by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
Gail Griffith Behrns is a 1974 graduate of Coronado High School. She earned her B.A. in English from Point Loma Nazarene University and her M.A. in American Literature from San Diego State University. She taught English at our very own Coronado High School for 12...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
By Gail Griffith Behrns It’s 1973. Passing the corner of 10th and Orange is the familiar white Ex Calibur with the bright red leather interior. The driver, wearing his familiar Irish driving cap, waves as he passes me. Today he no longer drives an Ex Calibur but Dr....
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
By Kimberley (Dill) Graham On January 12, 1988, a sea change occurred in my onerous life. It came in the form of a golden orb, an angelic manifestation, an innocence incarnate, whose emergence was that of our newborn daughter, Ariel Florence Graham. After several...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
February 27, 1891 – March 29, 1981 In his autobiographical dictation of April 17, 1908, Clemens described Frances Nunnally: “…school girl, of Atlanta, Georgia, whom I call Francesca for short. I have already told what pleasant times we had together every...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
By Lynne Harpst Koen My dear sweet Dad, Walter William Harpst, Jr., was born on October 8, 1916 in Columbus, Ohio. Walter (Wally) discovered his talent for music when he was still a boy. Wally’s remarkable talent would take him all over the globe and he was a career...
by alan | Jun 6, 2011 | Special Tributes
“I thought this was a home. It was a superstition. What is a home without a child?” In 1907, at the age of seventy-two, lonely and widowed, Samuel Clemens began “collecting” surrogate granddaughters — young girls between the ages of ten...
