Posted 10/14/08
Columbian Class of 1958 (source TCAA)
The Columbian Class of 1958 celebrated its 50th class reunion with a round of activities that began on Friday evening with parties in the homes of Lake Mohawk residents, Dick & Barb Kuhn and Judy (Blust) Henderson.
On Saturday evening, classmates gathered for a social hour at Lake Mohawk Country Club, amid vases of pink roses and silver decorations on blue & gold table cloths. On the tables, were etched glass vases with a single floating rose (the class flower) designed by Bob Yager of Crystal Traditions with the school tower and the class motto, "Tonight we launch,where will we anchor?". Each classmate received a vase as a 50* reunion parting gift..
A memorabilia table, assembed by Sue Grotty and Delsi (Myers) Martin, contained scrapbooks, letter sweater outfits, photos and tributes to Elvis and the music of the 50's. Rita (Doll) Butler made name tags for the class using their graduation photo to help identify everyone. Herb Love and wife Carol published and assembled an address book for each classmate.
Mary Lou (Walker) Harrison welcomed the group with a poem entitled "The Class Reunion" and Robert Sheely gave the invocation followed by a pork and chicken buffet. Two especially decorated cakes, designed for the 50th were served as dessert. Nancy Ferguson provided the 50's music for the evening.
The" business" meeting and program followed with remarks by class president, Duane Painter and vice-president, Patrick Huber. Reunion co-chair, Evelyn (Hottenstein) Houck conducted a memorial service for 24 deceased members.
"It's About Time" awards went to first timers: Milton Smith and Sharon (Bish) Cooney. The "Early Bird" award went to Rita (Doll) Butler and the "Last Call" award went to Ruth Ann (Jacobs) Renninger.
Dale Fadley read a poem entitled " The land that made me, me".
Anna (Barth) Haaser, a classmate who teaches and dances clogging brought her dancing group, Heartland Express Cloggers, to present a dance program.
The class reunion committee consisted of Houck, Harrison, Huber, Yager, Love, Butler, Grotty,and Martin.
Harrison was presented with a special hand-made blue and gold quilt with all the class names embroidered on tornadoes, made by Joyce (Fowler) Fadley , as a thank you for planning the reunions every five years.
A class photo and grade school photos were taken at the end of the evening. Next plans will be for a 70th birthday party in 2010.
On Sunday morning, about 40 met at TJ Willies for brunch and farewells.
Those attending from out of town include:
Chris Bame, Anna (Barth) Haaser,
Judy (Berezin)Whiteman,
Don and Joanna Bernard,
Sharon (Bish) Cooney,
Beverly (Burns)McCallister,
Dan and Rita (Doll) Butler,
Dale and Joyce (Fowler) Fadley,
Diane (Flechtner) Crabill,
Anita (Garcia) Love,
Robert and Martha (Gorby) Cobb,
Sue Grotty,
Lee and Wanda (Handell) Warnke,
J. Patrick Huber,
Ruthanne (Jacobs) Renninger,
Robert and Mary Ann Kennedy,
Roscoe Kizer,
James and Mary (Kovach) Baum,
Richard and Barbara Kuhn,
Catherine (Michaels) Wise,
Richard and Ester Jean (Miller) Conroy,
Ned Miller,
Charlotte Delsi (Myers) Martin,
Duane Painter, Earl Peters,
Chuck and Marilyn (Rosen) Hedberg,
Robert and Joanne Sheely,
Milton P. and Jackie Smith,
Muriel (Steininger) Colatruglio,
Roxy and Elaine (Terry) Reedy,
John and Karen Turner,
Patricia (Vogelsong) Bauer,
Dick Vogelsong,
Donald Weber,
Robert and Holly Whiteman,
Mike and Judith (Williams) Horvath,
Barb (Wise) Ward,
Shirley (Yentzer) Gibson,
Alden and Julie (Beck) Lanphear, and
James and Sylvia Wade.
Attending from Tiffin include:
Sterling and Bev Abbott,
Joe and Jean Angus,
Judy (Blust)Henderson,
Clifford and Donna (Breitigam) Everhart,
Dan & Linda Coffman,
Robert and Cherie (Cook)Nichols,
Dennis Chaney,
Larry and Bobbie (Dayton) Molyett,
Ann (Ferguson) Ellis,
Jack and Evelyn (Hottenstein) Houck,
Herb and Carol Love,
Glenn and Judy Mailing,
Art and Loretta (McCray) Ball,
Jerry and Barb Raudebaugh,
Tim and Jacqueline Renninger,
James and Mary Sharpe,
Gene and Patricia Sherer,
William and Jerry Stauffer,
Jerry and Phyllis Swander,
Mary Lou (Walker) Harrison,
Carolyn (Weber) Paxton and
Robert and Carol Ann Yager.
If any attendees have digital photos, and would like the submit them with brief narriations
(via e-mail) please do so.
I am sure other alumni would enjoy them.
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he had not made a point of
indicating his webmastering skills.
Last night I surfed his "Class of 1957" page
for his Columbian high school class.
In addition, Sarj has documented material for the Class of 1958.
Thus, the TCAA Class of 1958 site will default to Sarj's Class of 1958 web page.
Both of these sites are not hosted by the tc-alumni.org Friendlynet server.
Sarj has consented to Webmaster the TC Class of 1958 web site.
Thanks Sarj!--- Ron
