Bill Kirchen: Home for the holidays and bringing good cheer with him
The last stop on Bill Kirchen’s annual holiday tour is Austin, where he lives, so he can spend Christmas at home with his family....
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Dec 31, 2019
Speaking of good music…..a visit to Hitsville, USA
While on a Christmastime visit to Michigan with my husband, our hosts took us to Detroit to see the Motown Museum. Slated for expansion,...
Nov 30, 2019
A 20-year Thanksgiving tradition: croquet!
When Bonnie Holzhauer Bean posted a few photos on Facebook and talked about a Thanksgiving croquet game, we had to find out more. She...
Nov 30, 2019
Memory Lane gets longer when we’re 72
In the class Facebook group, Tim Falls posted a list of #1 songs from 1965 and it took us back to younger days. As Cherie Major...
Nov 13, 2019
Teacher and coach Chuck Ritter
Kay Stipe Huntzicker sent the news that Mr. Ritter died late in the year at the age of 87. An exceptional athlete and also an excellent...
Oct 31, 2019
For a son, not much gets better than this
In the class Facebook group, Gene Tanabe posted a wonderful picture of two smiling faces with a clear family resemblance and the caption,...
Oct 31, 2019
A different kind of family milestone – actually, two
The college graduations and weddings of one’s children are always memorable family milestones, but they don’t always come just two months...
Oct 31, 2019
Friendships from long ago are sometimes the best ones
Every couple of years or so a group of friends, some going back as far as elementary school at Angell, choose someplace new to get...
Oct 20, 2019
News about Mary Lou Leeman Rigg
Bonnie Holzhauer Bean and Pamela Conn Hyde got in touch to let us know that our class member Mary Lou died on October 20. She remained a...
Sep 30, 2019
Three blasts – melodious ones – from the past
Bill Kurtz, a self-professed collector of miscellany, puts it succinctly, “I save stuff.” Lucky for us. He won’t call them “treasures...
Sep 30, 2019
“Shall we go to France?” “Mais oui!”
There’s a duet by Maurice Chevalier and Frank Sinatra (what a combo!) in the Cole Porter film “Can-Can” that includes the line, “I love...
Aug 31, 2019
Carol Martin marries her Pickleball crush . . . finally!
Carol took up Pickleball in 2012. The first person she met on the courts was George Daley. After 20 years of being a happy single woman,...
Aug 31, 2019
And some in the class have already been married for 50 years
While a brand new marriage was starting for Carol Martin in August, two other classmates—married to each other—were celebrating their 50...
Jul 31, 2019
Making music – we’ve been doing it for a long time
This year, Michael Bartus made a move from Michigan to the Pacific Northwest and dealt with one of those tasks you have to face sooner or...
Jul 31, 2019
Do you know what an honor flight is? You will want to.
In November, the New York Times published an article with the headline, “Mission: Escorting Veterans Down Memory Lane”. That title...
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