Chaffey High School Theatre Company
Proudly Presents
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
OKLAHOMA!
April 27 through May 6
By Niki Brown Rapattoni – CHS ‘58

Tickets are on sale NOW at www.chaffeytheatrecompany.com

GWS Auditorium is under renovation for several years, the fall musical was held in the Hill Auditorium on the CHS campus, and it was just great!

This facility holds about 600 so you feel like you are on stage with the performers no matter where you sit.

Even though it was held in the smaller facility, about 4,300 attended the fall run and each performance was packed.

I took my family with four grandchildren and some CHS friends… we all loved it!

I had forgotten how charming this auditorium and the atrium garden area are (we used it when we were at Chaffey JC on 5th and Euclid).

CHSAA has signed an agreement with Texas-based Publishing Concepts (PCI) to update the all-alumni directory. Last published in 2013, the directory is very popular with CHSAA members and other graduates. PCI is the successor company to Harris Publishing and Harris Connect, the previous publisher. The updated directory will be available in 2018.

The directory project has several phases. This summer PCI will mail several postcards to alumni, announcing the project and verifying its legitimacy as a CHSAA project as a way to find as many CHS alumni as possible. In the second phase, PCI will verify information using e-mail and telephone calls so directory biographical listings can be updated. During the phoning phase, PCI representatives will identify themselves as calling on behalf of CHSAA. Alumni will be given an opportunity to order a directory at that time. When published, the updated directory will be available as a hard cover book, as a digital file, or both.

Following completion of the project, CHSAA will receive an updated digital file from PCI. This will be very helpful to future reunion committees who request a class list from CHSAA.

CHSAA members can help make the project successful by spreading the word among alumni who aren’t members of CHSAA, such as siblings, classmates and friends, that PCI can be trusted and is a partner with CHSAA. If you or anyone you know has questions about the project or its legitimacy, please review our Frequently Asked Questions about this project. If you still have questions, please contact Nancy DeDiemar Jones ’63, CHSAA president, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 909-983-8066.

If you live locally and like the direction CHSAA is taking, you are invited to get in on the action by becoming a volunteer. You can choose how active you want to be and what projects interest you – we’ve very flexible!

  • History Project: Tom ‘65 and Vickee Duncan can use volunteers on Tuesday mornings from 9 am to noon. Duties include cataloging museum items, logging donors, writing thank you notes to donors and helping decide what to display. An added bonus: you get to look at, read, and enjoy the many items already part of the museum + get a preview of new donations. Vickee and Tom provide ample instructions and training and are always available to answer questions. You can tailor your volunteer hours to suit your schedule. To join this group, contact Tom and Vickee at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 909-518-0914 (Tom cell) or 909-985-3451 (home).
  • Special Events Committee: Cindy Martinez Beck ’76 and Vickee Duncan organize special events on campus such as the twice-yearly faculty appreciation breakfast and Tiger of the Year reception. They also respond to one-time requests from the principal or counseling staff (an example is support for this year’s College Application Program or CAP). Most events involve refreshments, so duties include setting up and breaking down tables, setting out and keeping food and drink replenished. May also include shopping for supplies like paper plates and cups (all expenditures are reimbursed). Time commitment varies for each event. The benefit: being on campus again, perhaps seeing buildings you haven’t been in for decades. To join this group, contact Cindy Beck at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 909-538-5700 (cell).
  • Scholarship Selection Committee: This committee is active once a year in the spring – usually March. Working with committee chair Bob Gray ‘63, the CHS counseling staff issues the call for applications. Committee members review the applications and select finalists, then convene for a several-hour meeting to interview the finalists and select the winners. Total time commitment is about 5-6 hours, spread over several days. The payoff: you get to know what CHS students are like today, which is pretty amazing, and know that you’ve helped make post-secondary schooling possible for up to five students. To join this group, contact Bob Gray at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 909-984-6882 (home).

We’ll keep posting opportunities for volunteers as they become available.

The Board of Directors of the Chaffey High School Alumni Association announces that Nancy DeDiemar Jones, Class of 1963, has been selected as the 2017 Tiger of the Year. Nancy was nominated by Dale ’58 and Judy Haskvitz Briggs ‘62 in 2017 and previously by Al Raddi ’63, John Navarro ’69 and Lance McCullough ’81.

After graduating from Chaffey, Nancy continued her education at University of California at Riverside and graduated from UCLA in 1968 with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature.

Nancy’s early careers included medical transcription at Santa Barbara County Hospital and technical writing for SysteMetrics, a health care research company in Santa Barbara. In 1981 she returned to Ontario to join her parents, Helen and Jerry DeDiemar, in their printing business (first called Helen’s Place Printing, later renamed Printing Resources of Southern California). Nancy found her career calling as the second-generation owner of this small, family-based business. After 30 years as a business owner, she retired in 2011 after successfully transitioning the business to a new owner. The business is still operating, having just ended its 46th year of existence.

During her career Nancy was active in many printing industry organizations. Beginning in 1983, Nancy began a series of positions within the local chapter of the National Association of Quick Printers. She founded NAQP’s  Mailing Services Group, served on the national board of directors, and was elected national president in 1996. She was an acknowledged industry expert on mailing services in print shops and was a columnist for several industry magazines. In 1997 she was named Quick Printer of the Year by NAQP members. From 19xx to 2015, Nancy and her husband co-published a subscription-based industry newsletter called Printips.

During her career, Nancy served a number of community organizations as a volunteer. Since retiring, she has become much more active as a community volunteer. She serves as a planning commissioner for the City of Ontario; board chair of the Chaffey Community Museum of Art; treasurer for OPARC,  president of the Chaffey High School Alumni Association and editor of the Tiger Rag newsletter; board member of the San Antonio Hospital Foundation, and board member of the Coy D. Estes Apartments.

Nancy will deliver an inspirational message to the CHS Class of 2017 at its Baccalaureate Service on May 21, 2017. This will be followed by a reception in her honor on campus.

Built in 1932 at Fifth Street and Euclid Avenue, Tower Hall is the oldest building on the Chaffey campus and is built in Mission Revival style. The tower rises an estimated 120 feet and contains a clock face on all four sides and chimes.

CHS alumni remember that the clock and chimes were operating in the 1960s, but at some time – perhaps in the 1980s – stopped functioning. Attempts over the years to fix the clocks and chimes were unsuccessful until June 2016 when the clock and chime assembly was replaced with a new, digital model.

The clock now keeps accurate time on all four faces, and Westminster chimes ring every hour from 7 am to 6 pm.

 

 

 

 

The CHS Alumni Association has an inventory of Fastis from nearly every class.

These are in addition to the archival copies kept by the Alumni Association. We are particularly well stocked from the 1970s forward.

Anyone who wants one can call the school during the regular school year and ask for Cindy Beck '74 in the library, phone: 909 988-5560, or you can email Tom Duncan ’65 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call him at 909 518 0914. They will check the inventory and let you know if a Fasti is available.

The cost is now $25 per Fasti which includes shipping.