80, including guests, are coming from far and near!
Just a Few Insights Heard from the
Blue and Gray Clarion
Sandy Stayton Raughley says, "Our reunions are always fun and I am planning to attend...."
Steve Caney has 'booked a ship from France' to come back to the US. That's a big step up from his motorcycle....
Will the Bob Baker and Goldy duo return for a lively encore?
Joan Hertzfeld Wachstein and 'Bobbi' Silver
Cohn worked around a big trip in order to attend the reunion....
Also, you will have a chance to ask Sandi Hurlong in person about her decades of reflections --- from Arden to the World....
Joe Cloud will be attending --- although he is still
stuck in '50s!
Retired Bishop Jack McKelvey will be with us 'in
spirit,' and that's coming from a man of faith!
Be sure the class has your latest contact information
Based on Betty
Belden Iwan's mom, who lived to 105, and Fred Kagel's
dad, who lived to 103, we may still party for our 85th
Reunion. Both were a blessing to their families, and
recently both passed away.
Click here to see article about them from a couple years
ago.
Phylis Simione Williams,
Cythia Jobling, Ron Horseman
pose as tree branches. Photo courtesy of Gretchen
Gretchen Gravell Broadwater hopes to get together with
Lincoln Hohler, the current principal, to help locate
our tree. Joe Cloud, Jr. elicits assistance of Bob
Hamilton, Class of '58, to find our tree markers.
Read more on our Blog.
Steve Caney and Fred Kagel
Mini-reunion February 2012
Steve's 15 minute stop-by visit of Fred turned into a
2-1/2 hr epoch storytelling of Steve's life journeys.
Steve, who spends considerable time now in France, was
visiting a friend in Roosevelt NJ, called upon Fred in
Freehold before heading towards former abode near
Princeton and eventually back to his farmhouse in New
Hampshire. Steve is well and asked about fellow
classmates. Fred just happened to be home instead of at
his usual TV Production Class for Seniors. Fred welcomed
the surprise visit.
Courtesy of
June Stringer Rietdorf
IT'S ASSEMBLY TIME
TURN ON YOUR SPEAKERS
Click on the Play Button above
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♪Hail To Thee♪
Arranged by June Stringer Rietdorf
Played by Judy Kagel
Oh, Alma Mater, glorious,
To thee we raise our song.
Thy loyal sons and daughters
Are valiant, true and strong.
Blue and Gray, we honor thee;
Oh, lead us on today.
Hail, duPont High School,
Lead us on to victory!
Chorus: Hail, Alma Mater,
Royal Blue and Gray.
Hail, duPont High School,
Thy Spirit lives for aye.
May thy children e'er be loyal,
Thy glory never fail!
Hail, duPont High School,
Alma Mater, hail!
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Reunion Booklet Has Typo
Can you spot it?
Carson Dempsey,
our booklet printer, provided us with 125 corrected
front covers of the reunion booklet.
They are side punched so our classmates can take it to a
Kinko's or wherever and have the new cover put on.
The same error was
repeated from the 45th Reunion Booklet cover. Amazing
that no one caught it for five years or it says
something about our eyesight!
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School in Wilmington, Delaware and to the graduating
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Saturday
Midday
AI duPont Mansion 850 Alapocas Dr Meetup at 10:30 am
in parking lot Cost $17 pp ($15 if we have a group of 15 or
more)
ADA Accessible (according to website:
http://nemoursestate.org/visit.html) Lunch at Charcoal
Pit afterwards, if interested
The
Main Event
Sat Oct 12, 2019
Talleyville Memorial Hall
3919 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE 19803
Buffet dinner including roast beef carving station
Cash bar....Casual / sport dress Time....Cocktails and walk
aroundhors d'oeuvre at 6 pm
and Dinner at 7 pm
Class Photograph
will be available as a free download
Courtesy of class member Dick Dubroff of Final Focus
Photography
Nothing like PS Girls - courtesy of Ray Richardson
Click on photo to see more pics of 55th Reunion Friday night cocktail
party
Alcohol doesn't mix with their meds now - courtesy of
Ray Richardson
Click on photo to see more pics of 55th Reunion Friday night cocktail
party
55th Reunion
Saturday School Tour Video
Courtesy of Lois Resnick Sacks
Photos courtesy of Ray Richardson
Click on photo to see more pics of school tour
Lots of Smiling Faces at 55th Reunion Dinner Buffet - Let's keep it
that way!
And to all those classmates unable to attend, we're
thinking of you!
Photos courtesy of Ray Richardson
Slideshow video courtesy of Fred Kagel
55th Reunion
Dinner Buffet, Wilmington Country Club, Oct 11, 2014
featuring the infamous Goldstein and Baker duo
Video courtesy of Fred Kagel - Enjoy
55th Reunion
Party, or uh, more eating after the party
at the Hollywood Grill
Video courtesy of Fred Kagel - Enjoy
After 55 years, to the greatest class of PS duPont High
School!
Courtesy of Ray Richardson
Click on photo to see more pics of Saturday night at the
Wilmington Country Club
As time marches on for
all of us, the Reunion weekend was organized to see
"old" friends and to renew relationships that have been
special to all of us over the years.
Be well, be safe, and be giving!
Photo by Bob McCaffrey
Send your
pictures, links to
fkagel@psdupont59.com,
or post YOUR own memories of a memorable reunion on our
Blog
AS WE CELEBRATED OUR 55th, ...
Let us remember, let us honor,
and let us pray for our fellow classmates who are no
longer with us or whose health no longer permits them to
join us for this occasion.
THANKS
FOR THE MEMORIES!
Thanks to Joe Cloud, Jr. and
Naomi Blam Clark for the memorabilia display at the 50th
Reunion.
Also, if you have any written
memories, photographs, tape recordings, or movies
already on the Internet that you would like to link to
or to be placed on our website, contact
fkagel@psdupont59.com. See also
P.S. duPont Class of '59 Blog.
1939 to 1959 to 2009
Joe Cloud, Jr. and The P.S. duPont Tradition Continues
Joe Cloud's mother, Elizabeth "Betty" T. Cloud,
graduated from P.S. in 1939. She died on 9/9/09. Joe
found a P.S. Dynamiter button in her things while in the
process of cleaning out her house after 40 years. Joe
wore the button at the reunion, passing on the tradition
from his mother. At the 45th Reunion, Joe wore a P.S.
Letter sweater.
BETTY
BELDEN IWAN KEEPS FIT...BETTY'S MOM, 103, KEEPS 'FITTER'
(Betty's mother
lived a full life until the very end; she passed away at
105)
Attached is a picture of my mom
(Louise) and me working out on the recumbent cross
trainers this summer. Many of our classmates knew her
while I was at Warner and PS duPont. My mom is 103 years
old. She lives at the retirement community at Kendal at
Longwood, PA. She works out at the fitness center,
goes to lectures, has meals with her friends, reads and
generally enjoys life. She is always interested in
hearing about my friends from Wilmington and from
college.
Click to enlarge
SAMUEL
KAGEL TURNS 100
AS FRED AND HE SHARE A COMPUTER JOURNEY
(Fred's father was
still opining current events as it related to history up
until a month before he passed away at 103)
Though the hands are not as nimble
and the eyes are not
as sharp, Dad was happy to
see his 'friend,' his iMac, arrive in his healthcare
facility room, where he was recouping from a hospital
misadventure. So what does a 100-year-old do with a
computer? Follow the 35+ year
Click to enlarge
computer journey of Fred and his
dad in an article which appeared in a computer club
publication. Click for
pg. 1, pg. 2
of article.
GOOD NEWS
Fred and Judy Kagel
became grandparents for the second time, welcoming Lucas
"Luke" Benjamin Kagel-Eskow into the family in January
2019. Guess who's feeding bottles to baby Luke and
babysitting, roughhousing, and changing diapers of
Luke's two-year old brother? Love it. The miracle of
life and the marvels of modern medicine.
SAD NEWS
Ye old neighborhood pal,
Tommy Campbell passed away recently. Obit forthcoming
soon.
Kenneth "Ray" Richardson
died April 2018, and some of us just found out almost a
year later. Bad boy Ray loved life. Great photographer.
Was the class photographer for our 55th Class Reunion.
He will sorely be missed. What no obit? You told me it
wasn't supposed to happen that way, my friend.
Jürgen
Thewes lost his long and courageous battle to esophageal
cancer February 2018.
Click for more info.
Donald "Goldy" Goldstein
made Delaware Legends Basketball Hall of Fame. On
Saturday, January 11,
2014 Goldy was inducted into the Delaware Legends
Basketball Hall of Fame at the Ed Porky Oliver Banquet
Hall. He was honored to join some past inductees
of his era, such as Coach Buddy Clark, Nate and Pete
Cloud, Tom Lewandowski, and Frank Shahan to name a few.
Don states, "It was a very humbling experience." The
mission of the Delaware Legends Basketball Hall of Fame
is to induct deserving members of the Basketball
community based on their significant contributions to
the game of basketball in the state of Delaware and
beyond.
Goldy
and Eddie Brown were both inducted on the same night
into the Delaware Legends Basketball Hall of Fame. Ed
went to Mt. Pleasant and graduated in 1960. Goldy and he
knew each other growing up and played ball against each
other. Ed also lives in The Villages (FL). Hometown
newspaper did an article on both of them. (l. to r.
Goldy and Ed).
J�rgen
writes, "This year's highlight was my 70th birthday.
Edeltraud gave me a surprise party with 40 of my
friends. My friends gave me money for a special trip of
our choice." He and Edeltraud chose a bittersweet
revisit to where Edeltraud grew up, in former Breslau
(Polish: Wroclaw) in Silesia, which had been a German
province until the end of WWII.
Ellen Levy Koenig Given Honor
Ellen was
named Woman of the Year in Science and given a medal.
Ellen felt good that the Dominican Republic recognized
the work she was doing there.
Bob Clayton Reflects on American Bandstand and the
Passing of Dick Clark 4/18/2012
"A lot of people remember that as being the best time of
their lives." (Click here to see
video clip of Bob's interview)
Bob Clayton
Howard Hudson, wife Patricia
with Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson
Howard sponsors an annual lecture series at the
University of Delaware in tribute to a favorite
professor and mentor from his undergraduate days as a
biology major. This year's lecture featured renown
fossil hunter, Donald Johanson, founding director of the
Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.
"We are united by our past. Today, we are globally a
common species," according to Johanson.
---University of Delaware Messenger <full
story>
Jack McKelvey
Jack,
retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester,
began serving June 2010 as interim president of Colgate
Rochester Crozier Divinity School. ---
University of Delaware Messenger
Libbie Sommers Soffer Mixed Media Installation
Libbie's art 'installations' were chosen to be part of
FIBERPHILADELPHIA 2012, a biennial showing of new fiber
art forms throughout the city and suburbs. For past
exhibition schedule,
click here.
Reunion
Committee: back row Ron Shelly, John Savage, Bob
Rickards, Joe Cloud, Jr.;
front row Marlene Taub Reinschmidt, Naomi Blam Clark,
Phylis Simione Williams, Betty Cox Talley, Keith
Marsh, Gretchen Gravell Broadwater, Fred Kagel, and Don
Goldstein.
Ron, Joe, and Betty Cox Talley worked on the 2009
committee only. Pete Rickards and Nancy Bateson Senior
will join the 2014 crew.
Betty
Belden Iwan, whose invaluable computer skills came to a
last minute rescue in 2009, has again offered to help
with the name badges.
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pictures, links to
Goldy
and Eddie Brown were both inducted on the same night
into the Delaware Legends Basketball Hall of Fame. Ed
went to Mt. Pleasant and graduated in 1960. Goldy and he
knew each other growing up and played ball against each
other. Ed also lives in The Villages (FL). Hometown
newspaper did an article on both of them. (l. to r.
Goldy and Ed).
