ROBERT N. EBY
  1056 Fearington Post
Fearington Village, NC  27312
 Bob's Biography

Activities Key, Cross Country Letterman, Highest Honor Roll, Log Editor-in-chief, National Honor Society, Track Letterman

40th Reunion	50th Reunion
50th Reunion That's a flower, not a cigar.	60th Reunion
Bob and Connie @ 60th Reunion

September 2008:  Bill,  Since getting home, I've used a Firefox browser, instead of Safari, and am able to open up all the info on the class web page.  Thus there is no need to do anything on your end to help us Mac users.  (You can pass along to any of our Mac users that they can download a free copy of Firefox from the internet.)

It was good to see you and again many thanks for keeping up the web page.  Do hope you'll give us a call the next time you plan on being in Cary.  Bob Eby

May 2007 - Sorry to be the bearer of sad news, but Jack McCune died on May 9 of complications from leukemia.  A full obituary was in yesterday's Washington Post.

Jack and I were roommates at Princeton and the best man in each other's wedding.  He was a great gut, a true gentleman, and will be missed.

Bob

I can't identify any of the jocks, but I think the cheer leader may be Patsy Crawford (Class of '47).  She became a member of the boy's golf team, was the first girl ever in PA to win a letter in golf, and was the subject of feature articles in Pittsburgh papers.  By the way, the Lebanon Log reported that the golf team in '47 was undefeated until they reached the WPIAL playoffs, where they lost to Latrobe, whose star was Arnold Palmer!

I believe Patsy went to Purdue, where she starred on the women's golf team and when she came back to Mt. L., set the women's course record at St. Clair ?? (perhaps, South Hills) CC.

This doesn't have much to do directly with '48, but it does bring back good memories.  Patsy was my lab partner in chemistry with Mr. Brown.

Bob Eby wrote us a note in March of 2004 on the old photos that showed up.  Click here to see: 

Bob's Biography

Graduated from Princeton with a B.S. in Chemical Eng'g. in 1952. Received a Ph. D. in Chem. Eng'g. from the University of Illinois in 1958, but more importantly matched up with my wife, Connie Tazewell, who was a coed at the U. of I.

Started work with Union Carbide, doing Process Research, in New Jersey in 1955.  Took one of my processes to production in 1961.  Ended up as Assistant Plant Manager in Bound Brook, NJ.

In 1969 became a Division Manager of a film plant at Polaroid in the Boston area.  By 1989 was in charge of Polaroid's Chemicals Division. 

Took an early out and started my own consulting company.  In 1992 my best client, ChemDesign Corp., asked me to join them as Chief Operating Officer.    ChemDesign was bought out by the German chemical giant Bayer in 1994.  In 1995 we built a home and relocated here in Fearrington Village.

Since coming to N. C. we have had a ball.  I am quite active with the local chapter of the Executive Service Corps, which does consulting for non-profits and government agencies.  Also get a chance to play lots of golf, enjoy the arts and entertainment at UNC, Duke and NC State, and generally enjoy life. We've done lots of traveling.

We have two children.  Sue lives in NYC, is a physical therapist, and is the mother of our 3 year old granddaughter and Philip Jacob Posner who arrived on Oct. 20, 1998, weighing in at 6 lb. 10 oz.  Mother, father, sister and four grandparents also are all doing well!!   Connie went to NYC for two weeks to be the grandmother / housekeeper. I drove up to do some bonding with the new grandson and bring Connie home. 

Tom lives in San Francisco with his wife and is in charge of the telecommunications division of Advanced Microdevices (AMD).  There are no California grandchildren as yet.

Connie and I also enjoy traveling and had the opportunity to do lots of it both in the US and overseas.  We hope to get to London over New Years and to Central Europe in July.

 CHARLES ENLIND
 1318 S. Columbus Street
Arlington, VA  22204
 Chas' Biography

40th Reunion	45th Reunion	Circa 1998
60th Reunion	Chas and Nora Bell @ 60th Reunion

Nora Bell and I just got back May 4 from a jazz festival in Chattanooga, TN.  We enjoyed seeing Igor Alexeff in Knoxville on our way back.  In April we went to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans.  The FQF had 512,000 attendance with 150 bands playing on 17 outdoor stages throughout the Quarter. - May 2010

Igor Alexeff, reported in May 2010:  Charles Enlind and Nora dropped in to visit us on our farm on Monday, May 5.  They were returning home from a Jazz festival in Chattanooga, TN. Both are in great shape.

August 2008:  Just a note to let you know how much Nora and I enjoyed the reunion.  Although she wasn't a member of the class she felt very welcome.  The weekend was  extremely well planned.

We didn't get to the afternoon event because Nora had never been to Pittsburgh before and I was also curious to see the changes downtown so we opted to take the light rail down to Station Square and see the rivers on the Gateway Clipper tour.  I also got to see an old friend Scott Hayes who had been a neighbor.   Bob Woeber was also quite helpful in many ways including suggesting my using MapQuest to get directions to all the places I needed to find.  I've known Nora for 20 years through the Potomac River Jazz Club.  She is originally from Dublin, Ireland but has been in the U S for over 60 years.  Chas

January 2008 -  Just got back from a 10 day jazz cruise to 6 islands in the Caribbean on the Holland America M S Maasdam.  My friend Nora Bell, who was born in Dublin, Ireland 12 days before I was born in the Chicago area in 1930 and I plan to attend the 60th reunion.   We also plan to go to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans in April and the Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival and Cape Cod in July.  Looking forward to the reunion - Chas

February 2007: The only news is that the Potomac River Jazz Club (PRJC) Board elected me President last month.  A group of us from the club will be going to Hotel St. Pierre in New Orleans for the French Quarter Festival in April.  The FQF draws around 500,000 people to hear bands from N O and from around the world.

November 2006 - I have several items that are still at an early stage.  I was just asked last week to become President of the Potomac River Jazz Club for 2007 but I believe the board has to vote on it before it becomes official.

Also, 45 years ago I used to go out with a Dutch woman who worked for the International Monetary Fund in Washington.  We haven't seen each other for 43 years since that is when I married my late wife Pat.  To make a long story short, in a conversation with another former I M F employee several months ago I found out that  my friend had retired to Miami and never married.  Although we haven't seen each other again yet, there has been a fair amount of e mail going back and forth.  My friend currently helps run the South Florida Writer's Association.  We are just renewing an old friendship so its a bit premature to mention her name but it is interesting to find someone like this after so many years.

My daughter Susan has been very supportive since her mother's passing.  Luckily she also lives in the Washington area near Dulles Airport so we get together often.   Chas. Enlind, Arlington, Virginia

June 2006 - My wife of 46 years, Pat, died in London, June 1, while we were on vacation after crossing over on the QM 2 to Southampton.  We were only on our second day in London and had just gone through the British Museum when she had a heart attack on the sidewalk outside the museum.  She was advised she had a heart condition in 2001 but never told me or our daughter Susan.  

Susan had given us a 18 day tour of Europe which we were just starting out on.  Susan flew to London as soon as she heard her mother was ill and helped tremendously with all the arrangements.   Pat's service was on June 17 at the Fairlington United Methodist Church, Alexandria, VA and she will be buried in Albemarle, NC on June 24.

This was something that was totally unexpected.  Chas

January 2006:

Got down to Daytona for 10 days and rented a condo owned by a friend in our area. Daytona is in a demolition stage with many of the mom and pop motels razed with high rise condos soon to follow.

An unexpected highlight was the 1906-2006 celebration of racing on Ormond Beach which involved a rally of probably most of the Stanley Steamers in the US.  Although most of these cars were about a hundred years old, all were in immaculate condition.  We got to see them at The Casements, John D. Rockefeller's home in Ormond Beach.  The next day they were supposed to appear on Ormond Beach but that was the day we were leaving.  Luckily I had my camera and was able to get photos of most all of the cars.

I meant to give you a call while we were in Daytona but time got away from me and a number of the things we usually do down there didn't get accomplished.  The weather was in the 70s and 80s every day which is a real bonus this time of year in central Florida.

I'm still active in the Potomac River Jazz Club.  Many of our members are planning to go to New Orleans for the annual French Quarter Festival which will go on in April as planned before Katrina.  We will miss this year because we are going to Pat's 50th reunion at UNC Greensboro which falls on the same weekend as the French Quarter Festival.

On May 23 we will be on the Queen Mary 2 to cross over for an 18 day tour of Europe that our daughter Susan is giving us.  When she graduated from George Mason University we gave her a similar tour of Europe so she is giving us one now.  Since we have never been beyond Canada or the Caribbean, it will be a definite change of pace.

Hope you and your family are all well.  Chas. Enlind

October 2005:

Chas writes:  Thanks for the Class update.  Our Summer was a repeat of our usual destinations.  New Orleans for the French Quarter Festival in April,  Virginia Beach in May,  Mt Gretna, PA in June for the 28th appearance of the Black Eagle Jazz Band at Music at Gretna,  Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival in July followed up by a week on Cape Cod.  

My only detour was 5 days in Fairfax Hospital for tests in September which happened when I was scheduled to be Co Chair of the 35th annual Jazz Picnic of the Potomac River Jazz Club so I missed that gig.  Luckily the above tests for dizziness and a possible stroke were negative.  October is a busy month in this area.  

Yesterday I went to the Fells Point Festival In Baltimore which is the largest street festival on the East Coast and today we went to the OKTOBERFEST at Fort Belvoir, VA which brings in local bands as well as occasional bands from Germany.  Next weekend is the Waterford Festival in Waterford, VA which has been designated as the best preserved village in the U S . It was founded by Quakers in the 1740s and was the only place in VA to send troops to the Union side in the Civil War.

Next time I'll try not to be so brief, Chas  - October 2005

December 2004:  Good to hear from you.   Not much news here besides making plans for the usual Winter getaway to Daytona Beach and April plans to go to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans.

Daytona has an interesting solution to the damage done by the hurricanes to hotels and motels according to the Daytona Beach News Journal.  Instead of rebuilding, it appears that most of the damaged mom and pop motels on the beach are going to be razed and replaced by high rise condos.  I think 38 motels have already been razed. or scheduled to be.  It will be hard on the average tourist and may eliminate Spring Break and downsize other seasonal event big draws but definitely make Daytona more upscale.  Its predicted souvenir shops will give way to retail shops catering to the new condos.  

We had neighbors back in Mt Lebanon who moved down to Daytona in the 1950s which prompted my parents to start visiting there and stay for the Winters after my father retired from U S Steel in 1955.  Except for a few years when we went on jazz cruises in the Caribbean, Pat and I have kept up the tradition of spending a few weeks in Daytona every January.  It definitely has its rough edges but has enough positives to warrant coming back.  

My only ailment so far is marginal high blood pressure which is under control with 2 pills a day.  Now that I am retired I don't get as much exercise as I did when working so I need to change that.   I'm still active on the board of the Potomac River Jazz Club and have been Co Chair of our last two annual Jazz Fests in September held halfway between Washington and Baltimore.  Best wishes for the new year  Chas. Enlind

March, 2004:  Thought members of the class might be interested in a book published in 2001 by Stackpole Books titled "Klondikes, Chipped Ham & Skyscraper Cones, The Story of Isaly's "   Ward Jones another former Mt Lebanon resident just sent it to me but I haven't had a chance to look it over yet.  Pittsburgh was famous for a lot of things.  Kennywood Park is now considered one of the last best examples of  an old time amusement park still operating in the U S.

On a negative side, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette just reported that 30 of the 129 municipalities in Allegheny County are in bad financial shape due to a loss in tax base.  Luckily Mt Lebanon is not one of them but Dormont, Clairton, Wilkinsburg, Swissvale, McKees Rocks, Rankin etc. are among those in trouble.  Since Pittsburgh  has come close to bankruptcy recently, efforts are being made to combine services provided by Allegheny County and the City.  Chas. Enlind

November 2003: This is sort of a rehash of news I've forwarded before but in recent months I was Co Chairman of the 33rd annual Jazz Fest of the Potomac
River Jazz Club and also agreed to going back on the PRJC board for a fifth 3 year term in 2004. 

We have over 30 affiliated traditional jazz bands in the Washington / Baltimore area which include a youth band, Federal Focus Jazz Band, which has played at jazz festivals all over the U S as well as several in the U K and we are now forming a new band which will introduce this type of jazz to local elementary schools.

We enjoyed getting to the 55th  reunion and seeing several from the Class I hadn't seen at previous reunions  besides those who always show up. 

Shortly after the reunion we were expecting to end the Summer by getting to Virginia Beach one  more time but Isabel changed that plan but luckily didn't cause any damage to our home as the storm went through the
Washington area.   Chas. Enlind

PS, in reply to Igor Alexeff's Russian joke:

Certainly glad to hear you are doing well since the surgery, Bill.

Igor Alexeff usually includes an old Russian saying in his Christmas cards.  "It was an average year. worse than last year but better than next year."

I occasionally correspond with people in Stockholm on the internet and one of them mentioned that when Swedes go to London and have a meal in a restaurant, the waiter usually asks, "Are you finished?"  They invariably reply, "No we're Swedish."  Chas. Enlind

August 2003:  Greatly enjoyed the 55th and we all regretted that so many couldn't make it up for the event.  We sat with Bud Keen, Jerry Goddard and Dave Miller and their wives.  Chas

August 2003:  I just got back from a trip to the Great Connecticut Jazz Festival in Guilford, CT, followed up by a few days on Cape Cod.

Next month I will be co chairman of the 33rd annual Potomac River Jazz Club Jazz Picnic at Blobs Park, MD on September 13.  I was just appointed to a 5th 3 year term on the PRJC board beginning in 2004.  Not much else new here.

Looking forward to the reunion next week.  Chas

July, 2002:  Still hanging in.  The highlights of 2002, so far, have included a trip via Amtrak to the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans in April  and getting to North Carolina the same month for Pat's 50th high school reunion in Albemarle, N C which included a side trip to Charlotte to see a friend of mine I hadn't seen since the 1950s.

More recently, Igor Alexeff came to Washington on a business trip a month back and we got out to dinner to go over old times since the last time he had been in our area.

Next week we are leaving for the Great Connecticut Jazz Festival in Guilford, CT and a week on Cape Cod at South Yarmouth. MA.

Still active getting out to functions of the Potomac River Jazz Club and am Co Chairman of our 31st annual Jazz Festival at Blob's Park, MD in September.   Chas.

December 28th, 2001  Good to see the latest on the class.  We are driving down to Daytona in a week.

Our house is close enough to the Pentagon that it was shaken on September 11 probably from an Air Force jet breaking the sound barrier trying to chase the airliner that went into the Pentagon.  Ever since September 11 the Air Force has been flying 24 hour surveillance over both the Washington area and NYC.   I believe the local air cover is coming from Langley AFB while that over NYC is coming from the former Otis AFB on Cape Cod which is now a Massachusetts Air National Guard facility.   I was at Otis in August to see an air show which included the USAF Thunderbirds.

Our class has lived through the two worst attacks on the U S:  Pearl Harbor and September 11.  The film footage of September 11 was beyond anything even Hollywood could come up with in the way of special effects.  Chas 

August, 2001:  For the past 20 years I have been getting to Colonel Brooks Tavern along with quite a few other jazz fans to hear the Federal Jazz Commission play.   One of the  regulars just got a digital camera and took quite a few pictures including one of Pat and me.  As you can see the majority of the attendees are about the same vintage as the Class of 1948.   Chas. Enlind, Arlington, Virginia

June 2001 update:  Last year our biggest event was another 6 day trip to New Orleans for the French Quarter Jazz Festival in April which was followed by a trip in August to the Connecticut Jazz Festival on the way to Cape Cod where most of my relatives live.  

I took a side trip on the way back by going to Winchester, New Hampshire to see a cousin who has a cottage on a lake near there.

I am still active in the Potomac River Jazz Club but finished up my last term on their board in December. 

This Sunday we will be doing a benefit for the Alzheimer Association and will have bands playing from noon to 7 P M at the Radisson Hotel in Old Town Alexandria, VA.

We just got back from a few weeks in Florida and are patiently waiting for the warmer weather to arrive here.   I am still able to do some bike riding and luckily live next to a bike trail which runs 40 miles west to Leesburg, VA.  I used to be able to ride 40 miles round trip in a day but am now averaging about a 12 mile round trip to American Legion Post 130 in Falls Church, VA which is a welcome sight when thirsty.

Although I have been retired since 1988, we stayed in Arlington because it is about half way between Cape Cod and Florida and there are enough activities going on locally to keep us busy.   I have been active in the Moose, Elks and Legion besides the PRJC.

Also, our daughter Susan lives in nearby Chantilly, VA.  She is Principal Systems Engineer for a local firm involved with the internet.

Hope you and your families have all come through the Winter well.   We have had little snow but fairly cold weather.  Chas. Enlind

2 notes in August, 1999:  I always thought a " nice not" was a marriage that lasted 50 years.  There I go being too nautical.

Sorry for the terrible attempt at a pun.  Can't recall if I was already a compulsive punster when in Mt. Lebanon or whether the affliction came later.   I understand these cases are usually terminal so I tend to steer clear of airports.

Not too much excitement in our part of Virginia this summer except that we are in the second year of a drought.  In those areas where watering is restricted, a green lawn can get people in trouble with the neighbors and authorities.

Pat and I made our usual trip to the Connecticut Jazz Festival in East Haddam, CT August 6/8 on our way to Cape Cod.  We heard Spiegel Wilcox, age 96, play trombone with several of the bands.  He was the only musician left who had played with Jean Goldkette, Paul Whiteman, and Bix back in the 1920's.  He died last Wednesday so we were fortunate to have heard his last gig.

I am still involved with a lot of activities locally and our daughter Susan lives in Chantilly, VA just 20 miles away so we find it a convenient retirement area.  Also, we are halfway between New England and Florida where we go in the summer and winter.

This summer the Potomac River Jazz Club, held a history of jazz series at Lake Accotink Park and Royal Lake Park for the Fairfax County Park Authority in VA which involved different bands playing every Friday night through the summer.

Since I was the only one on the board of directors who had a station wagon I was involved with moving the electric piano from session to session.

I'll have to see if I have a few spare pictures to send by snail mail.   I'm now at an age where I usually forget the camera when going anywhere.   Chas. Enlind

July, 2000 update:  Our outstanding event for 2000 so far was a six day trip to New Orleans to the French Quarter  Festival In April.  This was part of a package put together by the Potomac River Jazz Club to accompany our youth band, Federal Focus J B, which was invited to participate in the festival for the second year in a row.  There were 72 from the Washington area that went down.  The three day event involved bands playing on 19 stages throughout the French Quarter.  Many of the bands were from overseas.  Instead of taking the 2 hour flight down we opted for AMTRAK which is only 26 hours from Alexandria, VA to New Orleans.  We also got to see some of my wife's relatives who live in Baton Rouge, LA while there.

In three weeks we head up to Connecticut for the Great Connecticut Jazz Festival in East Haddam, CT  and then on to Cape Cod for a week at South Yarmouth.  I've been getting up there for most summers since 1940 as most of my relatives, that are still around, live on the Cape.  I wonder if Jad Doubleday  is still in Hyannis?  (Jad died in August 2008)

Our daughter, Susan Enlind, just got back from Dublin, Ireland.  She is Principal Systems Engineer for GuideComm Systems, Inc. in the Washington area.  Ireland is now one of the most active countries in Europe in adapting to the internet.  The internet is a great system.  I recently hired the New Wolverine Jazz Orchestra of Sydney, Australia to play in the Washington area for the Potomac River Jazz Club on July 19 while they are on a four week tour of the U S and also got them a gig at the Great Connecticut Jazz Festival, all through e-mail.  Charles

Chas' Biography

After acquiring an AB in Economics at Pitt I became a Graduate Assistant Instructor in the Economics Dept there while doing graduate work at Pitt. 

In 1960 I came to Washington, D C and became a Labor Economist with the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor and shortly thereafter met my wife Pat who was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (formerly known as Woman's College).

Our daughter Susan was born in 1964 and attended George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.  She worked with the Space Station project for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas until that project was moved to Houston.  She has worked most recently with Lockheed Martin in Network Management.

In 1991 and 1992 she was a cheerleader for the Redskins and participated in the Super Bowl at Minneapolis against Buffalo.  The following year she went to London when the NFL sponsored an exhibition game between the Redskins and 49ers.

I retired in 1988 by combining my 28 years with the Dept. of Labor and 2 years in the Army for the required 30 years.

I'm currently in my fourth 3 year term on the Board of Directors of the Potomac River Jazz Club which promotes traditional jazz in the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis area.

I'm active in the Elks, Legion and Moose and was designated Moose of the Year for Arlington this last March.

For travel we mainly go to jazz festivals and jazz cruises and get to Daytona Beach, Fl in December and January for a few weeks and up to Connecticut and Cape Cod, MA in the summers.

I can still get around on a bicycle and was on the Bicycle Advisory Committee to the Arlington County Board which involved the maintenance and extension of the County bike trails. 

BILL ERDMAN
  1171 Willa Vsta Trail
  Maitland, FL  32751
  407 644-0391
  Bill's Biography

Activities Play Business Committee, Cafeteria Squad, Hi-Y, Track, Usher Squad

8th grade

40th Reunion

Bill and Kay @ 60th Reunion

1997	1998 - 50th	1999	2000	2001	2002
2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008 - Same hat!
2009 - Same hat as 2002	2010 - w/o hat*

We plan to drive to Kalamazoo, Michigan to attend our granddaughter's high school graduation. Then take Amtrak to Concord, CA, and back.  We'll pick up our car in Kalamazoo and drive up the North Shore of the St Lawrence River to Labrador, south through Newfoundland and home.  We plan to carry our bicycles and ride them part way (Only the downhill sections). - May 2010

*I sent my passport photo to my son, Dave, and asked him to reduce it down to size with high resolution.  This is his results.  I immediately started to let my beard grow and bought a case of Grecian Formula Number 9.  To me it's a freaky picture as I know it's me at 79+ - probably because I don't have my hat on. - February 2010.  If you pass the cursor over the picture you will see the "real" me.

November 2009:  See our 2009 CHRISTmas card at www.seeoursite.org/christmas2009 and use "Karen" as ID and "Tom" as Password.  Merry Christmas to all

August 2009:  Kay and I just got back from our 3 month, 13,500 mile odyssey in our Odyssey where we saw all our kids and grandchildren twice and rode our bicycles 500 miles as well.  We had one of the best times ever and were still speaking to each other when we arrived home.  Visualize 3 months worth of junk mail in your living room (That's what mail slots are for)!  As I re-read previous notes below it seems like we have done this type of trip before - but this was the best!  We even slept overnight in a submarine in Muskegon, Michigan, with 2 grandkids.  Highlight of the trip was a balloon rodeo in Steamboat Springs, Colorado - what a sight as 38 hot air balloons took to the sky!

May 2009 - Kay and I are in Austin, Texas, at the start of a 3 month driving / camping / bike riding jaunt to see all our kids.  At the end of our drive we will attend our bi-annual family reunion to be held in Saugatuck, Michigan.  Hopefully I won't fall over a rock or get chased by any angry buffalo this trip. - Bill <><

December 2008 - Kay and I drove to Austin, Texas, for a week end with our kids in their new home.  Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are dullsville in the winter!  Kids were great and we got in a some bike riding as my leg is getting back in shape.  Have areat Christmas Season and see my Christmas Card.   (My oldest is Karen and youngest is Tom)

October 2008 - Seven weeks after falling I now have my leg up to 90º range of motion and hope to start rehab in a week.  No surgery was required and very little pain since we left Maine - PTL

September 2008:  After Bob's splendidly orchestrated Reunion, Kay and I headed to Maine to eat leaves and see the lobster.  On the way there we stopped to see Jack and Bonnie Ross, Dave Smith and Ben MacDonald.  We also visited with Kathleen Doubleday at their home on Cape Cod.  We tried t to have lunch with Joan Coleman but she was on her way to visit family - Our loss.

By the time we left Acadia National Park and were heading East toward Michigan we had bicycled over 300 miles on many beautiful Rails to Trails in PA, NY, CT, RI, MA and ME and were in great shape.  The weather had been excellent and the trails gorgeous.

We stopped in Camden, Maine, to camp at Camden Hills State Park and went up to see the view of Penobscot Bay from Mt Battie.  I started back to our car for new camera batteries when I tripped over a buffalo chip (Kay says it was a rock, but I know better) and tore 50% of my left quadricep tendon.  Ouch - Both at the time and the next morning when I crawled from our tent to the car so I could get up and go to the hospital!  Three and a half days of driving later, Kay gpt us back to Florida where I hope to have it re attached.  So much for biking and seeinf more of the Northeast.  Up to the trip, the trip was marvelous.  Even the trip back home was great - Beautiful weather and not as much traffic as usual.

My thanks again to Bob, Mary, Tom and the rest of the committee for all the long hours and hard work.  The Reunion was terrific!

June 2008:  Just returned from the baby sitting jaunt.  It was a blast because we survived this batch also.  This trip took us to Michigan and North Carolina.  Stopped by to see Harry Smeal on the way - he is doing well.  We drove and took our bicycles so we were able to log 177 miles on various bike trails along the way.

May 2008:  Baby sitting is our theme this April and May.  We had our daughter and family from California here to spend an Elder Hostel type week in Arcadia, FL, looking for fossils (Don't go there - I know who the old fossil is!).  Then we spent a week with our 6 and 8 year old grandchildren in Gig Harbor, Washington.  Next week we drive to Michigan then North Carolina to do a week of baby sitting for each of our twin guy's families.  It's fun spoiling them then leaving.

November 2007 - Kay and I just returned from a 3 month, driving (mini-van), tenting (5 X 7 Wal-Mart special) and cycling (Trek hybrids)  tour of the Northwest - Michigan to Washington, Jasper, Alberta to Southern Utah.  We spent a week with all our kids and grandkids at a reunion at Lake Junaluska, NC, and managed to see them all again as we traveled. We also celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary while traveling.

Didn't get chased by buffalo this year but did have a near-miss with a falling ponderosa pine.  Our conclusion:  This is a wonderfully beautiful country and we need to get out West mire often to see the billions of stars that are hidden in the East because of light pollution.  We had a solid month of great weather to enjoy the clear, cool nights.

We recommend everyone take a long, leisurely trip through the states to re-capture the thrill of this great country. Click to enlarge  Bill <><

May 2007 - Had another bout with heart stuff.  Even though my cholesterol is within proper range (The "good" high and the "bad" low), my weight is within reason, I eat healthy foods and ride a bike about 35 miles a week I had to have 2 stents added to my heart arteries to open up some clogged places from several years ago.  These aren't supposed to be needed if you stay healthy.

Otherwise Kay and I doing well and looking forward to our every-other-year family reunion this year and a driving tour following right after it.

We also hope to attend the MtL 60th in 2008.  God doesn't always agree with our plans but we will do our best.  Bill <><

November 2006 - Boy has it been a quiet 4 months!  I have not received a single e-mail from any classmate since August 6th when Paul Rhodes wrote about his new beginnings!  So I guess I'll start off by saying that since our June report at the right, Kay and I flew to Walnut Creek, CA, and Gig Harbor, WA, to see 2 sets of our family.  Then 6 days after we returned we drove to New England to eat leaves and look at the lobsters, I mean look at the leaves and eat lobster.

From there we drove to Kalamazoo, MI, to see another son and his family, then to Kay's 50th college reunion at Franklin College, on through beautiful and colorful West Virginia to Raleigh, NC, to see our last child and his family.  In all we were able to pedal 185 miles on our bikes an various trail along the way.

What a beautiful country we have!   Bill <><

June 2006 - Kay and I took another driving / camping / cycling trip out West this Spring.  We touched bases with our kids in Raleigh and Kalamazoo, saw Kay's sister in Louisville and had a Kay's cousin's reunion in WaKeeney, Kansas.

Then we camped / cycled (Over 200 miles) throughout Colorado / Utah/ Arizona & New Mexico.  We might still be there if it hadn't been for the fires - we were plagued by them in Arizona and Colorado so we headed home early.

We were very saddened by the news about Dave Lucas and Pat Enlind.  It really hits home when the sad news is about a classmate's spouse's death while on vacation and you are doing the very same type of activity.  Bill <><

January 2006:  News has been light to non-existent the last couple of months so I'll comment on our Holiday Season - Wow!

We had two of our sons (The twins) and their families with us over Christmas and it was one of the best ever.  It was interesting to note that their kids still have difficulty knowing at a glance which guy is their father.  Even Angela and Laura confessed that they don't dare make a snap decision as to who is who when they view Dave and Don from the back!

Our Daughter-in-law, Laura, ran the Disney Half-marathon in January and that was an exciting time also.

November 2005:  A note to all that come by here - "I pray that your Holiday Season will be as warm and blessed as you wish it to be.  May you be able to share your love with all those that have loved you so much during your lifetime.,"

September 2005:   Kay and I just returned from a 3 months driving tour, visiting our kids and seeing the US.  We took our hybrid bikes with us this time and clocked over 700 miles each on Rails to Trails trails throughout the country.  We are now known as Buffalo Bill & Calamity Kay as we had an almost disastrous encounter with some Bison in Grand Teton National Park!  We went biking early in the morning in an area named Antelope Flats.  It was flat but had no antelopes, just a herd of buffaloes.  We waited until they were all on one side of the road and away from the edge before we started to ride past them.  Two juveniles took exception to us and charged us as we passed.  I got between them and Kay and she pedaled faster than I've ever seen her go and escaped.  They did not like me and got as close as the edge of the very narrow road before I let out a primordial scream (Kay did not recognize it as coming from me) that made them hesitate.  When I ran out of breath they charged again.  I was Mr Cool - I shied away from them and fell off my bike!  I screamed again and managed to get back on my bike.  By this time they were on my side of the road but one last, desperate scream gave me time to burn rubber, and pass Kay.  I think Lance Armstrong would have been hard-pressed to keep up with me!  Later we talked with a Park Ranger and learned:

•  Buffalo can sustain 30mph for several miles! - Oops, they could have caught us if they wanted to.

•  Buffalo have bad eyes and people in bike helmets look like strange buffalos  (Remember the problems VW Beetles had with buffalos years ago?)

•  Always look at a buffalo's tail:

  •  Down - Happy Buffalo

  •  Halfway between down and horizontal - Not a happy buffalo, something is disturbing her

  •  Horizontal - An unhappy buffalo (Or as we thought, relieving herself)

  •  Vertical - You are in serious trouble

•  People in general are stupid around wild animals:

  •  Man was gored to death 2 days earlier as he photographed one and another one gored him from the side - He should have taken a picture of her tail first.

  •  One Japanese man actually put his infant son on a buffalo's back and took a picture of them - tail must have been down.

  •  Other cyclists from the area confirmed the fact that buffaloes don't like helmeted people on bikes!

What a beautiful country we live in!

May 2005 - Had a wonder April because we were able to see all our kids (4) and all our grandchildren (7) within a 3 week time span.  The Washington State group came to Florida to see us and Disney, we drove to Raleigh and saw the North Carolina and California crews then on to Michigan to see the rest of them.

Wow, it was beautiful in NC, IN, OH, MI, PA and VA!  After 36 years in Florida you forget how wonderful Spring is  (I don't plan on moving back, just visiting more often).  We took our bikes and did a few rails-to-trails tours in Pennsylvania and Virginia - Found out that my bike tires were out of balance when I went 32MPH on the Skyline Parkway!  Don't remember worrying about that on Sunnyhill Drive when I hit 42mph on my 800 pound Schwinn, gull-wing in 1948!

We are now planning a trip to the Yosemite area for our every other year reunion.  We hope to drive out and ride many of the bike trails how available throughout the country.  The Rails to Trails system have slopes that are our speed (pun intended) - no mountain biking for us.

December 2004 - Kay and I had a healthy year and a great one for travel.  We visited all our grandchildren several times during the year - this is a difficult task as they live in North Carolina, Michigan, California and Washington state.  We camped in Alaska this Fall, rode the Marine Highway from Skagway to Seattle, got snowed on in Michigan (To you Northerners this isn't a big deal but to a Floridian of 36 years it is).  Click my image to see the Cadillac Roadsters I made this spring.

May, 2004:  We survived!  And so did Grace and Andrew the 4 and 2 year olds.  We had a great trip to San Francisco and Gig Harbor with super weather and no serious problems.  I was again reminded why we have kids when we are young - being with those two for 15 days straight tells the story.  Kay and I lived for their nap time and bed time!

Since we have been home we have been riding our bikes along the many bike trails around Orlando.  Great time of the year for this in Florida.

February 2004:  Every thing's OK so far!  I seem to have recovered quite well from my Summer by-pass and a torn hamstring I suffered this last Fall while playing "King of the Sidewalk" with my 11 year-old granddaughter.  Ah youth!  Remember when we were young?.

Kay and I are scheduled to fly to California to see our daughter and her family then go to Gig Harbor, Washington, to baby-sit our 2 and 4 year-old grandchildren for a month while their parents take a tour of Italy.  We may never be the same!

December 2003:  Just returned from a 3 week excursion to the cold North on a grandchild safari.  We were snowed on in Michigan and South Carolina.  Had Thanksgiving in Raleigh and fulfilled a life-long ambition - Rode my bicycle on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Great trip.

The victim of an experimental turkey vein heart by-pass operation

July 2003:  "Bud Keen gives Bill Erdman a heart attack!"

Bud really wasn't the cause of my quad by-pass last week but it was a shock when he sent me his biography.  I finished my regular 12 - 15 mile bike ride Thursday morning (10th) and during the day had all the classic indicators for a pending heart attack.  Enzyme tests showed no heart damage and I passed all of the stress test except the final scan - oops.  Scheduled an angioplasty for Saturday morning but too blocked for that so the hospital put together a pick-up tag-team and did open heart surgery / quad bypass.  Only downer was the guy that did my leg was from the linen supply department and was used to sewing mattresses not legs.

What a week!   I'm going to try and write it up for my kids.  When I do I think I'll publish it here although no one but another 72-73 year old will really be interested.

I've been home 2 weeks now and getting around well.

Only thing I need to add at this time is that ancient adage:  "If you want to make God laugh, plan something."  I laugh at my previous comments about the reunion and driving to Alaska and hear uproarious laughter in the background.  What's great is that I feel good about the whole deal and have no feeling of loss except for my curvaceous left leg.

I will miss seeing you guys at the reunion, however.

June 2003:  I heartily recommend family reunions!  We had a wonderful week at Myrtle Beach, SC.  All 17 of our immediate family attended and were still speaking with each other at the end of the week!  The weather could have been less rainy but we survived cabin fever without any losses.

Our planned driving trip to Alaska is coming together and as it stands now we will leave from the 55th reunion and head West.  Anyone want to come along?  Bill <><

May 2003 - Made it through the West Coast trip and tax time in good health and spirit.  We are on a trip through North Carolina and Michigan seeing other kids and grandkids (Advantage / disadvantage of having 4 kids spread out around the country).  We are looking forward to our second every-other-year family reunion this June and the MtL 55th reunion in August.  We are seriously considering driving to Alaska after the reunion via the Alaska Highway with a return on the inter-coastal ferry to Seattle then San Francisco to see our West Coast kids and grandkids again.  We'll see what God has in mind.

March 2003 - Kay and I were able to get our grandchildren fix early this year by flying to Gig Harbor, Washington, and Walnut Creek, California.  We saw 4 out of 7 but were glad to get back home and get warm.  It was cold and raining both places and you non-Floridians don't turn the heat up during the winter!

Looking forward to the 55th reunion so I can gather some more information for all the blank spaces on this web.  My thanks to Bob Woeber for all his efforts in making the 55th possible.

October, 2002 - A fabulous trip of 2 1/2 months and 9,000+ miles.  Unfortunately we saw very few leaves of color.  However, the lobsters in Maine at the roadside "joints" were wonderful.  Funniest event was a "sick" crow in Indianapolis that had people worried about West Nile Virus.  It turned out to be a stuffed one that the kids would move every 20 to 30 minutes!   CDC wasn't amused!

Too many other great highlights to mentioned except that Kay and I celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary as we traveled.

September, 2002 - Kay & I are in Holland, Michigan, on our way North to Sault Ste Marie, Canada.  We have been visiting kids & grandkids and now plan to drive to the Gaspé Peninsula and back through the Maritime Provinces and New England to Florida.  We hope to follow the changing leaves of Autumn and not the changing snow of Winter.

December 2001:  Kay & I just returned after a 3 months driving tour of the US as we visited each of our 4 kids & families (NC, MO, WA & CA).  We were on hand for the birth of our 7th grandchild in Gig Harbor, Washington, and visited quite a few relatives on the way.  We had a mini-lease with Avis & started out with a 2002 Buick with 24 miles on it - turned it in with 16,558 miles!  Beats putting the wear and tear on our own car.

We were crossing Kansas on September 11th and watched the nation change every day thereafter.  So many American flags it was hard to find Post Offices - usually only building in the county with a flag.  Going in and out of Canada was an adventure each time.

Visited the Oklahoma City Memorial on the way back and would have you add it to your "must see" list.  In light of the Trade Center attack it is even more poignant than before.

.Tried to see Julian Taber in Washington but was unable to connect up with him.  Sounded good on the phone however.

We're trying to recover in time for CHRISTmas but it is slow going - Did you ever come home to a 3 month's pile of mail under your front door mail slot?  It isn't a pretty sight. 
Bill <><

June 8th, 2001 - It's been a slow travel year thus far for Kay & I.  We went to Seattle, San Francisco and Raleigh at various times this Spring to see children & grandchildren.

We are busy planning our first family reunion for this July and expect 16 1/2 immediate family members plus uncounted cousins & in-laws to attend.

After that we are planning another 9 to 10 week drive out West beginning in late August.  We hope to be in the Seattle area when our 7th grandchild debuts.  However we know from experience that the easiest way to made God laugh is to plan something so we will wait and see.

Health wise we are doing well.  My eyes have stabilized enough that I can do limited driving on the open road and this helps on long trips.  In town I ride a bicycle most of the time.

Again, one of the highlights of life has been the opportunity to author this web site.  It is only disappointing that I don't hear from more people but when I do the high lasts for a long time.  I find it refreshing to realize that all you people out there have aged right along with me.  Those that do write are special folks in my life regardless of our relationship in high school - we are so much smarter now!  It's nice to hear from people that tell me more about themselves now than I ever cared to know in the 50s.  We are a vanishing breed and need to reach out and touch before it is too late.  Gee, I sound just like an old curmudgeon!   Well maybe I am but I like to hear from you anyway.  Bill <><

December, 2000 - We had a great trip to Germany to see our son, then Turkey on a Rick Steves Backpacking Tour and home via the Greek Isles.  The tour was our first organized tour and I must say that Rick Steves knows how to plan and organize a great cultural experience.  I would recommend his tours to anyone in reasonable physical shape.  
Bill <><

July, 2000 - Kay & I spent 3 weeks in Ireland, including Belfast.  Now I know why they can't get along!  It's "In-Your-Face" day in and day out - The Protestants paint their curbs red, white & blue to let you know they live there.  They insist on marching everywhere they aren't welcome.  The Catholics paint their houses with bright color murals (See below) showing every event that has happened to them in the last 150 years.  You can't get away from the memories.

The best weather vane of our location in Northern Ireland was our Catholic driver.  If he was smiling & singing we were in Catholic Northern Ireland.  When he was cussing the traffic lights, frowning & nervous as a cat we were in Protestant Northern Ireland.

Here is a "Peace" walls dividing the two districts in Belfast - .  In Derry and Belfast, houses have murals reminding everyone of past confrontations.

There are 3,000 Protestants in Derry and 6,000 British troops to protect them.   "Hello?"  Something doesn't add up here!   British surveillance towers and jails are obvious .  (Click on images to enlarge them)

We walked the streets of Belfast at night without feeling apprehensive and even went through the Sinn Fein bookstore without feeling nervous.  We were the only Protestants on the  22 passenger tour bus and never felt concerned for our safety, however it was great to get back to the Irish Republic!

In September we are celebrating my big "Seven Oh" by going on a Rick Steve's backpacking tour of Turkey.  We are going via Dusseldorf, Germany, to see our son and returning via Greece to see it also

That's us to date.  How about hearing from you?  Bill <><

Bill's Biography - 2003

Married to Kay 51 years, 4 Children, 7 grandchildren

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BS in ME, Lehigh University.  Drafted during Korean War, discharged as a Sergeant.

Product Engineer, Allison Division, GMC. Indianapolis.

Chief Transmission Engineer, Clark Equipment, Jackson, Michigan - 4 patents.

Self Employed in Tampa, Fl.  Sold business to help start a land development company in Orlando, Fl.

Accepted Christ as Lord & then went bankrupt.

Became Sales Rep & Systems Salesman for UARCO Business Forms.   Retired after 21 yrs.

Now a web site designer and active in local UMC Church

God is good.  This I know because 1 month after I retired in 1995 I was told by a specialist, after several attempts to fixed my detached retina, that I was "legally blind" and would never drive, use a computer, read or do woodworking.   He suggested I apply for a Guide Dog.

He was an excellent surgeon but underestimated the power of prayer.   It is obvious I can use a computer.  I can read most everything.  I have finished several involved woodworking and lathe projects.  I drive when there isn't much traffic.  I have been able to go to the Tennessee Mountains on a mission trips to build houses for the needy.  My eyes have gotten as good as they will get but they are good enough.

Love the Lord

"Lynn," MARILYN ALICE EYRICH (Harvey)
 117 Fancher CT. #15
Los Gatos, CA 95030
(408) 395-0915.

Activities Play Usher, Band, Bulletin Board Committee, Operetta, Triple Trio Reserve, Y-Teens.

8th grade

40th Reunion

August 2008 - I am alive and well.  Sorry to miss the reunion. Has it really been 60 years? Impossible!  I am alive    and well and enjoying life.  Just got back from a trip to the UK.  Have lived in CA for the last 6 yrs. and love it.  Graduated Muskingum College '52,  Master of Theological Studies from Drew Seminary '87.

Married 55 years to Rev. Wm. R Harvey, (Presbyterian, USA.)  Bill was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian USA church in '55, retired now.  Had 3 sons and one daughter who continue to amaze me.  Even more amazing are our seven grandchildren.  With an African American daughter-in-law and Indian ex-son-in-law we have a multi-culture family;  a vision of the future.   Besides PA and CA, we've lived in FL (Lynn Haven), NY (Horseheads), MD (Severna Park), NJ (Plainfield, Brigantine), and New Zealand (Auckland area).

Would love to hear from anyone who remembers me.  By the way--the name is LYNN!  I never used Marilyn in those days.  Even now I only use it on business papers.  -  Lynn Eyrich Harvey

Found by Tom , May 2008:   On a people search I came up with a William R Harvey, age 77, now in Los Gatos, CA with wife Marilyn E. with former addresses in Severna Park, MD and Plainfield NJ, both correct for Marilyn Eyrich so this has to be her husband, although don't know if Marilyn is still alive.

MITZIE FANTL (Murphy)
  250 Fieldcrest Lane
Ephrata, PA  17522

Attendance Squad, GAA, Majorette, Ways & Means Squad, Y-Teens

60th Reunion: 

With Joe at the 50th Reunion

Mitzi and Ruth Jackson @ 60th Reunion

Nancy Godden, Mitzie, Ann Mosites, Suzanne Divine , Marilyn Brey, Mary Murrie and Ann Prichard @ 60th Reunion

Dear Bill,   Thank you so much for your E-mail.   The pictures of your family are beautiful.   I can certainly relate to your love of  Kay and children and grandchildren.   I wish I had more news of classmates, but I don't at this time.  I'm sure you are having a great summer as it seems you and Kay are always on the go.  I’m going to Ocean City, NJ, in August(.  I'm spending a week or so with my college roommate and her whole family and then some time at my daughters place in O.C..   That is about as exciting as it gets, but I love every minute of the time spent in O.C.  I sent my checks so I guess I'm all set for the reunion.   See you and Kay in August,  I’m looking forward to meeting her as she sounds like happy and fun person.    Mitzie - July 2008

June 2008:  Had a long talk with Mitzi about high school times and found out that she is a wealth of information about many of our Classmates. Hopefully she will send me a note and update some of the pages of our friends.  Bill

June 2008, Mitzie Fantl Murphy, Ephrata, Pa, writes:  Hi Bill, Bob & Tom,  I'm very new in the computer world, so here goes.  I have enjoyed the web site so much and I have read every classmate’s info.  I must say I'm very proud to have graduated with the class of '48, most have had successful and exciting lives, and interesting.  I don't know how interesting mine has been, but it's been happy (most of the time).

I graduated from Marietta College in '52 and married Bill Felton, we had two great kids Bill & Debbie.  I married Joe Murphy in '65 and we had a wonderful daughter Carrie.  Son Bill has 2 kids Amy 27 and Matt 23.  Debbie has 3 kids, Meg 23, Luke 21 and Emily 16.  Carrie has 2 boys, Tommy 9 and Trevor 5.  Joe and I were married 37 years.  Joe became ill Sept '98 and passed away Aug, 2004, just 2 moths after my Mother, who  was 94.

I have lived in Lancaster, Pa. since 1976.  I love this area, three years ago I moved a little north of Lancaster to a town called Ephrata, very Pa. Dutch.  It's closer to the Pa. turnpike, which I hop on several times a week as all my family live 30 min. to an hour away.  I have been very lucky to have gone to two reunions of the DBC's and those ladies are amazing, young and energetic and so much fun.   I'm looking forward to the 60th.  See you in  August,  Mitzie

From Mary Murrie Hardy, January 2007 - Hi Bill,  thought you might like to see this picture that was taken in October at Suzanne Divine Williams' place.  The lake in the background is right behind her daughter's house, and the good looking group are from left: Jeanne Vayda McCallum, Ann Bowman McClymonds, Mitzi Fantl Murphy, Nancy Godden, Anne Mosites Miller, Suzanne Divine Williams, and Ann Pritchard Evanson.  I took the picture.  We had a wonderful 4 days together in the New Jersey, Philadelphia area.  (Click on image to enlarge)

DANIEL A. FARRELL
 8 The Oak Circle
Birmingham, AL  35244

Basketball Letterman, Football Letterman

Dan and Katie @ 60th Reunion

CHARLES FENDRYCH
 Out on the ocean somewhere OR
 1010 21st Street
Anacortes, WA  98221, when he comes ashore

June 2003:  Talked with his daughter, Chris.  He is on a yacht somewhere - she wasn't sure where.

He graduated from University of Washington as a Metallurgist and was the first member of Puget Sound's search and body rescue team.  He sails full time now and crisscrossed the world by sail boat.

He has 2 sons, one daughter and a grandchild.

2 days later, Charles wrote:

Have been cruising the east coast and Bahamas with my wife, Donna for the last 5+ years.  We are now located in Solomons, MD, for potentially the rest of the summer.  Graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1952 and moved out to Seattle WA.

RAYMOND T. FERRARO
  440 Cochran Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15228

Chorus, Football , Home Room Basketball, Operetta

 

40th Reunion	50th Reunion	50th Reunion	55th Reunion
60th Reuinion	Ray and Margaret DeGiovanni @ 60th Reunion

Bob Woeber wrote January 29th, 2005:  Ray's wife, Gloria died of cancer this week and was buried on Friday.

JAMES FLAHERTY
Jim Flaherty, Senior Judge
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
3015 Ashcomb Court
Red Lion, PA 17356

Honor Roll, Football, Home Room Basketball, Home Room Officer

40th Reunion	Katy & Jim at 55th Reunion	60th Reunion
Jim and Katie @ 60th Reunion

September 2008:  You did a great job at the reunion and it was much appreciated by Katy and me.  What a happy time it is when you see old friends after a long time.

I had intended to thank you before now, but I have been in court and it ain't like it used to be.   Now, I get tired at the end of the day.

Thank you, again, for a great week-end.   God bless you. 

Jim Flaherty, Senior Judge
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
3015 Ashcomb Court
Red Lion, PA 17356

July 2008:  After college at W&J and the Army in Korea and Japan, I went to Pitt Law school, met  a Mt. Lebanon girl, Katy Keller (Seton Hill  H.S.'55), married her fifty years ago and have a beautiful family of three daughters, two sons, four grandsons and three granddaughters.

Serving as Chairman of the Allegeny County Commissioners was exciting, but it doesn't put five kids through Duke, Boston College, University of Alabama, John Carroll, W&J and Duquesne Law School, so back to practicing law which was enjoyable, at times, but I couldn't afford to retire at sixty-five.  Thus, I ran for statewide appellate judge and one million one hundred ten thousand votes later fulfilled my legal dream, thanks to Katy and the children who did all the work, especially my lawyer sons and daughter. 

Michael  and Mary kept the law firm going while Mark, who is now the twice elected Allegeny County Controller, was my campaign manager despite his spendthrift  ways of running  litter free environmental friendly campaigns - no billboards, no signs, no handout cards, no TV, no money (well, practically very little) - a few radio blurbs locally; our colors were black and white because the only printed matter  we had was from the copy machine with only a $15,000 Primary budget and a $25,000 General election Budget.  My General election opponent alone spent over $500,000.   In the most recent election of statewide judges, the winners each spent over $2 Million.

I have been politically neutered for the last twelve and a half years and am now wondering where to work when I am forced to stop as a senior judge as I will reach the Pennsylvania judicial barrier of eighty.    Fortunately, thanks to a successful jaw and neck cancer operation, chemo and radiation two years ago, I am now able to ponder what kind of work I will do at that time as Katy and I have been blessed for the last five years with the opportunity to live with my daughter and raise her three really wonderful grandsons, ages 8, 11 and 13.

July 2003 from Red Lion, PA:  I've had 54 years of fun and happiness since graduation.  Sorry I can't say 55 but that first year I spent on the J&L blast furnace as a laborer was so hard and so hot that I only remember the pain and the fact that I learned more lessons about life and, people than in all the next seven years of college and university law schooling, let alone credit it for growing two inches and putting on forty pounds which Coach John Beckert spotted and turned into a football scholarship with the W & J coach which rescued me from my own holocaust.

Since then, God is great,  God is good.  A wife and five children I don't deserve and six grandchildren to play with.  Thirty five years as a lawyer, most of them trying jury trials in front of the same kind of people I worked with in the mill, four of those years running the then ninth largest county in the United States and enjoying catching hell for it every day, and now to top it off, at the age of sixty-five to say the hell with retiring, to run statewide for an appellate judgeship without any political backing and get over one million one hundred thousand votes, as Jack Nicholson said in his movie " It Doesn't Get Any Better."

We only hear arguments from attorneys in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.  I guess I'm getting old but that turnpike started wearing on me this year so, after 72 years in Pittsburgh I packed it in and moved to central Pa. where I'm only 30 minutes from my chambers in the capitol complex.  I only make it to Lebo (where I still have my other chambers in the Cyclops Building on Washington Road) every three months now.  Judge Jim

RICHARD FLEISCHAUER
  4740 Hilltop Lane
Pittsburgh, PA  15102

Football, Hi-Y President & VP, Home Room Basketball, Home Room VP, Wrestling

As a kid	40th Reunion	At 50th Reunion
60th Reunion	Bob and Joan @ 60th Reunion

C. PATRICIA FLINN (Hamilton)
  1541 St. Andrews Drive
Oakmont, PA  15139

Activities Key, Activities Play, Debate Club, Devotions Squad, High Honor Roll, Home Room Secretary

Richard & Pat at 55th Reunion

Pat and husband Richard still live at 1541 St. Andrews Dr., Oakmont, PA  15139.   They don't have a computer so have not seen our website, but I gave her the site address and maybe they will access it thru their children. 

They have 4 grandchildren.  Pat is a church lay reader; formerly read for the blind over the radio and currently is very active in Academy for Life-long Learning at CMU.  She is just as cute and energetic as I remember her.  Tom Arganbright - 2003

DONALD FLORIN
16166 Golden Sands Drive
Houston, TX  77098

, Hi-Y, Home Room Basketball

40th Reunion

SHIRLEY ANN FORBES (Geinzer)
 210 Sunnymeade Drive
Warner Robins, GA  31093

GAA

Shirley & Donald - 1987   

Myra Ortolf, Kathy Mullen and Shirley @ 60th Reunion

MARY PAYNE FURLONG (Goodenough)
964 Old Dolington Road
Newtown, PA 18940

40th Reunion  

GAA, Home Room Attendance Squad, Medical Squad, Ways and Means Squad, Y-Teen

Hello, Bill.  How very nice to hear from you.  My gosh, my own children don't always answer my e-mails as quickly!  I love your idea of bicycling your way to MtL., it beats flying, for sure.

To answer your questions, Newtown, Pa. abuts to Washington Crossing.  I live just up the road from where George Washington camped his troops before they made that famous crossing of the Delaware River on their way to execute their surprise attack and win the battle of Trenton, N.J.  We have spent many New Years days watching the annual re-enactment of that crossing.

Re' travel to Fla., I have not been there in a few years, it's unlikely I will go again.  I had many wonderful visits in Fla.  My sister, Ann Cummings, lives in West Palm.  My sister, Arden Cristie, lived in Sarasota.  Arden died last Nov.

I have enjoyed reading your postings.  Your life with Kay sounds happy and loving, all of it is about family, there is nothing better.

I will make an attempt at writing an update, 60 yrs. is a daunting task.  I think I might take your suggestion and treat it as if it were 20.  I do prefer the idea of writing an update instead of a biography.

Enjoy the rest of your trip!  Best regards, Mary Payne - August 2008

August 2008 - Thanks to Bob, Tom, Bill and all who have done a superb job at posting all the news from our class.  I am unable to be there but will be thinking of the good time all of you will have.  I would be delighted to hear from anyone who would like to be in touch by e-mail.  Again, thanks for making the effort to find me.  My best to all, Mary Payne