Anyone an alumni of Santa Ana Valley High School?
Well, I am. I went from 1981-1984, graduating there.
Valley High had the reputation of being the roughest high school in the city, and probably among the roughest county-wide. There were several gang fights there. I remember one black guy getting pounded to a pulp by a gang of Samoans. Nearby at Centennial Park, there were students and gang members that died in knife fights.
One time a guy got his throat slit while walking though Carr Intermediate School on his way into Valley High.
There was also a prankster club there called the "Crack Club". All they did was pull some unbelievable pranks, like hauling up some lunch benches up on to the roof of the Auditorium.
Watch out for Spirit Week! At this time, the seniors set their sights on the freshman and kicked their asses. I mean some kids got flat out beaten senseless. I imagine some lawsuits were filed between parents. I don't know how I managed to escape it.
At Valley High, they had a annual tradition called "The Kangaroo Court". The whole school went into the auditorium and watched a panel of judges (members of the senior class) pull some of the popular students out of the audience, and convict them of various sins. One guy was pulled up for having a reputation of dating a lot of girls. They blindfolded him, and told him that they would be bringing a mystery girl out, and that he would have to kiss her. Well, they ended up bringing his mother out! He grabbed her by the arms and laid a full-on open-mouth tongue-tickling kiss. Nobody expected such a thing; they thought it would just a peck on the lips. They pulled the blindfold off, and he just about wet his pants.
But due to political correctness, they cancelled The Kangaroo Court in 1982.
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Glad to see that Valley is open again. Not too much is different. Looks like a fresh cover of paint and the office was redone. The swimming i believe is being rebuilt.
ReplyDeleteI graduated from Valley in 1964 - transferred there from another school in 1962.
ReplyDeleteI was on the school literary magazine, belonged to the Latin Club, earned letters in 4 sports, did drama, speech and debate, won several scholarships and other honors, and was generally a "geek" in today's terms. It was pretty difficult because I moved into a sufer school setting from a VERY conservative prior environment, and never caught on.
Any of you guys at the school today, think about that. It is always hard to be a newcomer - please give the new kids a bit of space and help them out!
I went back several times in the many years since, and see that the entire community has completely changed. Well, that reflects our society at large, too.
In those days Valley had no swimming pool. The school itself was reasonably new at the time, and we enjoyed decent classrooms, good and fairly new textbooks, an outstanding program in athletics (one of my classmates was a silver medal winner in Olympic track and field, while our football and baseball teams did extremely well in statewide competition), and actually a first-rate program in arts and languages.
Nearly all the kids there were of middle-class working families, although we had the Lukens (their Dad ran a dairy farm and chicken ranch), and a few others from the city's better-off families. We had some terrific AFS exchange students, too.
I got a very good education at Valley, and it stood up under the pressure of college and later life. I am now a well-known international maritime historian, after an earlier caerer in the communications arts.
Things are petty tough in South Santa Ana these days. The kids have a much more challenging situation. But I surely do wish them well - from an old geezer in the class of 1964!
MINERVA MINARD, CLAUDE BLACK, MR. BERNARD, KAY BERRY, CAROL KUIPER, MRS. KIRKLAND!!!!
ReplyDeleteHot dang, I haven't thought of these people in decades.
Mrs. Kirkland was ABSOLUTELY the best school principal I ever encountered, before or after.
I took both Latin - from Mrs. Minard - and German - from Mr. Black - and they were kind about letting me juggle the finals schedules so there wasn't a conflict. I think I was the ONLY member of the class of '64 to have 4th year Latin.
Kay Berry left Valley after the '62-'63 school year for Alaska. She was a fabulous English teacher. Last I heard, she survived the 1964 earthquake - then vanished from public ken.
Carol Kuiper replaced Mrs. Berry. She was a gorgeous kewpie-doll blonde who was in fact quite young at the time and looked just like one of ths students. I remember encountering her before the term began and asking for a date ... ooooppppssss, married AND one of my teachers! Damn, that was embarrassing! She turned out to also be an excellent teacher, and of course that was what mattered most.
Claude Black was one of the football coaches as well as the German teacher. He really did a good job in both posts. I went on to continue studying the language for a total of 7 years and then worked in Germany, where I blessed his name when I was found comfortably fluent. Anyone remember taking drivers' ed from him in the summers?
Mr. Bernard I have saved for last. He, too, was an English teacher, and rather good at it, too. But the tides of change seemed to be battering him badly when my brother (class of '65) and I visited again about 7-8 years later. He stood in the door of the classroom and sadly remarked, "You were the last of the good times." The big changes of society around the area were too much for this fellow, who was a severely-repressed gay man at a time when it was NOT allowed for teachers to be gay. (He never acted out his preferences around us, but in retrospect, it's obvious what was his orientation.)
If there isn't a building or a special plaque at Valley now named for Mrs. Kirkland, there should be.
ANYONE REMEMBER COACH MUSICK?
ReplyDeleteI hope I remember this right....
ReplyDeleteFrom Azure skies comes Valley's Blue
From Sunset Gold our Amber Hue
Blue for valor, Gold for worth
We go forth throughout the Earth
Valley High We Sing thy Praise
For now and all our Days
Class of 76!!!
Happy New Year everyone
I LIVEN IN SANTA ANA TILL I WAS 13 AND NOW I LIVE IN CORONA THERE IS A LOT OF SHIT TALKERS BUT THERE ARE ALSO A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO RESPECT. SHIT I WISH I LIVED BACK IN SA THOUGH.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I remember the COMPS. I was the door man at one of their parties. Freddy Duran asked me to watch the gate and I had to deny this dude entrance because he didnt want to pay the two or three bucks to get in. It almost turned in to a big deal. I lived on Pacific. I knew alot of the COMPS. They threw great parties. Im Leo Gent. Hope you all are doin' good!
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ReplyDeleteNote for anyone, but particularly for Anonymous of 29th December at 12:09: Here's your time warp for the day. I graduated in 63 and had Mrs. Minard for Latin for all three years, so you and I must have had a class together -- you are right, it was a small but earnest group struggling through Martial's Epigrams and various odes and elegies. I got through it through pure memorization and all I can remember now is amo amas amat amamis amatis amant. And how useful has that been every day of my life since ... Mostly I remember how severe Mrs. Minard looked, but she was actually quite sweet and even had us all ("all" sounds so big) over to her house once. She was old school. As for Mr. Bernard, yeah, I was in his classes too and you've pegged him just right. The year after graduation he asked me to talk to one of his classes, something like: what's the difference between high school and university environment. It was the right question at the right time and I had no idea what to say. There was another English teacher at Valley at the time, a very old man whose name I will leave out of this in case his ancestors somehow come after me, but that guy was so bad a bunch of us went to Mrs. Kirkland and the Guidance Counsellor at the time, Anne Vekich, and asked if we could be transferred out. When they said yes it was the happiest day of my high school existence. (We never thought it would be possible to do that.)
ReplyDeleteA hell of a lot of water under the bridge since then. Reading through all this I get a fairly good idea what came later and it must have been colorful, to say the least. No complaints at all about Valley from me. We could have done a whole lot worse.
OK, now back to the future.
Hello to the class of 1963. I went there from 1960 thru 1963. It was a great place and I have many good memories. It gave me a basis for college and a good career.
ReplyDeletedidnt da boyz turn into south side?
ReplyDeleteanyways santa ana's 1st allcity graffiti king came from valley, he wrote cestOne aka GA, from VOB, he kinged SA in 90-91-92-93
da boyz did not turn into south side. lots of the da boyz began moving out of the area. even though they were still around, south side started moving in. they shared the neighborhood but south side started taking over with their large numbers. you would find da boyz and south side graffitti side by side. actually they are a couple of da boyz still livin on laura linda(remember CSLL). by the way, what happened to CEST. wasnt his name caesar?
ReplyDeletei went to valley for just half my freshman yr.I got caught up in the mix within the first two months.Like some say Valley is like the compton of Santa ana.I guess it really does depend on who you hang out with, but it was so hard to make a change,especially at valley.Its funny cuz somehow everyone is connected,either by the hooods,family,or just drugs.Weed was all over the place;class,lunch tables,next to the office,restrooms...everywhere.A good handful of teachers didnt care(Cahill).All the drama is what made valley fun, i guess cuz that was the only thing i was use to coming from Carr.Fights everyday,gettin high,ditching,getting into trouble.i gotta say valley was a pretty fun experince,it kinda made me grow.If i had another chance though,id look valley in the eyes and do the best i could,its like a slap in the face to us fuck ups.i went to valley in 2007, valley may have calmed down over the yrs, but its like a cycle.
ReplyDeleteVHS was clearly one of the best schools that would get you ready for life. All is true. The good and the bad. Good students up front, the rest of us in the back talking. Crowds were separated in gangs, race, crews, grades, GPA, and sports affiliation. Depending on the type of crowd you were hanging with, you were shielded from all else. Miss all of my friends/homies between 90 and 94, c/o 94. RIP to my Crip brothers Ituaso and Jr Naea, and all whom has fallen. Whats up to all whom I come in contact with. No possible way you couldn't have had a homie from every gang. Kind of like a juvenile facility. My neighbor and friend Martin A; D Boy Thomas Yandall; Vaa Sio; my boy Richard Lopez who balled up Olujimi Mann, yup I said it;Robert Carpintero; Everardo Garcia, Gerry Perez; David & Omar(Chuck) Vega, James Novella, Rios Twins Fernando Francisco, Tristan Lynch thee Original Dual QB before Michael Vick, CarLOS Lethal Offensive Scorer Quezada, (Coco) Moises the mexican Majic Johnson, Fernie, Freddie Macias, Carlos Sianez busta wentto Los Amigos; My Asian homies Chia, Tou Yang, Joshua, Alan Distor, Vak Sambath. My homies from Highland, 6 St., B/Artesia, Steven (lil toro?) from South Side; Octavio Sosa STF'; Blinky Yogi Dogtown; Ralph big homie i thought you were samoan from Delhi; damn theres so many. It was a pleasure catching bombs with that 4.3 speed and dunkin on fools at Sepulveda, Lincoln and Jackson, right Brandon W. ?! Not mentioned not forgotten. Wishin y'all the best, and hope y'all are in good hands. Holla at ya boy, cali_cronic@yahoo.com
ReplyDeletefreddie macias is ballin at salvation army right now.
ReplyDeletethanks for da boyz info now i know why i thought it tured into SXS
ReplyDeleteCeaser wasnt cest, i dont remember what that dude wrote, but now he just writes czr. cest was M@nuel
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I never knew Ituaso the Samoan passed on? I knew him realy good I grew up with Ituaso went to school with him everywhere sin elementary.
ReplyDeleteThat fucked but then again he was a crazy Samoan. What ever happen to Vaha and Thomas Ituasos little brother Laffy? Anyways all those fools that I grew up with hope that life has been good to you. I grew up in the Jerome park area I'm from Golden West Str. Moved out of town because of all kinds of problems. But i like to say what's up to everyone out there who crossed paths with me. Homie from sxs,highland,brook st.,delhi,ws compadres,da boys,townsend,fxtroop,my Samoan og, the bloods in shelly and bloodel st. Jerome Barns BO,Lion,Spade, The crips from water gate,dogtown,cubbon st.,myrtle,santa nita,5th st diablos, the samoan from rsp and to all the fallen friends and homies. We miss you all. I can't foget all the People who overcame all the obstacles.
anyone remember RTS?
ReplyDeleteYou remember RTS crew?
ReplyDeleteWATTS UP FALCONS!
ReplyDeleteI Just want to say RIP to one of my old friend John Ramirez from Shelly st. Shelly Shankers from back in the day. Whats up Schmity! And all the old homies from Shelly st. Sincerely, David M
ReplyDeleteI just want to say whats up to Bobby and Bruno from Golden West street. Whats up Tony and Alvin Garcia. To Joey Mejia,RIP to one of my best friends Eric Frederiksen, I miss you bro.Whats up to My Homey Dorsey Thorne, and Alex Moreno. Miss all you guys! See ya, Dave M
ReplyDeleteDIDNT A HOMIE FROM SHEELY ST GET BLSTED BY MIKE N
ReplyDeleteI don't know who Mike N is.
ReplyDeleteWhat ever happened to my homie Samoan Sosie? Whats up to Ray and Roy Nells! David M
ReplyDeleteto Anonymous from GW. Send me your email so can update you on the samoan homie Ituaso. Good to hear from you and all Falcons/Santa Ana Family.
ReplyDeleteCLASS OF 96!!!! THOSE WERE THE YEARS OF FUN. FOR MANY OF US THAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR LIFE THE YOUTH THAT IS WHAT WE MISS. WE CLASS OF 96 ARE STILL YOUNG AND CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR ALL WHAT IS STARTING NOW! I HAD MY FUN IN MANY WAYS OTHER THAN GANG BANG OR DOING DRUGS I WAS PART OF A PARTY CREW. MAN AND BACK THEN WE FELT INVINSIBLE.LIKE WE WERE GOING TO PARTY FOR EVER...NOW MY SON IS 12 AND ABOUT TO START J.R HIGH AND TO BE HONEST I AM SCARED!! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SELL MY HOME FOR THE LAST YEAR. NO OFFERS YET. I FIGURED THIS WILL GET ME OUT OF SANTA ANA. THERE IS NO GOOD SCHOOL FOR MY KID HERE OTHER THAN MC ARTHUR AND WELL THATS THE BEST THING..SO... THEY SAY. BUT WHY?? WE NEED TO BETTER OUR CITY AND GIVE TO THE NEXT GENERATION..
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ReplyDeleteim only 16 and already i want to get the fuck out of santa ana.my so called 'gangster life' is eatging me alive.it all started at 12 in the middle of 7th grade.started hittin the twisted pipa..got kicked out of carr inter.got sent to a school on the 'good part of santana'.i was doin good till i came back to valley.not even 2 months in,i started fuckin up,just smokin some weed..got kicked out n got sent to continuation.i tried to stop kickin it,when offered weed i said no..but at the end high like no other.
im growing up in great hands,my parents got out of gangbangin and moved to santana for a better life for my familia.my eldest siblings new the 'mix' but were smart enough to just know the 'mix'.my par every teacents are the most supportive understaning pare3nts.i have no reason to be fucking up.but i dont know wat it is.somehow i just keep goin bak to kikin it,doin drugs.im just sayin,no matter how much love n support u show some of us dont understand.even though my home seems like a perfect home,ive had scary experiences that i thought would snap my ass bak into reality,but im still struggling.
Back in 1980 I was sent to Santa Ana to stay with my father, who had moved there a year or two before. I attended Valley and found myself immersed in a whole different realm of experience and peer pressure than what I was used to in Michigan. To say the least, I got into my share of trouble, but not ANYWHERE near what I could have. I had to do the "continuation" for a bit for ditchin class. Met some beautiful, spoiled girls in that class... I even got into a fight in the hall one day. He hit me, I hit him. That was the end of it. It probably could have gotten worse, but it did'nt. It was a Somoan guy and one of his friends actually squashed it by getting us to start practicing for this little dance group they were puttin together. Anybody remember that from back in the 80's? We used have dance-offs in class. Guys used to play the "Dozens" back on the basketball courts. It was awesome for me. I remember sitting out in the parking lot one day and looking out over the trees and thru the smog and seeing this outline of these mountains I'd never "noticed" before. I watched them appear as if there was some artist with these pencils, and he was making these mountains right before my eyes. I soon came to realize that the whole city was surrounded by mountains. And that it was actually sitting in a "valley". I lie to you not. My father suggested to me one day that I look past the smog and the hustle and bustle. I was glad I did. I dated a girl by the name of Kelly Johnson. A short beautiful blonde young lady who was unsure of herself, but learning as each day wore on. Her friend Debbie. The boyfriend Reggie. I remember a young lady I was in choir with by the name of Patty. She had some older and younger brothers who were kewl as all out, but rough as hell. I remember that Valley was the LARGEST high school I had ever seen. I thought I was going to college. Security guards riding around on golf carts? What!? I was from Michigan. Outdoor cafeteria? What!? I loved it. Beautiful girls everywhere. Low riders. Beaches. Poppin and Wavin. The Dozens. Basketball. I played for the JV team. In choir. Helped with the Drama Club. Again, did the "Continuation" thing after school got out. What was up with that? That tripped me out, but, I met an awesome girl in that class who's name was Chris I believe. Beautiful California girl. Used to walk her back and forth from home to school and back. Yeah, I remember Valley. Heck, I was only there for ONE YEAR. One year! It was my best year of high school. Yeah, I can honestly say that. IT WAS MY BEST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL.
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Whats up SAVHS Class of 1984,I had a blast back in the day. "Stoners of the Roundtable" holler!. I rembember the Eskimo,Shakeys, Me&ed's,parties at Steve M's house after the Games, hanging at the Wedge in Newport,playing basketball in the gym after hours and the Undefeated Freshman team from the 1984 Krew. Valley was the bomb and will always cherish the frinds and memories.
ReplyDeletewhats up falcons
ReplyDeletei graduated last year in '07. my four years at valley where the best years ever. the only thing that i hated and i know that the rest of the class did, was the move to godinez. i really wanted to end my high school years at valleys just like my brothers did in '95 and '99.
valley is still know as the meanest school in orange county. tons of fights during first and second lunch. most of the fights where between the retarded taging crews(mos,sbk...).
other than the move and the retards(taging crews) my final year at valley hit the spot. best time ever.
Michael Moss. are you also the Michael Moss who was also Band Director for SAVHS Band?? Amazing! Anyways, I must say, my years at Valley were awesome. Grant it, there were days when you wish you were her, him, part of that group or hanging out with so and so, but in the end, you were glad you were you. Yes, I witnessed my share of fights, but in all my years at Valley (1985 to 1989)I remember the best times.... and those are the times that I cherish. BOO to those who say Valley is trouble lol...SAV Rocks! I enjoyed all the stories in this blog....
ReplyDeleteMANN I REMEMBER THE GOOD DAYS BACK THEN AT VHS.. THAT WAS YHE GHETTOest SCHOOL, IT WAS SO GANGSTA,.. I USED TO STAY ON TOWNDSEND ST. ACROSS FROM CARR I WENT TO VALLEY 2004-05 AND IN DAT TIME I WENT THROUGH ALOT OF SHIT AND I WAS BEING KNOWN.EVERY TIME I WALKED HOME FROM SCHOOL I HAD TO BE LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER BECAUSE I HAD ENEMIES I WAS ONLY 15 BOUT TO TURN 16 AT THE TIME, SO YOUNG AND ALREADY BEING INVOLVED IN GANG ACTIVITIES. TIL ONE DAY I ALMOST GOT BLASTED AND MY MOM HEARD ABOUT IT AND MY ENEMIES DIDNT WANT TO STOP TIL I DROP IM NO SNITCH BUT MY MOM CALLED THE COPS DIDNT TELL THEM SHIT BUT I STILL HAD TO WATCH MY BACK AT THE TIME I LOST 2 COUSINS IN LESS THEN A MONTH THAT HAD GOTTEN SHOT ONE WAS FROM LPSx3(R.I.P BULLET) AND THE OTHER ONE WAS FROM NBC(R.I.P DANNY) AND MY MOM DIDNT WANT TO LOOSE ME BUT I TOLD HER WHAT HAPPENS HAPPENS AINT NO STOPPING IT GOTTA BE DOWN FOR MY SHIT BUT MY JEFITA WOULD CRY AND WORRY SO NOW IM AT HOUSTON TX. FUK IT IM STILL STANDING BUT BOUT TO GO BACK PRETTY SOON AND RIDE ON MY ENEMIES.... DIAMOND,CARR,& VALLEY SCHOOLS I WENT TO SEEN IT ALL AND DONE IT ALL.... SANTA ANA STREETS RAISED G'S, KNOW G"S RAISING SANTA ANA.
ReplyDeleteI attended VHS from '69 - 73 and have fond memories of the Kangaroo Court - good times good times.
ReplyDeleteThe violence unfortunately left an everlasting impression on me. I can remember one day by the outside lunch area there was a fight between two rival female groups. It was back in the day of the big afros and as the fight continued, the fros were flying off everyone's head!! I had no idea until then that the big hair was a big farce!
I attended VHS from '69 - 73 and have fond memories of the Kangaroo Court - good times good times.
ReplyDeleteThe violence unfortunately left an everlasting impression on me. I can remember one day by the outside lunch area there was a fight between two rival female groups. It was back in the day of the big afros and as the fight continued, the fros were flying off everyone's head!! I had no idea until then that the big hair was a big farce!
Hi Steve,
ReplyDeleteI attended VHS in the early 90's. Violence, drugs, gangs, very typical back then. I remember a drive-by with the intended targets standing in front of the auditorium. I remember losing friends. I can't say that my memories are fond.
Hey i went to valeey in 2007 and was in the dance team with mrs onaga and i enjoyed it. That kept me away from the stupid violent "gangs" that there was there.....but after all its high school theres always going to be those who are inmiture and childish...Dance was the best and still is =}!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Steve,
ReplyDeleteI am a Santa Ana Valley alumni, class of '99. For me, school was a popularity contest on one hand and an academic competition on the other. See, I was one of the students still trying to find where I fit in. You could say I was in between geek and sheek (probably more on the geek side). But school was fun, I had great memories in tennis, badminton, journalism, ASB, AP classes, and other academic clubs.
Socially, there were gangs, cholos and asian gangs, but they all eventually got kicked out to the neighboring continuation school, or others got locked up. Otherwise, there were the schoolies, jocks, goth, rebels, the HS spirit type of people, and those who just wanted to get laid.
After graduation I went straight to UCI, but got pregnant and married. But none the less I was determined. Working full time in the day and going to school full time at night, and thanks to a supportive husband and family members, I graduated from CSUF with a Communications degree (college took a total of 5 years). Now I'm doing Marketing/Communications for an Irvine engineering firm.
So it doesn't matter how much your HS sucks as far as ranking. It's your ambitions and aspirations that take you as far as you want to go in life.
Anyway, holler at me if you want to be on the Class of 99's 10-year reunion committee. It's coming up next year!
P.S. I think valley is now a prep school now...or trying to be.
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I graduated from Valley in 1965. I had a wonderful high school experience. I was in drill team and froze my buns off in those short little uniforms at those cold football games. And what girl at Valley didn't have a crush on Mr. Kubas? Unfortunately he passed away in 2002. Steve Foote (class of '65) who was the keeper of the Valley Falcon (yes we had an actual bird) passed away last year. For the girls in the class of '66 that were looking for yearbooks, you might try contacting this site for your class. www.savhs68.com/default.htm Maybe someone will have a yearbook that they would copy for you.
ReplyDeleteHere I am again...one year later and still reading the SA Valley blog. Wow!!! Has time changed since 1987. I like reading all the different experiences although similar it shows that we're all individuals. You can tell that a lot of us moved on to better and bigger things, then there are those who are still talking the slang and living in the hood (not that there is any thing wrong with that). I just want to say that home is where the heart is and my heart is in Santa Ana. I'm starting an Art Scholarship beginning with the class of 2009 and would like to encourage those that have moved on and have done well to give back to our high school and provide opportunities in the form of scholarships to those who want to go on to collage but don't have the funds. I wish all the SA Valley alumni and those that went there but didn't graduate from Valley..nothing but the best! Letty Del Val Class of 1987.
ReplyDeleteHI, I went to Valley from 1974-1978. I was wondering if there is a class reunion for the class of 78? If there is one, can you post on this site the contact information ?
ReplyDeleteHey Falcons! Does any one remember the "exact" name of that kids club that was on the corner of Greenville and Edinger? I went there in the early 70's and there was a contest where you had to make an outfit out of news paper. I think a gal by the name of Patricia Rodriguez won. I ran into her a couple of years ago but I didn't think to ask her. Please reply at aladynamedlinda@yahoo.com.
ReplyDeleteHi David Melendez
Hey Steve.
ReplyDeleteValley High, graduated 1988. I love that school ever since. Till this day, I always think about it.
I love the cheer leaders, I love the pep rally, I love the diversity. I love the teachers and principle. I love the people regardless the massive homeworks my teacher gave me. I love all the staff. From 1984 to 1988- Valley High if my heart. Oh, even though I never have friend but one dude that catch my eyes, Robert S., where ever you are thanks for taking the time reading my senior INDEX. This is Rath Channy, now with my citizen name to Rath Phalkunabba (birth name). Thank you, yes, I'm successful and famous in my own graphic world. Just do a search under my new name. If you read this called me (562) 607-6317, email phalkunabbarath@yahoo.com or anyone who knew me back then. IAN F. long hair, white dude, Mark S. black dude etc... Let's renunite.
I GRADUATED WIT THE CLAS OF 89-90 AND I REMEMBER THE WS COMPS GANG AS THE DOWNEST ONES AROUND AND I ALSO REMEMBER THE KREW MAR THEY WERE DOWN TOO
ReplyDeleteWhat’s up my fellow alumni’s!! What’s up Paul!! I attended SAV from 84 to 88. There were so many fond memories that I can recall but I will make this brief. Attending and graduating from SAV was one of the greatest achievements I ever accomplished.
ReplyDeletePaul Peters, Dion Evans, James Strong, James Barclay, and Chuck Steen will always be remembered as good friends and fellow teammates. Noble Franklin my track & field coach and mentor, if your reading this THANK YOU for giving me the tools that helped me grow on and off the field.
This present day I’m Gunnery Sergeant in the US Marines and stationed abroad. I did two combat tour's one on the ground and the other onboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
The Corps has been good to me and it’s an honor to serve my country. No other decision would have amount to the success I have achieved now. My accomplishments would not have been possible it was not for my family, teammates and friends from SAV.
email: mxshodog@yahoo.com
What’s up my fellow alumni’s!! What’s up Paul!! I attended SAV from 84 to 88. There were so many fond memories that I can recall but I will make this brief. Attending and graduating from SAV was one of the greatest achievements I ever accomplished. Not many students made it past 10th grade not alone attended school on a regular basis. Hopefully the school will become more modernized to help our future children improve in math, physics, science, art, and physical education.
ReplyDeletePaul Peters, Dion Evans, James Strong, James Barclay, and Chuck Steen will always be remembered as good friends and fellow teammates. Noble Franklin my track & field coach and mentor, if your reading this THANK YOU for giving me the tools that helped me on and off the field.
Presently I’m Gunnery Sergeant in the US Marines and stationed abroad. I did one combat tour in Iraq and provided support for Operation Iraqi Freedom onboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. The Corps has been good to me and it’s an honor to serve my country. No other decision would have amount to the success I have achieved now. My accomplishments would not have been possible if it was not for my family, teammates, and friends from SAV.
email: mxshodog@yahoo.com
what happened to this blog? santa ana valley rules!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI graduated from Valley class of 2006. I really hate how people look down on Valley. Valley is your typical highschool. Now and then you have your fights what school doesn't. You have your gays your straights, jocks, preppys, punks everyone is different. Every school has their good and bad students. Valley is great the teachers are awsome. I love Valley great memories I was your typical girl cheerleader for 3 yrs dated the football player. School was great. Senior patio awsome memories. Dances, pep rallys, football and basketball games. And our number person at school who is always at every game Twee!!
i went to diamond then smedley and then to valley from 59-62, just found this site on the net its real interesting, seeing old names brought back memories some good some not back then i was a dork insecure with myself but i did go to school with some good kids i am still best friends with david giffin (62) and mary walker (63), i am one of six dobsons that went there my brother dan died in 95 the big c.
ReplyDeletewhen valley was a new school it was great my class can probably remember going to class with the last of the construction going on and the same with smedley when we went there. ken tucker and jim schroder were our star football players dan griset was in our class (x-mayor) i left ca years ago when my brother died to many memories i live in mesa az now it is going through the growing pains that orange county did in the 50s and 60s i am semi-retired now i get bored gotta keep working some to keep busy, i had cousins that went there also garie and joyce hill, mrs rideout was my favorite teacher (art) coach musik was my least favorite (personal differences) in all my days at as we called it then valley was good.
Merrill bigmlittleb2004@yahoo.com
Attending Valley from '76 to '79 was the best! At lunch, Mr. Lucas would let us play backgammon in the wrestling room listening to the best of old school, (Switch, Slave, Cameo, Brothers Johnson, etc) We kicked butt in basketball and football and to this day I still have the league championship game ball when we beat Villa Park! It's signed by the best of course, Dr. Clutchinstein, (Lionel Horne), Ricky Stokes, Albert Jones and the rest of the team.. I made 3 lifelong friends (although we lost one to a brain tumor last year.), and they are strong to this day 32 years later.. Valley will forever be woven into the person I am and now living in Louisiana, I can't put into words how much I miss Southern Cali...
ReplyDeletewhat's up peeps. graduated in 97. valley was home to me. hopped around the district and came back home to vhs. sahs in the 90's was were all the little "fuck-ups" county wide were sent. I guess it's on who you ask. Anyone remember Mrs. Connors, Valley Villa? She still teaching? best teacher ever. Hated that faget Espinoza though. BITCH!!!
ReplyDeleteHi, I graduated in 1973 from SAVHS
ReplyDeleteMost days I didn't want to be there because of the racial tension. I had a fovorite teacher named Mr. Booker. He was drafted to Viet Nam and I always wondered about him. He was great and I don't know if he knew that!
Thanks all!
LStewart
Class of 92' Violence? There is violence everywhere, it is just from a different person's perspective. Nonetheless, there was no violence at the school when I attended.
ReplyDeleteMy father, John Daywalt was the pricncipal of SAV in the 70's. My dad died in 1984 in his mid 40's. It was devastating. I am looking for memories any alumni might have of him. He was there during the Gary Templeton and Myron White days. I would love to share more stories with my own children. I was very proud of my father when he was pricipal there. He took me on campus and to football games. I was just a little girl. Any stories or memories of him would be so appreciated. Thank you!!
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Where can I find Susan Hatchet, '87?! I went to Whitman College in Washington State with her and miss her!
ReplyDeleteHeather Flanagan
Well reading the posted comments really brought back memories. I attended Valley High School from 86-88, until I had to go to Horizon High due to extensive ditching. Memories of walking to Taco Bell and Serrano's hanging at to bus stop on Greenville, to kill time! My brother was in DaBoys at that time so I can relate to you all from that time. Valley wasn't bad when I attended! Linda the security guard at Valley, chasing us! While trying to go to ditching parties! Anyone from that time email me at : monika.0617@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteWOW!Reading everyone's blog just brought back some good ol'memories.Friends that were made to friends we kept in touch to the ones we lost as well. Remembering Robert Brito (R.I.P)to Braulio Ramos to the Acosta Boys as well. To the Classy Ladies and the COMPS as well. How about the teachers we loved and hate (Debbie Hill to our fav Mrs. Stucky). How about the those pesty guys who hung out at the wall giving us girls a hard time. How about our own favorite security L.C and Linda. They were so cool. Where has those good times gone. Now its our kids turn to make memories of their own. Pleasant memories that we shall all treasure. By the way what happen to our Class of '87 reunion? If anyone knows anything please let me know.
ReplyDeleteHello VHS Alumni,
ReplyDeleteMichael Moss, it was a pleasure reading your blog! I have to say that I was pleased to learn that so many good things (people) came out of VHS. I attended VHS in 1981 – 1983 and later transferred to Saddleback. I have fond memories of both schools.
Before and after reading your blog, I came across those written by Big Dave, Star-C, Kavyn Finely and others that failed to leave a name but left traces of who they are. It’s good to see that we somehow find ways to keep in touch with each other.
I’m looking forward to that “Combined Class Reunion” that you spoke of earlier this year at the Black History Parade.
Thanks for taking the time to read my message.
Pacentia Dunning-O’Neal
pdunning01@sbcglobal.net
i went to sav and graduated in 03 and i loved it if anyone remembers me hit me up my myspace is lady_giggles2005@yahoo.com my name is katherine but everyone called me kat there was alot of gangs and other stuff alot of stuff going on at valley man those were the days
ReplyDeleteValley! Wow! I attended from 1971-1974...graduated as a Junior...that tells you something about the school - it had some smart kids even way back then. Some of you may know me as I dated Bob Turley in his Junior year and my Junior/Senior year. I only saw one fight and that was my freshman year, the first day of school. Had a couple of girls "call me out" but they seemed to be afraid of a shy/quiet white girl...lol. I was also known for having written a letter to the editors of 2 newspapers back in 1974. The teachers were good and the counselors even better. +6I recall Jake and LC. One of my photos of Jake got printed in the 74 yearbook. Valley was an all-right school! No gang fights on campus and no race discrimination on the campus, but off campus was a whole new issue! I chose Valley High over Mater Dei and am glad I did!
ReplyDeletehi my name is Valerie .
ReplyDeletei just graduated from Valley class of 2008!
yes Valley has had somethings happening that obviously is not normal, but now things has change and will continue changing many people follow what others say and what they see AND NOT EVERYTHING IS TRUE
Valley is doing its best to change there bad reputation
AND I BELIEVE THAT SOME DAY IT WILL BE THE TOP OF ALL HIGH SCHOOL!
{PS stop hating , say something when you know its true and you have proves}
I went to SAV 1980 and 81 was in several plays, Sweet Charity as Sweet Daddy Brubeck..Roy Johnson was my best friend. Mr. Soto was my drama teacher...and Nester Tahali was a Samoan who sang really well.....I would love to find some classmates. This is Benjamin Carroll.
ReplyDeleteOld blog, but interesting...I was a member of East Side Santana/F-Troop. We also had members of Logan Park (Oldest gang in OC beside Stanton). Anyhow Santa Ana was rough...La Eme had meetings in El Salvador Park. Some of the fines latinas in Califas. Anyhow...Santa Ana Valley HIgh was gang-infested and so was Santana period. Southside was deep, WestSide compadres was deep, We were deep, all subsets of Myrtle were deep, Dogtown was deep, 17th Street/5 Street was deep, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, Delhi was deep, Santa Anita was deep, and really there are too many too list. Anyhow...cruising down Bristol was cool...still is, but I eventually did time and now I live in Sacramento... I have gone back recently to Orange County and it has considerably cleaned up. The 3 strikes law has cleaned up a lot of things. Even flower and main look nice these days... But it was somewhat fun... Sorry i caught this blog so late.. Just shooting cletcha...
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ReplyDeletesavhs is what you make it. you can come out however you want, an affiliated member, a scholar overall a better figure for the community. vhs was tough in its own way. i remember playing sports after school there growing up and it was tough for people who went there although as the years past the true made figures started depreciating. less and less people had a mind, instead deep pockets that extended from there parents. now you have a bunch of none self-proclaimed people but a bunch of spoiled brats that need to get teased as the alumni did back in the day. what happened to the sickside of vhs, it faded away as the years went by . . .
jonathan, class of 04 ! ! !
ReplyDeletewhats happening alumnis savhs is what you make it. you can come out an affiliated member, a scholar, overall a better member of your community. what happened to the sickside of vhs, growing up i couldnt wait until i would attend vh but i guess as the years went by the real made figures depriciated. now all i see is a bunch of spoiled brats with deep pockets that extend to their parents budget. what happened to all the self-proclaimed minds that vh was well known for creating. there were few of us left while i attended, a generation depriciated with less assosiation was in play. a big whoopty whoop to them who know the scoop.
hey Steve
ReplyDeleteI NEVER REALLY WENT TO VALLEY BUT I KNEW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DID.FOR INSTANCE LETTY,NORMA RUIZ,NELLY G.,ALEX.WELL ALL THE STUDENTS THAT GRADUATED FROM CARR IN 2000.I MISS EVERYONE AND I HOPE ONE DAY I GET TO HEAR FROM THEM.NOW I LIVE IN ALABAMA I MOVED HERE IN 02.I ALSO WANTED TO TRY AND FIND AN OLD BOYFRIEND IM SURE SOMEONE KNOWS HIM.CAUSE NOT ONLY DID HE ATTEND VALLEY FOR A FEW MONTHS BUT HIS NAME IS FRANK R. IF SOMEONE KNOWS HIM SEND A MESSAGE TO BETTY.NICE22@GMAIL.COM PLEASE I WANT TO HEAR FROM HIM.HE ALSO USED TO LIVE AROUND VALLEY AND HIS OLDER SISTER'S NAME IS MARIA.AND I LOVED ALL THE STORIES WRITTEN HERE. I BETTER GO AND THANKS
its called the falcon fever CATCH It !!!
ReplyDeleteits called the falcon fever CATCH It !!!
ReplyDeleteHello All! I teach at VHS now and just wanted to let everyone know that because it is the schools 50th anniversary A LOT of things will be happening and you should all try to attend. The Homecoming Game will be on Sat. Oct 18, 2008 at the Santa Ana Bowl at 4pm. There will also be a pancake breakfast that morning. We are also trying to put together a "2nd Prom" for the 50 years of alumni. I am heading that up, but it is VERY difficult to find any alumni because the school does not have an alumni databaase. If there are certain websites your class has or you just happen to know a lot of alumni please contact me! We are trying to reach as many people as possible. ALSO, if anyone is interested in buying the 50th anniversary yearbook please contact me. We will be including pictures from all of the years past.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if any of you alumni out there have cool jobs or just cool stories that our kids could relate to I would love to hear from you. So many of our kids just lack direction. They are all so smart and so capable, but they need rolemodels and mentors to look up to. They need to see that going to Valley is not necessarily a bad thing.
I can be reached by email @ misscostello@yahoo.com
For yearbook info you can email valleyhighyearbook@gmail.com
hey there..falcon!!!!!
ReplyDeletewell im still attending santa ana valley high...im class of 2010..im a junior now..and playing football..The school is the best. there is less and less fights now since o7.when we moved to godinez...now i hardly see any...The school is more controlled and safe..and more people are now joining sports.KEEP IT UP VALLEY...AND SUPPORT YOUR FOOTBALL TEAM..
xxxxxxVALLEY PRIDEXXXXXXX BE UNCOMMON .AND DO SOMTHING GOOD FOR THE SCHOOL....
whats up people, i went to valley 84-87 and i have nothing but good memories from those days. i was in the marching band and it was pretty cool how we went on alot of parades and field show competitions. Mrs. Jay was our band teacher then we had Mimi Dominguez they were both cool people. we always traveled with the tall flags. its a time i wish i could live all over again.i remember we threw a party the night before a competition at Kyle's house and everyone got so shitfaced. we were all hungover the next morning icluding the tall flags. Olivia, Jenny, the twins, Veronica, Marcela (to name a few)Mrs Jay was furioius cause people were throwing up and some couldnt perform. i remeber that when we were out on the field performing, if i am not mistaken it was Huey the bass drummer passed out on the field. it was so damn funny. but those were the days. (Band members) Tali, Lee Gasu, Sergio Perchez, Paul Peters, Paul Vargas, Lucio Hernandez,Ivan and Omar Dominguez, Alfred Goodman, Marcel(RIP),Jerry Salgado(my bro.),Doug Johnson, Steve and Stefany Ybarra, Norma, Hiromi, John Hardy, Kyle, Laura, Ron, and forgive me for not mentioning everyone if anyone can name the ones i missed please do so. but all these people in the band and tall flags made my high school days memorable. thank you all. George Salgado sancho2713@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know if there's going to be a 20 year reunion for the class of 1988 at Valley?
ReplyDeleteI was in the 1986 graduating class ... Yes there were fights (I remember when the water polo team pick on a Vietnamese kid and got here but kicked by a group of Vietnamese gang kids, of course they were saved by the us football players & track team) ... Yes there were gangs F- Troop and many more...
ReplyDeleteBut I remember good times like smoking a fatty in the shower with of the auditorium naked with a girl cause Mr Soto made me take drama and I was a football player not an actor but I need to pass his english class. (Which I was so high I grabbed my crotch after play during intro's and brought the house down.
Or hanging out with the C.O.M.P.s (Cool Order Music Productions) they threw the best skip parties!!!! Their mascot was Capitan Crunch which they spray painted on the street in front of the school.
Or when me and a friend borrowed 2 giant bags of dead frogs from science class and threw them in the halls and girls bathroom during class change .. lol
I loved my experience there... wish I could connect with old friends ... now I'm in Ft Lauderdale FL with nothing but great memories
Oh .. . just in case the name is Kenneth White Jr remember the guy with the frogs ... catch me on facebook or email me @ kennethwhitejr@gmial.com
ReplyDeleteI hung with everyone from Mexican, Samoan to Vietnamese.. most memorable friend was Larry Gilory he was 6'5 and over 400lbs if you were at SAV you knew Larry you could not miss him
Steve,
ReplyDeleteI graduated in 1971 from Valley and had a great education which laid the foundation to a successful life. I played football for Dick Hill and Billy Mills. I am truly old-school. I owe my success to Valley; Chief of Police, Army Reserve Colonel, University Professor, and a Jurist Doctorate Degree. Thank you Russ Bogie, Dick Hill, Mike Rush, Ed Adams, Richard Kirwan, Ed McGuckin, Mike Andrade, and the entire faculty at the time.
Tommy Tunson (AKA Tommy Fields)
Hi Steve.
ReplyDeleteI graduated from Valley in 1981 and I'm very proud to be a Falcon. I was also a Carr Astro. Valley Had the greatest teachers and mix of students anywhere. Color was not an issue compared to what goes on today. Crack club was the best bunch of pranksters around! I remember when they threw out the plucked chicken at a basketball game! Our track team went undefeated from 78-81, my 4 years there. Jerome Candidate taught Jeffrey Daniels of Shalamar how to moon walk and HE got Gerome together with Michael Jackson and the rest is history...that's why Gerome (AKA Casper) is in some of Michael's videos. I remember having lunch in the chemistry room and Homecoming's Kangaroo Court was hilarious! Lucky the security guard used to slap the back of our heads when we were wrong and LC would use his cart to take us to the Eskimo where they had THE BEST fries PERIOD! Coach Stewart would eat our lunches at the track meets but it didn't stop us from winning. There were some fights, but not too many and those few were over pretty quickly. For me Valley was great. Nothing was sugar-coated and if you took advantage of the faculty's knowledge you came away prepared for your next step in life. My best memories come from Valley and they will stay with me forever. My parents still live on Center street so I still see the surroundings from time to time. things have changed but Valley will forever make my heart bleed Blue and Gold.
Take care, Jesse Johnson Class of 81, Track Captain.
boy, do we digress..
ReplyDeletelets get this back on track.
Valley High School was just like any other high school. It had sex, drugs, and wrap/hip hop/rock and or roll/r&B/ punk/reggae/.
I remember it being the most diverse environment I can remember. 79-82,, I would not have changed my experience for the world, otherwise I would not have what I have today. Sure there were gangs. show me a city without gangs, and I will show you a talking horse. YOu were either in it, above it, around it,, it was your choice,, well sometimes.. Funny, I do have my own stories of gun play and fights, but open a newspaper and we were not alone. Today,, Valley High is a great community, same as Santa Ana High, just go out any evening and see the families walking the track or playing sports(soccer mostly).. Now thats community. YOu sometimes dont even see that in upscale hoods..
So community is where its at.. I think someone said that in this blog somewheress..
Go Falcons
Hello fellow Falcons!
ReplyDeleteI am class of 2000!!! I do not remember any violence, like mention by a few of you. I remember lots of pregnant girls. I was in ASB and Cheer!!!! I really loved going to Valley, I loved and miss everyone in ASB.Oh and offcourse I miss my high school sweetheart,Leo... You'll always be special to me.Great teachers, and great atmosphere, that is Valley High.
HAHA THIS IS SO FUNNY!!! WELL IM STILL GOING THRU ALL THAT THE GANG VIOLENCE THE FIGHTS AFTER SKOOL BUT VALLEY IS THE BEST SO FAR ITS BEEN THE BEST THREE YEARS OF MY LIFE!!! MAN IVE BEEN SITTING HERE IN KEYBORDING CLASS READING ALL UR COMMENTS AND REALIZING THAT SO MANY THINGS CHANGED THRU THE PAST YEARS!!!!
ReplyDeleteWELL STAY TRU TO UR COLORS AND PRIDE TO VALLEY HIGH!!!!!
Hi
ReplyDeleteI graduated from Valley High this
past June C/O '08. Valley was really enjoyable my freshmen, sophomore, and junior year; my senior year unfortunately was not the greatest. Many of our dances were post poned, we had no spirit whatsoever. I dont recall seeing any violence through out the school. It was a pretty laid back school. Many people assume Valley is so ghastly and treacherous and it is not!!! Also not everyone at Valley is ghetto. I have many awesome memories from Valley. I do not regret atteding Valley. I had the best four years of my life. And i met some of the most hip friends anyone can have.
Remember "Once a FALCON always a FALCON"...
Valley High School. Does anyone know what happenned to Jill Hill the only white girl to go to that school (and a very pretty woman at that). Cochino Boys & Da' Boys, two polar opposites. However, those were the days that signaled the death to "safe' house parties.
ReplyDeleteAnyone remember Jill Hill--the only white person at our school back in the late 80's? She was one fine looking girl!
ReplyDeleteHey steve i graduated from valley 1995 never had any problems never saw any violence I belive if your not looking for trouble you wont get in trouble even though santa ana its a little rough now i live in greenville sc and my mother moved to tustin ranch wich is a big difference when i visit my grandmother in santa ana
ReplyDeleteHey steve i graduated from valley 1995 never had any problems never saw any violence I belive if your not looking for trouble you wont get in trouble even though santa ana its a little rough now i live in greenville sc and my mother moved to tustin ranch wich is a big difference when i visit my grandmother in santa ana
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ReplyDeleteGlad the school is better now!
ReplyDeleteThere have been several annonymous posters here. One accused Steve of lying! The one I am looking at dated 01/12/2008 says there was very little violence.
My goodness. My husband and I met at SAVH home of the Falcons in the summer of 68. The school had a mix of the white academic minded kids, the jocks, who were both black and white, the nerds, and social dropouts of the 60s, but it also had its good share of gangs and racial blacks against whites violence.
We both graduated from Valley in 69 and 71. We saw black racial tensions and race riots and fight after fight. Mexicans would jump in. And even whites and Jocks would jump in.
Dont give me any bull about what a great school it was during my years.
My high School was on the news so freqently I was ashamed to go there. I did not fit into any of the afore named groups. I was a loner. who kept a decent grade average for a while.
If it werent for the teachers who hung in there and devoted themselves to their vocation and saving the lives of the kids who did care, I would have dropped out and run away.
Dorothy Jerrauld, Mr. Bogie, Coach Hill, Vickie Halatsis, Counselor, Mrs, Lund, Mrs Doolittle in the Library, Mr McGuckin, Yes there were good people. But the times were horrid. I am glad that some kids got out of there unstained.
And we wont discuss Mr Killips and why he was allowed to drw blood from Carl Fields younger Brother and still remain a teacher. But I guess one crazy teacher isnt so bad. By the way. There were most wonderful african americaan black or hispanic kids who attended Valley during those years also. I remember them fondly.
Maybe if as a kid, your name was Griset you could make it. Mine wasnt. Maybe somehow, you did just fit in and nothing bothered you. I couldnt. The tension there did bother me. And I was afraid. I was afraid to walk home.
God bless the teachers who tried. God help the kids now grown who failed. And for those who still live with their head in a cloud, well, glad you can do it, sorry for your family though. Head in the clouds living makes for very bad relationships.
PS Husband and I, well, we are still together after all the violence, and the ugliness of those years. My saving grace was that guy, moving away a few times, and God. If it werent for God,coming back to SAVH after my husband graduated would have meant giving up.
PS #2 I was attacked by a crowd of black girls on my grad day while I WAS ALL ALONE in B bldg. My little sister was attacked at Smedley/Carr. she was robbed and roghed up tough not severely beaten, her money was taken, and she was terrified. Glad the school is better now!
Diane
I graduated in 1988 and had a blast at SAV from 84-88. I played volleyball and softball and meet a lot of awesome people, including my husband. My name is Chris Sigler, now Lopez, and my husband is Cisco and he hung out with the Comps and ran track. We have great memories from high school and would love to hear from our old friends. criscoisus@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy the old time comments from back in the day but somebody killed it when they started talking all the gang shit. we dont wanna remember that. but since you brought it up meaning goldenwest. honestly they were a bunch of wabs and pussies really. constantly they would get hit up and never wanna fight until they would come back with all thier homies and then try to do shit. goldenwest was at one time fxtroop but couldnt even keep thier little wabby homies in line when the little ones started claiming it was goldenwest crips. what a disgrace to the raza. i aint hating on them im just telling the truth. everybody knew it. put it this way if the immigration would throw a raid on goldenwest they would cease to exist.
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ReplyDeleteWoh, This is Milton Aguilar, and I graduated in '89... Yeah baby, and those were the good old years..
ReplyDeleteI don't remember having as many fights or staving or shootings...
I would say most of the students were a little more responsible and we looked at life a little more serious...I think?... Anyways, I'm working on our 20 Years Re-Union..so for any of you that know someone or anyone that gradutated in that year please let them know and have them join face book.. you can find me under my email:
milton@miltonaguilar.com
phone (714) 412-6500
All the best,
Milton
BIG ED BURNELL CLASS OF '86'I STARTED VARSITY FOOTBALL IN 84-85-86.I HAVE MUCH LOVE FOR THE BIG SAV IN '84' WE HAD A GOOD TEAM. IN '85'WE DID NOT WIN ONE GAME AND IN'86'WE WON ONE AGAINST ORANGE HIGH,I COULD HAVE MOVED DOWN SOUTH WITH MY MOM IN 1985 AND PLAYED BUT THAT FALCON PRIDE,WIN OR LOSE IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BLUE AND GOLD.THE ONLY FIGHT I CAN REMEMBER IS WHEN THE WATERGATE CRIPS AND SHELLY ST.BLOODS LOCK UP ONE DAY AND THE NEXT DAY THEY ALL WAS GONE.BACK IN THE '80'S IT WAS ALL ABOUT RESPECT I WAS COOL WITH EVERYONE IN SA I LIVED ON CUBBON ST REPED 357CRU AND THEN IT WAS WS357CRIPS AND AT VALLEY I HAD HOMEBOYS FROM F-TROOP, SOUTHSIDE, BLOODS,MSLC,RSPCRIPS, ON CAMPUS WE ALL RESPECTED EVERYONE BUT IF YOU DID NOT GO TO SAV AND SHOWED UP IN THE WRONG SPIRIT SOMEONE WAS GOING TO PUT HANDS ON YOU WE ALSO TOOK PRIDE IN KEEPING THINGS UNDER CONTROL
ReplyDeleteI graduated from SAV in '66. I just recently connected with my best friend from that era, and am having fun with that. I lost my yearbook in a move, and would love to know how to get another one, if possible. Does anyone know who published it, and how far back their records go? If so, email me at euniceoakley@hotmail.com.
ReplyDeleteMy maiden name was Eunice Connally. Thanks.
Peace,
ReplyDeleteI graduated from Valley in 72' I went to school with Temp (Gray Tempilton)and played football and basketball. I read the comments above and made me remember the store down the street. I was not from California but enjoyed the whole culture of the area. We kick ass in football. I'm Black and had good friends that were Mexican and party good with them. The car clubs and "F" troop was just jumping off. We (Black and Mexicans) got along well from my point of view. I remembered watch Gray (Temp) hitting baseballs over the fence on to Ratt street at practice. Veron Clark was one standup guy, along with a guy named Bobby Williams. I had a good time at Valley and some of my friends were thugs, but cool with me.I lived in the Voltair apartments on of McFadden and hung out at the center, rough crowd down that way. I left Valley May 72 and went to Viet Nam in Aug 72.
I wish all of the above people Peace and Bobby Williams who passed away last year rest in Peace.
Caruthers
I graduated from Valley in 1964 and found this web site interesting reading after all these years. I lived just a couple of blocks away on Harvard Steet and enjoyed my time at Valley. I am thankful for the education that I was offered, and earned, at Valley.
ReplyDeleteAs for the gangs and viloence that so many of you chose to "champion" in your comments. What difference did it really make.
After all these years I still have, and will always have the education I received Valley. I will bet you gang types no longer control anything, and you never really did.
Hail to all the rest of you who enjoyed your years and appreciated the school, you are the true Falcons! Sants Ana Valley High School offered me a good path of life and I gladly took it!
hey did Mona Ruiz go to that school?
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ReplyDeleteSteve, I attended SAV, now known as Valley HS from 1971 to 1975. We had a winning track team, CIF champion Football team, and a good basketball team. People like Rick Walker and Garry Templeton were in school at that time. We can boast of professional atheletes, attorneys, doctors, law enforcement, nuns, school administrators, business managers and more. We had some fights, but when I was there we fought against others not with each other. In 1975 there was a LA black gang member that came to campus and assaulted a hispanic football player, and some of the black football players came to his rescue. At lunch that day all of the football team and the coaches were out at lunch as a show of pride and force, little did we players know at that time the police presence blocks away surrounding our campus. Our teachers were dedicated professionals, we were all a cohesive group and there was mutual respect for ALL the students and faculty members.
ReplyDeleteWhat's up? My name is Rudy Arellano and we are starting an "Alumni Help Valley High School" thing. It started with a visit to Valley High. My son wanted to see the old school. They went to athletics department to check it out. He was talking to the Athletics Director at the school and they are in need of funds for their department. They have been using the same old torn shorts, shirts and other equipment they use for the program for a few years now. They wanted to have the parents help out by donating $50.00 to help out, but they received little response. As I was talking to my friend who also went to SAV, he and I agree. When we went to Valley they never asked our parents for money. If the school needed money for what ever the cause we would do a car wash, sell candy or something. Times are rough for all schools of California. So we started a small thing by trying to gather donations for Valley High School athletics department. There is no embarrassment on the amount due these hard times. I am giving a little. As you know were not rich but I believe as most of you do that, I had the best time of my life at Valley High. If you would like to help. Whatever you like is fine. A little goes a long way. Email so I can give out more info. I am going at this Raw. I'm kind of pumped up on this. I have never felt like this before or maybe I didn't care. I care now! Maybe I'm just getting to be an old fart. See what you can do to help. Give the Alumni my Email rudy5784@att.net. I am going to have all the donations recognized by Valley High School to all of the Alumni that helped out. Tell everybody this no scam, just help for our Santa Ana Valley High School. Thank You!
ReplyDeleteJorge el_gavilan001@hotmail.com. alguno de la clases de 99
ReplyDeleteOkay! Enough of the hood rat comments. The real tragedy is 'Luigi's' Italian restaurant ran by a old Chinese guy. I'm class of '90 and I lived on Stanford near the bend in the street where Stater bros. is. One day I was craving their meatball sandwich and there was a girl behind the counter! I asked where is the old guy and she said that he was her uncle and she purchased the business from him. So I thought what the hell she's family. WRONG...the food was terrible and it's now out of business.
ReplyDeleteClass of 1990 email me at rob.ocmagnums@gmail.com
Dear Falcons:
ReplyDeleteClass of 1973 alumn here, proud 2b a Falcon! True, there were concerns for all of us, a thing of the times, that's all! Teachers were great, overall, administrators tried so hard; the staff really tried to give us their best. Fond memories and greatful to have to opportunity to attend such a great school. Thanks.
Responding to Class of 73.
ReplyDeleteClass of 75 here, I know now that there were some 'human' teachers that were not just about teaching academia. My personal experience was very positive. A few of those that were GREAT in my opinion were; Mr Staudenbaur, Mrs Halatsis, Mr Chamnes, Mr Bayati Coach Fisher, Coach Hill, Coach Adams Coach Raugawitz, and Mr Zimmer. I am sure there are others that you all can give honorable mention to.
To find out about your Class Reunions? Just call the school, "Valley".
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To: Audrey Hillhouse Corcoran:
ReplyDeleteRe: James A. Robinson
Jim lived in Guerneville, CA in 2007 when you wrote the following....have you gotten in touch with him yet?
Audrey Hillhouse said...
Does anyone know how to contact KEN ROBISON? He was drum major for the band in 1962 & 63. I really want to get in touch with his brother JAMES A ROBISON who graduated in '62. Ken & I graduated in '63. If anyone knows where they are please have them contact me, Audrey Hillhouse (now Corcoran)
December 13, 2007 1:23 PM
Hello Valley!
ReplyDeleteThe ASB presidential election was rigged in the late 80's
ReplyDeleteHello everyone,
ReplyDeleteI went to Monte Vista Elementary School, then onto Carr Jr. High and then I had the pleasure of attending SAV 81-83.
I did not see the gangs and fights that people are writing about. I was on the wrestling team. I was a jock if you will. I have fond memories of my years at SAV. I went through school with: Norman, Rabbit, Elliot, Joey, the Medina sisters, Norma S. Eugenia, Bertha, Loretta , Irene, Thien, Gerald, Glenn, all of my teammates and many more.
I remember sitting on the brick wall that was located next to the student store, south of the lunch tables. Sitting there watching everyone walk on by in between the periods and lunch. The best part about my days there was the wrestling room. Coaches Willie Williams & John Lowell were great, all the hard work we put into preparing for the wrestling matches. Fogging up the mirrors in the wrestling room was a great indication of our hard work. I attended several of the football games and then went to the Pizza Hut, there I saw some drug activity, but they made their own choice, I stayed clear of that stuff.
I did not graduate with 84’, but I got my GED and then went on to wrestle at Cypress College and got my education. Today, I enjoy looking back at those wonderful years.
GLR
Wow, I was just wondering about S.A Valley H.S. No one graduated in 92'? Any kind of reunion coming up? Anyone wants to K.I.T kelyee@live.com
ReplyDeleteI went to SA Valley from 76-78. I would have graduated in the class of '80 but we moved to Oklahoma. I am alway's trying to find old friends from Valley. I loved that school. It did have a bad rep. but I don't think it was all that bad. I also remember Kangaroo court and spirit week. Two teachers that stand out for me is Mr. Lammers and Mr. Hahn oh and Mr. Lucas! Would love to re-connect with some old classmates! Class of 80!!
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Unfortunately i never got to make the class of 07 due to my personal misfortune and my decision to drop out but Valley, as ghetto as it appeared, was really my home. I lived in a broken house with a family that trailed, not far behind, the verge of destruction. I feel that a lot of people had problems like me and found a second family behind those gates. The same gates that held us in as prisoners. I know that after 12pm, after we've seen all our friends, we wanted out and the first chance security wasn't on the watch, we ditched. One of the things i did not like was the promotion of the gay and lesbian alliance that was adapted in my freshman year there, which i believe was 2004. Other than that, it was all good. By the way, does anyone know a Priscella O?
ReplyDeleteIM A SENIOR THIS YEAR AT VASLLEY CLASS OF 2010 AND THE QUEEN OF GAY AT THE SCHOOL VALLEY ALRITE BUT I CAN WAIT 2 LEAVE..
ReplyDeleteMY MYSPACE URL IS myspace.com/sammy_is_on_fire
I ATTEND VALLEY RIGHT NOW IM IN 12TH CLASS OF 2010 FINALLY AND THE QUEEN OF GAY THERE VALLEY ALRIGHT HATE THE NEW PRINCIPAL ANYWAYS WOULD LIKE TO CHECK ME OUT..ON MYSPACE
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Bernabe Alvarez,
ReplyDeleteHello there falcons!. i just graduated this yr wohoo CLASS OF 09!, i will miss Valley. well i attended CARR INT. graduated from it in 2005, (looking for a CARR 05 YR book willing to pay benny_virus@hotmail.com)
When i was an 8th back in 05 i remember valley use to still have several GANGS & KREWS cause i knew friends from them. When i first enrolled Valley in 2005 i remember SouthSide, Golden West, DelHi, Ftroop, Lopers, Wanders, Dukes, n Sullivan St still n sum krew bangs MABk, SMSk, MOSk, 2MSk, SBk. There use to be alot of fights back in those days. i also remember alots of party krews! dat use to be cool all those ballers with them big Flyers pendants and their nos tanks. Lots of fights still were being held in the Handball courts, sadly they were brought down when valley was remodeled in 2007.
My Sophomore valley was moved to GODINEZ and used the brand new school as VALLEY WEST HS While valley was remodeled, there wasnt as many fights as my freshmen most gangs ended there. all was left in 2007 was KREW BANGERS. MOS, SMS n all i mentioned. Lots of GRAFFITI STARTED in this year. that was most of the problem at valley pretty much n sum VIolence but not as bad, most valley happened outside campus at Parties and the streets of SA. This was the last year of Party krews. HYPED UP ENT, AIR HEADS, BLUE CHUCKS, IN YOUR MOUTH, ... others. people w NOS. THIS WAS MY BEST YEAR OF ALL TIMES BEST PARTIES EVER NO DRAMA< FOOTBALL GAMES< LOTS OF SPIRIT. I hang around with class of 08 n i was 09, we created a social krew {no violence related} NERD KLAN we were known all around campus, YEAH! our social krew was known cause during lunch we would invite lots of people to kick it, WHITES, ASIANS, BLACKS, LATINOS we had all different kind of people in our KLAN.
MY JR in 2008,Lots of 08 class went to Lauren Grisit due to lack of graduation credits. lots of poeple still had the spirit from previous years and this was the last year valley had NICE SPIRIT. LOTS of POD Smokers. lil bit of kerws still round. NERD KLAN trew an unexpected party that EVERYONE LOVED THIS YEAR AHAH it was soo cool. unfortunately right when the party ended there was a driveby and one person got staved. WON BEST DANCE PERFORMANCE in STARSEARCH.as "WILD STYLE"
My senior YEAR was alright I enrolled in ASB as the commissionaire of TECHnology always wanted to play the music for school lol. and so I did. Valley wasnt the same like the previous years it was more boring lots of people didnt want to participate in school activities or going to games as much as back in da days. NO spirit what so ever. it was kind of dead. I WON PROM KING xD. also WON STARSEARCH TROPHIE AS LOVED BY AUDIENCe as :"Expression"
So much to say..but oh well G2g
forgot to leave my SPACE LINK www.myspace.com/snoopyfromsa
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PROM KING: BERNABE ALVAREZ aka SNOOPY
I attended Valley from 77-79. I have to say I had a great time there. I actually felt safe. I was on the varsity soccer team (The only white guy at the time) The teachers were great.
ReplyDeletegoing to valley high school was a great experience. that was where i first registered to vote at lunch time. i enjoyed all the acitivites and the dances. i graduated from there in 1972, that was a time of change. wewore the afros, they could not get big enough. we did not have a lot of fighting on campus that i remember. all three of my kids went there. the last one graduating in 1996. and i will be attending thr 50th anniversary celebratin to reconnect with old friends. where is mr mills he was so funny he was the history teacher and was always talking about the old times of slopping biscuits in syrup making me want some lol ny name is brenda bolen and my boyfriend was clifford kimble and we are still together here in tustin after all these years, it has been 42 years.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...I remember all that happen at Valley some good, some bad but in 1977 it was all good, we were popular in all sport, I had alot of good time at Valley and I am looking forward to the up coming anniversary Oct 30,2009. Hope to see you all there
ReplyDeleteReading alot of the comments let's me know just how old I am. Not many people from the 70's what are we all dead? Some of you need to go back to school and learn how to write basic grammer. LOL Yea I too suffer from Valley Education. One thing I will confrim Valley did have it's troubles and did have a bit of a reputation, but I would not trade my times at Valley for nothing. Let me express on some of the positives that Valley has produced. We had many people come out of Valley that was successful. Do you remember Garry Templeton, Rick Walker, Karl Denson, Melvin Davis, The Bordeaux Brothers (Derek & Byron) The Wings just a small list & I left out many. Some teachers Mr. Booker, Mr. Butler, Mrs. Sampson (Boy was she tough as well as Mrs. Whitaker), Coach Hill, Coach Musick, Coach Steward & Brumsey. The experience at Valley was still considered family in my eyes. I had great relatioships with the teachers & numerous alumini. We were consider as a Athletic power when I was there being competitive in all sports especially football, baseball, track, etc. The athletes were our secondary security, on campus so no one messed with Valley, not even the Crips. We also had several different social groups BSU, MECHA, The Surfers, we all were cool with each other and got along. The ethnic make up was quite deverse, with all groups of people there. So those of there now create your own legacy & enjoy the Valley Falcon experience because after high school life becomes serious. Looking for any 70's peeps especially Karen Tucker (Cheerleader) or Leona Autor. Hit me at Playboy@pacbell.net to find out who. Go falcons !!!!
ReplyDeleteVALLEY WAS THE SHHHHHHIET! YOU NAME IT THEY HAD IT, FROM PARTY CREWS TAGGERS GREASERS HOOD RAT CREWS GANGSTAS DOPE DEALERS AND HUSTLERS, FROM DITCHING PARTIES TO THE ESKIMO MAD DRINKS AT HANKS OR DONUTS DOWN THE WAY, EVEN OUR NERDS WERE COOL NERDY AND ALL THEY WAS GONA SCRAP FOR THERES. THE GIRLS WERE BEAUTIFUL THE CARS WERE STOLEN OUR FOOTBALL TEAM NEVER WON WE WERE FIRST IN SOCCER AND THE PIZZA WENT GOOD WITH THE MUNCHIES! MISS GONZALEZ THE PRINCIPALS SECRETARY WAS A MILF AND IF MR RENDER THE WOOD SHOP TEACHER NEVER SPIT ON YOU THEN YOU AINT NO FALCON CAUSE HIS BUCKTOOTH ASS SPRAYED LIKE A SPRINKLER, GOLDEN WEST STREET WERE DOWN, WITH TOKES CHATO BOBS SHARKY SPANKS AND JUICE BUT YOU KNOW WHEN YOU HEARD HIT AN RUN BY THE BARKAYS BUMPING OUT OF A REAGAL, THEN THAT MEANT DUCK DOWN TO THE FLOOR CAUSE POP POP POP IT WAS BIG BLOCK ACTING A FOOL HE PROTECTED GW TO THE FULLEST JUST LIKE A HIGHLAND AND SOUTH SIDE WAR WAITTING TO ERRUPT OR SOMEONE FROM MYRTLE SPEAKING ENGLISH TO A TOWNSEND BOY, COME ON SPANISH POR FAVOR! BUGS AND DUCK FROM LINGAN HUSTLING AFTER CLASS THE COMPS PLOTTING TO STEAL A KEG WHILE THE NIKES WERE LOOKING SPIFFY CAUSE THE FREELOADERS WERE GIVING OUT LESSONS ON THE RIGHT WAY TO PUT ON A CONDOM,YIKES! HEY SELENA DOES THAT TASTE LIKE RUBBER, WOW YOU GOT SKILLS! BUT ANYWAY VALLEY WAS FUN BECAUSE AFTER ALL THAT I GOT MY DIPLOMA SO WHAT IF I BOUGHT IT AT THE SWAP MALL IT WAS A BARGAIN HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA AND GREEN CARD FOR TEN BUCKS YEAH GOTTA LUV SANTA ANA! 27 DOLLAS AND HOUR BMW AND A FAT HOUSE WIFE TOO BUT ITS NOT ABOUT HER, ALL IM SAYING IS VALLEY YOU ARE ONE OF A KIND THANKS! THE 90S WERE FUN, SEE YA AT THE POST OFFICE ON GREENVILLE JUST SO MANY LETTERS TO PRISON DAMN FALCONS BE NICE!!!
ReplyDeleteWHAT U TALKING ABOUT FOOL GOLDEN WEST WAS THE DOWNEST FOOL I KNEW! BOTTOM LINE AT THAT TIME WHEN THAT MOVIE COLOR CAME OUT EVERYONE WANTED TO BE A CRIPO OR A SANGRE I KNOW ALL KINDS OF FOOLS WHO DID THAT! FOOLS FROM LIL HOOD THE COMPS, BSK, BSSG, SHELLY ST, BLOODEL STR AND MANY MORE U WHER PRIBABLY A CRIP OR A BLOOD YOU SUCKA !!! GW PARTED FROM FXTROOP BECAUSE LIKE ALWAYS FXTROOP TOOK CREDIT FROM WHAT THEY DID...U PROBABLY GOT BEAT DOWN BY THEM THAT'S WHY U TALKING SHIT !!!!
ReplyDeleteYou're all idiots! It was not about gangs morons!
ReplyDeletesorry but valley is located within gang areas so to say idiots only means you have no clue of what it is to be active among your enviroment as a santa ana resident bottomline real gang areas is family love unity protection for whatever it may be lack of parenting or durty cop trouble there is so much drama that you will never understand street love. so gang stuff is part of valley like it or not im not a gang member but i know many of them, and on that blog he is not talking shit read it again he said gw were down thats giving them props plus both of you are right golden west were some crazy dudes they had style they were not bullys good dudes real bangers and to that other blog like 10 rows back they were not wabs, they must have beat you before! townsend was wabs, south side were good dudes too valley was fun i now live in cotto de casa im a ceo 7 digits at the bank female out of santa ana cheerleader attended yale and im proud of where im from bullet and sharky from gw were my best friends so was bully from bssr and smiley too and wow i remember block [gw] in his reagal he was my first kiss oh god he kisses good griselda was my cheerleading buddy lil mari was my twin we both had nice booties, im moving to ny tomorrow thats why im on this page to say goodbye no matter what they say i love all the memories there priceless im a falcon i judge no one we are all equal some poor some rich but all s.a. proud i miss u mecha club bye savhs and yes its me monica! the rumors are true 3.5 mil all because of valleys education, life is suave!
ReplyDeleteSorry to read about some of the negative years Valley has gone through from some students' perspectives. I graduated 1963. At that time we were very proud of our school. Lots of school spirit. We always had big turnouts for our football games and lots of successful students, even though we weren't all goody two shoes. Haven't been back in years but just went to the 50-year reception. I was impressed with the young people I met. Did I miss something.
ReplyDeleteWent to the football homecoming game the next day. Our team won but I was disappointed how few students attend. The band was very good but very small in number. Don't know about the academic status of our students, but maybe its time for some of you to become mentors at our old high school
peace 2 all DA HOMIEZ FROM TBK!!!!FUCK OUR ENEMIES!!!!!!!20-2-11 XX-II-XI. PURO FALCON PRIDE. CLASS OF 11
ReplyDeleteHey Steve and other fellow Valley High Alum,
ReplyDeleteI attended Valley between 1996-2000 and I am proud to have don the blue and gold.
Unlike the 80s, there wasn't much with regards to violence. Sure there was the occasional fist fight and yes we (the baseball guys) had our beef with the greasers/rebels students and spirit week did force most freshmen to hide but not much came from that.
Instead we concentrated on having fun and not necessarily within the boundaries of school campus. If not in class or on the baseball field then chances are that we were either at a nearby friend's house, beach or probably even at Knott's Berry Farm.
Among the countless memories of Valley, the one that stands out the most is when good friend and baseball teammate Armando Briseno drowned when pulled in by a rip tide on May 18, 2000 at Newport Beach. A small group of us planned to either skip period 5 or meet up right after class (block class schedule called for periods 1, 3 & 5 for the day). An earlier beach trip on Monday was spoiled by cold and windy weather. Due to a last minute change in my plans I was not able to attend the beach trip but three others, including Armando did. That was the last time we would see him alive.
His passing came a day before our Senior Prom and a month before graduation. A group of us had big plans for both events and a post-graduation trip.
As you can imagine, the story of his passing made headlines and stirred up a local media frenzy. Given the timing of his passing, his story made for a "juicy" or interesting and sad story.
-julian castaneda
class of 2000
I went to VHS in 10th grade 1982 it was cool, played soph. football, we were terrible but it was ok. I chilled with norman, elliot, mark, al, mario, eric,"Carolyn" etc. Finished school in Daytona Beach, Fla. Mainland Sr. High C/O 1984 returned to Cali and been here every since. Married 3 kids 22,15,11.
ReplyDeleteWell-well-well!!
ReplyDeleteSAV...yeah boyeee!
Anyhow guys I was an original COMP before it turned into a gang and our boys were The Rude Boys: RIP-Mario Robles!
Anyhow remember all our house parties, COMP meetings..Mark, Harold, Ricky, Milo, Leo, Martin, Ernie, MikeB..and the rest of the OG COMPS!!!! Those were the best man!!
We never really thru down but we were down.
I do remember when Harold and Mark came back to the hood scuffed up and went back to the party that they were at and totally...well the rest is history! LOL
All the ladies, brew, bluntz, and money!!
By the way who kept those funds!?
Hahaha...anyhow those were the days!!!
I am an alumni of SAV from the class of '90 and I had a great time during my 4 years there. Made a lot of long-lasting friendships, learned a lot about life and the world around me. It was a typical high school experience with all of the different groups, etc. We made the best out of our high school experience and I would do it all over again!
ReplyDeleteTo start with I graduated this year CLASS OF 09 !
ReplyDeleteValley is not what all Santa Ana has made it seem .... I agree like always schools will have there good and bad times
After all Valley little by little has sucess .... Many changes have occured
to make it clear TEACHERS DO CARE ABOUT THERE STUDENTS !
1978-1980 mark dilba hung out with the stoners got into a lot of fight's had lots of friend then i went to mt. view high
ReplyDeleteValley wasn't a great school I didn't like it at all. Too many backstabbing people there to begin with. Some fights nothing major. Sports aren't that good either. I attended there for 10th, 11th and partial 12th grade year. I'm in the class of 10 :).
ReplyDeleteNow Santa Ana High School is the best school in Santa Ana.
FROM THE VALLEY HIGH COMES VALLEY BLUE. FROM THE SUNSET GOLD THE AMBERS HUE. BLUE FOR VALUE GOLD FOR WORTH WE GO FORTH THROUGHOUT THE EARTH. VALLEY HIGH WE SING THY PRAISE FOR NOW AND ALL OUR DAYS. AM I RIGHT?
ReplyDeleteFor those who are the youngters at Valley and don't know any better Valley was Santa Ana Valley High School, a great school back in the mid 60's. There was also a Santa Ana High School which was on the other side of town, our rivals of course. Our school was good at almost everything it strived for. We had a good football teams, water polo, bothe men's and women's tennis teams, etc. I do wish things could stay the way they were but times changes everything. At least those who went to SAVHS in the 60's had a great school to go to and to graduate from as well. The great blue and gold......go FALCONS
ReplyDeleteFROM THE Asure Skies COMES VALLEYs BLUE. FROM THE SUNSET GOLD THE AMBERS HUE. BLUE FOR VALUE GOLD FOR WORTH WE GO FORTH THROUGHOUT THE EARTH. VALLEY HIGH WE SING THY PRAISE FOR NOW AND ALL OUR DAYS. AM I RIGHT? Only a small mistake......nice to remember it, huh?
ReplyDeleteAnyone remember Chango who went to SAVHS in 1964? A cool guy and knew a lot about sports.
ReplyDeleteHi Iam looking for someone is any one would know where to find him he went to mcfaddden middle school and he went to valley from95-99 he name is hector valdez
ReplyDeleteThe only great thing about going to Valley was when my senior year ended. That, and Ms. Ruller's sweet mullet. Worst... High School... EVER.
ReplyDeleteI AM PROUD TO SAY THAT I WENT TO VALLEY HS I WAS ON THE BASEBALL TEAM AND WE SUCKED EVERY YEAR BUT AS A TEAM WE HAD A LOT OF FUN THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT MEMORIES GUYS AND COACH PHILLIPS.
ReplyDeleteHi, I went to Valley from 91-95 and I really had a wonderful time there I met the best staff and what I know everything was under control probably were some fights outside the campus but nothing inside that I was aware of, my best delightful time was with the cross country and track and field as well the academy center in my own opinion Valley was the best on those years and anyone from that time here is my email address cmca104@sbcglobal.net
ReplyDeleteSchool is being taken over. Too much politics involved thanks to a previous principal by the name of Espinosa. For some odd reason, students here are more stuck up than anywhere else even though this school really had nothing and has not had anything worth talking about since the early 90's.
ReplyDeletevalley is a great school!, i live around there. In front of valley is BrownSide's hood.In back of valley is South Side's hood.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone!
ReplyDeleteSAV 85-
The COMPS did throw the best parties..
COMP:
cool
order
music
production...haha!
There were originally 10 of us then it got out of control!
Anyhow the original members all have families and have moved on alot of the 2nd generation members have gone to prison and some have even passed on!
im a current student at valley!! i loved reading all theses comments!! valley is still valley!! sucky part is that school spirit has gne downhill!!!:( i would like to get contact of sme of the old cheerleaders from vally!! im a varsity cheerleader now n i just wanna knw how cheer was back then!! contact me at dog_totally_rocks@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteBorn in Santa Ana and went to Santa Ana High. Grad. in 75 but remember plenty of violence. Was chased several times by Delhi and F Troop gangs that were looking for something to do. One day had to dive under a truck to aviod bullets of two rival gangs going at it on Orange street on the way home from school. Three friends and one cousin killed by gang activity. One shot in the neck, one chained in the head, one stabbed to death and one pushed off of a water Tower. There used to be regular Police barracades at Main st. downtown S.A. on Friday nights. Cruising was popular then and so were drive by shootings just starting. The problem I had was if you had a beef with a Chicano you had to fight his whole gang at the same time instead of the mono e mono.
ReplyDeleteAbout 100,000 illegal alien Mexicans entered Orange County during the 70's and the whole culture changed not only in neighborhoods but in school. I felt like I was transformed into another country over night, trying to learn spanish instead of foreigners learning English. I'll be honest I had to deal with the temptation to be resentfull of Mexicans but half of my closest friends were of Mexican decent but born or a citizen of the US and I married a woman who's parents were from Mexico. I also know the power of forgiveness but that doesn't make wrong right. Mexico is hypocritical to thier comments on Arizona's law, look hat the way they treat foreigners in thier country. If you go there you are required to pay for your own helathcare, have your own income, you can't change the color of your neighborhood too much by your family (skin) and you can be thrown in jail for 2 years if anyone asks you for your papers and you don't produce them. Much more than this folks.. wake up! Something needs to be learned here and it isn't diversity, it's honoring America's uniqueness and birth along with it's foundational
origins. Slavery is not worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater to our beginning if you honestly look at all nations and thier history including Mexico. Mexicans today are killing Indians in the San Carlos Mountains over economics of alcohol. Now several gangs exist of all races and people think everything is going well? Their is an answer to the gang problem but it isn't what we were doing then or what we are doing now. Its preaching the Gospel nonstop... and then using a few words if necessary. In other words your actions! Anon.
Hey..Well I gRAduAted frOm VallEy Last YEar In 09... ClASS Of 09!! WooT WooT.I was There From 05-09.N E ways..Wow ManY thinGS I read Are So true..There Some ThinGs I diDnt even Know About..Well When I starTed My Freashman Year It waS cRAZy. tHERE wAS pRACTiCAllY fIGHTs eVERYgdAY.iT WAS SO eASY tO DITCH AND THERE wAS pARTIES EVERYDAY WHiLE sCooL WAS gOInG oN.. tHERE wAS alot!! OF CREWS AND A FEW GANGS BUT MAINLY CREWS.. tHE rUMbLEs wHERE iNTeRSTiNG..i HAd NEvER sEEN tHAT bEFOrE..tHATS wAS iN 05-06 WHEN mR. eSPINOZA wAS STLiL pRINCiPLE BUT THE nEXT yeAR 06-07 wE WERE mOVED tO a NEW sCHooL nAMED gODInEZ .. WE WERE "vALLEY wEST" oVER tHERE, WE haD a NEW pRINcIPLE 2, BuT THERe WASNT AS maNY FIGHTS AS WHEN i WAS a FReSHmaN..tHEN WE mOVED baCK tO vaLLEY WHEN iT THeY fINISHED reMODEliNG iT aLL tHEY dID WAS BuiLT A nEW FRONT oFFICE, bUILT A NEW oLYmPIC sIZE pULL(I tHINk), THEy PUt AC iN THE cLASSROOMS AND THEY REMODELED THE CAFETERIA AND TOOK OUT SOME BUNGALOWS.. AS fOR THE hANDBALL cOURTS tHEY tooK tHEM oF DURInG tHE REModELIng..wE HAD aNOTHER NEW pRINCIPLE 2 WHEN WE CAME,BUT HE WAS ONLY THERE TILL 09, WHEN I GRADUATED..THERE IS STILL VAUDVILLE..AND NOW IN 2010 THERE IS YET ANOTHER NEW PRINCIPLE ..I ALL KNOW IS THAT SHE hAS THE sCHHoOL uNDER cONtROL..NOT LiKE mR.eSPiNOZA, THOuGH I hAVE TO SAY 05-06 WAS tHE fUNNESt YEAR(i WAS A fRESHMAN)OF hIGH SChoOL cUS oF ALL tHE FIGHTS aND DITCHIng...BuT i GRADUaTED, oNLY sOME tEACHERS aCTUALLy CARED aND mY COUNSELoR WAS tHE bEST..mR. paDILLA..nOT liKE mY FRESHMAN cOUNSELOR-mS. rULLER..I hATED HER..gUYS sTILL kINDA CLAIM tHE sPOT bY INfRONT Of THE GYM AND THE ONE bY BULdINg 6..eVEN THOUGH i GRADuATED lAST yEAR. i ALREaDY mISS iT AND wISH i COUlD GO bACK..lOVES mRS.aNDREWS,,sHE WAS tHE BEST!!..WELL thATS aLL i HAVE tO SAYY.. faLcoooN fEVer.caTch it!!! p>r
ReplyDeleteI attended Diamond Elementary, McFadden Jr. High (because Smedley was a DANGEROUS place to be) and Valley. I was at Valley from '72 through '74. I was there and attended the Kangaroo Court you mentioned in the original post. I don't remember the guy's name off the top of my head, but I could go to my yearbook and find it. He was a defensive lineman. He was very big and very strong. His girlfriend was even taller than him. They were both the sweetest people you'd ever want to meet. The premise was that he was judged to be the best defensive player on the football team and that they wanted to see how offensive he could be. They blindfolded him and told him they were going to bring three different girls out one at a time and he was to kiss them and decide who was the best kisser. Everyone thought it was hilarious until they brought the first girl out. She was old enough to be his mother. They kissed. She left and came right back. She came out a total of three times and each time they kissed like there was no tomorrow. He was having a great time until his blindfold was removed and he saw who he had been kissing. It was his mother. I think it was probably the most traumatic experience of his life. The entire school was subdued for the rest of the day, except for one little jerk who followed him around for the rest of the day teasing him unmercifully. He finally had all he could take and with one punch knocked that kid out.
ReplyDeleteI remember the store up on Greenville. In my day it was Cliff & Maudies.
The whole time I lived in the neighborhood, starting in 1961 it was a scary place to live. My parents finally moved out when they got a pattern of bullet holes from a fully automatic rifle across the front of their house.
I still drive through the neighborhood on occasion. Not all my memories are bad, but I do believe a whole bunch of you are looking back through rose-colored glasses.
DOGTOWN is still alive and kicking class of 94
ReplyDeleteI'm from the class of 1965 SAV, the (3) yrs at Valley brought a lot of joy to me. The Friday nite football games; pizza at Me & Eds after the game, was a great time to grow up. (6) months later I found myself in Danang Vietnam wondering If I ever get back to Santa Ana. Love life to the fullest for you never know when someone or something will come along and take your breath away. Falconolgy 101.
ReplyDeleteHi, I graduated from Valley in 1992. I don't remember any violence when I attended. There were some pretty funky trends back then that made you look like trouble but I never saw it. You attract who you are...
ReplyDeleteHello Santa Ana Valley Alumni, I graduated in '73.
ReplyDeleteI was fortunate enough to get a good education at Valley and have a very positive experience attending Valley. Some of the things I have read in this blog are Sad, some suprizing, and some offer hope. First of all I would like to apologize to all my classmates that were afraid to go to school or who experienced violence while at school. I apologize for not supporting you more and being the kind of classmate who would allow you to be victimized. What is suprizing is the additudes of those alumni who's primary focus was not on learning and growing but to cause harm to others and not take advantage of publicly funded education, in my opinion only a fool or someone lacking parental guidance would squander such a precious gift. Also, to all of those wonderful teachers and staff over the years thank you from me and thank you from all the retobates that you have had to deal with over the years, may God bless you and keep you. To all current and future alumni, Remember Valley high school and schools like it are part of and grand experiment which was designed to provide quality education for the masses. From the very beginning the Rich and elite have been against this form of public education, and those of us who only attend to tear it down are only supporting the same folks who are against public education in the first place. So to all of you gangbangers and thugs out there YOU are only helping those who would deny YOU the opportunities that would help your families and your community to so selfishly squander and piss away an opportunity like this is like pissing
down the necks of everyone who came before you. But please don't be offended well just move the money from the school budget to the prison budget. To all the, current and future alumni YOU Matter, Always try your best, if theres something in life you want go after it with passion, do not allow the thugs and lost souls of the world to convince you that violence and thuggery is normal or good or that it will lead to anything but addiction, disease, prison, early death.
Those that know me, will know who wrote this, Mrs. Stucky Mr. Bernard, Coach Raugawitz,Coach Dick Hill and many others. Shout out to Tommy Fields, Rick Walker and Lew Sanders and many others.
Holding it down in the OC, DON'T MESS WITH MY OLD SCHOOL! PEACE OUT
From John Went to SAV 61-64. I played football, basketball, and baseball. Loved being a Falcon. You were right we were really good in football all three of my years. I remember most the friendship, and the school spirit. Things were much simpler then. Then, the world seem to change with President Kennedy's assassination in 63. I still remember being at nutrition and my head began to spin. Although stunned my senior year, I looked to the future. Always a Falcon!
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ReplyDeleteI attended Santa Ana Valley High School from 1975-1976 and was the 9th of 11 Alaman's to graduate from that school. I have fond memories of "Spirit Weeks" that the youth of "Today" could only dream of. Kangaroo Court, Valley Villa, Plastics Classes, Cood Shop, Drafting, Choir, Madrigal Singers, VHS Band. I remember going to my brothers football games back in the mid 70's when the "Drill Team" had those big cascade hair pieces and wore dark blue velvet dresses. I remeber the Spririt Suckers. I remember those giant cinnimon rolls at breakfast and the mystery meat in the burritos - It was ALL GOOD.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for those of you who focus on the negative - Even the Brady's and the Partridges had some bad times.
"Valley High I sing your praise for now and all my days"
Sharon Alaman-Russell
Hello Fellow Valley Alums,
ReplyDeleteI graduated in '75 and was class president. Our school had a reputation for being tough, but truthfully we had a wonderful group of students and faculty. Mr. Staudenbaur rest his soul was my chemistry and physics teacher. He could dish it out and take it too. The difference is we knew how to give respect, and therefore we received respect back. We had a championship football team, track team and did well in basketball and baseball. Our Atheletic Director Dick Hill was phenomenal and a man who believed in the power of prayer. Valley was a place where the surfers, low riders, jocks and nerds all got along. I know because I hung out or was a part of all of them. Don't sell the tradition of Valley short, we had people go on to higher education, professional sports, medical and technical field and become entertainers.
Hello Falcons! I loved reading some of the wonderful memories from the 70's graduating classes, for sure cinnamon rolls in the morning!I ate those after my early morning workout. I attended from 76 thru 79. I was very involved in Student Counsel, School Clubs, Falcon Night Life..."Rec Nite", Basketball & Football Games, Dances, Falcons getting together for a party, just meeting up at Valley on the weekend for a game of tennis, racketball or handball. Some of us would go to Calvery Chapel Concerts Saturday nights, remember Mustard Seed Faith... it was awesome to meet there. I had friends in every graduating year, teachers that would let us hangout with them between classes or at lunch. Teacher's were funny, too many to list. Yep, I was even up on that "Kangaroo Court" stage...I think our class of 79 was the last Kangaroo Court. I'd help the cheerleaders with their posters, decorating the Santa Ana Bowl/Stadium, stuffing paper into the chain link fencing to spell out Falcons, selling spirit ribbons. I earned a "Lifetime Pass" to any Valley athletic event, lettered Varsity 7 times to earn it, proud to be on the SA Valley cross country and track teams. We had awesome athletes at Valley! Athletes that didn't have the equipment that todays athletes have...but they had Falcon Pride. The schools student body was so cool, everyone hanging out with whoever they wanted because most everyone got along. Sure there were some ugly fights, especially one I remember two girls from a gang, one girl bashing the others head into the curb, yep, it was ugly. I yelled at the football guys to get over there and break it up before security even got there. The security guys were cool, doing their job but being cool about alot of stuff. School spirit, pride, respect, friendships, teachers, we cared about not only the school but each other. I will always be proud to be a Falcon of the 70's! I did organize our 10year reunion and helped on the 20year reunion committee...sorry I couldn't organize the 30th, I hope to do something for our 35th. Check with SA Valley HS in 2014, i'll leave info there.
ReplyDeletemabel cornelius durand...yes, I married my high school sweetheart!...lol... love you randy!
Wow! Hi fellow Falcon Alums - I'm Susan, Class of '80. It's actually very exciting to see that this 'thread' has been going for about four YEARS! I was born in L.A. and grew up in S.A. (from 3 months old) going to Monte Vista, Spurgeon and then Valley. I played tennis on the team all 4 years and got a good education. Yes, Santa Ana as a WHOLE is/was a bit dangerous. Let's not brow beat Valley.
ReplyDeleteInteresting thing that I remember is that gang bangers were actually polite to Elders (parents) in the neighborhood - maybe I'm being naive, but I do remember some of them saying hello to my Mother and Father by surname - i.e. Hi Mr...Hi Mrs...
Valley was an interesting place - in the late 70's - 80's, In my 4 years there I only remember one fight on campus between two girls - probably over some dude. The campus was closed by then - though some of us snuck out for lunch. There WERE a lot of security guards, but people got along. Actually - I read at that time the school was racially divided almost equally between Blacks, Whites, Mexicans & Asians. There was a huge influx of South East Asians in response to the Vietnam War into So Cal and to me we all got along.
Valley laid down a great educational foundation for those who chose to take advantage - much to the chagrin of the rest of affluent OC. I graduated and went to UC Berkeley, my older brother went to Stanford, classmates went to LB State, Fullerton, USC, Cornell, UCLA, MIT, Harvard - and we're all Black kids! We all graduated - I'm an architect. There are engineers, journalists, doctors etc. etc. etc. And, some of the 'bangers' of the early years have turned their lives around and are not in jail - believe it or not.
Is it all because of SAV? Who knows, but it was a great ride! Thanks to the late Mr Staudenbauer who taught all science like a champ - and always wanted the girls' tennis team to beat Santa Ana because he didn't want to hear crap from his daughter! I paraphrase...Mr Vincent who was one of the best math teachers I ever had. Mrs Langham, a fantastic English teacher! There are so many more, who I can see in my mind's eye, but can't name (no year book handy).
And to the Fantastic Songleaders of the 79-80 year: Cherol, Daphne, Alicia, Michel, Marie, Jacqui & Me! GO FALCONS! And if she reads this - my friend Ginger L. - cheerleader, class of '80! V! V-I! V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!
So what happened to the 1989 class reunion? I would love to see all the people that I hung out with and partied with. I just saw Cheerios out at the OC fair and he looks the same as he did in the 80's when he passed out fliers on Main Street(although he seemed a little weird). Anyhow, 'zup to the Royal Lads, Sweet Mistresses, The Precious Jewels, Maneuver Ladies, and Romeo Boys. Hello to all the peeps that played JV baseball in 1986 and 1987. May the memories of Aqua Net, wine coolers (remember the Bartles and James commercials?), house parties, creepers, new wave, old school/high energy, GQ style, and mullets live on!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI'm a grad class 91 I miss those days.. Noe is my daughter to have fun in all the sports, just Like I did with all the Girls.. Nilda, Maria, Sonia,Betsy, ect.ect.. Man Que son de ellas? I have'nt been to valley for the longest time. Every body from class of 91 big huggs.... rcoires@yahoo.com
Nice place...I'll be back soon...If ya know me contact me @ Dabear409@gmail.com Love to hear from ya if'n your still alive.
ReplyDeleteWent through as the second class to attend all three years when the school was brand new and the roughest thing about it was gym class. I graduated in 1964 and then attended and graduated from UCLA before going on to graduate school and later medical school. I took my wife back to that area in 2004 and was amazed at the degradation and was looking for chalk outlines for bodies. Metal detectors on all the halls...No wonder a good basic education is out of reach to most people having to fear for your life and what should be one of the safe havens you attend each day.......Too bad not only the city the state, and even the country are moving or rather GALLOPING toward third world status...Ashamed as it just is not necessary
ReplyDeleteI went by the school a few years ago and was saddened as to what I found....It looked akin to an inner city ghetto area....Ashamed good memories there and where I met my late wife
ReplyDeleteTo all SAVHS Alum, and CRACK CLUB. I would like to wish you and your family Happy Holidays.
ReplyDeleteClass of 81, we saw the ending of the 70's and the begining of the 80's. We all came from different ethnic backrounds and living conditons we all remember in Santa Ana.
We have different memories that we all love to remember. Sitting on the curb in front of the house under a street light on warm Santa Ana nights, playing Pop Warner football at Memorial Park then going swiming later, also playing Little League baseball in vairous locations around the Santa Ana area.
We all knew of the gang and drug related issues at Valley. But we also knew the repetition the sports department that Valley had. Momories of other students that walked the halls before us, from A-wing to D-wing, to the hard wooden seats in the auditorium.
Congatulation to the students (grads,and nongrads) that are succesfull in bussness, family, sports, television, and milatary service.
And we all can't forget, that yearly tradition of spelling out the graduating class in student bodies.
So what I am trying say is, that we all have are memories of Santa Ana Valley High School and the neighborhoods around the school. Some good, some sad.
My fondest memories I have, are playing football with good friends in the street at midnight, egging houses, tolet papering the school, ditching school, and being part of the CRACK CLUB. We knew we just wanted to have fun.
where was comps turf at ?
ReplyDeleteAmazing that we lost 7 (mostly to the GOD DAMN stupid war in Vietnam, NOT too dissimilar to the ones now) after 20 years.....
ReplyDeleteMy late wife Melinda Conger was two years behind me in class of 66 as I was in 64......
i was class of 1971---we were the long hairs. no one messed with us and we messed with no one else. we were to busy having fun. i went to jackson elementry then smedley junior then sav. my dad owned the enco station on edinger and sullivan. we had the badest cars in town. i was the first one to have a fixed up fan in high school.
ReplyDeleteGraduated from Valley in the early 90's. It was a great school. Never really attended school because I was always going to parties.
ReplyDeletewow!!! how interesting to read this comments everybody posted up.... unfortunately i didnt get to go to valley high school cuz of all the violence that was going on fights and gangs and decided to go to a far away high school away from gangs but now im back at the soouth side of santa ana ... miss the good times i had at spurgeon the junior high i attended to class of 2006..and elementary school monte vista one of the best memoies as a little kid... its so good to see people that still remmeber us although some pretend not to remember us when yet we used to live those fun times back in junior high !!!awkward:D
ReplyDeleteI did not attend valley high, but I dated a girl named Alam (1963-1964). I did something foolish and she broke up with me. She never spoke to me again and I never had the chance to tell her how sorry I was. She did not know that the next day I was going to ask her to marry me. She was the love of my life and I was too stupid to see it. So after all these years I hope she see this. I would just like to say, I am so sorry for hurting you! Bob
ReplyDeleteI'm from the class of '68..........the best year of committed, friendly, fun party people, alumni ever. It's interesting reading all these comments about a school that was a great place. Yes, every school has it's up's and down's and groups that like to call themselves gangs, but these people are the ones that don't really want to go to school, want to be big shots, the so called tuff guys that will never turn out to be anything anyway. Our school was more than that, it was a great place. We had a great football team, cheerleaders who were out of the way friendly to everyone, a great band, great outside activities like clubs, choir and many other things that most of us enjoyed and took pride in. Not like those "gang" people that only wanted attention and then it was the wrong kind. They should have paid more attention to the good things that they could have left school with instead of all the bad memories. But NO, they couldn't go to the football games, that would have made them look untough.....LOL, what a joke. Anyway, getting back to the school. I went to Diamond, Jackson, Smedley and Santa Ana Valley High School, and eventually Santa Ana College as well as a couple other ones and I am so happy to have gone there. Great memories like getting an ice cream on the way home with my friends, again the football games, after game parties and reunions. And I am happy to say even after all these years, OUR glass has summer get togethers and reunions and have had them since graduation, because our class was a close knit class and still is and I beleive it was because of our school spirit and friendships that we made during those years. Thanks to the ones who still try and keep us together doing the summer get togethers and reunions. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! We appreciate you, whoever does this for our class.
ReplyDeleteThe mighty class of 90! Those were the days. OG Def Posse in effect. Peace to those we lost. Sad how we were best friends as kids and somehow got lost in the mix. For the new generation Falcons, success is what you make of it. It isnt about where youre from its where youre at. Every day your feet hit the ground is a good day. Falcons Pride!
ReplyDeletedear steve and fellow graduates:
ReplyDeleteiam currently attending valley highschool about to graduate in 2012 yes were dying lol jk...so let me tell u about or stories from 2009-2012
first during freshman yr there were these two girls during lunch that got in a MAJOR FIGHT wit belts as u can c valley high school still has those fights were known for durin sophmore yr we got a new principal she continued to be our principal till jr yr but then towards the end we were inform that she got fired n our new principal and now he came up with a new schedule known as the "tumblin"schedule ughhhh its freaken lame and we have one FREAKEN lunch for the WHOLE SCHOOL SMDH!!!! who does he think he is ??????omg ughhh n we come out at 327 thats too late and we have tutorin in our classes wich makes class even longer n dnt get me started with all these stupid rules that they did we cant use our damn cell phones or listen to our ipods only before after school n lunch ughh n the stupid rules for the dress code r lame they have become a strict school-.- omg theres this counselor name valdez he is soooooooo damnnnnnnnn cute^.^ hehe omg alot of things have changed in valley but we still have that bad reputation of being the worse school after santana high.
class of 2o12 ^.^
I'm at valley currently and there's no fights in lunch it's the occasional you hear someone gets beat up. The school so far good the dance teams great, the cheerleading well not really. The xc is good along with track I mean it's turning around and I'm doing good at that's school so I don't know what you guys experience but I'm achieving my goals
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ReplyDeleteFernando Garcia
those were the good days.When school allowed us to go buy food at Stater Brothers for Valley Villa and we would break free to go out a eat lunch. I remember being busted by the hall monitors between buildings 1 and 2 for being late to class.
The great thing about Valley High School is that it was my last year. The whole environment was depressing and too many clicks of kids. However, I was happy that I left and it was the WORST School Ever!!
ReplyDeleteI graduated from CdM in '75 and we were always terrified to go to SAV because of its rough reputation, but my soph year I go to know a several SAV athletes, Garry Templeton and Myron White among them. It was funny to find out they were just regular kids like me (other than the fact they were running the 100 in like 9.3 seconds). Garry especially was such a good guy and so humble about his abilities.
ReplyDeleteRath Phalkunabba - Me, who graduated from SAV in '88. I got trashed by this white dude named, Ain. It was got caught by a school photographer and was printed on the senior year book. There is only one photo of me that was dunked by this Ain dude. It was such a scary fun situation experienced memo. I missed a lot of people there. I wish I could see them all again from grade 9th to 12th someday. Missed you all and wish the best for everyone who grad and not grad.
ReplyDeleteValley High!! Great Memories!! Never forget where you came from!!
ReplyDeleteRobert Jenkins (Stuff)
Santa Ana Baby!!
Hi there I went to scholl at valley from 1964 to 1967 didnt graduate quit in feb my grad yr we had a great school then sounds like it has changed alot so sad.
ReplyDeleteRuth I lived on camden off bristol went to washington elementry and smedley and vhs . dad moved us to santa anna about the same time he was a marine too. el toro . loved growing up there.
ReplyDeleteHi, I am looking for my uncle. And you may remember my mom. His name is Micheal Eades and her name was Susan Dickson. do you keep in touch with any of the family? If so please email me. gooskitty@yahoo.com. PLEASE let me know what you have. Even if it is just pictures from yearbooks. Thank you, Charlene
ReplyDeleteSo who are you swimmer? Shirley Sumner, (John Adams, Carr and VHS)
ReplyDeleteWell, Blacks moved out of Santa Ana in the 1990's, so Valley now is about 98 percent hispanic.
ReplyDeleteI went to Valley in 86 before my parents got divorced and I had to move (to lake arrowhead / rim of the world high school). Before Valley, we lived in lily white AZ. To say the transition was culture shock was an understatement. I sure did make me have a new respect for being the "minority".
ReplyDeleteI was part of the Frosh / JV Water Polo team and remember the fight KenW was talking about with the Vietnamese kids on the basketball court. I also remember the principal interuppting our water polo practice to discuss the activities of the "Bonez Fun Club", just after they spread plastic "dots" from a near by insurance companies hole punch trash.
Being at Valley was some of my best memories of high school.
I went to VHS from 1984 to 1987. It was a good school. Fairly good teachers but the administration wasn't that great. I remember them making me take a Spanish class for Spanish speakers instead of a foreign language. I was so mad and never went, I got an F in Spanish. Had good friends and I used to get into trouble. I remember the ditching parties and the donut shop where we all hung out. I don't remember any violence. I dropped out in 1987 but later finished my diploma in the US Army then they made me a nurse. After almost 20 years I have come back to the OC and its sure good to be back.
ReplyDeleteViolent LOL. You have watched too many movies. I graduated from Valley in '89 and never had a problem.
ReplyDeleteMike Moss! YOu don't happen to remember the girl who never had dry hair in class do you! Well she's now married, an engineer in Texas!
ReplyDeleteHi from Sue (Golden)
The Big Gangs in Santa Ana...or at least the tuff ones are... F Troop Gang X3....Calle Townsend Rifa X3....DEFX3....9St.TBK X3R....Sullivan st. Gang....West Murtle X3....And Del High X3 The most dangerous are west murtleX3 And F.TROOP GANG X3
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the so called freeloaders?
ReplyDeleteSanta Ana Valley from 1962-1965 Madrigal singers and graduated from Santa Ana Beauty College the same month as my Valley Graduation. Thank you Santa Ana Valley for the begining my music and Opera.
ReplyDeleteHello my name is Yadira Aguilar, I wanted to ask if there was anyone here who would happen to have a 1997 santa ana valley high school yearbook that i can barrow.. My fiance and I want to get married in feb. 2013 and my fiance doesnt have an Id.. he needs something that shows who he is.. his name Jose Ismael Martinez and he is in this yearbook.. if he has this proof we can get his id and our wedding will be possible at that time.. I would greatly appreciate any help we can get.. my email is yadiraaguilar24@yahoo.com thank you so much for your time..
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Peggy Daniels. I was Peggy Light in 1967. I have a sister 2 yrs 10months older she graduated in 64 or 65 Donna Light. Does anyone remember us. She is looking for a Barry Jasper or Walt Jones does anyone know them. I am on facebook as Peggy Daniels now in tennessee
ReplyDeleteYes there is a Snata Ana Valley High. I graduated from Valley in 74. Back then, there was Santa Ana High, which was mostly black & latin. Valley which was more white but still a mix & Saddleback which was more upper class white
ReplyDeleteHey did mike bokowski have a brother, Geno? I remember Gary Ambrose. He hung with my bro, Don David & I hung with his sis, Debbie. I think my other bto, Ben dated his other sis, Kathy too. I'm a 74 grad, Jaimee. We lived on Harvard. Don worked in the school radio station
ReplyDeleteClass of 95... does anyone know what the taco sauce was called... and the big long shredded beef burritos with red sauce were called... reading all these posts brings back memories...
ReplyDeletepete gonzalez one day a punk rocker and the next rockabilie a member of the fag crew da boys more like girls......
ReplyDelete1978-1980 my stoner friends,glen brazil, byran atta,frank alvarodo, mike fightiss, leon brendley, greg m,steve hollenbeck,scott strum i could keep on going,friends from john adams,carr...wish i could see you now.....mark dilba
ReplyDeleteme and my sister went to john adams,carr, valley,mt view, i left valley 1980 hanging with the stoners, left valley went to mt view much better...... hi to all my friends from mark dilba class 82 write me markdilba74@gmail.com
ReplyDeletehi, mark dilba grew up in santa ana had lots of friends remember bad stuff, sorry for all your pain !! class 82
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