Saturday, September 15, 2012

Frank Fusco "Welcomes" a Visitor

Received the following e-mail from Frank Fusco:
"I was reaching to put something on a shelf in my shop and saw this visitor. Glad I saw it first. Not sure how I'm getting it out. If outside I would just shoot, but not inside.
Frank"



Since snakes freak me out and Copperheads are among my least favorite, I really can't comment about this. But I guess better a copperhead than a moccasin.

We're Playing "Name Your Classmates"

As you may recall, our 55th reunion was held the nights of August 24 and August 25. Tho we haven't received any photos from the Friday night Pizza Party, we have gotten a few from Saturday's sit-down dinner, thanks to Gordon and Allene Rudolph Rondeau. Thanx to the efforts of the reunion committee and John Spencer, we've ID'd most of those pictured. Let us know if we've made any mistake. Mary Ann Batten Papievie and Jerry
Renate Henze Staley, Carol Eichman McTague, Barb Testen Smith
Dametria and George Avgeris,Dick Pigman and Terry, Siglinde and Alan Burger
Tom Keen, Mike and Mimi Jennings, Wes Upton
Sally Tesarek Terrutty, Larry Bruder, Al Terrutty
Carl Cinkus, Roger Compton, Mary Tharp, Jim Tharp

Name Your Classmates, continued.......

And here are some more of the reunion pictures.........Do we have you ID'd correctly? If not, who are you??? Mary Ann Battten Papievis and Jerry, George McTague
Allen and Marge Panek
Joe and Nancy Mrstik
Jim and Diane Nordin Maloney
Roni Kuhn and Nancy Cinkus
Judie McCleery Rady and William, Phyllis Hagedorn Loehman

We're Still Playing "Name Your Classmates"

This one has a little help for you. In fact, hopefully, we've got them all right. Ellen Brockway Bunning and Charles Staley
Sharon and Bill Conklin, Brand Bobosky, Darryl and Peggy Jelinek
Bob and Charlene VanWie Williams
Norma Deardorff Plummer, Duke and Barbara Guenther, Tom Keen
Glen Landgraf, Bob Hacker, Wes Upton, Carol Reeves Carlquist, Dametria Avgeris
Dot Crawley Vath, Bill Batemen, Margie Bradford Green, Marilyn Shoemaker Schlieffer
Herb Kuhn
John Ungrodt and Norma Deardorff Plummer

Friday, September 7, 2012

Jerry Thorne Deceased

We just learned of the passing of classmate Jerry Thorne on April 24, 2009. This was discovered by Norma Deardorff Plummer when she started researching the "missing" list for the reunion. What follows is the obituary Garland Edgell located in the Chicago Sun-Times files:

"Gerald F. "Jerry" Thorne
Thorne, Gerald F. "Jerry" age 69, beloved husband of the late Lee Ann (nee Lucas), loving father of Frank and Ann
(Len) Strong, proud grandfather of Brittany Strong, brother of Charles Thorne. Memorial visitation Saturday 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W. 103rd St., Oak Lawn. Interment private. For information call 708-636-
1193 or visit www.mem.com
Published in Chicago Sun-Times on April 30, 2009"

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jerry's friends and family.