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Shelly Has Gone Home!!!

Good news! I tried to call Shelly at the hospital this morning, and they said she has gone home! Yay!

Shelly Peterson Is In Mercy Hospital

One of my dearest friends, Shelly (Bernardini) Peterson -- OLP '81 and St. Didacus '77 -- suffered a heart attack Saturday around noon in her Normal Heights kitchen.

Luckily, Shelly's husband Pete Peterson was there to begin CPR and call 911, and the ambulance crew arrived in time to be there when her heart stopped! All of them brought her back.

Shelly is recovering now at Mercy Hospital. She was sedated for two days, so she still is somewhat dazed and confused.

Please think about Shelly, pray for her one and all of you who read this, and if Shell ever crossed your path and made you laugh and/or smile even once, please visit her too!

This picture of Shelly and I was taken by Jeannie Portugal in 2003.

St. Patrick's Sets Golf Tournament

"Radio Gals" Features Alum Of OLP & USD

Talented singer/actress Bettina "Pixie" (O'Donnell) Warren, who graduated from the Academy of Our Lady of Peace in 1978, then attended the University of San Diego for several years before eventually transferring to San Diego State, is one of the stars of a show called "Radio Gals," which opened January 27 at the Avo Playhouse in Vista.

The play is funny and frantic and filled with music and mirth! Pixie barely leaves the stage during the entire production, so it is a couple hours of getting to watch her perform almost non-stop! That's Pixie on the right side of this flier, by the way, next to the s in Gals.

Produced by Moonlight Stage Productions, "Radio Gals" is a musical comedy by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, the same writing team who created "Pump Boys and Dinettes." It will run until February 20 at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, and also at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Local theater legends Don and Bonnie Ward directed and choreographed the play.

Besides being in this show, Pixie (along with her husband -- former USD student Tom Warren) is among the partners in Schroeder's Club and Cabaret, which held its first successful season last year at the Westin Horton Plaza. The second season at Schroeder's will begin soon.

Larry Lehrke Memorial Bocce Tournament

The 11th annual Larry Lehrke Memorial Bocce Tournament will be held this Saturday, January 29, at Sunset Park (across West Mission Bay Drive from the Hyatt Islandia Hotel). This picture taken at last year's event shows co-organizer Ross Provenzano speaking to all of the players right before the opportunity drawing began.

Staff Sgt. Stanley Lawrence "Larry" Lehrke, a 1966 graduate of St. Augustine High School, was aboard an Air Force gunship that was shot down in 1972 during the Vietnam War. He was listed as Missing In Action from then until his remains were recovered in 1993 and identified in 1994. Several of Larry's classmates set up a scholarship fund in his honor at Saints, and they eventually started the bocce tournament as its main fund raiser. This picture of Larry is from the 1966 St. Augustine yearbook.

The tournament will begin at 9 a.m. with registration and opportunity drawing ticket sales. Mixed doubles teams will be formed by a blind draw, with the bocce play beginning immediately thereafter. The drawing will be held after a lunch break, then the day wraps up with championship play and awards presentation. For more information or to donate prizes for the drawing, call Ross Provenzano at 858-488-2734 or e-mail rosspro@san.rr.com. The bottom photo was taken at last year's event and it features a bunch of people who all attended St. Didacus Elementary School in Normal Heights.

Happy New Year To All SDCSA Members!

Happy New Year to anyone who ever attended a Catholic school in San Diego County (or worked at one)!

If you are visiting this web site for the first time, please register for our Message Forums and post a message to your old schoolmates!

We've Made Some Improvements Here

We've made some improvements to SDCSA.net, including a new look and more information along the right side of this page. You now will find a list of URLs there for all the web sites belonging to Catholic schools in San Diego County. We've listed all the school sites we know about, but we may have missed some. If you know of any others, please e-mail us their URLs!

Last Uni-Saints Charity Bowl Is Next Week

As many of you probably know, University of San Diego High School will close its doors after the Class of '05 graduates next year. A new school called Cathedral Catholic High School is being built in the North County to replace it in the fall of 2005.

Thus, the Charity Bowl coming up on Friday, October 22, will be the last one ever played between arch-rivals University of San Diego High School and St. Augustine High School. Kickoff will be at 7:00 p.m. at Southwestern College and a huge crowd is expected!

Uni and Saints played varsity football against each other for the first time in 1966, so their rivalry is 38 years old! If you are a fan of either Uni or Saints, this will be a game you won't want to miss! Both teams currently sport 4-1 records and both are ranked in the County's Top 10, with Uni at 6th and Saints at 7th, so it should be an excellent game!

If you'd like to discuss the game or the Uni-Saints football rivalry, there is a topic about it in The SDCSA Gathering Place forum.

Spread The Word About SDCSA.net!

SDCSA.net is a work in progress, and we need lots of participation from lots of alums to make it succeed! If you think this site is a good idea, please tell any fellow alums you know about us! The faster the word spreads about SDCSA.net, the faster our Message Forums will grow, making them more and more useful as a communications tool!

And if you are a visitor who hasn't yet registered for our forums, please register, then find the schools you attended and start posting messages to your former classmates today! Please don't just lurk here! Help us grow by posting to the SDCSA Message Forums yourself!

NOTE: You don't have to be registered for our Message Forums to post in either "Learn About These Forums" or "The SDCSA Gathering Place," but you do have to register before you can post in any of the school forums.

Check Out Our New Message Forums!

We've added a new set of phpBB2 Message Forums to this web site! We made separate topics for every Catholic school in the history of San Diego County, including a few that no longer exist!

At least we hope we've got all of them. If you know of a former school we've missed, please let us know where it was and the years it operated. The same thing goes for any new schools we haven't learned about yet.

Enjoy!

P.S. -- For several years we had a set of Message Forums here that were hosted by Everyone.net. Sadly, we lost those forums earlier this year when Everyone.net stopped providing that service. The new forums are hosted on our own server and are totally under our control!