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Friends at Kim Stien's 17th birthday party include John Mayo, Gary Bowen, Jack Barkla, Jim Sutton and John Greenagel. The boy with the cake of course is Kim!
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The EMHS Class of 1959’s 60th Reunion was on Saturday, Sept 7, 2019, at the award-winning Minnesota Landscape Arboretum with 84 classmates and guests attending. The arboretum was the perfect location for guests to arrive and spend the day prior to more organized activities in the afternoon. By all accounts, the reunion was a fantastic success. The tram ride around the arboretum, the presentation about the arboretum’s apple development program, the ambience of the Snyder building, and the food all received excellent reviews. The setting was perfect for our group and the out of town guests who had not been to the arboretum were delighted.
“Thoughts on the 60 Years since Graduating from Edina-Morningside HS”
by Allen Wehr.
[Played song (0->1:19 Minutes) of the “Class of ‘57” by the Statler Bros……]
The Class of 59 had its Dreams too……. with our families and school, and growing up with the many activities at our churches, Little League, boy and girl scouts, high school sports and GAA!!
As our lives more or less began that summer of 1959. June 4, 1959 was the day Edina Morningside High School gave us our diplomas and said goodbye to the Class of ‘59.
For most of you, it was a day to enjoyed. But for me the morning of June 4,1959 was a bit different for me. It started downtown with my Dad in hand, at Juvenile Drivers Court, dealing with a 48mph speeding ticket on 50th Street. If that wasn’t enough for a very young and immature 17 year old, and the afternoon was spent at my grandfather’s funeral.
I actually don’t remember much about graduation…. but I do vaguely remember the class Party at Concord Grade School, then being bused around afterwards a bit and ending with some kind of 2AM scrambled egg breakfast at the Boulevard Theatre, while feeling totally exhausted.
But life did keep moving on that summer of 1959. Some of us went off to start working and some off to summer job. Then many went off to start some type of schooling and college. As our early 20’s began, our “real” first jobs, perhaps an apartment or first home, marriages, and our families began. The last 60 years went way too fast.
Just think we saw the first black and white TV broadcasts (even the test pattern was fun), then color TV, 45rpm records and Stereo LP’s. Our own kids grew up without computers and cell phones. Our grand-kids have thought all along we have enjoyed all this since now everything is automatic, and has power windows and steering. We on the other hand, have now had to learn how to use computers, operate our first flip and cell phones, and now we try to navigate the social media of Snap Chat, Facebook, What’s App, and have perhaps learned to even “Text”.
But now after 60+ years since EMHS set us free, we have learned and experienced much more than we did in those early 17-18 years of our lives, which now seems so long ago. Life has been interesting, hard sometimes yes, but hopefully our lives have been rich with memories and that we had many, many blessings along the way.
Invocation:
If you would like to bow your heads…….I would like us to take a moment before we eat….
We are a thankful for each one here tonight, as well as those in our class who could not be..
Thanks for giving us all these 77-78 years …..thus far….
Thanks for the meal that we are about to enjoy…..
And for the many conversations of times past and present
We also take a moment to honor those 69 of our classmates who have gone before us and have passed on
So we give thanks…….AMEN
Reunion Committee: Jane Ryman Danielson, Bill Hallberg, Judy Carlson Obermeyer, Allen Wehr and Jackie Heacock Wicklund.
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7/5/2021
Edina's hornet mascot benched amid logo dispute
Erin Golden, Star Tribune 6 days ago
Edina Public Schools' green and yellow hornet logo won't be landing on sports uniforms, school buildings or anywhere else in the near future — or
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JACK BARKLA RETROSPECTIVE SHOW AND ART SALE OPENS SEPTEMBER 22
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Cary Carson
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Curiosity has finally got the best of me. Who are these people I went to high school with 50 years ago? More to the point, what on earth have they become? Browsing through the biographical sketches that classmates have been posting on this Website since last fall gave me few inducements to trek back to Minnesota come October. "Regional sales manager for Malt-o-Meal, small grains division"—"Seven adorable grandchildren only fifteen minutes from home"—"Improving my handicap with other snowbirds in Tempe, Arizona." Those are conversation starters I could hear at a Rotary Club meeting right here in Williamsburg, Virginia. So, yes, I will attend the reunion. Yes, I will yield to Susan Hawthorne Plank’s gentle arm twisting. But, no, to be perfectly honest, I felt no compelling motivation to make the trip initially.
That was before Susan gave me an assignment. A couple months ago she asked for help writing some text for the reunion invitation. She said she was looking for something bright and lively. My first draft, which she circulated to members of her steering committee, used the popular text-message abbreviation OMG. Oh my gosh! what a paroxysm of e-mail commentary those three little letters set off! The Ethernet lit up with a talkathon on political correctness, the generation gap, Midwestern mores, the movies, and much much more. By the time the firestorm subsided, I concluded that the Class of ’59 included people who held much stronger opinions and sounded a whole lot more interesting than they let on in the drab, Christmas-letter-style, biographical sketches they posted on the Web.
I booked my plane reservation the same day.
I also resolved to confine my own Website bio to the bare essentials, to save the good stuff for live conversations at the event itself. Brevity here will leave more opportunity for us to become better acquainted later.
The basic facts are these. Occupation: historian, writer, lecturer. Employment for the last 30 years: Vice President, research division, Colonial Williamsburg—the large, outdoor history museum on the site of the restored capital of 18th-century Virginia. Retired since January ’07. Education: undergraduate training at Carleton College and King’s College, University of Durham (England), plus lots of graduate work after that. Married for 47 years to Barbara Carson, now deceased. Since 2014 have been sharing my life with a wonderful Dutch woman, Wies Erkelens. We live half the year in Williamsburg and the other half in The Hague. One married daughter, a documentary filmmaker based in New York City and Princeton, NJ. Over many years much leisure and job-related travel from Tasmania, New Guinea, and Bora Bora to Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Cesky Krumlov, Mycenae, and points in between. Home: Williamsburg, year round. Golf disabled. Tone deaf to religion. Turned on to jazz and opera. Politics: partial to candidates and officeholders who understand that everything Americans do best, we do ourselves, but everything we fail at, we need good government for and, being the grown-ups we say we are, should tax ourselves sufficiently to do the job right.
Soul-searching for an acceptable alternative to the exclamation OMG produced a revealing assortment of suggestions from classmates. Some still cling to expressions we learned on the Wooddale playground—Jeepers Creepers! and Jiminy Cricket! Others—the Good Grief! and Gee Willikers! crowd—learned somewherre along the way that, however innocent we were, we, like Pinocchio, had turned into little blasphemers in our fondness for those “J-C” euphemisms. Strangest of all were the unmistakable signs of an Ethnic Awakening in the Class of ’59. By a three-to-one margin Born Again Norwegians informed me that Uff Da had become the region’s most common expression of surprise during my long absence from Minnesota. Now that does give a prodigal son a good reason to come back to his high school reunion! My curiosity just won’t rest until I see for myself how 50 years have transmogrified the Jeepers Creepers generation into a tribe of Uff Da-vidians.
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