PAM (LONGWORTH) PELTON & FAMILY

2006

Here is my life story in short for the wonderful occasion of our 40th Alemany High School Reunion.

Many of you know my husband, Jerry, because we dated through high school. We met the summer between freshman and sophomore year when I was on vacation on Balboa Island with Terri Icardo and Paula Carabelli. We married in 1970 while we were both still students at CSUN and we are still together and having fun!

We lived in the Valley until 1992, however, in 1984 we bought a second home in Santa Barbara and began spending our time between both places. Our daughters both graduated from Alemany, Jennifer in 1988 and Vanessa in 1992. Our son, Jeff was born in 1985, and, we moved our home to Santa Barbara fourteen years ago as he started first grade.

I began my teaching career at Alemany as an English and Journalism teacher from 1973-1975. It was quite an interesting experience to become a faculty member with teachers who were there when we were in school. I even taught one of my brothers and his friends their Senior English. They all passed! After that I taught Adult English as a Second Language part time for LAUSD. Since moving to Santa Barbara I have continued to teach part time for UCSB. I design and teach English as a Second Language and Communication classes.

Jerry began his Commercial Real Estate career with Coldwell Banker in the Valley office as an Industrial Broker. After moving he managed the CB Richard Ellis Offices in Ventura and Santa Barbara until two years ago. Now he focuses on developing industrial real estate.

The most important part of life for Jerry and me is our family time and, fortunately, all of our children live nearby and we spend a great deal of time together. Our oldest daughter, Jennifer, graduated from Antioch University and is married to Tom Gibbons and they have a two year old son, Will. Our daughter, Vanessa, graduated from Holy Names College in Oakland and works as a Transcript Analyst at Santa Barbara City College. Our son, Jeff graduated from Bishop Garcia Diego High School and now attends SBCC and works part time as a bartender at Chuck's Endless Summer at the Waterfront. We also get together with the Longworth & Pelton extended families several times each year and that's a big group with my three brothers, three sisters and their spouses and children and grandchildren!

Jerry and I are getting used to our "empty nest" years and traveling more often. We took a trip to Italy in the summer and a fall trip to the Bay Area. We enjoy long walks on the beach, entertaining at home, dancing and dining and, like I said, we're still having lots of fun! We look very forward to seeing so many friends at the reunion and catching up with everyone.

Pam (Longworth) Pelton

Santa Barbara, CA