Winston Churchill High School

Sad News
Our classmate, Tom Gowling, passed away

 In Case You Didn't Know

    Out-of-Towner Outing

Are you removed from the DC area and unable to attend our monthly outings?  If so and you travel to the area, let us know and we'll do our best to arrange an Out-of-Towner Outing.  This was the case on Friday, June 24, 2011 when our classmates Ken Frech and his wife, Chris Williamson Frech were in town.

    Gonzalo Accame - Emmy Nomination

Our classmate, Gonzalo Accame, has reached the pinnacle of his profession by being nominated for an Emmy award. The category is Cultural Documentary. The specific production was 'Redemption Stone - The Life And Times Of Tom Lewis' which was made with the affiliation of Tom Dziedzic Video LLC. For this project, Gonzalo was the Director of Photography. Congratulation, Gonz. Are we a great group or what? The awards were made on June 25, 2011. Gonzalo's comments are as follows: 

"Thank you all for the wonderful notes and the support you gave me with the nomination of our Emmy Award. Unfortunately we missed it by a couple of points and did not win but we had a wonderful time at the awards banquet. It still is a big honor to have gotten nominated."

40th Reunion - new pix
What an Event !!  Thanks to everyone who attended and made this such a memorable event.  Thanks to the Marriott for a fabulous venue and incredible service.

Share Your Comments  Feel free to share your comments about the reunion.  Make your comments in the Message Forum.  This will put everyone's comments on a single, scrollable web page.  Please avoid putting comments in your personal profile.  Make sure you select 'View newest at the top' from the dropdown list at the top of the Message Forum page.

Pictures and Video  Gary LLoyd (aka FLASH) has posted his profession photos from the weekend on his website.  As of Fri10Dec, there are new photos.  As you navigate the pages, note the little arrows around the perimeter of the page.  These arrows are links to the next/previous photo or thumbnail page.  Also, please note and respect Gary's request to give all photo credit to his home web site:  www.PortraitPhotographer.com.

If you want to share your photos, please put them onto a CD or DVD and snail mail them to John Nicholson.  I'll work with Gary to get all photos (yours and his) into a single web page that will simplify navigation from event to event and contributor to contributor.

Gary and I are also discussing the best way to make all the visual media available for sale on DVD.  This will include all the photos, our Homcoming Game (from November 1969), and Gonzalo's slide show.  Stay tuned ...

About this Site
Greetings, classmate  This is a secured social networking website that is private to the 1970 graduating class of Winston Churchill High School.  All information is private to registered users.  There is no membership fee and no advertising.  It is run and maintained by fellow classmates, not some third party.

Registered Users  This is your site.  Please participate.  Most importantly, if you have contact with any classmates who have not registered, please encourage them to do so.

Unregistered Users  What are you waiting for?  Those who have registered visit the site on a regular basis. They are delighted with the content. They can post then and now photos and see photos posted by others. They send messages and chat with fellow classmates. They have renewed ageless friendships.  Just navigate to the Classmate Profiles, click on your name (bet you forgot you ever looked that good), and then click on the create your profile link.

Dean Harding
One of our classmates who did not graduate with us has recently passed away. That is Dean Harding, who died of liver failure on Jan 1, 2010, the day after his 58th birthday. Although he doesn't have a class photo, he hung around Churchill long enough in the fall of '69 to get his photo on pages 21, 25, and 27 of our yearbook. He spent his last years in the care of his sister Donna outside Salt Lake City. Dean lived life on his own terms, starting his adult life by dropping out of Churchill, leaving his parents' mansion in Potomac, and going with his girlfriend to live off the land in West Virginia. He eventually came back to Washington, spending a lot of time on his boat in the Chesapeake, going out west in his later years. Dean was a good friend of mine. I always admired his free spirit.

submitted by Larry Thrasher