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| Here's what some classmates wrote about what's happened in their lives over the past few years. Let us know about what you've been doing so we can add it to this page. NEW MESSAGES 7/6/03 Skip & Mary Lou O'Rourke -- Mary Lou & I are both well & rolling along, albeit at a bit slower pace. We will not be at our 60th because one of our granddaughters who lives and works in Sweden now plans to live and marry there and we are planning to be in Stockholm in September for the wedding. Other exciting news in recent years is having been presented with three great-grandchildren ages 5 years, 2 1/2 years, and 6 months. Great fun! NEW MESSAGES 6/25/03 Howard Lee -- I retired from the Amalgamated Bank of New York in 1990, lived in Wilkes-Barre PA from 1990-1998, and have been in San Diego since. I enjoy the weather (no snow or rain), play bridge, and just keep busy in a relaxed mode. Jerry Murphy -- Two more grandchildren. Third daughter to be wed July 4th this year. I just passed 77 years & 2 months, the average life expectancy of a white male. Sometimes I can't believe I'm still looking down at the grass instead of up at it. NEW MESSAGES 6/9/03 Bruce Cameron -- Barbara and I would love to atend but we'll be touring Spain during this period. We have so many fond memories of our 50th, then our 55th, and then a 57th in Williamsburg that we shared with two adjacent classes. Incidentally, after being a snowbird for 20 years, we sold our Rochester NY place last summer. Marie Cardone Paul -- I'm doing fine and enjoying my children and grandchildren. I have a new grandson, and my oldest granddaughter is now engaged and will be married next July. I went out West last year and saw the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park. Larry Fava -- I will be attending a ship's reunion (USS Shelniak-62) on that date at Valley Forge PA. . . We celebrated our 50th anniversary in 1999, have three children and two grandchildren. NEW MESSAGES 6/1/03 Burt Covert -- Still practicing medicine and well and active. Five healthy children and the Lord smiles on us all. Nancy Fischer Slagle -- Tom and I are fortunate to now have a place in Port St. Lucie FL where we can escape the cold winter weather of Connecticut. Hanna Kenmore Still -- I am very involved in the Wellsprings Friends School for high school youth who've been through pain and crack, drugs and street, or whatever, and are being redeemed by supportive, affirmative teachers. Mike Marcellino just had surgery and sent this note: Am home from the hospital and everything is fine. See you at the reunion. Filomena Nardecchia Migdal -- My daughter Jean has become a lawyer and my son Michael has earned a PhD. As for me, I have recently started to take tap dancing lessons. . . . AND THE ORIGINAL MESSAGES Ann Berliner Christensen -- Bob Parker wrote a note on my Christmas card mentioning the reunion, saying, "Sometimes it's better to remember people as they were." I guess I'm always curious as to how they developed, changed, added new interesting dimensions. George Bottjer -- Since our 50th Reunion we've done lots of traveling -- China, Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Greece, London and Hawaii. Walt Brennan and Jean McDermott -- Celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 1989. Still alive and enjoying life in sunny California. Jack Coughlin -- Four new grandchildren. Sold Agency to my sons, kept an office and am a consultant with all the same privileges except a vote (but they do confer and listen!). Still active in several organizations, Scouts being the most active and for which I have been well honored. Barbara Dimond Monroe -- We're both still here and functioning mentally and physically, although at a slower pace. Fred Del Duca -- Two more grandchildren, for a total of 3 grandsons and 3 granddaughters. John Elfenbein -- Phyllis and I will be there, and I'll bring my bass. Joe Germano -- Louise and I became great-grandparents last September. Combined birth of Benjamin Tonbach Doniger in Hawaii with a few days visiting in Pearl Harbor, where I was stationed in 1943. Julian Gladstone -- I will likely miss the 60th as well (as the 50th), but I'll leave it open as a book I wrote will be published this winter (2002-3) called "Never Climbed His Mountain" -- an autobiography which does cover my time in Larchmont and Mamaroneck. (Note: You can find out more about Julian's book, or order a copy, by going to www.buybooksontheweb.com or calling 1-877-BUY BOOK.) Mary Jean Golden Hamilton -- Lucky outcome from breast cancer surgery in 1995. Wonderful 50th reunion of the New York City Ballet in 1998. Mickey Hanson Odem -- We moved to California in June 2002. Having a daughter and grandchildren here in Simi Valley makes it easier to call it home. Lorraine Holleman Meyers -- We have been blessed with fairly good health and also with growing and healthy grandchildren, all 11 of them. Have taken some great trips over the years. Went to Holland to visit our son and his family who are living in the Hague for a few years. Jack Horsfall -- Mary and I are taking our son and his wife on a Caribbean cruise aboard the soon-to-be-launched Norwegian Dawn in the Spring of 2003. Ted Ilgenfritz -- We are still enjoying lots of square dancing both in Michigan and Florida, where we are for 5 months. I publish a township newsletter biennially and sit on our local Nature Center's Land Management Committee. I'm also chair of our church endowment fund. Herb Jarvis -- First great-grandson born and a second granddaughter married. Have done extensive travel -- China, Peru, Russia, Italy, England, Tibet. Dan Kelley -- Great trips with our traveling buddies Pat and Harry Brown (MHS '45) to Italy, Spain and the Canadian Rockies. 13 grandkids, most living locally, keep us busy -- as do serving on boards of Families Moving Forward (homeless) and Edina Historical Society (treasurer), also Social Justice and Shared Ministry Councils as well as choir at church. Janet Kennedy Brinkman -- Happy events include the marriage of our daughter and birth of another little granddaughter, my retirement from active real estate, some wonderful trips. Dick Leonard -- Barbara and I celebrated our 50th in San Luis Obispo CA on 6/22/01 -- all our children, their spouses, grandchildren and some in-laws attended. We're both now members of Naples Artcrafters, showing and selling woodcarvings and stained glass. Steve Leavenworth -- Exactly 50 years after I got my BS from U of Mich I got a BA in History from the U of NH, then in 2000 got an MS in Civil Engineering from Tufts -- no pressure for grades, just did the work and enjoyed it. Ruth Lewine Allar -- I marvel at our class's ability to stay in touch and to be alive and well enough to plan such an event. Sam and I will be married 57 years in September. I stay in touch with Ann (Berliner) Christensen via both phone and email. Fred Miller -- Lost my first wife in 1991 and subsequently married Lesley Harper, who graduated from MHS in 1950. . . I can remember just about every bump on Bonnie Briar having started playing golf there when I was around 10. Dick Monlux -- We have so many little blessings, including closeness to our three children, who are doing fine in New York, Savannah and Orlando, and our grandchildren also doing fine in New York, Seattle and Reno, and a new great-grandson. George Nixon -- Have enjoyed cruises to South America, New Zealand, Australia, North Sea, Ireland. We were over the ocean on 9/11; ended up in Halifax. Mary Parisi LoGiudice -- I now have two more granddaughters thanks to my daughter Mary Alice and her husband Tony. Flossie Simson Kelly -- Took a cruise to Scandinavia on the Marco Polo in 2001. Started out in Copenhagen, then sailed through the fjords of Norway, and toured Oslo, where my father was born, on our 50th wedding anniversary, June 2nd. Estonia was next, then St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm. Rudy Wahlig -- Retired 5 years ago and play golf 3 times a week. Have 8 children living throughout the U.S. and 16 grandchildren. Eileen Walker Watts -- We bought a beautiful home in Sarasota FL as a present for our 50th wedding anniversary -- nice people, nice weather, and beautiful water.
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