Maylo's Not At Home This Summer

A recent communication to us from Maylo Beil Hranac let us share vicariously in her travel adventures this summer. Maylo wrote: "We returned June 18th from a five week vacation. We sailed from New York city and eventually got to Copenhagen. We enjoyed many ports and spent an additional three days in Copenhagen and then three more in Manchester, UK. My husband has some serious health issues, but we were able to rent a mobility scooter - and he has a portable oxygen concentrator. Ten years ago this type of trip would not have been possible for people with physical/health limitations.

Now that we are back home we are busy arranging a visit to Fort Collins, CO. We have two great-grandchildren now, and one is joining his parents (he's just six months old) and flying in from Japan in July. The other great-grandchild lives in Denver. My husband had three children when we were married -so I acquired an instant family."



The above picture was taken in maybe 1953 or 1954 at a Job's Daughters function (several of the '57 girls were members). Can you find Maylo in this picture? Who else can you identify?

We Lost Wayne

Some 6 months after being diagnosed with small cell cancer of the lung, Wayne Malon lost his very determined and courageous battle with this evil disease. According to his wife, Pat, he passed away very peacefully in his sleep the evening of June 15.

Wayne worked harder than most everyone else in making the 50th reunion the success that it was, and he did it mostly behind the scenes. He helped locate numerous classmates; he served as liaison with our webmasters and contributed, in one way or another, most everything that's on the class web page; he helped identify the class members in the 8th grade photo, in the 50th reunion pics, in the individual grade school pictures, and in the various other pictures on the website and in this blog; he put most of these photos in proper format for posting; he scanned and prepped the issues of High Life and other documents for the web page ---- he did so much, and wanted no recognition for any of it.
Our condolences to his wife, Pat, his 2 daughters and their families and his numerous friends. Suffice it to say, he will be missed.