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Volume 6, Number
10, May 2002
MIDNIGHT SUN ONLINE
-The Online Newsletter
for Robert E. Peary High School Alumni-
MSO WEB SITE - http://www.pearyhs.org/
INTRODUCTION
Greetings
Huskies,
MEMORIAL
DAY:
Please take a moment to view the names of those military service alumni
listed on the Bell Tower plaque who died while serving our nation (while
Peary was open). The link is
posted on the main page of MSO.
REUNIONS:
Specific information for reunions scheduled this year can be found online
at the MSO website in the respective class info section.
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CLASS OF 1964 (‘63-‘65) Planning info for 2004 in this newsletter
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CLASS OF 1967 No plans known
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CLASS OF 1972 Contact Dena Besoner Saunders, dsaunders@hrsa.gov
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CLASS OF 1977 October 11-13. Classes
of 1976 and 1978 invited
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CLASS OF 1982 July 19-21. Update
below.
ALL
CLASSES
- “Suds & Sun” in Ocean City, September 28.
Information is posted in the Class of 1968 Info Section online.
Contact Kathleen Niepsey, OceanB54@aol.com. Also Paul Coder, Rich Trott, Rich Waalkes.
1982
UPDATE/DETAILS:
It’s A Weekend Extravaganza! The
cost is $75/person. Enjoy a
weekend of catching up with old friends and reminiscing about good times
gone by.
The
itinerary is as follows:
Friday,
July 19th: Casual gathering at Summit Station in Gaithersburg. Billie Jo (Joseph) Phucas’s band, The Distractions will be
playing, beginning at 9:00pm.
Saturday,
July 20th: “Come as you like” to the reunion at the
Doubletree Rockville, from 7:00 pm to midnight.
Dress is whatever you want it to be (except jeans); dressy or
casual-you decide. Open bar will be provided from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, and then
you’re on your own. There will be plenty of food and dancing, so come
prepared! For you night owls,
Polly Esther’s is in the hotel and open until 2:00 a.m.
Find a way to make it there.
Sunday,
July 21st: Family picnic at Lake Needwood at 12:00 noon.
Bring your family and your own food and beverage.
(No alcohol allowed, per park regulations.)
Come rain or shine.
Participate
in the Class of ‘82 Slide Show. Send
us your (digital/scanned) photos from high school and beyond.... Whatever
is special to you. Email your
pictures to peary82@hotmail.com
(no hard copies please) by July 1. And BE SURE TO LABEL THEM, i.e., who is
in the pictures and their significance.
Mailings will be sent in early June.
CHAT
ROOM:
A reminder that a Peary chat area is available online for all alumni,
courtesy of Steven Mohr (1967), at www.nevadagold.net.
This is ideal for reunion organizers for online meetings.
1966
LADIES:
The next luncheon will be held at Chili’s Restaurant in Gaithersburg on
June 22 at 12:30. RSVP to
Gale Senseman Privette at gale7@juno.com.
BRAD
OSCAR:
Did some of you catch 1982’s Brad Oscar performing with Stephen Webber
on the Rosie O’Donnell show May 14th, with a tune from the
Producers (which Brad stars in on Broadway)?
Lori Westcott (1983) did and say’s “he was great!”
Of course he was... he’s a Peary grad!
Thanks, Lori!
UPDATES:
Mailing address updates, use the “Sign-Up/Update” link at MSO.
E-mail address updates (only), use the “Update already-listed
E-mail” link. Please help
keep your classes stay updated. There are typically 50-80 bounces from the newsletter each
month. Addresses that
aren’t valid (or continually over quota) are removed from the listings
and class distributions after two consecutive-month failures.
DONATIONS
TO MSO:
Thank you to the few who sent financial support to the MSO this past
month! Many may have noticed
that a secure server is now in-place to provide additional security when
donating online with a Visa or MasterCard.
Save a check and a stamp, and time!
Click on any “Donations” link, enter a card number and amount,
and submit. It takes 2
minutes. There are still more
than 3,300 Peary alums that are signed-on to the MSO that we have never
heard from as this project approaches its 6-year mark.
Thank you for your consideration.
50-50
Raffles at class events, sales of Peary Huskies polo shirts (photo &
order form online), and sales of the “Find a Way or BAKE one” cookbook
(contact Anna Nicolaisen, gnicol@erols.com)
help MSO, too!
Enjoy
the summer,
Bob Lau, Editor/Webmaster
The Midnight Sun Online
P.S.
If you wish to reply or comment, please don’t quote this entire
newsletter back to us... create a new e-mail to blau@viawest.net.
Hundreds of e-mails are received each month to MSO... the more
concise your correspondence is, the quicker we can process and respond.
Thanks!
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