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Many thanks to Janet McClellan and Donna Clemson for the  75th Birthday Party photos. .

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Plus Factors,
 55th Reunion
photo booklet.
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75th Birthday Party
Pleasant Gap American Legion
August 2, 2008

You should'a been there.  It was a scream!

Pictured above (l to r):  Nancy Kustanbauter Krape, Kathryn Whipple Temchack, Betty Stover Kantner.

30 attendees (NOT in order of photo):  Betty Stover Kantner, Kathryn Whipple Temchack, Lois Davidson Rhoades, Eleanor Keller Benner, Nancy Tanney Herlocher, Lucille Saxion McDonald, Margaret Hockenberry Russell, Pat McBride Gallagher, Joe Besecker, Ed Benner (not pictured), John & Marge Lowery, Orrin "Tom" & Nancy Dubbs, Charles & Ethel Sager, Raymond & Sally Rider Wilson, Frank & Donna Symmonds Clemson, Richard & Joanne Sellers King, Glenn & Jean Heltman Miller, Lowell and Nancy Kustanbauter Krape, Paul & Helen Brosky Jabco, Jim & Janet Biddle McClellan. 

Writing Numbers for Crazy Bingo

Birthday Slide Show

Richard King Wins Popular Prize

Click on triangles on each side of top row of photos to move slide  show forward or back.

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Lois Davidson Rhoades & Janet Biddle McClellan

 

Other Class News & Photos

Jan Naumer in Zen Photography Workshop (9/08)

Travels
Orrin "Tom" & Nancy Dubbs
Have cruised to Bermuda three times and also have traveled to every U.S. state except Washington and California.
Eleanor Keller Benner
Traveling on foot, Eleanor won first place for the third consecutive year in the mile walk at the Senior Games.
Lois Davidson Rhoades
Traveled to Maine to attend her grandson's wedding on August 9, 2008.
Betty Stover Kantner
Travels every chance she gets which included New England and Caribbean cruises last year.

 

John & Marge Lowery Family Reunion (07/08)
John & Marge Lowery standing in the center and surrounded by 7 of their 8 children.  Kneeling is Christine, then left to right are Susan, Linda, John., Jr., Jody, Mike &Diane.  Son Brian is missing from picture.

Big Birthday Bash for Beverly
Beverly Baylets-Miles' children planned and hosted a surprise celebration in honor of her 75th at the Unionville Community Center on Saturday, June 7th, 2008.

Betty Stover Kantner Family Vacation
Betty gathered her whole family, 12 of them, together at a resort in the Poconos (Summer 2008).


Nancy Tanney Herlocher ponders petroglyphs at the V-Bar-V Archaeological Site near Sedona, AZ in May 2007. 

Join the Breakfast Bunch  (Meet at Grange Fair in August)
If you're in Bellefonte the 2nd Monday of any month, join your classmates (after 8 a.m.) at the Waffle Shop.  Get re-acquainted, find out what's going on.

More Class News
Bad news/sad news:  We lost two classmates within two days of each other in 2007.  Margaret Ann Weaver Wolfe died on September 17th from injuries sustained in an automobile accident and illness took MaryEllen Oves Rosenhoover on September 19th.  Sadly, we lost five classmates in 2008.  Joanne Brooks Thal died in March,  Thomas A. Rhoades in July,  Jack Shaughnessy in October,  and Tom Gingher and Leah Leitzell Neff in November.  In 2009 we've lost three:  Pauline Ranio Auman on March 1, James Haupt on March 31,  and Emeline Ream Corl on April 15.

News from the 75th Birthday Party attendees:
   Glenn & Jean Heltman Miller are celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary in October. They volunteer at Centre Crest and the Fairways nursing homes.
   John & Marge Lowery recently had a family reunion (pictured above) with all of their eight children plus grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  John is a volunteer in his church and he and Marge enjoy camping in their motorhome at Little Pine State Park. 
    Ray Wilson
enjoys working in his shop and likes to hunt while Sally Rider Wilson enjoys her two grandchildren who live next door and also stays busy keeping up with all Ray's hunting trips.  
    Richard King
keeps busy maintaining things around the house, PT work at Centre County House, and ushering at Beaver Stadium.  He's also Treasurer of the Bellefonte Museum, President of the Bellefonte Senior Citizens Club, and Vice-President of the Bellefonte Kiwanis.   Joanne Sellers
King
volunteers in her church and many community groups. She also joined the Kiwanis Club because they do so much for children.
   Eleanor Keller Benner still volunteers at the Muncy Prison once a month, the Centre County Correctional Facility several times a month, helps with the soup kitchen and is still putting on the Passion Play, now in its 32nd year.  This will be her 30th year for a  fall service at Christ's Chapel in their woods.
   Lois Davidson Rhoades is keeping busy with family nearby since the recent death of Tom.  She is also an active volunteer in her church. 
   Frank Clemson is still officiating football (49th year) and is looking to complete at least one more.  He'd like to sell that BIG HOUSE.
   Joe Besecker is still working as a life science research analyst for a financial firm and spends much of his spare time fly fishing for trout and steelheads.
   Maggie Hockenberry Russell volunteers at church, cooks in the soup kitchen, and has also done wishes for "Make-a-Wish" for over 12 years.  In addition she reports doing lots of  babysitting for her two granddaughters and loving it. 
   Betty Stover Kantner volunteers with the Red Cross, Centre Crest, and her church.  She also is happy to be able to spend time with her 94-year-old Dad.
   Charlie Sager and his wife of 52 years enjoy their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  He's also still into hunting, fishing, and camping.
   Lucille Saxion Kronk counts 11 grandchildren, 5 great-grandchildren with one more on the way, and adds that they're all beautiful.
   Nancy Tanney Herlocher is still keeping busy 24/7 raising exotic Bengal cats.
   Kathryn Whipple Temchack reports having a son in New Hampshire, one in North Dakota, and one in Gettysburg, PA.  She also noted a grandson's marriage in April and her granddaughter's in September along with the fact that she's moving into a one-floor apartment in November.  
   Jim McClellan volunteers for his church and is very active in the Masonic Lodge.  He enjoys helping his children and his friends with projects.  One for himself was the building of a new back deck for his house.  Janet Biddle McClellan  volunteers with the Red Cross Bloodmobile, the Milesburg Museum and Historical Society, Logan Grange, and her church.  She notes that this year was her 74th year of camping at the Grange Fair. 
 

Send your news to Janet McClellan (jbiddle3@verizon.net) or Betty Kantner (bettyska@verizon.net).