Carolyn Johnson Lindsley

Weldon Award

I was a conservator for an elderly UCLA professor for several years in the '80s, and when George retired in '92 and started his own packaging business I did the billing and bookkeeping and still get calls from a few customers.

I grew up in the Monterey hills, in L.A. just outside the city of South Pas. I could attend SPHS because my mother worked in the So. Pas library.
George & my first residence was on Orange Grove in South Pas. Then we bought our 1st house on La Presa in San Gabriel (close to where I taught at the K.L Carver school).
Crown Zellerbach transferred us to Houston (1958 to 60) and then to Lubbock, where we lived for 9 years. Then back to So.Cal. We bought this house in 1969 & live next door to Bud Hayward (S.P. '41) & his wife Bunkie. (We live in North Tustin, but for many years Santa Ana was our mailing address.)

See above.

My brother Stan Johnson graduated in 1946. He was a designer for Chrysler & American Motors in Detroit & died of a heart attack at work in 1978.

I was very happily married to George Lindsley ('47) for over 52 years

Jim McClure '46 lives a few miles from me & we keep in touch regularly.
Hugh Tassey '45 is married to my close friend from Oxy, so we keep in touch.
We went on many scuba/snorkeling trips with Stuart ('45) & Sue Ferguson, but now just keep in touch at Christmas time. We also loved visiting with Stu's sister Patsy '47 in Santa Barbara, but she died several years ago.
I see John Taylor '50 regularly because he is my attorney (who puts up with my horrible procrastina-tion!) I was his baby sitter for several years while I was in high school & he was a rambunctious pre-teenager.
I was SO pleased that Lee Hershberger & Howard Topp got our class together for our 65-year reunion a few weeks ago at the all-years' picnic at Garfield Park -- the first of these picnics I've attended. I'd like to think we'll do it again!

My best memory is the day I got acquainted with my future husband. I was a senior & chairman of the Tri-Y and was asked to give a talk about dating to the sophomore Hi-Y. I had forgotten my notes & so I am sure I was quite rattled. In my diary I wrote that "after my talk the boys asked questions. George Lindsley asked about 20 questions. It sure was fun!"
Then 10 years later George & I bumped into each other at The Kona Hut in Laguna. 6 months later he called to ask me out, & 3 weeks later we were engaged.

I love to read, cook, putter in the garden (but thank goodness for my gardener), sew - and I start every day doing the L.A. Times crossword puzzle. I look forward to walking at the track with 3 good friends. And of course I love visiting with my kids & grandchildren. A wonderful event this May was a Regent cruise to Iceland, various islands, Scotland, Ireland, & England with my daughter.

Sorry, no music gene. But I always enjoy Glenn Miller & the other golden oldies we grew up with.

I am very active in my book club. Some of my recent favorites have been Three Cups of Tea, City of Thieves, Olive Kitteridge, Sarah's Key, The Glass Castle, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and am in the middle of scheduling 23 books for the '10-11 year. (We only pay $25 a year and pass 1 or 2 books every 3 weeks. Then at the end of the year we pick one or two to keep. We are on a 4-gal committee to fix lunch once a year, and also a committee to pick a speaker.)

I am SO VERY lucky to have attended SPSMHS!

(George & I were on the committee for the first All-Years' reunion in 1982. I think it's neat that Joan Walker Bennett is STILL involved; it was great seeing her at the recent picnic.