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Glenbrook South High School
Sexagenarians of 1978
 

2009 Parade Sexagenarians

Welcome to our newest Alumna

Colleen Field (Petrando)

Photos From the "Thirtiest"

Steve and Laurie

Dave, Laura, Nanette

Kathy and Gary

Dan and Rich

Chuck, Avis and Dr. Mike

Tim, Ken and Diane

Mark and Audra, Shirley, Denise 40th Reunion

Mike, Mark and Audra - 30th Reunion
It's the Year 2025
 
Everything we've experienced in life
won't stop the planets from spinning,
on and on, year by year
 
 Everyone an individual
Everyone special
Everyone taking a different path through life
 
The next several years we will grow;
older, smarter, and if we are fortunate,
sometimes wiser

Years in which we will lose;
things
and sadly
friends
and
family,
 
Possessions will get misplaced
Memories will fade
Friends will part ways
 
The best friends, we try to hold on to
 
This is what counts in life,
isn't it?
In 3 Short Years
Join us in 2028 for our 
SEXAGENARIAN 
 ♦ 'BIG 50' ♦
Join the planning committee
Planning committee now being formed
We need your help and support!
Please donate your Time - Talent or Treasures
email 19GBS78@gmail.com or Text
Those joining will take part in the 'Sexagenarian Slush Fund'
A local Renion in the Fall around Homecoming
and a
Las Vegas Renion in the spring or summer
(More details to follow)
It won't be a Renion without
'U' 

Can you Name all of the girls 1988?

31st Reunion or "The Thirtiest" 

Brad Sussman coined the phrase

"THIRTIEST"
we were at year 31!

♦ 'BIG 50' ♦

In 3 Short Years
 
2028
(SAVE the DATES) 
Reunions aren't about...
Waistlines, Hairlines, or Credit lines
They're about Lifelines
Reunions are about reconnecting with our friends
from some of the best years of our lives...
It's about caring for our classmates,
teachers and their families - our families!
♦ Recoginize ♦
We're not getting older...
We're becoming a classic!
Make plans to reconnect with someone today,
you'll be glad you did!
Know that

Life is fleeting

2009 for the 'Thirtiest' Reunion at The Park Center

The 30th Reunion at the Park District's Lakeview room
(aka: The Senior Wing!)
 
Over 250 Alums, Faculty and Guests attended!
(Reunion companies said we would not get 50!)
Thanks to the entire Reunion Committee, we smashed it! 

Jeff Clark, Steve Goodman

Mike Novick

 

NASGV
Families relocated to Glenview to train at 'The Base'
Do you remember watching the Blue Angels taking off and landing
(Look on bottom Announcements for the' Heros on Deck' videos)
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you,
who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau,
sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."
~ Dan Rather

Ken Helberg (1977 Illinois State Qualifier Mile Relay) and Laurie

Ken and Karen

As We look back at these photos from 17 years ago and think ...
(see below for answer)

This one is for Linda!

'Doc'

Mr. Ganzer, Don, Frank

Many photos are from the Thirtiest Reunion at Park Center
aka: 'The Senior Wing'
In 2009 over 250 alumni enjoyed fond memories and libations
(**Side Note: Please let us know if your name is missing (?) on a photo at)
Does it feel like 17 years ago to you?

Michael, Melanie, Lisa, Linda

Jeff, Chuck, Chris

Andrea, Karen, Tim

Karen and Tim

Ken and Diane, Scott Meyer*

(this is the 'below')

How great we all look!

Everyone had a laugh in the Photo Booth
(thanks to Steve Donisch for all the photography)

Some were naturally photogenic!

Frank busting a gut

I'd bet $10 this was Karen's idea!

"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,
  the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
~ Kevin Arnold from The Wonder Years
Join us in 2028 for our

♦'BIG 50' ♦

or Text
All classmates involved in planning the
'BIG 50'
Reunion will partake in the Sexagenarian 'Slush fund' 
the 'BIG 60' Birthday Party was derailed due to the CCP Pandemic 

High School Reunion

What happened to those handsome guys
with washboard abs and muscled thighs?
Those youthful, energetic teens
with roaming hands and urgent jeans?
 
And all the girls with tiny waists,
some were loose and others chaste?
We had that storied teenaged glow
the world was there for us to know.
 
Now everybody looks the same
we're age-enhanced and lost our game.
The boys who had the perfect bods
are doughy or as thin as rods.
 
Those who had the thickest hair
now boast a strand, just here and there.
The pretty girls, once shaped like 8
don't have the curves to celebrate.
 
It seems the older we become
we're less unique and all just one.
Recalling life when it was fun,
Stick a fork in us - I think we're done!
~ Sandy Stert Benjamin
Sexagenarian Full Play list link on YouTube

Barb, Dave, Kirk

Thank You  Tim Ryan!

Erin, Joe (GBS Homecoming Game 2008?)

Maureen and Joe

Marty and Nick?

Mary and Melanie

Thanks to Dave Janshutz
who instramental in getting the ball rolling for the
Thirtiest Reunion
Dave, Mike and Bob

The 30th turned out to be the 31st or "Thirtiest" coined by
Brad Sussman
Although we were a year late, with the help of
25 classmates on the reunion committee
it turned out to be
One Hell of a Great Time!
This is what Renions are for!

Renions aren't the same without 'U'

Dave, Julie and Mark

'Wild' Bill Lanham and Jay

Moira and 'Wild' Bill 

Scot and Cheri at the 10th Year Reunion 1988

(that's 37 years ago in sexagenarian language)

?, Scott, Ken

(email 19GBS78@gmail.com to help place names with photos)

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about.
The trick is to grow up without getting old!

Chuck, Scot and Patricia

Coach Faulkner at the 30th

Thanks for attending!

 The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward
Kurt and Tom

Frank and Mike

 

Chris.?, ?
(names-we need names!! email 19GBS78@gmail.com)

Welcome Classmates

Avis Truska (Jason) & Dan Santler

A Reunion's 'Best Feeling' is simply this ...

Nanette and Avis

Dr. Mike and Kay Sopocy (guest of honor)

Parade 1978?

Debroah, Jim, Bob, ?, Michael

Ken Brown, Theodore Neiweem, Scot Lewis
please sign in!

The Sexagenarians of 1978 are looking for you!

Stanley Field Jr. High

               

1973 Stanley Field B Ball
Gomez, Steinments, ?, Kingston
2009 Ice Breaker of the 'Thirtiest' at Glenview House
Guarding the door was...

"Wild Bill" Lanham

Greg, Moira,'Wild' Bill Lanham, Jay

This One is for Ted Neiweem!
Where's Waldo?

Mike, Mark and Audra

Theresa and Nanete (sitting at the check-in table)

Lisa,?,?, Erin smiling, Ralph waiting patiently

Chaz, Moira, Karen, Scott*

?, Peter, Sherrie

OLPH?

Carol, Karen, 

Ken and Diane at the 10 year Reunion

Restored Indoor Track

Ken and Dave talking Packer shop no doubt

(notice the tasteful ties)

Having our 'Professional Baby Sitters' attend was
our greatest endeavor! 

Mr. Ganzer and Mr. Faulkner

We will Be Classmates 'Til we're Old & Senile

...Then Guess What?
We will Be New Classmates!

Linda, Pat, Tom, Carol

Lisa, Sharon, Karen, Carol, Meg

Ralph, 2-Speed, Rich, Paul

Kathy, Gary

Andrea, Lauren, Steve Goodman

Frank

MC Dr. Mike

  

 2 Speed is now... Slow and Reverse

Formerly 4 Speed

Sandy

Joe and Coach Davis 'Spud'

Muchmorh (sp)

Coach Rabeor 'Rabes', Zaven, ?

Booters aka: Soccer Players

Swim Gymnastic Team

Big Shout Out to Tim Ryan! Thank You!

Sock Hops

Send us your 'BIG 60' photos!

 
Guess Who This Classmate Is!

Answer on the bottom

reminisce
verb rem·i·nisce \ ?re-m?-'nis \

Synonym Discussion of reminiscence
memory, remembrance, recollection, reminiscence mean the capacity for or the act of remembering,
or the thing remembered. memory applies both to the power of remembering and to what is remembered.

reminiscence
noun rem·i·nis·cence \ ?re-m?-'ni-s?n(t)s \
Definition of reminiscence
1 : apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence
2 a : recall to mind of a long-forgotten experience or fact
b : the process or practice of thinking or telling about past experiences
3 a : a remembered experience
b : an account of a memorable experience —often used in plural
4 : something so like another as to be regarded as an unconscious repetition, imitation, or survival
5 : what you will do at a GBS Reunion Sexagenarian Party!

A Fun Time was had by all at 
The 2023 and 2024 Reunions
 
 
 
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Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans.

Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. However, if it occurs on a Sunday then the following Monday is designated for holiday leave, and if it occurs Saturday then either Saturday or Friday may be so designated.

It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting the President issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday; "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'.

In 1953, Al King had the idea to celebrate all veterans, not just those who served in World War I. So he began his campaign to turn Armistice Day into "All" Veterans Day. King was an Emporia (KS) shoe store owner actively involved with the American War Dads during World War II. King had promoted his notion so much that the Emporia Chamber of Commerce decided to get involved. With the help of then-U.S. Rep. Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for the holiday was pushed through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954.

Congress amended this act on November 8, 1954, by replacing "Armistice" with Veterans and it has been known as Veterans Day since.

Veteran comes from originally meaning a person of long experience or skill. Derived from the latin term veteranus, after the American Revolution the word veteran came to be associated specifically with former soldier of old age who had fought for independence. As time went on veteran was used to describe any former member of the armed forces or a person who had served in the military.

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day--a common misunderstanding, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Memorial Day (the fourth Monday in May) honors American service members who died in service to their country or as a result of injuries incurred during battle, while Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans--living or dead--but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime.