News Letter 2006

GRANT CLASS OF 1952

NEWS LETTER

2009

updated 10/19/2010

LETS HAVE SOME FUN

BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES


BONNIE "SAGEL" VIRNALA 2004


LESTER GRADT 2004


NANCY "ARNESEN" WILLIAMSON 2002


JIM UMBARGER 2004


CARLA "ANDREW" BALES 2002


ED COZADD 2002


DONNA "CASEY" CUSHING 2002


RUTH "BECMER" GROOTVEDT 2002


DON ROSING 2002


GERRY "KRIPPNER" SPEARS 2002


GORDON COLE 2001


JIM & SHARON KRAMER 2002


LaVERNE "BESKOW" THOMPSON 2002


LUCKY SPOONER 2002

PEGGY "ROGERS" KROTZ 2002


VIVIAN "CLAYBURN" WELCH


PHYLLIS "WERHAN" BAUER


BARBARA "SWIDERSKI" BROWN

JACKIE "CAVETT" WALKER

Class of 1953

DON & DORIS ROSING

ERWIN & JANET BUCHHOLZ

How About Some More Pictures

... Happy New Year..... is it still costing you to keep up the website for our old school? I will be happy to send a donation if you would like.... hope all is well with you and the family.... Gerry

I appreciate your offer to help with the web site, I moved the site over to GoDaddy.com to save money and Gordy Cole has been helping by sending money every Christmas.

I don't think many in our class care about it, I am not receiving much in the way of news from anyone. My first news letter on the web site was December 1999.

I decided to build the site in the beginning and excepted to pay the cost, if someone else wants' to take it over it is ok with me.

Are you still traveling around a lot, my wife can't walk every good she has a bad back, I bought her a very nice wheel chair but she won't use it, she doesn't want to look like an old lady, I ask her what she thinks she is, so we are stuck at home I still work 7 days a week but plan on backing off in 2011 and letting the kids run the business 100% I will be 78 by then

Sorry to hear about your wife.... I guess my idea would be to go however I had to... I actually forget to look often at the site...but appreciate it....and your work on it. We are getting a late start out of here this year... I am fighting a virus thing now...just enough to be aggravating... and had some family things to help with...now the storm is coming in and we wish we were down in FL already. We still plan on being in Fort Myers Beach for Feb....we paid for it already last year. So time will tell. Gloria Thorne wrote that the " Grant gang" is still planning on getting together but does not know where as yet...so hope I am down there for that. Of course there are a lot less because of health and so on.
Don't put off the retirement...it goes by too fast anyway... Sure glad that my husband took the money and ran when he was 62... we are indeed blessed and hope it lasts yet for a bit. Today will probably be a day for him to snow blow and help the widows around here with their driveways....he would rather be walking the beach...needless to say. We find people traveling with the motor homes and "lifts"...anything to keep going even if the wife or husband needs the help. Take care... thanks again.... best to you both.... Gerry

McHENRY – Roman and Phyllis Bauer of McHenry celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary Nov. 22 with a family dinner at their home.

Phyllis Werhan and Roman Bauer were married Nov. 21, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in McHenry. With the exception of time spent in Norfolk, Va., during military service, they have spent their married years in McHenry.

He was an office manager at Rohm & Haas. He retired in 1989. She was a district sales manager for Avon Products, Inc., until her retirement in 1981. She has been active with genealogy, having written several family history books.

They have a son, Michael (Tanya) Bauer of Anaheim, Calif.; five daughters, Julie (John) Nordholz of McHenry, Sheryl (Richard) Rous of La Quinta, Calif., Brenda Kreutzer and Lynette Thiel, both of McHenry, and Gwen (Jeff) å of Marengo; 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

This letter has been going around. My daughter in Ariz. e-mailed it to me and also my sister in law in Ill.. It's a great letter and a lesson to be learned.

I really enjoyed the "Memories E-mail". The pictures of all the movie stars and singers and their ages. It brought back a fond memory. Back in Summer of 1955, I was going out with Ann Erikson. We had a Sat. date and when I arrived to pick her up, her cousin was there. The Olsons had come out from Chicago to spend the week-end at their house. The folks had all gone out for the evening and left Ann's cousin with her to "baby sit". Well, we had a dinner date, so we took little Margaret with us. She was around 15 at that time. We went to dinner at Smart's Country House in Antioch. Had a great time. That is why I can say I took Ann Margaret out to dinner. Her given name is Margaret Ann Olson. That still is a great memory.

I received the link below from my daughter who's step-son is Kurt Rous, Head Football Coach at Grant.

Check out the Grant website www.grantbulldogs.org and you can see a picture of the new football field being installed.

Also, according to this "issue" of the website, our old building is being demolished and replaced with a two story wing. If you want some bricks from it, they will be available the end of August. A real conversation piece would be to have a patio built out of those bricks.

My dear Dad Roman Bauer passed on Friday night, August 22, 2009. He went quickly and peacefully to be with our Lord, and that was the answer to our prayers.

Visitation will be Tuesday evening 4:00-8:00 at Colonial Funeral Home, located at 591 Ridgeview Dr. McHenry at the corner of Bull Valley Road (turn at traffic light).

Funeral will be Wednesday at 10:30 AM at The Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Please join us afterward for lunch in the Bell Tower Place, adjacent to the church proper. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery lot following the lunch for those who wish to attend.

In lieu of flowers it is suggested donations be made to made to Hospice of Northeastern Illinois, 410 South Hager Ave., Barrington, Illinois 60010.

I had the pleasure of visiting with Carla (Andrews) Bales yesterday at the All Alumni Reunion held at Marvela's in Ingleside (or is it Fox Lake now?) Bonnie Westin, Fred Knaack and his wife were there and from other classes that you might remember, there was Marilyn Orth, Jackie Pettikow (sp?), and Jackie Stagg. I visited quite a bit with Joie (Robinson) Bledsoe (Class of 1950) with whom I was good friends for a number of years after high school. We are god-parents for one of their sons and they for one of our daughters.

Being a natural born record keeper of people and families (genealogy has been one of my avocations), I looked to see if I had recorded the death of Patti Orth-Flohr and found the last death I have recorded is for Nancy (Arnesen) Williamson in December of 2007. Surely there have been more of our class who have passed on to Eternity in 2008 and 2009. If you know of any, please let me know and in the future, let me know of any others you may hear about. Thanks!

Also, remember: the All Alumni Reunion is held the first Wednesday of May and of October. The Class of 1954 had a special gathering to one side of the banquet hall. I thought that was a fine idea and the Class of 1952 might want to consider that for the first Wednesday of May in 2010. No fuss - no muss.

The person to contact for a reservation is Marguerite KREILING-DROZD, grannyMCD7@aol.com Class of 1950. Cost is $11.00 for the buffet, and I thought the food was quite good considering buffets are not my favorite thing.