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Reunion News
197 people came to Reunion! One of them was Don Franck who was found in Binghamton, NY. Nice to have him back from the "Deceased List." I wish we could create more magic like this.
These friends were there ~
Mary Lou and Bob Gaudian, Allan and Diane Baldwin, Tom and Sue Barnett, Connie (Barron) Lipman, Libby (Bates) and Bob Zenowich, Bill and Phyllis Beard, Eleanor (Best) and Andy Turner, Jack Billhardt, Phyllis (Blake) and Dick Ozimek, Julie (Bleick) and Stanley Moat, Anne Davis (Bouchelle) Lawshe, Lana (Brennan), Leo and Frances Bretter, Fred (aka Bob) and Barbara Brown, Mary-Lynn (Buschen) and Jim Cooper, Lynne (Butcher) and Merrill Clark, Cathy (Carlson) and Lou Zilay, Jean (Carswell) and Windsor Murley, Jane (Chilson) Dunne, Priscilla (Couch) Meyer, Rod Currie, George Dippy, Charlotte (Duryea) and Rod Hohl, Paul and Karen Eisele, Mary (Emery) and Dennis Rich, Joan (Firth) and Hal Kaysen, Pat (Florence) and Dan Flint, Gordon Fowler, Don Franck, Cassie (Frie) and Chris Gaillard, Ellen (Friedman) and George Anthonisen, Sam Fry, Peter and Peggy Gaillard, Bill and Jan Garretson, Connie (Gates) and Henry Cutter, Buzzy and Marylin George, Bob Gibson, Skip and MaryAnn Gillis, Eleanor (Goodman) and Herb Rosenstein,Bill Greenawalt, Mike and Marjorie Grunebaum, Stewart and Ellie Gully, Maida (Gunzenhauser) and Ray Wagner, Mandy (Hammond) and Art Ticknor, Dave Harris, Barbara (Helfrich) and Dave Samuels, Ann (Hubsmith) Marshall, Paul and Suzy Hull, Ed and Marilyn (Hines) Ingalls, Hattie (Johnson) and Steve Toadvine, Susie (Kahn) Fiedler, Cynthia (Kassmel) and Al Barsuhn, Joel Kates, Evelyn True (nee Dee Kilgore), Jim Kingsbury, Steve and Gail Kittenplan, Frank and Alphine Kleeman, Ned Kriegsman, Kathy (Kursell) Pospisil, Barry (Landauer) and Bill Estes, Bob and Carole Lawder, Rosemary (Lawson) Peters, Jim and Norma Lee Lent, Hal Levy, Larry Lock, Betty (Logcher) and Larry Hock, Janet (Lyman) Butlin, Ned and Ellie MacDowell, Jane (MacKenzie) and Jim Davidson, Jim McCaffrey, Don and Carol Mead, Betty Merrell, Carole (Metzger) Vanacek, Sandy (Miller) and Ed McAleer, Harry and Sherry Miltner, Cindy (Mitchell) and Emerson Brown, Chad and Nelly Monroe, Eric and Peggy Moore, Tim and Anne Moore, Charlie (aka Chuck) and Joan Morris, Sue (Mudge) and Bob Jordan, Harry and Kathy Murphy, Audie (Nichols) and Bill Gould, Al "Surya" Peterson, Paul and Rosemary (Sheridan) Phillips, Dick and Nancy Powell, Tom and Janet Quarrie, Ward Reed, Tony and Diana Richter, Marilyn (Robitzek) and Marc DeVos, Betty (Rose) and Mario Tamallanca, Pat (Rowe) Lilly, Howard and Betsy Rusk, Judy (Rutherford) and Pat Sewell, Nat (Salter) and John Baggett, Janet Samuelian, Carole (Schiff) and Jim Straus, John and Lorna Seward, Ted and Sandy Shaw, Barbara (Shuwall) Barr, Jack and Sue Silliman, Audrey (Smith) and Don Robinson, Vera (Spoor) Cohen, Bob and Chris Staub, Brian and Susan Stompe, Margie (Stong) and Don Adickes, Bob and Judy Stranathan, Peter Strife, Ken and Betsy Swan, Mary Carol (Towe) and Rollo Miller, Connie (Van Zelm) and Alden Lank, Walter and Teresa Walsh, Elsa (Weil) and John Reich, Ginny (Weissinger) Grant, John and Linda Wood, Gail (Wright) and Artie Lange, Barbara (Young) and John Bodden.
The teacher has excused the following who have submitted proper excuses --
Peter Arons, Ann (Austin) Lampson, Barbara (Barclay) Ritter, Bill Bourke, Bob Brown, Barbara (Clapper) Bliss, Betty (Campbell) Eubank, Norma (Collister) and George Walgrove -- who was hit by an auto the day before and is recovering --, Diane (Cooper) Nelson, Joan (Degnan) Rieck, Allan Dekker, Mimi (Donovan) Kelland, Harry Gelles, Dudie (Gilheany) Cuccias, Susie (Flint) Lindsay, Penny (Greco) Milano, Terry Gulick, Henry Hopkinson, Ernie Jebb, Dinny (Kahn) Lehrburger, Frank Kleeman, Eve (Kraepelien) Pohlo, John Leslie, Diana (Lotery) Basehart, Gordon Marshall, Ann (Maxcy) Lourie, Don Metz, Cynthia (Midyette) Dobson, Mimi (Millard) Griner, Bill Moyle, Norma (Pederson) Mosley, Esther (Pickard) Wachtell, Sherry (Pratt) Townsend, Eleanor (Price) Ledogar, Ellen (Robertson) Matthews, Ann (Robinson) Clarke, Yolanda (Sandri) Schneider, Sally (Short) Reidmann, Dick Spence, Chuck Whyte, Scott Wood.
We didn't hear from --- Dottie (Aikman) Adel, Ed Armstrong, Mary Alice Balzac, Sandy (Berger) White, Joe Cardinale, Alison (Chalmers) D'Amario, Linda (Cohen) Exman, Beth (Coleman) Stern, Betty Ann (Cook) McIntire, Gary Corwin, Dick and Marilyn (Nottley) Costello, Mike Crames, Phyllis (Criswell) Gilbert, Ann (Cullom) Burwell, Dick DeVoto, Joe Degnan, Bruce Eagleson, Jerry Eisner, Susie (Flint) Lindsay, Dick Flynn, Doris (Franke) Hurdman, Lee Gammill, Joan (Goodson) Carlisle, Peter Goold, Steve Greenberg, Galen Grimma, Jim Hill, Ginny (Hirshberg) Miller, Barbara (Hugo) Downing, Mary Anne (Irvine) Sartin, Elsbeth (Keck) Reynolds, Don Knapp, Peter Kolar, Winnie Leithead, Sally Rafaella Lowenthal (aka Sally Raphael), Ruth Ann (Lysle) Brinker, Karel Malovany, David Mann, Charlie Marr, Debbie (Maser) Luders, Bill McCullough, Betty Merrell, Lya (Mitt) Kivi, Mike O'Hearn, Sandy (Olt) Atkinson, Patti (Petri) Hugenberg,Evelyn (Richter) White, Janet (Rollins) Berry, Ellen (Schoenig) Wetzbarger, Joan (Sherwin) Halkyard, Lois (Shiller) Arthur, Eddie Sholz, Olie Stephens, Howard Sternberger, Ann (Tobler) Frei, Marian (Verrilli) Sackson, Ron Vonderheide, Joan (Wasserman) Schwimmer, Barbara (Wilson) Skogh, Bob Winship, Marcia (Winston) Balzac, and Alex Wohlgemuth.
Reunion Memories
I had a better time than I anticipated and I thought that the planning could not have been better. It might have been a mistake for me not to have gone to the Friday night affair so that I could have had more time to speak to people.
You hosts did a wonderful job and should be very proud of your success. It was organized professionally. You sure did a great job communicating & getting people there.
My brother saw our book. His class has a reunion last year. He had no book. I call it the Great American Novel.
Here are pics of you and your playmates from as far back as 63 years!!! (The picture was taken in our kindergarten room at Edgemont - we are sitting on little chairs. Shown are Skip Gillis, Bob Stranathan, Marilyn Robitzek DeVos, Bill Greenawalt, Peter Gaillard, Dick Powell and Barbara Bodden. Maida Gunzenhauzer Wagner and Stewie Gully got lost and should have been in it! Bob Stranathan thought the blocks were the ones he played with, and Stewie reported that the swing-set had to be ours too!)
I love you all and loved all the hugs I got! makes me want to get on with my life again with wonderful memories of a "warm and fuzzy" memory of my past with all of you!
What a fun time. The reunion, not the long drive [home]….
It was wonderful to see you and so many of our friends…. It was a great reunion.
I loved every minute of it and cried (happy tears) when I said good bye. It gives a good outlook on life to see a group, so nurtured, be such positive contributors to the world - a life affirming reunion. Life can be done!
Thanks for all you did to get people together and the hours you spent tracking people down -- you set a good example for other classes tracking for their reunions. In fact, we thought the whole weekend was tremendously well organized -- better than my husband's in Illinois.
I understand that it was a great success. You and the Committee deserve a big "thanks" for the effort that you put in to making it happen.
Just want to say CONGRATULATONS to you and the entire committee. My husband and I had an absolutely wonderful weekend. In fact, it was mind -boggling. You are to be commended for terrific preparations and an unmatched outcome. My husband told me ours was far better than his reunion two years ago. It was just fabulous.
…the work that went into the reunion was outstanding - I am so impressed!
I cannot tell you how palpable the loving feeling that permeated all of the reunion and at how much we all enjoyed being together.
Wasn't the reunion fun though! The electricity certainly was in the air. My only regret was that I didn't get enough time to have a good conversation with my favorite friends.
From a Christmas letter: One of the highlights of the year was (the) 50th High School reunion! Amazingly, this class has remained connected all these years. With few natural exceptions, most of the class attended. They came from all over to be there. Memories of the good old days, school songs and special events were shared. It all seemed to have happened only yesterday. It was a very warm loving celebration of when we were young in years. Now we are young in spirit. It is always a delight to see old friends. Somehow they make our lives much richer!
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