Corpron, Carren
* Home
1965(Vestal Central HS) 2004, Richmond, CA
Carren passed away on March 4, 2007
Commentator: Jeanne Hatch, formerly Cora Hasley, March 7, 2007
Thanks for the update, Rich. Carren was one of my childhood friends since we both lived in the Twin Orchards area of Old Vestal Road. I also had a mad crush on her older brother. It is sad that she had to suffer so much.
Update: Dec 10: 2004
Carren is continuing to enjoy nursing in Redmond CA, near San Francisco. She is a lung cancer survivor and will be with us
at our 40th Reunion in July 2005
Commentator:
Bakk
,
Whistle
,
Lana
5/21/2000
I
also heard from Carren Corpron and wondered about the 23vestal - sounds like I
was right. (Carren's email is Vestal23)
Commentator:
Bull
,
Vanderlip
,
Candace
7/16/2000
Carren
was nice to everyone.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
2/24/2002
Rich
McLean had a great telephone conversation with Carren tonight. She just
returned recently from Crescent City, CA where she worked for 4 months
sponsored
by a traveling nurse program.
While in Crescent City, a tiny town with no Wal-Mart!,
she was totally bored in her off hours. So what do her idle hands do?
Well taking a hint from Dick
McCoy,
she began to toy with www.match.com. She
had 0! expectations. Just wanted something to do.
Got some hits but only responded to one. And guess what, that one
was the keeper! She's met a wonderful guy from Gulf Shores Al and she's 16
again. (ie,
in
love and all shook up!)
Her short term agenda now is to move to Gulf Shores this May with
the traveling nurse program, maybe retire there, and maybe, just maybe, make
Dave an
honest
man this fall!!! She said this, combined with the clean lung x-rays,
have given her a new life. Funny isn't it, life's twists and turns?
Carren would never have found Dave had she not been bored in Crescent City,
and had
she
not remet Dick McCoy through Vestal65!!!
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
11/21/2001
I
am living for 13 weeks in Crescent City Ca. and I an having GREAT problems
with the Internet ..…
I am also suffering from severe weather shock... I am right on the
Oregon boarder on the coast at
the base of the Rsdwood National Forest PRETTY,
RAINEY,
COLD, FOGGY, COLD, MOUNTAINOUS,COLD VERY ISOLATED AND YES C_O_L_D!!!!!!!
This coming week I am going to shoot some covered bridges. Last
week it was waves rocks and lighthouses...
I am working at a VERY small hospital (58) beds. I am so homesick I
could scream.. and I rarely get homesick I am the adventure /travel QUEEN. But
we are
living
in different times.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
7/6/2000
I
cannot tell you how much I hate that yerabook picture....I had just gotten
some dental work done the day before and my mouth was SOOOOO SORE
AND
VERY SWOLLEN. The funny part was I got them on in my junior year and off two
years after I got married.
Then in 1977 I had a car accident broke my jaw distroyed my teeth
and had my mouth wired shut for almost a year...( there was about 2 months
when I was
blind
due to swelling around my optic nerve) Got through it all and when the wires
came out of my
jaw my teeth had all floated back to their original crooked
position!!!! I guess you really
shouldn't fool with mother nature HA! HA! HA!
I hope as time goes by more class mates will surface. I am trying
to contact as many as I can I wrote again to Diane Piston Miller but no
further word. Does
Donna
Wing Mason live near you? She was always sweet and friendly and very talented
in the
music area choir and music theory etc. She and I were friends
because of choir VESTAL VOICES and music theory classes.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
6/23/2000
Rich
talked with Carren by phone: She was friends with Debbie LeZenka and Judy
McMullen. She remembers the time when they were in college and they
ran
down to Penn State to cut up, go wild at a 4-Tops Concert. Sue Gregory may
have been with them.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
6/20/2000
I
have FAILED no yearbook ...it must be in the sealed containers in the storage
area??? I will get it when I move into my condo and open all the
containers.
So until then I am on my own as far as memories!!!!
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
6/18/2000
Seriously
I cannot wait to dig it (the yearbook) out now that I have a reason to pull up
the past. It is so much fun...I guess that is because my high school
years
were a wonderful time.
If they were anguish and problems I might not be so excited to have
reconnected with my 65'ers. That might be why some have not come in search of
those
memories.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/30/2000
I
copied the data base to take with me so I could read it and show my daughter
who has lived with the funny VCHS stories...You know the ones that make
us
as parents sound wild and crazy or very hip... Sometimes it almost works
HA!HA!HA!
we are getting OLD! OOCH I hate to say that
because I don't feel any different from year to year. Then I read about
this one or that one who has passed
and
I hear this one or that one is in health trouble. I realize how blessed I am.
( at 53 to have good health and personal peace...even without the
jock of my dreams )
I do remeber looking forward to summer when I was growing up in
Vestal...and when I went back it was summer yet cold and gray... I don't ever
remember
having
color in any of my cheeks as a Vestal virgin
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/24/2000
Jimmy
Krestilude was right on!!!! Vestal is so ughly and everything that it wasn't
in 1965. I went back about 5 years ago with my dad to a funeral of a friend
of
his. DISMAL!!!!!
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/21/2000
I
remember teachers..... wonderful teachers Mr. Gennett, Mr. Wells. Mr. Botnick,
to name just a few. I grew up in Vestal my dad worked for IBM ( didn't
everyones?)
so the kids I went to elementary school with are the same kids I
went to high school with!!! Tommy Theodore, Tom Wade. Karen Day, Leslie
Mantin,
Jimmy
Clay, Jimmy Wilson, Ted Hern, Wow, I'm even impressing myself with these names
off the top of my head.
Tomorrow I will go dig out my yearbook. Bill Crandell, Bill
Shanley, We all started out at the "little red school house" Honest
that is what it was called,
then
went to Willow Point then on to Clayton Avenue
then Vestal High School for Jr High until they built the new BIG
high school, the one we graduated from.
Oh here are some more names from the class....Sue Stratton, Micky
Toole, Chuck Fudger, Al Thrasher, Jimmy Kristoff, Sharon Paris, Al Fancher,
Judy
Macmullin/Fussel
Wilmington N.C.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/21/2000
As
for my trip, I worked as one of 4 RN's and 1 MD, on the SS Universe Explorer.
sailing out of Vancouver BC, for a 4 month adventure first stop Kobe,
Japan,
while docked in Kobe we visited Hiroshima, Osaka, Nara, Kyoto and Tokyo.
Next stop - Hong Kong.
WOW WEEE, then onto mainland China...culture shock Bejeing, Xien, then on to
Vietnam....( a place I never expected to get to
see
in my lifetime.
A place, I remember friends went to and didn't come home or came
home forever changed ( i.e. Dick Shirley) Cambodia, Laos and other small
villages. sailed
on
to Singapore the on to Punang Malaysia. Then on to Chenni ( Madras )India.
One last stop in Moracco for 8 days before we made the 14 day sail
home to Miami arriving home to Miami, Florida USA ( AKA paradise)
December 23, I
spent
too much $$$ and left all things safe, familiar, clean and free,
not to mention all the people I love to find out THERE IS NO PLACE
LIKE HOME THE ...Water I can drink , money that makes sense, freedom to speak
my
mind,
able to move about freely. food I
recognize,
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/21/2000
Internet
that is dependable phones that work. Roads real roads, ATM's food I recognize,
fresh air and the BEST WEATHER on the planet…
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/19/2000
on
classmates.com
Presently living in Florida. I am divorced with 2 grown children a
daughter Lisa 30 and a son Jon 31. Travel a lot and work as little as
possible. ( somethings
never
change )
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/19/2000
What
fun to have found this site Classmates.com. I am Carren Corpron class of '65.
I have GREAT MEMORIES of my high school years as a GOLDEN
BEAR.
I also was very active with the school choir Vestal Voices.
I presently live in Florida just north of Miami and just south of
Ft Lauderdale. I work as nurse 3 days a
week
and travel alot. I just came back from sailing around the world
with
the University of Pittsburgh.
I am divorced with 2 children Jon 31 and Lisa 30 both married and I
have 3 grandchildren. I spend alot of time doing outdoor activities like
camping and
sailing.
Unfortunately I have never attended a class reunion as each time I
was not able to attend because of my work related responsibilities. I often
think back
and
wonder how someone from those special days are.
Commentator:
Corpron
,
Corpron
,
Carren
5/19/2000
Judy
Mcmullin, Heidi Kaufman,Janet Vollumiere, Judy Knapic, Audrey Austin, Jerry
Gance Bob Sweet
Roger
Lamb,Sue Gregory and on and on.?
I met someone on the Internet who lived in Appalachin and asked him
to send me a snap shot of Vestal High School .
He
did and I didn't even recognize it. I remembered it" MUCH LARGER AND
GRANDER SOME HOW"
I would enjoy a journey back to those wonderful Poncho's Pit,
eating speidi"s A&W,
Taylors Tiny Town miniture
golf,
out running Frank Buran days.
When I had to come up with an e-mail name I chose VESTAL23 for all
the reasons you might guess. Vestal because it is who I am and where I am from
and
might
trigger someone who saw it to get in touch if they were from Vestal.
And #23 because it makes me smile to remember my highschool
sweetheart.( it was his infamous Football and basketball and
track
jersey # )
Commentator:
Fussell
,
McMullen
,
Judith Karen
7/11/2000
Carren
Corpron was busy her senior year. Right after school she had to run to a coop
job at IBM.
Commentator:
Holden
,
n/a
,
Donald W.
8/24/2000
Don
remembers making a bet with Carren in 7th or 8th grade…he's not sure of the
particulars but it involved how many times she could write Bob
Campbell's
name.
Commentator:
Mason
,
Wing
,
Donna
7/5/2000
I
read your bio and saw your pictures - great goin' kid!!! Sounds like your
sailing tri[p was one not
to
be missed! I also went down the list and checked on everyone that I knew - a
real trip down memory lane as you already know!!
Commentator:
McLean
,
n/a
,
Rich
8/19/2000
Talked
with Carren tonight. She was in the process of moving to be closer to her
daughter. Updated her address information above.
Carren will finally be getting her yearbook out of storage this
weekend. I expect to hear a lot from her once her all ready phenominal memory
is stimulated
by
the yearbook.
Carren remembered the white building and the " white building
dances." That was a community center that would throw sock hops every
Saturday
evening.
She was reminded of the white building by the picture of the Angelo Ball
Field. But so many of her
Saturday evenings as well as the Saturday evenings of our class
were spent at the white building. This was Vestal's equivalent to the Endicott
record
hops.
We remembered that one big difference between after school in 65 and after
school
for kids today was
parents. There were few latch key kids compared to today. For better or worse,
mom (or Auntie in my case) was home when we got
home…to
make us do our chores and bug us on what we did that day.
Commentator:
McLean
,
n/a
,
Rich
7/6/2000
Talked
over an hour with Donna Wing last night. It was like we were all buddies tho I
didn't know her in HS... just like you and me... I consider you a good
friend
even tho we may never have met in HS
... but we share sooooo much being Class of 65 together. Her page
will be going up this weekend.
Hey, you must have looked great with those braces back then!!!
Brave girl!! No wonder I see no teeth in your HS picture!!! (Donna Wing
told me Carron
wore
braces in HS.
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