Custer High School
Class Of 1962
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UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS
| • | Jerome Cottrell 9/8 |
| • | Janis Thompson (Hume) 9/8 |
| • | Charles Perkins 9/9 |
| • | Mary Jacobi (Hartman) 9/10 |
| • | Nancy Lord (Malvick) 9/12 |
| • | Julianne (Julie) Eron (Felts) 9/15 |
| • | Jerry Gurka 9/15 |
| • | Coleen Kober (Marshall) 9/16 |
| • | Marlene Schuppie (Goll) 9/20 |
| • | Diane Bauer (Palen) 9/25 |
| • | Joy Davolt (Anderson) 9/26 |
| • | Carol Albers (Pederson) 9/29 |
| • | Terri Levenhagen (Hoornstra) 10/2 |
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PROFILE UPDATES
| • | Garry Sellers 9/5 |
| • | John Krasnan 8/21 |
| • | John Gilbert 8/1 |
| • | Warren De Smidt 7/23 |
| • | Tom Burger 4/12 |
| • | Patricia O'Connor (Taylor) 3/25 |
| • | Gary Ehn 2/11 |
| • | Gordon Sauer 11/25 |
| • | Daniel Merkel 10/30 |
| • | Denis Kuehn 8/2 |
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW
WHERE WE LIVE
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9 live in Arizona
2 live in Arkansas
19 live in California
2 live in Colorado
1 lives in Connecticut
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1 lives in Georgia
1 lives in Hawaii
3 live in Illinois
3 live in Indiana
2 live in Iowa
3 live in Kentucky
1 lives in Louisiana
1 lives in Maine
1 lives in Maryland
1 lives in Massachusetts
3 live in Michigan
5 live in Minnesota
1 lives in Missouri
1 lives in Montana
4 live in Nevada
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1 lives in Oklahoma
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1 lives in Pennsylvania
2 live in South Carolina
2 live in Tennessee
9 live in Texas
2 live in Virginia
5 live in Washington
168 live in Wisconsin
1 lives in Wyoming
173 location unknown
Just a few days away, our 80th birthday celebration! Be there or be ... old!
(Directions below)
Our 80th Year Birthday Celebration
September 21st
Machine Shed – Pewaukee – 10:00 a.m. to …
N14 W24145 Tower Place
(I-94 & WIS 164 Exit 294)
(I-94 & WIS 164 Exit 294)
While there’s no cost to attend and lunch will be ordered from their menu, we do need to get a sense of how many people will be there for room setup and to have name tags prepared. An email was sent out with a direct link for responding but some people may not have gotten it, it went into their spam folder … or just can’t remember! Here’s the email address to just send your name and names of any guests. That’s all we need. For some reason our website can’t set up a direct link for this, so you’ll need to copy the email address and paste it in an email.
custer_alumni@charter.net
We have it on good authority that we’ll have classmates from as far away as Texas and California attending this important milestone event. This could be your last chance to celebrate with old friends. And don’t forget to bring a wrapped birthday gift for our gift exchange.
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“Bet You Didn’t Know …”
this time about ...
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Battle for the female lead role - Over 1,400 actresses were considered for the female lead role of Scarlett O’Hara. Some known actresses at the time who were in the running were Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Jean Arthur, Lana Turner, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Helen Hayes, Susan Hayward, Katherine Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Ironically, Vivien Leigh wasn’t selected until after filming had begun!
Costly Expletive - The iconic line "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind actually caused producer David O. Selznick to be fined $5,000 for excessive language. (Wouldn’t he be shocked by what passes as acceptable language in films these days. It’s not a movie if there aren’t a few f-bombs in the first lines of dialog in 90% of today’s films.)
Crying Gable - Clark Gable was very distressed by having to cry on film. In fact, he was so upset that he almost quit the movie, but Olivia de Havilland convinced him to stay. He would always claim that he hated the role of Rhett. He thought GWTW was just another “woman’s movie” and wouldn’t amount to much.
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Yukky kisser - Actress Vivien Leigh didn’t enjoy kissing Clark Gable because, she claimed, his dentures smelled bad.
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Equal pay? Gable was paid over $120,000 for 71 days of work and Vivien Leigh received about $25,000 for 125 days of work.
A three-year-old mother! Barbara O'Neil was 28 at the time she appeared as Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara. Vivien Leigh was only three years younger than her while playing the role of her daughter.
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Suffering Dummies! - Producer Selznick insisted on no less than 2500 extras lying in the dirt, portraying the dead and wounded Confederate soldiers toward the end of the war. But at the time, the Screen Actors Guild only had 1500 to offer. Selznick saved money by ordering 1000 dummies to round out the epic suffering he wanted to portray. He also burned down everything he could from the back lot of the studio to make the burning of Atlanta more authentic.
Battle of Atlanta Injuries
Minority honors - Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Academy Award.
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Would Scarlett and Rhett ever get back together? Add Margaret Mitchell to the list of people who didn’t know what ultimately happened with Scarlett and Rhett. She left the ending ambiguous with no “real” ending even in her own head. “For all I know, Rhett may have found someone else who was less—difficult”, she told Yank magazine in 1945. In another interview Mitchell said that she believed Rhett was forever done with Scarlett but didn’t doubt she would continue to scheme ways of getting him back in bed. And even if Scarlett were successful, Mitchell believed Rhett wouldn’t stick around. (Mitchell might know because it was said that she was a collector of erotica!)
Revenue - If box office receipts were adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind would be the top grossing movie of all time. According to the Guinness World Records, the total gross in 2012 figures for Gone with the Wind would be $4,401,358,554.94. (Let’s see, inflation since 2012 has been 37%, meaning today’s equivalent to be roughly $6,029,370,000! I wonder if Tom Cruise or George Clooney could beat that.)
Why didn’t Margaret Mitchell ever write another novel? She was a journalist who started writing GWTW only because she had an ankle injury from which she was recovering. It took her 10 years to research and write GWTW, published in 1936 and a movie in 1939. During World War II she did a lot of volunteer work. Then in August of 1949, she and her husband were walking to the movies when she was hit by a drunk driver and died 5 days later. She was only 48 years old and may well have had another major novel or two still in her if she had lived. But, by most estimates, it wouldn’t have been a sequel to Gone With the Wind.
GWTW manuscript destroyed - Mitchell requested that her husband destroy the Gone with the Wind manuscript upon her death. And her husband granted her request and destroyed the manuscripts. He only saved a few pages of the manuscript to keep as proof that Margaret Mitchell was truly the author of the sensational novel.
Gone With The Wind - 10 Best Quotes
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We’ve made it to 80 … or soon will have. Who’d have thought? So let’s celebrate, while we still can!
Our 80th Year Celebration
September 21st
Machine Shed – Pewaukee – 10:00 a.m. to …
N14 W24145 Tower Place
(I-94 & WIS 164 Exit 294)
(I-94 & WIS 164 Exit 294)
Come to rejoice making it to our octogenarian status. (Over half the population didn’t!) Our theme will be a birthday party and, as the announcement states, “We deserve it and we’ll proclaim it LOUD & PROUD!” Mark it on your calendar NOW, so you don’t forget … like that ever happens to us! More details will be forthcoming as the date approaches.
