50th REUNION BOOK °

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^ Adolphson                   ^ Aigner
^ Argue                   ^ Asplind
^ Augensen                   ^ Avena
^ Ayers                   ^ Baker
^ Barrett                   ^ Bassett
^ Bawden                   ^ Bell
^ Berg                   ^ Berndt
^ Bigler                   ^ Black
^ Brynjolfson                   ^ Buettner
^ Bulleit                   ^ Capel
^ Carroll                   ^ Cassidy
^ Cundiff                   ^ Davis
^ Dowiatt                   ^ Drew
^ Dysart                   ^ Earle
^ Eutneuer                   ^ Fish
^ Fortier                  ^ Fossum
^ Franzen                  ^ Frega
^ Fricke                   ^ Fyler
^ Galle                  ^ Galligan
^ Gelhaar                  ^ Gohr
^ Good                   ^ Grant
^ Grant W                   ^ Griffith
^ Grosser                  ^ Gunderson
^ Haack                   ^ Hall
^ Hanson                   ^ Harlan
^ Harris                   ^ Heideger
^ Henk                   ^ Hollinger
^ Horan                  ^ Houlder
^ Hoy                   ^ Iden
^ Inglis                  ^ Innes
^ Isaacson                   ^ Jacobs
^ Jamieson                   ^ John
^ Johnson D                   ^ Johnson J
^ Johnson S                  ^ Jordan
^ Kelley                   ^ Kellogg
^ Kelly                  ^ Kirkendall
^ Kohlberg                   ^ Krom
^ Kummer                  ^ Langenstrass
^ Larkin                   ^ Lepak
^ Lewis G                   ^McCollum
^ Maletich                   ^ Malm
^ Mann                   ^ Markowski
^ Marquardt                   ^ Meinert
^ Menke                  ^ Miller C
^ Miller J                   ^ Molitor
^ Momert                   ^ Moran
^ Moser                   ^ Murphy
^ Mutz                   ^ Nelson B
^ Nelson F                   ^ Novak
^ Paulsen                   ^ Pellegrino
^ Pennino                  ^ Petersen
^ Petter                   ^ Pillinger
^ Pond                  ^ Raszka
^ Rawaillot                   ^ Rice
^ Rogers A                  ^ Rogers S
^ Roloff                   ^ Rose
^ Rosenthal                   ^ Ruch
^ Rutledge                   ^ Ryan
^ Sandford                   ^ Schenk
^ Schoolwerth                   ^ Shaw
^ Sigman                  ^ Smith Jean
^ Smith Judy                  ^ Spencer
^ Sporka                   ^ Staedke
^ Stebe                   ^ Steele
^ Stone                  ^ Stoothoff
^ Thatcher                  ^ Thebaud
^ Unrath                   ^ Vanderleest
^ Wallace                   ^ Webster
^ Whitecotton                   ^ Whittaker
^ Wieting                 
^ Wildish                   ^ Willard
^ Windeguth                   ^ Wirt
^ Wood                   ^ Woodruff
^ Worsham                  ^ Wright
^ Zinn                   ^ Zoellick
^ Zorn

°          OUR PINNACLE           °

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^ Achilles - Avena


^ Axelson - Bawden


^ Bazala - Blocker


^ Blotter - Brunk


^ Brynjolfsson - Carlson


^ Carroll - Crise


^ Cundiff - Dugan


^ Dukelow - Emmel


^ Eutneuer - Friedheim


^ Furman - Good


^ Graham - Groener


^ Gruenberg - Hearl


^ Heckler - Hildenbrand


^ Hlady - Iden


^ Inglis -A. Johnson


^ D. Johnson - C. Jordan


^ J. Jordan - (David Loucks)


^ Kempkes - Knippen


^ Knowles - Kummer


^ Kurth - Luxford


^ McCollum - Markowski


^ Marquardt - Mick


^ Miller - Mullett


^ Murphy - Opatkiewicz


^ O'Rourke - B. Petersen


^ D. Petersen - Raszka


^ Rawaillot - Joanne Rosenthal


^ Joan Rosenthal - Sabiers


^ Sadowski - Schultz


^ Schutt - Siebert


^ Sigman - Smith *


^ Spence - Stenquist


^ Stone - Thebaud


^ Thomas - B. Wallace


^ S. Wallace - Wieting


^ Wildish - Zavodsky


^ Zapel - Zorn +misc

* Note: this page contains Snyder, Soderberg, Somers, and Soule, out of order.
Also: Bruce Nelson, one of our 6 Nelsons, moved to Iowa in the summer of 1958, so he's not shown here, but he is in the 50th Reunion book. Here's a link to his brass-instrument-playing book: Brass.

°  REDHEADS

CLASS NOTICES/QUESTIONS

*Question: Who was the most famous person in Chicago in 1958?
*Answer: Interview.

*Question: Who was the most famous person in America in 1958?
*Answer: Side note: Typical hula hooping at GHS in 58.

*Question: Who was the most famous person in the world in 1958?
*Answer:

*Question: What was Spring like in 1958?
*Answer: Spring.

*Question: Was our classmate Linda Kettlestrings related to the founders of Oak Park (from Yorkshire)?
*Answer: Wonderful name, Kettlestrings. Seems likely. Oak Park.

*Questions: a) Of the female half of our class, who was best at math? b) Was she better than all the boys?
*Answer: a) Donna Piontkowski (Math club; Science club).   b) Maybe.
  Possible assistance: Hidden Figures

*Question: Any Glenbard-California connections, historical or otherwise? -- might be basis of a West-Coast-branch reunion.
*Answer: Well, aside from the many who moved from our area to California, consider these place names in California, starting with, if you will excuse the spelling:
Glen Ellen   :    Lombard
and continuing with:
Elmhurst     :    Hillside
La Grange   :    Lake Forest
Naperville  :    Villa Park
Wheaton    :    Winnetka
and finally: Chicago
A West-Coast-branch reunion in California would be in familiar territory, would it not?
Texas - Florida! Can you claim the same?

*Question: Is the Dupage Movie Theatre still there in downtown Lombard?
*Answer: Long gone. It and the adjacent shops, which dated from 1922, were put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and there were several renovation plans thereafter. They all fell through and in May of 2007 a big crane tore everything down. Google images has pictures of this.

Credit: above is from cinematreasures.org, which Robert Ebert called "The ultimate website about movie theaters."

*Question: Who is this guy?
*Answer: Rhinelander.

Selected images
. . . . found on the internet.
. . . interspersed with obscure facts

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1950
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Color Contrasts --------------------------------

Major inventions of 20th Century:

More Majors (before the PC):

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The term jeans appears first in 1795, when a Swiss banker by the name Jean-Gabriel Eynard and his brother Jacques went to Genoa and both were soon heading a flourishing commercial concern. In 1800 Massena's troops entered the town and Jean-Gabriel was entrusted with their supply. In particular he furnished them with uniforms cut from blue cloth called "bleu de Genes" whence later derives the famous garment known worldwide as "blue jeans"

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^Thalia Menninger

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The UNIVAC I mainframe computer of 1951 became famous for predicting the outcome of the U.S. presidential election the following year. The computer predicted an Eisenhower landslide when traditional pollsters all called it for Stevenson. The numbers were so skewed that CBS's news boss, Mickelson, decided the computer was in error and refused to allow the prediction to be read. Instead they showed some staged theatrics that suggested the computer was not responsive, and announced it was predicting 8-7 odds for an Eisenhower win (the actual prediction was 100-1). When the predictions proved true and Eisenhower won a landslide within 1% of the initial prediction, Charles Collingwood, the on-air announcer, embarrassingly announced that they had covered up the earlier prediction.

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Major computer events our GHS years

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The first internet (technically, ARPANET) link was established between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute 1969-10-29.
"We typed the L and we asked on the phone,
"Do you see the L?"
   "Yes, we see the L," came the response.
We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O?"
   "Yes, we see the O."
Then we typed the G, and the system crashed
... Yet a revolution had begun"

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