| Date | Classmate | Email Link |
| June 18, 2008 | John Altadonna | Send Email |
Thanks to you and the committee for all the work that went in to producing a fun weekend for all attendees of the class reunion. I wish more of the class would attend, and look forward to the next reunion.
John Altadonna
| Date | Classmate | Email Link |
| June 16, 2008 | Marsha (Wethington) Thorson | Send Email |
Just a note to let you and the committee members to let you know that the reunion was great fun. You guys did a fantastic job!! Can't wait to see all the pictures and videos.
Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks,
Marsha (Wethington) Thorson
| Date | Classmate | Email Link |
| June 16, 2008 | Mike Pierceal | Send Email |
Another great job on the 40th reunion..... see how many of us will be in depends and in wheelchasirs at the 45th reunion.
Riding the bicycle back to Carbondale yesterday was quite an ordeal. First of all I paid the price for having TOO MUCH FUN Saturday evening. Got on my bike about 10:30 AM and had a flat at around 11 AM South of Wamac. Rear tire of course. Instead of taking Rt. 51 back I opted to head on county and backroads over to Nashville and pick up Rt. 127 which is a much more bike friendly highway with wide paved shoulders. The HEAT damn near did me in though.... but hey made it.
Mike
| Date | Classmates | Email Link |
| June 16, 2008 | Barry & Wendy Oland | Send Email |
Just a note to thank all of you for your work on the reunion. It was so nice - the decorations were really neat, the food good and the booklet and website a great help!
Thanks again for a great job,
Wendy and Barry Oland
| Date | Classmate | Email Link |
| May 6 , 2008 | Don Pettygrove | Send Email |
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Check out this and the other videos from our recent track day at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT. Lap times of 2:00 for 2.25 mi. What fun and what and adrenaline rush. http://www.youtube.com/user/dgpgrove
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| Date | Classmate | Email Link |
| February 6, 2008 | Candy Quayle | Send Email |
Hi everybody!! I wanted to send a few pictures of my dolls. Candy
Candy has a sideline business for fun and calls it "Quaylenest Nursery" where she creates life-like baby dolls. See Candy's Profile page for more information. |
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| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| May 11, 2003 | James C Hayes | elgatonegro4@yahoo.com |
Looking forward to seeng you next month!
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| February 13, 2003 | Pat Wohlwend | wohlwend@nti.net |
I am an Assistant Food Service Administrator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons at Federal Correctional Institute located in Talladega, AL.
My wife of 31 years is Jo Lynne (Johnson) of Fairfield, IL. She is an Optometric Assistant. We have two children: Jennifer Crockett(28) and Julie Beck (24). Julie is the mother of our two grandchildren; Billy (2) and Bryan (2 mos.)
Jo Lynne and I live in Oxford, AL. and will be looking forward to retirement soon.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| January 11, 2003 | Candy Quayle | cquayle@papadocs.com |
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Hi everybody!! I am a Quayle again. It has been an exciting ride but I think I like
my first life the best!! I am still teaching with Don at CJHS in Centralia.
We are all soon retiring in the next 3-4 years. |
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| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| 7/20/2001 | David "Head" Myers | DHMLaw607@aol.com |
This will probably come as a big surprise, since we haven't chatted in a long while but I talked to Mark and Maureen about a week ago shortly after they attened their reunion. That's not news but what was a bit of a shock to them was that several members of the class of 71' approached them with inquiries about my health and well-being. The rumor seemed to be that I had retired from the Navy (true) and was seriously ill. (VERY UNTRUE) I am doing about as well as could be expected for a "slightly" out of shape 51 year old with a 12 year old daughter. Although I retired about 14 months ago, I am now working with a veterans consortium that finds attorneys to represent veterans before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. And looking forward to 35th reunion. Anyway, if anyone should inquire, rumors of my demise are greatly exagerated.
Beyond that, I must report that mom and dad are well settled in Washington IL with Maureen keeping a watchful eye over them from about a mile away. Kaitlyn will be going into 8th grade and life is reasonably good when trains aren't blowing up in downtown Baltimore. (Commute from Annapolis to DC sucks tho.}
Please give best to all the 68 grads, especially Danny, and Melissa. Hope to see Centralia sooner than 03, but with folks up north it may be harder than usual.
Go Orphans,
Head
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| April 17, 2000 | David "Head" Myers | MyersDH@jag.navy.mil |
It is with great sadness that I need to let you know that Mom & Dad will be movng to Washington Illinois on 2 May. This is where Maureen and her boys are and a lot closer to Mark and his family who are in Macomb. I will be in town to help with the move - they have been packing for some time so that part will be easy, but if anybody wants to drop by and say bye to them (or hi to me) please do so. While I'll be back for the reunions, I will miss the Holiday tournament and just running into folks when out and about at Christmas. Mom and Dad have been there for over 38 years and 16 Magnolia will always be "home." [The Old Myers Place??] Of course I can't forget "flocked Chrismas trees" Danny pulling up in the jeep or Curt Knolhoff standing on my front porch to tell me not to see Martha Brink anymore. (Ah the excesses of youth.) I guess the one good thing is that when we close the door for the last time I will have great good fortune of having both of them with me to drive north with.
One additional bit of news is my retirement. On 1 May I'm out of the Navy after 24 years. New e-mail will be DHMLaw606@aol.com. See you in '03 if not sooner.
Head
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| February 20, 2000 | Don Pettygrove | dgpgrove@gj.net |
Hi everyone,
I thought I'd send along a picture to show you what
my new "toy" looks like. Same color and everything. Picked it up
Thursday afternoon. Boy is it sweet, I love it already. It really fits my
style of driving.
Don
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| May 11, 1999 | Sara (Payne) Seeley | seeley@scvnet.com |
Hey everyone, hope all is well with you all!!! Just stopped by and saw the pop up names on the class picture---what a great idea---continued good work by Don!!!! Just an up date I am now into my third career---real estate and I have my own website www.seeleysells.com so come and visit!!! Look forward to the next reunion and hopefully next time some of us will get together and play some bridge...Take care and thanks again Don for such a great job on the website.
Sara
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| February 10, 1999 | Kurt Miller | KRMiller99@aol.com |
Sorry I never responded earlier - been an interesting year. Although
other than having your EMail, I could not find a number or name to contact
for the reunion.
Kurt R. Miller
Senior Vice President -
Chief Financial Officer
ApexHealth, Inc.
100 Franklin
| Date | Friend | Email Address |
| November 10, 1998 | Mike Black | meloout@erols.com |
Just wanted to pass on how much I enjoyed looking thru your reunion web page. Great idea. Saw a few names of people I dated, ran with, played sports against, etc. Was nice to remember some I had forgotten. Wish Salem would have a page like yours. Anyway, thanks for the memories! Mike Black (Class 68, Salem Comm. HS)
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| July 23, 1998 | Jean (Womble) Shepherd | CASJKS@aol.com |
Just wanted to take the time to tell you what a good time Chuck and I
had at the reunion. I know all of you worked really hard and you probably
don't get the thanks that you deserve. Tell Lonnie and Myra,Margaret,
Melissa, and whoever else thanks from us. As we say here in Texas---YOU
DONE GOOD!!!!!
It really helped that the weather and the
mosquitos cooperated too!
Thanks Again!!! Jean Shepherd
(Womble)
| Date | Classmate (Spouse) | Email Address |
| July 17, 1998 | Tammy Baker | fotoz@accessus.net |
Hiya Don,
Just took a look at the website for the Class of 68.
Great job!!! lOOKS GREAT. I will have to bring it to Ty's attention.
hahaha...That is if I can get him away from the tv and his race bike. ^_^
Nice addition with the music!!! A real nice added touch.
Hope
all is well with everyone. Doing great here.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| July 16, 1998 | Dale Dawson | DDawson114@aol.com |
Hi, great page. Sorry I couldn't make the reunion. I'm always traveling. Glad to see so many on line, thanks for putting me on the list.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| July 16, 1998 | Mike Ferrari | sportscar2@aol.com |
Sorry we couldn't make the reunion. It looks like everybody had a great time. Just wanted to let you know that you did a super job on the class web page.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| July 13, 1998 | Neil Greer | neilin@tacnet.missouri.org |
Don and committee,
Just wanted you to know how neat we think your
web page is. That was a wonderful idea. Although we weren't able to make
it this year, we sure got a kick out of reading what everyone had to say
and especially looking at the pictures of all you OLD people.
Again, thanks for letting us share in the reunion which we otherwise would
have missed out on!!
Neil and Linda (Estoppey) Greer
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| July 1, 1998 | Melody (Parkinson) Franklin | mfranklin@cse.cse-insurance.com |
Don and the Committee,
I'm having duplicates made of some of
the good photos we have from the dinner-dance, and I will forward them to
you as soon as possible.
It was great to see all of you, and
catch up on where everyone is. We (THE ICEBERG TWINS AND JUNGLEWOMAN) had
a wonderful time, and we are already looking forward to the next time.
Thanks again for providing your home (Don), and being such a
great host on friday night.
Melody (Parkinson) Franklin
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| June 28, 1998 | Don Pettygrove | dgpgrove@gj.net |
Just wanted to drop everyone a note and let you know how much fun all
of us had at the reunion. Thanks for all of your hard work and pass along
our thanks to the rest of the committee, too! Thanks to Don and Sandy,
Margaret, Myra and Lonnie, Doug, Ty and Melissa, too.
As I
mentioned to Don on Wednesday evening after the reunion, you might think
of a brunch on Sunday morning for the next reunion. I have a friend whose
class did that and it was a nice end to the weekend.
Thanks
again, McKelvey and I had a nice exit from Centralia as the temperatures
neared 100. It is nice to be home again and out of the humidity. I don't
know how you take it.
Stay in touch!
Don
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| June 26, 1998 | Nancy (Crowell) Spencer | nsspencer@juno.com |
This is just to wish you all a
HAPPY FORTH OF JULY!!!!!
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| June 23, 1998 | Gail (Straith) Wagner | wagner@northlink.com |
Hi...just wondering where the pics are from Sat nite. Someone said they
would get them right out on the net/email...
------- Look this way ---->
Gail
ps. had a great time both fri and sat.....great
job setting this all up
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| June 19, 1998 | Mike Pierceall | Mike_Pierceall@edwpub.com |
DON:
Finally got this [Censored] E Mail system
working (anyway I think). Will be leaving shortly for Centralia to see
everyone. Bringing my VIAGRA just in case I get lucky.
Looking
forward to seeing all the Fat Chicks and bald heads.
MIKE
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| June 16, 1998 | Don Pettygrove | dgpgrove@gj.net |
McKelvey and I will be leaving in the morning about 6:00 our time. Should be in there Thursday evening. Anybody interested in the Cardinals game on Sunday or Monday against the Diamond Backs?
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| May 10, 1998 | Yvonne Metzger | hugga2@webtv.net |
I am Yvonne (Sprehe) Metzger from the CHS Class of 73. My husband is Victor Metzger, Class of 70. I was searching for information on the Balloon Fest and searching for former classmates' email addresses when I ran across your page for your class reunion. I was quite impressed with your committee's organization in forming the Class Reunion Page.
I just wanted to say thank you for making your page as there are a few
people from your class that I knew in the past before moving to Florida
and now I have their email addresses and will attempt to contact them to
say hello.
Click
here to visit my homepage.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| Apr. 24, 1998 | Greg Huff | huffer_g@msn.com |
I have been playing around with my new digital camera. Here is a
picture I took of myself (my favorite subject). See you all at the
reunion!
Greg
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| Apr. 24, 1998 | Don Beaty | don@donbeaty.com |
If you haven't aready heard, I thought that you might want to know that Centralia recently experienced a tornado. Click here to see pictures.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| Apr. 19, 1998 | Nancy (Schmidt) Fletcher | SP78RGF@wcoil.com |
Nancy (Schmidt) Fletcher and her husband are definitely interested in golf. They plan on coming in the week before. Nancy is also ready to party anytime. You can contact them at Nancy's parents' house anytime the week before the reunion. Phone # is 532-5397. Looking forward to seeing everyone.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| Apr. 18, 1998 | Gail (Straith) Wagner | wagner@northlink.com |
Hi, this is Gail (Straith) Wagner; I like to play tennis; I would like to set up some tennis games if anyone else likes to play. I am a B level player. Look forward to seeing you. Contact me for tennis if you would like; wagner@northlink.com, phone (520) 776-9125, Centralia phone at my mom's-- 532-3883.
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| Apr. 12, 1998 | Debbie (McCann) Garnier | RACCOONLK@aol.com |
This is Debbie (McCann) Garnier. Can you add a question to your web
site? Are there any bridge players and is anyone interested in playing
sometime before the reunion? Sara Payne called me from CA and wants to
play. She said she was coming in the week before.
Thanks Deb
| Date | Classmate | Email Address |
| Apr. 10, 1998 | Sara (Payne) Seeley | seeley@scvnet.com |
Let Sara know if anyone wants to play bridge.......let Marsha know is
there is anyone who is looking to partyyyyyyyyyyyy!.......as for
Melody........she's up for anything that does not include bridge! We will
be getting in late (around 10pm) thursday night....does anyone have
anything going or have suggestions for what to do with the rest of the
night? .....looking forward to our 30th reunion.
Junglewoman and the
Iceberg Twins