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!
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Please put the date of your announcement at the beginning so we can all see when something was posted. Thanks!
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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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June 23, 2025
Our classmate Bill Downing died Saturday, June 21 at the age of 67 from an aggessive form of pancreatic cancer that was only discovered Memorial Day weekend.
Bill was very active in the movement to legalize cannabis. Hee was a founding member and past president of MassCann. He taught at the Northeast Institute of Cannabis
He leaves behind his fiance, Ellen Moore, and2 adult children (will add the obituary once I get it).
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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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