August 12, 2006; 6:00 PM.
at the Appletree Terrace, Newberry Estates, Dallas
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Welcome to the new HOME page for the class. I found out at the reunion that this site MUST continue. No one threatened my life or property but the message was clear and unmistakable that the monthly meetings must continue. The members of the class will gather at 1:00 PM on the Second Saturday of each month for a social gathering at the Grotto of Harvey's Lake. |
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| Drop me a line at wvevans@prodigy.net to add your e-mail address on our list and get the list of known e-mail addresses for other class members. Please send any other e-mail or snail-mail addresses of class members you might know; including your own snail-mail address if I don't have it already. August 8, 2008Yes, I've been slacking off on the home page in favor of the monthly e-mails. In July this was an announcement of our KHS 1956 70th Birthday Party. You can still participate by sending me ten dollars for one of the Tee shirts we had made up. State your size, L, XL, 2X or 3X. Meanwhile, here's the letters I got from the class who couldn't make it. Birthday Letters And the pictures taken by Bruce Miles. Birthday Pictures July 28, 2007I finally got around to some more updates to the web site. There are now 19 pictures of the 1986 reunion contributed by Bill James and a copy of the 1957 Centennial Program from the Kingston PA celebration of that event thanks to Charlie Kerstetter. It's fun to look at the pages and sad to read the ads of so many businesses no longer around. Take a look at the "old" folks in string bow ties signing the 1957 proclmation on page 29. Don't miss the Second Saturday Social on August 10 and the Picnic/Party on August 26. I hope I'll see you there. At least think of us if you can't make it. July 15Finally some news to report other than that Bruce, Pinhead and I had some beer and pizza at the Grotto. We did that along with Charlie Kerstetter, Ron Russo and Bill James this month but we also discussed our absolute lack of success in finding a public place for a picnic. Pete and Lynn volunteered their place and BL offered hers in New Jersey but weather, parking and sanitary facilities for a large group are often a problem at private homes. Bruce suggested we follow the lead of some other classes which gave up the search long ago and we have made arrangements to hold a Pizza Party at the Grotto. The price is right, the parking is good and you can still go over to see Pete and Lynn. Here are the arrangements:
We have the room overlooking the lake they use for large parties. It will easily hold forty and they can open the doors for larger groups if we get a big turnout. Drop me a note and let me know if you can be there. wvevans@prodigy.net FebruaryNote that the menu has changed because I put the group photo and names on the web site. Now you can go see who that stanger was since you couldn't read the name tag. It was a thin meeting in January and a fairy typical one in February. We finally got everybody in the photo identified and Betty Lou wins the prize. She did better than most of us on the committee. Maybe if I make it a gift certificate to the Grotto she'll come to one of our gatherings. I'll admit having tickets to Yankee Stadium during the season is a pretty good excuse but we do hope to see her (and you) on some Second Saturday as the weather improves. This weekend started badly after our first noticable snow storm and it was a nasty one. This is the first time I've ever heard of the "Eighties" being closed for three days. Interstate 80 was closed from Route 11 east of Bloomsburg to the PA Turnpike and Interstate 81 was closed from Indiantown to Wilkes Barre. Interstate 78 was also closed from Indiantown most of the way to Allentown. It took five hours to work my way from Harrisburg to home and lines of trucks were on the shoulder at every exit. They closed Wednesday and reopened on Saturday for what will become famous for Truckers as the Valentine's Day storm. DecemberI lost track of November while I was coping with medical problems. The December meeting was crowded out of our normal niche just inside the door of the grotto by a Christmas Party for the Dallas Red Hats. The whole place was filled with the annual Grotto Christmas Tree show. With winter chasing us we really tucked into the Pizza and had just short of a dozen of us show up counting Pinhead only once depsite his wardrobe of hats. Joanne Romanowski Alegria was supposed to be in town to visit her sister but arrived a week late due to a case of the flu at her sister's. We're trying to get a special social set up to say hello to her. She missed the reunion because of her summer job in Ketchikan Alaska. The week following the social my copy of the reunion group photo arrived -- at last. The immediate response from BL (aka Betty Lou) was "I got my picture today too. Only two questions...who are some of those people and who's going to put names with the faces?. I only know some of them. I know, I'm such a trouble maker." I guess we'll have to have a contest. I've put a cropped and expanded copy of the picture on the web site. (The colors and details are bad because of the magnification.) If you have Firefox or the latest Internet Explorer 7 you should be able to magnify the picture. It's a big file so dial-up users need to be patient. There are 64 members in the picture and each has a number marring his or her face. Identify as many as you can, send me the names by e-mail and the winner will get a prize. EVERY one of you should at least be able to name ONE person. I'll post the names of those in the photo (if you send them) and the winner in February. That gives you almost a month after the holiday crunch to send names. "Click here for the KHS-56-ID Quiz"
Some of us don't know when to quit. The topic of another picnic at the Checkerboard in Trucksville keeps coming up with actual planning spoiling the socializing. If you are interested please, tentatively, set aside the same date for next year; Sunday August 12, 2007. The thought is this will be an afternoon AND evening affair and the only thing on the schedule is eating and visiting.
I'm not sure that "Fifty-oner Picnic" has the same ring as the one in 2005 but I'm sure we'll enjoy it. The next big one will be the "Double Nickel Reunion" in 2011. Take care of yourself and come home for that one.
The October gathering was quite a good crowd. Ginny Hardy was in town and treated us all to refreshments. I hope we get more out-of-town surprise guests coming our way but they should understand we expect it to be a Dutch Treat occasion. We're still waiting for BK to show up but with a new granddaughter who arrived just before the October 14 date I'm sure we're playing second fiddle.
The lie that we were meeting monthly to plan a reunion has also been exposed and the monthly Pizza Party at the Harvey's Lake Grotto WILL CONTINUE as what will be known as the KHS-56 Second Saturday Social. (That will help the senior citizens among us remember when to be there.) We're not at all exclusive and friends of the class are welcome. We may even move the gathering around. It seems there's a religious war involved between those who think the Grotto serves the only acceptable Pizza and those who prefer the thick crust served at Pizza Perfect in Trucksville.
Friday Night we had an excellent turnout at the Comfort Inn introducing ourselves to all those strangers who had gathered. The dozen or so who had been able to get to the planning meetings had a head start but we were overwhelmed by the crowd of unfamiliar faces. The tee shirts went well and Margie Sanders scrapbook was well appreciated. Fortunately it was protected by new transparent pockets; it's fragile after five decades. Margie has promised that I can borrow and scan it for a new feature this fall.
Jim Bogdan took a bunch of pictures and had them printed so he could leave me a copy to scan. If not today I'll get them scanned next weekend. BL Kozik Gross brought me some slides to scan(she'll call me "Bob" instead of Bill if I don't start calling her BL). They're out there with the other Old Pictures from Dottie Sponseller Carr and Pinhead. I also took individual pictures at the banquet until the crush got too great. I got a little less than half the class. I will eventually move them to the Senior Directory to go with their yearbook photos. My plans went awry when I thought I'd be able to easily read the nametags in the photos. You can see by going to this location and seeing if you can make them out.
There are a few mugs left, first come first served, contact Pinhead. The Mailing List is available on request but I won't post it to protect your interests. I'll e-mail a copy to anyone who asks. Another name was also added to the list of deceased classmates; Marilyn Hooper. Carol Martin was inadvertently missing from the photos posted and the list in the program.
I now have a pile of work to do correcting the names on Dottie's pictures, scanning Jim's photos of Saturday night, posting my shots of the banquet attendees, etc. I'm heading out of town for Labor Day to the National Festival of Wales and Gmanfa Ganu in Cincinnati. It will probably take me until Thanksgiving to get caught up. Please send in any photos you took this weekend. You can e-mail them to me or send them the slow way. Please include names if you can.
I would also like to copy any old photos you might be able to contribute. I can scan photos and slides but I'd hate to see them lost in the mail. The best way would be to bring them to a Second Saturday Social.
This is an open offer for anyone with 35mm slides or negatives to stop by and I'll turn your old pictures into images on a CD. It's a slow process so expect to spend some time visiting. I work from home most weeks when there is a Federal Holiday unless my daughter convinces me to visit in NC. I still celebrate them by their original names; Armistice Day, Decoration Day, Washington's Birthday.
Here, alphabetized by the name used in the yearbook are the attendees at the banquet. Evelyn Coslett and Jerry Stasavage did not pickup their souvenair mugs so they may not have been able to make it. If I missed a name I'm sure our eagle eyed classmates will spot it.
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