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Julie Thurlow (Brown)

Julie Thurlow (Brown)

our 50th Reunion was the best!

Catherine (Kitsy) Morse (Wikkerink)

I just want to add my comments about the team who spent a lot of time to make the reunion such a success.  A  BIG thanks to Julie, Pat, Esther, Genelle, Janet, and, of course, Bill.  Thank you for the memories and I hope that the reconnections made will continue.

Kitsy

Melissa Jean Mills (Hall)

It was wonderful to see everyone who came. I so missed seeing Sherri Berkey and Sandy Lane! Sandy and I have had some lovely long talks on the phone since then. She's in a good place in her life, challenging, but good. I really want to see everyone next time and that can't come soon enough for me.

Patricia Jones (Decker)

Check out a few pictures that are being downloaded....more in the future.  The four I posted were taken on Friday at SHS...it was a fun time.....a lot of comments about how it has changed, how we have changed and how glad we were that we had decided to come.   Thank goodness for name tags and the yearbooks. 

If you click on SHARE YOUR PHOTOS a page will come up with some of the pictures that have been posted.  If you were at the reunion and took pictures please consider posting them for all to see.

Catherine (Kitsy) Morse (Wikkerink)

To the reunion committee:

Thanks for the "memories"..................I received my book today and had fun going over all the pictures and reliving our wonderful weekend.  It will be treasured.

Thanks again for all your work,

Kitsy

Julie Thurlow (Brown)

Steve and I went to see  "Jersy Boys" last night at the 5th Avenue...It was a night of song and dance...It brought back so many memories of the great music we had.

Julie Thurlow (Brown)

Sammamish High School Construction Project

Julie Thurlow (Brown)

Go Hawks!!!  Everyone was in "Beast Mode"

Robin Ruth Folger

I had my full size 12th Man flag flying today in Denver!  Now I am enduring the Bronco game!   Got back from Bavaria 2 weeks ago and now off to P.V Mexico for week with Joy (Joyce Bauer)  and two other girlfriends.  Joy's b-day is the 19th so we will celebrate.  Feeling great and life is good, all love, Robin

Robin Ruth Folger

Julie, not to be out done by Mr. Utley I would like to add another "funny".

Two Bellevue High School cheerleaders are sitting at the end of a pier on Meydenbauer Bay looking at a full moon on a clear evening.  One says to the other, "which do you think is closer, the moon or California?"   The other thinks for a moment and then exclaims.......duh, can you SEE California?"

Ruthanne Ruhlman (Beddoe)

So sorry to have missed this summer's reunion. A late flight from Philadelphia made it impossible. I'd love to see photos or hear stories of who was there and how fun it was. Anybody? . . .

Julie Thurlow (Brown)

Life has neem crazy since the picnic but I will try to get pictures from the picnic up soon.

Julie

Robin Ruth Folger

Julie, Just heard Bob Walters, Diane's husband had a stroke at home last April and passed.  He had not been well for some time.  I haven't spoken to Diane yet, left a call.  Please post this.  All is well in Denver, Robin

Lawrence Lee Leppert

To Wolf Ruetz,

I've read about the floods in Bavaria.  It looks like the worst is north of you, on the Inn, but hope it's OK where you are.

Larry

Wolfhard Fred Ruetz

Hi Larry, all is well with us. We live 60 meters above the Salzach River, so no problems. We did get over 5 inches of rain within 36 hours and many culverts were plugged, backing the water like a dam and within minutes the "dam" broke causing the severe damage in Simbach. Thanks for writing. Wolf

Lawrence Lee Leppert

I found this picture online of Wolf's home town, Laufen, in Bavaria.  Isn't it a shame some people have to live like this?

Larry

P.S.  Laufen is on the far side of the river.  On the left, across the bridge is the town of Oberndorf, Austria, where Silent Night (Stille Nacht) was first played.

Leslie Stewart

A big thank you to Julie, Bill, and others that made the 55th a fun gathering!!!!

Sandra Lee Lane

Lawrence Lee Leppert

I'm trying to confirm this, but it looks like Brian Guptil passed away on August 1, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland.

When I heard about Hitzmann's passing, I immediately thought about Brian Guptil, since he, Hitz, and I ran track together.  I had last talked to Brian when he was in the hospital after his motorcycle accident in Baltimore just following the 50th reunion.  Well, his phone is no longer active, and I noticed his website is down.  I mentioned this to Bill Knell on the phone a few days later, and he said he thought he had heard that Brian had passed.  He later sent me a notice from a Baltimore newspaper advising people who had a claim to Brian's will to contact a certain attorney.  I contacted the attorneyby phone last Friday, but they were going home for the weekend and promised to call back.  They haven't yet, but this is President's Day, so they might not be in the office.  I also sent a letter to an address on the announcement.

Lawrence Lee Leppert

OK, guys.  It's pretty official; Brian did pass on or about August 1, 2020.

I've talked to the scretary at the office of the attorney in Baltimore who is handling his estate back there, and she confirmed it.  I also talked to Brian's brother-in-law, Fred Kull, in Bellevue, who confirmed it.

I understand they found Brian dead on his houseboat in Baltimore.  He had apparently died earlier, so I'm not sure if they found him on August 1, or if they estimate TOD as August 1.  His death was apparently at least partially attributed to the motorcyle accident he had suffered years earlier.

So, Julie, add him to "In Memory."

Update: Brian's younger sister, Kemberly, called me today, and we talked a while about Brian.  He was apparently suffering from atherosclerosis and high blood pressure.  Also, another COD, she said, was listed as hyperthermia.  I'm not so sure the COD was related to the motorcycle accident. 

Lawrence Lee Leppert

I see Wolf Ruetz's birthday is next Monday.  In October, Wolf sent me an email.  End of November I sent him an email that Robin was in the hospital, then another that she had passed.  He has never responded to those emails or any other attempts I have made to contact him.  Does anyone know anything?

A neighbor of Wolf, two houses down, rents out a vacation apartment in her home and has a website with a contact email.  I have written to her, in German, of course, asking if she knows anything about Wolf.

Larry Leppert