I received this in an email from Tim Carlson, Principle of Sycamore High School on 01/13/2012.
The Sycamore High School is establishing "The Sycamore High School Alumni Association" with the mission of "Supporting, Serving, Recognizing and Connecting" Sycamore High School Alumni. Please click on the link below to go to the Sycamore High School Alumni Facebook page. We are in the process of establishing a web page also and will email that information to you once it is up and running. This is just the start of what will be a terrific organization. Thanks - Tim Carlson
www.facebook.com/pages/Sycamore-High-School-Alumni/225111654233415
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What's New
January 2012
1. Updated "Welcome" page.
2. Updated "Upcoming Events" page.
3. Updated Birthdays & Anniv. for Jan.
4. Added "Classmate of the Month".
5. Check "Guest Book" for new entry.
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January Birthdays
7 - Nancy Hardesty Wirsing
12 - Dorothy Becker Brown
17 - Harold "Joe" Peplow
24 - Imogene Wilson Butz
January Anniversaries
17 - Bob & Wanda Stiles Gagnon
18 - Gary & Judy Holland
22 - Al & Alice Cudden Ratfield
30 - Orrin & Marion Vandeburg
Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays and Special Events have now been entered on the "Calendar" page for the entire year. Just click on "Calender" to view them. You can look up any classmates birthday or anniversary if you know what month it is in.
If I don't have your birthday or anniversary, let me know and I will post it.
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Reminder
Monthly - Class of 1956 Dinner. The dinner is held on the last Monday of each month - 6:00 PM. It will be held at the Parkway Restaurant. All classmates and their spouses are invited to attend.
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Classmate of the Month
Phyllis Carlson Roush
I got married right out of high school and raised four beautiful children. During that time, I operated a licensed day care out of my home.
When my youngest entered kindergarten I started working as a lunch room supervisor at West School in Sycamore. The following year I moved up to head cook/supervisor for West, North and Southeast schools. After 6 ½ years the school district bid out the food service so I was out of a job.
I got divorced and went to work as an Administrator I at N.I.U. Residence Halls. I was promoted to Adm. III and for the next 12 ½ years I was the Food Service Director at the Holmes Student Center at N.I.U.. I retired at age 65 with credit in the State of Illinois retirement system for 31 years.
In 1981, I married Marv. He is my soul partner. We live on a farm just north of Sycamore and have 2 horses, 1 dog, 5 hens and 1 rooster that likes to chase me. I only keep him around because he crows. I have 8 ewes and 1 ram. I raise lambs in the spring and have customers who buy them.
I am very active in the Mayfield Church. I also exercise three days a week and I am an active member of “Court Watch”, where we monitor our judges on domestic violence cases. I also try to stay involved in my grandchildren’s lives.
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Once a bio has been feature in the "Classmate of the Month" paragraph it is transfered to the "Then and Now" section if you missed it.
Someone suggested I list the classmates that haven't submitted a bio but it will be much shorter list if I list the ones that have submitted their bio's.
Bios already submitted and featured:
1. Gene Behler
2. Dorothy Becker Brown
3. Dorothy Hodge Carlson
4. John Florent
5. Bert Fredrick
6. Carol Stroberg Foster
7. Gary Holland
8. Alta Kuntz Hough
9. Gloria Johnson Krunnfusz
10. Jack Lindstrom
11. Nancy Reh Little
12. Elaine Benson Lock
13. Barb Quimet Parsons
14. Harold "Joe" Peplow
15. Nancy Martin Perisot
16. Carol Wilkins Vails
17. Orrin Vandeburg
18. Jean Askins Keister
19. Roberta Anderson Young
20. Dorothy Arneson Yurs
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About Your Classmates
12/05/2011 - Joe Peplow had knee replacement surgery, with some complications, but is back to work now so all is well.
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09/14/2011 - Two of our classmates, Sandy Gustafson Hill and Harold "Joe" Peplow went on a sky-diving adventure today. Below is a picture of Sandy and her jumping buddie. Kudos to them.
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Hall of Fame
9/20/2011 - Sycamore announced the newest inductees into its athletic Hall of Fame. The newest members include: Elmer Troutman, Justin Wilson, Dean Copple and the 1960 football team.
Troutman, a 1956 graduate, was a lineman on the football team that helped propel the Spartans to their first Little Seven Conference Championship and also their first undefeated season. He joins Bob Lindgren, Bert Fredrick, Mark Johnston and Gary Holland, in the Hall of Fame, also from that team and the Class of 1956.
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For Your Information.....
The Sycamore True Republican archives are now available on the internet at: www.library.Illinois.edu/dnc/idnc. Newspapers from the 1869 thru 1968 are available. Log on and check what was happening in 1956.
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Cleaning for a Reason
If you know any woman currently undergoing chemotherapy, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning. Once per month for 4 months, while she is in treatment. All she has to do is sign-up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment.
Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in her zip code area arrange for the service. This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547 partners to help these women.
It's our job to pass the word and let them know that there are people out there that care. Be a blessing to someone and pass this information along.
http://www.cleaningforareason.org/
Great information. You may not know someone going through chemo, but someone on your e-mail list might.
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I understand that some cell phone providers are giving a discount to veterans of our armed forces. I've heard that both Verizon and AT&T are giving 15 to 17% discounts to veterans. You will have to show your DD-214. It's worth checking out.
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The City of Sycamore launches a new website. Check it out at www.discoversycamore.com.
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The Sycamore School District (www.syc427.org) website no longer lists links to alumni class websites. They still have "Alumni info" under the high school page but nothing much listed there. You can just click on the year 1988, 1979, 1977 or 1957 listed below to link to that years class website. Presently listed are the classes of 1988, 1977, 1979, 1957.
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If anyone is trying to locate someone they might have served with in the military, a good website to check out might be "Together We Served". Just type in the branch of service and togetherweserved. com. Re: www.airforce.togetherweserved.com
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They are not "The Golden Years", they are "The Winter Years".
You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years.
It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate. And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went.
I know that I lived them all...
And I have glimpses of how it was back then and of all my hopes and dreams... But, here it is..the winter of my life and it catches me by surprise... How did I get here so fast? Where did the years go and where did my youth go?
I remember well...seeing older people through the years and thinking that those older people were years away from me and that winter was so far off that I could not fathom it or imagine fully what it would be like... But, here it is...my friends are retired and getting gray...they move slower and I see an older person now. .. I see the great change... Not like the ones that I remember who were young and vibrant... but, like me, their age is beginning to show and we are now those older folks that we used to see and never thought we'd be.
And so, now I enter into this new season of my life unprepared for all the aches and pains and the loss of strength and ability to go and do things that I wish I had done but never did!!
But, at least I know, that though the winter has come, and I'm not sure how long it will last.......Yes , I have regrets. There are things I wish I hadn't done ,,,,,things I should have done, but indeed, there are many things I'm happy to have done. It's all in a lifetime....
So, if you're not in your winter yet...let me remind you, that it will be here faster than you think. So, whatever you would like to accomplish in your life please do it quickly! Don't put things off too long!! Go to the places you have wanted
to see, put other things aside, take those trips. Make memories with your family and friends.
Life goes by quickly. So, do what you can today, as you can never be sure whether this is your winter or not!
You have no promise that you will see all the seasons of your life...so, live for good today and
say all the things that you want your loved ones to remember...
for all the things that you have done for them in all the years past!!
'Life is a gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to those who come after.
Make it a fantastic one.'
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Sponsors
As you may know I sent out and email some time back requesting classmates to sponsor our class website for another five years. I am happy to report the following class members have made this website possible for another five years by their generous contributions. Our website is now paid for until August 2016. Sponsors of this Alumni website, in random order are Gene Behler, Dorothy Becker Brown, Colleen Campbell, Karen Hilstrom Duffey, Carol Stroberg Foster, Alta Kuntz Hough, Jean Askins Keister, Nancy Neiwold, Joe Peplow, Barb Miller Stone, Pat Cretsinger Nelson, Dave Drenkpohl, Oz Kendall, Elaine Benson Lock, Pat O'Connor, Sandra Gustafson Hill, Wanda Stiles Gagnon, Nancy Hardesty Wirsing, Ron Salemi, Don Smith, Ivan Jones, Chuck Sibley and Pat Baker Reed-Martin.
We thank you all.
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I would like to extend a special thanks to Gene Behler for the numerous articles he has written for this website; some of which, can be found on the "Archives" page.
I would also like to thank Joe Peplow for the pictures he has supplied. He is becoming the websites official photographer.
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