Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

Gosh I recognize a bunch of those folks. Looks so fun!  Thanks for posting.  Sylvia

Yaela Ettlinger (Yaela Ettlinger)

Hey women of 1968,  Those guys in Ric's pictures are having a lot of fun and we weren't (except for Janice)!  Should we organise a similar lunch for ourselves?

Janice Lynn Ferrera

didnt know i was going to be the only female there (not necessarily a bad thing!!).  but the women should definitely plan a get together.  used to do this but it's been quite awhile!

Judith E. Payne

That is so nice a bunch of you got together.  Yes it would be great to have a women's get together but i am so far away, I'd have to join by phone.

Yaela Ettlinger (Yaela Ettlinger)

Ok women, since there is some buy-in on the idea of a lunch for us, how should we go about organizing this?  Nancy R. can you help us get a list of '68 women and their contact info?  Probably there is a way to do this that I should already be aware of but I'm too old and spacey to remember what it is. 

As it looks like Lance Akutsu organized the men's gathering perhaps he can let us know about where they met and costs, etc. For those of you who have been so foolish as to move away from Seattle, one of my synagogues has a mechanism which allows people to zoom into live meetings and Dave Azose used something similar when we were planning the 50th reunion.  If we can borrow one it would allow people to join via zoom.

Let me know your thoughts.

Steve Condiotty

When we were at lunch we discussed getting more ladies to join us at our next get together. Those who would like to join us we will have Lance or myself post the details on this forum. It's great to be with all us old folks!

Karen Kummerfeldt

Take a look at the Seattle Times today. There is a wonderful article about Doreen (Cohen) Alhadeff. She is being knighted (!) by Spain for her work assisting Sephardic Jews obtain Spanish citizenship. Congrats to her.

John MacLeod

 WOW!!!  Dame Doreen from East Brighton/Graham Hill.  Congratulations.  A lot of hard work and time helping others.  Obviously Spain realized this and gave her a much earned reward and recognition for the giving of her self and time.  Congratulations, unbelivable.

John MacLeod

Karen, thanks for the heads up.................

Nancy Raetzloff (Groth)

Okay Yaela.  Any classmate with a check mark by their name on the Classmate Profile tab should be contactable via this website.  If there are any other ladies, you can ask me and I will see if I have info on them even though they haven't done a profile here.

Dempsey Henley

Judith E. Payne

It is wonderful to read about Doreen's life and accomplishments.   All this we didn't know about her as we went to school with her and how her life has unfolded.  Congratulations to you, Doreen, and to your strong heritage -- especially that wonderful grandmother!  May we all be such strong grandparents now with our little ones growing up, being examples to them.  

Yaela Ettlinger (Yaela Ettlinger)

Congratulations Doreen.  What wonderful and impressive work.  I also feel honored to have known you.

John MacLeod

Okay.  All of us mid-century babies are closing in on the 3/4 century mark.  Who would have guessed.  Maybe we can hear from some.  Like Tony Mamon, Mike Holman, Nancy Wong, Candy Eskanazi, Barb Shapiro, Esther Fisse, Nick Perensovich, Mark or Jerry Benneke, Lyn McKunny, Kieth Gorze, Kurt Gores, Peter Gayton, Chris Robinson, Marty Hill, Theresa Smith, Sandy Smith, Chuck Hansen  and any of our remaining clasmates.  Don't be bashful, just a yup, present and accounted.  I hope everyone is as lucky as me.  My magic mirror is set for 35.  No wrinkles, gray hair or sags and bags.  My scale has no pound or kilo numbers.  I figure that I am prepared for a reversal of gravity.  Not getting shorter.  My feet still reach the ground.

Just regale us with tales from yesterdays.  Like the time Clifford B III blew a whistle in the middle of a basketball game.  We all looked around like the dummies we were and the game continued.

Yak, Yak, Yak

John MacLeod

Met Walt Rice and Valerie Maekawa the first day of Kindegarten, Tom Balestrasi, Billy Talbert First grade, Dempsey Second grade, Wayne Henry Fifth grade, Lowell Siegfried and Bob Barber Ninth grade.  Many more that are not coming to mind, I'm sure.

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

Quite a few folks on Facebook. I see Tony Mamon, the Bennekes, Candy E., Marlene Souriano, and others there quite a bit. 

John MacLeod

Hoping our classmates in Florida survived safe and sound.  Jerry Israel, Howard Glaser, Jeanette Lucrisia, Connie Mesmer and Laurie Hansen.  Probably others also.  The only thing that I have experinced would be the Columbus Day storm of 62'.

John Hein

Jerry Israel in Floirda? Exsqueeze me? Geography was never my forte but I have it from a reliable source that Florida lies outside the propinquity of Panama. Are you tryin' to hoodwink us, Sheriff McLeod? I've been in touch with Laurie Hansen and the storm bypassed her for the most part. The others, I have no info, sorry...

John MacLeod

I have never, I mean never winked at a hood in my life.  Might have been hit on the head by one on a Ford or Chevy once or twice.  However Jerry's current bio says Miami Florida.  Now he may have moved to Panama City FL., or to the country of Panama???  I would go check the Inner Sanctum, but I might find Elvira Mistress of the Dark instead.  That might not go over too well at home.

Jerry, speak up.  Feeble minds don't need to know but want to anyway.

John MacLeod

Sylvia, good to hear from the North.  Are you all prepped for the winter?  Mukluks, fur lined unmentionables, sled runners all waxed and a supply of food?  Is there a Farmers' Almanac prediction for your winter?  Standard issue for us.  Wet, gray, cold, windy and maybe some snow.

Jerry Israel

Hi all  I am in the country of Panama in the Coronado area pacific side live 50 yards from  the ocean in a beach front condo

Mark Weaver

John MacLeod

Jerry, Good on you, too lucky.

Dang, it really chaps my hide when the other John is right.  Think we are having lunch this week and maybe Phil Anderson. 

Sylvia, my question about the north should been the south.  Toronto is about 275 miles south of Seattle.  Cousins in Windsor. Ontario tell me that it is the same Latitude as Northern California.  Windsor is a across from the river from Detroit.

Mark, sure do remember Margo.  Hope she is all right.  The Columbus Day Storm was a mere intestinal backfire in the wind compared to Ian.

I might have to volunteer for WITSEC if I continue spewing misinformation into the ether.

Lights on, nobody home.............

Sylvia Lovegren (Petras)

LOL, John.  Toronto winters are a bit colder but less snowy than northern New Jersey where we lived for many years, so not too many complaints. Although shoveling snow is not my preferred activity in old age. :)

Howard Alan Glazer

Hi, I reside in the Tampa Bay Area. Minimal damage. I hope all is well with all of you.