45th Reunion at Hampton Beach

Hello Classmates,

As we gathered for a group picture, someone asked me to send her a copy of my picture which my husband took.  Sorry, I can't remember who asked me.  So I decided to start a Blog for our class.  Linda urged us to stay in touch and I felt like finding a way to do that.  I had nice long chats with lots of folks who attended the reunion but others I didn't really get to talk with at all.  

I traveled about seven hours from my home in upstate New York to go to the reunion.  I stayed with my sister Mary Jo because I love to do that and our dogs have a great time with each other.  I also visited my mother, Enid Burns, or as most of you knew her, Mrs Burns.  She'll be 93 in November.  She lives at Country Manor in Newburyport and loves to have company.  I don't get to Massachusetts more than a couple of times a year, so my brother Christopher and sister Mary Jo keep track of her most of the time.  Peggy visits from upstate New York when she can make it.  She and Mary Jo spend their winters in the south.

My overall impression of talking with people at the reunion was that it was great to take that trip down memory lane.  The more I talked with people, the more came back to me of my time at Pentucket.  I would also say I was struck this time as I was the last that the many things that separated us from each other, class, clothes, clubs, where we lived have all gone away.  Now we are all just people who knew each other when we were young.  We all read Time or Newsweek with Mr Marshall.  We all learned the Alma Mater.  We sang it  at the reunion and we sounded good!

We couldn't remember all our teachers names or which one drove the snazzy car.  We all remembered Wayne Carey and felt said about his death.  I think everyone spent some time at the easel looking at the pictures of the people who have died.  The water tower came up and we couldn't decide if we had painted it or just hung a banner on it.  

Here's the picture (best of the four) my husband took.  I'm hoping someone else got a better one.  If you send it to me, I'll post it for everyone to see. 

I'm going to try to name everyone in this picture.  Please let me know if I've made a mistake.

Front Row:  Peter Ayer, Ann (Brunault) Woodcock, Glenda (Daskas) Hume, Dede (Hickox) Johnston, Geraldine (Webber) Yerkes, Elaine (Midge Cooney) Drolet, Francine (Smith) Bickum.

Middle Row: Jim Currier, Evelyn (Beauvais) Germain, Athalie (Webber) Moulton, Mike McLaughlin, Linda (Mears) Blood, Enid (Penny Burns) Zollweg, Louise (Comeau) Tevault, Norina (Brodie) Bourget

Back Row: Raymond (Rock) Dower, Earle Wason, Deborah (Richardson) Anderson, Jim Hume, Dan Jones, Harry Knowles, Peter Lewis, Ken Lang and Steve Jervey

There is lots more to tell, but this is my first Blog ever.  The idea is for others to add their two cents worth.