Ric Rivera

Great to hear you connected with Jerry whilst basking in the glitter, bells, whistles & ka-ching, glad you're taking home more than you came with, that's fortuitous winnings! Have fun and Happy New Trump Year! Dang! It's going to be the BIG BANG THEORY going on to TWO BROKE GIRLs, we will hear and see all the tweets that have broken new ground for communcating the absurd etc. Familiar doublespeak phrases will be far from passe..... "it's rigged, it's rigged", "bad, it's bad" & on. Oh my.......

Ric Rivera

Hope everyone had a good Holiday Season, Hanukkah and Christmas were on the same day for the close of 2016.Toasting to ones no longer with us and raising a glass of encouragement and health for the New Year 2017.  It has been great to read all the posts since and see the personalized connections of classmates. Thank you all for sharing. So, Happy New Year this is about you and those ripples of good positive Karma.

Can you believe it? It's our 50th coming to a head soon. Stay holistically healthy as one can be.

Donna Amira

Michelle Goings (Steanson)

Those were some great programs and taught great life lessons.   My mother went to school with Wonda Wonda so I knew her personally and I appeared on the JP Patches show.   Those were the days.

Al Ovadia

Zero Dakus, Mucho Crakus, Hallabalooza Bub, That's the Secret Password That We Use Down At The Club, And Zero Dackus, Mucho Crakus Hallabalooza Fan, that Means You Are A Member Of The Club With Stan, Herman, No-Mo and the Gang. Herman was his bird, Uncle Torvald, Grandma Torvald and the other members of the club. I believe there was also a character called Victor Olla a talking victrola where the slats moved when he talked but I could be wrong.

Thanks John for the memory, I loved that show.

Ric Rivera

Oh yes good people! We were blessed growing up with the likes of .....

and so the rememberance 

http://www.king5.com/news/local/remembering-stan-boreson-of-kings-klubhouse/394371258

As a wee liln' was on the set with Brakeman Bill oh so dang long ago. Although, at lest the CD's of Stan Boreson bought decades ago have given laughter every year no doubt, that's living memory in his memory! .... Laughter! .... Stan's joke... "You know what the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans said to each other?" ... skip a line to find out.

Thanks All for dem good memories! "They didn't! They just waived!"  ....Laughter in your life moving forward. 

Though, not Stan's joke (there is a Lena song by title) but you get it.  .... echoes of Laughter... 

Ole and Lena got married. On their honeymoon trip they were nearing Minneapolis when Ole put his hand on Lena's knee. Giggling, Lena said, "Ole, you can go a little farder now if ya vant to" so Ole drove to Duluth.....

Sandra Smith (Hanson)

We've lost another classmate today. Jorge Eduardo Torbenson passed away. She posted on Facebook about two weeks ago that she'd just been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Godspeed, Jorgene. RIP🌹

Sandra Smith (Hanson)

I don't know where "Eduardo" came from. Really dislike auto-correct. 

Ric Rivera

Thank you Sandra. It is very sad, wish we had talked longer at our last reunion. Through the years tried to get her to come to some of the Camano jams although, couple weeks ago on her FB page I had hope that she was one of those miracles to come out from all that. RIP Jorgene. 🌹

Don't know about the middle name.

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

So sorry to hear about Jorgene.  RIP.  

John Hein

I searched the archives and cropped this pic from the Sharples Sharks '65 yearbook. Oh, the irony......Jorgene is juxtaposed to Bob Temples. Never a good time to lose a classmate. Take solace in knowing they no longer suffer. May they rest in peace. 

Donna Amira

Thank you John. It was very nice of you to post our dear classmates' photos. May they rest in peace.

Philip Anderson

I have fond memories of Jorge. She was full of fun and always having a good time. RIP.  Phil Anderson

Al Ovadia

I too have fond memories of Jorgene. She lived about three blocks from me and as little kids we used to play together all the time. I also recall seeing her in some old b&w photos of my early 4, 5 and 6 year old birthdays. So sad.

John Hein

Unfortunately we've lost another classmate. Glenn Schoenmakers had a heart attack and died. I don't know any other details. I cropped this pic from the Sharples Sharks '65 yearbook. March 30 1950 - March 9 2017. Glenn, RIP

Ric Rivera

Thanks John for the memory, nice take on the photo we'll not forget a friend and classmate also a Boeing commrade. Thats all quite a large circle. RIP Glenn RIP. 

Susan Niven

Ric Rivera

Thank you Susan Niven for the warm green Irish spring blessings and Happy Birthday Glenn. ☘️ Enjoyed the many conversations here and your paintings too on Facebook. ☘️

John MacLeod

Happy Birthday Ric O'Rivera.

Will you be having that traditional Irish 7 course meal?  A potato and a six pack. 

I now restrain myself from typing anymore bad/good/improper ethnic,religious or nationality jokes.

John

John MacLeod

Good news/bad news:

Good.........Wife unit returns home today.   

Bad:........Leaves some time to post to the forum.

Bad:.....Just realized that we are now considered eldery according to what I read in the paper when the reporter refers to someone's age in the news story.  Whaat??  I must have missed that memo.Say it isn't so Joe.        

Like Mike Johnson's post to the Forum shortly after our fortieth reunion.  Seems he was told by fellow classmates that he hadn't changed a bit since school.  He wanted to know why no one had bothered to tell him that he looked like a 60 year old man when he graduated.

Sort of reminds me of taking my aunt to her 50th year Franklin reunion about 38 years ago.  I dropped her off and noted all the "eldery" people going in.  Picked her up 3-4 hours later along with Peter Gayton's mom.  There was a whole lot of noise comming out of that joint when I went in to get her.  She and Peter's mom talked like a couple of teenagers on the ride home.  They must have missed the memo on being elderly too.

ThThThaaat's All Folks.............elderly or not

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

I love your humor John.

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

I recently took part in a volunteer event here in Toronto, most of the volunteers were women age 50-70.  A young reporter for the local paper did a very nice write-up...except he described us all as "elderly bespectacled ladies."  Caused quite the ruckus!  

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

New information coming from Sam Amira.

All,

I was informed today from the University of Washington Athletic Department where I work part-time for football and basketball games that Roy Easton passed away. I recall he played football and was one of our best shot putter. I believe he might have been class of 1966 or 1967. I worked with him many years at UW. Great guy and fun to be around. If interested the his memorial service is Saturday, March 25th at 11AM at Olympic View Elementary school, 504 NE 95th St. Seattle, WA 98115

Bruce R Hildebrand

Sly, Well the report was partially right.  You forgot to take your glasses off (wink)

Susan Niven

So sorry to learn of Roy's passing. He was a great guy and a good friend. Rest in peace, Roy.