Ric Rivera

WoW! Congrats to you all for being active and for sharing your joys certainly a benchmark especially at the golden age level! 

Ric Rivera

A connection with the present and the past. 

Our Facebook Class Site is now named “Franklin High School Quakers Class of 68 Seattle” leaving off the 50th Reunion to the past.

a Private group

As posted on Facebook,  DID YOU KOW these other Facebook groups exist on our greater community featuring RAINIER VALLEY & SEATTLE conversation. You may want to peek see and JOIN them to widen & share your experiences.

Mark Benecke

Thanks for the kind words Rick.  I'm a lot more conscientious of my fitness today than I was way back when we were young, fresh and fearless.  Just trying to beat those longevity odds.....

Great team picutre Eddie!!  Great to see you're still playing tennis and looking so healthy and happy.  A big congratulations to you and your team on making it to your Section Finals!

Susan Niven

Wishing everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

Donna Amira

Thank you! May 2020 bring you great health, happiness, prosperity and the fulfillment of your heart's deepest desires.

Ric Rivera

As the 2019 Chapter ends another, another page, a wiser chapter begins. Wishing ALL the very best Health and Well-Being going forward. We are ALL interconnected no matter how far we are apart.  

Ric Rivera

As posted on Facebook Group page, "Franklin High School Quakers Class of 68 Seattle"
a Private group.

Hanging out in SEWARD PARK 2020

Target your calendar AUGUST 24 for FHS Class of '68 70th BIRTHDAY POTLUCK PICNIC. More details to come. Our team has submitted our preference of choices to Parks. Determination to be made at the end of MARCH

Order of preference is Shelter's #4, #3, #5, and #2. See map & pictures.

Stay tuned.

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

Have not been to Seward Park since about 1974.  Wow, these pictures really brought it back.  Forgot how beautiful it is.  Enjoy it, you lucky dogs!  

Michelle Goings (Steanson)

I grew up in a house facing andrews bay.  Saw Seward Park every morning and walked that loop more times than I can count.  Was soothing then and is still so when I get a chance to go home.  You're correct.  Updated some but still a great place to enjoy.

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Thanks Ric for the pictures and the map.  So many memories.

Al Ovadia

I am so excited to hopefully see everyone again this summer and am thrilled about the choice of Seward Park for the picnic. I grew up on Seward Park Ave., right behind the tennis courts and could sneak through the blackberry bushes and spend hours there as a kid. For many of us, Wayne Henry, Dale Cohen, Shelley Hill, Georgine Torbenson, Lianne Given, Fred Westergard, Greg Wold, Tom Rhodes, Dave Eberharter, Jay Franco, Jack Halfon, Phillip Anderson, Christine Hollister and Michelle (probably forgot someone) the park was often our playground as we all lived only a few blocks away. Sledding down Juneau, playing hide and seek in the Japanese garden, swimming to the dock and having sno cones on a hot day. Listening to music in the Ampiheatre, secretly feeding the fish at the hatchery, riding bikes or walking around "the loop", feeding the ducks or playing tennis (poorly). Powwow, chameleons on a string and so much more. The Park holds a special place in my heart and I am thrilled to have a chance to visit it again and spend the day with many of you.

Philip Anderson

Having the good fortune of living in a home that looked out at Seward Park and Andrews Bay, right next to Michelle's, I am looking forward to coming back and reconnecting with classmates and the Park. Lots of memories that are similar to Al's of time spent in and around the park and on the water in my 8 foot styrofoam saliboat. Hope this finds all of you well and thanks for posting the pictures of the Park and for the idea of having a 70th birthday party which for me is less than two months away. All the best...Phil

Don Lorenz

Even thou I grew up one block south of the hydroplane pits my memories of Seward Park are of riding my 10 speed bike like a mountain bike thru the woods. Many thrills as well as many spills. I will not be able to get together for the 70th picnic. I am always out of town the last week of August fly fishing somewhere out in the wilds of Alaska, Montana, etc. I will be out of town from August 24th - 30th. Health blessings to all.

Don Lorenz

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Hello everyone.  Just checking in with the Corona virus thing going on.  Suggesting that we be available to help and encourage each other as we walk through this trying time.  Blessings everyone.

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

Good idea, Nancy.  We are hunkered down in Toronto, hoping the government and the hospitals have done a good job for the tsunami of cases sure to come.  But since the weather is turning spring-like -- even tho it's still cold! -- we are going for many walks in our neighborhood.  There are lots of other walkers out, particularly people with kids on bikes or with dogs -- and we all smile or wave to each other as we cross the street to keep our distance.  It is lovely to see the spring bulbs finally poking their noses out and one sheltered place has tulips and daffs coming up, way ahead of the crocuses in our yard.  We're trying to do as little shopping as possible -- one to avoid the virus -- and two, it's so exhausting to come home and try to disinfect everything that we've brought in:  shoes off in the entryway, coats off.  Wash hands. Change clothes if we've been anywhere clothes may have contacted anything. Wash hands. Wipe down all products we bought (or mail we're bringing in) and put it away, Wash hands. Wipe down surfaces that products or mail were on. Wash hands.  Go take a nap!  Stay safe out there, everyone.  Good luck to us all.  

Ric Rivera

Since our age group and that, a vaccine will come in the near future. It is best to proceed with caution.

For now, our 'FHS 70th Birthday Picnic'is likely, "ON HOLD," more information will be coming if canceled.

King County Public Health

“New limits on large gatherings, other emergency strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19’

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/communicable-diseases/disease-control/novel-coronavirus/group-limits.aspx

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/communicable-diseases/disease-control/novel-coronavirus/protection.aspx

Ric Rivera

With sad news, but with a cautious outlook for the health of our FHS Quaker clan were canceling. But we have next year to look forward to hanging out together. In these challenging times, please be proactive in taking steps for your health and care of loved ones.

Here is a couple of Coronavirus Statistical Resource and News links both Locally by County, Nationally, and Globally.

https://coronavirus.wa.gov/

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

Susan Niven

Please stay safe and well!

Ric Rivera

THE PARALLEL YEAR 2020

Ric Rivera

Election-year rhetoric. Someone in his campaign feels empowered to stretch an incendiary spin to divide with the likes of Rush L. Quaker Gary fires back.

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

Go, Gary! 

Susan Niven

To all my FSH classmates!

Paul Nogaki

Hey Ric & Sylvia, 

I know that your beliefs are very important to you, as mine are to me, but I feel that if we make this FHS'68 site a place to draw lines and argue politics, it will no longer be a place where we can come and say "Hi" to old friends that we've known even since Kindergarten, but just another place to argue and insist that we're right and anyone who feels differently is wrong. 

May I quote some wise sage whose name slips my mind right now; "The only sure barrier to truth is to assume that you already have it."

I don't know if we have any agreed upon guidelines at this time; probably not, but maybe we should have some if we don't already. Is this an item for the Administrator?

Yaela Ettlinger (Yaela Ettlinger)

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Does anyone have current contact information for Jim Eastwood.s widow Becky.  Some want to contact her.

thanksl