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Welcome to the Boardman High School Message Forum.
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The message forum is an ongoing dialogue between classmates. There are no items, topics, subtopics, etc. Forums work when people participate - so don't be bashful! Click the "Post Response" button to add your entry to the forum.
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| 09/22/10 08:21 PM |
#78
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Linda Foster Evans
I will be glad to help in any way I can. We need to get a group together to get this started.
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| 09/23/10 11:38 PM |
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Alan Murray
check out Diane Zoldan Burda post on user forum. The idea is to get more people involved planning our 60 party and thus getting more people excited and attending.
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| 10/23/10 12:41 AM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
Greetings Extinguished BHS Class of 1969 (Sounds pretty cool, huh?)
A few of us got together recently to explore the possibility of a celebration of the 60th anniversary of our collective birth...this sounds so much better than we are really turning 60 YEARS OLD!
We will meet again in a few weeks to put the final proposal together to see if it is feasible. Please watch your BHS email for updates. The idea is to celebrate our collective 60th birthday and as much as some of us don't want to admit it, Father Time is our collective enemy.
With the technology available to us such as emails, Facebook, Skype, You Tube, et. al, and our great BHS Class of 1969 website, we are hoping that even if you can't join us this coming summer we will be able to share our thoughts and wishes with you.
Please continue to update our class website with information, pictures, and what you are up to. We are all interested in what's happening with you. If you communicate with any of our classmates who may not have attended a reunion please urge them to update their profiles and let us know what they're up to as well.
Best wishes.
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| 10/24/10 08:12 PM |
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Alan Murray
Thanks for making the trip, although Connie lives farther away. Imput is needed before our next meeting. Keep your eyes on this venue...Chuck I could not say it better.
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| 11/12/10 08:46 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
Starting to see more posts and updates from classmates. Keep it coming. We're interested in what you're up to. Just keep it clean Greg Powell.
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| 12/08/10 12:18 PM |
#83
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Diane Zoldan Burda
Relfections on turning 60
Posted Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Ok...alright already...enough anticipation...the big event happened recently and yes, I, Diane Zoldan-Burda have made it into another decade of life school. Chapter 6 has officially begun (each chapter having 10 parts). After a few close calls with death sprinkled here and there, for good measure, throughout the past 60 years, I made it....and I am here to tell you that, basically, I am still here! Some original parts may be weathered, care worn or entirely gone but, basically, I am still here.
One of the good things about getting older is that you gain perspective with each passing decade. But, I don’t think that we really even start thinking, “perspectively speaking” (I know I just made up a word! Microsoft Word just told me! Tough stuff MW old people get to do that!) about our journey until we reach milestones like these. It is the Universe’s little gift to us for sticking around so long. How we got from point A to point B becomes clearer and clearer. If we are lucky we even gain insight into the why’s of negative happenings. We learn to accept the good and the bad because they both afford us an opportunity for spiritual growth (and sometimes it has absolutely nothing to do with spiritual growth at all. Instead it is just a socio-economic reason for a challenging event that befalls us… For example, The Challenging Event: a certain 60 year old woman has a frighteningly life altering personal discovery that eyelashes and eyebrows can actually turn white over night! The Socio-economic reason: There is an economic boost to a local business that sells cosmetics and socially the community as a whole will be safer due to her being calm once more.)That brings me to another thought…why didn’t someone tell us about these kinds of things ahead of time? Why does it have to be a surprise every time? Old people know what happens…the generation ahead of us knows what physical craziness will occur, but did they warn us? Noooo…. they just sit around quietly laughing to themselves. Evil little giggles under their breath. Pretending to be senile and unknowing...all the while watching and waiting to hear our gasps of resignation as we are buying undergarments, in department stores, and suddenly see our image in a huge distorted mirror, or when we are looking into a 10x magnifying mirror that we stupidly bought and mounted onto our bathroom wall!!!!!!!!!!!! Why didn’t they tell us? Actually I think they probably did but we just were not listening or we didn’t believe that “it” would actually happen to us. We knew that we would age differently. I’ve decided not to tell my children either. Let them remain blissfully ignorant, as I used to be until now.
They will know when they know.
Anyway, here I am…60years old. I had a wonderful celebration with family and friends that began on Thanksgiving and, with any luck, has a good chance of carrying on(off and on) throughout the month as I am taken to dinner by people that love me and enjoy my lively repartee and limited tolerance to alcohol . Somehow 70 does not sound so old now. I hope to be writing the same thing to all of you at the beginning of the next chapter and the next and perhaps the next. I hope that when we gather for our 50th, 60th, 70th, etc…reunions, we will greet each other and say, “Basically, I am still here!”
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| 12/09/10 04:06 PM |
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Diane Zoldan Burda
Chuck ...whats with the "Extinguished" thing....that word brings to mind a flame that has been blown out...a raging fire that has been ended...are you insinuating that we are no longer the hot stuff we once were? Actually considering our age( and I probably speak for the female class members mostly, when I say...) some of us feel like there is even more of a raging inferno inside( sometimes in the middle of the night and sometimes at any moment of the day it chooses)...hormones were the cause then and hormones are the cause now...so "extinguished" ? Nay! Me thinks not!
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| 12/15/10 12:18 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
Hey Diane,
I had to go back and re-read my post. I have no idea where that came from. Sometimes the 'filters' don't work properly...at least that's what my wife tells me.
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| 12/23/10 11:34 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
Here's wishing everyone a Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year. I hope everyone who can will attend our collective 60th Birthday Party.
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| 01/14/11 09:07 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
I trust everyone had a great Holiday season.
It's a new year and we all know what that means. No matter how hard we try to ignore it that dreaded time is upon us. So let's everyone gather at Rusty's and The Landing this July and celebrate the 21st anniversary of our 39th birthday. Hope to see everyone there.
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| 01/24/11 06:01 PM |
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Mary Dee Higby Sepesy
You know, I don't think that it is the actual becoming certain ages that is the problem, but rather other people's perceptions as to what that age entails So,we owe it to society to show them that 60 is extremely cool, and that we still know how to have fun!! After all, didn't we all invent fun!!!?
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| 05/03/11 03:10 AM |
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Gregory "Gregg" Powell
Hello everyone (who reads this!)...greetings from Granada, Nicaragua...trust all is going well for all of you up there in the good ole' post Osama Bin Laden USA!!! ((-:
HEY! Just a quick "heads up": I've been receiving a number of interestingly nice, pretty intense and full of real emotions emails from "Charley Shirley". He was Bev Hackett's husband of some brief 5 months(?) and was fatefully positioned in the car with her on the night of her fatal car accident. Charley wrote to me in particular after 27 years(!) when he read that I was Bev's "Junior High boyfriend"...((-:
Anyway, Charley sent me a fully descriptive email of his relationship with Bev and that awful night; I suggested he place it under her name in the "In Memory" section, which he has done.
Take a look at it - it is very well written and certainly invokes the emotions and...a few tears!!! ((-;
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| 05/15/11 06:14 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
Hey Greg,
Thanks for the update.
Hope all is well.
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| 06/17/11 04:56 PM |
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Frances Luscri Twelkemeier
34 days until our 60th birthday party. Are you coming? If not, why not? We'd love to see ya!
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| 07/23/11 03:27 PM |
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Diane Zoldan Burda
Our collective 60th birthday celebration got off to a wonderful start at Quench last night. The turn out was great considering that it was 150degrees and as humid as a night in the rain forests of the Amazon. All the faces I saw had a beautiful youthful layer of moistness that combined with faltering vision produced a really gauzy romantic portrait! Everyone looked fantastic! Patty Wilson brought along some photos from Robinwood Elem. School days and I was truly amazed at how little people really change. Granted, hair cuts have improved dramatically…especially for the girls…I loved seeing who probably tried cutting their own bangs the night before picture day . What were they thinking back then with those 1 inch bangs? My favorite year is the one where people have missing teeth AND bad hair cuts! Come to think of it…we might have a class reunion photo sometime in the future that looks like that again. Looking forward to the rest of the weekend festivities …
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| 07/24/11 07:32 AM |
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Karen Eliser Borkes
Friday and Saturday night were great! It's nice being with people who share such an important part of your history. Diane, I agree our bangs have definitely improved. Classmates...we are looking good! Happy 60th to all.
I think it would be fun to get together informally once a month, perhaps at the Quench Bar....pick a certain night. Thoughts?
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| 07/24/11 12:46 PM |
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Carol Moll Maurer
Big thanks to everyone who helped make our united 60th birthday party such a big success, especially Jeff, Diane, Al and Rick! It is fun to see old friends and classmates again. Until next time, take care everyone!!!
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| 07/28/11 06:54 PM |
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Richard Charlotte
I'd like to thank my classmates for the kind words on our band "The Jim Committe Project". It gave me great pleasure in playing "the 60th birthday bash". Looking around I noticed people enjoying and getting into the music we were playing. Playing high school dances and such more than 42 years ago, for me, made this party even more special.
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| 07/28/11 11:03 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
After having a week to digest this past weekend, and having to spend the week in Detroit, MI, here's what I took away from last weekend's celebration...Jack Hay has a tattoo!!! Jack Hay...of all people! Bud Joyce told me about it and Jack showed me....alright, relax, it was on his ankle! It was great to see everyone and Linda and I are looking forward to those 5th Fridays.
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| 08/18/11 09:48 PM |
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Mark (Chuck) Ohl
What great class pictures from Robinwood Elementatry.
Were there any class pictures from the Jr. High? I can't remember. If anyone has them please post them
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| 09/19/11 07:18 PM |
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Frances Luscri Twelkemeier
Just thought I would let you know that I DO NOT subscribe to Alumni Junction so if you post something I will not receive it. Why would I PAY for a message forum when we have the best right here?
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| 09/24/11 07:52 AM |
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Patricia Wilson
September 30th - 5th Friday
Anyone around - the plan is to meet at the Quench Bar on Market Street after work.
Hope to see several of you there.
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| 10/11/11 03:41 PM |
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Harry Dach
Harry Dach here. I did Make a short video of the 60 bash a few months ago. It is short but alot of you are in the shots. Those that I forgot, I do apologize. If you are interested, please Email me at sassebojudo@yahoo.com It is college season now so I am busy with my film students. I also teach Martial arts 3X a week and do a few other things. So please be patient. Glad to have seen some of you. Harry
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