POSTS FROM 2008 -
Announcements -
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December 2008 -
Dianne (Mardus) Parker was kind enough to send us a picture of some of our classmates. She writes - Attached is..."a copy of the Christmas photo from the December 8 meeting of the "Ladies of '65 Dinner Club". This year Terri Odorizzi hosted the party at her home in Collinsville. We all had a great time with some marvelous food and, naturally, fabulous company." Click the photo for a larger view.
We're glad to see you all looking chipper and ready for the holidays! To all of our classmates near and far- May all of you enjoy a wondrous and Merry Christmas!
November 2008 -
Sandy (Oliver) Anderson would like all of her classmates to know that she is expecting another grandchild this coming April - here's what she had to say -
"I'm going to be a grandmother again in April. This will be my first "natural" grandchild and it is my daughter Claire who is due with this baby on the very day her Father left us. We both think this is very special."
Sandy would love to make contact with former classmates - especially Pat (Furfaro) Totleben, Joyce (Vandermark) Henke, and Renee (Tope) Taake. Please note that it is the policy of this site NOT to share email addresses or other personal information about classmates unless they SPECIFICALLY request it. If anyone would like to send a message through this site to Sandy, we will happily forward all email to her. Also, if you would want me to share your email address with her, please send me a note to that effect. Address your email to glen_england@65kahoks.com, or just click this link, and we'll send it on to Sandy.
September 2008 -
New Beginnings....
There's a different engine running behind the scenes here at 65Kahoks.com - one that will hopefully make the site more secure, more responsive to your wishes, and more enjoyable to visit. We have improved security, encrypted our database information, and instituted a means to log-in, change or reset your password, and access content that will ONLY be available to registered users.
First a note about our Privacy Policy - We ask that you register at the site for a very basic reason - in order to compile and maintain accurate contact information so that we can notify you of coming reunions, get-togethers, or other happenings that you might be interested in. Yes, your contact information (name, address, email) will be shared with the 1965 Kahoks Reunion Committee, and we will work with them to get notifications out to you in a timely manner. This is the ONLY use that will be made of the information you provide. No information will be shared with any other person or entity, ever. That is my guarantee to you.
Your password information is encrypted as soon as you click the submit button on the "Register" page. The plain-text of your password is, at that moment, not available to anyone, including the site administrator (me). It is stored in an encrypted state and can only be used by you. For that reason, if you should ever forget your password, there is no way for anyone to recover it for you. That is why we have initiated a "Forgot password" page that will reset your password to a random, temporary password for you. The temporary password will be automatically emailed to you, at which point you can log in and then change the temporary password to anything of your choosing.
High Resolution Pictures...
We hope everyone has loved seeing pictures of your old classmates, and a few of you have asked me to provide them with copies of pictures used on the site. As part of an incentive to encourage everyone to register with the site, high resolution 300dpi images are being offered for immediate download to your computer - if you are registered and logged in.The initial 'crop' of pictures includes over 390 photos taken during the "Birthday Bash" celebration in Collinsville last September. Other pictures will be added as they become available. Check the "downloads" page whenever you log in. These photos are formatted at 4 x 6 inches and 300dpi - excellent resolution for making high quality prints to put into your own photo albums or to share with family and friends. After registering and activating your account, when you log in you will see that the menu at the top of the page has changed - it will then include links to the photo albums as well as pages where you can change your password or log out (look to the right end of the menu bar). New areas available only to registered users will be created as we move forward.
I sincerely hope that you have been enjoying visiting the site, and I hope you come back on a regular basis - maybe just to hear some good oldies. Whatever the reasons for visiting, I hope you will want to continue coming back, and I will do my best to make this site what YOU want it to be. I've heard from former classmates, and I've heard from some of their children over the past year. To ALL of our Kahok family - classmates, children and grandchildren of classmates, friends - Welcome. Let me know your thoughts and I'll do my best to fulfill your wishes concerning the site. I'm not a professional programmer - I'm an old dog trying to learn new tricks, and I can use all the help you care to offer. I can especially use your suggestions and ideas.
March 2008 -
What is a Fid Hawser anyway ?
The following is supplied by classmate Dav Pauli who currently lives in sunny California, but has assumed the moniker of Fid Hawser, yarn spinner, teller of tales, and mortorcycle enthusiast. You can write him at davpauli@yahoo.com. Where he got the name I don't know - the only reference that I can see deals with nautical ropes and tools used to braid them. Perhaps I'll pose that question to him one day. You can click on his picture for a larger version that shows his cycle in the back. Anyway, here's Dav talking about being a young 60......
At Sixty
I used to count seconds till the end of classes
And wait anxiously for the 3 o’clock bell
Now 3 o’clock just means I’m back in the bathroom
Oh, I guess my prostate is going to hell
Isn’t it scary how quickly time passes
I ask the mirror how my hair got so thin
I sure wish my wife’d stop shrinking my trousers
And what is this flab hanging under my chin?
What on earth happened to all of our asses?
I used to run daily for five or six miles
And fly up all stairways two at a time
Now I get winded in supermarket aisles
And just where ARE my darn glasses?!
My arm got too short for the telephone book
Thank God for my cellular’s call list
If I could remember your name when I look
Now lest we forget our former young lasses
You’ve gotten a little bit older as well
But we’ll never forget how you looked at the sock hop
And in these old eyes you all are still swell
My enduring memories of CHS:
Laughing with Glen England
Glen’s older brother, Mike, pushing shy freshman me into the girls’ locker room :)
Running laps wth Dick Chamberlain, wishing I had his endurance
The crush I had on Beverly Frame
Wanda Pirtle’s art classes
Guy DeChaira’s hairy arms
Missing freshman baseball tryouts because of a nosebleed
Bev Zamarione’s gym suit legs pulled down to her knees on a cold day (sorry, Bev)
Trois Pendleton - he really was cool
Rob Rothenberg encouraging me in Physics (I was way over my head)
Mr. Phelps’ history and humor class
January 2008 -
Local Ladies -
Every third Monday of the month, ladies from the Class of 1965 gather at Alphonso's in Maryville for dinner and just plain fun. We'd love to have you join us. Some months the group is rather large, other months somewhat small.
Last year, for the December gathering, Renee (Tope) Taake invited everyone to her house for the dinner. Everyone brought something, and we had a wonderful time. This year the December meeting was at Diane (Hadfield) Miller's house. Again, we had a great time.
We want to encourage more local ladies to join us for these gatherings. We'd love to have you there. Just contact Joyce (Weber) Ackerman if you'd like to come. We eat at 6:30.
Here are a few pictures you might enjoy from this December's gathering at Diane's house - click on the image for a larger view -
