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|  | | | To: Highland Park Class of '74
From: Peter Kenefick
Re: Minutes from 07/08/09 Meeting
Well class, your reunion committee was hard back at it last night insuring
that this will be our best 35th reunion ever. OK, so it's our only 35th,
that leaves the bar low!
The first report was given by the head of the decorations committee, Sue
Hartzell Vannelli, whose birthday was yesterday and she brought in her own
birthday cake for us to share. Well you can imagine the looks around the
table as we gazed at this beautiful cake that read "Happy 35th Sue". I say
dyslexia is a wonderful thing if it makes her feel younger! Although it
does go a long way in explaining why Sue's high school diploma reads
"attended" instead of "graduated".
Bob Wokasch, the head of the golf committee reported next. A very brief and
concise report since I hadn't turned over to him any of the golfers names
and tee times. He just said, "Please pass the wings". We did have one
controversial and heated discussion during the golf committee report. That
was a debate over letting Ramsey Stivers wear the same plaid pants and
plaid shirt outfit that he wore golfing at the last reunion. Bob promised
he would talk to Ramsey and remind him that Rodney Dangerfields character
in "Caddy Shack" was a spoof and really shouldn't be emulated. A delicate
conversation, but Bob can handle it.
Unfortunately this brought us dangerously close to our maximum 30 minute
"actually meeting" to 5 hour "socializing" ratio. Seriously the attention
span of this group removes all doubt why most of our teachers either quit
the profession or smoked pot to deal with us. Think I'm kidding? Pull out
your yearbook and check out our "mellow" teachers.
Special thanks to Lynn Meredith and Tammy Binman for their tireless work
on the DVD consisting of over 400 pictures and the newly created facebook
page exclusively for our class (see below). If you haven't signed up for
the reunion yet it will be worth your while to come just to see the picture
Eric Zilley provided of the 1971 Highland Jr High Wrestling Team. It is
hysterical. Let's just say steroids never tainted these great athletes
achievements. After seeing it, my only thought was how could every single
guy on the team wrestle at "feather weight". I know, I know it's a boxing
term but it's funnier than writing 70 pounds!
Here are Tammy's instructions for getting on our facebook page:
The Highland Park High School Class of 74 is on Facebook!
Tammy (Binman) House has set up a Facebook group entitled "Highland Park
High School Class of 74".
Facebook users can join the group and post messages, pictures, etc.
We are collecting old photos and have posted some of them to the site!
Just enter "Highland Park High School Class of 74" in the search box to
find the group -- then join it! or follow this link:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=94425664762&ref=share
If you are not already a member of Facebook you can join (at no cost)
by going to www.facebook.com. Update your profile and join our group so
that we can all keep current with each other.
When you join the group you can find it in your FaceBook Profile in your
applications under groups.
I can't list all the names, but some of the classmates that I have heard
from since the last "minutes report" that are coming for sure are Gail
Siegel, Steve Marsh, Bonnie Gorman(thanks for the pictures), Jill
Cornfeldt, Marsha Schwartz, Brooks and Terri Leonard Edwards, Greg Honsa,
Cyndee Hull (she wrote, "I'll be there for sure, but you must have a typo in the year!"),
Floater, Steve Stein, and Dave Quimby.
Our email list is now over 125. Keep spreading the word!
Lastly thanks to Big Stan McKee, (our token Cretin guy who is charge of
menu items), who, as the clock struck midnight and with one glove on, lead
all 10 of your reunion committee members moonwalking out of the bar in a
clumsy yet heartfelt tribute to the King of Pop.
Get your forms in today!
Respectfully submitted,
Peter E. Kenefick and the hardest working reunion committee in America.
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