Welcome To

                    Cordova Class Of 1975  

                 "Official Website"

 

 

                  Hello Cordova Class of 1975 classmates!

(Updated on 2/16/2025)       

                                  "SAVE THE DATE"

          CORDOVA HIGH SCHOOL

                                                     CLASS

                               OF 1975

        50 YEAR REUNION!!!!!

      "YOU  WEAR  IT  WELL" 

            SATURDAY,     OCTOBER  11th  2025

              5:30pm   -  LAKE NATOMA INN

                      702 GOLD LAKE Dr. 

                   FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA

  DINNER, DRINKS, DANCING, STORY TELLING

       THERE WILL BE MORE INFORMATION UPCOMING. 

TICKET SALES, SPECIAL HOTEL RATES AND THE DINNER MENU

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2025 is finally here!  An evening we have all looked forward to and have been waiting for, for 50 years!  No, seriously???  Did anyone ever think this would be happening to us in June of 1975?  I have to admit I was just thinking about the next kegger party?  Well the calendar and time has moved ahead and it's time for our last big formal reunion together.  After the 50 year blowout the reunion committee is going to retire.  Any future get togethers are just going to be casual get togethers.  "It's been a great run but it's time to kick back, put our toes in the sand and enjoy a nice cold Ensure High Protein drink."  Anyway, don't hesitate and talk yourself into "I'll make the next one."  We're all about 68 years old, arthritic, cranky and enjoying the fruits of our labor over the last 50 years.  Save the date, circle it on the calendar and make plans to attend.  We need everyone to pass the word to classmates you're in contact with, post the information to your social media and emails!  Let's all together make this a great night and memorable evening!  One last blow out before we ride into the sunset singing "Happy Trails!"  

  The Reunion Committee Tom Pollock (The Chair), Judy (Kruger) Gelein, Karen Teel, Carmen (Scheurer) Sherman and the ultimate webmaster and unofficial class mascot Ricky Slama have done a great job (so far) pretty excellent really in finding a location and making it an affordable evening for all the Class of 1975 classmates!  Ticket sales will go on pretty soon.  We are looking forward to seeing you there.  October 11th 2025 will be here before you know it!

If you think you would like to help out down the road let us know?  Does anyone have a way to make some sort of backdrop we can use for taking pictures that you can contribute to the evening?  Anything fun and decorative would be cool. Expand your mind and use your creative spirit as your guide, if you have a job work on it and when your boss is gone print it out and bring it.  (Insert smiley emoji here!)

If you would like to make a donation to the class reunion and website it would be greatly appreciated and help offset some of the fixed costs associated with the reunion  and keeping the website going.  It's fun and easy to do, just click the button to the right.  Donations of all size are welcome, Thank You!

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This is some old information I'm leaving up.  

How is everyone?  I hope you're doing fine?  In case you don't know I'm Ricky Slama and I've been keeping up the Class of 1975 website for the pass 20 - 25 years(?) for the reunion committee and all the Lancers out there from the Class of '75.  Any questions, comments, suggestions can be sent to me.   

 We had like 750 people graduate in our class but the website has only been found by approximately 200 plus people or so,  so there's a lot of people who have never signed up, found us or haven't "updated their information" and/or still haven't learned how to get on the internet.  We need everyone who reads this to pass on the information to their friends and get them to save the date and make the trip back here for the 50th Class reunion in 2025!  We also have a Facebook site: Cordova Class of 1975 that Tom Pollock keeps up.    

 

  

   I also update the "In Memory" section of classmates who have passed away, and as you can imagine I receive a posting or message from classmates that someone has passed and I like to get some verification that they are sure the person did pass away.  Last year a classmate sent a message saying someone passed but they didn't signup for the website and I tried emailing them back because I found the person might be alive in Elk Grove? But the email address kept getting kicked back as undelivered so please sign up for the website or include your phone number.  You can go to your name, signup and in the preferences indicate how you want your information made public or not.  

    

  If you just found the website "Welcome my friends to the show that never ends" and congratulations on finally gettting on the internet*.  Sign up and stay informed to upcoming class reunions and classmate updates and connections.  Check out the Cordova Class of 1975 Facebook page for current news and updates also.  Also, if you would like to donate to the website and to the 50th reunion fund that would be great and appreciated.  

 

  If you're new to the website and the internet and wonder why "no one has ever called me and invited me to a reunion," sign up under classmate profiles and keep your email address updated.  It's 2024 we don't know where you live or your phone number now.  Spread the word.  

     

 

 In Memory Updates   (updated 2/8/2025)

   As time marches on classmates pass away. I'm sad to inform everyone of another classmate passing away:

     Roman Constantine passed away, unknown year.   Tommy Midgley passed away, unknown year.  Jerry Kissinger I've been told passed away in 2023.  Ricky Johnson passed away on 12/2/2023,  Myron Woods passed away on 12/28/2024, Dave White, Mills Jr. High passed away on 1/21/2024, Dana Kamppila let me know.  Dave Pearson passed away on 10/22/2014, I just found out.  6/19/2022 Paul Farrow passed away.  If you know of any information please forward it to me.  12/5/2021 Gary "Coop" Cooper passed away.  8/28/2021 Cheryl Erwin (Cassel) passed away.  A celebration of life will be on September 4th 2021. There's more  information in the In Memory section.  2/28/2021 Jim Noonan passed away from cancer on 2/23/2021.  2020 and recent passings:  I received an email from Silvia Fleming that her husband and classmate John Fleming had  passed away on 11/24/2017.  Cary Petersen passed away on 11/13/2020.  We just saw him at the 45th reunion.  I'll update as I hear any news.   On  (9/13/2020) Sacbee obituaries has Andy A. Russ passing on 9/2/2020.  I just found out yesterday that Sandy Forsberg (Farley) passed away in 2016.  Last year Sandie McElliot (Sadler/Jessup) passed away 11/12/2019. Joann Bonomo (Brandle) passed away 10/25/2019.   Nancy Forsman (Stock) passed away on 7/21/2019.  Jim Green (Vickie Denny wife) passed away on 6/22/2019. He was  a good guy. I knew him since the 10th grade.  Julia Chatt (Scott) passed away 4/22/2019 and Dennis Wright passed away in January, 2019 from melanoma.  Everyone too young, too soon.  You can see the other classmates names in the In Memory area of the website. 

 

Rod Stewart "You wear it well"

I had nothing to do on this hot afternoon
But to settle down and write you a line
I've been meaning to phone you, but from Rancho Cordova
Hell, it's been a very long time

You wear it well
A little old-fashioned, but that's all right!

 

 

*"tai": "Turns are part of the journey!" 

   

 

 

 

* = "Think About IT...."