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Skipper_Ro · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: Two missing persons found

Take Marcy Doster Denny and Doris Sooy Leclercq off your missing persons list - they have been found and verified. Check them out in Member Data.

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Lina Mervine has supposedly got a brand new husband and a brand new house in Fairfax Virginia. She just forgot to tell us who he is and where they are which makes her kind of missing I guess - If you hear from her please remind her to update things.

Skipper_Ro · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Classmate mapping coming soon

A new site feature, Classmate location mapping, is in final testing. Check back under the Member Data area soon to see how it works. We think all current members are in it - and correct - but please check. Locations aren't perfect but get better as the zoom is increased. Due to data entry procedures, new people may take a little while to get on the map.

Skipper_Ro · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: HMHS Directory

The commercial site Alumni Research is planning on publishing a complete (what they can find) HMHS directory and should be calling and/or Emailing most of you for data verification. This organization has some agreements with the HMHS Alumni group but no official ties to this site. They have been provided phone or Email contact info but claim they will publish nothing without your permission. The publish date is supposedly next January. A paper version will be around $69 and some sort of internet access version could be around $35. This data is not official and you will have to talk to them for anything more. If you hear more or different please post it here.

mecca · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:18 am Post subject: Happening in Hawaii

Last weekend was the Big Island Film Festival. Two of our short films (I'm the producer) were selected for screenings and one was selected for the Best of the Fest closing ceremonies. There were over 50 films shown in 3 days - a dozen or so features and the rest shorts. Learned a lot (mostly what NOT to do) and hope to enter a feature film next year.

Just got 1200 Hawaiian style women's western shirts delivered from India. New business venture for me and my best friend, Victoria Jones. Still working on web site www.hawaiiancowboys.com. Wish me luck!

mecca · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: New Business Venture

Just started a new business with my best friend, Victoria. Actually, we started 2 years ago, and it's taken all this time to get our first shipment of Hawaiian Cowboy shirts from India. We have several retail outlets in Hawaiian carrying our Hawaiian style western wear for women. Men's shirts are still months way (hopefully not years). Our web site www.hawaiiancowboys.com is up and running - strictly wholesale. Anyone out there own/run a western clothing retail outlet, give me a call. Have I got a deal for you.

Skipper_Ro · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

At one time we thought about adding some sort of business listings for members but considering the amount of site use, we kind of put it on hold. Really, previously, the only business posts were snuck in by hackers and immediately removed by Walt. If people think it might be used at all, we can work up something. I was thinking of something simple more or less like business cards with site links but wouldn't mind ideas for other things. I know there are several classmates (or spouses) that do special things but none of them have officially mentioned it before. FEEDBACK PLEASE !!!

gvedepo2 · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

Back in January, after the dust of the Holidays had settled, I sent out this email to the ladies from the Class of '67:

As I sit here in the deep freeze of the Midwest (currently -16 degrees), and facing a major milestone in a few very short weeks (I turn 60 in less than one month), I can't help looking ahead to the warm days of summer. And looking forward, I have to ask, how does a get together in Chicago sound -- say in July? Are any of you up for a weekend to celebrate our collective move into the decade of blue hair and orthopedic shoes?

From that, the emails started flying back and forth from Italy to Hawaii and points in between. In the end 7 of us made the trip and met in Chicago for a weekend in July. The group consisted of me, Jane Talbott Thorndike, Stephanie Shaw Clark, Ruth McCollister Clevenger, Barb Kulp Malone, Linda Cline Ramsey, and Emily Russel Marengo. Ruth titled the weekend "Jersey Girls Celebrate 60".

We met at the Westin Hotel on Michigan Avenue Friday afternoon, then walked down Michigan Avenue to the Chicago River and boarded a boat for an architectural tour of the city via the river (definitely a must-do in Chicago).

We headed back to our hotel (stopping for a group photo in front of the Wrigley Building and across the street from a large-than-life statue of Grant Wood's "American Gothic"),

got checked into our rooms, and freshened up for dinner. We ate at Bistro 110 on Water Tower Square. It was a wonderful evening of great food, great wine and great conversation.

On Saturday, we broke up into two groups -- some of us taking a long walk along the lakefront before breakfast. Ruth, Emily, Barb Linda and I met up with Jane and Stephanie at the Chicago Art Museum, where we explored the new contemporary wing. Then we strolled over to Millenium Park, listened to a bit of opera rehearsing for the evening concert, then wondered over to Grant Park, where we took advantage of the Kodak moment and had our picture taken in front of the fountain.

After another great dinner in a little out-of-the-way Italian restaurant, we topped off our evening with a stop at Buddy Guy's Legends, a popular blues club.

On Sunday, we all parted company -- most to the airport, me to my car and the 3 1/2 hour drive home. It was a great weekend. Good friends meeting in a great city with no other agenda than to just enjoy the moment. We all talked about getting together again next summer, maybe in San Francisco. We'll see. Hopefully, others will hear what a terrific time it was and decide to join us next time.

ereeves · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Connecticut

Great posts, Ginger and Vince. Both of them. I enjoyed Ginger's narrative and you guys look great. Forget 60, 39...maybe.
And I also enjoyed Vince's posts. I don't think I know/knew him but will check out my yearbooks once I get off the confuser.

Hey all, I've moved to Vermont! I have a new career with a great company, Grafton Village Cheese, we're an aged Vermont cheddar cheese producer under that brand name. If any of you plan to travel to Vermont, please look me up. Southern Vermont, just over the Massachusetts border (Brattleboro).

Hope to see you or hear from you soon. Ed

Ed Reeves
40 East Orchard Road
Dummerston, VT 05301
802-289-4166 (cell)
802-246-2221 (office)
ehreeves3@gmail.com