Frank Klepach (1964)

Does anyone know where Jerry Pierce, '64 is? 

My first job, while a Senior, was delevering chicken dinners for Chicken Delight on University Ave. The pay wasn't much as I remember but gasoline was only 29 cents a gallon then. 

Frank Klepach  '64 

Daryl Lee Lawrick (1975)

Ha ha! First job as a paperboy on Alvarado Road. First real job was a dishwasher at the Old Spaghetti Factory downtown. 
Can't remember exactly how i got it, but I think I went down there with Randy Bernstein ('77). I also think I worked there with Jaye Park ('74) and maybe Mark Sears ('74) and Rick Delauries ('75). I also remember Jeff Morse ('74) worked there as a manager as well. Worked up through bartender through college and a bit too long afterwards-until I figured out a career in Finance. Hoo boy-those were the days...

Carolyn Agnes Mace (Hawks) (1966)

Does anyone know whatever happened to Larry ("Lucky") Freeman class of '66?  He was a drummer in the Crawford Colts Marching and Concert Band. He was supposed to have married and moved to the Great Lakes area however Vietnam may have interferred with his plans.

Kelly Childers (1981)

My first job, during my Jr. & Senior year was Baskin-Robbins on 67th & El Cajon Blvd. It's no longer there, now it's a Pizza Hut. Fellow classmate Robin Macpherson ('81) and I had some fun times! We use to serve up baseball size scoops of ice cream! After that, worked for a summer at Universal Boot Shop in Grossmont Center. There were two Universal Boot Shops, I worked the outlet.  

Jeffrey Stephen Lee (1966)

First job was busboy at Aunt Emma's Pancake House at 54th and El Cajon.  $1.25/hour. ($.98 after taxes).  I also got one meal per shift.  

Susan Cathy Dreylinger (Ellsworth) (1967)

Steven Dana Merrill (1966)

My first job was working at the Rickshaw Boy -- San Diego's first "fast food" Chinese drive-in. It was located at the corner of 52nd and El Cajon Blvd. There's a Cali Baguette Express there now. I was the only non-ethnic Chinese person who worked there.  Peeling onions, cooking rice, chopping bok choy, making egg foo yung, slicing shrimp, doing dishes, I did it all!  It was a big deal when I got my first raise from a dollar 10 an hour to a dollar 15 an hour! It help me to make my $18.27 a month motorcycle payment. My thanks go to the family of Tom Hom, San Diego city councilman and state assembly member of years gone by, and to his brother Albert Hom who managed the Rickshaw Boy. You could get a shrimp dinner with fried rice and chow mein for about a buck 75!

Robert Louis Gagnon (1965)

My first job was at Whiting-Mead Lumber Co. next to Campus Drive In Theater, neither of which still exist. The job served me well through college summers as well. Bob Gagnon '65

Gary Leu (1969)

I delivered the evening Tribune newspaper to our neighbors on my old bicycle.  After school most days I'd take the city bus to my job at Food Basket (now an Albertson's market) located at 2235 University Ave.  There I was paid the princely sum of $1.72 per hour and had to pay union dues out of that .  For several years I played in a local band "The Swiss Navy".  We played many college and high school gigs as well as at some local clubs.  What fun riding to/from those shows in my 1961 VW bus!

Michael Stuart Kennedy (1961)

MY FIRST JOB WAS IN 1958, I WORKED FOR WES SHIRTS WASHING DISHES AT THE TRAVELODGE RESTRAUNT ON AMHERST AND ELCAJON BLVD. I ALSO WAS WORKING  AT MY FATHERS TEXACO STATION WHEN HE OPENED IT AROUND 1957 ON LAKE MURRAY AND HWY 8. MADE 1.25 HR WASHING DISHES AND 1.75 HR AT DADS TEXACO.  GREAT TIMES.

Mark Schulze (1977)

My first job was at the age of 11 at the college florist making boxes and sweeping floors at $1 per hour and as a teen at Bagle World for minumum wage back in 1972-4. I now have been working at my own video production company called Crystal Pyramid Productions here in San Diego since getting out of college at UCSD in 1981. Peace to all ! Mark :)

Jeff Brice Jr (1979)

This is Jeff Brice Jr. from the great Class of 1979.  My first job (when I actually earned some money) was when I was around 8 years old working for my Father "helping" to build homes.  I started digging ditches at that age and worked for him constantly until adulthood.  I hated the work but at least I can now build a house from the ground up!  Another job that I got much later was working at the Encanto Veterinary Clinic for Dr. Gordon Henderson.  At that time, he was the only African American that I had ever met who attended college.  He was an old-school guy who would work you to death but I enjoyed working with him.  He became my first mentor and he was one of the main reasons that I decided to go to college (aside from not wanting to do construction work anymore).  My time at Crawford was pretty enjoyable most of the time.  I went during a time when there were a few racial/cultural issues with the student body. However, the population was pretty divided evenly among the races.  I had a tight group of friends of every color and persuasion so I tried to stay out of most of it but got sucked in evey once in awhile.  My best friends at the time were Doug Addison, Michael Steele, and Elliot Buckner.  I didn't participate in much of anything but took Richard Smith's CCTV class every year I was in High School.  This experience contributed to my becoming a music video and network television pilot producer in the 1980's.  Also, Smith influenced me to pursue teaching.  Now I am a tenured, Full Professor at a University.  So, my Crawford experience really had an effect on my later life and current career choices.  No complaints!

Donald Jeffrey Arnold (1969)

This is Don Arnold ('69).  My first job was at Kentucky Roast Beef at College and Montezuma.  I believe it is now a MacDonalds or maybe KFC.  Minimum wage at that time was $1.75.  I became night manager and got a hefty raise to $2.00/hr!  I was in a band called Hardware with Gale Johnson and others from different schools. 
Went to Grossmont College for 2 years for my AA Degree in music, went to SDSU, then joined another band after I was jilted by my girlfriend.  I spent 8 years on the road playing the hotel circuit from Florida to Alaska where I met my wife, Debi.  We have been married 38 years!  I have 3 kids and 6 grandkids.  In 1981, my Son Nick, died from a brain tumor when he was 20 months old.  Very difficult times.  I began volunteering at the church I was going to at the time (Horizon Christian Fellowship) and then followed the Pastor to a new church plant (Maranatha Chapel).  I was on staff full-time there for 13 years as an Assistant Pastor/Facility Manager/Worship Leader - otherwise known as the "Singing Janitor".  I spent the next few years on staff at different churches and then in 2007, started my own business - "Honey Do Home Repair and Handyman Service" where I am currently slammed.  I reside in Escondido.  My email is darn_old7@cox.net

Patricia Lea Williams (Burch) (1975)

My very first job other than babysitting, was at the McDonalds Restaurant on 39th and University Ave. I was hired as a hostess, which was a new position at the time. We dressed up in costumes for various themed events. It was a fun summer job. Class of 1975.

Venerino Griva (1977)

I was 14 when I got my first job dressing in an Icee The Bear costume and making appearances in parades and at drug stores and other retail venues where Icees were sold on Oahu. My dad was stationed at Pearl Harbor 1971-74. The heavy costume was made from material like white carpeting and was ridiculously hot to wear in the tropics. I earned $10 per appearance.

Richard Stuart Cloward (1960)

My first job whle attending Crawford was working at American Mattress Company on El Cajon Blvd near College Ave. I began as a  janitor of sorts and over time did a little bit of everthing including making mattresses, so later in life I always knew I had a skill to fall back on (joke of sorts) The owners, the McBee family, were the best sort of bosses a young person could have and I took away many lessons in management and work ethic that served me well during college and my  Navy career. Richard Cloward '60

Vanessa Denise Sharts (Mooney) (1978)

My first job like most girls then was babysitting.  then I worked at  Hamburger Henry's, where the Mc Donalds is about Montezuma and College.  Next it was Winchell's on 39th and El Cajon Blvd.  where a fried chicken restaurant is now.  i also worked the Del Mar Fair serving ice cream one summer.  Wow.  forgot about that.

Loretta "Lorrie" Jeanne Pepper (Duarte) (1971)

My first real non-babysitting job was during the summer between my junior & senior years.  I sold fudge at the Del Mar Fair.  The yummy stuff that they slapped around on marble tables to "set" and cool.  Went back the next summer and was made the supervisor and rode around in a golf-cart with the boss --- boy did I ever feel important. :-) .

Glen Roy Wilkerson (1966)

I delivered the "Independent" newspaper while in high school. My last semester at Crawford I worked for a few months at the Aunt Emma's on 54th and El Cajon blvd as a busboy. I did not have plans to start college immediately and I new I would be drafted within a few months of graduating so I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. I would report to the induction center in L.A. in November of 1966, right after Thanksgiving. I thought four years in the Air Force would be safer than two years in the Army if I was sent to Viet Nam. And, I would have the GI Bill to use for school when I finished my time in service. During the summer, before my enlistment, I worked for a company in El Cajon named American Electric. I had no idea what I was building. I originally thought they were fuel tanks for fighter jets. I later learned they were napalm containers to be used in Viet Nam. I think I made $1.25 an hour back then.

Emily Louise Candelaria (Cribbs) (1966)

Ken Burton (1972)

My first job was with the State of California as a beach lifeguard. Started my senior year 1972, continued through 2003 until retirement. My second job is retirement... This has proven to be my 'forte'....

Michelle Morioka (Lewis) (1972)

My first job was a seasonal one at the Dole Pineapple Cannery in Honolulu, June to Sept 1970, making $1.60/hr.  I remember getting out of school early and Mrs Archibald told me my last assignment would be to write about my summer IN SPANISH!  Can't quite remember how that turned out.  It was a popular summer job there and my aunt had connections.  I stayed with relatives and was a pineapple "trimmer" -- the pineapples were fed into a ginaca machine to be cored and peeled and came down a chute to us.  After trimming, we put them back on the line to the packers who hand-packed them into assorted sized cans.  Long hours but fun because all the seasonal employees were high school students.  I couldn't even look at a pineapple for a good 10 years.  My first steady job was right after that for the remainder of high school, working in the Japanese Village at Sea World.  Both the Dole Cannery and the Japanese Village are gone now.  

Class of '72

Kandra Marie St. Charles (Ennis-Ayon) (1974)

Hello, I am from the class of 74. My first job was when I was 14. I colored the maps for what was to become Rancho California. I lived in Rainbow at the time and went to school in Temecula. It was only a one street town at the time. I got paid good and enjoyed it. 

Neil Goldfarb (Professional Name: Elliot) (1959)

As a member of the class of '59 it took me a while to figure out just what was my first real JOB aside from navigating my family rapids....having to dig so far into the primoridal past for the memory was definitely a chore.

I think my first job was back in Denver, Colorado, before our move to SoCal, when I was 9 years old.  I got a newspaper route and had proably 20 houses to deliver to.  The first morning, as with all firsts, was energized, filled with excitement and the sense of newness.   (Appropriate for delivering the news.)  The only negative was the fact that it was winter and riding my second hand bike was not conducive to a "good time".  The next day my dad drove me around for my deliveries.  The next day I had a hard time getting out of bed.  And the following day I gave up.  Is that the sign of a spoiled kid?  I don't know for sure, but I can tell you that for the rest of my life I made sure that I never had to get someplace BEFORE 8:30am (helped being awake for class in college!!) unless, later on, it was a call for wardrobe and makeup on some tv show or film....for that I'd get up at 4 am without a second thought.

 And so "almost" delivering the morning newspaper was my FIRST, but quickly aborted, job.

Deborah Lynn Soper-Rainey (1972)

One of my first and most memorable jobs was working at the Chicken Pie Shop in San Diego. When I started working there it was still located on 5th Avenue and my sister, Pat ('62), also worked there. I began in the hostess/cashier position and eventually worked my way up to waitress status (more $$)!

I started that job in the summer before my senior year. After graduating in '72, I went off to college in Wyoming, (Go Pokes!), but each summer I would return to San Diego and have my job waiting for me at the Chicken Pie Shop! Back then, with George and Vi Whitehead, I had become a part of their family and they always welcomed me home!!!!

I was also lucky enough to do some advertisement modeling for a local radio station, during the summer of my senior year. The pay was amazing and all I had to do was walk along the beach- something that came pretty naturally! I know it's certainly not like anything that the models of today experience but thanks to Philip Kaplan, the photographer, I was able to get a little glimpse of what that glamorous life might be like!

Now, I'm getting ready to begin my 39th year in the field of speech therapy- as a Speech Language Pathologist Assistant for San Diego schools. After being a speech pathologist for over 30 years, I'm now an assistant and gearing down in preparation for retirement- (soon, I hope)! I have my first grandchild, (grandson), arriving in January so I plan to dedicate more time being a grandma than working!!!!!  :-)