Joy attended John W. North High School in Riverside, California, from 1972 to 1976. North High School is the closest high school to the campus of the University of California at Riverside, and some of her friends and my friends were children of professors who taught at U.C.R. Joy and I were the children of Howard and Charlotte Burton who taught at the junior college, Riverside City College.
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"Billie J. King"
Maybe some of your liberated ways are rubbing off on me, after all I'm using your pen - and it doesn't burn. Big "L"
Joy, it's hard to express how much fun I've had knowing you. We've really had some high ole times, if you'll forgive the expression. We simply must play tennis this summer when you aren't trapesing (well, you know) around Europe. Have a fantastic time and I'll see you later.
Susie
P.S. If you ever want someone to go to Lothian with you, well...
Joy, what can I say about a four-year friendship? To sum it up in a few words Pjagenplugte in twiden blunk! All my space is used up. This makes me very mad. Well, I don't know what to say! Bye Bye - Beth
Since I can't think of a good analytical thesis statement, I'll have to refrain from writing anything. Daniel Lawton
Joy, someday we will go to Rome together and reinstate the glory of the Roman Empire - Facturusne simpretium operae, si perscripserim res Romani populi a promordio urbis, nec satis scio, ne, si sciam ausim dicere.
Jeff Kissinger
To a great and recent friend, Joy Burton
Joy,
It's been fun knowing you. Have a great summer. Have fun in France. See ya next year.
Julie Skinner
Joy----
Here's to the future! Hope to get a chance to see you in it ... like at camp?
Allan Mann [teacher]
Joy,
You're a great friend who I like a lot. See you next year. Luv, Mark Lulmer[?]
Joy,
I can't write letters like you do. I just write a short note saying have a good time in France; enjoy yourself, friend.
Love,
Metty [Martha]
Tomason [Metty lived near us, and her father, Ivan Thomason, taught nemadotodology at U.C.R.]
Joy
have a nice whatever
Molly
Joy,
I like being your friend. I'll see ya.
Cindy Plattner
Joy, I finally got my picture in the annual. It's been different knowing you, but I guess I can say it's been okay. Next year I'll be on the tennis team & beat your ass off.
Peggy F.
Joy, where have you been all my life? Think of all the weirdos parading around North! You are one of them. And you'll be there next year.
Pat (Scannell/O'Scannell)
Dear Joy
Don't be yourself and not what others want you to be, until you are yourself and not what you don't want yourself to be.
Love
John Fess [class president, academic achiever, and all-star athlete]
Dear Joy
It is always a pleasure seeing your smiling face in one of my classes. Good luck.
Mr. Blanes
Joy,
You've been bugging me about signing your yearbook and I don't know what to say. Well, I guess I will say that you're not bad for a sophomore, and good luck next year.
Thorpe [Loeffler] [Still one of Bill's best friends, Thor introduced Bill to the worlds of cars and stereos because Thor's stepfather {Edward Clinkscale} was a professor of music at U.C.R.]
Joy,
What can you say to Joy
your name expresses it.
You'll be there next year,
and that's enough for me
Janet Brown
(I'm glad you saw the Wizard)
Joy, it seems unusual that a year ago we didn't even know each other. What can I say? You are a person that is really beautiful. I know that we will have fun in France. It will be especially fun because you will be there. Love,
Richard Harris RH
Joy,
Although I really haven't known you for that long, I've loved every minute of it. Don't change.
luv
Donna Levinson
P.S. good luck with you-know-who!
Joy,
what is your malfunction? I mean you've got a problem. It's probably nicholitis or 6th-hour phobia.
Take care this summer and hope it's not contagious.
Luv,
Erich Wolf
Joy,
First of all, I hate this page (the looks of it), but I must write on it because of all the space. I don't know how to start! But I'll first say you're one of the greatest people (a really neat weirdo!!) that I've ever met and probably ever will. We've done so many far-out things together, mostly little things, but ones that I'll remember for a long time. I know you'll have a great time in Europe this summer (despite that, us two can go together one day). So remember: (Gold Medal! HA HA HA); going to the Music Center; to UCR movies, on picnics, working with Fugue and Mark [Harrah], Lothian [UCR dormitory], UCR movies, Siddhartha, Christmas, pizza at your house. All of these memories will be kept in my mind and soul, under the category of "heart-throb." I love you very much, Joy, so let's always keep in TOUCH (?! HEE-HEE)
Just, Scott [McKeown?]
Joy,
this annual is really shity (you wasted your money, Ha Ha). Our relationship is really strange! We get really close then fade away. Like now with this MOHAMADE gulf, wow what a name. From your description he sounds great but who knows. We have gone through numerous fellows. Remember D.D. and D.M., etc., etc. I hope you get close to Jackie [Sisson?] and he doesn't hurt you. It will be great for you. Well enough of this crap. I'll leave you now. You're [a?] weird [person?]. Mouna [?] Marina [?]
[Following is in mirror writing.]
Joy, this is an optical illusion. You aren't really reading it because it is impossible to read backwards. In fact, NOTHING is real. Everything is a put-on, don't you think so? But you are one of the few people who aren't phony and that's what I like about you. I know you'll meet people who can't stand it, but you don't have to conform to any phony person's demands. Love, Monica [?] [Pratt?]
Joy, that's a beginning! Is this school really so bad that you want to graduate early? But I sure do envy you going to Europe while I'm here in smoggy Riverside. I wouldn't dare wish you a "nice summer," and I'm sure you'll have one anyway. Instead of foreign lit, you'll study foreign people + places, which are a lot more interesting!
Shireen Mulla [Shireen's father, Dr. Mir Mulla, was an entomologist at U.C.R., and Shireen's brother David was a good friend of mine.]
Joy,
Have you seen your analyst lately? You realize it's healthy for you. Isn't your analyst called Dr. Demento? (Or was it Jungle Judy?) I always forget technicalities. It's alright, however, I understand that many geniuses, the ones I know of, that have forgetful spasms. (Now I forget what I was going to say.) Anyway, enjoy Europe and the rest of the summer. You're really one of a kind. (That's a compliment.)
Margaret Fukuto
Joy,
I've really enjoyed going to North and knowing you but now I'm going to Poly [High School] and I like it (or love) [it] over there. I'm still going to miss you, but I'll come over once in a while and visit. Take care of yourself because I care.
Love,
Mike Goss [next-door neighbor]
Poly "75"
Earn the Joy,
the joy of Joy. Since you are one of the great Burtons, you too are admired. Take care.
Patti [Lydon]
Joy, You are a really nice person and I am glad that I know you.
I hope you have better luck with tongues next year.
David Prout
Joy,
you can be best described by your name. Good luck and take care of Bill. David [Mulla]
Joy---
When you're standing under the Eiffel Tower, not thinking of Jeff, think of me smoldering in the wonderful summer heat. Ah, I wish I could go! Enjoy it!
Love, Carol [Bingham?]
Joy,
Man do you get me mad. I never got to pinch your butt once this year. Had fun in Franchee-voo.
Andy Leeka
Joy---
Since I can't write anything profound, I'll give you a piece of a poem by a 17th-century Irish monk. He wrote it when he was a hermit.
"I and Pangerban my cat
'Tis a like took we are at
Catching mice is his delight
Hunting words I'll sit all night."
Rachel E. Miller [daughter of Professor Milton Miller]
To Joy
It has been a joy -
pleasure.
Honest. DHL [Doris Hope Lustgarten, English teacher]
Joy
Thanks for being my friend even though I can't play basketball.
Beckie Etter
Joy,
You did get to see me ice skate once - you lucky person. I know you will do well in the rest of high school because you have shown such promise in the years you have been here. Good luck. Hope to see you around. Don't let Bill boss you around.
Wayne [Hundley]
Joy, what lovely hair you have! I enjoyed touching you dear - don't tell now! Nah - You are a real Joy to know - I'm sure you've heard that dear - be happy with life -
Much love, Patty Woodrich
Coach [Gene] Hughes
Joy - May your act become cleaner
your [lip? life?] straighter
and most of all, may you learn not to talk while I am trying to sleep.
R[on]. Crandall [biology and ecology; he organized the "Crandall Campouts" in the desert that were otherwise known as the "Candle Crampouts." Students drank beer and other stuff, smoked dope, and probably took other drugs. A.F.A.I.K., no one was hurt, although Thor spent a long time throwing up on a sand dune after drinking a lot of beer.]
Joy (you doper you!)
I must say, we've had our highs together! I've truly enjoyed these uplifting experiences, and I hope to enjoy some more stimuli. Please don't forget me, but just the same, don't remember me by [brother] Mark [Harrah]! One bit of sage advice: don't smoke anything I wouldn't smoke! Also, "go placidly amid the noise + waste + remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof."
Shane Harrah [my friend, more or less, from age 5 to age 51]
Joy,
You've been great this year. You were especially nutty in French II. How dare you pick on your beloved student aide!
Love,
Lise Loeffler
I didn't know you were bill's sister until a month ago. Now isn't that a shame.
Kimon Papafingos
Je te reveras l'armee prochain.
Iason [Jason?]
- Joy -
To the rottenist most deceitful student I have ever had. Remember how we first met - Ah, it sticks in my mind with Joy, peace + fond memories. Now for the serious stuff. I hope I never ever see you again. At least not until next year. Have a nice summer.
Love thru Christ
Carl [?] Nicholls [?]
one day while stumbling through the gesert and over a great sand dune I met a waisted chick with a bottle of Jim Beam in her hand and a roach in the other.
That's how I met you
all my love, Joy
Steve O'Toole
Joy,
Even though I hardly knew you, you're one of the few who have red hair like me.
Ken Stefferud
To Joy,
to a really cool person who I wish I could see more of. Stay the way you are, ... you'll get what you want out of life. Remember me and Good Luck.
Love,
Alex [?] Fardia [?] Faridia[?]
(Hippie)
Joy,
To a beautiful person, you are probably one of my dearest friends. I have 3. I can talk to you and you actually listen. Far out! Thanks for being my friend.
Love, Mark Harrah
[younger brother of Shane Harrah and son of U.C.R. philosophy professor David Harrah]
Joy,
Oh, Joy! (in the words of my father). Enjoy Europe and come back in one piece. Beware of those Libians [?].
Monica [Pratt?]
Joy,
you're a joy, really. I'm glad I know you, and wish I wasn't leaving so I could meet you more.
Love,
Martha Jo Hall
Joy,
Wow, wasn't camp fantastic! (an overused word) + feel we have become really close + will be good friends. Don't forget summer camp is beautiful and will bring you close to a lot of people. Please come. Warm Fuzzy
Ellen [?]
Dearest Joy,
I am not going to get all gooshy and talk about your "cute" personality or the "fun" school year. (I detest such yearbook literature.) However, I have not yet forumulated a suitable alternative, so I cahlall merely sign my name and hope that the sensuous curves of my handwriting express all that I could not put into words.
Julie Jeffrey [for a while, maybe from March of 1976 to sometime in spring of 1997, my girlfriend; as of April 2007, working at the music library at U.C. Berkeley]
To a really odd girl. Have a good summer! WAYNE SILVERTHORNE
Joy: I see you around almost all the time but I'll write something anyway * Goodbye OLLIE! :-)
Kevin Cantwell [neighbor]
Joy,
My helpful (confider) without you I would not be able to live, your love meant so much to me.
love, love, love
Wayne [Johnson, probably]
P.S. love, peace, happiness
Joy 'me hearty'
I can't think of anything witty to say so you getstuck with crap. Here it is. I hhope that you have a great time in Europe. Be careful. I want to go there is a couple of years and I want something to be left when I get there. I'll see you next year.
Ann Bikle [who later married Julie Jeffrey's brother David]
(the great actress Sarah Bernhart sp II)
Well dreamer, how was your year? Wasn't P.E. beyond the deep realms of thrills and excitement? Imagen the widespread joys of tromping through grass feilds with the charactoristics of a flooded rice paddy and juggling the white, pockmarked balls of golf. (Gore!) Oh well. Hooray for Capt. Spalding. It's all in the interests of education (But Holmes, I don't understand!) [finger] snap snap AHA! What does that remind you of? Handball gloves of course. Get hold of a pair and we can further transform our summer into one of the more bizarre episodes of our insane lifes. Just think, if you had a pair you could be admitted to the "slogans-on-handball-court-walls" guild to enliven your nights.
See ya next year
Sara Gilbertson *
* Don't sit with your back to the attendance office when I'm absent. Have fun in Europe you lucky kid.
Joy,
Remember me? Have fun this summer and I wish you all the love and happiness your life can hold! Love, Linda
P.S. Better luck on your driver's test next time!
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