Be aware, the "Message Forum" is NOT password protected.  Unlike profiles that are password protected, anybody who gets to this webpage can see what is written here.  Nobody can contact you directly based on this forum unless you reveal your personal contact information.  Use the "Message Center" for sharing personal contact information with another classmate.

This message forum is an ongoing discussion about anything and just about everything ... within reason.  One thing our class was good at was having opinions.  Almost 70 years of life experience certainly qualifies us as experts on most everything!   Ask a question ... give an opinion ... share some insights ... it's our web site, it's our forum.  That said, it's probably not a good idea to get into arguments about politics, religion, and the like.  While we're experts on everything, we also have a wide range of values and beliefs. This site belongs to all of us ... the whole range ... and we are not here to isolate, alienate, or subjugate anybody.  Of course insults, humiliation, sophomoric barraggadocio, and demented humor is expected behavior among some of us less mature people.
 

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Sorry Pat, my costume is long gone.  Guess we'll have to pass on our comeback.  I can just imagine the look on your grandkids faces when you told them about it.  I think we had crazy fun then. 

Patricia McCarthy (McCarthy)

Garry,

Oh, Rats!!!!

Jan Bauernfeind (Petersen)

MISSING PERSONS LIST JUST POSTED!!!!!!!!!

Just posted a missing classmates list.  Please look it over and if you know where someone is, please send me a message through this website. under "Contact Us".  (It'll say Garry on it but he'll get it to me.)

Have been working on this since January and even though we've made contact with quite a few classmates, there are still those out there on this list that have me stumped!

Any help is greatly appreciated.  Would like to get in touch with as many people as we can.

This is going to be a great reunion!  See y'all in September.

Jan Bauernfeind Petersen

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

Thanks for more P & P! My husband Jon thinks the video came from one of our "social development" films - remember how they took the boys and girls to separate rooms? (Apparently they showed the same films in Menominee MI and Madison West.)

Garry Sellers

The "Message Forum" can be addicting but I need to remind everybody that anybody who finds our website, accidentally or on purpose, classmate or total stranger, can read what we write here.  What we've done to date isn't a problem for anybody.  They can't hack your personal information through this page ... unless you give it out.  You can exchange personal information with another LOGGED ON classmate by using the "Message Center".  Those are the same as personal emails.

I can easily password protect the Message Forum, meaning you would first have to log on before you could see or post a comment, just like viewing Profiles now.  Unfortunately we have classmates who like to peak in on what's being said ... it is pretty hilarious most of the time.  Any additional hurdle to joining us, like logging on, will discourage some casual  classmate visitors who I would like to feel included too. (Tonight I had to explain to one classmate what "logging on" meant and picking passwords!)

Or we can continue the way we've been doing it now ... just know that you could have your 400 pound, mouth-breathing, former neighbor following every word ... with your name clearly attached to it.

This is OUR website so your input is appreciated.  Which way would you like to go?

John Leopold

Garry. Is unpurpose the opposite of purpose? :)

Marilyn Griffith (Bauer)

Garry,

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm a relative newcomer to this forum and so far all of the postings are safe and "innocent." If someone I know is trolling around the internet and discovers this forum, wonderful!! He/she will discover what a wonderful and interesting history we all had. Let's all be "adults" and keep it that way!! 

I looked at the "missing classmates" Jan posted. Wow, I can't help in any way, but surely those folks still have links to some of the '62 alumni! Surely someone has had contact with someone on that list since '62. It's sad that, like me, we moved away and didn't maintain relationships. 

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Garry, Thanks for asking for our opinion...I say keep it as it is. Most of us (except maybe the classmate who needed your explanation of logging on) know not to put anything onto a website that we dont' want traveling all over the universe. We may think we know where our comments are going, but "stuff happens". So - thanks for the warning....fore-warned is fore-armed.

Sandy Wachs (Oldham)

Thanks for warning, but please keep message forum as is. 

Kenneth Pallaske

We still have an innocence about us....don't we? Keep it as it is, Garry. Oh! By the way. Great job on creating and maintaining this site.

Garry Sellers

John - Like wow dude,  "unpurpose" is a secret Californian word which you would not be entitled to know! It is similar to untentional, the opposite of unpurpose.  Most Mawokeans (the name you give yourselves) wouldn't notice such things, accepting it as just another Mawoky colloqualism ... like bubbler. Now that we can see you've penetrated our cover, we'll be meeting on Jim Gibbons medicinal herb farm to determine whether you can continue to live or we make you move next to a LA freeway for 6 months ... both with the same outcome.

LMAO - I have no idea where my brain was while my fingers were typing that!  Must have been a relapse to my high school spelling days, which have haunted me all the days of my life!  I hope they hurry up and fix the spell checker on these pages.  So far they blame their vendor.  So?  Fix the friggin vendor or get a new one!

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

Hi Garry,

Just thought I'd throw in my two cents - I think we should keep the message forum as is.  I liked what Ken said about still having an innocense about us.  I think we lived in such an incredible time in our country's history & am so grateful that I was a part of it.  We DID have so much innocent fun - mischievous at times but basically innocent.  I can remember the "wear a sweatshirt to school" day - NOW they check for weapons at school! 

Barb

Meribeth Hodges (Engelfried)

I agree..keep the forum as it is.

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Nothing about "sweatshirt day" comes to mind (except that it was probably not sanctioned), but can you imagine the brouhaha that would have ensued had one of us girls worn pants to school? Or ...............(HORRORS!)..............jeans!

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

My memory banks are pretty well shot!  I think it was Senior Sweatshirt Day.  I can't remember what the punishment was for wearing them into school - coward that I was, I THINK I took mine off before going into the school or maybe they gave us an opportunity to take them off ?????  I just can't remember.

Barb

I think P&P sound like a couple of space aliens!

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

I vote for "keep it as it is" too. I haven't yet seen anything that would get anyone (except Garry) in trouble,  and it might be good to post on the top that it's not password protected and we should be sure not to write anything we don't want the whole world to see. I don't remember sweatshirt day, it has melded in my mind, I'm sure, with all the special clothing days we had at the elem. school where I taught: backwards day, crazy hair day, pajama day, sports team day, etc., etc., etc.

Barbara Blair (Brenzel)

No slacks!  I can rembember that!  Had to run to the ladies room to take them off before school.

The sweatshirt day wasn't sanctioned - that's what made it so "dangerous" & "daring".  That I remember.

John Leopold

Garry. Just a little humor. Hope you didn't mind. Let me add my thanks for your willingness to maintain this site. It's been great to read the profiles and comments/input from so many classmates. 

Garry Sellers

No John - I am permanently injured and probably won't get over it until the 75th reunion!  If you're not there I'll stop by your house and demand satisfaction!

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Garry-I agree with the other alumni.  Keep the site as is. 

And I want to thank Kathy Radtke for finding out the name of the custard stand on 51st and Hampton!!  Bakula's Drive-In.  And according to Hal, who use to work there back in the day, it is still in operation, but under a different format.

There was no way I would have come up with that on my own.  Thanks again Kathy!  Now I can move on!

Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra)

I have told the story of how we took our slacks off in the restroom before going to class (had to get there early) to so many astonished Caliifornians. And this was after trudging miles through 3 feet of snow in a fierce blizzard. I think the drama grows, with every time I tell it to gullible listeners here. They envy our snow days. I remember tuning in the radio, listening to the list of schools. Cheers could be heard from every house for miles around. Or is that exaggerating?

Karen Gerstl (LeDuke)

Terri,

Not exagerrating, but the way I tell it , I had to walk to school in the freezing cold, uphill (both ways), barefoot, in the snow!   Now that is exagerrating a little!

Nancy Davison (Boerger)

Karen - thanks for telling it almost exactly as I have told my girls (except the "barefoot") part. That's really a stretch. We weren't barefoot; we were wearing ballerina flats, with 1/8 inch soles. So practical for the snow.

Garry Sellers

You guys were lucky, I tell my grandkids about how I had to walk almost 3 miles to school, uphill ... both ways ... in the snow ... without a coat!

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Phooey!  I couldn't tell our daughter that I walked to school in the snow since she knew her grandpa drove me to school (Grandps blabbed a lot of things) and later Rog drove me to school.  But I do remember getting out of school early because of a snowstorm and walking home in flats and nylons (no slacks) in blizzard,  up hill both ways, backwards because of the 75 mph winds.  Never wore a hat either.