The note Ron is talking about is the second paper that has your choice for supper.
Another words don't send just the money send the note which tells us what you would
like to eat.

Jerry thanks for asking, I didn't know who the other Linda was either and hadn't gotten around to asking yet. I recognized Linda Brochu right away.
I don't remember all that much from Elm Hill time. I remember Danny Tribodes (sp) eating the glue right out of the jar. Gross! Wonder what happened to him? I still have a recipe book we all made. Gayle Oberg and Debbie Peck and Janice Hickley and Eileen Hongisto to name a few. I remember ice skating in the parking lot after my grandfather flooded it in from of his Woodruff Motors body shop on Chester Ave.
I remember walking home to Wall Street from Riverside, stopping at Britts for a chocolate ice cream soda and a 1/4 lb bag of malted milk balls, then stopping at the bakery for 3 sugar coated donut holes. My mom could never understand why I wouldn't eat supper! And I still only weighed 79 lbs in 7th grade! Not any more though!

On the RSVP to Ron he asks for a note along with payment. Does anybody know what he's looking for here? ????? Also I'm wondering if we have any more news on how many folks are coming so far and who? Ditto on the Friday night dinner at Hartness House.

Yup no problem Jerry, That is Linda LaBonte and Linda Hays that you saw.
It's definitely got to be the carrots sticks. All I know is John K Wu can tell you
all about China. Yup saw him in a store last year. So he is still around.

Jerry, it is definitely the carrots!

Hey Jerry, look again, that's Linda Labonte and Linda Hays! Hi everyone, I just got back from a trip to KY to pick my daughter up from college. I wish you could see how beautiful the horse farms in Lexington are this time of year. Everything is green here in MI but the temps are still chilly for my KY blood. You all seem to have much better memories than I do about the early years......especially you Jerry.........wow, how do you come up with that stuff? I have enjoyed looking at the pics. I think the shot from the 25th that I was going to send is in the moving van with all our household goods, so if anyone else has that, send it to Brian. Happy Trails.........Karen

OK, the Hurricanes just beat the Canadiens 4-3 in overtime of game 4 in their series (hockey) after trailing 3-0. Too bad the Bruins fell aside so early in the playoffs. At least the Red Sox are continuing their winning streak. Neil, May Rafford kept me after school once in first grade, and I missed the bus because of it. My Mom had to come get me. Imagine being kept after in THE FIRST GRADE! I did have a change of heart and went to her retirement party. And Miss Randall in second, Miss Jones in third, and Mrs. Gomo in fourth. Remember when you played your guitar and together you and I sang "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore" at recess? We had quite a following. The carrot sticks I eat in my lunch must help with my memory. Maybe my eyesight, too. No glasses yet, but some of the small print does give me a problem. So Ben & Jerry's will be leaving Springfield next year. Do any of you see Ben & Jerry's products for sale in your part of the country? I'll try to send a photo for the gallery soon. John, is the other Linda in some of the photos your wife? What was her last name? Or is that someone else from our class? I'll be embarrassed if I've messed up here, but I'm curious. I'll tune in later.

Warning!
My company just got hit with a virus last night, the W32.Klez.gen@mm worm. It's one of the worst, in that it self launches even if you don't click on an attachment. It will infect your drive if you have the preview pane open and just highlight the mail to see what it is. I think it only works if you are using Microsoft Outlook and are set to view HTML mail. Be leary about any mail you get, because it can come from anyone, even though the person didn't really send it. (It uses addresses it finds in a victim's mail address book and makes an email that seemingly came from one of them) Darn those hackers!
For more info, here is a link that shows how to detect and remove it:

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/virusremoval/remove_klez_virus_s.html.

This virus doesn't affect Macs running Microsoft Outlook, or Outlook Express, only Windows machines.
If you have Norton Antivirus up to date, you are probably safe. Lesson learned.

Hi Shannon, Welcome! Sorry I didn't tell you about the float, but they did say "secrect". Actually I just forgot to mention it, you know we never finish a subject before moving on to the next. Sorry again, Bye for now.

Let me see. oh yea now I remember, I got in trouble in school for what I don't remember but my punishment was to take typing class. I said to myself then that I don't know why they would do such a thing I will never use this typing stuff after I get out of school. Oh yea her name was Mrs. Armstrong. Holy cow was I glad that I learned how to type or this would be painful to type all the time. Anyway Brian you did an excellent job about getting over the fear of typing on here. Brian paragraph 4 was very nicely put. Ok Brian here have 3 cheers on me. c[_]~~ c[_]```` c[_]

Hi everyone. Every once in a while, I decide to stop "listening in" on all of you and plunge into the blog site. Patti, I think Brian's original explanation of how to use this site was pretty simple and easy to follow. It has to be if I figured it out. And, Brian, after your last comments, I'm sure anyone who's been afraid of saying something stupid will step forward and say what's on their mind, stupid or not! (I hope I'm not just talking for myself!) I like the photos. You're not the 18-year-olds I remember, but you all look good! I'll send mine soon. Just waiting for my husband to find time to show me how to send a photo by computer. What about the rest of you? We're waiting...

Hi There everyone! This is the former Shannon Newport. I got my invite( Yes, Nancy S you did it right.) and after much thought I said What the heck! Sign me up. Nancy Y has been keeping me up on the reunion plans except the secret float. What's with that??? Put me on the e-mail list. my address is slbrickey@hotmail.com.

Nancy, would that be the former Shannon Newport? I wonder if she would like to be listed on the e-mail list?

I just invited Shannon Brickey to blogger. I hope I did it right! We shall see.
Brian I love the picture you posted. I'm so glad you haven't changed.

I really like the secret plan for the float! I can personally relate with feeling pickled and my mother used to make the best grape jam out of wild grapes that grew behind our house. 99% sugar and 1% grape, but hey those grapes had flavor.

Hi Pat and all,
Thanks, I chose that particular web photo route because it requires the least amount of thought, and it works great. Everything is built into iPhoto which is included with every Mac running OS X.

You are right that most of us are leery of getting ourselves embarassed on a worldwide scale with computers that we barely understand.

There is no danger of violating your home or office computer, (like bad things crossing the firewall), you are just working with web pages on your browser, not downloading anything that could have a virus in it.

My advice to those who are hanging back:
1. Just try it out sometime, knowing you can click the "edit" button to change or delete anything you said or misspelled.
2. It helps to trust that we are old enough to respect each other for the essence of what we are trying to say, not how we actually said it.
3. Always give people the credit for figuring out what you mean, if you are not sure you said it right. People are amazingly intelligent and forgiving, every single one of us.
4. Everyone wants to hear you are out there. Even if SHS was not the best time in your life, you are part of our childhood, we are part of yours and it we are all sorry for making your life miserable then. Really.
5. Do things you are afraid to do. There is no greater sense of accomplishment. And the rush is awesome.

See? I am not afraid to act like a pompous raving lunatic : )

Hi Brian, boy the photo section is great! I was talking with someone this morning who indicated that she didn't feel comfortable with trying blooger. There are folks who just figure they won't get it right or are just uncomfortable with computers and assume they can't do it. I wonder if there is some way to set up a corner booth at the reunion and show people just how easy it is. I've had comments about concern for their firewalls and that sort of thing. Maybe there's a way to eliminate some of this worry and get the other have of the"team" to join up!. Maybe a more detailed explanatory e-mail. I don't know Just thinking out loud I guess. Naturally some people will choose not to particpate here but there are others who just don't quite "get it" I see this this natural concern in some of my students. The willingness to just go for it isn't always there. People are afraid to mess things up.

Hiya Nancy.. I like how you put that... Oh yes, I am still "out there" somewhere.. ;-) I've been so busy that I haven't been able to check in here much lately. Life is very good, although I'm looking forward to taking a break and catching my breath soon. Sheila and I just moved her mom, and we moved us in the latter part of February, so we are just getting settled in. My God, it has been a few years, hasn't it? The last reunion I made it to was our 20th. If my memory serves me, I think I recall seeing you there. I must confess, there was some partying going on, so I could have my reunions mixed up. I missed the
25th. Anyway, it will be great to see you, too. I'm hoping we can make it down for the whole weekend...we'll see.



Jerry! Too much! How do you remember all of this stuff? I must have early onset alzheimers. But hey, you and I were classmates from 1st - 12th. I Remember Mrs. Ratford, 1st grade...scary woman! Remember 5th grade when our buddy Mr. Staples knocked down Bob Lavanovich for goofing off during the movie....and chipped his front tooth? Oh yes, some of the memories. I do remember bus 14 and the Duttons. That's all for now.

Okay for everybody that wants to pass it on or didn't get a invitation or lost theirs etc......
I posted the invite at this web page.

http://home.adelphia.net/~jjll/Class72.htm


Send your response to Ron Young, 5561 Rte. 106 Reading, Vt. 05062

We got back a handfull of returns on the invitation. I personally emailed this to everyone on Pattie's email list and now
I am posting this at this site. We have tried very hard to contact everybody and we did not intend to leave anyone out.
So this is the best I can do for the last chance to see the invite.

Thanks Jeannette. Do you know how we can get in touch with Bea Lovell Merrill?Does anyone know?

Hi everyone -for those looking for Steve Lohutko's address it's 38 Olive St., Springfield, VT 05156.

Hey Brian, I love the hat!!!! you have to wear that to the reunion now, so we know who you are. Have a great afternoon everybody.

I see the Secret Float Plans are out. Well thats the start. What will be the finish, I don't know. Brian your doing a great job with all the pics and stuff. Well gotta go back to work. It's too nice out right now for me
to be banging away at this keyboard.

Brian thank you for sharing your sleeping habbits with us. Gotta do what ever works for us! You're absolutely right about not having enough time in a day to do what needs to be done. Maybe I'm just slowing down. Oh well! The pictures are great. Dick , you look good. I love the costumes. Do you guys dress up like that terrorize the town or was this a costume party? ha ha
Brian, I don't see any pictures of you . Where are you? I haven't seen you since the 25th reunion.
take care

Hi Nancy and John, Yep, I got the photos and I updated the Secret Photo Site, thanks, nice job!

As far as sleeping, it's overrated. Most of us sleep in 4-hour cycles. I feel more alert if I have 1 or 2 cycles of sleep than I do if I wake up in the middle of one, (like after 6 or 9 hours of sleep). Mostly I just sleep 4 hours a night. There never seems to be enough time to do what you want to do, so doing this gives me 4 hours to read, or learn new stuff. I discovered this in 1974, so it seems to work for me.

Alright now, everyone slide on down to the bottom of the page and check out the Photo link.

See? Now send in your own photos and this will begin to look like a big ol' graduating class. If you don't know anyone with a digital camera or a scanner to scan your photos, then send me some prints via U.S. Mail, and I get them right back to you. (I know I said that already, I'm just reminding you so you'll do it : )

Well I would go fishing but my golf clubs are calling me instead. lol....
It's going to be a great weekend here. Of course I still have to do the
work around the house before I go and chase my balls. I know what
your thinking don't go there. lol.....

Hi everyone!

Hey Brian, did you get an e-mail from me with some more pictures attached? they're pretty good. What on earth are you doing up at 3:30 am?! I can barely stay up until 10:00 pm and that is pushing it!! Hay, did anyone of you guys ever go up to the Hartness House bar... the one underground?( not a trick question) I was showing a friend from work around up there today and boy did I have stories to tell .I remember one time a bunch of us went there and got shit faced. When you walk out of a hole in a hill at 1:00am with a buzz, it's easy to end up down on Valley street!
The Hartness House is so beautiful. I really appreciated it today.
Roger is going to speak with Ricky (Belville) and give him info about the reunion. I can't find Bea Lovell Merrill 's address. Does anyone out there know it?
John , your pictures came out great! Bob took a really good one of you and Linda. I e-mailed them to Brian last night to post on the web.
take care everyone........It's supposed to be a warm week-end. We're thinking about doing some fishing.
bye

Great photos, John. I'll get them in tomorrow, I've been too busy to do it tonight. And gee, lookit the time!

It's really great to see some honest emotion emerging in here, Class of '72, even if it's expression of frustration, anxiety or exhilaration. I found the Secret Photo Link which isn't really that much of a secret. (Whoops, don't tell anyone.) The pictures are great, and the right and left arrow buttons work just dandy. I was at Southview School for grades 1 through 4 before matriculating to South School where I caught up with some of the rest of you for 5 and 6. Yes, Derrick and Marshall Dutton were the drivers of my Bus 14. I guess Marshall had a #8 before that and brother Holly drove the #9 and their brother-in-law Dave Putnam drove the #13. Mrs. Doten was my homeroom teacher at Riverside. Remember in Mrs. Mable's public speaking class at SHS when some of us would get on the intercom for the morning announcements? That was a riot when I told some corny jokes and gave some sports scores. Go ahead, add to this if you want.

Ok gang. Brian if you want you can save what ever you want.
Here are the latest Pics of tonights meeting. Just type this in to your web browser and you will be there.

http://home.adelphia.net/~jjll/classof72.htm


My resolution was set at 1280 x 1024
If you find they are too large of pics let me know and I can shrink them down.
It was just a quick post.

Hang on I am going to build a site to post them for you brian.

Hey Jeannette,

We do need Steve Lohutko's address. We have Davids. I'm glad you joined blogger.
se ya
Nancy S,

Brian told me there will be more there tonight!

Dick, are you whinning? It's not pretty.

I feel no sense of accomplishment at all because I had to be told where the darn secret link was. I feel a great sense of stupidness.

so anyway, where are all the other photos. Surely you guys are sending them????????

Hi everybody, I've been "listening in" to you for a few days now. I can't believe we are having our 30th. Remember how we used to think of pople who were having their 30 class reunion? OVER THE HILL! Guess we didn't know then that there is life after age 25. Well, just a mini update: I waited for til I was 32 to meet Prince Charming. He turned into a frog. We divorced about 5 years ago. But I have a wonderful 14 year old son, Christian. He is in the 9th grade at good ol' SHS. Flunking everything. Geez, nobody ever told me that you have to go through school twice! It's not fair. I've been working for Vt Legal Aid for 10 years in a support staff position. I just bought my first house in 2000. Life is good. I'll be at the reunion. I do think we should have some "ice breaking" games if somebody can come up with some. That would be a good idea. Brian and Dick - I see you guys are still cracked - glad to know some things never change. By the way, if you are still looking for Dave Souble and Steve Lohutko, I know they are still in Springfield. I will try to get their addresses for you. Bye for now.

I feel a great sense of blog accomplishment and I am not sure if "well, you pass" really addresses my needs as a new sensitive male (NSM). Let's be clear that I am not a worm boy feigning NSM status.

Hi everyone,
Nancy Y. I tried to e-mail you but I don't know if you got it so I thought I would post it here. I will tell Ron tomorrow night and you will be all set.
Hi Pat, We will let you know after tomorrow night right John? I'm just loving this communication!! I saw Jeannette tonight. She got logged on to blogger yesterday. I'm still trying to connect with Candi Paige Cook. I re invited her to blogger but I might not have done it right. That's why we have Brian. YEAH
Hey Neil.... Are you still out there somewhere? How are you? It's been such a long time since I've seen you. You sound very happy and content. I'm looking forward to seeing you again.
Talk to you later
Nancy S.

Well we will know more tomorrow night. There is another meeting. I will let you know what happens with that.

Good Lord I never thought to change to view web page. I thought I must have been looking right at it but couldn't see what was right in front of me. Very frustrating. But I finally saw it. Great job Brian!

John and Nancy, about the invitations that came back, are any of these folks on the e-mail list? Except for those how are the numbers looking?

Well, you pass. But it's easier than that. You should not be in the Editing/Posting area, you should be looking at the regular site: http://www.shs1972.blogspot.com. Scroll to the very bottom. Do you see the secret link? Go Baby!

What's this about not coming, Richard? You can't quit your job?

OK, OK, Ok, I got it!!!! That was very obscure.

You have to click on "view web page" first (right next to "enter safe mode") on the black bar above the posted messages. Then you get the web page with the link at the bottom that Brian is telling us to grab and click.

I see no brown part of the page. I see no link that isn't really hidden. Do I still get an A?

Alright. Click your mouse on the scroll tab on the right. Pull it ALL the way to the bottom. The link isn't really hidden. It's not in the Blog text that we write. Look for it in the brown part of the page. Nice going, class! A's for everyone! : )

Okay, I'm frustrated! Brian, SCROLL THIS BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I scrolled and scrolled but I'm still missing it. Tried using search just in case but that didnt' do it.

Jon Lewis lives in Florida. Unfortunately he can't get Blogger to work so he doesn't see any of this.

Richard I'm disappointed that you won't be able to make the reunion. I hate when business gets in the way of fun!

Hint: Use the scroll bar on the right.

So Brian, I found the picture of Jon Bon Jovi. Where is Jon Lewis? Hey man, I am killing myself to try to look this good, way to go Jon!!! Your sport is getting so huge and you must see all the years smiling on you. That's great!

Is there another link? I only found Jon's web page (not the second photo- of I'm guessing Patty).

I'm kind of bumming out because my company is decending on June 21st as a time that I would have to be so far away from Vermont that I would not be able to get back to VT for June 22. Maybe I can leave on June 23rd. That is what I am working toward.

Hi everyone,
Hi Robin. I can't believe you remember me as a girl scout! Was it really me?lol How are you? It will be nice to see you at the reunion. You are going aren't you? It's weird to think for us being forty something years old. God, I remember when we were snot nosed little kids! Where have the years gone?!
Hi PaT. Ron said a bunch of the invitations came back to him. Hopefully we will be able to straighten it out this Thursday evening. A minor set back, that's all.
I got an e-mail from Roger Belville today. He can't get blogger to work on his computer. He said he will stay in touch with Jon L. or me . Brian, maybe you could help them. I had a heck of a time getting mine to work. Persistence pays off I guess!! I did alot of swearing!!! I'm going to look for the photo link now. Wish me luck!
Nancy S.

Brian, I sent the photo of Jon. He sent it to me as an attachment. I forwarded it to you. It is the photo from his web site though. That's the first time I'd seen the site. Pretty neat. I guess I need more coffee - I can't find the secret poto link.

Yeeks. I guess my memory is better than I'd like it to be. Anyway, the photo update: I hid a secret photo link somewhere on this page. It only has 2 photos in it so far, but hey, send me some. They can be anything from anytime between now and 48 years ago. I would like some recent photos, so I won't embarass myself trying to figure out who the hell you used to be when I saw you last (chuckle :)

I started scanning in the horrid yearbook pictures, but I'm still in the C's. So keep holding your breath.

I recieved a picture of Jon Lewis, but it is compressed AOL-proprietary format, which I can't read because I'm not a member of AOL (thank Jeezum Crow). If you want to send a picture from AOL, then uncheck the "compressed format" feature, somewhere in the sending preferences. And Jon, if it's the photo from your web site, (take a peek), then I can get that one.

Now I have to see if I can dredge up a picture of me, while I'm waiting for the flood of emails from all of you!

How do you all remember the principals? I have a hard enough time remembering the teachers! I do remember my sixth grade teacher, though--Shorey Wilson's mother. Patti, it's funny you mentioned Sue Armstrong's arm getting stuck in a chair because the same thing happened to me in third grade. I stood up to read and the chair came with me. They had to use soap and water to get me out. I didn't get a new desk like Sue, though! Karen, if you hadn't reminded me that our school was called East School, I wouldn't have remembered that either. Guess I've been away too long. I always liked the bus ride home from school--bouncing over all those bumps.

I was in the SHS a few weeks ago and the stairs that go up to the class rooms I didn't go only because it was a scary thought. But wow what memories came back so fast. You all should take a tour and get a blast from the past. Pat I remember the Sue Ann Armstrong incident at Elm Hill. Remember the sliding down the Hill there. Allot of memories at that school. Oh yea how can I forget Mr. Hall the Principal at Elm Hill who broke the yard stick on my butt. Bet they don't do that now. lmao

I wonder if anyone would be interested in a tour of the high school. I still have nightmares of getting lost on my way to classes. Wonder if a tour would help? I think it would be fun to wander around in there. Wonder why my memories of Riverside are sharper than the High School? I'd love to wander in there too. Our principal was so nice.

Wow, scarry thought to see a teacher from my past. I hope that they may have mostly forgiven me by now. It would be fun for me to see Howard Smith- the East School Principal. George Noor was a great science teacher at Riverside and George Johansen was a math teacher that I liked at High School. Don Watson was a really fun guy.

Robin, I also have only the 5th and 6th grade pics for East school because I was redistricted to East from South. I should have first through 4th for South School. Nancy Smart, of course I remember you, but had forgotten that you married Bob until the Blog site started. Say hello from me, we used to chat at the Hartness House when I worked there summers. Sue Dunham and I have exchanged an e-mail and caught up on eachother a little. Lori and I have also done some e-mailing........its been fun. Have any of you thought of inviting back a teacher or two from those years at SHS? I have heard of other classes doing that and it has been really fun because they spoke and gave anecdotes about people in the class..........just a thought.

I'm an Elm Hill Girl. We lived out on the Chester Rd back then. I remember Sue Ann Armstrong got her elbow stuck between the slats in her chair and the janitor had to come and cut her free. She got a new desk. We were all jealous. Wonder where Sue is? We moved to Shaftsbury, VT when I was in the 3rd grade and then came back and lived on Wall Street starting at Riverside in 7th grade.

Nancy S do you think when you get a bunch of RSVP's back you could post the names of people coming to the reunion? That'd be great!

I have the East School 5th, 6th, and Crossing Guard photos. Does anyone have the 1st through 4th? I also have the Kings k'grtn pic from 1960..did we used to get picked up in a vw bus? Hmmm..is that Nancy Smart looking so cute in the Girl Scout uniform in 5th grade?

Hi everybody, Thank-You Nancy D. I'm not worried about the invitation, we will get it worked out somehow.

Hi,

I found a picture of Bill Bennett and me in 1979, I'll send it to Brian along with something more recent of me.

Yup I will be there NancyS.

Hi everyone,
The invitations have been sent out. Nancy Y. hopefully you will get your invitation soon. If not let us know and maybe someone could scan one on blogger for you to look at and reply to. Yes I knew Phil Hughes. I'm sorry to hear that he passed away. I believe the last few years were tough for him.
Hi Lori. I remember you from East school too. Those were good times. I'm sorry that you won't be at the reunion. It would be very nice to see you again.Do you remember Kim Stalter? I wonder what happened to her?We were in Brownies together. I used to go to her house and play tether ball.
Hi Karen. I am married to Sue Dunhams brother, Bob. They were at the house Friday evening telling us about their vacation to the Dominican. They had a wonderfull time. She will be coming to the reunion or I'll just have to rag on her a little bit. lol I'm sorry that you won't be able to make it. It would be nice to see you.
Hey John. How ya doin? Yes the invites were sent out. I'll be seeing you this Thursday night at Park Street school at 6:30 right?
Take care everyone
Nancy S.