drivers license for six months after my sixteenth birthday.

• After 35 years.....too much information!!!!!

• Always being very insecure.

• Homecoming week my junior year. The night our class was at school all night. We work as a team, without all the usual garbage and judgments that were usually there. It was probably the best time I had in high school except for Young Life.

• My first love, who broke my heart. I think she will be there.

• I remember having to walk those stairs between quads in the rain. There was no food - a few machines but no cafeteria or anything. It was bare bones the years I went there. Living in Santa Cruz - going to our "school" beach
  – 3rd Aveand playing volleyball. Crashing Soquel's beach (The Cove). Knowing we lived in a special place that most other kids never would, and yet we complained about being bored all the time. Cruising out to the lighthouse, walking along the pier at night, parties up at Pasatiempo. The kids lived all over the place - out by Mystery Spot, downtown, up by the golf course. No one was judged by where they lived - it was all very diverse.

WHAT ARE YOUR MEMORIES??
Write to us and tell us about them! Or send photos!
info@piratereunion.com