Thanks for putting this together Kevin. I hope to be in Lafayette on July 10. I just found out yesterday that in January I will be a first time grandfather. My 35 year-old son and his wife are expecting their first.

My most vivid memories from school are the pep rallies, bonfires, and dances after the games. I retired from the Army Nurse Corps after 20 years and for the past 13 years I have been teaching nursing at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Skip and I have been married 26 years and we have two wonderful daughters, Ashley and Amanda, 23 and 21. Our passion is horses. We have 7, mostly arabians. We compete in endurance riding which is anything from 50 to 100 miles in 12 to 24 hours. It keeps us "young" except when we end up on the ground which with arabians happens too frequently. Looking forward to hearing from others.

I have really enjoyed working with our reunion committee!! even after living in Lafayette my whole life its hard keeping in touch with classmates--but always fun. I see some at ball games,some at their work and have good friendships with a few with whom we socialize. After graduating from Purdue Phamacy School (tim o'conner was also in my class and passed away this past year). I took over the family drugstore business with my 2 brothers dave & phil. Dave (cc68) passed away in 1994 and it wasn't so much fun without him (&lots more work) so we sold out to Osco's in 1995 and I went to work for tehm. I managed the store that used to be an Eisner grocery where doug fields and dave clark worked at Main& Kossuth sts. Osco's was merged mwith CVS in 2006 and I am working 3/4 time for them!! I was married to mary ann krabbe for 33 years until she died in 2005 -she had fought 3 cancers since age 25. We raised 4 kids who all went to st.M/St.B/CC and now have 4 grand kids> in 2006 i got a call from my 8th grade sweetheart and it was love at first date-- we got married 6/1/07 and have had a wonderful life together it has renewed and reinvigorated both of us!! we cant wait to see all our old friends in July--We hope all mwill make the effort to come back--If you haven't been in Lafayette in a while -you might ot recognize it> Downtown has lots to offer--classmate Ken Knevel who is too busy to work on the reunion was a major contributor to Lafayette railroad relocation which has revived and restored many bldgs. Cc has started a new bldg effort and is remodeling and adding space, replacing those old windows-- we can work a tour into the weekend if there is interest.. lets here from all of you we have classmates allover the states and even some in other countries. we're all interested. peace and prosperity!! tom arth

"Lordy, lordy, it's been FORTY!"
A big shout out to my old South Street neighbor, Barb H. who blogged above. Barb, remember the plays we had expecting a nickel domation from the neighbors for a show & koolaid, dress rehearsals in your garage? Oh, to be ten again! Another old neighbor & play buddy from the So.St. neighborhood that I hope to see is John Lammers. It's time to come back to your roots and relive some great memories and make some new ones.
A short bio today because I'd rather talk to you in person in July.
I am married to Wendel Blue (Jeff '68), we have four children: two girls, two boys, and live in Marietta, GA. I teach gifted students in an elementary school and love to travel. Last October, we rented a villa in Assisi, Italy with my sisters/brothers/spouses...magical!
Mary & Jeanne are still my best friends. All my secrets, joys and fears are still shared with them.
Hope to see you at the reunion.

Kevin,
Baseball and Lammers brought another memory to me. We played Wainwright the morning after our Senior Prom. If I remember correctly, John did not go to the Prom. He hit a solo homerun and we won the game 1 - 0. I can only remember how tired we all were. My wife and I, Dannell, will be married 30 years on July 7th. We have 4 children. All did the St M, St B and CC route. Three boys and a daughter. One out of Purdue, two still going. One son married and presented us with our first grandchild on March 21st. I worked for National Homes first and along with John Glover, have been employed by Eli Lilly for over 28 years. We just sold our home in the country and are moving to Monticello and living on Lake Freeman. It is hard to believe it has been 40 years. Hope to see many classmates on July 10th. See you then.

hey guys can't figure out how it's been forty yrs since high school and yet i'm only 34 lol--mentally--a bit of the last 40--been married to jonnie for 35 yrs, have 2 daughters- karla 33 works for universal studios and kelly 27 elem teacher in jacksonville--i'm the purcasing director for a wholesale plumbing supply based in jupiter, fla and we have 5 branches around the state--jonnie is the registrar for local high school-loving the empty nest thing as we are on the go somewhere most weekends--i was back in lafayette for 2days in dec--remind me not to do that again brrrrrrr and did not have much chance to look up anyone other than stopping at the tick tock for a beer with hawk---i was planning on making the reunion this year but have been planning to attend the british open in scotland for cpl of yrs and the reunion happens to fall on the weekend we leave--will have to wait till the 50th-- sorry to hear about the losses of some classmates that i did not know had passed-- again thanks woj for the great idea--come visit when you all get a chance

Wonderful memories from everyone! My husband Jeff and I will celebrate 37 years in August. We have been blessed with two children. Erin (30)lives in Fort Wayne and works for a local radio station. She has given us the best granddaughter in the world, Ava (4). Colin (26) is in Indianapolis working as marketing director for Mediasauce.

I have been working in education in various capacities for the last 35 years, most of it with children who have learning disabilities. Currently I am the Coordinator for Smaller Learning Communities at Fort Wayne North Side High School.

I am tentatively slated to attend a conference in Virginia the weekend of the Reunion. If that doesn't happen, perhaps we will head to Lafayete.

Hello all!

I'm leaving this post as I will be unable to attend our 40TH (count 'em... 40!!) reunion. Thanks to all who labored in organization on this effort and I hope you have a great time!

As for/about me... proud mother of two sons, (both graduates of Wabash College and lived with Dave Mills' son there--small world, eh?), Pete age 33, in commercial real estate development in the Tampa Florida area, and Aaron, age 29, a kindergarten teacher in Indianapolis. I'm enjoying my first granddaughter, Chase Kennedy Logan, just now 18 months, but alas she lives in Florida. As for me, I've worn many hats: once worked for Al Unser Sr.'s racing team, then the planning organization for the USOC Olympic Basketball Tribute and Game against NBA All-Stars (when Bobby Knight coached... before he became Bobby "Nightmare"), then on the executive staff of the organizing committee for the 10th Pan American Games in Indy, followed by an executive position with a local investment firm before deciding to try blending self-employment with being a stay-at-home mom again. I celebrated 20 years of self-employment last year as owner of Beyond Words, a graphic design firm. Lastly, am in my 2nd elected (4-year) term to the Wayne Township Schools Board of Education here in Indy (home of Ben Davis High School and about 860 graduates this year!).

While I won't see you on the 10th, I welcome your e-mail!
Trish (aka Patty Dux)
beyondwords@comcast.net

I was an high school assistant principal and basketball coach for 13 years and retired in 1986 and went into private business. I retired from the beef business in 2006 and live in Florida. My wife Sheryl and I have been married for 34 years and have two children, Jeffery 28 and Keely 26. Jeffery graduated from Emory Riddle and Keely from Florida Atlantic. Jeffery is in the beef business in Las Vegas, and Keely is a recruiter for a medical company. We have no grandchildren that we know about but we do babysit my daughters dogs regularly.
I purchased my parents old house on the Tippecanoe River and spent last summer there. If anyone wants to fish or drink a beer or soda on the river bank let me know.
Look forward to seeing all.

It's so good to hear from everyone! It certainly seems like we all have had our share of good and bad times in our lives over the past 40 years but look how far we've come. Can you believe it? Many of you have been married to your spouses for 20 or 30 plus years and I truly admire you for that. I however, like Tom A., had lost a spouse and one day received a phone call from an old high school sweetheart. And after reviewing many of the endearments left by some of you in my Senior Yearbook about "Moe this" and "Moe that" and especially Randy Rottler 's ('68) advise to "Watch that Ryan kid. He's a gangster. You can tell by the way he walks." I decided to take all this under advisement and married Mike (Moe) Ryan anyway. We were wed in Jan., '06 in the Cayman Islands, at sunset, barefoot on the beach. We had finally come full circle after 35 years and life has never been so much fun! Right Honey? (He's looking over my shoulder as I type this...he just hunts and pecks)...He said "Yes, dear!" Good answer!

We live in Monticello on Lake Freeman, so hopefully we'll run into Marty someday soon. We work part time during the summer. I'm a Registered Nurse at White County Memorial in Monticello and Mike works at Long Electric in Lafayette. We too love to travel. So for the past three January's we pack up the SUV and drive 2300 miles (one way) to San Carlos, Mx., where we rent a home on the beach until it gets above 50 degrees in Indiana (sometime around Easter). Then Mike re-packs the SUV and we take a scenic route home. Buy this time I'm starting to really miss the grandkids.

I have a daughter Kelli (34) married to Matthew and they have two boys Hayden (5) and Hyat (3). They live in Monticello so we get to see them quite often. Mike's children are more spread so it's a little more difficult to visit. Daughter Lauren (26) lives in Chicago and is a Respiratory Therapist. Son Sean (21) lives in Orlando and attends the University of Central Florida and is majoring in IT Engineering. We all try to do Christmas.

Enough about us for now hopefully we can talk more in July. We put our heads together over dinner tonight and these are a few memories we came up with...in no particular order:
-Block section competitions during Sectionals against the Bronchos
-Fundraising Paper Drives on Saturdays or (The birth of Recycling)
-Decorating the Junior Christmas Parade Float at the Fairgrounds...all those Kleenex!
-Forging those absentee excuses from you parents so you could get back into class.
-Skipping Mr. Eberle's Government Class and having him catch you driving thru the Stadium Parking Lot later that day but allowing you back in class the next day with just a slight remark about "Everybody needing a day off sometimes" (What a teacher!)
-The winning smile of Sister Justina (Not!)
-Laurie Radnor's Freshmen party playing Spin the Bottle and pretending to get married (we did and who knew?)
-Mike, Lammers, Roach and Peters job at Owens Dairy at Main and Earl.
-Sue, Sandy, Jeannie and Mary Kevins trip to Owens Dairy during Halloween to purchase those "little white" Trick or Treats plus the OJ and puffed rice so we wouldn't look so suspicious! Our luck, none of the guys were working that night.
-Kevins Javelin sinking up to the axels in mud in a corn field across from the Conservation Club
-Frozen Custard Fruit Drink and the little old lady that would come out and take down our license plate numbers saying she was going to call the police (What was that all about anyway?)
-What do these locations have in common? The Wall, The Purdue Stadium Parking Lot, Bishops Woods and 350 South...I'll never tell!
-Double dating at the drive-in with John and Joanne
-Double dating with John Q. and Linda S. at the Putt Putt Golf Course followed by a trip to the country for a little bit of........ "Cow Tipping" Yes, the guys really tried this. It was hilarious! Every girls dream date.
-Ted Rothrock's New Years Eve Party Sr. year. The "Window Well Frig's" (Thus the first "Well Drinks")
-Bill Bogan and Jim O'Connor as a couple of chaperones for the guys during senior week (are you kidding me?)
-Would you believe two Novice Sisters dressed in lay cloths chaperoning 8 girls in a one bed, one bath cottage on Lake Freeman during the same senior week? How about Jeff guys just down the road and CC guys across the lake? Oh yeah life was good! (OMG if our parents only knew)
-FBLA weekend trip to Ball State (Sue, Lynn, Linda, Billy, Molly and Pat)
-Ellie Andrews party at the Lake
-Bass Weejuns for girls and Beefroll loafers for guys
-Circle Pins (aka Virgin Pins)
-Madris Shirts
-Fairy Loops
-Spencer Davis - "Gimme Some Lovin"
-Class Rings
-Angora Sweaters
-8 Track Tapes
-Kilt skirts

Hope to see many of you in July and a special thanks to the Reunion Committee for all your hard work and effo

Don't forget Bugs and JLMTD!

forty years and forty nights wandering in the desert (not dessert, arth). i have wrestled with the devil (and she is sister kevin), and will soon be re-united with 69 lost souls from the barrenness (or is that baroness?). i tried to get married, but forgot the ring. i wanted to have children, but was the wrong sex. i couldn’t keep a job, because i didn’t know where to put it. i excel at abject failure, so don’t expect much, just mush.

but, what would you say if nothing were said? if the hours were not yours and the time spent wasn’t paid for in the first place. maybe just now you are reading this note, or hearing one that reminds you of catholic central. would it be the resounding tambour of classmates like cymbals clashing together, cutting air, marking time (no, that sound is heard only by the instruments themselves). perhaps the beat of a person on a beat - checking shop windows of transient emotions. no, it sounds like the tuning fork in the road of life which resonates to unheard-of frequencies. the song is never over as the waves are undiminished through time and space. if your grandchildren's grandchildren listen carefully, it's the lute of king david interwoven with the notes of our lifetime. do you know, "this is this"? could you hum a few bars?

if you think i speak in tongues, si, si - tongues for the memories!

and the highwayman came riding--riding--riding..............

How's this Joanne ?

H E L L O...!
Where is everybody?
Let's hear from you!

hey john bush give me a call when u're bored and want to play some golf or drink some beer 561-389-7470 wersty@comcast.net

Do you remember:
Johnny Chance at Pythian Home?
Father Fox's cottage?
Girl's gym suits?
Mrs. Reifenrath's sex education class?
Girl's sports? (none!)
Mass every day in grade school?
Sandi Fruits' parties?
Painting signs on the landing and Father Fox letting us listen to the juke box for free?
I would really like to hear from everyone as to what they have been doing the last 40 years!

As part of a 12 step recovery program, I would like to apologize to any classmates I may have offended in the past.

I just about gave up on hearing from any St. Lawrence "kids"! Thank you Donna B, Mike F., Greg S. and David C. for writing! I missed seeing you all at the 8th grade class reunion a few years ago, but I'm happy to know you are alive and well!
David Clark: I live in Cincinnati too (in Anderson Township near Coney Island)!!
Mike: I'm going to Amsterdam for a week in August. What part of Amsterdam did you live in?
Donna B: For some reason I can't find your note on the blog, but I do remember reading it. Or was it an e-mail that was passed on? I must be suffering from Alzheimer's (or blindness).
And Teresa Doppelfeld: Where are you now? Your Christmas card was returned.

Donna Murphy Nagy

Hey guys&girls good to read everyones blogs Iv'e been married & divorced three times. Got two great children out of the first marriage. Daughter Brenna 28, and son Lance 25. Have three beautiful grand chidren. I golf,fish,bowl& drink a little beer here&there. Retired for the summer. Playing in the CC golf outing on the 10th. possibly making the reunion. Hope to see everybody. Excellent job to everyone envolved in getting this all together.

To Al Lehnen: Don has a PhD in Physics and works for the Naval Research Lab in DC. The plasma part sounds right,but what do I know!! Much of what he does is classified, so he can't tell me a whole lot, and what he does say I don't understand anyway.
He and wife Sandy will soon be grandparents for the first time. Sandy has a PhD in Computer Science and works on internet security, while I have trouble using a blog correctly.

Wow! What roads we have all traveled in the last forty years. It has been such fun to read the life snipits of fellow classmates & old friends.
Kevin, twenty accidents??? I haven't had any, so my view of driver's ed is quite different than yours. I think you must have been too easily distracted sitting so close to three summer-tanned girls in a small sedan.
Kearney, thanks for the heads up on Johnny L. Too bad he's going to be a no show. Your '65 St. L. class reunion website was GRRRRRREAT! How come Lynne Steill looks exactly the same? Whatcha drinkin', Lynne? It's powerful, better bottle it! Actually, you all looked marvelous in the pictures! Good clean living & happy times!
Can't wait to see y'all in one week. I'm still trying to decide what to wear. Call me, Sandy Fruits, so we don't wear the same thing (just kidding) We used to do that before football games but for another reason; we tried to dress alike so we wouldn't stand out and be different.
SB omitting the O for now

Here is a blog from Bonnie Bice and Mary Lundstrom!

Bonnie and I are sitting here trying unsuccessfully to access the blog for the reunion. So, with time running out, we are just going to tell you:

Bonnie Bice Bardey - Living happily in Lavonia Georgia. Still speaking like a northerner. Son Christopher is marrying Tray Spencer in Kingston N.M., this Saturday. Christopher is in his final year of acquiring his MFA. Daughter Laura has been married three years this October. Steve and I have been married 38 years. I am involved in several local volunteer activities. The most recent being the Land Of Spirit Folk Life Play. (Mary forced me to do this).

Mary Elizabeth Lundstrom. - Living happily in Lavonia, Georgia. People here tell me I have a funny accent (Huh?). Retired at 45 with 20 plus years in the military. I moved here from Denver in 2005. I am slowly beoming more involved in my art. I also am involved the the Land Of Spirit Folk Life Play. This year I was in charge of the make-up crew. I have a home about seven miles outside of Lavonia on Lake Hartwell. Here's a news flash. If you remember, my Mom had her last child when we were in ith grade. Well, that son, John, and his wife Kathy just had TRIPLETS (they already have a 18 month old toddler)! I will be heading to California to help them for a couple of weeks directly after Chris' wedding.

So this is us. We will think of y'all while in New Mexico. Bonnie says that next time ask us first before setting a date. We will see y'all in 5 years at the 45th!

Mary

Thanks Kevin for putting this website together. I see some of the Lafayette group every now and then. I work at Purdue in IT Networks and Security - not what I would have said I would be doing 40 years ago but it suits me. My husband and I will celebrate 39 years of marriage this August. He is retired from Eli Lilly now going on four years and not regretting a day of it. We have three sons, our oldest is 32 and lives in Indy works at the Fire Dept and St. Vincents. Our middle son will be leaving to teach in Korea the first of August and our youngest is living in New York city, Brooklyn area and still hunting a job. The two younger ones graduated from Purdue and Seth, our oldest graduated with an education degree from Marion College in Indy. No grandkids, no prospects since none of them is married or entertaining such prospects. So I have to adopt grandkids and have two nieces who share their little ones well.

Memories from CC
Father Vernon getting mad when some of the senior girls in their yellow cords "taped" go CC on their skirts. He sent them home for this major infraction.

Can't remember the nuns name but we nick named her Buckwheat - she was trying desperately to keep us safe and dating only fellow Catholics - invented some terrible story of the demise of some young girl getting with a protestant - told us this just before the summer vacation began.

MacBeth - to be precise 6 weeks of MacBeth with "video" of the three witches at their boiling pot.

St. Mary's: Sister Joan Mary holding her beads and sneaking into the room to catch us talking or whatever.

Mrs. Wagoner and Monday mornings when she would talk for two hours before we started any school.
The time we synchronized ruler dropping in her class - we were so bored - you could always get your homework done before you left school!

I really had a great time seeing everyone last Friday. My thanks and congratulations to Tom & Mary and everyone else who worked so hard to make the reunion a success. Several people inquired at the reunion if I knew anything more about about Viloa Knappke ("Sister Vi"). I got home Sunday night and looked through the information from the 1992 conference where I had run into her. Her name now is Vi Bangesser and she taught at Highland Community College in Freeport Illinois. As recently as the Fall of 2007 she taught a trig class there, but she is not currently listed as a full time faculty member. Her teaching still inspired people as evidenced in the testimonial at http://www.highland.edu/stories/story.asp?story_id=8 .

From searching the web I think she still lives in Freeport and even participated in the third round of the 2008 Illinois State Senior Women's Golf Championship. She also seems active at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in freeport (see http://www.stthomas-freeport.com/SCHEDULEFORAPRIL-JUNE2009.pdf )as she was a minister of communion last May. Unfortunately I could not find a current address online. The last address I had was 216 W Westwood Avenue, Freeport, Illinois, 61032.

Again it was great to see everyone!
Sincerely,
Al Lehnen

A big thank you goes out to all who had a hand in arranging the reunion. A great job by all! It was a lot of fun. I am only sorry the evening went by so fast and I am reflecting now on the many classmates with whom I did not get a chance to speak.

Here's a snapshot of my last 40 years. Left Laf. in '74 for Tampa. Married a fella who was a career student (at least that's what I thought at the time). He moved to Granada West Indies to attend medical school and I returned to Laf in '82 to help take care of my father. Husband finished med school in Miami but too much time apart had its affects on the marriage and we divorced in '84.

18 years pass with a good job at AE Staley working with Sue Ramey Ryan and my brother, Steve, and Linda Maddox. Good years.

Then one day in 2002 the Good Lord decided I was ready to meet my soul mate. A blind date in February set up by friends in Ft Myers resulted in a December marriage the same year. Russ is now a Director of Investments with Oppenheimer Wealth Mgmnt. He spent the last 15 years with Smith Barney - all here in Ft Myers. Previous to all of this, he was in the golf business. I have no children; he has two grown (Ryan and Katie, both in Ft Myers). No grandchildren. I am a loan officer with a privately held bank, Orion Bank.
As I read the blogs I am amazed at the memories....
I was so good to be with every one and I look forward to the next gathering.

Thanks again Kevin for creating the blog. I suggested the idea to the reunion committee of my other high school. Hopefully someone will put one together.

Although being at CC only 2 years didn't allow me to know everyone well, I do remember names and faces and it was great to travel back in time with you all.

CORRECTION the annual mini-reunion is no new years eve day at noon (12/31/09) at noon at the other pub BE THERE OR NOT

Tom and Mary - If you told us I've forgotten...where can I see or get a copy of the picture taken the night of the reunion? Thanks.