Friday, August 31, 2007

After 40 years ...

The 40th Reunion for the Class of 1967 is coming up, and it’s been quite a walk through the past for me the past few weeks. I have thumbed through scrapbooks, read my two remaining yearbooks, listened to music from the ’60s, and talked to old friends. (It was interesting to learn that no matter how much we may think we have changed on the outside, our voices seem to have remained pretty much like they were 40 years ago.) All of this has been to get ready for the reunion on Sept. 15.

Several of us have also spend time with Google, whitepages.com, zabasearch.com, classmates.com, and other sites, trying to track down addresses for classmates who have moved since the last reunion. Some of the people listed below have never attended a reunion, and maybe they have no interest in coming to this one. Still, we still want to invite them if it is at all possible. If you know how we might contact any of the following people, please send me an e-mail at ask4welch@aol.com.

Janet Copley Crowe
Gayle Deets
Tim Dorman
Charles (Tom) Duvall
Kathryn Forbes
Vicki Gardner
Rose Gridley Wise (last in John Day)
Clark Hallgren
Galen Hayes
Kim Hoffman
Harvey Johnson (last in Redmond)
Louise Kinney
Linda Lerwill
Steve Marshall (last in North Plains, OR)
Steve Mayfield
Billy Jack McCoin
Maureen Muma
Jean Ragland
Perry Snyder (last in Redmond)
Debby Standiford
Fred Sutherland
Richard Tracy
Barbara Uptain
Diane Verschoor
Linda Waltz
Lonnie Weigel
Peggy Whitehead
Cliff Williams
William Zilke
Sharon Zimmerman

I also learned in the last month that Ralph Meeker, Peggy Eccleston and Joyce Whittier had joined the list of our deceased classmates. That was news to several of us, and it came as an unwelcome shock. That list now includes:

Peggy Eccleston
Jean Green
Joe Hahn Jr.
Eugene Johnston
Mike McCall
Ralph Meeker
Charlene Thorson
Mike Urell
Joyce Whittier

We miss them.

I hope people will use this blog as a place to connect and stay in touch. Each month I will post a new question or topic that people can use as a starting point for discussion if they like, although, of course, you should feel free to start a discussion on any topic that interests you. Right now, you might want to write about reunions – in general or high school reunions specifically. See you on Sept. 15.