Update on coffee hour meeting place

Last night we decided that we like the Starbucks at Exit 232 because it's easy access and close proximity for so many of us. So we're planning to have our monthly coffee hour (on the LAST Tuesday of the month) there for the foreseeable future.

Come and join us! It's fun to visit and we're planning OUR 40-year reunion!

40 Years of Fun - Class of 1971

Plz Note: The reunion info is distributed in a monthly e'mail that goes to all SWHS Class of 71 people who are on our distribution list. If you're not getting the e'mail - you still can! Contact us via this blog.

Our 40-year reunion is July 9th, after the SWHS Alumni Assn all class-picnic.
The all-class picnic starts at 11 a.m. at Riverfront Park. $15 per person.
Our reunion starts at 5 p.m. at JB and Sue Bryson’s. Also $15 per person.
If you want to know more about the all-class picnic, send me an e’mail. Prepay for both events.

We’re having salmon, baked potatoes, salads, and dessert. We will be asking people to bring salads/side dishes/bread. The rest we can provide out of the $15. Gary Rothenbuhler is cooking the salmon!

We’re also providing some non-alcoholic beverages, table service, and background music. You are welcome to bring the beverage of your choice!

Yes, we’ll need help setting up and taking down.

We decided on strawberry shortcake for dessert. We’ll get one of those 5-gallon buckets of berries and some shortcake or other cake and whipped topping. And people can assemble their own and add sugar or not.

Bring your cameras. We will have a “photo area” and will probably also have a photographer on hand.

We’ll stay and visit as late as we can stay up…

An e’mail invitation and a hard copy invitation will go out about mid-May. That’s when it will be time to pay.

The Alumni Assn newsletter will go out about mid-April and I’ll forward it to you as an e'mail with pdf attachment. There will be picnic info in it.

There WILL be an entry in the Loggerodeo parade for our class, so plan to meet at the parade assembly area about 10 a.m. or so on the 4th of July. We haven’t acquired a trailer/hay bales yet, but we’ll keep working on that.

There will very likely be a coffee hour on the Thursday before the reunion, during the day, mostly for the benefit of those traveling in to the area from far away! Stay tuned for that info.

Right now we have contact info of one kind or another for 135 people (not all have e’mail) and information on the deaths of 23. The list of folks we're looking for was sent to all e'mail recipients on March 23.

We'll put together a "booklet" after the reunion with info for each individual - probably in MS Publisher and probably available via CD or hard copy.

We are looking for about 112 more people who were in our class - those who graduated or didn't graduate with us (some moved away before graduation) are all welcome to attend our reunion!

Keep in touch! Our big day will be here soon!

SWHS piano rededicated

Some of you may have heard that four SWHS students recently undertook the renovation of the school's 1922 Steinway piano as their senior project. They raised $5000 and had the piano professionally restored. The piano was "rededicated" at an event in January 2011. The piano is beautifully restrung and refinished, but the old deep dings in the surface are still there! Wonder how many the Class of 71 is responsible for...

At the rededication, some students performed and our old friend, Jerry Sommerseth, played the Steinway to show off its revitalized look and sound.

Thanks to these seniors for their idea and their persistence in making the Steinway piano ready for another 50 years of service!

Photos courtesy of Barbara Ward Thompson, class of 1943.

Searching...

We now have contact information for 128 members and friends of the Class of 1971. Do we have yours?? Just checking.

Best. Coffee. Hour. Ever.

Actually, I think we have had a couple of events with a few more folks, but last night we had 12 at our monthly coffee hour! So great to see everyone. You know who you are. We discussed the reunion in July - we are generally agreed that we will have strawberry shortcake for dessert! We find ourselves leaning toward "traditional" Pacific Northwest foods for the dinner. And our musical mixmaster, Gary, will be preparing a mix tape of background music from the 1960's and (very) early 1970's. If you have suggestions, be sure to let him know!

[Do they even use the expression, "mix tape" any more?]

Plan on coming to our coffee hour on February 22nd at the Starbucks at exit 232. We always have fun!

Monthly Coffee Hour - Jan. 25th - change of place!

Class of 71 will have our monthly coffee hour on Tuesday, January 25th, at Starbucks - the one at the Cook Road exit off I-5 (exit 232). We normally meet at Common Ground in Burlington, but they have decided to close at 5 p.m. on weeknights during the winter months. So for January and February, we're moving to the Cook Road Starbucks. After that, we'll get back to our regular schedule at Common Ground.



We have found contact info for 114 class members so far! You know why we're looking...because of our 40-year reunion July 9th!!! If you aren't "found" yet, contact us via this blog!

And start thinking about our Loggerodeo parade entry - plan on riding in the parade this year!

Also up next week - the Sedro-Woolley High School Alumni Association meets Wednesday the 26th at 1 p.m. at the S-W Senior Center.

Class of 71 scholarships for SWHS graduates

Class of 1971 will once again offer two $2500 scholarships to S-WHS graduates during 2011.

One scholarship is designated for a student pursuing an academic degree and one is for a student pursuing a vocational education.

Applications are available from S-WHS or State Street High School, or by inquiring via Classof71scholarships@comcast.net. Deadline for applications is the same as the S-WHS Alumni Association’s program, January 31, 2011.

Scholarship requirements are included in the application package; applicants are encouraged to read the instructions carefully and to prepare an electronic submission. A committee of Class of 71 members reviews and scores all applications to determine the winners.