Deb Severa

Many thanks to the Reunion Committee - You staged a great event!

Sharon Polen (Peleshenko)

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WORKED HARD AND DONATED TO  OUR 40TH CLASS REUNION. IT WAS GREAT SEEING EVERYONE I GRADUATED WITH. ALSO IT WAS NICE SEEING THE ONES I WENT TO HARDING ELEMENTARY WITH.

SHARON (POLEN) PELESHENKO

Betsy Jo Willison (Davis)

I also want to thank the committee for all they did - I can't remember the last time I had that much fun!

Pamela Kingston (Wade)

The Reunion Committee did an excellent job with the reunion. Thank you for all the hard work. Thanks to the generous classmates who picked up the tab before the dinner. I enjoyed seeing so many friends and getting in touch with many I haven't seen in awhile. Again, thanks for all your work. the Lost Marsh is a beautiful venue and I enjoyed the inside and the deck.

Sharon Jeneske (Wallace)

 So sorry I missed the reunion - guess I'll have to make it to the next one for sure! Love all the pictures that were posted. 

W. Craig Lannin

I'd also like to express my gratitude to the committee members who worked hard for many months so that all of us could have a great time!  Also kudos to the sponsors of the "happy hour" prior to the dinner, and to Cheryl for establishing and maintaining this website (and for somehow managing to whip up enough delicious carrot cake for the entire entourage in her spare time!). 

I have much higher quality copies of my pictures available compared to the relatively small files that the website posts (not complaining, I know that they want to manage the storage allotted to each group to a reasonable amount and also keep the navigation of the pages rapid for users with slower connections).  If anyone would like a copy of these larger jpeg files, let me know the caption of the pic you would like, and I'll be happy to send you a copy by e-mail.  The files average 5 to 6 MB in size, so I would need to send them one at a time so that more finicky e-mail servers won't reject them.  I also have NEF (Nikon's version of RAW) files of each picture, but those average about 20 MB so I wouldn't be able to e-mail those.  The advantage of the larger files is that they can be zoomed to see more detail without pixelization, and can be enlarged for better quality prints if anybody is interested in doing that.

It was definitely worth the trip from California to attend the reunion events.  We've got a great group of people in our class, and it was a blast re-connecting with so many friends.  I only wish I'd had more time to spend with everybody!  The evening passed so quickly that there were a number of people that I barely had a chance to say hi to (oops, a dangling preposition, so go ahead and flunk me, Ms. Kluesner-Lundgren!).  To those I didn't get much of a chance to catch up with, I'm sorry.  But I'm glad that so many were there.....it was, in the immortal words of Gary Rogers, quite fair!

There were quite a few classmates who weren't there for various reasons, some of them because they're no longer with us.  Out of all those not present, the one that I missed the most was Dan Pariso, aka Dago Dan (even his wife Karen called him Dago!).  We lost Dago Dan to cancer in January 2009, and it really hit me hard.  We were as close as brothers growing up, and I found myself thinking of him often during the reunion.  Here's to you, Dago.....Love, Craig

Robert Charles Kuhn

As part of the committee, we had a lot of fun re-connecting and planning the event.  It was (in my opinion) our best yet.  Maybe because we are aging and the time together becomes more precious.  Thanks to all who came and we hope to see those of you who could not make this one at the next event.   We loved the grade / middle school class pictures.  Thanks to all of your generosity - Morton High School got some Scholarship money and the class check book got healthier!   Stay healthy and see you at the next one!  Should we do 45 or wait until 50? You make the call and we will  put it together.  Best wishes.......  Bob & Marsha

Robert Allen Gardner

i was sorry to miss the rerunion but it was nice seeing the pictures looks like everyone had fun at least i now have a way to get in touch with some of you thanks

Susan Kay Wiggins

I'd like to thank the reunion committe for all of their hard work in planning this event. I really did enjoy seeing everyone again.  Thanks to those, (Riverside Refractories., Bob & Marsha Kuhn, Kuhn Family, Flo Metz Decker, Carol Bertagnolli Davis, Tom Bertagnolli, & Dan Bertagnolli), for the open cocktail hour.  Very generous and thoughtful!  I had a wonderful time and am glad I attended.  Thanks, again for all of your hard work.  The reunion was fun. 

Richard Allen Vanes

Hello classmates,

After seeing all the pics, I was so sorry I missed all the fun.  As some of you know, I was on my roadbike for my normal ride in the morning before I was to take off from Indy and was hit by a car.  I ended up with only a fractured wrist and concussion (some say the knock on the head improved things,,,,,,,lol).  Anyway, I'm all healed up now, riding again and playing guitar.  Best wishes to everyone...... Rich V.

Barrett Michael Luketic

Classmates:

Sorry I missed the reunion! Looks like y'all (I'm in Tennessee now) had fun. Love the photo gallery. Hope to make the next one. Congrats to the Reunion Committee for a job well done.

W. Craig Lannin

Hi, everybody.  I thought I would let y'all (I've been talking to Tennessee Barrett!) know that I posted some info about Morton's current football team in the User Forums section.  I thought that would be a more appropriate spot for that kind of stuff than here in the Message Forum.  But then I wondered if anyone would actually check the User Forums since there hasn't been any activity in that section up to this point, so I'm posting a heads-up here.

Craig