Update:  It looks like we'll see both of them at the reunion!

Update:  Diane will be making it to the reunion!

A:  They are corrections officers.

Blaise was very artistic and had built a complete reproduction of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood when he was around 10 years old. This was before the days of VCR tape and so he memorized the neighborhood layout and colors from the quick pan and scan that took place at the beginning of  the show. It was absolutely stunning. I haven't heard from either of them about the reunion, but it would be great to see them again. 

I didn't really know Dave Serhan until college where we were in a lot of the same engineering classes at Penn State's Lehman campus.  Dave gave me a ride in a small airplane at Forty Fort airport and shares responsibility for my aviation addiction.  Later, we were roommates at Penn State's main campus in State College.  

Dave flies supersonic F14 fighter jets.  I visited him many years ago at Mirimar in San Diego, home of the Top Gun school, where he teaches Tom Cruise wannabees how it's done.  He gave me a nice tour of the base.   I intercepted one of his emails today trying to sneak out of the reunion and am going to try to convince him that he should attend.  His beautiful wife, Anita, is planning her high school reunion so I would expect her to take an equally dim view of someone trying to wiggle out of a 25-year reunion.  When you have the keys to a ramp full of fighter jets to fly to your reunion, there's really no excuse not to attend.;

I sold Diane's dad an airplane a few years ago.   I forgot about this until Doc accused me of having two (or more!) airplanes in the weblog.   I still see Warren Bixby on occasion when I visit the Forty Fort airport and I miss the little Colt, which has subsequently gone on to search for yet greener pastures.

Joe and I have been exchanging email lately because our lives have some kind of strange parallelism to them that started before either of us were born. 

• Our fathers grew up in the same town and our uncles hung out together.
• Our fathers worked at the same place.
• We spent 12 years in the same Catholic schools.
• We liked to hunt and played with BB guns as kids

We lost touch with each other after high school, but the coincidences continued.  For example:

• We both ride Harleys.
• We both studied engineering with a manufacturing emphasis.
• Our wives grew up in different towns and went to different schools, but knew each other before we knew either of them.
• Our fathers-in-law worked together.
• Our favorite rock group is Rush.
• We both like the Goo Goo Dolls and that's Terri's favorite group.  This Saturday, Terri and I will be at a Rush concert and  Joe will be at a Goo Goo Dolls concert at exactly the same time.  Joe has seen the Rush concert we are about to attend twice this summer.

Fred submitted one of the most extensive biographies I've had the pleasure to read for his memory page along with some beautiful family photos but unfortunately will not be able to join us for the reunion this time.  

Sebrina also submitted her biography and is planning on attending the reunion. 

Ralph was 'phat' more than 25 years before anyone ever knew it was cool to be phat!   Kids use phat today to describe something that is 'Pretty Hot and Tempting', so if someone calls you phat, you should thank them for the compliment.  Karen owns and manages a place called Pikes Creek Park which is a Family Style restaurant ,18 hole mini-golf course,1/4 mile clover leaf go- cart track and arcades. They are open 7 days a week from 7am -10 pm and are on Route 118 in Hunlock's Creek.  So if you are looking for something to do with the kids while you're visiting the valley, check it out.

Helen has an email address that starts with 'HOTC39' which all of us thought was a pretty racy name for someone with a fine Catholic upbringing...until we found out that it stood for 'Helen of the Church'.  Both Helen and Dorothy are bonafide 'church ladies' in that they work for their respective churches.  Rose Vnukowski Garrity is also a church lady.

I told Karen I wouldn't post her picture up in the headliner area, but I figured it was OK now since the reunion is over and no one is checking in any more :-).   Besides, after Karen took my little joke on myself and turned it into a full-fledged awards ceremony, I thought it would be fitting.  I was surprised Karen didn't book Mr. Rogers himself to present my awards.  To make a short story shorter, I had been told by a few people that I 'reminded' them of Mr. Rogers.  I don't know if this is because of my appearance or manner of speaking, or just because kids like me (or maybe it's my cool toys?) but I thought it was pretty funny.  

Arlene has great organizational skills and took on the tough job of keeping track of who was coming to the reunion and handling the money.  She also did a lot of the early communication including setting up the reunion on Classmates.com, and sending out periodic email.  I later assumed the email role since it was something I was able to do from out in Colorado.  But she had the hard part, and continues to work on getting all the finances straightened out for those who cancelled early enough to require refunds.

Many thanks to both of them!

Our headliners this week are Sue Klecha McDonnell and Kevin Borton.   Sue is definitely a 'babe' and she lives in Rhode Island.  It's no wonder that her email address begins with 'ribabe'.   Kevin Borton drove back and forth from Philly twice in a single day to make it to the reunion and that's what makes him such a star.

Our headliners are Tom Crossin and Brian Judge.   Tom's house is fast becoming a contender for the next reunion venue.   Brian Judge helped out with the last reunion and we saw him at most of the reunion events with his beautiful wife, Cathy.  I will call these headliners, 'one degree of separation', does anyone know why?

Our headliners now are John 'Goose' Usefara and Bernie Solack.  

I met up with these guys recently at Sid's on Slocum Street and we spent the night reminiscing.  Also present were Bernie Derby and Dave Barilla, who, although not fellow class members themselves, seemed to know most of the people from our class.

Headliners Janine Carey and Sharon Popson.  

Janine won the award for having the youngest child (8 month old boy) and Sharon for arriving last at the reunion.

Headliners Mike Kinney and Diane Sebolka.  

Headliners Pier Carros and Jolayne Kalac Pinchak.  

Headliners Rob Crawford and Rich Crawford. 

Headliners Cathy Anderko and Theresa Zuba. 

Headliners Ann Marie Novak and Susan Zera. 

Headliners Frank Araya and Christine Zambito Galanda.