Remember don't hold me to the cost yet because that is still being discussed. That was a ball park figure that we came up with at the last meeting. Things could change. Till it is final.

We haven't come to a final agreement yet on cost but I believe it is going to be 25.00 per person. That will help cover food, entertainment and hall.
I will refer to your email list. But I still have to type them out anyway since I am doing regular mailing addresses, that way we can send them out
faster instead of hand writing them.

John, has there been any word on cost?
The list I send out periodically (sent one yesterday) is complete. Those are all the people I have spoken to and who have agreed they'd like to be on the list and receive mailings. There are 39 members I believe. If you look here in blogger under my team. Its on the tool bar at the top of the site, you see two lists. One is active members of blogger with e-mail addresses and one is those who have been invited but have not responded. Their addresses are shown also. So you don't have to type a list and send to me, it's all available to you already. The other thing is there are many people listed in classmates whom I have written to about being on the list but who have declined to responed. The addresss for the former Joanna Birsky - Krishna Khalsa - seems to be incorrect. Her lettter returned undeliverable. So did one other but off the top of my head I can't remember which. A man though.

You can stop typing that list now. :-)

Pat.... I am working on getting you a list of the classmates to you. I have them all that was 5 years ago. Would you be willing to go through these and see what email addresses you have and the ones you don't we are going to send them a letter about the reunion. That would be a big help. I have to type all the names and addresses so it will take me a couple of days. That way there we can have the labels printed out without a hassle. I went to the meeting and so far it is definite on the Rockingham Hall. We are getting in touch with a DJ that said he would do it. And also we are going to have supper Catered. We are working out the final details so I don't want to say too much so everybody don't get the wrong impression. We just have to verify the DJ and Caterer. Looks good so far. We had a good chat together and talked about alot of things.
Ok its late so I am going to cut this short and talk to you later. Thanks.....

Richard...still skiing then...it's been years since I've been more than once or twice a year. I think the last time I went at all was three years ago and my boots (from my dad's shop circa 1977) fell apart. Did you see that RTM has reopened as some kind of members only area? I visited the old place three or four years ago and it looked like a ghost town. The lift cables went up into the trees...the lodge was abandoned and in pretty bad shape..it was open so we walked inside..very weird..the cafeteria was still there and a bunch of signs and stuff...ghosts in down parkas. I'm working as the director of a non profit serving seniors up in the islands..hanging around with 80 year olds makes ya feel just a little younger..sort of.

Robin, You know we have already been covered against age discrimination for the last eight years (since we were 40) under Federal law. I can also tell you there were memories in my head of skiing with you at Round Top 32 years ago as I ripped through 10 to 20 inches of powder this morning. It was so good!!!!

I guess it would be interesting for me to see where everyone "is" after all these years, hopefully, the years have been kind to us all. I guess the bond is still there after all these years, Pat. My Mom will mention some name that brings back memories of school. Although I don't have children myself, I used to wonder about young people that I had to train and how I was old enough to be their mother!! Sobering thought and yet we are now our parents........but it is good that we can take this time to get back together, even for a short time. Lets just hope that it can continue after June........being in the military has taught me that you learn to keep up with people. I only do it at Christmas for some, and we seem to move more often, but we have a central locator that we can use to try and find people. Most give their parents address...........but most of the people I know now are retired, so we are basically PUT for the time being.......enough philosophy!!!! Lets have fun!!! We only live once, right?

I was talking to someone at work telling her it hadn't occurred to me when I was surrounded by all my friends and relatives back in Spfld. that we would become our parents and our friend's parents. We would move away, lose our jobs, our loved ones,our mariages, our friends. I often ask myself why was it so easy to wander off into my adult life. Except that I keep forgetting I'm a grown up. I look at my students and think I'm one of them and chaperoning a dance is like hanging out in the gym at Riverside, clinging to the wall with a handfull of girls. Desperately hoping ............

Yet, it seems to me that just the fact that we have come here together says I'm probably not alone with these feelings. I'm really anxious to get to TX this April and see Jane and Nancy and then in June everyone else who can make it back. It's turns out that even with the world as big as it and us as spread all over the place as we are , maybe we're not so far apart at all.

My Dad won't e-mail--he has his girlfriend do it for him. Now there's a concept.

Whoa, Robin, lets not go there yet!! 48 is still hard for me get used to, time flies by so fast. I'm still trying to get my Mom a computer..........she seems like she wants to learn and likes the idea of emailing. I remember my grandmother (bless her) told me way back when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, that she would never have imagined that she would be able to see it on TV, let alone think of a man walking on the moon. She was born in 1900 and all the things she has seen and experienced just amazed her. I can't wait to meet the rest of the class and see how life has treated them, hopefully, it has been kind to us all. And some of us are parents, even.

...so if I was sitting around the playground of East School in say...1966 and knew that 36 years later I could be "electronic bungee jumping" with Dick (sorry Richard...hard habit to beat) Loveless and BK I guess that I would have smiled just a bit. This is not nearly as weird as the first time that I got an e mail from my mother. Do you realize that this will be our last reunion before we start getting mail from AARP?

It is funny to put conversation out in an open forum. How do you say something to someone but nobody in particular? I have always been a little shy because I am pretty different, but given the choice of staying invisible or not; I have consistently opened my heart, accepted the possibility of salt in the wound, and recognized that I am somehow no less for the wear.

I know this is unlikely to make Linda feel any greater comfort about a strange basis for interaction like blogger. The real point is that we all started out in the same place- forests, school, church- whatever. Since then, I have chosen the nice memories to hold on to because I know life got hard and life got very real for all of us on the first day I never saw any of you again. And, it has been real weird since then to see some of the hard things in life. It has also been really great to think that we have grown up and been there for our families and close friends.

So when one of the chicks from the nest says wow the world, technological and otherwise, leaves me feeling a certain level of discomfort and then Brian King tells me we should do the electronic equivalent of bungy jumping- hey I get that. But you know I feel really fortunate to have had you all as classmates. Let's try and make it feel OK for each other. It is about the future. I want you to all have great futures and if somehow you know me better and laugh a little harded when we blog for our 60th reunioun, that would be really good.

It for now,
-richard

I've had a couple of nice long letters from Linda Hays Brochu and although she doesn't feel comfortable with the technology of blogger she has asked me to say hello to you all. She'd love to get e-mail. I've told her you all say hello! So for goodness sake don't make a liar out of me. Say hello. She'll be getting back in touch with me after the meeting TH night. They are hammering out the food details. They're thinking about a float ---maybe class reunion t-shirts. There is about $1,000 in the class account. Donations from classmates through the years I guess. If anyone has any thoughts about these things let me know and I'll tell her or better yet drop Linda a line.

Hi Karen, It is great hearing from a voice in the past!! I'll pass your email address on to Sue Goding, she mentioned that she talked with you at the last reunion and that you were doing well. May as well take advantage of the new technology!! Who ever though we would be doing this 30 years ago? Nancy (Constantine) Cordle

Just to let you know.....we are discontinuing AOL service and my new e-mail address is now rkstover@ameritech.net The AOL address will work until the end of the month, the new one is in effect now. I forwarded the e-mail list and the blogger info. to Rich's sister Lisa. She lives in Columbus, OH. Nice hearing from everyone! Karen (Milly, Mylay, Millay) Stover

Karen, you aren't eavesdropping, you belong here! I'm glad to see your post. Janice told me about your move and then I got a quick note from Rich giving an address we could use once you got a little settled. Moving is tough. We came here 12 ish years ago and transplanting the boys was hard on them. Like you, the move was far enough away that we had to find a house after we were located here. Stayed in a hotel awhile and then rented an apartment, finally found a house after a number of months in transition. Eventually we settled in and found we liked living here. I hope you are able to settle soon and be comfortable. Sorry we probably won't see you in June but perhaps that will happen after all! keep in touch.
Patti

Karen, I hope that you are able to make it. I enjoyed seeing you at the 25th reunion and will miss seeing you at this one. I hope that somehow you'll be able to come, but I caertainly understand moving, and trying to find a house, and dealing with winter. Now that we are all in touch again thanks to Brian, email, and technology, there is no reason why we can't get back in touch with our friends and as Pat has said many times, make new friends. Hope you find a house soon, and that spring arrives soon.

Hi, after eavesdropping on your site for a few days, I thought I would say "hello"! After 7 years in Lexington, KY, Rich and I and two of our 4 kids moved in February to Grand Rapids, Michigan. I am not thrilled with being back in cold weather, but it is a nice area with a lot to offer. I enjoyed the 25th reunion and thought that I would make it to this one, but we have yet to find a house and we have quite a few obligations in June. Until this move, we made it back to Springfield for a week in the summer and a few days at Christmas every year. Most of the time is spent with our families there but we always try to see Janice and Butch Stearns. I really haven't been in touch with anyone else from the class of '72 and Rich hasn't kept up with the class of '70 either. My mom fills me in on those of you that she and my dads run into at the various flea markets that they do. Hope that the reunion is a big success, and if our plans change we will certainly let someone know ASAP. Hoping for spring..........soon! Karen Millay Stover

Both, I am getting both of them and it liks them to classmates.com. I keep getting newsletters and Alumni news..........Dave was inducted in the CSC Sportsman Hall of Fame and was a prof. down at UVA in VA. on the Charlottesville campus.........I was about 50 miles form there and always wondered if I should stop and say "hi". He just moved recently to NC State and is in the Phys. Ed. Dept. there..........I did get a directory years ago with some people in it, but can't seem to find it now........I'll keep checking. I only kept up with the group of people I knew there.......both at Ellis and Wheeler. Jean Crosby is teaching in the Middlebury school system, my sister sees her from time to time. I'm not sure if you knew some of the people I hung out with. Rhona is still in Colorado, and I saw her back in 1989.........still the same. I'll try and find it, I will be moving soon, so maybe I will find it then.

Nancy, Where are you reading about Dave Perrin? Do you have a way to get in touch with him? I don't have contact with any of the CSC folks at this point. I have some fond and some not so fond memories of my time there. I did have one friend from CSC at my wedding but we have since lost touch. It's hard to stay friends with guys when you are newly married. You sort of lose your focus on your other life unless you new partner is part of that life.

I've been getting responses to the letters/invites that were sent out. I'm curious to know if I'm hearing from people because of the letter I sent or the invites that classmates.com sent out.

Hey no problem Pat. Glad to hear you are back from your trip.