Happy 50th Anniversary - Tom and Jane Gramkow

 

Happy 50th Anniversary - Tom and Jane Gramkow

Happy 50th Anniversary, Steve and Liz Morgan Kilgard

 

Happy 50th Anniversary, Steve and Liz Morgan Kilgard

"Just a note to thank Liz's sisters and husbands for hosting a 50th Anniversary dinner for us in the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina. Also to thank our son, daughter-in-law, daughter, son-in-law and all the grand kids for hosting a great weekend in IA celebrating our anniversary. It was great fun and really appreciated." September 15, 2020

Salem Lutheran Church, Moline.
Find Steve.

Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary - Mary Parsons and Donald Caisley.

 Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary - Mary Parsons and Donald Caisley. God's Blessings for Many More.

Celebrating last year - their 49th anniversary.

Don and Mary Parsons.

Eagle Photos from Mary Parsons Caisley

Mary reports that these photos were taken in Iowa. 

She gave permission to post them.

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary - Lucia Biorn MHS '66

 

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary - Lucia Biorn MHS '66

Lucia Biorn and Al Bofinger, June 20, 1970

 Lucia Biorn and her future husband Al Bofinger.
Marilyn Rue with her future husband Ron Lindberg.
GAB formal, Augustana College.

Lucia and Al Bofinger

When the 50th Wedding Anniversaries Are Complete, The Journalist Will Fetch Interesting Graphics Randomly

 

Dave Coopman Reports on His Latest Book about Our Area

2010

Dave Coopman, '66:
"Here's an update on Quad City International Airport (or as G. Jackson refers to it, "The Plane Truth")... the manuscript is finished, the images have been chosen, the layout is complete, and it was all shipped off to the publisher Thursday. If it's like the other two books I did for Arcadia, it will probably be available in April or May, 2011. I'll keep you posted."

Monday, October 25, 2010

Debbie Mitchell Gahan Honored

Gahan earns Zonta honor

Perryville’s Mayor Debbie Gahan was honored Friday as a 2010 Woman of Achievement by the Cape Girardeau Chapter of Zonta International. One of just 7 women in the region selected for the award, Gahan is the first woman elected Perryville’s mayor in the city’s 171-year history. She volunteers with dozens of organizations and encourages young girls to become educated and follow their dreams. Gahan is pictured here with her husband John Gahan. For details, see the Oct. 28 issue of The Republic-Monitor.

Additional information is linked here.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Rev. Mellish - First Congregational Church, Moline.
Known To Many in Our Class

 

First Congregational Church, Moline, often called First Congo

The Rev. Dr. William Stanley Mellish, formerly of Moline, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010.

His wife, Tevis, son, Bill, daughter-in-law, Mary Lou, and grandchildren, Merissa and James, miss him very much.

His life will be celebrated in a memorial service at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 23, at First Congregational Church, 6501 Wydown Blvd., Clayton, MO 63105. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Tevis Huber Mellish and William Stanley Mellish Scholarship fund at Eden Seminary, 475 East Lockwood, St. Louis, MO 63119.

Stan was a great guy who was widely loved and respected. As a minister of the United Church of Christ, he touched many people with caring council and as a valued mentor. He was brilliant in the pulpit and moved people as much with his intellect as he did with his rich inspiring voice.

He was born and raised in the Boston area but began his ministry serving churches in Chicago. As a testimony to his pastoral leadership skills he spent 15 years each at the First Congregational Church in Moline, and First Congregational Church in St. Louis, Mo., where he also was Minister Emeritus.

Stan would not want to be thought of as a scholar. However, his knowledge of literature, verse, world events, history, and of course spiritual writings was vast and deep. His higher education began at Gordon College, continued at Yale Divinity School, and was enhanced with study at Exeter College, Oxford, and an honorary Doctorate from Eden Seminary.

He believed in serving the local community and the wider world. He was president of the Moline Rotary Club and YMCA, and on many national and local boards including Eden Seminary.

Stan also served as a delegate for many national and international conventions. These include but aren't limited to many UCC conventions, an International World Church Association meeting in Nairobi, and a member of the sister city meeting in Beijing.

His service activities were lead by a sense of duty but also by passion for travel. He and Tevis traveled the world extensively to feed their love of new cultures and experiences. He also served as a tour leader (with an able assist from Tevis) for many years to exotic destinations near and far.

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Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary Today - Kathleen Wilcox Kapetanakis (MHS 66) and George Kapetanakis

 

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary Today -

Kathleen Wilcox Kapetanakis (MHS 66) and George Kapetanakis

Very beautiful wedding photo!

We had wonderful teachers and friends, Garfield, in Moline, 60 years ago.
If you cannot spot Kathy, please visit an ophthalmologist soon.

Golden Wedding Anniversary on Valentine's Day - Deborah and Jack Clow. Congratulations and God's Blessings

 Golden Wedding Anniversary on Valentine's Day - Deborah and Jack Clow.

Congratulations and God's Blessings

Jack Clow served in the Air Force. Debbie Anderson was a civilian employee. She is MHS 67.

Lawrence Eyre's Father and 50 More Graphics

 

Just one Haiku! and he falls off the goalpost.

Around 50 graphics are linked here.

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary - Tim and Joyce Ballard

 

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary - Tim and Joyce Ballard

This is one of the most beautiful photos of a wedding.
The use of white and contrasts - extra special.

Tim and Joyce Ballard celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on August 29th,

2020.

A list of wedding anniversaries on Facebook reminded me to include their Golden Wedding 

Anniversary for this blog. 

Tim's scan of the Coolidge annuals have been enormously popular. The seventh grade of the 

Class of 1966 has been the most viewed for the week - many times.

Johnny Cash Gets To Meet Lawrence Eyre - 1957

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1957: Larry Vande Geest from Garfield School invites me to Wharton Field House for a show by a Grand Ole Opry touring company--I hear twangy bass guitar, loop-de-looping pedal steel guitar, and glottal stop singing for the first time in my life. The music is dazzling, but the night's indelible memory comes from the two lines converging at a table where one man wearing a black shirt signs autographs with both hands at once, giving two stunned kids whose careers in cursive writing are barely two years along the following message: "Best wishes--Johnny Cash."

 

The Other Anniversary on November 22nd - Gregory Jackson and Christina Ellenberger Jackson - Fifty Years

 

The Other Anniversary on November 22nd -
Gregory Jackson and Christina Ellenberger Jackson - Fifty Years

John Robeson asked me when I was going to post our 50th wedding anniversary. As the cub reporter for Moline Memories, I began asking him early for anniversary photos.

John and I were in chem-physics class together and even appeared in the same newspaper photograph about the class. That was about 54 years ago. It was great to see John and Diana at the 50th reunion and earlier ones. Planning ahead, we have marked our calendars for the 70th reunion.

Christina and I met the first day of classes at Augustana College. I walked to school, rode my bike, and sometimes had a car. Many of  the friends from MHS 66 - The Class the Stars Fell On - hung around the student union. Christina got to know the Moliners and always came to the reunions. We went to my mother's activities and to my father's, so she became quite used to the Quad-Cities.

I took German classes, her major, and Christina took two years of Greek. We got married 15 minutes after early graduation from Augustana.

We celebrated our anniversary with friends and church members all over the US, Australia, and the Philippines. It was great to hear from the Canadian branch, too. I got to know that side of the family better when we lived and earned degrees in Ontario, right after Augustana and marriage. When we met Pastor Walter Otten, he knew the same clan from serving as a pastor in southern Ontario. We had another connection, with Pastor Richard J. Neuhaus, since we attended his home parish and heard his late father preach on Easter Sunday.

Pastor Jordan Palangyos, in the Philippines, likes to borrow blog posts and he is welcome to do that. He asked his pastor friends, Lito and me, to write about traditional marriage, so I will add a paragraph here.

God created the institution of marriage, the only human institution directly from Him.  God commands what is good for us, so we should not look upon marriage as a burden but as a divine blessing. There is nothing better than loving and being loved by someone. If God allows us a reasonable amount of health, we can grow in marriage for decades, experiencing the changes in life, opportunities and disappointments arising.

Marriage is the ultimate partnership, but nothing breaks up a partnership like a lack of forgiveness. Without forgiveness through faith in Christ, no partnership can survive. The result of unforgiveness is mutual accusation, mutual irritation, mutual hate replacing love.

The irony is that all people marry their opposites, because opposites attract and then annoy. Where one is strong, the other is weak or perhaps indifferent. That even includes who makes the ice cubes and other fundamental tasks. Humility lets us see how the other person is vital to all happiness, success, tranquility, and laughter. The opposite perspective is often exactly right, as I often remind my wife. But I hasten to add that she has made everything possible and delightful as well.

If we do not remain with the True Vine, Christ, through the Gospel Word and worship, we cannot be fruitful. Eternal values, revealed in the Scriptures, transcend the troubles of the day and transform the worst difficulties into blessings.

October 3rd, 60th Reunion for Moline Class of 1966

 

Hear ye, hear ye! Moline High School's Class of 1966 will gather October 3rd for our 60th Reunion. Stay tuned for more news arriving soon,

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