60-YEAR REUNION DATE
FRIDAY, September 13, 2024
Lost Spur Golf and Event Center
2750 Sibley Memorial Highway (MN Hwy 13)
4 pm to 8 pm
If you plan to attend our 60-Year Reunion on September 13 we need to know!
Our current count is at 82 for our 60th, but we've had a few cancellations. See the email from Barb Adams Anderson below.
FOOD AND SERVING INFORMATION FOR FRIDAY
We'll have a Chef's Platter with fruit, veggies, cheese and crackers available at 4:30 as people gather.
And at 5:30 we'll have these Food Stations:
Burger & Chicken Sliders Station with Fingerling Potatoes and a Fall House Salad
Seafood Station with Walleye Fingers, Coconut Shrimp and Beer Battered Cod
Chinese Station with Cream Cheese Wontons, Vegetable Egg Rolls, Sesame Chicken and Fried Rice
If anyone has food restrictions, use the Contact Us tab to let me know.
If you can come, you can still join us by paying $50 at the door. There are classmates who said they were coming but who haven't signed up yet. Please join us if you can.
Please let me know so I can make a nametag.
You can also still go online to the Buy Tickets tab and use your credit card to sign up. When you do, your name will immediately appear on the Who's Coming list and the the total count will be increased.
Take a look at the Who's Coming tab to see if anyone new has signed up. The latest signups appear first on the list. Don't miss this chance to reconnect with classmates who shared a very important part of your life.
We'll be meeting with our venue Lost Spur tomorrow (9/4) to give them a headcount and plan the menu.
Right now our total count is at 82 for the 60th.
If you can't come, please think about creating a profile (Classmate Profiles) or sending a note to this website (Contact Us) to let classmates know what's new.
LATEST NOTES FROM CLASSMATES
Dan Menser from Victoria MN just wrote: It’s with sad regrets we must cancel our plans to be with you for the 60th reunion. My wife, Marilyn has contracted a viral malady 48 hours ago, and we don’t want to spread anything. She tests negative for Covid. We attended the 5th and the 10th reunions, then life got busy (like all of you) with an increasingly busy dental practice, Navy Reserve, and a teaching appointment at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.
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Dave Floyd from Dundee FL wrote on 9/11/24: I retired from my skydiving career, shutting down my business “Pink Floyd’s Freefall Portraits” just before I turned seventy.
Had fun! Jumped in 13 countries and 35 states and had incredible adventures as a Professional Exhibition Jumper and BASE jumper.
No injuries, but I’ve survived six cancers and a heart attack!
I have a house on top of one of Florida’s highest hills.
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J Craig Scherf from Duluth MN wrote 0n 9/10/24: It’s with regret that I must advise that I am unable to attend due to a family emergency. I offer my very best wishes to all attending and again extend my invitation to any visiting Duluth-Superior or North Shore to contact me should you have time.
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Ross Andereson wrote on 9/5/24: I will not be attending our 60th Reunion. Two years ago, my wife, Barbara, and I moved from Minnesota. I had worked as a primary care physician for 38 years in Shoreview, MN. Barbara and I relocated to be near children and grandchildren, spending half our time in Decatur, GA, near our one son and his family, and spending half our time in Larkspur, CO, near another son and daughter and their families. Will miss reconnecting with many of you and sharing memories rosseander@comcast.net.
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Barb Adams Anderson from Minneapolis just wrote on 9/6/24 Hi everyone, I was very excited to come to the Reunion and catch up witih you. However, I have just had open heart surgery (a surprise!) to fix a blockage that couldn't be opened with a stent. (Fortunately, no heart attack!) I'm recovering well, but won't be well enough to attend the reunion. I am very disappointed! Anyway, otherwise, life has been good with trips to New Zealand to visit our daughter and grandsons (ages 13 and 15), to California to visit our son and his wife, and lots of time with our other son and his wife and two little girls (ages 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 here in Minneapolis. I study Swedish and sing in a Swedish women's choir at the American Swedish Institute, and I enjoy lots of walks around our beautiful lakes with my husband. Love to all!
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Tom Anderson wrote: I won’t be able to make it to Reunion 2024. I appreciate all your work in keeping us connected, and I plan to attend future events. Not much has changed for me since our 50th reunion. I continue to volunteer with the National Marrow Donor Program as a courier, and I continue to work seasonally preparing taxes. I still live in south Minneapolis and stay active with bicycling, hiking, travel and family activities. majortom12@hotmail.com
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Holly Hannah Lewis from Minneapolis wrote: I just looked at the whole video from the 25th and feel nostalgic for our noble friends. So I just signed up for the 13th (Friday the 13th that is) and look forward to seeing you there. I thought it best to leave my husband at home, since for all these years he hasn’t really known anyone who is coming….See you then!
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Ross Anderson wrote: I will not be attending our 60th Reunion. Two years ago, my wife, Barbara, and I moved from Minnesota. I had worked as a primary care physician for 38 years in Shoreview, MN. Barbara and I relocated to be near children and grandchildren, spending half our time in Decatur, GA, near our one son and his family, and spending half our time in Larkspur, CO, near another son and daughter and their families. Will miss reconnecting with many of you and sharing memories.
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See New Profiles (on the Classmate Profiles tab) for Don Davies, Rose Cohen-Brown and Sally Lynum
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Toni Okada from Mercer Island WA wrote: I won’t be there this year but will be thinking about you. I keep in touch with Barb Adams Anderson and Jean Lawrence Mandeville (we were neighbors in HS) and Kathy Jensen Lambert and Linda Smith Mikyska (classmates in Med Tech at the U of MN). I haven’t been back to MN in a few years since my dad passed away (2017).
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Jerry Anderson from Texas City TX wrote: 13 grand kids and 7 great-grand kids keep me on my toes here in Texas and I won't make this years reunion.
Best wishes and warm regards. I hope the reunion is successful.
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Mary Freeman from Pasadena CA wrote: Thanks so much for doing this! I didn't receive a postcard but had heard from friends that this event was in the works. Unfortunately I will be traveling in Scotland in September so will be unable to attend. Wish I could - and I’m sure it will be a great time.
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Sue Hagen Byrne from Santa Rosa CA wrote: Thank you so much for all your diligent work on this. I wish I could be there to help you with all the early prep work. I did receive my postcard, and as the saying goes, “The check’s in the mail!” I’ll be arriving earlier in the week from California, so if there’s any way I can be of help, please let me know. I’m really looking forward to the reunion.
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Stephanie Haider from Breezy Point and Fort Meyers wrote: Thank you for taking on this task. I hope you will have some classmates respond. My husband and I may be able to attend.
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Gerry Harding Cronquist from Eagle River AK (Alaska!) wrote: I was so glad to hear you're still helping to organize the WHS class reunions. Would you believe I am still working. I went with a couple of friends to Switzerland the end of November - first week of December to the Christmas Markets. We went to Bath, England the year before that. Everything is fine in our home. I don't think I will be in MN for the class reunion, but I know you will be doing an awesome job.
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John Waterhouse from Henderson NV wrote: You and I conversed 10 years ago before the last reunion. You called it to my attention that Dick Sigurdson had also moved to Henderson Nevada, where I continue to live now. I contacted him, and we got together for a nice lunch. Got caught up with each other and had a good time. Unfortunately it was only once. Of course he has been busy and I busy, but that is no excuse. I will have to call him and we will have to get together (assuming he is still in Henderson).
How fun to have all those videos on youtube! I got your email yesterday, and previewed parts of several of those videos. How fun! And the video from 1964! How amazing! That had to be super 8 millimeter film, as electronic videos weren't available back then. Of course the resolution was not so good going back to 1964, but was to be expected. Will spend more time with those videos.
I have never made a reunion, and I am somewhat hopeful of attending this year. But within the last ten years, I have developed a medical condition making travel very difficult, but not impossible. Time will tell.
At the age of 78, I am still in pretty good health and I hope you are too.
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If your email address has changed since 2014, please update your contact information. Click on the "Contact us" tab and send your name, address, phone and email information.
Thanks to the classmates who have sent emails with new updated contact information.
WHS will mark its 100-Year Anniversary in 2025 with a big celebration.
Planning is getting underway and it looks like the celebration will take place in August 2025. I'll post more information as I have it.
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Dick Sigurdson has moved videos of past reunions and our class movie to YouTube.
The orange copy below are hyperlinks to YouTube web addresses and you should be able to just click on the link and be taken to each video. If that doesn't work, try copying the link and pasting it into your browser.
Dick also has DVDs available for the cost of postage while supplies last. You can reach him at rcsigurd04@gmail.com
50 Yr. Reunion Video
https://youtu.be/Pp2WzGLjSjk
1989 25th Reunion Videos
https://youtu.be/nyFjm8JRHxQ
1994 30th Reunion Video
https://youtu.be/bo3TLhSAhT8
2004 40th Reunion Video
https://youtu.be/U2Xv79Ceg2c
1964 Sr. Class Movie
https://youtu.be/6BPJB78Cu8Q
MORE TO COME!!!!
Keep checking back for more updates.
