Claremont High School Alumni Society
1911-2023
Ronald Owen "Ron" Angle
Now
| Class Year: | 1960 |
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| Spouse/Partner: | Jeanne Jelke Angle (from Coatesville PA) |
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| Homepage: |
http://www.withmy2hands.org/ http://www.withmy2hands.org/sos/ |
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| Occupation: | Fully retired vagabond |
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| Children: | Son, Tim; a professional Social Worker living in Eugene OR |
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| Military Service | USAF, four years in Communications Intel  |
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Ronald Owen "Ron"'s Latest Interactions
A reminder: The Class of 1960 is on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/229000617674106/
Celebrated my 75th birthday on May 22nd. Still alive and well! And enjoying my counter-culture mountain man lifestyle. I don't own any fancy businesses or beach houses or play tennis but I get along quite well and expect to live into my 90s. The month before we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. Next week I head high up into the Cascade Mountain Range for three weeks of photography. My wife, son, and daughter-in-law are all Social Workers and I am a professional geographer and writer with four college degrees and certifications as a Firefighter, Medic,and Commercial Pilot. It is a good life and sure beats high school.
As long as I am being loquacious, I shall recall three names. Marilyn, Chris, Leslee.
They were the class of 1960 young women.
Still miss you a lot, pal.
Two things that I remember most about Coach Lynn was that he was always very calm. Some coaches are shouters and some are motivators. Coach Lynn was a great motivator. And he understood the love of running that motivates distance runners. At the end of my senior year, just before graduation, I completed a half-marathon race, fourteen miles, which I personally dedicated to Coach Lynn.
After high school, I entered military service. In 1964 I returned to Claremont and worked for several years as a sports writer for the Pomona Progress-Bulletin. What I noticed immediately was that Coach Lynn had evolved his distance running coaching techniques and was producing more and more very successful runners. Change can be difficult for coaches but Hal Lynn stayed on top of the best methodologies of the moment.
It was also a pleasure to watch Hal Lynn, the batchelor, evolve into Hal Lynn, the family man.
RIP, Coach.
Ron Angle, Class of '60
Chico CA
