A FEW MORE PIX

Beth Donaldson

Rod Bruner

Rod Mayo

It appears that the red eye is gone, but has been replaced by pupils that look rather odd. Oh yeah and the magic camera has added way more than 10 pounds to some of us. You can click on any photo to enlarge it, if you dare, lol. I am told that Joe Cousino has posted a lot of pictures of "Sunday at Steve's" on his facebook page. I am waiting for him to "friend me" so I can check them out.

PICTURES

I am going to begin by apologizing. We have a new computer with new photo editing software (F stop, anyone know how to use it??) and we have quite a few pictures with serious red-eye which we can't correct so I have omitted them in the interest of getting this post together in a somewhat timely manner. When they are corrected I will post them. I am also sorry that we don't seem to have pictures of everyone. It seems that some of our classmates are camera shy.

Steve Saunders

Foreground: Cindy Vetters and Elizabeth Stone
Background: Sharon Chittenden, Sue Quenneville and Roger Harrington

Updating the Wall of Fame/Shame? Jeremy King

Me at the Wall

Tom Way and wife

Bev Dubuque and husband

Dave Hartigan

Donna Stearns and Charlotte Gardner ( Brad's wife)

Dan DeGraf

Terry Smith and wife Lisa

Mary Beth Perry and Sue Quenneville

Gary Smith (foregound) and Scott Taylor

Dave Melendy

Howard Van Benthuysen ( The Honorable) and Betsy Johnstone

A valiant attempt at a class photo

Mike Donoghue and the back of Brad Gardner( who never once let his face be shown for the camera). Makes you wonder who is looking for him, huh?

Pat Spaulding

Dan Dienst and wife

I have a few pictures from the Barbeque at Brad Gardner's that I will post in a day or two. Sadly most of them are the backs of people!

Thanks to everyone who made the reunion a success.

Janet

IT'S HERE

The day is finally here; everyone put on their "happy faces".

See you later,
Janet

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to pass along this e-mail from Ray Taft. Send him a note and let him know what you have been doing these last 40 years.

See you Friday,
Janet

Hello Janet, although I won't be going I wanted to say hello and hope that you all have a good time. Please say hello for me and share that I am retired and living in Florida with my wife of 38 years. I have 3 daughters and seven grandchildren with the seventh coming anyday now. Thus the reason we are not going to be there. Its funny how our oldest is graduating this year, and no our youngest is just born. My wife and I both retired at 55 so we could enjoy life and are doing just that. We travel extensively and when not we are enjoying our grandchildren. So enough of me and I am encluding my email address so you may give it out to whoever wants it. I would love to hear from all.

Raymond Taft
raymondtaft@yahoo.com

Tutorial

First of all, we have an official reunion photographer. My husband, Bob Magina, has been volunteered and has reluctantly accepted while mumbling something about I will owe him. Honestly, he loves to take photos and since he is kind of a quiet guy and he will not know anyone at the party ( except me, who apparently will owe him, lol) it will keep him up and moving about. Be nice to him and please don't tell him any embarrassing stories about me, OK?

I am ashamed to say that I have no idea how to use the scanner attached to this computer. I would love to show some pictures from our yearbook to jazz this blog up a bit, but unless I have Bob show me, and then I will be even more in his debt, it will be just text.

Now for the tutorial part. I have been blogging for a couple of years now and have a blog called Housepeepers. It is a fun way to chronicle events in your lives or to just share your ups and downs and passions with a whole world full of strangers. I actually have a blog friend from North Carolina stopping by to meet me on Friday AM. It's kind of like having an imaginary friend come to life, but I digress.

The point being that it is OK to read the blog and even comment. Once you read the post you will see "0 comments" at the bottom on the right. Click on it and it will bring up a rectangular box. Write your comment in the box and include your name somewhere. Under the box you will see a drop down menu which says "comment as". Simply scroll down to Anonymous ( the last entry), enter. Click on the box that says "post comment". If for some reason it doesn't work, click it again. See easy as pie. If you have problems send me an e-mail at janetmagina@comcast.net and I will help you.

So, what is everyone wearing to the Friday night party? Will Dockers and a polo shirt be OK for Bob? And, are we having dancing?

Later,
Janet

PS: I hope no one is insulted that they were not offered the Official Photographer job ;-)

Attendees

Here is the list that Steve Saunders sent me. Anybody that is "on the fence", get off the fence (gracefully please, broken hips are dan..ger..ous at our age ;-). It will be fun to see as many people as possible. Remember, if you are not in attendance you are fair game for gossip!

Still "Building a Proud Tradition" 40 years later,

Janet

Here is the list that has said yes so far. Steve McGrath, Terry Smith, Marybeth Perry, Gail Spooner, Beth Donaldson, Sharron Chittenden, Brad Gardner, Elizabeth Stone, Joe Benoit, David Hartigan, Besty Post, Ginny O'Brien, Beverly Dubuque, Gary Smith, Janet Bishop, Scott Taylor, Bill Dalton, Diane Dubois, Tom Way, Andy Cochran, David Melendy, Roger Harrington, Steve Saunders, Sue Queenville, Rod Bruner, Betsy Johnstone, Danny Degraf, Danny Dienst. I used all maiden names as people out of touch might not know married names. Can provide them if you need. Here is who usually comes or I have talked to but they have not RSVP. Bill Brown, Jim Condos, Mike Donoghue, David Douglas, Ruth Dunkley, Sherry hance, Jim Moser, Bobby Stringer, Howard VanBenthuysen, Greg Hooper, Jeremy King, Donna Stearns, Patty Watson, Steve Wilbur & Cindy Vetters.I have to give QHC a head count by July 6th. About half are going to Brads and about 1/4 to my house however my house on Sunday will include quite a few people from the classes of 1966-1983. I know nothing of Blogs so I'll leave that up to you. Thanks Steve.

Reunion time

Hi,

It's Janet Bishop ( Magina) here. Better late than never! I am creating this blog for our class reunion, you know the one...the 40th ! Hard to believe that the young, perky kids we used to be have morphed into middle aged Baby Boomers looking to have a good time at our 40th reunion. We may not be as young ( OK, we are definitely on the downhill side of middle age) as we used to be, but I am pretty sure most of us still have plenty of party left in us. So, I am hoping to post a list of attendees and we can comment and chat about the reunion before the event and then we can laugh at ourselves after the event. Sound like fun??

Later,
Janet