John M. Lader

I just turned 68 in June and am semi retired living in The Valley of the Sun with my wife and we're really enjoying ourselves.

Mary is a special ed teacher and is kept busy at school with students during the day and me at night.

My step-son is living in LA, which is one major reason we moved west.

Steve Laven and I have lunch weekly, where we discuss our time at Wiley and CHHS.

Since my Mom passed away last Oct. 2018 I don't get back to Cleveland as often as I use to, so I'm looking forward to joining everyone at our 50th Reunion and driving around our former haunts.

Thank you to Jim, Sue and the entire reunion committee for all your dedicated work to give us the opportunity to all get together one more time.

Since my memory is slipping just a little, I've been reviewing our Senior Caldron pictures, because I'm sure we all look the same.

God willing and the creek don't rise, I'll see you all in eight days.

I think it was around the time of our graduation. A group of friends, who will remain nameless (but you'd be shocked to know who they were) borrowed a fire extinguisher from Heights. Someone replaced the contents with water and the tank was repressurized. We then drove around spraying innocent bystanders.

I was so sure we were all going to be arrested.

Belvoir - Wiley