Recent messages and photos from and about our classmates.
Life in the Fifties (for your enjoyment)
- Look Who
Went to the
Reunion
- Who Couldn't
Attend 2018
 - 60th Reunion
Prayer
- Who Couldn't
Attend 2013
- 2008
Invocation
- Who Couldn't
Attend
2003
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VIRTUAL REUNION (updated 4/20/21)
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BARBARA SMITH CHRISTOPHER (2021)
Feb. 2021, snowbirds from Spokane, Washington with husband returning to Pebble Creek in Arizona to play tennis and golf with “old pals” for about the past 18 years. Masks required off the court! So sorry our major 80th class celebration was cancelled due to Covid. Better days ahead. Barb Smith Christopher. My email is bschrissy@msn.com.
(posted 4/20/21)
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GARY BLOOMFIELD, PH.D.
Hello classmates.
Yes, I celebrated 80 years on February 15th. After graduating from Lakewood High it was off to Bowling Green State University. Following my graduation at BGSU I was hired by the Avon Lake Public Schools as an elementary teacher from 1962 - 1965. In the summer of 1965, I married a wonderful RN by the name of Sandee. We moved into married housing on the campus of Michigan State University to start on my graduate program. After earning my Master's degree in education, I taught classes in the teacher preparation program at MSU while completing my Doctorate degree. In 1971 I was recruited by the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington State. I served under four elected State officials until my retirement in 2000. My wife and I have been married for 55 years. We have one daughter and one 16 year old granddaughter who live in Idaho. We currently reside in a wonderful retirement community. Our travels have taken us around the world to Europe, Asia, Central America as well as 15 delightful cruises. Life has been good living in the Pacific Northwest.
(posted 6/22/20)
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From MARY YORK MEAD:
Do you remember?
WHITE SPORT COATS & PINK CARNATIONS
This is such a great video.... So, enjoy it. For those of you who experienced the iconic 1950's, a decade that will never be repeated..The cars are fantastic. The music was so wonderful, romantic, nostalgic, magical.... We were rich and did not know it! We were innocent and thought we were experienced. We were very fortunate to have lived in such an era. Enjoy the past as revealed here. Who knows what the future will bring?
ps: The secret's out! They actually show where the gas filler is on a '56 Chevy!
You may have to turn up your speakers...:)
http://biggeekdad.com/2013/01/the-best-of-times
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LARRY WRAGG (2020)
Not sure if Joann and I will make the 80th. We chased our 3 children down to North Carolina 10 years ago after living for 30 years in Solon. Our daughter Wendy, husband Dan are right behind us on the swing. Their son Ryan and daughters, Allison and Lauren are next to them. Allison recently graduated UNC. Ryan is a senior at NC State and Lauren is
a freshman at UNC. Our son Steve and his wife Laurie are to the right with Eli and Carter, forth and second grades respectively. Our daughter Melissa and her husband Keith are to the left. Their kids Miller and Kaitlyn are with us on the swing. Miller just started and Kaitlyn is in third grade. Playing golf, tennis, pickleball and senior softball on a regular basis and on rainy days I transport vehicles for a Chevy dealer in the Lake Norman area, Larry Wragg
(posted 2/26/20)
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JACK DOHME (2020)
My wife Julie (nee Ricamora) won't come to "somebody else's" reunion, and I'm too old to obtain permission to go by myself. So...a note of friendly greeting and fond remembrance and also best wishes for your gathering. Was it really sixty two years ago that we escaped LHS? That's downright frightening.
I greatly enjoy the photos you've posted of my erstwhile classmates and so will respond in kind.
Warmest greetings from the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas
(posted 2/11/20)
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CAROL BROWNFOOT WOLF (2020)
From her husband, Bob Wolf: Carol was (and is) the love of my life, and helped me become the person I am today. This is a photo of us dancing in May 2019. Carol passed on December 13, 2019.
(posted 2/8/20)
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JOEY HORVATH STALEY (2020)
I am still vertical and still married to Hank Staley (now 58 years and counting) our plan is to come on Sept 11 if no family emergency. ! On the last reunion we were planning to come, but second son, Dan, lost his wife to cancer that year. He is now remarried.( Happy family again). We stay active with art, exercise at YMCA, church, trips, and I teach ESL and am a history museum docent.
(posted 1/28/20)
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BARB SMITH CHRISTOPHER (2018)
We live in Pebble Creek in AZ, in the winters. This photo is of my college granddaughter here on Spring Break and my daughter, a counselor like myself, both 5'10." I am a shrimp! We also play tennis, golf, pickle ball along with my husband.
(posted 4/21/18)
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SANDRA MCPHERSON
Currently, my husband, Donald McPherson (originally a Euclid HS graduate 1950) is a retired psychologist. I retired from Fielding Graduate University emerita but still do occasional adjunct teaching and research. I have downsized my professional practice of forensic psychology to probably about a 25-30 hr workweek as much as possible and am quite selective about what cases I will spend my time doing. At the avocational level, Donald and I play violin in the Euclid Symphony Orchestra, I sing with Cleveland Choral Arts, and I direct a small baroque instrumental ensemble at TriC East. Our daughter Eve McPherson is a professor of ethnomusicology at Kent State, teaching at the Warren Extension. Eve and I have done some interesting cross disciplinary research that we have presented internationally and we are embarking on a new study at this time. Eve and her husband have two sons and all live near us here in Cleveland Heights. Douglas, our oldest, continues to work as a lawyer/negotiator for Chevron and the western oil people dealing with the Russians. He and his family live in the UK now but he can be found almost anywhere at different points. All of us periodically in the summer gather at a family cottage on Lake Mazinaw in Ontario, Canada.
(posted 10/11/17)
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 PAT (WOLFF) SCHUBERT (also known as Patti)
Don't have a good recent photo of Joe and myself, but this is the christening of our youngest grandchild. Our middle son is from California and didn't make it to the christening in Bronxville, NY. I'm sorry I won't make another reunion, but will be having a shoulder replacement in September. I wish everyone a wonderful reunion and happy reminiscences. (*posted 7/11/13)
Email Bert.
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 BERT DECKERT
I'm living in Stuart, Florida and still working at Lockheed Martin in West Palm Beach.
I have four sons and two divorces. The son in the picture is Brian and he's an Ohio State's Attorney. He was the prosecutor in the Steubenville Rape case.
We are at my oldest, Kevin's, Wedding Ceremony in Brooklyn, NY. He's a scenic artist currently working on the "Blue Bloods" Series.
I look forward to the re-union and think I can make it. (*posted 7/6/13)
Email Bert.
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JACK DOHME
Nigh onto a half century ago, in Mr. Heskamp's homeroom 318, a straw poll was taken and 93% of the "kids" were college bound. As usual, I was an outsider looking in...a working-class kid in a primarily middle-class environment. So, off I went to "prep school" at Republic Steel, a "career" ended by a strike in 1959...followed by an unsuccessful attempt to become an Army private. Not an auspicious beginning, huh?!
The irony of being in the 7% not pursuing a college education vis-a-vis my subsequent career path didn't occur to me until several decades later. Eight years after LHS graduation, I was working full-time, teaching psychology at Concordia College in Minnesota (although at age 26, I don't think I was all that good at "professing", aka, "casting false pearls before real swine"). In conclusion, I think the moral might be, "Those who are not good planners should develop a keen sense of irony". Anybody else in that boat?
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Now, thanks to Sandi Rubin's...err...Kenney's site, I'm thinking wistfully about our graduating class, and I'm looking back on 50 years of woefully poor planning and marvelous irony. In 1958, I had no idea I'd survive past age 65 (my father barely lived to 55) let alone earn a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, become rated as a fixed-wing and helicopter pilot, live for a year in Asia (teaching for the University of Maryland), marry a woman from the Philippines born on my 16th birthday, become a southerner, or become a Christian (serving as a Trustee and playing sundry instruments in our church orchestra). I suspect most of you were better seers than I was. If the above list of accomplishments sounds like bragging, actually, I'm thanking God for giving me this life instead of what I deserved!
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 In 2000, Julie and I retired to Smith Lake in north Alabama and then built another house (that she also designed) here in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas (where the only other known LHS grad is Andy Dzurik's older sister Marianne). I'm looking out the window of our 3rd story music studio across two lovely wooded lakes at a tall tower some 50 miles from here. The Village is a wildlife paradise...it frequently reminds me of The Cleveland Metro Park System except that we are in the mountains, not in a glacial valley. In the winter, we travel to Cebu Island in the Philippines where we annoy Julie's family, build additions on a small church, and continue to construct our 2-story concrete house on a bluff overlooking the ocean (concrete because of the termites and 2-story because Julie won't live in a 1-story house, thank you). What an amazing journey the last 67 years have provided.
Greetings to all who find this website...please e-mail us if you'd like to compare memories. We wish you all well; and I'm saddened to read of those no longer with us. Oh, the 50th reunion? Well, Julie says she doesn't want to be around all those old people (she thinks I'm 53) and says she won't go. We'll see...
(posted 6/20/07)
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PAT WOLFF SCHUBERT
Here's a photo taken of my husband Joe and me at Kew Gardens, England in June 2004 when we went to visit our new grandson Cole, who lives in Barnes, (London) with his parents Spencer and Sara. Everyone was here in Maine for a week in mid July, too. Hope everyone's enjoying a great summer! (posted 8/6/04) | 
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JACK GANGIDINE
Hi fellow classmates from the class of 58. Just to let you let you
know what I've done with my life since the good old days of LHS.
I got into the Sheet Metal Workers Union thanks to the training
I had in Mr. Scott's drafting class, Got married when I was
21yrs. old and had three beautiful kids. Two boys Jeff, Jack
and a daughter, Jill. They are all grown and doing quite well. |  
1958 | I worked
at my trade for forty-three years before retiring May 31, 2002
I enjoyed the work and knowledge that I worked on most of the
buildings that have made the Cleveland area the place it is today.
A couple of projects I worked on that gave me a real sense of
satisfaction were the LHS expansion, going back to Emerson, Jr. High,
to bust a big hole in the wall by the cafeteria to install a louver to vent
a kitchen hood, and my brother and I worked on the World Trade Center for about a month back in 1970.
I was divorced in 1994 which was a real setback. I've recovered
nicely since and once again have a pleasant home in a great
neighborhood in North Olmsted, Oh. As far as future plans I haven't
really made any. I'm a kind of go with the flow type guy, in good health really enjoying retired life, still active with my fellow tradesmen,have a generous pension, and have enough money to go with just about any crazy idea my friends come up with. I do want to do some work on my
home but I'm not in a hurry. It's just needs a little sprucing up.
Hope see You In August!
Jack (11/02)
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1998
1958
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Here's a picture of me (front left--Andy Allen class of '58), grandson (center--Andrew), son (front right--Tim), daughter-in-law (back left--Kathy), and wife (back right--Rickey--nee Sprague, class of '60).
Rickey and I live in Mary Esther, FL, will have 38th anniversary in Dec, and are planning on attending the reunion in Aug. Picture taken early 1998.
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