2025 * Illinois - World Record! See Misc.
* ubs Triple All-Star.
* New Alas, alas. (just discovered)
* Chicago Snowy Owls: early birds.
* The man who shot Capone Jun Fujita. Amazing!
* Renovations.
* Remember Cahokia?
* Point your nose.
* Katie published a memoir! About.
* The Run done! #21. Tom's report.
* Hollinger discovery! See About.
* Wrigley started this: League.
* New Alas, alas.                   O'Hare.
* New pix in our Gallery. Send yours!
* #1 NFL draft pick! With Classmate!
* Chicago duo: * Link Roger wants all to have: Rita
* Britain v. Chicago.
* Treatise on falling.     1953 pic. * Neal: "My New Car. Picked it up today, 02/25. We were at Glenbard when it was new. 1958. The first correct identification wins one free pizza from Don and Angie’s!!" Edsel
(Becky won, via email to glenbard59@gmail.com)
* New year, new get-togethers: Orange county.
* Sue Wallace writes about Billy Williams and a snake.
* Chicago boy, U of IL Odd duck & multi-billionaire.

2024 * U of IL Discovered!-Bitzer PLATO!
* Chicago kid, cancer-fighting compound discovery. Age 13.
* Slow Strength.   Two new Alas.
* Mini Reunion (Regional)(Shower caps).
* Who knew? Chicagoan.

* Jim Lewis writes: "Bob Brunk's auction house will be auctioning one of 8 surviving original copies of the US Constitution late September. This consignment is testimony that Bob, over many years, built a very highly respected business in a competitive industry. His son, Andrew, is now managing the business."
Update: It sold for $11m -- !

*Just discovered! Billy Williams lives in GE! Yes, that Billy Williams!
* Alzheimer Revolutions!  (+Blueberries)
* The Run done! #20. Tom's report.
* SS data breach advice #1, #2.
* New Alas.  * Chicago conquers L.A.
* Less TV Longer Life. *94yo movie.
* Fav teacher results. * New Gallery.

* Cicadas at Morton Rare blue eyes
* Terrific news.
* New Alas, alas.
* GHS cicada-central:

* Recommended by Jim Lewis.
* New Pix. New Bird. New Cap.
   New Advice. New Alas.
   New Found. New Memory.
   New Peril.
* Still working @103.
* Joliet military >> prairie.
       
* We are digital champs:

* Twain McGuinn.
* Detector dog. --(Off the beaten track, admittedly).

2023
* Speaking of health: Bivalent better.
* Speaking of health: new booster.
* New photos sent in by classmates. See Gallery and its Vault link. Please send more. Especially if you look like this: - Class of 59. 2023.
* Speaking of food: Greek food website recommended by Cliff. As we Greeks say, "Kali Orexi."
* In Chicagoland: Nature trips!
* The Run done! Tom's report.
* Bomb threats at West.
* Class redheads. See G3.      
* Breast cancer news: Fettle.
* Beware TCE! Parkinson's 500%: Fettle.
* Running 100 miles at age 80+.
* There's also Walking.         * Weird snacks.

* Chicago invented the zipper!
* Becky recommends on ChatGPT.
* Chicago cousin found blooming in Japan. F3.
* More Windy City news -- from 1996! Gorilla saves 3-yr-old boy! Brookfield Zoo.
* Brain diet. See Fettle.
* New Alas entry, alas.
* New: The Age of the Grandparent has arrived.
* Cheers! We're a growth industry. NYT: "Wine industry finds only growth area is consumers over 60. Biggest is in the 70 to 80 range."
* Knowing of your continued interest in Marlin Perkins.
* Facts about Japan. Were you aware? Every phone makes shutter sound when you take a pic. Can't turn off. Required by law to stop men taking photos of girls without them knowing.
* Beatles fans 1964 & 50 years later.

2022 * New: Fettle! (medical/mental). Spies in the right column! ♀
* Chicago leads the way!  #1.
* French wine, anyone? MO rescued it, all of it, IL had supporting role. Sip here!
* Field Hockey (great pic) here.
* Soccer (great pic) here.
* 8 IL hummers (great pix) here.
* Britain'sThe Guardian says this TV show set in Chicago is #1 of 50 best of 2022. The Bear

Jane, not long after we graduated.
* Can you stand on one leg for 10 seconds?
* Jim Lewis finally makes it into our 50th Reunion book, in a way.   About.
* Paul Kummer appears. With piano.
* Why does Midwest love orchestras so much?

* Not Deep Dish: pizza. (One view).
* The Run is up. Click here.
* Honoring CARJ. Drawings, but not just bio. Click here. Please send some from you.
* New York Times: Illinois State Fair.
* New York Times: Chicago Italian Beef Sandwich!.
* New York Times: Chicagoland bog, fen, prairie thrives.
* New York Times: Chicago's innovative spirit thrives.
* Remember that 1950s communist plot?
* Brilliant schoolyard idea: No asphalt.
* New on gallery.
* & Advice from runners who've made it to 9th decade.
* Announcements -- July 15 mile run coming up. Any other announcements? Send to class gmail address. Also, pix pls.
* Don't suppose anyone needs reminding, but in this case reminding feels good: GWHS, state basketball champs! Best players.
* Other recent news: A new entry on our Alas page, and a wonderful picture with it. New Mental Fettle about a fantastic woman, one of the greatest codebreakers -- she smashed them. She started out in Geneva, IL, We can visit the site, 1512 S. Batavia Ave. Covid refuses to depart, here in the spring of 2022, though it is hard to tell whether a wave has crested or whether a new one is coming. We, fortunately, have no news so far of any classmate who's succumbed. Has anyone gotten it? [New: see right column here].There's a depressing war between Russia and Ukraine. Any classmates with connections to either?
* Our team wins state championship. -- What we've all been waiting for, all these years!
* Demographic social-media facts -- What we've all been waiting for, all these years! Twitter: 24% of U.S. adults are on Twitter. Less than 20% of people ages 50 and up use it. Facebook: 70% of U.S. adults are on Facebook. 65% of people ages 50 and up use Facebook. Instagram: 37% of U.S. adults are on it. 75% of Instagram users are 18-24.
* Below we have Morton; here's Shedd.
* Gallery -- taken over by grandkids, and pets! Some new ones added today. More, please. Plus, Gallery has some recent pictures of us to see. More, please. Still looking for pictures of you leaping into your 9th decade.
* Still terrific! Nancy Harlan found 30th reunion photo (see G2). Carol Krom put names to faces; Roger helped.
* Be sure and read of Jim Routson on Alas. Dick Fish, John Pond, Phil Valent, also, alas (and now Carol Sue Shissler, Terry Groener). And amazing new stuff there now about "multi-faceted" Sharon Hogan.
+Thanks for the items below. More, please!

* 3/12/2022 Glenbard West -- state champions!

* 3/1/2022 Morton at 100.
* 2/22/2022 Lincolnwood: Wordle. * 1/31/2022 More progress here.

2020 * Last day/2020 All have seen it, but all 59ers agree, it is worth posting: John Oliver's salute and farewell to 2020. Boom!
* Xmas/2020 Illinois winter adventures, 8 of them: 8.  And if any classmates enjoy cross-country skiing (or downhill, for that matter), please, please send us a picture!
* 12/7/2020 Roger's link to videos commemorating this day: 1941.
* 11/7/2020 Election Day + 4. Yes, Lichtman got it right. As for our states, Illinois, California and Arizona went for Biden, Florida and Texas for Trump. The Columbus Day polls were fairly accurate, except as to Florida, though the margins were narrower.
* 10/12/2020 As of Columbus Day, polls show Illinois 53% Biden, 40% Trump. Other states with large populations of our classmates:
Florida 48% Biden, 44% Trump
California 62% Biden, 30% Trump
Texas 45% Biden, 49% Trump
Arizona 48% Biden, 45% Trump.
See polls. Of course, last time the polls got it all wrong. But Allan Lichtman, as always, got it right.
* 9/1/2020 Lake Michigan
Thinks It's Still an Ocean.
* 8/20/2020 Can aging be reversed? See our Fettle page.
* 7/6/2020 Who read those orange biographies? Maybe all of us, though if you read all 200 of them,     hold your hand up.
Very informative article written when a small press attempted a revival in 2003: Orange.

* 7/5/2020 Lake Michigan beaches under lockdown.

Masks 1918 @ Stanford.     See F2.
* 6/10/2020 Masks, masks, everywhere. Full stop.
Send us your story. For one about 1944, click on About.
* 5/01/2020 May Day. International Worker's Day in all the world -- except the US, even though the day comemorates a famous event in Chicago in 1886. This year it is another virus day. Beginning today, "all Illinois residents over age 2 must wear a face mask when they can’t maintain a 6-foot social distance in public." And "Customers and employees will have to start wearing masks in Illinois stores starting May 1 under the modified stay-at-home order Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday." It's a bit early to worry about Lake Michigan beaches, but Californians denied the beach persuaded several Orange county towns to open them last weeked, and they were crowded. The governor was not pleased. Will Lake Michigan's beaches be open on June 1?

In class of 59 news, there's a new feature on our Misc page: Memory Lane Links For the 40's, 50's, 60's, inspired of course by Roger, though he refuses to take credit, on the grounds that many of the links were sent to him by others. At any rate, it's an interesting set.
* 4/14/2020 Actually, lots in California are wearing them now. What a change these past two weeks! And in tune with that our F2 page has a new book review -- a book on the Spanish flu. What could be more appropriate?

* 3/25/2020 Actually, few in California are wearing them (yet), but it makes an interesting photo if you want to send us you in a mask. Please do!
* 3/8/2020 Coronavirus: latest advice on this has just been added to our Fettle page. Stay safe.
* 2/24/2020 Katie was able to meet classmates for the first time in 60 years -- and enjoy the sunny, warm February day with them. The place was the Beachcomber Restaurant -- right on the ocean -- in a California State Park in the Crystal Cove area, just north of Laguna Beach. Patti chose the restaurant and drove down from Long Beach. Becky drove down from Pasadena. Tom Chandler drove down from Palos Verdes. Carole Stone and her husband came from Los Alamitos, where their daughter now lives. Linnea drove up from Solano Beach to Hardy's place in Laguna Niguel, and then the two of them stopped in Laguna Beach to pick up Katie. Festive occasion. A picture of the group waiving to you is on our Gallery page here.
* 2/11/2020 The Trib today carries a story headlined "7 state sites join National Register of Historic Places." One of the 7 is Lombard's own Lilacia Park, which the article describes as: "a 4.8-acre public park and garden. The property was donated to the village of Lombard in 1927 and has been home to the annual Lilac Time festival, which showcases hundreds of blooming lilacs, since 1930, according to the application for historic registry."
* 2/01/2020 Sometimes news can be discovering something about a past event, rather than a fresh occurrence. Here's something that falls into that category. Two of our classmates, John Pond and Gary Mutz, had careers as IBM sales reps. We just discovered something truly remarkable about the son of another one; neither was our classmate but both lived in Wheaton and the son went to Wheaton College: Beamer
* 01/01/2020
Happy New Decade! Website now "responsive template" -- adapts to size screen you're watching it on. Try it on your phone. Also new F2 page, more Mental Fettle. Also type larger, bolder, easier to read.     But enough website; what's new with people?
* 1/1/2020 Neal Whitecotton: Judi and I have moved to The Lone Star State. Already been here two and a half weeks. Our address is 407 Red Oak Drive, Boerne TX 78006. We are 12 miles out of town, living on 12 acres. Our small new house sits well behind two daughters' houses, and a total of 9 grandkids. Very good arrangement. Close, but not too close. Our own roof. The kids have us in position for eldercare, in the event we live long enough to need it. We are blessed. Come visit. The hill country is beautiful. Nancy (Fricke) and Irv Johnson plan to meet us halfway for lunch and/or dinner in Feb. Bob Anzak, with whom we visited at this year's reunion, promises to pay us a visit in the spring, as he attends the local Corvette show.
* 1/1/2020 Linda Mann: "We still live in Clearwater, FL, as we have for the past 26 years. My husband and I are both retired and enjoying having six Saturdays and a Sunday each week. I keep busy with P.E.O. and various volunteer activities and bridge playing. Our two daughters live in Columbus, OH and McLean, VA. We have 5 grandchildren: one graduated from Ohio U and lives in NYC where she works doing marketing and PR for the Miss Universe Organization; one granddaughter attends U. of Pittsburgh, majoring in physical training; our only grandson is a freshman at MIT and loves it; and his younger sisters are very involved in the activities of their high schools. I am sorry I was unable to attend our class reunion, but I loved seeing the online pictures. Thank you for posting! And, I have very much enjoyed getting back in touch with a number of our classmates during the past year. Hope you will let me know if you get to the Clearwater, FL area. We love visitors and would welcome the opportunity to see you and get back in touch."
* 1/1/2020 Bob Stoothoff: "We are finishing off 2019 with gratitude for another year together. Health, as we classmates know all too well, is a day to day challenge for many of us. We are grateful for family and friends and opportunities to gather both locally and on our travels. We spent just over one hundred days "on the road" this last year. Selling our Vermont home after thirty four years in 2014, has given us more freedom to roam. The townhome in Chapel Hill NC is perfect for us now. Less gardening and maintenance. We have made other adjustments to accommodate "aging" and we hope to be successful as we wish you will be. Happy New Day to all." [See Gallery for pic].

* 12/22/2019 Bear Flag, where Neal once joined him, is Hardy's favorite restaurant. Stand in line, gaze at the cases of fish filets, order, take your number, find a seat somewhere. They deliver it grilled, with two sides. $12.99. Also fish tacos and burritos and poke bowls. Today he sat at a table being vacated by two Romans. Pleasant conversation, and when they left, a family of four sat down, a boy about 7, another about 13. They were from the Phoenix area, vacationing in Orange county, going to Disneyland for Xmas. The Bears were on the TV, being trounced by Kansas City. She said to her husband (on other side of table, facing away from TV) "the Bears aren't doing well." Were they originally from Chicago? Yes. They grew up in Lombard! He went to East, she to South!

Coda: His daughter, Alex (now 25), fractured her ankle playing tennis. The family of Dr Karkadia, her orthopedist, was originally from Mumbai.
-- But he grew up in Downers Grove!
Big Cubs fan - big pic of Wrigley on his office wall.

* 12/18/2019 Men's thighs -- now there's a topic of interest. Want to be 25 again? This belongs on the Fettle page, and will go there also, but perhaps the following quote will justify putting it up front here: "Regular exercise throughout adulthood may protect our muscles against age-related loss and damage later, according to an interesting new study of lifelong athletes and their thighs. The study finds that active older men’s muscles resemble, at a cellular level, those of 25-year-olds and weather inflammatory damage much better than the muscles of sedentary older people." Here's the link: Thighs
* 11/1/2019 Lots of new stuff. New memories of our teachers, for one. New pictures from the reunion. And there's more green here. Also, check out the Mental Fettle column on the Fettle page: a new review of the next book you are going to read, a fascinating book about WW2, literature, science, Nobel Prizes -- also bravery and leadership.
* 9/28/2019 Spurred by the 60th, we have new Misc page. Look up top.
* 8/20/2019 Debbie Drew, accomplished genealogist, has sent in her Roots. We need yours.
* 8/1/2019 New items on the Fettle and Roots pages.
* 7/20/2019 Annual run report, click here.
* 7/10/2019 Bob Perkins has reported in! Long lost, but now here! We've added your email address to Class59, so you'll be getting the message. Need news about you. Feel free to contribute stuff to this page or any other.
* 7/4/2019 Happy 4th of July! On the move: After decades in New York, Gay Galle has moved south, across, in fact, the Mason-Dixon Line to Columbia, SC. And Mary Hanson, after 12 years in California, has moved back to Florida where her sons and their families live.
The Reunion is still on for 28th of Sept.
* 6/5/2019 Glenbard59 Annual Run -- July 15, 2019. Tom's full account , which includes some interesting HISTORY can be found by clicking here.
* 3/6/2019 Good to have some new news here in March. This from Bonnie Kelly: "Hi from Texas! Just back from fabulous mission trip to Guatemala where our five teams built 25 cooking stoves in rural area about four hours north/west of Guatemala City. This stove provides many positives for the women/families as they no longer Cook over an open fire on the floor of their home, preventing burns to children and themselves; the stoves are vented outside so they are not breathing the smoke, thus helping their lungs and eyes; they are also using 2/3 less wood so the deforestation is lessened. What a positive!!!!! They are wonderful people and we appreciate the opportunity to help them improve their lives."
* 2/7/2019
"The King is dead.
  Long live the King!"
       www.glenbard1959.org is now
       www.1959glenbard.org
New one is free, but change is more to avoid annual renewing hassle. Free = auto renewal, no one need do anything. [Update 2020; see our A2 page, and the "About our webhost" item.] Conversion perfect; includes corrections/upgrades.
Plus bonus: new site has added a classmates' Roots page.   Compose (in format shown) , then send us, your Roots.
* 1/2/2019 Turns out while Becky has a famous bourbon in her family (pic below), Mike Menard may have a famous artist in his; Mike's ancestors hail, he tells, from Brittany - came to the US by way of Quebec. Émile-René Menard (two first names being always better than one, especially if you paint nudes) is: here. One critic noted: "visions of a pacified, bathed nature, of dawn and of twilight, where the soul seems to immerse itself in the innocence of daybreak, and breathe the divine anointment that comes with the dawn."
Mike says that at one point he saw one of Émile-René 's paintings on the wall of the Rodin Museum in Paris. Later, while at the Louvre: "I asked the guide if there were any of his paintings displayed. He froze, then drew himself up, stuck his nose in the air and announced that they were in the basement in crates as he was such a peasant." Mike should have challenged the man to a duel, but instead he says. "My self esteem was shattered." A recent pic of Mike himself, with three of his four daughters has just been added to our Gallery page here.
* 1/2/2019 In the unlikely event there's a classmate who hasn't already gotten this news, Hardy Wieting is now the author of Green Lake: Reflections from the Surface of China. The ebook is combined with a website where you can find not only more information, but selections to read: click China Tell your friends.

Egad! He's done it again, this time a book about birds, pursuing and finding them all over the country. Same deal: ebook, paperback, website: click 30Birds

* 9/9//2018 Tom Chandler responded to a query about how many mile-runs he makes: "With trips to the Cape and Montana in July, I got in 30. At the Cape again in August from the 6th to 31st, but got some running in there so got up to 40. I try to run four times a week, two 2s and two 3s, and always think I can get to 400 each year, but injuries or travel or something slows me down and I settle for 350 to 390, but no complaints. 245 for the year so far."

* 7/22//2018 Turns out Becky Bulleit, who married Chuck Gelhaar, has a famous bourbon named after her -- well, after the Bulleit family. We discovered this by stumbling upon, on the internet of course, an article about the Bulleit Bourbon company's new "Tatoo Edition" bottles. Becky confirms that them is her folks. Here's what Becky and the corporate website say about the history of all this: "A tavern keeper in 1830s Louisville, Kentucky, Augustus Bulleit was dedicated to a single goal: the creation of a bourbon unique in flavor. After experimenting with countless varieties, he finally came upon a bourbon with the character he had long sought after. One fateful day, while transporting his barrels of bourbon from Kentucky to New Orleans, Augustus Bulleit vanished. What happened is still unknown, and his creation nearly disappeared into history along with him."
* 7/15//2018 For news of the annual run, click here. But upfront we need to note Margie's remarkable running of the 5K: "Nashville's Margie Stoll broke her first running record 16 years ago when she was 61 and she's still breaking records today. She set her 100th record on Tuesday when she became the fastest 77-year-old in the state to run a 5K. She posted a time of 31:00 in the Tennessee Senior Olympics at River Park in Brentwood. That beat the previous record set in 2010 by 1:02. Stoll started running when she was 60 and since turning 61 has broken virtually all the state records for women in each distance at each age since then"_(Nashville Tennessean,June 30, /2018 ). Margie: "a week later I bettered that 5K time by 42 seconds at a July 4 race."
* 6/9//2018 We periodically search the net for classmates whose email we lack and whom we'd like to rengage. George Klopp, for example. Turns out he's an expert on risk management. Here's a link to an article he co-authored back in 94; Risk. George, pls contact us at glenbard59@gmail.com We have risks to manage!
* 5/14//2018 Jim Lewis is proud to let us know that he's sponsored a mock trial program at Miami of Ohio for the past 20 years -- and that the team this program produced this year has just won the national championship, defeating Yale! Teams from the program have placed in the top 10 (out of 600 schools) for eleven consecutive years now. Congratulations from all 59ers, Jim. Here's a link to the article describing the win: Miami
* 4/20//2018 Smorgasbord of video links on About2 page now includes the recent Video History of Glenbard West.
* 4/12//2018 Do you like dark chocolate? Who doesn't?! Turns out classmate Jim Lewis owns a company that produces it (and has been doing so for 130 years). He writes on their website: "For over a century, Thompson Brands has been perfecting the art of chocolate moulding, and delivering custom and private label chocolate novelties to some of America's most respected chocolate companies and retailers." The website is: chocolate.

* 4/1//2018 "Katelynne Hart of Glenbard West, Ill. turned heads in February with her 10:21.41 two mile, a US #1 mark this season and a new national freshman class record. The prior ninth grade indoor record was 10:23.46, set back in 1998 by Michelle dela Vina. Who is this phenom, and what will she do next?" Here is the link: Katelynne
* 2/7//2018 from Nancy Shonlaber: "As far as telling you what is going on now in our lives, we still live in an active 55 and over community and have been here for 12 years now.. each year we feel so blessed that we made the decision to move here from cold, cloudy OH. We do not have to miss our friends up north because they visit a lot here and we go up there in summer to visit son and his family. My husband beside his regular activities is extremely involved in directing two barbershop choruses ( here and on HHI). His quartet won the audience vote for the most entertaining quartet at the S.C./NC convention. I am now the OLDEST broad playing tennis 🎾 on my Shot Girls USTA team in the Carolina Coastal Tennis Association. Notice I said “ oldest, not old.”
I play AT golf with Brian and friends (they just let me hit and drag me to the next hole). Love reading and lots of different games, and exploring new places and doing what I can to pay it forward for all my blessings. We all know, especially now at our age, how fragile life is!!!! Plus, where does the time go? My four-years at Glenbard is one of my biggest blessings along with family and friends. I carried it with me to college, with my marriage and family life, my work with emotionally fragile children in my work, and now in my retired community. Sorry, Margie, for going on. Got carried away answering your email questions. Have a healthy and fulfilling new year."