Glen Rock High School Class of 1968
Messages and Memories

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Happy Holidays

Just want to wish all of you the happiest of holiday seasons. Hope the New Year is a healthy and happy one for you and yours.

  Lou

Louis Canonico
Reunion Recap

Hey Folks-

     Adding to Ginger's reflections the 50th was a tremendus success. Thanks to her and Jan for all the hard work in making it a reality. Wish more of you could have been there but those of us there thought about you all and represented.

      We did our informal gathering at Rivara's resturant (old Owl & I). It was fun seeing folks start to reconnect with old classmates they in many cases hadn't seen in years. We had a big surprise in that Wendy Van Heest (a few years behind us) got her brother Jimmy to come. He definitely got the prize for the longest trip to get to the reunion, he lives in Thailand! Was fantastic seeing him. 

     Although Saturday was a dreary day weather wise it didn't dampen our enthusiasm! In the morning folks visited the Glen Rock Museum in the old train station done on Main St. In honor of our class they had made a special display of 1968 era memorabilia. Thanks to Bill Mitchell and his wife for arranging this. Anumber of us convened for lunch at the Glen Rock Inn, still owned by the Quinn family. Conversation remained animated and you could feel th good will among all the classmates.

    After lunch a number of us toured the HS. Thanks to Carlo and Debbie Cella (also a few years behind us) for conducting the tour. Debbie is the Director fo the Arts program at the school. From the outside the school doesn't look too different, although some additions have been made. The halls also didn't look too different but there has definitely been allot of changes to classrooms. The students who go there have access to the latest technolgy and equipment. The old senior court looks like an outdoor patio of an upscale resturant. Was fun rememebring all the activity that took place in the confins of that building.

   Saturday night was the reunion dinner at our home base the DoubleTree Hotel. The room looked great and the food was pelntiful. A number of folks who hadn't been able to attend other events were able to join us for dinner, so we had more classmates to catch up with. The 5 hour affair flew by. We had a photographer take pictures. I suspect if you check back here you will have an opportunity to see many of them. Also hoping classmates who used their phones to take informal pictures thorugh the weekend will post them here. 

   While I had hoped that more of you could have joined us, I have to say the reunion and seeing all the folks was fantastic. Really glad we did it. 

Louis Canonico
To all classmembers of Glen Rock HS Class of 1968

Had a long ride out to Montauk Sunday morning, and had many hours to reflect about our reunion.  I thought it best to write some of these fleeting memories down before they are permanently stored in my brain's database.




First, thank you to all that ventured out on that dreary, drizzly evening.  I what somewhat apprehensive as to what the evening might evolve into, but, contrary to any possible negativity, l left feeling really good.  




Conversations with the "Coleman School Gang" were stories we will always remember, perhaps not as clearly every year, but they are there, only to have the voids filled in by another class member ... thanks Joyce, Carl, and Rich for helping to restore my brain cells.




And to all the others I was fortunate enough to have conversations with, "thanks for the memories".  This email would have been about 10 pages long yesterday morning, but, again, time has softened the tone 




To all of you ... we really did have a great upbringing ... we have friendships that will last our lifetime.




As our final chapter of life begins (which hopefully amounts to at least another 32 years), may you all be fortunate to have good health, great families, and most important, wonderful adventures and events that make each of us get up and smile every morning. Our 50th reunion showed a definitive side of calm, with shared photos of family, grandchildren, stories of parents lost, but a new beginning unfolding in front of us.




Start that bucket list ...




We are planning our 55th reunion; perhaps that dinner cruise around the Hudson!




Thank you to all!


Sadly, I just heard that Sam Fraint passed away on Saturday evening.  Perhaps this is a good time to reach out to our friends from school, and just say "thinking of you".  No other words.  It's just good to know we all remember each other.




Regards,




Ginger


GINGER BURGESS
Have fun!

Hello All ... I won't be headed East for the reunion so I wish you all the best. After working as an arts administrator for several years in Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and northern California, I decided to head back to the Phoenix area to be closer to my grown "kids" and now consult. Hope you all have a wonderful time. Dianne

Dianne McCullough
 
 
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