Chaffey High School Class of 1966: 60th Reunion Celebration (last updated Oct 16, 2026)
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Reunion Weather Forecast for Ontario as of Oct 16
Registration is closed.
Here is our Schedule of Events for those who signed up:
Registration packets will be available for check-in and pick up at the Library before the Campus tour and at the Dinner. Your registration packet will contain your name tag and dinner entree ticket.
Bill has worked very hard to make sure everyone has a "spiffy" name tag for this reunion with their picture from their time at school. For this reunion it's a magnetic name tag so you won't have holes in your clothing or a lanyard to deal with.
Your entree ticket will show your dinner order and any special requests like Gluten Free. Your server will collect the larger end of the ticket at the dinner, you keep the stub.
Thursday, October 22 – Kickoff Football Game
Kick off the weekend early with a Chaffey home game!
Logistics:
- Meet the ASB (Student Body) representatives by the cafeteria at 6:15pm. No need to buy a ticket. It's been covered by a donation by Bill to the Football program.
- The ASB representative will escort us to the field.
- The announcer will recognize our group a photo will be taken.
- We will be escorted to your seating.
- If anyone needs to use the elevator since your seating is at the top under the announcer booth, let
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. know. We have to arrange that with security. - If you are late, you will need to buy a ticket and you will miss the photo.
- As of right now, rain showers are forecast so plan to dress accordingly.
Friday, October 23 – Informal Gathering
Join us for an informal, no-host get-together at JD Allison Bar and Grill, 291 North 2nd Avenue, Upland, CA starting at 4:00PM. Owner Lauren Allison-Hendrix is the daughter of our late classmates Joyce (Vaughn) Allison and L. Duane Allison. The Bar and Grill is named in their honor.
Saturday, October 24 – Campus Tour, Historic Home of George Chaffey with BYO Picnic & Main Event - 9:00 AM to Noon
Campus Tour Logistics:
Attendees can park in the 5th street parking lot: 220 W 5th St and walk through the pedestrian gate, down the private street to the back of the library. Enter the Library through the back door. We will be in the North Reading Room.
Event Schedule:
- 9:00 AM: Coffee and donuts at the Chaffey High Campus Library.
Coffee is being donated by Bill, the donuts by Pat (hand) Kaufman. - 9:30 AM: Welcome and a nostalgic slideshow in the Library.
- 10:00 AM: Walk through the CHS History Museum
- 10:30 AM – Noon: Full campus tour, including the GWS Auditorium, North Hall, the "old plunge" site, and a group photo on the football field.
Historic Chaffey Home Tour and BYO Picnic Noon - 3:00PM
The Etiwanda Historical Society is hosting us with a BYO picnic and tour of the restore home of the founder of Chaffey High and Ontario, George Chaffey.
The Chaffey Garcia House was built in 1874 and is located at 7150 Etiwanda Ave. It is curated to show how the Chaffey's would have lived in the home.
https://www.etiwandahistoricalsociety.org/general-clean
Tours of the home are included. The fee would be $10 each and you can pay on the date. We have ample scholarship funds to cover it too, so just let Bill know. They also include a Picnic area where we can socialize over a BYO lunch. If it's raining, we'll move our picnic inside the historic Chaffey Barn.
If it's ready by then (it's tented for termites right now), the tour would include the adjoining Chaffey-Isle House. The Chaffey-Isle House, a sister house built by George Chaffey Jr., for his mother and his sister in 1884.
https://www.etiwandahistoricalsociety.org/about-3
How this would work is after the Campus tour, which ends at Noon, you could head directly over to the property at 7150 Etiwanda Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739, it's about a 20 minute drive away. There are ample delis, fast food places, etc. between Chaffey and the venue to pick up a picnic on your way. We would have our tours and picnic until 3PM so classmates can have an opportunity to rest a bit and prepare for the party which starts at 5PM.
Lunch recommendations: Old Town Baking Company at 8631 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga (909) 945-0400 comes highly recommended. You can order your sandwiches customized to your liking on their website https://order.chownow.com/order/5213/locations/6767 to have them ready to pickup to save time. They have Veggie options available online, but if you want gluten free, you need to call them to order. Be sure to pick the Rancho Cucamonga location and not the San Bernardino one if calling.
Directions: From Chaffey you drive up Euclid to 16th, turn right and drive to Carnelian and Baseline (16th same Street). The bakery is in center to the south, then back in baseline all the way out Etiwanda Avenue; turn left you will see the Chaffey house on your left.
5:00 PM – 9:30 PM: Reunion Dinner
In the Lake Silverwood Room at the Doubletree Ontario Airport (222 N Vineyard Ave).
Dress is "Casual"
In your registration packet you will find your entree ticket. When your server comes to collect them, keep the ticket stub and give the larger part to your server. It has the item that matches your dinner request.
By popular request, we are not planning anything other than socializing time during our reunion, so no big speeches or music to intrude on conversations. Just a brief welcome and a blessing before dinner by our class Chaplain, David Forden.
Special thanks to our volunteers for helping decorate and handle your check-ins: Anita (Salazar) Cardoza, Darlene (Rhoda) Ryan, Larry Andersen, and Pat (Hand) Kaufman.
We will have a "Memorabilia" table set up if you'd like to bring items from your days at Chaffey or before.
There is no "assigned seating" or place cards at the table, so you can pick who you sit with. We have 9 tables for 10 and 86 have signed up for the dinner.
Sunday, October 25 – Farewell Wrap-Up Lunch 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sue (LeGrand) Coes has once again graciously volunteered her lovely home and yard for our final lunch 1460 Grove Ave. Upland CA 91786.
As of right now, the weather forecast for Sunday is Mostly Sunny with a high of 76 Degrees F.
We will keep Plan B as backup in case of rain. Then will will move our Wrap-up Lunch to the Chaffey Library. We will announce any change in location in the unlikely event it becomes necessary.
For lunch we have a great Mexican caterer "Felipe". http://www.felipescatering.com/ He catered for Bill's Tiger of the Year luncheon back in 2004 and his food is very good! This lunch is included in your registration fee at no extra charge, if we go over budget, it's Bill's treat!
Menu for lunch includes:
• Appetizers: Quesadilla Bar
• Salad with 2 dressings
• Grilled Chicken Tacos
• Carne Asada Tacos
• Rice
• Beans
• Grilled Veggies
• Salsa Bar including 3 salsas, Cilantro, Cebolla (onions), Limes, Pico de Gallo, Cheese, Chips
• Tortillas: Corn and Flour
• Aqua Frescas: choice of 2
• Dessert: Fruit in Season & Bunuelos
Why This Year is Special
As we reach this 60th milestone, many of us feel this will be our last "large-scale" reunion. We hope to make this a truly memorable gathering before transitioning to smaller, informal meetups (arranged by someone besides Bill) in the future.
Sadly as we get up there in years, we're losing classmates. Also, many are no longer able to travel or have the energy for big reunion events. So future reunions will be less structured and more ad hoc.
I (Bill) will keep the class roster and website updated as long as I'm able.
Questions or Suggestions?
Please contact our Reunion Chairman, Bill Finkelstein, at
Stay Updated: Visit https://chaffey66.com for the latest news.
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Are your friends among the Missing? Please help us find them!
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Our email newsletters always turn up new missing persons. Classmates retired and we only had a work email, they changed their email address and didn't let us know, they either didn't have a phone number on file with us, they moved and changed it, or finally sadly some classmates passed away and we didn't hear about it.
Please! If you can help us find our missing classmates your efforts would be greatly appreciated!
- Bill Finkelstein, CHS '66 Reunion chairman.
As a reunion committee we take great pride in the positive feedback we get from classmates who have attended earlier reunions. We also take negative comments to heart and do whatever we can to correct problems.
The one comment we hear far too often is “gee, I wish (fill in the name) had been here.” Trust us we wish they had been there, too. Please keep in mind that we would love to be able to personally contact everyone but we simply do not have the resources to do so. Therefore, if there is anyone (a classmate, a member of another 1966 era CHS class or a teacher) who you would want to spend some time with at the reunion please feel free to contact them, pass on the information and invite them to attend.
You can see the list of classmates that we've been unable to locate on our Missing Persons Page. Get the word out to your friends on social media whenever you can. If there are folks who you want to see but don’t have a way to contact please let us know. We’ll do everything we can to obtain contact information and personally reach out to let them know they are remembered and missed.
If you do find them, they can
As of September 30, 2026 we still have 323 missing classmates. You can make a big difference!