Elkhart ’61 Blog
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A 50th Reunion Class Booklet is being prepared by Chuck and Connie Drudge Bower, Robin Podawiltz, and Marcia Butterbaugh.  This booklet is  basically a  ” What have you been doing for the last 50 years ? ” ( in your own words ) …with current pictures.    It will be available sometime in September 2011.   You may order a copy with your registration… to be picked up in Elkhart  ( $8.00 each )  or mailed to you ( $13.00 each).  It will also be available on the blog to read and/or print.  An e-mail form was sent to all with e-mails.  In case you didn’t receive the e-mail,  below is a form to fill out and return to Chuck and Connie Bower.

50th Reunion Class booklet

The reunion committee would like to extend an invitation to the members of  EHS Class of 1960 and also the EHS Class of 1962 to our casual get-to-gether on Friday night at the High Dive Pavillion.  This information was  not included in the article in the Elkhart Truth or in the class  invitation that we just sent out.  Please help get the word out to members of those classes.

Elkhart High School Class of 1961

“Those were the days, my friend…”

We hope many of you will be able to join us at the Elkhart High School Class of 1961′s 50th Class Reunion on August 19,20 & 21, 2011.  There will be events all weekend beginning with an informal get-together Friday evening at the High Dive Pavillion where sandwiches and snack food will be provided.  During the day on Saturday you will have the opportunity to tour the renovated Lerner Theatre, if available,  and enjoy a pleasant cruise on the upper St. Joseph River aboard the River Queen.  Saturday evening the reunion banquet will be held in the Crystal Ballroom of the newly restored Lerner Theatre ( we knew it as the Elco Theatre).  The committee will be inviting and recognizing teachers who have somehow managed to live fifty years or more after having us as students at Elkhart High. Finally, on Sunday, you can wander the Wellfield Botanical Gardens on north Main Street.

WATCH YOUR MAIL. Within the next two weeks, you will receive information regarding a class booklet we will be assembling which will be available in September .

For those who have not visited Elkhart for some time, we have enclosed maps to help orient you with the location of the various activities.  For those needing lodging, provided below are names of several motels for your convenience .

Please click below for a schedule of events ,the registration form, a list of accommodations and maps.  Hope to see you in August !!

Registration Form Please note that the class booklet will not be out until sometime in September 2011.  Consequently, it will not be available to be picked up at the reunion.

Schedule of Events

Accommodations

Maps

The following is a list of 1961 classmates that are “missing”.   If anyone has any information about any of them, please contact me or  a committee member .

Leota Albin Winegart ,  Janice Alwine Artley , Inga Marie Andresen, Sue Sawyer Axsom, Dorothy Baker, Andris Baltpurvins, Barbara Bauge Matthews,  Patrica Bost Copeland,  Kathleen Butte, Lorraine Campbell, Linda Coney Sedlock, John Davis, Vicky Dickerhoff,  Karen Drudge, Sharon Eldridge, Vicki Elmore,  Marcia Fisher, Jerry Flickinger, Carol Freeze Drudge, Jim Gilliland ,  Judy Grunwald Turner,  Carol Hill Goodlee, Bill Himebaugh, Donald Hoffman, Steven Hunt,  Inez Jekabson Ceverson, Eula Kimbrough Wood,    Gerry Lusk, Earl Malone, Don McCubbin,  William McKnight,  Harold Meiser,Richard Moyer,  Larry Myers,  James Nobles, Sandra Osterloo Campbell, Joanne Palmer, Terry Quimby, Sherrie Reed Barbaro,  Nancy Sassaman Wheller, Robert Scott, James Sheehan,  Rosemary Sherwin McDaniel, Mariellen Smee Butler,  Terry Staley, Karen Stephenson Kolasinski,  David Stoll, Dorothy Swanger Sirlouis, Larry Swanson, Carl Terry, Troy Thomas,   Terry Weaver , Steve Williams,  Thomas Wright

Dear Classmate,

Can you believe that  it has been nearly fifty years since our graduation from Elkhart High School?

Some of you have visited the blog before, but, for many of you, this is your first visit.  After the last class reunion, we decided to develop a class blog to help keep everyone informed of class news.  This was made possible due to the technical expertise and hosting services of Sandy (Weir) Teller and hours of work by Ellen ( Chrispyn) Turnock.  Ellen has served as our blogmaster and keeps updating the blog when ever she receives new information

We would ask that all classmates enter their e-mail address in the “Subscribe” box in the upper left hand corner.  By doing so, you will automatically be informed whenever there is an update to the blog.  This will be done by your receiving a notice titled “Elkhart”61″ Blog” in your e-mail inbox.  This will save you from visiting the blog when there have been no updates.  For those of you with spam blockers, please enter the blog address in your contact directory so that any future correspondence will not be blocked.

There is a section marked “class directory” where we keep the information we have regarding addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses for class members.  You will note there are some classmates for whom we have no information.  We would ask that should you have information on any of these people, please forward this to the blog master.  Likewise, should you ever have any changes in your personal information, please send the new information to us.  There is also a listing of “deceased” classmates whom we can confirm or who have been reported to have passed away.

With our 50th reunion forthcoming, we would ask that any of you who have “old ” pictures of elementary school or junior high school classes/activities to send those to us for future inclusion on the blog.  You may either send the original pictures or you may scan the pictures and send an electronic copy.  Please include what school, grade, activity, etc. and names for those in the pictures where known.

The blogmaster may be reached at her e-mail address buzzandellen@comcast.net or if you wish to send information via the postal service, her address is

Ellen Turnock, 2206 Cambridge Drive, Goshen, In 46528

We hope many of you will be able to join us for the reunion scheduled for August 19th and 20th. The City of Elkhart is spending close to $15 million to completely renovate the old Elco Theatre.  When complete in May, the facility will revert to its original name of the Lerner Theatre.  Part of this renovation includes the creation of a conference center attached to the theatre.  We have rented this facility to host our banquet on Saturday evening, August 20th.

We hope you enjoy the blog and will take advantage of this medium to keep classmates informed of any new and exciting developments in your life.  During the next six months, we have plans to communicate several special things plus reunion plans electronicaly as much as possible.

THE REUNION COMMITTEE