Lawrence J. Pepper – Delaware OH

I had two strokes, one affecting my eyesight and another affecting my speech, so I’m sorry I didn’t get to my 60th reunion.  I am starting a new life here but I hope to receive the newsletter to keep up with my classmates.
 

The class held its 60th reunion in Bexley on June 18-19.  Twenty-seven of the class of 135 graduates attended.  Bob Clark and his wife, Nancy Weiffenbach Clark (also class 1950) chaired the committee that planned and arranged the event.  A dinner and reception were held Friday night at the Bexley Monk.  A Saturday brunch at the Columbus Country Club included a memorial moment for the 40 classmates that are known to have passed on, and a special tribute to Judah Folkman ’50, a physician and medical researcher who made landmark contributions to medical science before his death in 2008.  Folkman was the graduation speaker at the commencement of the class of 2000 and a video of his commencement talk was shown.  Following the brunch, the group enjoyed a bus tour of Bexley, narrated by Ed Hamblin, class of 1948.
 

Margie Blashek Baer – Boca Raton FL

Each issue of our alumni association newsletter makes me more proud of our high school.  It is very exciting to read of the accomplishments of our alumni and the very special teachers we had and to know that it certainly has continued.  I have been blessed with a wonderful life – married for 45 years to a man who is still remembered for his philanthropy and civic and community service even though he passed away in 1999.  I am fortunate as well the “second time around” and am enjoying a continual honeymoon with a great man.  We spend summers in the Winter Park CO area.
 

Barbara DeNucci Hendrickson – Hayward CA

Well, here we are, most of us 77 years old, give or take a year or two, and one of the realities is that many of us are leaving this life for whatever lies beyond.  Some of you may feel that I shouldn’t mention this, but I disagree.  It’s a fact of my life that 30% of my high school classmates are gone for good.  For those of you who feel as I do, if you’d like a list of our friends who have moved on, email me at bchraven@pacbell.net.  I’ll send you the list, and I’m hoping we can honor them at our 60th reunion.

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Lawrence Pepper – Columbus OH

I’m looking forward to the class reunion in 2010. It will be our 60th reunion and it will be great to see the classmates who are still with us. I’m now retired and am enjoying the time I have left with my daughter and grandchildren.
 

Lawrence Pepper – Columbus OH

I am now retired and turned 77 on December 21, 2008.  2008 was my first year of retirement and it has gone by very quickly but has given me more time to visit my daughter and grandchildren in Clarksville TN.  I’m looking forward to our 60th class reunion in 2010.  It is a sad fact that many of my classmates have passed away.
 

Barbara DeNucci Hendrickson – Hayward CA

I’m sorry to hear of the passing of Betty Anne Miller.  Just the other day I was looking at an old photo of my 12th birthday party and she is in the picture, along with friends Judy Glaize, Gert, Diane Neighbors, Bobbie Krakoff, Donna Bukey and others. 

As we all hit the ripe age of 75-76 we are starting to lose loved ones.  Just since 2000 I’ve lost two aunts and an uncle and now my cousin, Carolyn, 2nd Vellani grandchild after me.  Now I’m the oldest person of my big Columbus family.  Whew! 

I hope all of you out there are in decent, if not great, health.  And I hope we’re going to have a 60th reunion in two years.  I am too far away to help with that, but I’ve offered to be the class rep, even tho I live on the western edge of the US.  Please, local classmates!  Get together and work on a 60th reunion.  I would love to see you all again.  I’ll help with whatever I can.  Email: bchraven@pacbell.net.
 

Jerry Smeck – Modesto CA

A “special thanks” to Carol Middaugh for her dedication to the BHSAA. I really enjoyed Ed Hamblin’s article re: Bexley historical information. Our sailboat is gone we are RVing in our Tiffin Zephyr coach. Our twin 23 year old grandsons are back safely from Iraq (2 tours) and out of the USMC. They made this grandpa proud, as I was a Marine in the Korean War. Nov. 3, I’ll be 75 and I just paid lifetime dues. I guess that means I’ll be around for at least another 10 years.
 

Barbara DeNucci Hendrickson – Hayward CA 

This summer I did something I hope all of you will do.  After several years of archiving maternal family photos and historical documents, I took them all back to Columbus, where most of my family still lives.  My cousin Amy and I bought a bookcase for her living room and filled it with photo albums, books and pamphlets about the family home villages, the original family history scrapbook and correspondence.  All these materials are now available to my cousins and their children and grandchildren.
 

Terry Smeck – Modesto CA

We are still enjoying the RV lifestyle.  Will be in Oregon, on the Rogue River, at Four Seasons RV Resort most of the summer.  I had a full knee replacement Dec. ’05 and it is almost 100% on April 1st.  I enjoyed visiting with Tom Montague and Ted Cook and look forward to more reunions in the future.  I always look forward to receiving the Alumni newsletters.  We gave up on sailing due to bad knees.  Broke my heart to sell our beautiful 42’ Catalina.  Nancy and I passed our 51st anniversary March 5th and are great-grandparents twice.

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