2008 Classmate Happenings
Friends of Bob McQuiston
would visit him every Wednesday morning during the time that he was battling
cancer. They have continued those visits, but now it is to get together with
his widow, Ruth Herman McQuiston.
On June 27, 2008 Lane Helms - retirement July 2008
Following a long battle with
cancer, Jim Griffin died on July 27, 2008.
Classmates that attended his funeral
included
As he has for years, Butch
Alexander spends his summer on the mainland (i.e. away from his home in
While in New York City he completed the New York City Century Ride on September 7, 2008.
In late September Butch participated in the Ashville, NC to coast bike tour. The final picture was taken next to Lake James in North Carolina.
Clark Marshall and his wife, Phillis, took a vacation in
Harvey Cornell worked as a real estate appraiser both
for the New Mexico State Highway Department as in his private practice. He continues with the
private practive, but now Harvey has cerebral ataxia and
must use a motorized wheelchair to get around. This does not prevent him from
enjoying life. For excitement he takes full speed trips on paths in the Sante Fe area. Sometimes he falls off onto the path and
simply waits until a person comes along to put him upright again as always happens. He is in
good spirits.
Around 45 years elapsed since Bill Keltz knew anything about his friend, George Kostecki. George was born in the Ukraine in 1939, and his father was murdered by Communists in 1940. After WWII his mother and a few relatives emigrated to the USA and lived in Tredyffrin Township for a few years. George attended TE Junior High in 7th and 8th grades. Bill located George in Davie, Florida. George has lived in Philadelphia, California and Chicago and is retired in Davie. In March George visited his sister in Philadelphia and took the Paoli Local to Paoli to see Bill and some of the old haunts. It was nostalgic.
Bill Keltz and George Kostecki
Steve and Marguerite Goff
celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary by taking the Queen Mary
II to
Sandy and John deHoll spent a
little over two weeks in
John Gartner made his annual trek to Pennsylvania in July to visit his sister and his Charlestown friends, Butch Alexander and Anne Alexander Winship. John's home is in Tuscon, Arizona. He is serious about playing golf both in Arizona and Pennsylvania. In March and early April John and his wife, Sheila, take a two or three week vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico which is located on the southern tip of Baja California Sur.They are guests of their friend, Malcolm Brown, who lives there seven months of the year.
John Gartner and Malcolm Brown
Warner Blair continues to modify his invention which he calls the Robotrainer. This invention is a device that mounts to a basketball basket and then automatically directs a basketball back to the person who shot it even if that person moves. It uses sensors on the device and on the shooter and has four modes of operation. The link that follows will take you to a video demonstration of the robotrainer.
In September 2007 Elly Cooksey Moses met with Ruth Herman McQuiston, Jean Rossiter Smith, Sally Gail Chandler Stacey-Barclay, Priscilla Rambo Pyle and Carole Redington Campbell for a laugh filled diner full of remininiscences. The next picture is of all of them with the exception of Sally Gail.
Elly also met with Priscilla Wallace-May (now Saulnier) in February at Lumberton, NC for lunch. Priscilla was on her way to Florida. A waitress took the following picture.Priscilla Wallace and Elly Cooksey
Eleanor Poggenburg Adams and her husband, Ned, have moved to
Ned is still active in his ministry.
Margaret Reader Moore and her husband, Bill, have moved to
6051 Ansley Court
Manassas, VA 20112
Now they are closer to their children.
Priscilla Wallance-May became a widow last year shortly after our fiftieth reunion. She has since married Rene Saulnier and is now Priscilla Saulnier. Her address is unchanged. Pictures taken at the wedding have been submitted by Ellie Poggenburg Adams. Priscilla met Rene a couple of years ago at a symphony at which they were ushering. At that time they were caregivers for their spouses. They me again about a year ago. For their own wedding they decided to dress in black and white which were the colors they wore when they met at the symphony. People in the pictures are Priscilla, Rene, Priscilla's son, Paul, and Rene's daughter, Linda.
Priscilla Wallace wedding pictures
Dee Dee WilsonVan Vleet and her husband, Don, have built a 'small' hunting cabin in Troupsburg, NY. In accompanying article look for the anti-tree hugger bit.Their cabin is lovely. Van Vleet article
