Lawrence Eyre's Father and 50 More Graphics

 

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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Congratulations and God's Blessings - John and Diana Robeson's 50th Wedding Anniversary

 

Congratulations and God's Blessings - John and Diana Robeson's 50th Wedding Anniversary

John and Diana Robeson were married on November 22nd, 1969.

John and Diana flew to the Golden Gate bridge.

They biked the Golden Gate bridge with their family.

John is one of two PhDs in math/science who were part of the experimental chem-physics class at Moline High, The Class the Stars Fell On.

Alan Hoffman was the other PhD in chem-physics class. Here is Alan getting his Eagle Scout award with John Robeson.

Note this link,
which includes some additional Robeson's photos and information.

Jeannine Lawson, MHS 66, Married to Jay McFadyen Since August 30, 1969.

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary - Jeannine Lawson McFadyen - August 30, 2019

Our latest addition to the Golden Wedding Anniversary List is Jeannine Lawson, MHS 66, married to Jay McFadyen since August 30, 1969.

The list will grow and more contributions are welcome. It is still anniversary if the spouse has not survived. Send via Facebook.