Norm Benedict, class ’55 has just released his memoir, "Thumbs Up, V for Victory, I Love You", (the title comes from an animated phrase his father shared with him during the war years,) chronicles this special time, from the early 1940's to the mid-50's.

                       Norm Benedict with his new book 

Stephen Kahle, U-High class of 1968 is the full time principal viticulturist and winemaker of the Woof’n Rose Winery overlooking the Ramona Valley near San Diego, CA. He takes time out from his busy harvest to explain his family run vineyard and winery. If you read carefully, you will discover his secret for planting roses in the vineyard.

  Stephen Kahle, U-High Class of 1968 - photo submitted