Tom Klinge

Linda Healy (Mellon)

Hi everyone..it's so good to hear from all of you...long time since I saw many of you. There are so many memories and happenings that we experienced at Holy Ghost thru the years. Lots of old pics also. We all sure are having Fun doing this and hope as many come that can. Let's get some good topics going on the site for all to respond to......

1.    Who  crowned Mary our 8th grade year?                                                                    

Linda Healy (Mellon)

Hey....anybody out there????

Rick Kutsch

6-9-11

Great job putting this together Tom. I'm still learning how to naviagte your site. Had a pleasant surprise when the pic stuck to the corkboard !

Linda Healy (Mellon)

computer finally working again..thanks Tom !! Now I can get back to the site and check out everyone that is getting on it. We are going to have so much fun!!!

Linda Healy (Mellon)

Hi People !  Geessse, gas was only 30 cents a gallon  back then and eggs were 55 cents, milk was a whopping 45 cents....those were the times! Remember the penny candy, red wax lips, dots on paper, Black Jack gum, 3 cents for a carton of milk for lunch, chapel veils, 1st Holy Childhood, Good Fridays,  the 8th grade picnic to Wyalusing Park (you are right Mary),  what fun! We'll have to compile a list of all the teachers we had and by what grade. Hope somebody writes on here and answers me or am I here by myself?????????????? tata

Joanne Campbell (Endorf)

Linda, I almost forgot about chapel veils !! I had black and white and small ones and large ones.

I remember that the first time I wore high heels was 8th grade graduation and my Mom said no higher than 2 inches. Bless her dearly departed soul..... she was so strict. I tell people about our Catholic upbringing and they don't believe that nuns didn't allow us to wear sleeveless blouses for fear what the boys might see.... or patent leather shoes because they might reflect our underclothes ---yikes!!

Did anyone remember who was May Queen? I know it wasn't me!!! I probably was not "holy" enough.

When I came to Holy Ghost in 8th grade I had absolutely no idea how to play volleyball.....it was big in Dubuque but not where I came from ( Sioux City ). Every night I prayed to fit in.

More later (if I remember anything-ha)

Carol Fink (Hansen)

The committee had a great time getting together in DBQ today finalizing some plans...it's going to be a blast from the past! We even caught Connie Jasper in CO and had a little chat with her!

Linda Healy (Mellon)

Yes we did have a great  time !!! Poor Connie we probably broke her screen with the pic of the 7 of us. lol   Marilyn if your reading this, LoAnn B. is a great quilter also.  Just think..we could all get together and have a seminar or a class, or maybe just say that's what we are going to do between all the remembering. I remember LoAnn as a really good ice skater and a great volleyball player. Ah, the good ole days at Comeskey and at Gay. Hey, any of you men out there have a 1st communion pic of the boys ?? we have the girls, then again we were the really CUTE ones back then. Yes Tom White you did have a nickname .. if you don't remember it, I'll supply it  to you at the reunion. Love the video Tom K has posted.. can't ya just hear the music...WHO CROWNED MARY is still out there to respond to. (hey, I do not know.. I am asking... some of you guys  think I know, but I don't,) Susie, Connie, LoAnn, Mary..anybody got any clues to it ????? Phyllis your name was thrown in the ring..was it you?  Oh BOY, the memoriable is coming out of the woodwork.. and what fun we are having. People not signed up yet have no idea of the times they are missing. Rick Kutsch.. miss the art. Boy, we are a talented group aren't we !!!! Talk later, tata

Carol Fink (Hansen)

Read Luanne's profile; we are definitely going to meet (or re-meet?) some pretty interesting people.  Com'on...everyone, get on a plane, train, or automobile and COME HOME!

Carol Fink (Hansen)

Wow, just read Mary Trieweiler's profile again...isn't it amazing the different impressions our teachers made on us? And most definitely true stories...we would probably qualify for a class-action suit against education in the fifties and sixties. Brown vs. the Board of Education (segregation in Topeka, KS) was right up there with other kinds of educational inequities.

However, we are coming to the reunion to celebrate the men and women we have become, whether because of, or in spite of, those foundational years. 

Carol Fink (Hansen)

Perhaps we are not locating the elusive May Queen because it was a King?  Could it have been Rick Kutsch, or mercy, did Sister Germaine grab Tom Klinge from in front of the urinal and crown him King? More thoughts?

Marilyn Ehrlich (Borgerding)

Yes, Linda, I am reading this.  Thanks for reminding me about the forum.  I just finished the top for a grandmother's flower garden quilt.  That was the first pattern I ever made back in 1969 before quilting became such a fad.  So I have come full circle in that department.  Oh, yeah, this one was all stitched by hand, whereas my first was done on a machine.  I can upload a pic if your iterested Lou Ann!

No, I do not know who crowned Mary either.  Funny how these things have faded from our minds!!!

I have most of the names of the girls on our First Communion  picture, but there again some of them elude me.  Anyone in Sr. Anthony Clarets 8th grade class remember what the 7th graders in that class all predicted what we would be doing in the future?  I think I have that list somewhere also if anyone is interested in reading it again.  Let me know!

I hope more of the class will get things posted on here.  I love it!  Thanks for all you are doing.

Linda Healy (Mellon)

Hi Marilyn,  would love to read where they thought some would be.. scan it on site if you can. That quilt has a  million and one  pieces !!!!!!!  I'm sure Lo Ann and the rest of us would love to see it. There are some girls on the pic that left us earlier..Kathy O'Niell, top row, rt side.... Susuan Holland, on the left front,.... Jackie (?) Olds, back row, Donna Brimmeyer, Nancy Kronen , center of pic..., Connie Nehls, back row left. and a few others.I don't have the pic in front of me, so I'll check it again, if there are any you know let me know. Hope more get on site soon.

Carol Fink (Hansen)

Sister Jonathan was a favorite at Holy Ghost.  FYI: She was a Dubuquer named Mary Ann Lonnergan (sp.?), and after leaving the convent taught at Briar Cliff College in Sioux City.  She may still be in that area.

Marilyn Ehrlich (Borgerding)

Ooops! After digging into the far corners of my closet I discovered I no longer have those papers from eighth grade.  That musta been the scrapbook my kids destroyed when they were little.

Marilyn Ehrlich (Borgerding)

Back to the First Communion picture.  The names I am missing are as follows:

2nd row between Suzanne Holland and Donna Brosius..probably a flower girl not in our grade.

             between Linda Shireman and Betty Kluesner

             Between Marla Hogan and myself..probably anothe flower girl not in our grade.

3rd row between Karen Weber and Karen Kalloway  can't see her face.  At least I think it is  

             Karen Weber on the left.

4th row between Phyllis Kohnen and Doris Hirsch

No idea who the Mass servers were.  Not even sure who the assistant priests are anymore.

Linda Healy (Mellon)

The two attendants on the communion pic are a Brimmer girl(L) and Chris Brahm(R) she is married to Bob Weizorek.Alice Loanjers is hidden by the veil in front of her, and Nancy Kronan is girl by Doris. Great quilt.. all of you should go to her site and see pics of it..beautiful!!The air show for the 4th is over my house now and the whole place is shaking!!!     Marilyn,  I am hoping to see you at the reunion, are you coming? Oh, and the mass servers were brothers of our classmates..L..Tom Roselip and Mike Hogan, R..Tom Buerskins and Pat O'N eill.

Carol Fink (Hansen)

Father Greener is the priest to the left of Monseignor (sp.?) Jaeger. He was so good looking and so nice.

Linda Healy (Mellon)

Fr. Mott on the right top.

Alice Loanjers (Rooney)

I thought the priest on the right was Fr. Sullivan.

Marilyn Ehrlich (Borgerding)

First Holy Communion Class of 1957 Holy Ghost School

Front:  Faith Becker,  Bette Buerskins,  Annabelle Gilbertson,  Mary Trierweiler, Donna Fleege, Linda Kintzle, Colleen Woller,  Barbara Sprenglemeier,  Cindy Riesdorf,  Lois Weber,  andy Macken,  Patricia Schueller

Row 2: Suzanne Holland, ? Brimmer, Donna Brosius, Linda Shireman, Donna Brimeyer, Bette Kluesner, Marlene Seipp, Georgia Schmitt, Diane Jones, Marla Hogan, Chris Brehm, Marilyn Ehrlich

Row 3: Mike Hogan, JoAnn Thomas, Patricia Coakley, Colleen Hearity, LuAnn Breitbach, Cathy Nagel, JoAnn Pfeiffer, Rhonda Frommelt, Bette Turnmeyer, Linda Dalsing, Karen Weber, Alice Longers, Karen Kalloway

Row 4: Tom Rosliep, Mildred Fessler, Patricia Coaklely, Karen Newton, Laurelle Fabel, Mary Kay Fincel,  Karen Slower,  Phyllis Kohnen, Nancy Kronan, Doris Hirsch, Lois Hilken, Vickie Fincel, Pat O’Neill

Row 5: Connie Hoey, Jeanette Stumpf, Judy Kretz, Karen McFarland, Linda Healy, Sharon Vertiel, Kathy Lange, Marlene Rector, Grace Hefel, Mary Jo Heiderscheit, Carol Fink, Connie Jasper, Tom Buerskins

Row6: Sharon Hohmann, Mary Conley, Jackie Olds, Joyce Gartner, Jane Gartner, Linda Revenig, Marilee Loewen , Kathy O’Neill, Mary Buckley

Back: Father Greener, Msgr. Jaeger, Father Sullivan

Carol Fink (Hansen)

Will the real priest on the right please stand up???   ....or is that right up there with the elusive May Queen?