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Got some pictures of my 50th class reunion that were sent to us by a classmate Joyce Holley.

Amazingly, this cake accurately pictured our old high school building in Kinmundy, Illinois, a town with the population of about 900 in 1964.

Our School colors were purple and white.

That's Cathy, my wife, on the right sitting next to classmate Patsy Rose.  Between these two gals you can see my cousin Junie (John) and his wife Juanita.  I hadn't seen Junie in over 10 years.

 
 
 
 
 

 

 This be my sister Diane and I.  We sat just across the table from Cathy and Patsy.

 Me shaking hands with classmate Eddie See.  Eddie and I were at our last class reunion.

 

This is Junie again.  We were asked to stand and give a brief history of our lives since graduating.  Naturally everyone was reluctant to stand and talk, yours truly included.  But good ole Junie took care of that.  As soon as he had finished - he pointed across the room at me and put me on the spot to be the next victim.  So - we always obey our elders, right. 

Yup.  I did and kept it mighty short. 

This is our entire class gathered for a picture.  Out of a class of 42 there were 30 of us attending the 50th class reunion.  There was one guy, Marvin (Butch) Barbee who was there but he's not in this photo.  It was really an enjoyable afternoon of renewing old acquaintances and reliving some old memories.

Now for more mundane things.

Yup - more canning.  This is about 30 lbs or a half bushel of Romano tomatoes that Cathy specifically uses for her tomato sauce.  They're meatier and have a lot less juice than the regular tomatoes.  We wound up with  7 pint jars and 3 quart jar of sauce.  That should see us through the winter months but we'll probably can another batch just to give to the neighbors.