Please add your memories to the classmates who have died. The names are listed on the "In Memory" pages.
And mail/email me copies of your grade school, Junior High or Columbian pictures and/or memoriabilia to use on this site and in the reunion booklet. If you have movies from our activities, please let us know about them as well. The more you send the better our memories will be refreshed.
Written by Edward L. Beardshear for his 50th High School Reunion Newark, OH, Class of 1953
Why is my affection for all these people so extravagant?What are some reasons nobody forgets their high school years?
This was the place I grew up.
This is my spiritual home.
This was the place where I was safe.
This is the ground where the seeds of later life got sowed.
These were the people who were the anvils upon which I forged who I was and what I would become.
These people were the loving teachers of all the really important lessons of living and of life.
To forget your high school years is to amputate a major part of you. It isn't over, of course. The members of the Class of 1953, they teach me yet.
They teach me the importance of holding life in reverence.
They teach me the critical importance of enjoying the moment and living well in it.
They teach me the strength of humility, the futility of pride and the emptiness of achieving money, power and status at the price of soul.
