Elkhart ’61 Blog
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The following pictures were sent to me from Shawnee, Kansas..with no note  and no return address !!!

The following picture was contributed by Liz Tulley McLane.

Row 1 – Unknown, Unknown,  Jim Kincaid, Mrs. Ethel Cripe, 6th Grade teacher and Principal, Mark Summers, Unknown

Row 2 – Don Kidder, Dorothy Mann, Unknown, Lizette Tulley, Unknown, Unknown, Darl Compton (Deceased ), Barbara Curtis, Unknown

Row 3 – Connie Grose, Norris Dryer, rest of row unknown

Row 4 – Eugene Grossman , Joan Perrin, Gary Egolf, Isabel Herring ( Music Teacher ), Ken Cornelius, Josephine Vlaeminck ( Deceased ), Eldon Hany

Those in the class but not identified include – Judy McQueen, Ronnie Borem, Jerry Ringenberg ( Deceased),  Mary Ann Sampsell, Jon Danforth,  Karen Drudge, Carolyn Ernsberger, Dave Ferling, Jerry Flickeinger, Beverly Green ( Deceased ), John Growcock, Ron Hoffman, Linda Johnson

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 photo was printed in The Elkhart Truth on May 16, 1961

Front Row : Jim Jarrell, unknown, Chuck Bower, Dale Tarnowieski, Lonnie Atkins, Judy Fall, Pat McKenzie, Gloria Sawyer, Vicky Dickerhoff, Carolyn Gustafson (Partial)

Middle Row: Ralph Bradley, Sammy Galloway, Jim Boussom, Bill Zipzer, Robin Podawiltz, John Huster, Diane Maas, Bill Ray, Bernadette Jackson

Back Row: Mr. Jerry Freed, Kathryn Newman, Pat Helfrich, Shirley Kneile, Sandra George, unknown, unknown, Odessa Lewis, unknown, Linda Newman, Joyce ??

Sixth Grade at Samuel Strong with Mr. Jerry Freed ( 1955)

Samuel Strong Sixth Grade Basketball Team – 1955

Front Row – Bill Edwards, Willie Myers, Bill Zipser, Robin Podawiltz, Jerry File, Don Asher: Back Row – Dave Jarrell, Chuck Bower, John Huster, Sid Ulis, Jim Jarrell, Arthur Gamble

The above photos were contributed by Robin Podawiltz

                        The above photo was contributed by Stephanie Wright Wenzel

Chuck Bower furnished this photo of the Samuel Strong Softball Team of 1954-1955.

1st Row – John Huster, Bill Ray, Don Asher, Bill Edwards, Dave Jarrell, Jim English, Tim Donavon, Denny Culp

2nd Row- Jim Boussom, Bill Zipser, Robin Podawiltz, Chuck Bower, Jim Jarrell, Willie Meyers, Sid Ulis

Back – Coach and 6th grade teacher Jerry Freed.

1st Row: Jack Turnock, John Paston, unknown, Steve Davis, Wayne Hostetler, unknown, Dan Wagner, Dick Dehayes, unknown

2nd Row: Jerry Bremer, Phil Nusbaum, Frank Walker,Mike Lehman, Ricky Aherns, unknown, unknown, Bill Hollar, Merrill Smith, Cornelius Miller

3rd Row: unknown, unknown, unknown, Harold Leer, Ron Tharp, Ron Null, Charles Mapes, Bill Landoc, Bob Silcott, unknown, Tim Hicks

4th Row: unknown, Dave Duthie, Bill Kinkaide, Bob Woodward, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, John Cleveland, John Coblentz,Richard Moyer

The principal is Mr. Larimer

The above photo was furnished by Heidi Teusher Paston

        Congratulations are in order for Myron and Hannah  (Regnier) Rose  and   Dave and Phyllis ( Pauley ) Dygert.   Both have recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.    The following write-ups appeared in The Elkhart Truth. 

       EHS Class of 1961 reunion committee recently toured the Lerner Theatre which is under construction.  For those of you who are not up-to-date on Elkhart happenings, the Lerner Theatre is the old Elco plus the addition of land on the corner of Franklin and Main  …and it is being restored into a beautiful arts and entertainment center.   We are tentatively going to hold our 50th class reunion there on August 19th and 20th, 2011.

        Here are a few of the members in their hard hats !! ….  and a worker detailing the gorgeous ceiling.