A Golden Anniversary: Class of 1974

What happened in 1974?

And Randy and his classmates graduated from Stafford High School. Their celebration began last Friday night with a soup supper at the Stafford Senior Center. (How appropriate, right? There might have been a joke or two made about the location.)

 

 Friday night soup supper crowd

Back row: Jim Carter, Rex Hildebrand, Randy Fritzemeier, Tom Tuckwood, Dale Hearn, Gregg Blew, Terry McCune, Richard Brensing, Rex Hoskinson, Bob Howell

Front row: Gemma Austin, Nancy Hildebrand, Connie Harmon, Renee Salem, Marcia Bauerle, Jim Powell

Last weekend during Stafford's Oktoberfest, they celebrated their 50th class reunion. When you're 17 or 18 and walking across the stage to receive your diploma, you don't realize how quickly those 50 years will fly by.

Different people came to different parts of the reunion. This was Saturday night following the all-school alumni banquet. (The only one not identified before is Peggy Miller, second from the right in the front row.)

Randy's class has done a great job getting together every five years since graduation for reunions. I've been to all but the first one, so it kind of feels like I'm part of them, too. 

They've lost 12 of their 46 classmates, which I thought seemed like quite a few. Some have been able to be at all the reunions and others live much further away and were just able to get back for a few milestone gatherings like the 50th.

Photo by Julie McNickle

 

 They were also part of the annual Oktoberfest parade.

Photo by Dale Hearn - Getting ready for the parade

Some of the spouses got into the photo at the Nora Larabee Memorial Library Saturday afternoon.

Thanks to Julie McNickle for the photo from Saturday night's alumni banquet (below). She does a great job in documenting events through her photography.

Hopefully, my Skyline High School Class of 1975 get-together for our 50th next year will be just as successful.