Welcome to the Newtown High Class of 1976 website! Please register and fill us in on what you've been up to the past (ahem) number of years! This site will be a way to chat, catch up, keep in touch, and plan reunions. And please pass this URL along to anyone from our class that you are in touch with. We'd love to get as many of our classmates here as possible. If you have any news about any of our classmates passing away, please email the site with whatever information you have so we can update their listing here. For information on those we've lost, check out the "In Memory" page and the "Teachers We've Lost" page.
Please think about using the forum, updating your info, adding photos - let's try and make this be a great place to stay in touch!
NOTE: PLEASE SCROLL DOWN ON THIS PAGE FOR THE LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Time to start those travel plans! We have a date and location for our 50th reunion. Saturday, September 5, 2026. And the location? The Amber Room in Danbury. If that rings a bell, it's where we had our senior prom.
Details still TBD (cost, etc.) but it's a really nice place with plenty of room for us to mingle. Please let us know if you have any specific dietary restrictions so we can accommodate everyone. And if you are local in CT, we still need a couple of folks to volunteer for the planning committee. And yes, that IS our prom program!
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RIP Mr. Pesce, Posted 11/21/2025
Our teacher Mr. Richard Pesce passed away on November 8 from Alzheimer's complications. His obituary was in the Newtown Bee:
https://www.newtownbee.com/11192025/richard-pesce/
On a personal note (from Helen), Mr. Pesce is literally responsible for my entire adult life. I took a Sociology class with him, either freshman or sophmore year, and fell in love with the subject. I went on to major in it in college AND grad school, which led to my career. He was an amazing, inspiring teacher.
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Posted February 7, 2017
Sorry to report that Mr. Olbrys passed away on February 4, 2017 from an aggressive form of cancer. Many of us had him for biology, for driver's ed, or as a sports team coach. He and his wife Diane joined us 2 years ago at a small Newtown get-together at Sue Jones Higley's home near Orlando, and he was still the same feisty, funny guy.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-journalonline/obituary.aspx?pid=184034995
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JULY 27, 2015
Frank Slinko passed away on July 24, 2015. I'm sure many of us had him for class. Here is the obituary from the Bee:
http://www.newtownbee.com/news/obituaries/2015/07/27/frank-j-slinko/279965
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