Class Reunion - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories

Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50’s & 60’s

Class Reunion

Seated L-R: Tom Henke, Stan Pleiman, Agnes (Benannter) Fisher, Shirley (Ernst) Hamilton, Doug Barhorst. Middle Row L-R: Joan (Borchers) Montenegro, Shirley (Moeller) Suchland, Carol (Schafer) Henke, Sue (Busse) Heyne, Louise (Tearnan) Kennard, Mildred (Peoppelman) Eilerman, Mary Lou (Bruns) Meyer, Linda (Luttmer) Fiessinger. Back Row L-R: Frank Schafer, Dave Boerger, Larry Stang, Nancy (Hoying) Pleiman, Mary (Ernst) Klein, Judy (Marshal) Cron, Paul Zircher, Larry DeLoye, John (Spike) Meinerding.

This past weekend our Ft. Loramie High School class of 1966 held our 55th class reunion, with 22 of 37 attending and 5 deceased. The event was held at Morrie’s and a great time was had by all. The Committee made up of Mary, Doug, Frank and Agnes really did a bang up job organizing everything including a fantastic menu with Agnes’s famous pies, a big screen TV with a running photo collage of classmates going way back to first grade with Miss Quinlin and even some baby pictures!

This past blog shares some of those first grade memories. How teacher Miss Quinlin kept us in order is anybody’s guess. Taking the group photo after 55 years was difficult enough as evidenced by this class photo headed for the trash heap. No body was paying attention to the camera and a couple appeared asleep!

The Committee asked me to provide the Welcome and Invocation, which I readily accepted since it gave me a chance to apologize for missing the 50th class reunion due to a family wedding. They were told the wedding couple is now unfortunately divorced, so I should have attended! During the Invocation, we held a moment of silence for our 5 deceased classmates; Ken Sanders (1965), Rick Wuebker (1998). Pat (Monnin) Boerger (2003), Fred Schulze )2012) & Linda (Siegel) Pleiman (2020).

In addition to the video photo collage, the Committee had Yearbooks going back to the 50’s, plus an informative booklet for everyone with classmate contact information as well as varsity letters showing four straight years as County Baseball League champions. Go Redskins!

One of the many highlights of the evening for me was reacquainting with the two female classmates who were featured in this past blog about some memorable kisses!

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