John Muir High School in Pasadena, California Class of 1955 Reunion Information

Click here for a look at the
MuirPHS 2005 Committee 50th Reunion Organization chart

IF YOU MISSED IT, IT WAS A BLAST!!!
See the Pasadena Star-News Article on the 50th Reunion HERE
(The article is an Acrobat PDF file. Download Acrobat Reader v7 Here)

Announcing the COMBINED Muir/PHS Class of 1955 High School 50th Reunion.

This is NOT going to be "just another High School reunion". This reunion is shaping up to be what will probably be the largest, longest and most historic High School reunion ever staged ANYWHERE, EVER, in the entire United States!!!

Largest, because we are (for the very first time), combining with PHS!! That means that all your Jr. High School buddies that went to PHS instead of Muir, will be there!!! Largest, because it is also going to be a 52 year reunion of our Jr High Schools - La Cañada, Eliot, Marshall, McKinley, Temple City, Washington and Wilson!!! Largest, because it is NOT limited to JUST the "Graduates" of those schools, but is open to all our "Classmates", even if they moved away before graduation, went to other High Schools, joined the service - or whatever - ALL classmates from the Pasadena Unified School District Junior High Schools Class of '53 and the High Schools Class of '55 are invited. It's going be so big, we are holding our reception at the Rose Bowl!!!!! The same place we were all together as one big group when we graduated in 1955!!!

Longest, because not only are we having a reception (Bar-B-Q Dinner) on Friday night, but we are kicking the whole event off with a Golf Tourney and Luncheon at Brookside Park Thursday, August 18th. The Brookside Trophy luncheon is for golfers and non-golfers (yep, the luncheon is open to EVERYBODY!!!). Longest, because we are going to have neat things to do for spouses, like tours of JPL, the Muir (and PHS) campuses, the Huntington Library, etc. Longest, because we are having our formal dinner (Dress-Up) at the Huntington Hotel (now owned and restored to its full glory by the Ritz Carlton). Longest, because on Sunday, we are having a brunch at the old Wrigley Mansion on Orange Grove Blvd., complete with special (now known as the "Tournament House"). Longest, because we are including a 5-day, 4-nite cruise on Royal Caribbean's "Monarch of the Seas" luxury cruise liner (880 feet long - appointed like a Four Seasons Hotel), to Catalina, San Diego, and Baja California, complete with 6 meals a day, casino, and full blown Broadway shows!!! Did you count how many days that adds up to??

Historic, because we are the FIRST class to graduate from the then newly created John Muir HIGH SCHOOL (remember, in 11th grade, we were Freshmen in the last year of John Muir Junior College?). Excitement is already building throughout the entire city of Pasadena for this event. We've ALREADY has articles in the Pasadena Star News about this momentous occasion!!!!

We at John Muir, basically did a "dress rehearsal" for this upcoming 50 year reunion 4 years ago with our last reunion - all designed to "get it right" for the big "5 Ohh". Guess what? After the 46th reunion, that committee, along with the PHS reunion committee, have spent the last few years putting this 50 combined reunion together; we never stopped meeting!! Yep, 90 days after that last reunion, we just kept meeting to review what worked, what did not (The Hilton Hotel was not a good venue), and it was at that time we decided to do combine our 50 reunion with PHS class of 1955. Their committee started meeting with us almost immediately thereafter!!! We have an additional 3 years of planning, working, anticipating, under our collective belts now!!

This is going to be sooo super!! Plenty of time to renew old acquaintances, and make lots of NEW ones as well!!! The Original Rhythm Kings are already practicing, and are going to play for us again both at the reception in the Rose Bowl and again at the Ritz Carlton banquet - one more time!!! There will be so many things - music, dancing, memorabilia to take us all back to those special "Happy Days"...days where we were lucky enough to be a part of - and NOBODY is going to want to miss this one!!!!

You will be able to find EVERYBODY you would like to see. Why and how? Because we are asking EVERYBODY to bring their cell phones and register them at the sign in booths!! You will be able to see everybody else's cell phone number and they will be able to see yours. Looking for somebody in particular? Ha!! Phone them!! They could be standing right behind you, but you wouldn't recognize them after so many years!!!!

The combined John Muir and Pasadena High Schools Classes of 1955 reunion August 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2005. SAVE THOSE DATES! Click here for details.

Our own Rhythm Kings are the feature entertainment at the Friday Night Reception
at the Rose Bowl and the Saturday Night Ritz Carlton Banquet

Can you name the members of the "famous" Rhythm Kings?

If you are interested in reviewing your Muir classmates who have committed to or indicated they are coming to our 50th reunion click here.

Our 46th Reunion "MEMORY BOOK" has been published. Click here to take you to the ordering page. We have a few copies left and once they are gone...that's it!

For those of you who are interested in locating lost classmates, there is a wonderful
John Muir Alumni Directory that cover alumni from 1947 through 1998. It is published by Bernard C. Harris Company out of White Plains NY and has 330 pages of alumni names, addresses, phone numbers and is broken down by class, alphabetical names and cities where alumni were last contacted. (800) 877-6554. I would recommend you call the toll free number and discuss availability and price.

There is another option regarding a John Muir Class of 1955 Alumni Directory.
Please contact Al Ulves (RestatePro1@yahoo.com) for particulars.

There is a NEW John Muir High School Alumni Association group that has just formed:

Purpose and Objectives
of the
John Muir High School Alumni Association

The primary purpose of the John Muir High School Alumni Association is to support the academic and extracurricular activities and programs of John Muir High School ("John Muir") and its students, financially and otherwise, and to foster the relationship with John Muir of the alumni of each of John Muir, John Muir Technical High School and John Muir Junior College and with each other, with a view to promoting pride within John Muir, the alumni and the surrounding community. In addition to and in furtherance of the foregoing purpose, the objectives of the Association shall be:

· To support John Muir, its academic and extracurricular programs and its student activities through contributions of equipment, material, funds and volunteer service;

· To award scholarships and other grants to deserving John Muir students;

· To provide channels of communication among those who have attended John Muir and with current John Muir students, faculty and administrators;

· To preserve John Muir memorabilia and historical records thereby strengthening its heritage and traditions;

· To raise funds by dues, contributions, events and otherwise, in order to support the objectives of the Association; and

· To maintain an alumni directory, sponsor alumni events and facilitate reunions.

The John Muir Alumni web site is here or for the John Muir alumni email click here

Biography of John Muir - - - farmer, inventor, sheepherder, naturalist, explorer, writer, and conservationist.

For those of you who continued on to PCC after Muir'55 here is a link to the PCC web site: http://www.paccd.cc.ca.us

For those who want information on PHS Class of 1955 click here:
http://www.phs55.com