Welcome To The  

                           Cordova Class Of 1975  

                      "Official Website"

                  Hello Cordova Class of 1975 classmates!

                         "Happy 49th Graduation Anniversary!"

How is everyone?  I hope you're doing fine?  June 2024 will be the 49th anniversary year of graduating from Cordova High.  What a long strange trip it's been, the journey continues. By now we're all across the universe! The big 50 Year reunion planning committee will start up pretty soon to celebrate 50 years since graduation.    

     Stand by for updates to the website.  (Today is 5/21/2024) I'm Ricky Slama and I have been updating the website and keeping it going for the last 20 plus years.  I thought I could get it done pretty quick but I haven't been on here for awhile and there really hasn't been anything new to report but it's time to clean it up and update some of the information.   I'm kind of a one man band here doing it and keeping up the website and trying to keep it relevant between Class Reunions.   Hello to the new classmates who have signed up.  Like many of us I'm turning 67 in a couple of days and my wife Cheryl and I have another "trip of a lifetime" coming up to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.  So in the next few weeks things will hopefully be updated?

   I also update the "In Memory" section of classmates who have passed away, and as you can imagine I receive a posting 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 you didn't signup for the website and I tried emailing you back because I found they might be alive in Elk Grove? But your email address kept getting kicked back as undelivered so please sign up for the website.  You can go to your name, signup and in the preferences indicate how you want your information made public or not.  

    Here is some old information I'm leaving up....

  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.  The next reunion will be a big one, 2025 the 50th Class Reunion "RUST NEVER SLEEPS"!!!   You probably want to  know when and where it's going to be and who will be  attending.   Well stay in touch.  Keep your information updated and check back for updates.  And make the commitment to attend the 50th reunion!   We'll start planning the 50th around the summer of 2024 with plans for the 50th reunion in the summer or fall of 2025?  Everyone should be about 68ish and I would anticipate you'll have plenty of free time.  It'll be a good time, it always is. 

  The Reunion committee is: Tom Pollock (the lead), Karen Teel, Carmen Scheuer (Sherman), Leslie Nye has joined the group and Ricky Slama.

  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 5/21/2024)

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

     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. 

tai: "How did we ever survive the hellish drama of diving under our desks at school every month trying to survive a Nuke attack?.....Oh, how times have changed" 

*Joke...