Classmates start the New Year with Get-together

“Starting the New Year with our Friends”
MONDAY,Jaunary 12,
Classmates and spouse welcomed the New Year with a January
Get together at Hoss’s. A total of twenty-four enjoyed the evening
as we reminisced about the past. Also, Jenny entertained the group
by telling a story about the difference between a man’s and woman’s
brain.

Classmates served in Military

CLASSMATES
RECOGNITION AND HONOR

FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY
Merle Barger-US Army
Richard Benner-US Navy
Kenneth Brubaker-US Air Force
John Cook-US Air Force
Kenneth Decker-US Navy
Wayne Doyle-US Navy
Sylvia Edmiston Ingram-National Guards
Charles Estep-US Army
James Helsley-National Guard
John Helsley-National Guards
Robert Hostler-UA Army
Richard Kensinger-National Guards
Donald McCracken-US Air Force
John Moffa-US Air Force
Lewis Myers-US Navy
Robert Nale-US Navy
Jack Oswald-US Army
George Partner-US Navy
John (Kenny)Wagner-US Army
Richard Wertz-US Marines
Donald Williams-US Air Force

Please accept my apology if your name
was omitted from the list and let me know.

Classmates’ Monthly Get-Togethers

The reunion committee thought it would be nice to get together monthly at a local restaurant on the second Monday of every month. In October of 2007, we started meeting at Hoss’s Steak House. After eating, we start the evening by welcoming classmates attending for the first time. Announce birthdays for the month, news of classmates they want to share. Then Jenny, our class comedian tells jokes by roasting a few classmates each month. She calls it wrinkle therapy and by laughing keeps your wrinkles away.
Our get-togethers have been very successful with 21 attending our first get together and we now have an average of 35 each month. A total of 37 met at Ponderosa last April. The food was great but the party room was not big enough. Also, we tried the Chinese Gourmet Buffetwith 34 attending. The highest number attending was 41. Hoss’s has a big party room that accommodates us very well. If you have never been to one of our get togethers, check us out
and enjoy the fun.

Cruising with the Class of '62 - Gateway Clipper

Friday, August 15, 2008, a total of 40 classmates and spouses from our monthly get-togethers boarded a Fullington Tour Bus at the B-A High School, traveling to Pittsburgh for a Gateway Clipper Luncheon Cruise. We boarded the “Majestic Riverboat” and cruised down the Monongahela,Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. Enjoying a delicious buffet lunch with live entertainment “Magic of Elvis”

Raystown Queen

On Saturday, August 6, 1994, Seventeen classmates and spouses boarded the “Raystown Queen” for a beautiful afternoon dinner cruise. After retuning from the cruise we continued the day’s events with a gathering at the “Bull Pen Restaurant

A walk down Memory Lane………..

Antis Township High School,

a four room building built in 1907, near the corner

of Martin and South Second Street.

In 1938, a consolidation took place between

Antis Township and the Bellwood Schools becoming

the Bellwood-Antis School District. Shortly after the

consolidation the Antis High School became the

Bellwood Elementary building for the elementary

students from the Antis Township area.

Bellwood Elementary School- In the 1951-52 school year, twenty-two classmates from the graduating Class of ’62 started first grade class in this building in Mrs. Altman or Miss Tree’s. In the late 1950's, the school building caught on fire and was torn down.

Starting First grade was a new adventure into a new world for all of us...

TEACHER: Mrs. Anna Altman

TOP ROW: Bob Culbertson, Walter Carothers, Ruth Conrad, John Marsden, Lillian Dillen

ROW 2: Sandra Long, Shirley Forshey, Robert Himes, Tom Weston, Wayne Doyle

ROW 3: Ed Hueston, Marilyn Ross, Kenny Wagner, Nancy Oswald, Barbara Stevens.

ROW 4: Donna Parshall, Don Robison, Lillian Ressler, Kay Smith, Jim Garman.

BOTTOM ROW: Barbara Smith, Don Utley, Sylvia Edmiston, Jennie Barley, Iona Kuhn, Peggy Anderson.

Teacher: Miss Lucille Tree

TOP ROW: Dick Focht, Sandra Wilson, Jim Taylor.

ROW 2: George Norton, Mary Montgomery, Bob Hostler, Merle Barger, Jerome Miller, Mary Dillen

ROW3: Gerald Datres, Barbara Moyer, Charles Snyder, Trudy Jackson, Jim Forshey,
Carol Cherry

ROW 4: Betty Garmen, Name Unknown, Darlene Thomas, Allen Rinker,_Carol Matlack,_
Jimmy Ball

Bottom Row: Barry Green, Kay Hornberger, Helen Sipes, Anne Zetler, Darlene Gill,
Name Unknown.

**If anyone knows the identity of the classmates with “Name Unknown” please let a comment.

South Side School - Corner of Boyles & South First Street

The South Side School was built in 1892, an eight room red brick building at the corner of Boyles and South First Street. One hundred years later in 1992 the school house was razed and the Bellwood Excelsior Fire Department took up residence in a new structure on that site.
In 1951-52 school year fifteen classmates from the class of '62 started first grade in Mrs. Miller's class at South Side school.

Teacher: Mrs. Louise Miller

TOP ROW: Bobby Smith, David Fowler, Donna Wulfert, Carole Dillen, Wayne Wright, Gary Moore.

ROW 3: Rose Smith, Kay Wilson, Rebecca Reese, Lindsay Strohm, Bobby McCaulley,Richard Spotts.

ROW 2: Patty Shirley, Tommy DelMastro, Delores Hescox, Bonita Espigh, Sandy Kist, Raymond Egar, Gilbert Dively, Vicki Dinges.

BOTTOM ROW: Barry Miller, Lewis Myers, Charles VanAltman, Philip Siters, George Partner, Donald Williams.

Absent from picture: Bonnie Fowler, Barbara Locke, Kenny Merritts

North Side School

North Side School was built in 1914, a six room yellow brick building at the
corner of Antis and North Third Streets. The school had a fence surrounding it.
At recess the boys played on one side of the school while the girls played on the
other. Sometime in the ninety’s the school was sold and is now used as housing
apartments.

The following students from our graduating class attended first grade at North Side.

Teacher Mrs. Erdean Estep

Rick Benner, Judy Lauver,Alma Sipes, Judith Bilka,
Ronald Shunk

Teacher Miss Berle Fowler

Roxanne Boyles, Jeanie Burns, Charles Glasgow,
Lucille Hall, Dick Hillard, Beverly McGinnis,
Dick Wertz

* If anyone has their first grade class group picture from
the North Side School please share it with us.