Chaffey High School Alumni Association

This road to Hana landscape original is now available for viewing at Lahaina Galleries, at the Shops at Wailea.

Although West Maui is still closed after the wildfires, the rest of the island, including Hana and Kihei/Wailea are still open. Please visit us on the Valley Isle.

This artist is a Chaffey High School alumni and he lives in Maui. He will donate his proceeds to the cause.

The Lahaina 2023 Maui Strong Commemorative Collection by Robert Lyn Nelson is a set of 6 limited edition prints, signed and numbered by the artist. Available for Pre-order.

Limited to 100 prints per image/title. Purchase your favorite or collect the whole set to display together.

PRE-ORDER available to ship in mid September. Order here:
https://robertlynnelson.com/product/lahaina-2023-maui-strong-commemorative-collection-set-of-6/

A portion of the sale will be donated to Hawaii Community Foundation's Maui Strong Fund. Contact the studio for details.

Come out and join us for another fun event.

some of you have mentioned the South Quad. Here are some photos taken today August 11... All taken from the steps of Tiger Hall( former Home Ec). Beautiful sunny day in Southern California Temp 75 degrees light breeze!
i know many of you will say too much concrete; or where is the grass? This offers students shade; a center to hold rallies and noon time activities and the flooding in the south end has been fixed. The landscape is beautifully done and it is taken care of and always looks clean!

A beautiful day on Chaffey High campus. A view of Chaffey High North Quad... pristine care of the grounds!

The time for the dedication of Dave Radcliff’s plaque at Chaffey High School is set. August 12th at 10am at the new Aquatic Center. Where the tennis courts were just north of the girls gym on Fifth Street. Parking in the student/teachers lot just north on Fifth street plus on the street. Hope to see many friends, students and old time swimmers there. What a great tribute for a great human being.

Mark your calendars for August 12 for the dedication of the Dave Radcliff plaque in the new Swim Stadium on Chaffey High campus. He and his family will be in attendance. Let's make this a very special event!Time to be determined. watch for update very soon

Last night we hosted a Bunco fundraiser for Chaffey students who do not have homes... we received $1820 in gift cards to give the students to help them with Back to School supplies. If you are wanting to help; send gift cards from Target, Kohl's and Walmart in any amount you wish to donate. Include the activation slip with them.
Mail to Vickee Duncan c/o Chaffey High School, 1245 N.Euclid Avenue, Ontario, CA 91762
"Together we can make a Difference!"
(please no cash or checks. Just gift cards.)

Tonight was the Tribute evening for Jack Mercer, CHS Band Director and creator of the Ontario/Chaffey Show Band. Tom and I had the pleasure of setting up memorabilia; tables using Tigers centerpieces cut out by alumni George Cerisara; and coffee from Starbucks. Wonderful evening of celebrating Jack Mercer's 100th birthday with birthday cake for everyone and a musical evening to remember.

The old Math and Science building. Now renamed Euclid Hall.

Gardiner Spring Auditorium -the gem of Ontario!

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Chaffey High School
Alumni Association gave $1500 scholarships to these eleven students. Thank you to our members for their generous donations and membership fees. If you are not a member; join today by going to our website chaffeyalumni.org and become a member today! Your membership can and will make a difference😊

Chaffey High School
Alumni Association gave $1500 scholarships to these eleven students. Thank you to our members for their generous donations and membership fees. If you are not a member; join today by going to our website chaffeyalumni.org and become a member today! Your membership can and will make a difference😊

2023 Graduation

Chaffey High School Band program hosted the Western Band Association Grand Championships last weekend. Chaffey performed and did an outstanding program!

Last May, Commander Jones was named Teacher of the Year! Congratulations! 🐯🐯🐯

We congratulate the Varsity Volleyball team on their successful season!

Go see “The Addams Family” at Chaffey High School
Chaffeytheatercompany.com for tickets. $15 tickets and easy access free parking!

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This is Emily, a senior at Chaffey High School. She plays Alice in The Addams Family musical. She has an amazing voice and you must go see this play to experience a wonderful evening in Gardiner Spring Auditorium. A great place to see a play, especially one that is as good as this one!
Go to chaffeytheatercompany.com to buy your tickets.

Chaffey Theater Company will present The Adam’s Family in Gardiner Soring Auditorium. Go to Chaffeytheatercompany.com to get your tickets!

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Chaffey High School Basketball team won CIF 5AA Regional Basketball Championship for Southern California. They played in the Finals in Sacramento! Very proud of this team that MADE HISTORY!

COVID has kept us away from the campus this year but the Alumni Association is still working with the school to help groups on campus. We have helped the Band rrr we pair their cart to move instruments around; we donated to the Boy's Basketball program; we gave 5 scholarships last May and will do it again this next May; we help fund A new program for students to find help with school Life this year( it had been a tough one for everyone) AND we have a nee website-check it out at chaffeyalumbi.org!
Reunion groups can contact Lynn Valdez at 909 983-5400; questions about yearbooks; donations or tours contact Tom Duncan at [email protected] or text message Vickee Duncan at 909 518-7282.

Update: Class of 1948:

73-year reunion will be held June 26, 2021 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm at Parrish Pioneer Ranch in Oak Glen, California.

Reunion activities include live music, great food (Spanish theme) and apple pie. $15 at the door, cash only.

To confirm your attendance, contact Shirley Ross Mead at 951-312-4566. If you have changed your address or phone number, please contact any of the following: Tom Rabone (909-429-0554); Kenny Hoover (909-608-1527); Bette Metro Burkle (909-528-8366) or Chuck “Butter” Jackson (909-996-9476).

Class of 1959 Uses Zoom for Monthly Mini-Reunions

Sharon Chez Salcido ’59 and James Kilgore ’59 began exchanging e-mails regularly following the CHS ’59 60-year reunion in 2019. When they realized they were both participating in a lot of Zoom meetings with various community organizations, friends and relatives, they wondered if they should try it with CHS classmates.

In fall 2020, Sharon sent an email to classmates proposing Zoom meetings. The response was positive, and the first meeting took place in October 2020. It was so successful, they scheduled monthly meetings on the first Monday of the month at 2 pm, beginning December 2020. Classmates are participating from Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee as well as California. CHS ’59 plans to continue Zooming in 2021 and beyond.

Sharon invites other reunion committees to contact her if interested in learning more: [email protected]. She would also like to know if other classes are holding Zoom meetings

CHS Theatre Arts Youtube Links (see link below):

After more than forty years of teaching, educating, and mentoring, Dave Masterson, Chaffey High School Department Chair for the Visual and Performing Arts, retired on May 22, 2020. Over the course of 25 seasons, Masterson produced 45 theatrical shows and played to over 300,000 people – a milestone for any theatre and especially for a high school.

Niki Rapattoni ’58 and 2020 Tiger of the Year, and donor since 2012 of the annual Rapattoni CHS Drama Scholarship has acted as liaison between CHSAA and Dave. Recently Dave provided Niki with links to the Youtube videos of his theatrical productions from 1998 to his retirement in 2019.

Using funds donated to the Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium fund, CHSAA has been assisting the theatre arts department with capital equipment upgrades for decades. CHSAA intends to continue supporting CHS Theatre Arts in the future.

If you are not already a member of the CHS Alumni Association, you should join! Information on the website.

NOTE - to protect from hackers, access to the CHSAA website is blocked from many countries. If you are a Chaffey Alumni from a blocked country, please let us know in comments and we'll look into opening up access from your country (but not China, Russia, and a few others). Be sure to let us know what country you're in and your name while attending Chaffey (if different than your FB identity).

http://chaffeyalumni.org/

Chaffey High School Alumni Association Chaffey High School Alumni Association, Ontario, California, Chaffey Alumni

More campus photos from July 31, 2020
New gate to the Aquatic Center being built to the north of the small gym, in the place where there were tennis courts. More photos to follow as they progress!

More photos of campus on July 31,2020
Gate located on 5th Street- new entrance to the Chaffey High Aquatic Center.

More photos from
July 31, 2020. North Quad

UPDATE: It should come as no surprise that all Reunions planned for 2020 have been cancelled or postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See the Reunion page on our website for specific details.
http://chaffeyalumni.org/index.php/reunions

Reunions Chaffey High School Alumni Association, Ontario, California, Chaffey Alumni

Our Chaffey High School Tiger of the Year NIKI BROWN RAPATTONI ‘58. Read the article to learn more about her.

Our Tiger of the Year... Niki Brown Rapattoni ‘58. Read the article to learn more about her.

Congratulations to NIKI BROWN RAPATTONI '58 for being named the 2020 TIGER OF THE YEAR. Sadly this year, due to the Covid-19 causing the school closure, she was not able to give her speech to the Senior Class at Baccalaureate. She is a strong supporter of Chaffey High School and gives an annual scholarship to a graduating Drama senior.
Thank you Niki for all you do for Chaffey High School.

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Zohary Gonzalez, Chaffey Senior, Wins Rapattoni Drama Scholarship

Chaffey High School 2020 graduating senior, Zohary Gonzalez, has won the Rapattoni Drama Scholarship; the awardee will receive a $1,500-dollar scholarship for Outstanding Performance and Dedication in Chaffey High School Theatre. Due to the suspension of school for Covid-19 concerns, the award was presented online by the Principal of Chaffey High School, Christina Martinez, via a Power Point presentation.

According to Dave Masterson, Chair of the Visual and Performing Arts Department and recently retired, longtime Director of CHS Drama, “Zohary was selected for this recognition due to her scholarship, theatrical talent, commitment and dedication to the productions at Chaffey High School.” Zohary ranks in the top 25% of her senior class at Chaffey High School and has a 3.17 grade point average.

Dave continued by recalling, “Zohary’s first role for us at Chaffey Theatre Company was in the Fall of 2016, in the ensemble, as a townsperson in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. (12,200 patrons) She followed that show as an enchanted object and townsperson in the Spring of 2017 in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, (14,400 patrons); as a junior in 2018, Zohary portrayed Emily Hobbs, a lead in the Christmas retelling of the film classic Elf Jr. The Musical (5021 patrons) staged in smaller Merton E. Hill Auditorium, while Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium was being renovated. Miss Gonzalez’ 2019 Spring role included a star turn as Marcy Park in the hilarious The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. (4802 patrons). Lastly, in a shortened school year, in the Fall of 2019, but in a fabulously restored newly opened Gardiner W Spring Auditorium, she portrayed Mertina, a Mersister in Disney’s The Little Mermaid (15,035 patrons).”

Obtaining the rank of Thespian in Chaffey’s International Thespian Society Troupe 5535, Miss Gonzalez is a well-seasoned performer, having entertained over 51,000 patrons of Chaffey Theatre since first stepping onto her alma mater’s stage.

This is the 9th annual scholarship provided by Niki Brown Rapattoni, CHS class of 1958 and her husband, the late Andy Rapattoni, CHS class of 1957.

The two of them met in the Gardiner W Spring Auditorium in 1956 while attending their senior play. The high school sweethearts were married 57 years and are avid supporters of the CHS Alumni Association and Chaffey Theatre. (Andy was the 2010 CHS Alumni Tiger of the Year and spoke at that years’ Baccalaureate ceremony and Niki was slated to be this years’ 2020 Tiger.) When asked about the scholarship, co-benefactor Niki replied, “We are thrilled to once again provide this scholarship to Zohary Gonzalez, a deserving CHS graduating student who has excelled in Drama and plans to continue her pursuit in the Performing Arts with a vocal emphasis at The Young Americans College of Performing Arts.

Masterson declared, “The Rapattonis walked these grounds in the ‘50s, and began a lifetime of dedication and determination to support great causes and have continued ‘paying it forward.’ Zohary is a most deserving recipient of this annual scholarship and I know she will repay it forward just as her benefactors have.”

Zohary is the daughter of proud mother Pilar Gonzalez of Ontario.

Previous winners were: 2012-Gabriel Navarro; 2013-Vincent LaVigna; 2014-Jade Winter White; 2015-Jonathan Guevara; 2016-Adam Granados; 2017-Anthony Nelson; 2018-Ashley Flores; 2019-Jasmine Padilla; 2020-Zohary Gonzalez

Chaffey Alumni-from Vickee and Tom Duncan, CHSAA History Project Chairmen.

In the 1919 Chaffey Fast-yearbook- they closed school on September 18, 1918 and did not return to school until January 1919. They only went to school one day a week that month and started back full time in February 1919. It was due to the Spanish flu epidemic. Now a little more than 100 years later another epidemic and schools are closed.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: The Way Back movie starring Ben Affleck will be in theaters on March 6, 2020. It was filmed on Chaffey High School's campus. All alumni seeing the movie will recognize the gym and campus scenes.

**** Reunion Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic ****

Reunion update: Class of 1965:

The class of 1965 will be hosting a 55 year reunion four day weekend event running from Thursday morning (October 8) at 10:00 AM through Sunday afternoon (October 11). The two "can't miss" highlights are the "official reunion" Saturday night Dinner at the Ontario Doubletree and our hosted Hospitality Center open all day Thursday and Friday and half day Saturday. Other activities currently planned include the welcome dinner and party, a Chaffey Campus tour, a Vince's Spaghetti Dinner, a Chaffey football game at Graber Field, an after game gathering at the Hospitality Center, and a hosted catered wrap-up brunch on Sunday. And, we're still working on it. For additional information please contact Lynn Tegtmeier Valdez at (909) 983-5400 or at [email protected] or Sue Olinger Ovitt at (909) 983-7330 or [email protected].