Email Page #3
Class of 1960
Our 50th High School Reunion
Shenandoah Valley Academy, April 16 & 17, 2010

For the golfers: I have clubs for Dale Adams and Dallas Hawkins. Pete Esveld and Elmer Armstrong are bringing their clubs. Hooker and Hemp had to change their schedule and can not play. It is 80 today in the valley and all is good.

For the singers: If you want a copy of the music send me your address and I will get it out to you pronto. Reggie
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From "Winnie Reedy"
Subject Re: FW: Our Graduatiion Video on Youtube
Date Tue, April 6, 2010 20:16
To rwoodruff19@comcast.net,dochemp2@shasta.com,"Don Clark"

Hi Pep,

I'm in on the echo too! A BIG, LOUD "ECHO"!!!

And to you too Dave,

Yea, nothin' to it.... Right!!! It's fantastic what you've done for us! You have no idea how captivating it is for me. I make everyone in my office look at our website with me over and over as things get added. We've riden your train so much we're dizzy and hear the whistle in our sleep. I'm sure everyone else feels the same. If I'd only known it was going to be this special and this much fun 50 years later, I would have gotten here sooner -- well, not really, but you know what I mean....
(dochemp note .. Winnie ..thanks for the kind words .. Dave)

And Reg,

You big ol' teddy bear. What can I say. You're just always there for us, shepherding us together. (Do you remember, you & I were "Hall of Fame" together?) By the way, Is Texas sheet cake safe?

Have a safe trip (to the right) everyone.
(Another dochemp note .. the Right is Right! and .. the left is not Right! Right? ... Therefore ..the left is WRONG! Right?)

Winnie
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From SASSDutch455@aol.com Joel Dortch
Subject Re: FW: Our Graduatiion Video on Youtube
Date Wed, April 7, 2010 17:09
To dochemp2@shasta.com

Howdy Dr. Dave:
The Class of '60 web site etc. is a magnificent effort on your part and I really enjoyed looking at your personal web site. Very interesting. I too am a train buff but my collection is all N scale. My maternal grandfather was a telegrapher and station manager for the Southern Railway so my collection of engines and cars are primarily all SR. I have never had the room to build a layout (even in N scale) but about once a year, I get out some track and run trains on the floor or a table.

Peppy asked me to write a bio and send it to you so it is attached. It is longer than I had planned but how do you shorten 50 years into a couple of paragraphs?

Thanks again for your great work. I wish that I could be there. The Class of '60 were a great bunch of kids. I wish that I had been able to attend there more than just one year.

Happy Trails (and tracks),
Joel Dortch

Joel's Bio ..

Originally, I was planning to attend the SVA reunion this year and definitely looking forward to it. In 50 years, I have only been to two reunions, 1970 and 2000. However, I have a conflict with my work and regretfully will not be able to attend.

After leaving SVA, my cousin and roommate, Alan and I followed Dean Battle to Southwestern Adventist College in Keene, TX. Roy and Hannah Battle were life-long friends of our families plus we had relatives in the area. I majored in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting. In 1963, I was invited to be the Assistant Manager of the Oklahoma Book and Bible House, located in Oklahoma City. I met my wife Donna while at Keene and we were married there in 1963 not long after I moved to Oklahoma. In 1964, I transferred to the Southwestern Union Conference office in Richardson, TX where I was Cashier/Accountant for the Union. While there, our oldest daughter Rhonda was born in 1967. In 1969, I was invited to become the Assistant Treasurer of the Kentucky- Tennessee Conference in Madison, TN. In 1970, our youngest daughter Tracy was born. In 1971, I became Manager of the Ky-Tn Adventist Book Center. In 1979, I was invited to become Manager of the Arizona ABC. In 1984, after 21 years of denominational work, I resigned and moved to Riverside, CA to be closer to my aging parents. In Southern California I opened my own bookkeeping, tax and business consulting service, eventually going to work full-time a few years later for my largest client, as Business Manager of a skilled nursing facility.

Even though I have never earned a single dollar in my life as a real working cowboy, I have truly been a cowboy -at-heart all my life, ever since I saw my first Hopalong Cassidy movie on TV at my grandfather’s big house in Atlanta, GA in 1947 or 1948, when I was 5 or 6 years old. I grew up with all the old Hollywood cowboys as my heroes and I never outgrew them. I have always had a love and appreciation for all things western, from Western History, art, music, movies and TV shows, to the books of Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour, to horses, guns, hats and boots. I have enjoyed living the Western lifestyle and playing cowboy all my life.

Not long after moving to CA, I became interested in the then new and fast growing sport of Cowboy Action Shooting. Through our mutual interest in the sport, I met and became friends with Roy “Dusty” Rogers, Jr. For almost 15 years, I was Director of Entertainment for END of TRAIL, The World Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting and Wild West Jubilee, held annually near Norco, CA through 2004, now in New Mexico. As part of the event, I produced an outdoor arena Wild West Show in the tradition of Buffalo Bill. I also hired Dusty Rogers and his band, The High Riders, to perform at the event that drew an average of 25,000 fans a year. In 1997, Dusty invited me to be the Executive Director of the Happy Trails Children’s Foundation in Apple Valley, CA. The foundation built a home to provide a safe haven for children-at-risk, who have been severely abused. The home is currently operating at maximum capacity with a waiting list, providing residential care and treatment services to 44 boys between the ages of 10 and 15. Situated on 40 acres of land in the High Desert, the home is surrounded by panoramic vistas of snow-capped mountains and natural desert terrain under healthy smog-free skies. Our pleasant cottages and well-manicured outdoor play areas provide a peaceful, serene environment where children can begin to heal. I am pleased to be able to carry on the important work with abused children who were so important to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had surgery to remove it. My neurosurgeon (trained by Bill Hooker and associates) told me that he had performed more than 1,000 such operations and my tumor was the largest he has seen and it had probably been growing for 10 years or more! (Bill, you and your guys do great work!) As a result of the tumor, which was not malignant, I lost my hearing in my right ear and my balance nerves on the right side. I also had to give up my horse and riding!

Three and a half months after the surgery, I led a group of 29 family and friends on a cruise-tour to Alaska that had been in the planning stages for more than a year. We loved it and my wife and I are planning to drive the Alaska Highway this coming summer to visit her relatives there. One couple owns a remote Bed & Breakfast with cabins, an RV park and their own airstrip. We are returning via ferry.

Through the years, I have received more recognition than I deserved. In April 2001, I was given the "Top Hand" award by the Single Action Shooting Society, their highest honor. In November 2002, I was presented the "Western Way" award by the Western Music Association for "significant contributions to the western way of life." In March 2009, Stater Brothers, a regional grocery chain, presented me with a "Hero of the Heartland" award for "exemplifying a caring commitment to the community." This award carried a check of $5,000 for Happy Trails Children’s Foundation. Then in December 2009, I was elected to the Single Action Shooting Society "Hall of Fame."

I am beginning to think more and more about retirement, looking forward to spending more time with our four precious grandchildren. I will be thinking about the "Class of 60" and wishing that I was there with you.

Have a great time!

Joel Dortch

(A Doc Hemp Note) Joel ... Wow! What a lot of accomplishments! .. Am really impressed with your shooting .. Funny thing .. We have our own shooting range at our home (click here) (along with our trains) ....In fact a couple of years after leaving SVA . My dad and I would put on live ammo quick draw shows .. up on stage .. We shot pine cones, etc .. that is till I put a bullet thru the top of my holster and thru my thigh .. I had announced over the P.A. system that I was going to try and set a record and fan off 3 shots to my dad's first one instead of the usual two .. which I did ..I remember leaning over and whispering .. hey .. I just shot myself in the leg .. he whispered back .. is it bad? ..I said .. naw ..just a flesh wound .. he whispered back .. Well .... We can't quit now .. we just started .. so we shot on for another 20 minutes (the end of my quick draw championship dreams) Later we saw I filled my boot up pretty well with blood .. and the wound butterflied open about 3" wide and 6" long ..we poured 2 bottles of Methilolate in it and I held it shut as my dad and fatherinlaw to be, Virgil, wrapped it from knee to hip with wide Adhesive tape ... we were tough in those days ... never did see a doctor.... some day I'll tell you how I put a stiletto thru my fatherinlaws foot.

From rwoodruff19@comcast.net
Subject Fwd: Joni and Reg
Date Wed, April 7, 2010 15:56

To "David Hemp"

: Joni (Bennett) and Reg Woodruff

Alright, Joni is letting me write. We will celebrate our 46 years of hanging together in June. It has been a blast. I married the easiest woman to live with. (she made me what I am today) old and retired. We have downsized several times since the 90's and when I look at the large homes you guys are still living in (and cleaning and mowing on and on) I feel sorry for you.

We have moved to West Va. Look us up www.TheWoods.com

Joni taught school in her early life and went back to teaching when our last child went to SVA. I Started working in the optical and contact lens field to help pay for college. I have had the joy of working in a field that has given me much joy. For many years I took care of the kids at National Children's Hospital in Washington, DC. I even got to look up Winny Reedy when she spent a spell in the 4th floor. It always made my day to see her. You contact lens wearers should try putting a contact lens in a 5 week old baby. Anyway, you should all be wearing bifocal contact lenses by now. I started teaching Optics and Contact Lens fitting at the Residency Program in the Department of Ophthalmology at Howard University in the mid 1970's I still go back one day a week and work over the young Docs. It's still fun.

Joni and I have two wonderful children, Heidi (SVA 85) and Garth (SVA 90). Heidi/ Randy Jubb have a son Logan. Heidi is a nurse, mom, and business partner with her husband. Garth/Lani have two boys-Foster and Hudson. Garth is a Horticulturist and builder and Lani works beside him. Both graduated at Andrews University. Garth is also a world class sailor. His sister and wife sail and we sit the kids. In 2007 he won the Bermuda Cup. Garth has made ocean crossings from Hawaii and last summer delivered a small sailboat from the Chesapeake Bay to Ireland.

Over the last year Joni has (built) a king sized quilt for each of her grand-boys. I cook and play golf, enjoy working on the boards of church and school.