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Judy Derrow Stykemain

Hey Dave I've got pictures but I'm not very photogenic(?).  How do you like the website?  Any suggestion on how we could get the classmates to write more stories?  (And add pictures).  In the last two days approx. 55 classmates checked out the site but I found no new comments or news.  Help!!!

Lois Farris Little

Dave Dodt, Dave Dodt, let's see...oh, yes, I remember him.  I think we were confirmed together, along with George Ford, Jane Block, Doug Davis, Jean Agler, Pam Beardslee, Barb Healless, someone named Vanda or something like that (Vada Wiselogle?) and was Bill Parker part of that group?... (I know that isn't all, but my forgetter has been working really well latelyl)...I still have that picture around here somewhere.

Doug Davis

Hi Lois,good to see you on the  website.I don't think Dave Dodt was in our confirmation class because Rev. Hax  was the pastor and Dodts came later. Other names that I can remember were Denny Frederick, Keith Schaffer, and Bill Spencer.   Hope you can make it to the reunion.  Doug

Lois Farris Little

Yeah, Doug, you're right. Thanks for setting me straight.  

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

Boy, there sure were alot of Lutherans in the class.  When we were figuring out the grade school for everyone attending the reunion, the catholics out numbered the public schools.  Maybe  if we counted St. John and St. Pauls that are coming they might out number St. Johns and St. Marys.  I'll have to check that out.  Nice to see people are starting to chat back and forth.  There is still a few more days left to register for the reunion at the Elks, but don't forget you can stll come on out on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to the WELCOME CENTER.  Thanks to everyone who has responded so far.   We are still in NEED of  homemade gifts for door prizes made by classmates or spouses.    Looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion and reiminising about the good old days.  Ha!  Judy Stykemain

Tom Warnimont

Sounds like the 50th class reunion was a great success and fun for all.  Looking forward to seeing pictures posted and stories on this web site.

Tom Warnimont

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Bill Sweet

I typed a long message and then backed up to check on some names and lost it. So here I go again...

Ditto to what Jon Roesti said. I had a wonderful time and to our surprise, so did my wife, Pat. We got to visit my old homestead (220 Riverdale) and talk to the Switzers (neighbors), and talked to a lot of old classmates, and I do mean old! (What happened to you guys?...)

I got to spend a lot of time with Dave and Connie Kellermyer, and we discovered we had a lot in common (guns, kids, politics, relative problems, etc). Since Kelly and Steve Spurgeon and Jim Shroyer were my best friends in high school (at least the ones I got in trouble with the most), and since Jim is dead and Steve won't leave home, I stuck to Kellermeyer like glue much of the time. I hadn't seen him for about 50 years. I got to go to a DHS football game and see Chiz Wahl (the guy who gave Spurgeon and me the board in 8th grade), and eat breakfast at Kissner's (much overrated and yet nostalgic)

You reunion guys did a great job and I hope you do it again in 5 years! Judy, you and Tom and the rest of the gang were fantastic! Thanks again for the 50-year old Crescent News paper and the great food and the whole organizational effort---even the candy was good. I will complain about the singing Saturday night (my wife said I fell asleep), the rain Saturday (you all said you had a drought going), and the inability to visit the old high school (I wanted to walk the halls again), but that's a pretty sad list of complaints when stacked next to all of the wonderful things you guys did to organize a hell of a reunion!

If any of you get to the San Jose California area, call me 408-398-7715 bill@swetgang.com, and we'll do something fun together. We've been in California for 32 years and have done it all, so we'd be glad to do some of it again if you show up!

Bill Parker, send me the class photos you took and I'll PhotoShop the various shots so everyone is looking their best and nobody is blinking or looking drunk. That way we'll all have a good photo of the reunion gang to remember.

Happy Trails...

Gerry Moser

The "committee" batted 1,000...PERFECT planning and execution which a "professional" party planner could not have done better!  Thank you all for your hard work and contribution in making the 50th Class reunion very, very memorable for the rest of your classmates.  Special thanks to Judy and Tom Stykemain for making The Welcome Center available to use.  All classmates are special people and those attending deserve a "thank you" too, for caring and taking the time, some at considerable travel expense, to attend.  Those classmates , for whatever reason, that were unable to attend need to know they, too, were thought about by those in attendance.  Perhaps next reunion they will somehow find a way to attend?

The "Memorial Table" was especially fitting and appropriate and was done in great taste.  I'm sure we'll keep those who have passed in our thoughts and prayers and I'm sure some of us felt their presence Saturday night.  All the deceased were wonderful friends and classmates and I'm sure, missed by all who knew them. 

You ALL made my 50th class reunion very memorable and I thank each of you.  I'm only sorry I could have had more time to talk with each of you.  Did anyone, other than myself, feel like they were having a "downer" for a day or two after our reunion was over?  Hope to see you all again...here on earth or "upstairs"!!!  Best Regards, Gerry Moser, 9/20/2010

Carole Oder Etchie

 To All The Reunion Committee~ what a wonderful job you all did!!! it was fantastic~ to the classmates who could not attend you were thought of by many,  to the ones who are no longer with us we felt your presence,  the memorial tribute to all of you was touching and in each of us stirred up a special memory of you.  WOW! i am like jerry moser.  perfect planning.  to jim, judy & tom,  thank you for opening up the  welcome center. we were all welcomed and want to thank you for it. i felt even the spouses enjoyed themselves. mary cupp , bill tubbs , connie morris and i were all in the same confirmation class at st john evangelical & reformed church (now the st john united church of christ) i had not seen mary in all of these years, how very nice that she came and i got to enjoy her company again after all these years. I enjoyed every minute of the 50th class reunion & THANK YOU!!!   Larry Mcmillian, make sure you are here for the 55th reunion, we all enjoyed your conversations & humor. you were great.    carole oder

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

To all of my classmates you made my day!!!   I was kind of ornery in school and scholastically did not do my best but for some reason I wouldn't change a minute of it.  I loved my school days and also I think we have a great class.   The committee was great,  the guys did a wonderful job of doing all the hard work.  Tom & I enjoy people so it was nice so many showed up at the welcome center.  Thank you all for coming and know you are welcome anytime.  Don't even call ahead because you know then "If I know your coming I'll have to bake a cake." Ha!

Until we meet again, God bless you all.  Sincerely,  Tom & Judy Stykemain

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Patricia Knoll Engle

Well done!  Even though I got sick just before serving the food at the banquet, all the rest of the reunion was great.  Just seeing how old people looked, I had to look in a mirror to see if I really belonged to that group.  Seems like I did.

Great job Judy and the rest of your team for all the work you put into making the 50th outstanding.

Eugene Brown

Thanks to the committee for a great job very well done, and an extra special thanks to Judy and Tom stykemain for going over a above with their great, and gracious hospitality. it was so enjoyable eating and talking with Jon Roesti, Jon Boes, Charlie Chase, and their wives. So many others that I met and talked with like Doug Davis. Gary Scheuerman, Ray Feeney and their wives, and so many others whose names escape this old brain at the moment, one more Sharon Dirr and her husband.

I am so looking forward to the next reunion

to everyone take care, be safe, and enjoy life!

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

Hi Everyone!   Just wanted the class to know that the committee is having another party Sunday evening for a potluck dinner at the Welcome Center.  We had so much fun planning the reunion we decided we just have to get together once in a while.  John Goldenetz had put a fun trivia game together for the reunion, which we did not have time to play on Saturday night at the Elks, so we're playing it after dinner on  Sunday.  Each couple is suppose to bring a couple of white elephant gifts.  Do you know what that is??  I'll take pictures for all to see.  Would love for all classmates to write once in a while on the message forum.  Bye for now,  Judy

Don Dunbar

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes on 12-8

 I found a missing  old photo that everyone might enjoy and it is posted at the bottom of the             " Photos From The Past " section

                                                              Don

Lois Farris Little

Dear old classmates (and I do mean old!!)I would like to take this time to wish you all a blessed Christmas.  I really do wish for all of you a wonderful time not only of celebrating Christ's birth, but of fun and laughter with friends and family.

 Lois Little

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

Lois, thanks so much for the Christmas greeting.  It's nice when classmate use the message forum for all to see. It will help keep the website going.  I also would like to wish everyone a very happy HEALTHY holiday.   We are now in Florida for the winter, if any of you come to the Florida Keys be sure and stop.  I get pretty homesick and we love company.  Bye Judy

Eugene Brown

just wanted to wish everyone a very merry christmas, and the happiest of new years. This past year has been one of the best of my life, and hopefully it has been for everyone else. my grndkids are loving it, northwest Indiana has  up to 31 inches of snow, and thursday morning it was 12 below zero, no thaw in site, so we will most definatly have a white christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Jon Roesti

Dear Classmates                                         12-20-10

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year and good health in the up coming years.                  Jon & Toby Roesti

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

I hope everyone is going to respond to the 70th birthday party.  Please, please EVERYONE make some comments!!!!!!  Other classes have done this with great success.  We need more writing comments on the web site.  We can tell people are here looking at old news and seeing if anyone is telling new stories,  so please give us news (good, bad, funny, sad, happy, strange, weird, outstanding, stupid, political, religeous, debatable, SOMETHING PLEASE.)  Let's keep this web site going.  No respond - No website???

Thanks, Judy

Doug Davis

One of the neat things about last years' 50th class reunion is that we have this great web site set up by Jim Warncke that we are able to log in and contribute to. Without it the reunion probably wouldn't have been as sucssesful as it was. Thanks Jim. Since then, every once in a while, I'll log on to see if anybody has contributed anything and have found nothing. I'm just as guilty. The original reunion committee has decided to keep the website going for another year mainly to develop plans to have a 70th birthday party for next Sept. or Oct. We're wondering how everyone feels about this so give us some input. We'll all be turning 70 next year so lets celebrate with a party. Sound like fun?  Plans are just getting started so let's hear from you.   Doug

Marianna Bolley Sadowski

December 10, 2011

 70th Birthday Party????  We can't POSSIBLY be turning 70 already, .....can we?  Lordy, that should make me feel old, but some days I feel like I might be approaching 90!  ha!  However, there's a part of me that still thinks we're all just like we were in 1960.    I have really enjoyed touching base with some of our classmates on Facebook.....it's fun to chit chat and see current pictures of everyone.     One of the things that struck me as kinda funny at the reunion last year was that many of our voices are about the same......not necessarily for singing, I might add (at least for me!), but sometimes when I heard bits of conversation in the background, I could tell who it was by the voice.   'Course, then it's sometimes a little shock to see a white head or a bald one that goes with the voice!  hee hee!

I am grateful this website is still going.....and think a 70th Birthday Party would be fun!    

Merry Christmas to all, and I wish you all a very Happy New Year too.

Marianna Bolley Sadowski

Eugene Brown

2011 has been a good year for me, had my first vacation in several years, did my sons job for 10 days while his family went on vacation, learned I am going to be a greatgrandfather for the second time, and my entire family has been healthy. good year.

Judy Stykeman sugested a 70th birthday get together next summer sometime. I was wondering if anyone would consider a picnic, just a thought, Defiance has several nice parks.

Here is wishing everyone a blessed and MERRY CHRISTMAS, and a very healthy, prosperise, and happy      NEW  YEAR          take care  and be well    Gene

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

Merry Christmas to all and a very happy healthy new year.  Thanks Gene for your respond, hope we hear from all of you.  We are paying for this site so please write some news.  I'm now at Big Pine Key Florida until April and would love to see anyone who would be in the area.  Last year Connie Bishop Schatz stopped by and we had lots of fun chatting.  Hope to hear from all of you soon.

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Judy Derrow Stykemain

Happy New Year!!!!!!!
Suggested and requested new years resolution. Post something on our class website. Okay everyone??????

The following checked in December for new news but did't find anything, also never posted anything. Come on, please, we would love to hear from you. I hope I'm not being a pest, because I think you are all great.
Roesti, Brown, Schaufele, Boes, Davis, Reineke, Oder, Browns, Knoll, Wasnich, Warncke, Stone, Bishop, Feeney,Moser, Parker, Warnimont, Black, Chase, Schmunk, Vogel, Dunbar, Bolley, Holcomb, Duerk, McBride, Burkhart,
Shock, Wolff. Lets see how many of you respond and take this resolution serious. Thanks, The committee

Eugene Brown

Judy, I think everybody must be in hiberation now that winter has finally arrived in the north.

Our first snow today, predicted to be 1 to 3 in. in northern Indiana, so far 1/2 inch.