Elsinore Naval & Military School

Yes, our website is still alive and well. Feel free to log in, browse around, relive some memories or just leave a comment. The pandemic appears to be behind us and hopefully this announcement finds everyone in good spirits and doing well.

If anyone has updates regarding alumni or maybe some photos you discovered when getting organized and want to share, please send me an email or contact me via the website.

Getting old, surviving the pandemic, finding old photos. Just another day in the lives of our Alumni. Dave Chretien recently submitted one from the early 60’s displaying our Color Guard. Check out some memories listed under Cadet Portraits in the Gallery section or follow this link: https://enmsalumni.org/gallery/cadet-faculty-portrait-photos/

Our new alumni member is William D. Lockett (now Brown Jr.) and attended ENMS in the early 50’s, and currently living in Colorado. Here are some comments he provided to me via email.

My parents got a divorce after spending time in French Moroco, building airports.  They took me out of school and I went to New York City. I do not have any items from the school, all was lost in storage in New York.

I attended around 51- 53. I was there the year the Lake filled up around Christms, and we had a big earthquake that moved all the buinks to the center of the room.

My memories are kind of vague at 80 years old. I remember names like Kozloffs brothers, that taught me how to play chess, their father had something to do with the Frontier in Vegas; Clark his father owned Something in Vegas; There was two brothers Bell from Vegas; The Bela Lugosi Jr, was there two grades above me. He had a trick swimming thing where he dove in and swam across the pool with one foot never going under water.  When I graduated into the senior part he was gone. I remember Conklin had a wooden paddle that he swung like a baseball bat, I earned my name on that paddle with three swats and a bruised butt.

I met this guy in a LA school later, I don’t remember his name, but they called him the Brain. He had an extremely high IQ, and we used to go to the theater in town, having high grades and not have to do study hall.  I will look for pictures around that age, and send them later.

William D. Lockett (now Brown Jr.)

Many of the documents and photos listed on the website, well, they are just that… photos. What to do with a whole document and something different from the yearbooks. I started a separate page just to highlight those artifacts (yes, we are probably all that old) and rare gems that are a part of our alumni memories.

Check out the our new page (Brochures) under Gallery Menu Heading.

Some interested facts and trivia.  Discussions with other alumni has generally included a brief update of what one has been doing recently.  We all seemed to weather the storm, found gainful employment, experienced some medical issues, etc.  However during my tenure managing the website, I have discovered what I think are some unknown successes.  It would be appropriate to note that the website was professionally developed and included some sophisticated security measures which includes the need to review and approve every request for access.  

If one concludes that every request is legitimate (which they are not), the student body at Elsinore has done exceptionally well. Requests for access have been received from persons stating they live in almost every country in the world and some unique towns and cities.  These include Pakistan, Russia, Somolia, Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Viet Nam, Poland, UAE, Sweden, and many cities and states within the USA.  The sheer number of requests would signify that ENMS graduated many more students, including when the school was no longer operating.  Most of these requests are obviously fake (graduating in 1998, etc.), however some were very real (the info was accurate, however after calling or emailing them I learned they never attended ENMS).  

So why this post???? Not much activity on the website lately, I had a few free moments, and maybe it would interest folks to think about ENMS, their fellow cadets, and who knows… a reunion.