Blogging allows you to write articles to keep people up to date on the progress of any happenings in your life,  or just to rant about anything. Upload photos, create links to other sites, allow readers to respond -- or not. It's your blog. It's your voice on the internet.

Now that we have had this page for a while I think I know how it works. This is where we should be submitting our comments instead of putting them in the "Quest Book". If you have something you would like to say or if you have a question just click on the "Add a new comment" line at the bottom of the page and fill in the information. 

If you would like to "Reply" to someones comment/question just click on the Word "Reply" in the box of that person's comment/question and type in your reply..

August 26, 2008

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Dotti Peplow-Mortell on August 26, 2008 1:48 PM
Class of 1956:  Nancy Jackson Miller and I were talking today and the question arose "Where did the Abraham Lincoln statue come from and when did it appear at SHS - the building from which we all graduated." Does anyone know the history of the statue?  By the way, Abe now resides in the middle school on Rte 23 North.  Nancy says it's been repainted/refurbished and looks wonderful.  If anyone knows when the statue came to Sycamore and from whom it came, would love to hear from you.  Nancy & I join so many others who mourn the loss of the "old" high school to a grocery store & development.  It was a great school - in our memories at least.  Thanks.
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Pat Cretsinger Nelson on August 26, 2008 8:06 PM
The Lincoln statue was in the hall in 1951.  I THINK it was a class gift, but i don't know from which year.  I bet Sally Stevens might be able to shed some light on it.
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Merrill Clark on August 26, 2008 6:12 PM

Telephone: 269-445-8769 

" Hi .. to the '56 class .. again; I'm from the '55 class of St. Charles, Il., and actually do not really know if we have a website with which to connect.
Anyway, I decided to check in for some reason today, and glad I did. Thanks to Joe and Gene I have enjoyed reading alll about the school history, and especially about John's class members.
Just to let you know, John's great and grand "experiment" with Roseland Organic Farms in Cassopolis, Michigan is moving right along as before ... and even better. Our son Lincoln and his wife (Shelly, grandkids Emily, Landon and Grace) have opened a new organic market on their close-by farm, after a renovation of a "milk parlor" into a market. Hope anyone in pursuit of great organic food .. beef, vegs, fruit, pawpaws (!)and a look at a REAL FARM with animals in pastures (!), please come!! Some of you may remember John and I expanded his great youthful polymer resin work into Vesperglas Originals .. lamps and ornamental pieces, screens, etc...with natural leaves, flowers, grasses, etc. in resin panels. If you come to Roseland market, you will see several pieces there ... with "John 'written' all over them!"
We miss him a lot here, but we know we are going the direction he wanted, and probably spending more than he would have in the process!! Hope to see some of you!  Merrill Clark 
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Jack Lindstrom on September 29, 2008 11:09 AM
Did any of you do anything fun and exiting this year that you would like to share with your classmates. A special vacation or trip, family reunion, visit an old classmate or spend a special time with your grandchildren. Share it with the rest of us.

I didn't do anything special this year but there seemed to be plently going on around here this year with weddings, funerals, reunions and special times with family and friends. We still hope to get down to Indianapolis to spend some time with Jackie and Gene this fall.

By the way; "GO CUBS GO"
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Jack Lindstrom on December 4, 2008 10:03 AM
Well, it looks like this winter is picking up where last winter left off. Our first two snow falls, which came within 3 days of each other totaled about 8 inches of snow and they are predicting more snow for this Saterday and the following Monday. I just love it. NOT...............

Cheryl & I would like to wish everyone in the Class of 1956 and their spouses a very Merry Christmas and healthy New Year.
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Joe Peplow on December 21, 2008 10:37 AM
Jack, I can't thank you enough for your fanatastic efforts on the website.
Classmates, we all have stories to share
and our website is the place to do it. While I have my moments of wondering where I left my keys ( O.K., that been going on for the last 30 years), I have some very vivid memories from age 5-18 in Sycamore. I would like to read sbout some of your memories from the 40s and 50s. C'mon, sit down and record your special memories, for your classmates, children and grandkids. We are pretty lucky to still be around and if we have memories of classmates who are no longer with us, lets get those memories recorded and shared.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a happy, healthy New Year!
Joe Peplow
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Jack Lindstrom on December 23, 2008 3:36 PM
All you have to do is email them to me at jaxson4801@sbcglobal.net and I will add them to the "Reflections" page on the website.
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