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

lawrenceeyre

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."