2025 Reunion

 Dear Pirates

 

It’s Reunion time again for Point Arena High School, classes 1967 to the beginning of time, aka 1950. Planned and hosted by the Class of 1960, coordinator Mike Combs.

 

Please put this reunion on your calendar and make plans to attend on July 26, 2025, 5 to 9pm, at Ellington Hall, 3535 Industrial Drive, Santa Rosa. Family and friends welcome!

 

Why a Point Arena High reunion in Santa Rosa? The first and best reason for choosing Santa Rosa is that most of our former classmates live there or nearby, meaning no long drive on Highway 1 and overnighting at our local hotels, usually packed at that time of year. 

 

The second reason is almost as good as the first. The Gualala Community Center has been our best reunion venue in this area and won’t be rebuilt for several more years. 

 

The third reason is that it is more economical for everyone but the few of our classmates who still live in the Point Arena/Gualala area. The cost per person will be $120, $240 for a couple. In comparison, in this area the cost in a modest hotel is at least $200 per night including taxes, meals on the road and here will add $100 or more, and vehicle fuel isn’t free. And did I mention driving Highway 1? 

 

And that’s the fourth reason. Many of our classmates told me that they wanted to be at our reunion last year but that medical considerations prevented them. 

 

I’m planning on the best reunion turnout since I assumed the coordinator duties in 2010. Ellington Hall requires a 100-person minimum, roughly $100 per person, and I signed up for that to nail down the hall reservation. Dinner will be a choice of Fettuccine Alfredo with chicken or spaghetti with marinara sauce and a meatball on the side - for vegetarians, no meatball – garlic bread and salad. Also hot and cold beverages and hors devours. If at least 100 attend we break even. 

 

The best assistance in planning is getting commitments to attend as soon as possible. To help with that I offer a modest incentive of $110 per person instead of $120 for checks received by March 31, then $120 per person April 1 to June 15, and $130 per person after June 15.

 

Hail to the Pirates! 

 

Mike Combs

(send dinner choice and check to me at PO Box 1639, Gualala, CA 95445)

707-884-3741, cell phone 707-321-7671

 

Dinner choices

 

Fettuccine Alfredo                  (    )    

Spaghetti with meatball          (    )

Spaghetti no meatball             (    )

Point Arena Pirates Reunion, Classes 1950 through 1967

 Our July 22 reunion at Trinity Hall, St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Point Arena, was well attended. The reunion had been postponed for three years because of Covid, and almost got postponed this year too when a vandal burned down our wonderful Gualala Community Center building (constructed in 1954) in February.   

Fortunately Trinity Hall was reopened after a long shut-down period. Then the Gualala Lions pitched in and did the cooking plus helped with setting up the tables and chairs and decorations in our Pirate blue and gold theme. 

Lion helpers were Richard and Sandra Ryder and son, Chuck Cappotto, and Tim Cowman, plus our friend Rusty.

Attendees

Betty and Richard Rondeau

Michael and Alice Combs

Chuck  York

Cindy Franci and Gary Sundstrom

Lawrence Girelli

Allan Dingman

Marcie Cook

Patricia (Cook) Leavitt

Ruby Cook Davis

Ron and Kathy Combs

Randi and Clarice Olsen

Caren Franci

Tamara Fishberg

Dennis Craig, Denise, Janet Robinson

Cheryl Dennison

Tom and Leslie Walker

Roger and Judy Seymour

Alice Garret and daughter

Phil Reynolds

Richard Scaramella Ken and Eva Spacek

Gary and Dorothy Craig

John Stibi

David and Lissa Schuler

Stan and Angela Solbeck

Candy and Richard Harris

Walt and Donna Stornetta

Judy Ferguson

Roger Edwards and Agnes Brenneman

Our next reunion will be July 26, 2025, in Ellington Hall, Santa Rosa. Why Santa Rosa? More of our schoolmates live there or close by than anywhere else. I remembered a lesson from History when Mohammad said "If the mountain won't come to Mohammad, Mohammad will go to the mountain." 

So we are taking the party to the people because it's a lot easier for most to get to Santa Rosa than Gualala or Point Arena. More hotels. More restaurants. Less driving narrow winding roads. Charles Schultz airport. SMART train. Cost will be $100 per person, so start saving.

Details will sent in the 2024 Christmas letter, but start planing to attend now so this will be our biggest reunion yet.

Mike

Michael Combs

PO Box 1639

Gualala, CA 95445

(707)884-3741 or (707)321-7671

mcombs@pacifc.net

http://strongasanoxandnearlyassmart.blogspot.com/

2023 Reunion Attendees

 

So far forty-two have indicated that they will attend our reunion. Betty and Richard Rondeau Michael and Alice Combs Chuck York Lawrence Girelli Jeff Nelson Marcie Cook Patricia (Cook) Leavitt Ruby (Cook) Davis Ron and Kathy Combs Randi and Clarice Olsen Caren Franci Michael Key and Lauren Buchanan Cheryl Dennison Tom and Leslie Walker Roger and Judy Seymour Alice Garret and daughter Phil  and Michelle Reynolds Carolyn Yeaman Gary and Dorothy Craig John Stibi David and Lissa Schuler Stan and Angela Solbeck Candy and Richard Harris Walt and Donna Stornetta Judy Ferguson

July 22, 2023 Reunion - an important update!

Dear Pirates 

We have a wonderful reunion site, Trinity Hall next to St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Point Arena. 

Now I can concentrate on our menu, decorations, and getting the word out so we can have great attendance. 

Please let your friends/schoolmates know we want them at our reunion. The more the merrier!

Date – July 22, a Saturday. Time – 4PM. Invitees – Pirates, plus their families and friends. Cost - $50 per person payable by check to Mike Combs.

Click on this link for a current list of lodging available 

Please get back to me as soon as possible and make the next step an easy one!

 

Hail to the Pirates!

 

Mike Combs

PO Box 1639

Gualala, CA 95445

707-884-3741 or (cell) 707-321-7671

 

 

Lodging Accommodations for Reunion

 For many wonderful reasons we are a very popular tourist destination and July 22, a Saturday, should be very busy at local hotels and restaurants. We recommend making reservations ASAP. Please click on the each link to go to the websites.

Not only hotels, but very inviting vacation homes are available,

Point Arena Lighthouse. Great for families or with friends.

Mar Vista Cabins. Just north of Anchor Bay. Their website is gorgeous.

The Gualala Country Inn Centrally located in beautiful downtown Gualala.

The Surf Motel Also centrally located in Gualala and economical.

The Hotel Breakers Also centrally located in Gualala with a great Gualala River view.

Seacliff Motel Also centrally located in Gualala with a great Gualala River view.

The Sea Ranch Lodge Being refurbished and will reopen this summer.

Rendezvous Mendocino Formerly the North Coast Country Inn. Just north of Anchor Bay where Fish Rock Road intersects Highway 1.

Wildflower Boutique Motel.  Point Arena, on Main Street.

Wharf Master's Inn. At Arena Cove.

Lighthouse Pointe Resort. At Rollerville, by the Rollerville Cafe. 

Coasting Home Vacation Rentals has an office in Gualala. 

Whale Watch Inn Just north of Anchor Bay overlooking Anchor Bay Beach.

AirBNB in Gualala area. These are properties available at the moment over the July 22 weekend.

Vacation Rentals by Owner (VRBO) in Gualala area. These are properties available at the moment over the July 22 weekend.

Bookings.com  Gualala and Sea Ranch properties.

Vacasa.com  Sea Ranch listings.

Abalone House. Hosted by our near neighbors Katherine and husband Randy "Abalone" Jones.

Anna Marie (Miller) Robbins, July 3, 1941- August 10, 2017

 

Our 2023 Reunion

 Our reunion is set for July 22, 2023, starting at 4 pm at the Gualala Community Center. Classes from 1966 back to the beginning of time are invited. Cost is $50 per person. Please mail me a check: Michael Combs, PO Box 1639, Gualala, CA 95445. I can be easily contacted (sometimes) by phone, 707-884-3741, or 707-321-7671, and more reliably by email at mcombs@pacific.net. 

You would please me to no end if you would email me a biography or update one already on this website. 

No matter how many or how few sign up to attend, our reunion will go ahead as planned. 

I'll update this with the names of those who will attend as they come in. Right now we have Alice and I, Brother Ron and Kathy, Chuck and Mickie York, Carolyn (York) and Charlie Biles, Betts (Cook) Rondeau, Roger and Judy Seymour, Lawrence Girelli, and Tom and Leslie Walker. As always, at this memorable moment in time, some of these may be tentative, but it's a good start.

We hope to see a large turnout. 

See you then!