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George D Depper

Scratching and fighting, too!

Clyde W Fones

I've sent a message to Cathy Williams Funeral home to try to get a copy of Milton's obit. If they respond I'll post it for all to see. What kind of funeral home doesn't have a web site these days??? If anyone local can stop by there and pick up a copy, send it to me and I'll post it. Take are all.

John E Isom

It was not the Milton Johnson who graduated with us.  He is still kickin'!  Hope everyone is doing well.

George D Depper

Thanks John!

Clyde W Fones

Thanks John!

Patricia Graham (Bechtold)

how many were in the graduating class of 1970

Victoria S Coffee (Fudurich)

I still have a copy of our Commencement Booklet which has a class roll of 732 students listed in it.  It is dated Tuesday Evening, June 2, 1970.  A newspaper article which came out the following day (Wednesday, June 3, 1970) states that 706 of us actually attended the graduation ceremony and received our diplomas that night.  It is safe to say that not everyone who originally started out in our class actually graduated.

George D Depper

I thought there were 792 of us!  Guess John and I both skipped math class that year!

Paul A Wood

I have a Bernard Harris Alumni Directory that lists 823 names for the 1970 class

Moreland Gaddis

Was Greg Tanler (spelling may be incorrect) in our graduating class or did he move to our area later?  Does anyone know where he is now?

Thanks.

Moreland Gaddis

Thomas G Stewart

greg was in the class of '69. he passed away in 1995 from a malignant brain tumor. greg was buried in medfield,mas.   he was married to patty nuzum

Christopher L Warwick (Warwick)

Boy looks like there is no clear number, I thought I remember 738 that night. I was like what I thought was 735.  

Moreland Gaddis

Thanks, Tom, for the info, but sad news.

Moreland

Allen K Schroeder

According to my "Official Cumulative Record" there were 706 in the class with 350 boys and 356 girls. So who knows?

Clyde W Fones

For anyone who's interested... :Here's our Tatler online.

https://archive.org/stream/AltonHS_Tatler_1970#page/n0/mode/2up

Moreland Gaddis

Thanks, Clyde!

Moreland

Diane K Allton

Diane K Allton

George D Depper

Diana, remove Hi way house. It's gone. Add Hampton inns Nd best western. Both are located next to super 8. Also the atarium is now holiday inn, again. Also there are a few bed and breakfast locations around town and in grafton and Elsah.

George D Depper

Hey Diana can you get the golf announcement posted! I went to post on end its still pending. Thsnks

Allen K Schroeder

It is with deepest regret I must pass on the Reunion. Looks to be a lot of fun. I am committed to a Boy Scout event that weekend, and am one of the key people so I can't let them down. Hopefully when the next one rolls around I can make that one.

Everybody have one for me!

Allen

Sandra L Lagemann (Gottlob)

Allen-  I will be so sorry to not see you, but admire and support the scouting progam myself, so regretfully understand. 

Stay healthy and strong!

Your fellow redhead - 

Sandy Lagemann Gottlob

Timothy C Paeltz

If I have one for everyone not in attendance at the reunion, I will defintely need a designated driver.

Diana M Maul (Halstead)

Without you to help me, I would have never passed algebra...what happened?

We sat next to each other every day for a year in study hall...what happened?

You made machine shop class so much more interesting; oh, the trouble we got into...what happened?

You made Sunday school more interesting...what happened?

Thanks to you and your friendship, I didn't feel like such a nerd in high school...what happened?

We spent 12 years together seeing each other every single day of our lives...what happened?

When we were cheerleaders together, we knew our team was a winner...what happened?

Sitting next to you in orchestra made me a better violinist...what happened?

Still remember our teamwork when we played that game against Granite City...what happened?

You were always first chair in Marching 100, but you made me strive to want to play better...what happened?

The slumber parties we had in junior high were some of the best memories of my life...what happened?

When we were JJG's it felt like it was us against the world...what happened?

Remember the great times we had out at the lake...what happened?

With you batting clean-up, I knew the game would be our's for the taking...what happened?

You taught me how to drive stick-shift in the A&P parking lot...what happened?

When I was the "new kid" at North, you showed me the ropes and we became quick friends...what happened?

You helped me everyday learn my lines for the school musical...what happened?

So many movies we saw at The Grand...Gold Finger comes to mind...what happened?

We each have amazing, fun, thrilling and some not-so-fun memories of our high school and junior high days.

Outside of our family, we shared those days with some pretty important people in our lives; people that made a difference in our live's then...and now. Some of us have stayed in touch, some of us have re-connected with old friends and then...there are some of us that say, "If I haven't spoken to them in 50 years, why now?"

Why now? BECAUSE, that's why! (I hear my mother scything that now)

Really, it may have been 50 years since we last spoke, but that doesn't make us any less important to each other and in each other's live's. We each altered the other's life. So, because we were so significant at one time...let's do it again!

As I look through my Tatler I remember so much of my high school years. The past is not where I live, but it is a place of comfort and joy that I like to visit now and then. What I enjoy more is seeing each person that was significant in my life then, today. Again, not to relive yesterday, but to enjoy more of today, with you in it.

Yes, life happens, but the ties that bind us are still there.

We might not text, or call or even think about each other everyday, but that doesn't keep you from my prayers.

So please...will you meet me July 31st and August 1st in Alton; for old times sake? ❤️ Diana

 

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Karen L Belcher (Gelbard)

Okay, Diana's post has me filling out the reunion form and sending a check. I will try hard to make this work with my usual summer art fair schedule.  See you at the reunion this year.