A while back, my Mom wrote a book called The Pollock Pines Epic that contained the local history about the town I grew up in (and where my parent’s still live today). The first edition of the book was published in 1988, and was followed by revision 2 in 1995.

This book has been out of print since then, and Mom has finally sold all the copies she printed. Rather than update it and do another print run, we discussed putting the content on the web.

While we’re not relinquishing the Copyright on the book, we did want to make it available to others for reading. So… being the “geek” I am, I created a website at http://www.thepollockpinesepic.com/ to host the uploaded book. I’ll be adding the embedded photos soon, as well as a photo album for pictures that weren’t originally associated with the book itself.

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It’s been a couple years (literally) since I updated the web version of the Genealogy research that Mom has been doing. Click on the “Genealogy” page on the left, or on this link to see the updates.

As always, please let me know if you have any issues with the data that is there.

Steve

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5 North - Back

I just got an email yesterday from an old friend named Rob Carrade which prompted me to finally put together something I’ve been wanting to do for a LONG time.

For my second year of College at UCSB, I lived in an off-campus dorm called Francisco Torres along with ~60 other people. Something clicked that year, and quite a few of us have remained very good friends over the years (resulting in at least three marriages). But, I’ve lost touch with more people than I want to admit, so I thought I’d try to get us all back in touch to relive good times. With that in mind, how many of you remember the shirt? Can you remember what was on the back (answers in a link below)?

How about the names of all the people on the floor? Here’s the list as I recall it (which is getting harder every day). I have a “room map” in the link mentioned below, if it helps you remember “who’s who”…

5 North - Rooms

????, Bonnie, ??; Brent; ??, Carston; ??, Cheryl; ??, Chris; ??, Don; ??, Jack; ??, John; ??, Juan; ??, Kimmer; ??, Laura; ??, Lori; ??, Mary; ??, Penny; ??, Sara; Barber, Sue; Broslawsky, Chuck; Campbell, Mike; Carrade, Rob; Cavanaugh, Janice; Chavez, Juan; Davis, Bud; Doggett, Jim; Eiler, Bonnie; Ellison, Lee; Farr, Tracy; Ferrand, Jorge; Floyd-Moorehead, Kathy; Fonseca, George; Gill, Cathy; Gotschalk-Kansail, Megan; Gould, Lauren; Grimm, Vanessa; Haswell, Rob; Henry, Patty; Kamberstad, Sara; Knowles, Marley,; Korade, Tetsuru; Legome, Cathy; Lewinstein, Mark; Lewis, Russ; Lind, Soren; Mayfield, Terry; McReynolds-Broslawsky, LeeAnn; Moorehead, Mike; Nguyen, Greg; Parker, Pam; Parker, Steve; Pierre, Jim; Presser, Jacqui; Presher, Dan; Quinn, Dianne; Rees-Manual, Julie; Reichel, Ellen; Ridenour, Eric; Ryan, Laurie; Satake, Den; Scofield, Eric; Singer, Mitch; Solomon, Bonnie; Squires, Ron; Steadman-Lind, Liddy; Tobias, Keith; Ugoretz, Randy; Ward, Mark; Whitmer, Sarah; Wiggins, Bill; Yamazake, Andria; Yount, Brian; Yount, Steve; Zahedi, Dave

I thought I’d also put together a page with contact information so we can all keep in touch with each other a little more than the haphazard way we’ve done so in the past. I’ll also put up some of the other information I’ve kept over the years, and anything else that people send me.

Here’s the Link to the additional information… The username and password is the first and last name of the manager (the big Texan who always wore the hat). Both names are all “lower-case”. Contact me via email (see the contact page) if you can’t remember it.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Steve

PS: Scan and send me pix if you have them. I’ll create a photo album with them!!!

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