NEWS °
New page! Memory issues.
* Website-on-phone news: improved (significantly) *
Reminder: We have vault where you can store pix.
Reminder: We have vault where you can store pix.
*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).
* 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.
* 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
* 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!
* 2/22/2022 Lincolnwood: Wordle.
* 12/1/2021 Jim Lewis has found something amusing he wishes to share.
Click here. Warning: it's age-related.
* 12/1/2021 Early Xmas present: The identity of the mysterious woman shown in the center colum of our
Misc page has now been revealed. Please reciprocate by sending us: pic of you+grandkids, you+pet, news of some sort -- one or all of these!
* 11/1/2021 Oldest working actor --Chicago has been his career. Terrific!
97 years old.
And speaking of 97, how about 101?
She's still hauling in lobsters.
Plus, one other Chicago story -- it starts with meatpacking, but leads on to WW2 Austria, a film starring Vanessa and Jane, and
Courage.
* 10/31/2021 In a less exalted sphere:
Chicago Party Aunt.
* 10/1/2021 Startling fact --
"In Japan, 90% of people over 90 years of age are women." 90%. From a medical journal.
MedicalXpress.
* 9/1/2021
Link. Text. Pix.
* 8/15/2021
* 8/1/2021 Newly found: Kent Shifferd. Former prof, now writer. See more, and a pic, on our Found page.
* 7/11/2021 18th July 15 Glenbard59 Annual Run coming up! Runners, start your engines. For Tom's ever-enthusiastic exhortation to all of us, see, in case you didn't get the email, Run. Looking forward to all the reports.
* 6/1/2021 Criminal offense 1918.
See Fettle.
* 5/1/2021 Yes, Glen Ellyn: "Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in
creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, according to new research."
That's the beginning--then: a U of Leeds undergrad "[Ben] Hess and his mentors were studying an exceptionally large and pristine sample of fulgurite--a rock created
when lightning strikes the ground. The sample was formed when lightning struck a property in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA, in 2016, and donated to the geology dept at Wheaton
College nearby."
* 4/1/2021 Geometrician Magor announces New Feature here (see the Gallery page), and shows Doug Walter how to hit a backhand.
* 4/1/2021 Chicago girl makes it big. Incredible story! Metra. Incredible!
* 3/1/2021 Hinsdale
girl makes it big, dancing: Folies Bergere. Meets Madame
Curie, glows in dark.
* 2/1/2021 Pretty good, short documentary on the history of our school, unearthed by Marybert Buethe:
history. (Page down right column: incredible number of GHS videos).
* 1/22/2021 Absolutely fascinating article about the
Sphinx moth, large enough to be mistaken for a hummingbird collecting flower nectar, induced Jim Lewis to write:
"Growing up in Glen Ellyn from age 7 and beyond, I lived on the edge of the park along Lake Ellyn. Butterfly/moth collecting was my summer hobby.
Just before dusk, I would paint, about head-high, a foot-square concoction of stale beer and molasses onto a wide circle of trees in the park."
(more here).
* 1/12/2021 Update to Margie's covid story, over there in righthand column (or, if you're using your phone,
page way down to just past the colorful covid image).
* 1/11/2021 Just discovered! History of the Lincoln Park
Zoo. Features, among many other things (like Bushman), Marlin
Perkins in hospital due to snake bite.
* 1/10/2021 Jim Lewis and Cliff Argue have got some Life Lessons for us to greet the
new year.
* 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].
Old news: website adapts to your phone.
Old news: Tips: a) Search on page -- tap the 3 dots upper right, "Find in page" is offered
there. b) .pdf files won't open on phones, but press on the .pdf file name and a download option will appear.
New news: Viewing on phone improved (significantly).
1) Now has hyperlinks jumping
"Back to Top" of column. No need now to scroll up and up and up through our very long columns to get back to top. Click the hyperlink below for
practice.
2) More hyperlink jumps: these jump side to side. Now, instead of having to scroll down to the bottom of, say, the left column
to go on to the middle column, we can jump over to that column. Notice the tiny circle to the right of the heading for the left column. Click on that
circle (we've co-opted the symbol for degrees, as in 70° for this). That will take you to the top of the column which is to the right
of the left column -- the middle column. Similarly, when you are at the top of the right column, click on the tiny circle which is to the left
of the heading, and that jumps left to the top of the middle column. Of course, the middle column heading has two tiny circles, one that takes
you left and one that takes you right.
PRACTICE SESSION. Jim Lewis found a picture taken of him in uniform, back in the day. This is now in
the center column of this very page. So, on your phone, click the "Back to Top" hyperlink below, then click the tiny blue circle. Find Jim's pic.
PS. You can also just rotate your phone to landscape (sideways) orientation. Shows
all three columns, but very, very narrow versions. Sometimes it only shows two, with the third all the way down at the bottom,
tucked under the first two (but at full width). Also, in landscape you can't tap on another column and expect that to show when you
rotate back to portrait orientation. Clicking a tiny circle, tho, works.
° MORE °
Still rockin, thanks to The Glen Bard.
Selected articles here. Including a new one on the original marshes/creeks/lakes
and topography of Glen Ellyn during early development.
* Click here: Celebrate !!
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Selected articles here. Including a new one on the original marshes/creeks/lakes and topography of Glen Ellyn during early development.
* Click here: Celebrate !!
Send news! Send to: glenbard59@gmail.com
* * * * Cliff and Jim: Scholarships * * * *
# For our web team, see A2 #
* * * * * Annual July 15 Class Run * * * * *
* 7/1/2020 1891 - Lombard women coming into the polling station to vote, 29 years before ratification of the
19th amendment which prohibited denial of the right to vote based on sex. Does anyone remember this astoundingly important event being mentioned in any of our history classes?
We have Roger to thank for uncovering this and for introducing us to the terrific documentary about it made by local (and world-class) doumentarian
Tim Frakes. It's entitled "All Citizens", a phrase taken from the sentence
in Lombard's founding document (1862) which says that all citizens of the state 21 or older and resident in Lombard for 90 days prior to an election shall be entitled to vote. We are
introduced to the officer in the Union Army, Benjamin Sweet, who wrote these words, and also to two of his daughters, Ada and Winifred who are not nearly as well-known as they should
be, as they played fundamental roles in the struggle for women's rights.
And we are also introduced to two women graduates of the University of Michigan Law School.
Mary Fredricka Perry and Ellen Annette Martin -- the two actually formed a law firm on LaSalle St. in Chicago, to which they commuted from the home of Ellen's mother in Lombard. The
rights of women figured prominently in their practice. Unfortunately, Mary died in 1883, but Ellen soldiered on, partly to honor her friend's memory. This included coming to believe that
Lombard's founding document gave women the right to vote, about which she prepared a lengthy legal brief with which she threatened the polling station judges in 1891 sufficiently that
they let her, and then subsequently 14 of her friends, vote.
PS. We are also introduced in this to the magnificent Lombard Historical Society, which
made Frakes' documentary possible.
PS. We also learn that Lombard is not named for the region in Italy, at least not directly. Rather, for real estate developer, Josiah Lombard, who never set foot in the place.
* 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."
° NEWS, 65th+ & COVID
50th Reunion book is here. Ditto Pinnacle.
New walkthrough, our old
school.
* NAMES NOTE: We're back in 59 in this website -- so, maiden names.
Margie reaching out to Carole.
Jim Lewis found this great article about the value of doing so. Here it is."A study published July 11 in the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology found that people often underestimate how much their friends and old acquaintances appreciate hearing from them." "The researchers conducted a
series of 13 experiments with more than 5,900 participants to see if people could accurately estimate how much their friends value them reaching out . . .
The experiments found that initiators significantly underestimated the recipient's positive reaction to the check-in."
If there's any way web team can facilitate, let us know. Meanwhile, known classmate email addresses are here.
65th REUNION
Dates: May 29 - June 2, 2024.
Coordinators: Margie, Cliff, Tom, Becky, Patti, Hardy.
Details: Reunion page.
Our class of 1959 celebrated the 65th anniversary of our graduation via computer and mobile phone. To be as inclusive as possible, all those
for whom emails were known, were on the mailing list. Each day, starting a week early and through June 4, the graduation date, emails were
sent out to these 113 classmates. Besides reaching out to as many classmates as possible, the goal was to offer a variety of events (also
known as emails) in order to inform, to reconnect, and to reminisce. A number of classmates also participated by Zoom call.
60th REUNION
Date: Saturday, Sept 28, 2019, Homecoming game against York. {GHS won].
Coordinator: Pat Galligan.
Who came? Click here.
Details: Click here
Humor: Click here
Those who helped:
*Cliff Argue is my committee member.
*Marybert found us a great venue.
*Sandie Rose took care of money.
*Jim Lewis checked in with Glenbard principal, Dr. Monahan.
*Diane Meinert and Nancy Fricke took care of check-in.
There was a Meet-and-Greet on Friday evening at the hotel in the Lakeview Room.
Parade started at 10:00 and the game at 2:00. Dinner that evening in the hotel.
Pat's written account is now here. Click on A2 here or above.
For images from parade and dinner, click G2
Send your Covid story! Image credit: Richard Borge
61.5% at least one shot, Aug. 23, 2021. 52.1% fully.
Didn't make 70% by July 4. New estimate is 70% by year's end.
* Fully vaxxed? Here's what we can do FV.
Patti's covid story: On July 13, 2022, just two days prior to The Run, she wrote: "Thanks for all the Covid information. Guess what? I have Covid. Sore throat, headache, cough and
runny nose. Furthermore we're getting a new roof so lots of pounding! Pat" A few day later she added: "It's not as bad as I thought it would be. It's like a very bad cold and yes I have
had all shots and boosters." Glad to say, she's now recovered.
Margie's covid story: As you remember from the last episode, Margie was quarantining because her daughter-in-law, with whom she spent Thanksgiving Day,
tested positive the next day. She also added "I will enter into a COVID study at Vanderbilt. Maybe I'll get a vaccine and maybe I won't."
Here's the latest twist and turn in what Margie calls her "vaccine adventure": "I am not only out of quarantine, I am scheduled for a vaccine next Saturday [1/16]. Plus I have had an
injection."
Injection? -- Wait, there's more: "Last Wednesday I had my 30-day return appointment with the Johnson and Johnson trial. I took the opportunity to inquire about the possibility of my
becoming eligible for either of the other two vaccines. I was told that if that should occur, I should notify them so that my case could be referred to the head of the study at Vanderbilt.
The very next day I received an email from the county health department that senior citizens over 75 had become eligible for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and that there was an online
sign up sheet for appointments for the next four weekends. The registration process was easy to navigate, and I was able to book one for January 16. I emailed the Vanderbilt study to
let them know.
Yesterday I received a phone call from Dr. Creech, the director of the study. He assured me that there was no problem about my being unblinded and that I had still done my tiny bit
for science. The blood tests that I had been given before and 30-days after the injection were the most important element and that I would continue to be in the trial even if I had one of the other
vaccines and whether or not I had gotten the J and J vaccine or the placebo.
Then with two quick clicks, he unblinded me. I had gotten the placebo. Even if I had received the real thing,
the doctor would have recommended that I keep my appointment with the county health department.
From its organization to the personnel, I have nothing but good things to say about the J and J trial. I certainly wasn't expecting the head doctor to phone me. So, . . . it looks as if we old
folks may very soon be out of the woods. I still feel a little guilty though. I will keep my fingers crossed for the rest of you. (Dr. Creech said that the J and J vaccine trial still has a way to
go.)"
Tom Chandler has a pickelball-Covid story. His email to his group of 25 had this table (abbreviated):
6-30 291,943 Weekly cases in the US
5-25 157,584 4-27 205,466
3-30 119,201 3-16 3,579
"Are you a Gambler or a Wuss?
. . . I can tell you that every Monday after matches
end and we are taking a break, at some point there are a few of you without masks usually by the bench standing about 3-4’ apart and talking to each other.
I propose that we make separate reservations for those who don’t want restrictions and don’t mind the risk so they can play together. Likewise for those who would feel better and
are willing to put their gear 6 to 8’ apart from other gear along the fences, bring folding chairs, automatically put on masks when leaving the court for any reason as you never know when
you are going to find yourself face to face with another without a mask, and make sure to stand 6’ apart from the rest of us, they would be on a different court. I don’t want to be a
policeman, but I want us all to feel free to remind each other without ridicule."
Tom got two G responses, one W.
Send your response to Tom and/or to our class gmail address.
Here's a link to other stories (some in quarantine) Stories
Classmates we need to find.
Best site for finding classmates: Find.
CALL FOR PICTURES: Call has been answered (tho we always need more!). We've learned that 59ers have individualistic
takes on "full bike-rider regalia." See Joni Paulsen, Eileen Dowiatt,
Neal Whitecotton, Bob Stoothoff, Dave Petersen, and Dexter Griffith below:
(Click to enlarge.)
News from 58-59
School Year
* GHS Class of 59 graduates - glory!
* Senior play: The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
* First in the Pinnacle: Dennis Achilles
* Last (alphabetically): John Zorn [not pictured]
* Pinnacle Managing Editor: Ed Sheppard
* Astronomy Club sponsored by Wesley Gronewald
* Electronics Club Secretary: Ralph Scalise
* G Club VP: John Pond
* Girls tennis team: all beautiful
* Helladians prez: Will Stanton
also pictured: Linnea Asplind
* Latin Club VP: Pam Wildish
* Latin Club Sec: Cathy Ayers
* Math Club Head Computer: Jack Anderson
* Science Club prez: Jerry Molitor
* Kits & Skits prez (falling asleep) Hardy Wieting
* Kits & Skits VP: Arlene Kirkendal
* Kits & Skits Sec-Treas (eyes on Heaven): Carol Jordan
* Kits & Skits Sergeant-at-Arms: Mike Menard
* Kits & Skits sr prg mgr: Ariel Eaton
* Smoking(-Discouraging) Council, pictured: Tom Chandler
* Varsity football, Genbard 14 Wheaton 13 . . .however, thereafter, not so much
* Cross-country, state-meet: Robin LaFleur 14th, Glenbard 2nd
* Cross-country, state-meet: Dave Hollinger 37th, John Staedke 40th, Glenbard 2nd
* Varsity basketball, you don't want to know
* Varsity wrestling first year, good year
* Varsity track: mixed but positive
* Varsity baseball: 3rd in conference
* Varsity baseball, slugger Hank Vanderleest
* Varsity tennis: Doug Walter #2 in state
* Advertising: Bobby Rivers Dance Studios
* Advertising: Don & Angies Pizza, 681 Roosevelt Rd
* Advertising: Hesterman Bowl, 500 Rooselvelt Rd
* Pinnacle annotations: "Love and kisses, Mike Hoy"
--------------------elsewhere:
~Soviets were stuck, apparently, with slide rules (that's where this one is from), while in the US:
~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments (U Illinois grad) creates and demonstrates first integrated circuit (microchip) 1958-9-12
~ IBM (which would soon employ at least two 59ers) ships transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe
~ NASA created 1958-07-29
~ Barbie Doll launched,
~ Alaska becomes the 49th State and Hawaii becomes the 50th state
~ St. Lawrence Seaway completed; Queen Elizabeth floats in to Chicago
~ NASA introduces first US astronauts, including John Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr,
~ Explorer 1, the first US satellite, launched in January of our junior year
~ Average cost of a new car: $2,000
~ Cost of a gallon of gas: 25 cents
~ Boeing's first jetliner, the 707, comes into service. Those of us who endured five days on train to California to start college flew back for Xmas
~ Pioneer 4, first American spacecraft to exit the orbit of Earth, launched March 3
This was the only successful lunar probe launched by the U.S. in 12 attempts between 1958 and 1963.
Incidentally, our senior year also saw these events:
~ Fidel Castro comes to power
~ Dalai Lama flees Tibet to India
