DR. BEN MACDONALD
 217 Prospect St
 Framingham Ctr., MA  01701
 508 875-3322

Activities Key & Guard, Basketball Manager, Log Staff, Mounty Production Manager, National Honor Society, Student Court Judge

"Dr" MacDonald to you!  

Family - 1973

45th Reunion

50th Reunion

September 2008:  Kay and I visited Susie and Ben on September 2nd at their home.  Ben was doing well.  His home is the beautiful ex-administration office for the Health Care facility Ben and Susie ran for many years.  Then the state required more modern updates than Ben could provide so he closed it down and turned it into a lovely subdivision.

Their 5 kids all sound phenomenal and are spread as far away as Rio de Janeiro. - Bill

June 2008:  Bob spoke with Ben.  He and Susie have been at the same address for over 40 years.  He sounds rather different, but remembered me right away.  He said that he is housebound.  I asked him if there was any possibility that he could come and he said that he couldn't walk.

RAYMOND MANGOLD
 167 Alwoodley
Williamsburg, Virginia  23188
 Ray's Biograohy

High School:  Band, Hi-Y, Honor Roll, Home Room President & Vice-President, Traffic Squad

7th grade

8th Grade

40th Reunion

45th Reunion	50th Reunion	Ray & part of Bud Keen's head  (that shiny thing, lower right).	Nancy & Ray at an "afternoon" party
60th Reunion	60th Reunion

We moved back to Pennsylvania in the early part of 2009.  We are still getting along pretty well at our new address which is a continuing care community called Shannondell in Audubon, PA.  Fortunately we are still able to reside in the Independent Living section and enjoy the area with several children and grandchildren near by.  Hope you all are doing well and that I will be hearing something from you re Mt L HS in the future.  Lot's of snow around here now, just like the old days in Pgh. - Ray - February 2010

On Tuesday, May 19th we begin a household move from our Virginia home to a retirement community named Shannondell located Audubon, PA (Adjacent to Valley Forge).  As of the 21st our new address will be 23622 Shannondell Dr, Audubon, PA, 19403 with phone number of 610 382-2180.  Our e-mail address will change also. - Come see us.  Ray - May 2009

May 2007:  Thanks for asking.  We are very much enjoying the greatly increased contacts with our five children and their families since we moved to Virginia.  We have our typical old age pains but so far nothing bad.  Try to keep physically active.  Hope all is well with you and your family.  Really looking forward to the 60th.  Ray

January 2007:  Just for the record I thought I might update my place on the web site.  After ten  years in lovely Savannah, Georgia, Nancy and I moved north to Williamsburg, Virginia.  So we will try for ten more here in Fords Colony.  We decided to get more centered among our five children who are spread from Albany, NY down to Henagar, AL.  All of them can make it to the colony with a one day drive now . Played golf with Bud Keen (Virginia Beach) in Williamsburg before Christmas so that is another benefit of the move.

We had all of the extended family at Thanksgiving except one daughter, her spouse and one grandchild due to an illness in the in-law family.  Those present are in the picture (Click image to enlarge).
If you see the old man in the back row right, that is me.  To my right is son Chris, daughter Sharon, daughter Kate and son John.  Missing is oldest daughter Debbie and family.  Crouching in front left is my wonderful bride of almost 52 years, Nancy (McGhee),class of '49.  In the background is our "new to us" home.  We are both a little achey but active and enjoying the historic triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown.  You probably know that the first English settlement of Jamestown was begun 400 years ago in 1607 so there are many special events planned including a visit by "The Queen".

We are looking forward to the next reunion. WHEN IS IT?

December 2004:  Nancy and I are still out here even though we missed the last reunion.  We are still enjoying Savannah and had a great get together with all 18 family members (7 grandchildren) in NYC at Thanksgiving.  We will have a quiet but happy Christmas.  We wish you very much the same.  Merry CHRISTmas.  Boy that glacier looks cold (He's referring to the picture of Kay & Bill Erdman in Alaska). - Ray Mangold

Ray's Biography

Graduated from Carnegie Tech in 1953 with degrees in Engineering and Industrial Management, later obtained MBA from Rutgers University.

Two years with U.S. Army Ordnance leaving as 1^st Lieutenant.

Married Nancy McGhee (Class of ’49) in 1955 after 9 years of courtship. We have five children and six grandchildren. Youngest son currently attends Georgia Tech.

With Union Carbide Corporation for 25 years in plastics operations, marketing and management. (NJ, CA, NYC headquarters)

Became part of a leveraged buyout of a UCC chemical business in Niagara Falls, NY in 1978. Was part owner, Executive Vice President and then President during the last 17 years of my working life.

Retired at the end of 1995 and moved to The Landings, a community with six golf courses, 4 clubhouses, and excellent tennis, boating and other recreational facilities. This is located in the Savannah area.

The business in Niagara Falls gave Nancy and I opportunities to visit many Western European countries. Now that we are retired we are looking forward to renewing some fond visits and expanding to others on a more casual basis.

 DONALD H. MARTIN
2445 Old Greentree Rd, Unit 2C
Pittsburgh, PA  15106

25th Reunion

45th Reunion

60th Reunion

Don and Marilyn Brey @ 60th reunion

Don doesn't have a home PC so there is no email between us.   I'm not sure if he's ever seen our website.   Don moved to Mt. Lebanon (Sunset Hills) from Wilkensburg during our senior year, hence no photo in the Log.   He went to Virginia Tech for two years and while there met Mary Lou and got married.   He ended up finishing at Pitt.   He and Mary Lou have 3 children, a son and 2 daughters.   In 1966, when I moved back to Upper St. Clair, he lived 2 doors away.   He worked on our 20 and 25 th reunion committees.   He's had a long career in the heating and air conditioning business and is still working.   He and Mary Lou plan to attend the reunion so if you talk to him maybe he can give you some "hot current" info. - Tom   - August 2008

Note from Tom, 7/12/2000:  Hi Bill, You have a good point about only adding pictures of those who have notified they have e-mail address.  Other side of the coin is those surfing our site and wondering what ever happened to good old Don can at least see he's alive.  Yesterday I phoned his wife and she admitted they aren't on the internet.  Don had worked many years for Trane on commercial air conditioning.  His wife says he's still working and is in an engineering business with Bill McSteen's brother Dave.  If I get more info on them, I'll let you know.   Tom

MARILYN L. MATHENY (Phillips)
 2058 Oldfields Circle
  Indianapolis, IN  46228
317 387-8888

            Activities Play Usher, Cheerleader,                     40th Reunion
GAA Secretary & Treasurer, Medical Squad Chairman, Y-Teens Social Service Committee

Dear Bob, Thanks so much for letting me know about the 60^th Reunion.  We can’t possibly be that old!  I do not know yet whether I will be able to attend.

To bring you up to date, my husband died suddenly twelve years ago while sitting in next to me in a movie theater.  In late January 2008 I decided it was time to move to a smaller place so I put my home of 38 years on the market .  Much to my amazement it sold quickly and I bought a condo one and a half miles from my daughter.

I have been blessed with good health and keep active walking, sports, traveling, etc.  I have seven grandchildren (6 boys, 1 girl) ranging in age from 23 to 4 and they are the love of my life.

It has been great to read about the members of our class on the website.  Marilyn – July 2008

 ROY McEWEN
 148 Bellevalley Lane
Columbia, SC  29223

Activities Play, Band, Hi-Y, Home Room Officer

7th Gradel        

 

45th Reunion	Circa 1998	Unknown Date	50th Reunion
60th Reunion	Roy and Carole @ 60th

February 2007 - Several updates: 

Bob Alderdice:  I ran into him at Western Electric Cafeteria in New York City in early 1965.  He was a lawyer and had been a partner in a Cleveland firm but had to give it up because of too much stress.  He had taken a job with ATT in the legal dept.  He was handling easements and rights of way in the city.  We met several times over the next few months.  When I hadn't heard from him for several weeks, I called his office and got the news that he had died.  Whoever I talked to didn't know anything about him or wouldn't give me any more info.

John Millington:  He was best man at my wedding in June 1954 at Arlington VA.  He joined the army shortly after graduation and was a radio operator.  He spent a lot of time at Ft Knox and then in the Pacific.   Returning he went to Pitt and got a degree in Transportation.  He lived in Fairfax, VA. for several years.  We exchanged Christmas cards and one year mine was returned as "unknown"  I believe his brother Andy still lives in Mt L on Ashland Ave.-or used to.

I'm looking forward to 2008.   ROY

June 2006 - Just a note to let you know I'm still kicking.  Last Mar I spent a week working for HomeWorks in Covington La   HomeWorks is a charitable org that repairs homes of the elderly with limited resources.  Katrina had done a job on this town too.  In early June we went to Boone NC area also.  We had a lot of teenagers doing the work but they needed instruction and supervision.  We had a lot of fun.
ROY McEWEN

December 2005 - A Merry Christmas to you and yours.   There isn't much of anything new with me.  Getting ready for Christmas and trying to keep warm.   We've been to Myrtle Beach several times in the last two weeks getting our Condo ready for the next years rentals.  Some of my cousins are thinking of meeting in Pgh next summer.  We've been actively building a family tree.   We've gotten back to 1730.   So far we have over 900 names in ten generations.  The eleventh generations will soon be here.   Not my family though.  My grandchildren are 16, 6 and 3 and they live in French Guiana South America.   I haven't visited them for four years so maybe next spring.   It's over 3000 mi and takes two days.  It can be quite an ordeal.  Air France folks won't admit to knowing any English and its not easy to communicate.   ROY

Just to clarify one point!  The French pretend they don't know English just to show up the Americans.  They know exactly what you are saying.   As you know the French are the superior to every one else.   ROY.

December 2004:  Columbia SC  It felt cold too.  ROY

(In response to my global e-mail asking, "Is anyone was out there?")

February 2003:  I have gotten interested in Genealogy of the McEwen clan and have located several others doing the same.  Together they have over 10,000 records.  Do I have fun going thru that!  I have over 500 in my direct line to the first McEwen to come to these shores in 1745.   But I ramble.   Roy

HARRY McFERRAN
  1310 Old Meadow Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15241

Activities Key, Basketball, Hi-Y President, Honor Roll, Home Room VP, Traffic Squad

40th Reunion   

LLOYD McGLINCY, Jr
 28884 Vista Valley Dr
Vista, CA  92084

June 2003:  Talked with Lloyd on the phone.  He was getting ready for a brigantine trip scheduled to start in Fiji.  Hopes to get back in time for the reunion.

He took Economics and Journalism at University of Maine.  Served 4 years in the Navy then went to work for Alcoa.

After 10 years he started his own metal foil company which he sold when he was 58 and has been traveling the world ever since.  Bill

CLARE McKEE (McCune)
 4 University Park
Fredonia, NY  14063

Activities Key & Guard, Home Room President, Mounty, Publicity Committee Chairman, Quill & Scroll, Y-Teens Council Representative

40th Reunion

Clare & husband Best I could do with the snapshot

50th Reunion

September 1999:  After reading the letter from Pat Ward I decided to send a short one myself.  I have often wondered what happened to some of my child hood friends. Pat and I went to St. Bernard's grade school together and only lived a block apart.  So it was great to hear what she had been doing for the last fifty years.

I graduated from Carnegie Tech with a degree in Industrial Design and was married shortly after I started to work in Pittsburgh.  My husband is a metallurgist and a Tech grad also.

We moved from Pittsburgh to Detroit and ended up for the last thirty years in Fredonia, NY.  We have raised six great kids.  Three boys and three girls.

I always liked school and it seems our kids did also.  In total they have eight bachelors degrees, nine masters, and two doctors degrees.  Since they live in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan we spend a lot of time visiting our children and grandchildren.

After the kids were all in school I taught GED, English as a second language, and basic literacy for almost twenty years.  When my husband retired I retired also so that we could travel.

It is hard to believe that I am way too close to 70, but time does fly when your having fun!! - Clare

RICHARD McQUILLEN
 691 Washington Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15228

Decorating Squad Chairman, Hockey, Home Room Basketball, Track, Wrestling

40th Reunion	50th Reunion	Bud Stevenson's BD Party	55th Reunion
	Jackie Gardner and Rich - 60th Reunion	60th Reunion

DR. WARREN McROBERTS
18200 Elmer School Road
Dickerson, Md. 20842
301-972-7074  home
301-972-7562 office and fax

May, 2003;  I received the invitation to the Reunion in today's mail and began reviewing the excellent web site this evening.  The web site has asked if I am Roy McRoberts.  Roy was my cousin and my childhood best friend.  He died about 20 years ago.

Most of you do not know me for a number of reasons.   I was painfully shy and had a mild speech defect during my high school days.  Obviously  this made it very difficult for me to socialize.   In addition, I completed the three-year curriculum in two years and did not have the pleasure of a senior year.

Life has been very kind to me and my bride (Edie) of 50 years.   I retired from orthopedic surgery 10 years ago and became a full-time tree farmer (large, landscape quality stock).   We have a 330 acre farm  20 miles northwest of Washington D.C.

I don't know if I'm in the class of a 47 or of 48.   I guess it's 48 and I played hooky for the last year.  Jay Warren McRoberts  - I would like to hear from you.

MARTHA M. McVAY (Hills)
 54 Hudson Common Drive
Hudson, OH  44236

Activities Key, Activities Plays, Cheerleader Co-Head, Chorus, Home Room Secretary

 as a kid   

40th Reunion

45th Reunion

50th Reunion	50th Reunion	55th Reunion
60th Reunion	Marty and husband, Bob, @ 60th Reunion

September 2007 - Dear Bill, Hope your trip was a fun and exciting one.

Enclosed is the 1948 booklet I mentioned.

Best wishes, Marty

December 2006  (From Hudson Monthly) -

Catching up with … Marty Hills

Marty Hills loves Hudson.

That fact is evident the minute a visitor walks into the Hudson Commons Drive condo she shares with her husband Bob.

Paintings and mementos of the town fill the walls.

"We just moved in a month ago," she says.

While the condo is new to them, the Hills actually have called Hudson home for 44 years, the same amount of time they have been married.

It's a second marriage for both; Marty had been living in Silver Lake with her two sons and daughter, and Bob was living in Akron with his three sons when they met.

"I was in a theater production in Silver Lake," she says . "A friend brought him to the cast party and we met there."

Marty says that after they married, they wanted to find a community where they could raise their family.

"We just love it," Marty says of Hudson.

The Hills embraced the town.

Marty served on the Hudson School Board and was able to give her daughter her diploma at graduation.

She also represented Ward I on City Council for three years and in 2005 she was chosen as the Chamber of Commerce's Citizen of the Year.

Marty admits the city has changed over the years.

"When we walked down Main Street, we used to know everyone," she says. "I don't know everyone now.  There were 5,000 residents when we moved here.  Today there are 23,500."

One of Marty’s favorite projects is her work with the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.

She said she read about the foundation in 1995 in a newspaper or magazine article.

"My parents always taught me that's the way to do it," she says.  "I called the foundation and said 'we have a wonderful town."'

She has chaired the Random Acts of Kindness week in Hudson ever since.

"I hear about random acts of kindness throughout the year," she says.  "People will call and say, 'I had to call and let you know I did a random act of kindness or someone did one for me.  It feels so good."'

Hills herself was the recipient of a random act of kindness.  That act has been included in a book, "Christian Acts of Kindness," published by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.

According to the book, Hills' brother was a P-47 pilot in World War II.  He was shot down over Germany in 1945 and it was four years before her family found him.

Her brother's grave was found in 1949.

"In an unbelievable act of kindness (in wartime no less), someone had buried him with his ID tags," she writes in the book.

Hills' family buried him in the American Military Cemetery near Liege, Belgium, with more than 5,000 other American servicemen.

Hills, who had visited the site several times, traveled there with her husband for a 50th anniversary service at the cemetery.

While she was at her brother's grave, a Belgian woman came up and thanked her for the sacrifice her family made for the woman's country.  The woman then said she belonged to a group of Belgian citizens who come to the cemetery once a month to offer prayers and asked to adopt Hills' brother.  She said she would come monthly to pray for him and Hills.

While Hills said she never found out the woman's name, she will never forget her.

‑ Stephanie Fellenstein

"Not-so-Random act of kindness" from Hudson HUB-TIMES, February 23, 2005

Former Council member named Chamber's Citizen of the Year
by Ronnica Dull, Reporter

HUDSON - One of the many organizations Martha "Marty" Hills volunteers for is the Random Acts of Kindness Committee.

So it's fitting that Hills, 74, was told on Valentine's Day - the first day in a weeklong celebration of Random Acts of Kindness - she was chosen as the Chamber of Commerce's 2005 Citizen of the Year winner.

"I'm overwhelmed, honored and humbled to be receiving this award," she said. " There are so many well-deserving citizens in the city who could have won this award."

The Chamber will present Hills with the award March 3 at Waters Restaurant

Carolyn Konefal, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, said Hills received three separate nominations - a lot for one person.

"This is a long overdue acknowledgement of her services and dedication to the community," Konefal said.

Sharon Lowe-Blackford of Cuyahoga Falls, retired supervisor of Hudson schools' buildings and grounds department and a member of the Hudson Rotary Club, was one of three people to nominate Hills for the award.

"She is a brilliant and kind .individual and a very classy lady," Lowe-Blackford said, adding that she has always admired Hills for her extensive involvement in activities around Hudson.

Hudsonite Paul Bodden also nominated Hills.  "She exemplifies the spirit of volunteerism which pervades our community and is one of its notable strengths," Bodden said.  "Most notably, she has been unafraid to engage openly in public discussion and to run for public office in contested elections.  She puts herself on the line, stands up in the open and is heard."

Hills, a 42-year Hudson resident, said she learned to value community involvement from her parents, Edythe and Walter McVay of Mount Lebanon, Pa.

I have always followed my father's advice, which is, "We were not put on this earth to occupy space, but to leave it a better place for having been here," Hills said.  "It was his badge of honor and he wanted me to make it come true."

Not only is Hills involved with the Random Acts of Kindness committee, she also is a founding member of Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Hills' ancestors date back to pre-Revolutionary War.

She is a member of the Akron Chapter of the Daughters of the American Colonist and a member of the National Huguenots Society.

A member of the First Congregational Church since 1963, Hills has been singing in its choir since 1968.  She also was the church moderator for one term and as a minister in the Stephen Ministry program, which provides a listening ear to parishioners during difficult times.

She has been a member of the David Hudson Chapter of Questers since 1974.

Since 1987, she also has been a member of the national Sisterhood P.E.O., which promotes educational opportunities for women.

Hills was a teacher's aide at Evamere Elementary School from 1967 to 1974.   From 1974 to 1981, she served as a member of the School Board.  She was president of the School Board from 1980 to 1981.  She also was a member of the Hudson Schools' Endowment 11 Board from 1991 to 2000.

From 1991 to 1994, Hills was on the city of Hudson's Merger Commission.

Hills also was co-chair of the 1999 Hudson Bicentennial Committee and a member of the Hudson Chapter of the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration in 1976.

From 2000 to 2003, Hills was a member of City council.  She is currently serving on the city's Charter Review Commission.

Hills and her husband, Bob, have lived in Hudson for 42 years and have six children.

The Chamber's Citizen of the Year honor is awarded to someone who performs a service or an act for the community above and beyond daily activities to make Hudson a better place to live, Konefal said.

March 2003:  Bob & I will be at the reunion!  I am looking forward to seeing everyone again.  This has been (and will be) a busy and exciting year for us, as I am serving on Hudson, Ohio, City Council;  Bob is active in Rotary; and we have a son, grandson, and godson all being married this summer!  See you in August!   Marty

JAMES M. MILLER
  9 Misty Court
Little Rock, AR  72227
 Jim's Biography

Boxing, Hi-Y, Home Room Basketball, Home Room Vice-President, Social Committee, Track

Jim's Biography

This will be a skeletal history of the last 55 years.

•  Marietta College 2yrs.

•  USAF 4yrs. {3yrs. in and around Europe}

•  Marietta College 2yrs. Degree Econ/Bus.

•  Westinghouse Elec. Corp. Full line  Apparatus Sales Engr.

  •  Pittsburgh

  •  Detroit

  •  Saginaw

  •  Toledo

  •  Little Rock

1968 Went to the Fagan Co.  Local.  Largest Company of its type in AR.  Elec / Mech. contracting.  Plumbing, Package A/C.  Largest Elec. Sales & Repair in state.  That was my responsibility.   Company was failing, owner couldn't face it.  I along with a couple of partners bought 2 Cos. Elec. Sales and Repair.  Did real well until Nixon instituted wage / price controls and we went into 16 mo. recession.

Took 9 yrs to work my way out of that.  Sold out in 1982.  Took a couple of months. off.  Went to Real Estate School and decided I would rather build than sell, that was mistake no. 4001.  Trying to build during Carter's Recession with inflation and unemployment double digit was not in the cards for a novice.  Built some beautiful houses but failed to make any money on them.  It was tough and I couldn't work my way out of that one.

My first wife who I married in College and had two kids with, lost a 5 yr. fight with breast cancer and I lost her in 1989.

I threw in the towel moved to Florida.  Broke.  (Sounds like me, Jim, except I moved to Florida, then went broke!  Bill <><)

Made accidental contact with a former friend who lost her Husband to lung cancer 2 years before my wife died.   Got together and are great companions.  I moved back to Arkansas in December. 1993.  Been happily married ever since.  Things do get better.

•  Have a son about 41 and a daughter about 45.

•  My son has 2 sons and 2 daughters.

•  My wife has a son and daughter

•  I have 4 step grandchildren that I love very much.

I'm still working and loving it.  I have a neck problem and can't play golf.  Can't stand not working.  Going to try and work 2 more years.

Had a bout with Prostate Cancer 3 yrs ago with radiation and hormones everything has been just fine for 3 yrs.

Jim, Circa 2003

JOSEPH MILLER
 4 Romar Drive
Annapolis, MD  21403
 Joe's Biography

Hi-Y Officer, Honor Roll, Home Room Basketball, Home Room Officer

8th grade  

Summer 1954 -The ridiculous hat was not mine, it was for the picture only

July '60

Joe today (2001)

Bob, In reply to your May 9 letter, my email address has changed.  Phone is 410 990 0823.  Good to hear from you, and thanks for yours and Bill’s website efforts.  Not many, if any, other high school classes are so lucky.  Joe – June 14, 2009

Thanks for all your efforts Bill . Have been in Spain for a few months.  Wish I could be at the reunion.  I might even have made it this time if I were closer.  Joe Miller – August 2008

February 2008:  Still working on financial ventures.  I am about to set up an "incubator" account with an organization which will monitor it and present it to the world if results are good.   My track record is good so far, but they need to have tight control on what I am doing.   For instance one trick is to establish several accounts, using a different strategy in each, and then presenting the best performer as a track record.  It is as much a hobby as a serious effort.

I am really going to try to make it to the August '08 reunion, even though I never really knew any of the 30 or so "definites".  I do remember all of them well though.  I probably won't, of course, but I may just show up at the reunion - I really want to.  -  Joe

September 2005 - Hi Bill,  In reply to your "recent" (December, 2004) email in which you asked "how goes the battle" - As the smoke clears I'm still standing and in good health.  Life don't get much better than that.

My investment program is a lot of fun and keeps me very busy.  So far it has performed well.  The fund is currently 'for family and friends' and is limited by law to the 15 current accounts.  I plan to establish a public hedge fund within a year or two.  I am teaching the kids how to operate it in case I buy the farm first and they want to continue with it.  I am trading only in the Eurodollar / U.S. dollar currency pair - because of it's super high volume and therefore good trade executions.  Sounds risky but it can be done conservatively by using very little of the available leverage - meaning only a small percentage of the capital is invested.

Spoke with Art Mensing (Deceased) a few months ago.  He said Bill (Henry) Kurtz  (Deceased) said Bob had recently died (in Florida).  Bob Hogan was a good friend in junior and senior high school.   Joe Miller

Also in September -  I am forwarding an email received from my brother in Lakeland, Fla.  Kaufmann's clock and building haven't changed in 65-plus, years.   Speaking of nostalgia - I just scrolled thru the "Gone but" page.   My reaction was similar to yours.   A very heavy bitter-sweet emotional experience.   Thanks again for the web page.   Joe

May 2003:  We expect to be in Spain in August.  If so I will not be at the reunion.

I decided to apply the strategy which was to be used in my proposed website to the development of an investment fund.  Tested the results using historical data and am now engaged in a real investment test.  The profits so far have been encouraging - especially coupled with consistency of performance (ie) relatively small drawdowns.  Will continue the testing for the rest of the year while my daughters establish the fund with the SEC and market it.

I will stay in touch to let you know how the fund is doing.  -  Joe

E-mail, August 2001:  Nothing exciting to report since last year - but that’s probably good new.  More good news is that there is no bad news in our lives.  A slow paced life style with visits back and forth with kids, other relatives and friends - and an occasional short vacation.

In May I collided with my 70th birthday so finally went on Social Security.  God bless the New Deal.

Just finished a three month contract programming job at the IRS.  They are still in the Dark Ages with IBM mainframes.  That may be my last job.

Pat & I continue to exercise regularly.  I jog three or four miles every other day.  It works wonders I think.  I always wonder, though, if it would be healthier to do no exercise.  Wouldn’t it be ironic if I got hit by a car trying to stay healthy while my couch-potato friends are safely opening another beer?

We are still working on our mom & pop website.  I am also researching some stock option investment schemes which will mesh with our ‘option fair-price’ website.  I enjoy the computer work plus it is compatible with the ‘risk-taker’ personality trait which I have occasionally been accused of having.

Love the memories of you all.  Joe Miller

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Some random, vivid, pleasant memories about MtL people (after 1948)
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Late at night I heard a radio station announcer say "this is Ralph Wiethorn ........."

John McCune (Deceased), with his sister and Donna Kae Simmonds in his car, saw me walking on Washington Road.  He doubled back and drove me home while we talked.

I met Beverly Beck at Pitt and we dated a few times.  Was great to see her.  We had gone together to afternoon and evening dances in the 7th and 8th grades.

Met my 8th grade science teacher, Mr. Raines, on a Dormont sidewalk.

Talked with Martha Allison on a Mt. Lebanon bus.  Saw several MtL people at Tech but names escape me.  Bob Hogan (Deceased) and I visited Art Mensing (Deceased) in Hartford, Conn.  Unexpectedly met John Humphreys on a bus going to New York City.  Sat and talked with him all the way.  Briefly talked with Brad Estep when we unexpectedly met one day.

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More random stuff
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I still perceive myself to be young, 20 or 30 maybe.
I still think of our kids as kids, and still call them ‘kid’ (eg) when they phone I automatically say ‘Hi Kid’.
I have been blessed with really good health and a terrific family.
How did year 2000 come so quickly?
How did the kids grow up so quickly?
Why do I get tears in my eyes when I read this?

Joe

Joe's Biography - July 2000

Written under duress.  Bill did a bait-and-gotcha on me.  He offered the use of his website for some testing I want to do but then said "but not until I get a bio."  The man has no shame.

Post 1948:  Bounced around for 3 years after high school.  My brother and I worked with a combine wheat harvesting crew from Kansas to North Dakota in 1949.  Then picked fruit in California’s San Joaquin valley.  Learned to shoe horses in Seattle working for 2 years with my uncle’s rodeo rider / horse-shoer boyhood friend from Montana.  That served me well when in school.  I was able to earn $200 on weekends when necessary.  Big time money in the early 50’s.  The work is still lucrative.  I considered making a career of it but thoughts of hard labor put that to rest.

Returned to Pittsburgh in 1951 and started at Carnegie Tech the same week I was drafted.  Was sworn in but luckily a scholastic deferment kicked in.  Otherwise I might still be in Korea pushing up plants in a rice paddy.

Decided after 3 years at Tech that I really wanted to be a Petroleum Engineer (closely related to mining engineering).  Switched to Pitt to get that degree.  Worked in the oil fields in California and west Texas for two summers during school.  When I graduated I decided that, after all, I did not want to spend the rest of my life in some of God’s most forsaken places.  So I switched again (I am very flexible) and went to the aerospace industry in California.  There I got an MS in Mechanical Engineering from USC by the skin of my teeth.  Had the good life living on the beach in Playa Del Rey and Malibu.  

Met my wife, Pat, in 1960 on Catalina Island while sitting beside her at a picnic table.  Stole food from her plate, she caught me, and the rest is history.  We were married 3 months later.

We came to Silver Springs, MD, in 1971 with 3 little girls and have been in the same house almost 30 years.  Worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for 8 years.  Then went on an independent contracting / consulting job supposedly for a few months but have been contracting ever since.

Our 3 kids are now in Annapolis, Albany and Boston.  Married, married and almost married.  Computer Scientist, Chemical Engineer and Nurse.  4 grandchildren.

Initiated Social Security payments in May after turning 69 so guess I am retired.  Mostly for fun Pat and I are currently developing a website.  It will present daily estimated put and call option ‘fair prices’ for 10,000 stocks.

THERESA A. MORIAN (Long)
  5755 S. Harlan Street
Littleton, CO  80123

Activities Key, Chorus, GAA, Home Room Offices, Information Squad, Y-Teens Vice-President

Today, I spoke with Pamela Harbert, Tess Morian Long's daughter in Littleton, CO.   Earlier, I had left a message with my phone number on her answering machine which Pam said she passed on to her mother who now also lives in Colorado.   Tess told her it was unlikely she would attend a reunion and maybe she'd call me.  We know Tess is not lost and is living in Colorado.

Tess called back and said her husband died 8 years ago and that she will be unable to attend the Reunion,  Tom – July 2008. 

ANNE MOSITES (Miller)
 877 Valleyview Road
Pittsburgh, PA  15243

GAA, Home Room Secretary, Majorette, Medical Squad, Y-Teens

40th Reunion	50th Reunion	50th Reunion
55th Reunion	60th Reunion	Ann Prichard  and Ann @ 60th Reunion

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

Ann, Nancy Godden and Mary Murrie @ 60th Reunion

Hi Bill,  Sorry I have not responded sooner. I am definitely planning to attend our reunion in August. I also know that Marilyn Brey Minihan will also be attending.

Thank you for all your enthusiasm & hard work. It is greatly appreciated. – February 2008

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)

October 2005:  The first week of September the annual "DBC" reunion was held at my home in Lake Barrington, IL, a suburb of Chicago.  It was five days of talking and eating.  We spent two days in Chicago seeing the sights including the new Millennium Park (which is great fun and like no other park), the Architectural Boat Tour on the Chicago River (a must do) and a night on the town.  We told everyone that would listen who we were and that we had graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1948.  We hope "they" were impressed!

ADELE MARIE MOSLENER
 861 22nd Street
Vero Beach, FL  32960

GAA, Honor Roll, Majorette

8th grade  

60th Reunion

June 2008:  Well, I don't have any pictures and don't know how to send them, so I'll just give you information.  I graduated from PCW (now Chatham University) with a major in French in 1952, and went to work for NSA in Washington D.C.  I married Bela Karlovitz in 1953 while he was attending Georgetown Law School.  He was drafted into the army and sent to Frankfurt, Germany.  I had my oldest daughter, Katie, while he was there, and joined him five months later.  We moved to Heidelberg and my son, Mark, was born there in a former German army barracks turned U.S. Army hospital.  After arriving back in Pittsburgh, Bela practiced law and I had babies. 

We were divorced in 1989, and I graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing in 1989.  I worked at Shadyside Hospital for two years, then became a traveling nurse and finally settled permanently in Vero Beach, where I worked at the local hospital till 1970! 

I'll see if I can scrounge up some pics.  Adele

June 2008:  Talked with Adele on the phone.  She sounds super - a woman after our own hearts.  She likes to camp, ride bikes, travel & has loads of grandchildren.  Hope she stops by in Orlando to see Kay and me.  She promised to send much more news.  Bill <><

MARY EDITH MURRIE (Hardy)
 123 Village Court
Pittsburgh, PA  15241
 Mary's Biography

Attendance Squad, Home Room Secretary, Information Squad, Medical Squad, Ways and Means Squad, Y-Teens Secretary

7th grade      

<=== This silly picture of me in the paper sun dress on was in kindergarten and I don't know what it was for, but there were a few of us in costume for something or other.  I guess I was the sun!

45th Reunion	50th Reunion	50th Reunion	55th Reunion
	60th Reunion	Mary and Husband, Bob, @ 60th Reunion

Nancy Godden, Mitzi Fantl, Ann Mosites, Suzanne Divine , Marilyn Brey, Mary and Ann Prichard @ 50th Reunion

Ann Mosites, Nancy Godden and Mary @ 60th Reunion

Hi Bill - I did not realize that my last news was from 2005.   The time goes fast when you're having fun.   There is really not much news to get excited about.   We still spend about 3 months in Savannah, Ga. in the winter, and then back here in Pittsburgh the rest of the time.   We haven't been on any great trips for awhile - the last one was in 2006 when we visited Nova Scotia and the Canadian provinces.   That was a great trip!

We went to Florida for a few days last winter to visit son#1 who had moved from Kentucky to Bradenton, Fl. and we had a great time there.   Seems like flying is such a pain anymore, and it's too expensive to drive any great distance.   I hope that one of these days we'll go take a river cruise in Europe, but that's not in the current scheduling.

Our 16th grandchild, Zach, was born in 2005, and he's now a sturdy little 3 year old with a 4 year old sister, who we see often because they live only a mile away.   The oldest grandchildren are in their 20's and we will be going to our first grandchild wedding next year when our granddaughter Katie gets married.   The balance of the grandkids are in their teens or almost teens, and everyone has so many activities, that it's hard to keep up with them.   We try to go to baseball games, plays, and other functions as much as we can, but we can't do them all.

Our health - both Bob's and mine, is pretty good, considering Bob has diabetes, and has had 2 strokes.   He works in the yard every day, and keeps me going.   I play golf once a week - just 9 holes, and I love that

We are looking forward to the reunion.  I'm having, Suzanne Divine Williams, Ann Bowman McClymonds, and Nancy Godden stay here with us, and I'm sure we'll have wonderful gab-fest.   Hope to see you there in August.

Thanks for giving me the title of "Sister Sleuth" - but I only tracked down 1 person, so the title should to to Tom - "Brother Sleuth".  See you soon,  Mary – July 2008

Letter from Mary Murrie Hardy, January 7th, 2007:

Dear Bill,  Just wanted to let you know that Sally (Fellows) O'Conner died today after suffering a massive heart attack on New Years day.   She never was conscious, and was in a coma for 4 days.   She was always the happiest person and it was a pleasure to be around her.

We had a lunch on December 23rd of a few of the class of 48, and I sat next to her, and we had such a nice time chatting.   There were about 12 or so at the lunch,  Bob Ott, Ray Ferraro, Buddy Stevenson with Eileen, Bob Woeber with Margy, Bros and Peggy Richardson, Anne Mosites Miller, Chuck Hibler, and Sally and Buck along with Bob and myself.   I don't have details of the funeral yet.  Maybe you'll hear from some others, but thought I'd send along the word.   Mary

December 2005 - Hi Bill - Loved your card - such a clever way to show off your beautiful family.   The Hardy's are fine with just a few of the old age problems.   We are going to go to lunch on the 23rd of December with a few of the class members.   Buddy and Eileen Stevenson, Peggy and Skip Richardson, Sally Fellows O'Conner and Bucky, Bob Ott, and I'm not sure who else.   Ought to be fun! 

Sad news just received a couple days ago.   Ann Bowman McClymonds husband, Bob, died suddenly on November 18.   He was a wonderful guy - everyone liked him so much.   I saw Ann in October in Chicago when our gang of girls had our annual reunion at Pritch's house.   He was in good health then, but had to have a bypass so they decided to do it before Thanksgiving, because they knew it was a thing they had to do sooner or later.   Apparently, he came through it fine, and went home, only to have complications with very low blood pressure.   He was back in the hospital having that taken care of when he collapsed and died.   Ann and Bob lived (she is there) in Seven Lakes, North Carolina.  - a golfing community near Pinehurst.

We are going to be with all our family next weekend, but not everyone for Christmas.   We are 32 now with 7 kids, 7 outlaw kids, and 16 grandchildren - 10 boys and 6 girls.   The grandchildren ages range from 23 years to 10 months, so you can imagine how loud it gets when we are all together.

Keep in touch - I love looking through the class news and you do a great job!  Thanks, Mary

October 2005:  The first week of September the annual "DBC" reunion was held at my home in Lake Barrington, IL, a suburb of Chicago.  It was five days of talking and eating.  We spent two days in Chicago seeing the sights including the new Millennium Park (which is great fun and like no other park), the Architectural Boat Tour on the Chicago River (a must do) and a night on the town.  We told everyone that would listen who we were and that we had graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1948.  We hope "they" were impressed!

The above picture was taken after a long day of touring and shopping so we're a little worse for the wear.  Not bad, considering!  Seated: (L to R) Ann Bowman McClymonds, Suzanne Divine Williams, Peggy Crissman Funkhouser and Nancy Fleming Godden holding my Italian Greyhound, Misty.  Standing: (L to R) Jeanne Vayda McCallum, Anne Mosites Miller, Mary Murrie Hardy and Ann Pritchard Evanson.

Barbara Adams Norris sent this picture of the latest "DBC" reunion in Stone Harbor, NJ, July 7th, 2003. (See picture below)

Suzanne Divine Williams, Jeanne Vayda McCallum,  Ann Bowman McClymonds,  Barbara Adams Norris, Roseanne McIlvane Casey, Ann Mosites Miller, Nancy Godden, Ann Pritchard Evanson and Mary Murrie Hardy. (Click to enlarge)

Mary's Biography

My activities since high school consist of a long list of things that Mothers do when they raise a large family.

I graduated from Hood College and worked for U. S. Steel for a few years and then we started our family in 1955.

Between 1955 and 1973 we had 7 children - 4 girls and 3 boys. Not too bad for an only child.

Bob worked in the lumber business ( 84 LUMBER) and had fun driving harness horses at the county fairs. We lived in Scott Twp. for the first few years, but since 1964 we have lived in Upper St. Clair.

We are golfers, and I have sung in the church choir for 20 years, and that gives me a lot of pleasure.

We work in our garden a lot, and enjoy doing that.

The children have given us 13 grandchildren and another one on the way!  All my boys live out of state - one in Columbus, Ohio and one in Lexington, Ky. and the
youngest ( the only one not married) lives in San Diego.

The girls all live either in Upper St. Clair, or Mt. Lebanon, so we are very lucky to be able to see 9 of the grandchildren a lot.

Bob and I have taken some wonderful trips - a few cruises and I really love to go on cruises!

Other than that, my life as an Upper St. Clair housewife isn't too exiting - but it suits me just fine!

And that's what I've done for the past 50 years.