So Sorry for the news about Bob Hengel prayers for him. I also have a message to Nancy Nordswen. Dale was looking into Barkers Island again for this year and I think it would be best if we keep the yearly place we meet at the same place each year to help people remember. Haven't heard from him yet but will check with him. But my suggestion Nancy is this you will need to see how many people that the restaurant can handle. And how much it would cost to rent. If it could be a place for the 2025 Reunion. How much would it cost for the class or per person. Our normal amount of people for our yearly meeting is about 30 for annual meetings and up to 60 or more for the for a mail out invitation for our 60th reunion. Thank you for your suggestion and anymore info you can find out. The other option was on the table for the Log Cabin for the 60th. If I remember correctly that cost to meet there was free but a charge for food. Not sure anymore it's been a while since we looked into the Log Cabin. Thanks again Nancy.

So very sorry about Bob Henkel????????Prayers for his family????????

I received a phone call this morning from Ann Hengel, Bob's ex wife. Ann said they believe that Bob suffered a stroke sometime last week and is currently uncommunicative and sleeping most of the time, hospice has been brought in to manage his care. Ann said they expect the end to come sooner than later. If I hear more, I will pass it along.

A few folks have inquired privately about our reunion gathering this summer. To try to let folks know the current status, I'm reposting Pat's earlier, 4/24/23, update here below. She posted that prior to my adding Guest Book support for automatically sending new postings to all folks for whom we have a verified email address. Hopefully, this reposting will get the status out to most of you. Here's Patty Little's post from 2023-04-24 at 12:22: Hi everyone the date for the yearly reunion is Friday the 4th of August. Just talked with Dale and he is still in California but he will be back soon. He then will see if we can have our date for this year. If not we will find a place for that date. So stay tuned to the guest book and we will let you all know where we will meet. But the date will stay the same.

Bob, you're certainly right that current times wouldn't see a caption like that for Bob Hengel showing up anymore without causing a lot of trouble. Fortunately, Bob Hengel's caption wasn't prophetic. That is, I believe he has some children. On a related note, our class site home page still lists Bob as "in the care of assisted living with memory issues." Is that still the case? Do you have any updated information on how he is doing? He was such a great guy. I can still see that cheerful smile of his which seemed to be ever present.

In looking through the web site I came across the senior class pictures, I took particular interest in Bob Hengel's photo and the accompanying caption, "I'm never serious, but always gay"! Can you imagine that caption appearing in ANY yearbook today? How times have changed !!

Thanks for helping out with email addresses and hope you all use the guest book more frequently. Hugs to you all. PJ

Hi, the above is my correct address…looking forward to the reunion

Hello classmates, hope everyone is doing well. Thank you PJ & Bob for all you do for this website. Your time & work are truly appreciated.

Thank you Patti and Bob for all the work you have done on this site. Hello to all you fellow EHS classmates. Looking forward to the 2023 reunion.

I hope everyone is doing well and we have a warm summer soon.

Happy to hear from both you Larry and Jim in our new web site. Look forward to seeing both of you as well.

Looking forward to the 2023 RHS Reunion.

Hello to all my EHS class and friends. I am looking forward to the 2023 reunion. It sounds like there just might be one. I have to say I like the new format for the site, and I thank all of you who put so much work into keeping it going. You're doing a great job. Pat and I are in Thailand for a few more weeks before going to Bali for another month. If all goes as planned, I think we will be in Florida for about a month before heading North to visit family and friends. I hope all is well with everyone and you are trying to stay safe and healthy. Jim and Pat

Just wanted to say hi to anyone who remembers me.

Hi everyone the date for the yearly reunion is Friday the 4th of August. Just talked with Dale and he is still in California but he will be back soon. He then will see if we can have our date for this year. If not we will find a place for that date. So stay tuned to the guest book and we will let you all know where we will meet. But the date will stay the same. So hope all is well with all of you. I am still being weened of the Prednisone but that too will be done very soon. Because of being on Prednisone I have now gone into severe osteoporosis and I have a compression fracture in the T7th vertebrae. I am taking Fosamax for that issue along with my two bulging disks in my back. Not sure if I will be golfing this year or not. We shall see and hop so. That being said our snow here in Solon is melting fast and I am happy about that. My Iris's are poking thru the ground an that too is a good sign. Remember Friday August 4th for our reunion date for this year. We will inform you as soon as we have a place to go to. Have a great day you all Hugs PJ

Any body out there lets start a conversation about anything??????

Happy Easter everyone! The new web site looks great! Hope to see you all at the next reunion!

"Merry Christmas to all of my East High Class of 1965 Graduates!!!!" I just wanted to make it a point to wish all of you a 'Merry Christmas for 2022' and for all of us to 'welcome in' 2023!! Let's hope that the year 2023 is going to be a MUCH better year for all of us than the past three years have been due to the pandemic. For me, there's going to be a MAJOR change as I'm going to be moving OUT of the New Perspective Senior Living facility where I've resided for the past five (5) years and into a brand new independent apartment complex which is going to be located where the old St. Joseph's Childrens' Home used to be at the very beginning of February, 2023. My new apartment is going to be located on the Fifth Floor so I'm going to have a tremendous view of Lake Superior after living for over 50+ years near Lake Michigan!! And I'll also have a gorgeous view of the Duluth ski hills although I've never been much of a skiier due to the severe 'crushing break' that I suffered in the summer of 2017 of my left foot and ankle. But now I've TOTALLY recovered from that injury and I'm walking totally independent again and it's now time for me to 'fly on my own' which I'm very anxious to have happen in the very near future. After reviewing all of the many classmates who've already passed away, I think it's time that each one of us cherish the lives that we've been given and vow to remain healthy and happy for the years we have left. I hope to see many of you at our class reunion this summer in August. Due to being an 'insulin dependent diabetic for many years and having another serious medical situation that I have to deal with, I've been labeled as 'immunocompromised' and I've had to be very careful not to contract the Covid-19 Virus but hopefully things will have settled down more this summer and I'll be able to become re-aquainted with many of you 'in person' again this year. Each one of you 'take care and stay safe' in whatever you have going on in each one of your lives and be sure to 'keep in touch' here on our East High '65 Website!! Karin (Harmer) Hanson

I would like to wish all of my "old" classmates a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, it's 26 degrees this morning in The Villages, Florida, fortunately it's not snowing. As I think back of my youth in East End Superior the memory of how the East End business area was decorated for Christmas with trees and lights on each street light and how Eddie Meyers, who owned the radio and TV repair shop, would pipe Christmas music that filled the downtown area. In my youth I always took this for granted, but now as I think back I realize what a special memory this created for me. Wishing everyone a happy and HEALTHY New Year.

Here's wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is one of my favorite times of the year. Getting together with family and friends to celebrate is what makes this time so special. It was certainly nice to see everyone at the reunion this past August. I had been 30+years since I've seen many of my classmates. In some ways it seemed like no time had passed at all, just spending time with old friends and familiar faces. Congrats on the new website, very impressive. Hoping everyone has a happy and healthy 2023.

Hi you all so want to congratulate cousin Bob on his incredible talents to get this new web site up and going. Thank you Bob for the recognition of my long time being your host to our past web site. It all started in 2005 when I agreed to set up our web site. We were using Dale's brother-in-law web site with Homestead. I had only just got a computer and didn't know a dang thing about what I was doing. But I learned as I went along. Now it is 2022 and I am happy to hand over the reins to Bob who is a wizard at this techy stuff. I m grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to step aside and let the master take over. Thank you all for your support over the years with all my typo errors. Carla was my helper with that, she is gone to the heavens now and I will still thank her for all her help along the way. Miss getting on the phone with her now and then to catch up. But someday we will be able to catch up again. I would also like to put out there that we still need more money in our Reunion Fund. We will need to have more funds coming in. Bob has footed the $ 300 to pay for this new site and which will cover the next 3 years so we won't have to be concerned about that for awhile. We have $294.70 in our account which is a good start for upcoming reunions. But we need to pay Bob for fronting the web site right now. We will be closing our account with Homestead and be getting some reimbursement from them which will help put some more money back into our account. So you can continue to send money to me and I will get it into our account. Or you can also send money to Dale Trolson as well because he is also the second person on our account. So in closing this lengthy message I want to say thank you to all of you with your kind words about the work that I have done for all these years. It was a work of fun and frustration at times because I didn't know what I was doing some of the time. I'm not going anywhere just more in the background. So enjoy this new website and use it often it's a good one. I think it will be easier for everyone to use. For now hugs PJ

Note: The following was submitted separately through a Contact Form submission by Al. I thought it was nice to here from Al and thought others might like to see it to. So I'm posting this to the Guest Book on Al's behalf. Bob Beethcher Hi, just want to commend you guys on your outstanding work on this website!! Especially you, Pat, for your longevity, dedication, energy, and competence in the execution of this project!! My gawd!!, WHAT an achievement!! Happy to see that Mr. Bob has entered the fray to contribute as well. GOOD for you, BOB!! I enjoy window shopping thru th’Past from time to time and the bios and updates are often interesting and/or sad. Nonetheless, most ALL of our class of ‘65 has a definite place in my dwindling memory and heart. Quite extraordinary piece of time those mid/late ‘60’s, I know they slapped me around and around. I’m wondering if’n it’d be possible to put names t’th’faces on those spectacular reunion photos. I know, more WORK!?!? Just a thought. We’ve all gone through the cycle (cyclone!) of ch-ch-ch-changes and for us straggler’s it’d be a wonderful gesture. ??????? One o dese days I hope to shake hands with each n’every one of the Grand Reunion attendees. Until dat time I remain internetly yours, ~~~al Thanks again for your stellar performances!!!

Looking, Bob. Thank you Patty & Bob.

Welcome all to the new class website. Hopefully this one will serve us well for the remaining of our tenure here. Best wishes to all.

Lanny Haglund passed away at home with Pam by his side of a heart attack. This summer will be announced a celebration of life. FLY FOREVER FREE DEAR FREIND TILL WE MEET AGAIN IN THE THE FINAL REUNION IN THE SKY

Another passing….sad. Howard was funny, had a smile a mile wide! Comfort to his family and know we are send prayers .????????????????????????????

This is the third time I am posting about the sadness I feel about loosing another classmate and I am not having a very good time typing. I hope that it works this time. I am very happy that others have put up the message about Howard. I got through both messages and the box to click unto to send the message. I wasn't able to find it I looked at the box under the message I wrote to post it the guest book. Not sure I understand what happened, but extremely frustrating. I hope it works this time. My sadness about Howie is saying goodbye to a very good friend. Howie was my neighbor when we were kids. We had so much fun at the skating rink. Black Steads was the place we all got together. But I was always there and Howie and I would help plow the snow off the ice. We worked together and he taught me how to plow snow. To this day when I plow my snow I think of all the fun we had on that skating rink and I always will remember Howie and our friendship. So now as I have said with every class mate. Rest in Peace dear friend and we shall see you again in the final reunion in the sky. FLY FOREVER FREE DEAR FRIEND.

Folks, the following message is from Karin (Harmer) Hanson. She submitted it using the "Send this person a message" button on my earlier Guest Book Post about Larry's photo submissions. That is only is sent to me. Instead it would work better to submit a "Guest Book" post which gets distributed out to all folks for whom we have an email address. Here's Karen: Thank you Larry Strack for the photos you've added from the 2023 -- 58th East High Class Reunion !! Hopefully, I'll be able to make it next year ... But definitely for our 60th !!

Wow, I came across this web site and was touched by the messages and saddened by the number of obituaries. I was a Washington Elementary student for all 8 years and attended East High until October of our sophomore year, when my family moved to Mpls. I left behind my first love Tom Macauley (so sorry to hear of his passing), good friend Linda Cramer and Barb Johnson, Jack Granquist was like a brother and I thought Bob Granquist was the closest thing to Elvis Presley that I would ever meet. Jack and Kathie Kukul came to my first wedding in Spring Lake Park, MN in 1966. I was married for 25 years and had a son and a daughter while living in Fargo ND. I went on to get my Dental Hygiene degree in 1969 and a BS from NDSU in 1995. I married in 1994 to John Stern, following my divorce in 1991. We live in Fgo and spend 5 months in Scottsdale AZ and our 8 grandchildren love to visit on Spring break. My brother Dan Jensen, class of 1966 SLP MN is in contact with several of his pals from South Range, WI. Peace and Joy to all who share our Washing & EHS memories!

I would like to make a suggestion for the 2024 class get together. I think another night of visiting and socializing take place on Saturday, 8/3 at Shamrock Pizza. Whoever would be interested in doing that, please state.

Thanks Karen for posting and I will put you down on the list of attendees. so very happy for you and your health, that is really great news. See you there Karen.

I have sad news again about a classmate that we had with us for only 2 two years at East possibly 9th and10th grade. Her name was Marion Burbal Cronin. Even though we don't have a photo of her and she didn't graduate with us Bobby Chase and myself remember her. Hope if you do remember her that you might come into the site with your remembrances if you can. There was a photo in the Telegram they had put up but I can't seem to find it at the all 3 funeral homes. I recognized her from the photo in the paper. She passed away on October 31st 2023 and November 12th 2023 her husband passed away. So sad. FLY FOERVER FREE MARION UNTIL WE ME AGAIN IN THE FINAL REUNION IN THE SKY.

Thanks for your suggestion maybe some folks will be interested and let you know at the reunion. Also it is a good suggestion for the 2025 reunion. we can talk about it at this yeas reunion. Will you be able to make it to this years reunion?

My wife Cheryl and I are planning on attending the August 1st class reunion. We will certainly be at the Friday gathering although probably not until later in the afternoon/early evening. Saturday's event is still questionable but will keep in contact through this Guest Book.

Thanks to Larry Strack for the marvelous reunion pictures. I really missed being able to attend. My new hip and I will look forward to seeing you all next year.

Sorry to learn of Elise's passing. A Memorial for Elise has been added to the Memorials page. You can view Elise's obituary on our Memorials page by scrolling down to her entry. The entries are sorted by original last name.

ATTENTION CLASSMATES. WE ARE HAVING OUR 1ST MEETING TO MAKE DECISIONS ON OUR 60 REUNION. WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS. WE ARE MEETING AT PERKINS IN SUPERIOR ON THURSDAY OCT 3RD LUNCH AT 11:30 TO 12:00 AND MEETING LASTING UNTIL? LEAVE A MESSAGE HERE OR ON FACE BOOK THAT YOU WILL BE ATTENDING SO WE WILL HAVE SOMEWHAT OF AN IDEA OF HOW MANY WILL ATTEND, TO INFORM PERKINS. WE HAVE 5 PEOPLE SIGNED UP. PLEASE LET US KNOW. THANKS ALL OF YOU SO FAR THAT HAVE OFFERED TO HELP OUT. LETS MAKE THIS ONE A HEACK OF A FINAL REUNION WHILE ON THIS EARTH. HUGS TO YOU ALL PJ

Bob we will be mailing out the invites to our 60th celebration starting this week. We are meeting at Shamrock on August 1st at 3:00 Pm until ? Aces On August 2nd at 3:oo Till ? The mail outs will give more information. Bob please change the info on the home page. Thanks cousin. HugsPJ

To: PJ Little ... My current address is as follows: Karin Hanson 2601 Bardon Avenue, Apt #528 Superior, WI 54880 And my cell phone telephone number is: (715)-919-3996

Attention all classmates This year's class reunion will be held at Barkers Island on August 2nd at 4:00 pm till ? We will be discussing the 60th reunion plans for August 2025. We will be looking for volunteers to help get the plans together for this our last mail out reunion. So put your thinking hats on as what we would like to do for this significant reunion. Patty Little.

So sorry to hear of Elise’s passing. Hugs for her family

Walked by Howard Mackey's house every day on my way to school. Remember Howard as being a very nice, happy, some comical individual. Very likeable person to know. So sorry to hear of his passing but happy his suffering is over. A loss for his family, community, and classmates.

ATTENION SUPERIOR EAST HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATES FROM 1965 SOME OF THE ADDRESSES WE MAILED OUR REUNION INVITATION TO WHERE RETURNED. SO, I AM LOOKING FOR HELP GETTING THEIR CURRENT ADDRESSES. FOR THE FOLLOWING CLASSMATES, WE MAILED TO ADDRESSES IN SUPERIOR WI.: RON GAYNOR, SUE PADGET, LINDA KLOVSTAD, ROGER NORDEEN. FROM DULUTH MN: LORI NORD NELSON. STATE OF WI: ARLENE CROSS, KATHLEEN HARRINGTON OSTERHAUS, DONNA DUSK ELFRINK, PATRICIA LAVALLY CHACO SOLON SPRINGS WI, JANICE CULVER SHALLER LAKE NABAGOMON WI, OTHER STATES: DAVID CCHRISTIANSON TX, TOM ZEIDEL CA, DONNA DUSK ELFRINK WA. IF ANYONE KNOWS THE CURRENT ADDRESS FOR THESE CLASSMATES, PLEASE TEXT ME PATTY AT 218-428-2232. THANKS IN ADVANCE

Hi everyone I don't have any information on Lanny other than he passed away of a heartattack. cheaking daily for an obit but so far nothing. This is the information that I have for our 60th class runion. We will meet at Shamrock on Friday the 1st at starting at 3:oo pm to ? I have scheduled the large room for us, it will be quiter. You will order your own pizzas. I would like you to let me know if you will be attending so I can let them know how many people will be attending. So you will be able to call or text me at my number that will be in the mail out invitations. They should me mailed out by around the end of March. Saturday August the 2nd will be at Aces time will be from 3:00pm untill? There will be snacks provided or you may order of the menu. There wil be no music. But we will have some slides of past reunions on a big screen for all to see. It would also be helpful for you to let me know how many will attend on Saturday. All this and more will be in the mail outs. Hope this info can give you all a heads up about our reunion. I would also like to remind you that this will be our last mail out reunion. We can make a decion at the runion if there will be anymore yearly reunions Hugs to you all PJ

FYI, you can check on the list of planned attendees for our upcoming 60th reunion on the site home page by scrolling down to click on the link to it under the announcement information for the 60th. If you are planning on attending and are not yet showing on the attendee list, please contact Pat Little with your attendance plans for the activities you'll attend and the number of folks attending. You can text Pat at 218-428-2232.

Is the 60th. going to be just one day or two?

Very nice tribute to Elyse, Sharon. It reminds me that I forgot to mention something in my earlier note about adding a Memorial for her. That is, under each Memorial there is a Tribute button which allows you to add your personal tribute/memory to the person's Memorial for others to see in the future. It's a nice place to share your fond memories of the classmate we've lost.

Hi Classmates, I have mailed out our Sixtith Class Reunion invites this morning. If you don't receive it in a reasonable amount of time, email me or post a Guest Book entry. My email address is shown in my entry under the list of classmates on the Classmates page. A big thank you to Alice, Irene, Kathy, and Margret for helping organize the reunion. A special thanks to Margret for the special snacks to feed us. Thanks, PJ

Sad news classmates we have lost another classmate. Lanny Haglund passed away. I don't have any more information about his passinf at this point. Well let you all know when we get more info. Also lets send out prayers for Dale Trolson he is going into have a defibulater put into his heart in the next few days. so sending prayers out to Dale for speedy recovery and that all goes well. Dale and Bonnie didn't go out to California this year. Hugs to all of you. Love PJ