Memories of How Ernie Pfanner Reopened Fairfield

Memories shared at the Fairfield 150 celebration May 7 at the school in Davis, CA included this one about how Ernie Pfanner, who had attended the school as a young boy, helped reopen Fairfield in 1982. Carolyn Pfanner, who did the sharing (with support from Eileen O'Farrell), is a Fairfield icon and repository of stories and historical facts about the school.

She was also a school bus driver and drove on a field trip to Dillon Beach that my father organized for Emerson students when I was a young boy. It included a bit of a roller-coaster ride in a large bus on some windy roads and around cliff-turns that is still etched in my boyhood memory.