Newark High School

Dave Froberg

I'll be at the Grill Friday, July 3, around 7:30 PM... hope to see some familiar faces.

Malcolm Montgomery

I'll try to be there. I'll be wearing a very tasteful Hawaiian shirt....

Dave Froberg

Well I just found out that Nerk holds it's Fourth of July fireworks on July 3! The family says I have to accompany my granddaughter to the show. So I can't be there on Friday night. How about Saturday night at the same time?

Malcolm Montgomery

That's a mebbe. I'll be in Granville most of the day, and that can be a rough crowd sometimes (I went to kindergarten with a lot of G-ville folks, like Mary Ann Miller, who graduated with us in Nerk). Dang, ended up in the parade last year! I'll still try to hit the Grill on Friday. 208-874-2524 if other times are better.

Jane Michener Heston

I'm still on for August 1st. Will be away from computer after July 21st. My cell: 740-404-9086.

Jane

Dave Froberg

Well, sorry I missed you Malcom. I went Sat night for an hour or so and didn't see anybody in a Hawaiian shirt. LOL!

Maybe next time...

Steve Lawrence

I'll be there on the 1st as well. Hope a few others climb out of the woodwork.

Mary Ellen Jackson Guiler

Becky (Berger) Roberts & I are planning on being at the Grill Aug 1 also. Looking forward to seeing Jane, Steve, and others!

Spencer Null

Iwill be at the Grill On August 1st too. Hope to see a lot of you. Malcolm, sorry that we didn't make any more connections, but it was nice to see you. Be sure to give me a hollar the next time and we will go out for a beer.

Roger McDonald

While all you folks are gathering at the Grill tomorrow, there will be a mini-reunion in Spokane WA of Paul Miller, Malcolm, and myself, not counting our retinues. Are the planets aligned for some sort of cosmic continental Class of '68 mind meld? Problem is the time difference and the fact that my wife and I land (theoretically) in Seattle at noon and have to drive over to Spokane for our rendezvous with the aforementioned Northwest 'Cats. If you Grillites want to check in, try me at 347-228-0445.

Malcolm Montgomery

I'm headed up early to catch up with Paul before Roger and Emily get there (only 90 miles). My cell is 208-874-2524. If anyone has Verizon, it's a free call. We are on Pacific Time.

Too bad we can't be in Spokane and The Grill at the same time -- it sounds like quite the gathering! We'll be thinking of you. And probably gossiping about you, just like you will be gossiping about us. ;-)

Spencer, I ran out of time -- I could have easily spent another week in Nerk. I'll be back next July 4, so let's make sure we get together then.

Jane Michener Heston

Had a great visit at The Grill with a lot of my NHS classmates I hadne't seen in a very very long time. Mary "Ellen" and Becky thanks so much for making the trip, it meant a lot to me.

It is something that should be done every year on a certain evening just to catch up with friend who are in town or Newarkites.

Did you remember we had a newspaper? Thanks Jan Burch Campbell for the memories.

Steve your family is delightful, have a safe trip going back over the "big" pond.

Jane

Steve Lawrence

My family and I also had a great time. Thanks to everyone that kept the boys going, especially with the Yearbook.

I thought the Grill was a very good suggestion Jane. Most of Newark seems to pass through on a Saturday night.

We took some pictures during the reunion which I think came out very well. They are posted under my profile. As we took them quite quickly we missed out Chris Gill, Steve Carlson, Dave Messick, and John Babcock, who weren't there when we were snapping.

Send me a message if you want any original copies.

I would definitely be up for another informal gathering of this type next year. I had a lot of fun.

Sorry we didn't ring Roger/Malcolm.

Dave Froberg

Anybody going to be around on the 13th - 18th? The class of '69 will be at the Grill on the 14th and the class of '67 will be there the next night. I'm coming up from Georgia on the 13th.

Malcolm Montgomery

Paul and I had a wonderful but too brief visit with Roger and Emily last weekend. We had an excellent Northwest seafood dinner at a downtown restaurant sitting on a deck overlooking the Spokane River Falls. Good food, good wine, and good friends -- it doesn't get better than that!

We stayed up way late, and they had to leave early the next day for Glacier National Park. I don't know how that went as they had to have some serious jet lag, having flown from NYC to Seattle, then driving for hours before staying up late in Spokane. I suspect that, by body time, they were up for 24 hours straight. Glacier, though -- what a place to rest up!

Charles Price

Gosh guys and gals, Boy am I johnny (actually Chuck) come lately. I was in Nerk for my wife's 40th reunion and visiting with my in-laws. Bummer I didn't know about this website until late Saturday (8/15) night. So I misses the 68ers at the Grill, though I was there as a dutiful spouse of a 69er. My wife is the former Barbara Pricer of WCLT family fame. Now she is Barbara Price. I think she married me just so she wouldn't have to change her name much. She wasn't into the hyphenated thing Pricer-Price has a certain ring though!

Out of touch for so long but a lot of my crowd has posted, and I look forward to getting to know those other 68ers that I was too shy to know at NHS. Good to catch up a little through these posts. I put a very brief summary and a few pics in my profile if anyone is interested.

I will definitely try to make the 45th reunion if not seeing folks before. My email is cprice@pol.net and Barbara and I are living in Reno. The Reno-Tahoe area is a beautiful place to visit if anyone is in the area... Home phone is 775-786-2569.

Roger McDonald

Malcolm's report on our Spokane mini-reunion, including Paul Miller, was accurate in all respects. It started our two weeks in the Northwest on a very high note. I only regret we really did not have the time to do more than scratch the surface of our memories and present concerns. Of course, our meeting and the concurrent main event in Newark would probably have never come off had it not been for this website. Brava, Ms. Dunlap!

Malcolm Montgomery

Hear! Hear! (Or is it Here! Here!?) In any event, thank you, Peggy! (clink!)

Gary Berry

Hi everyone,

Is anyone coming to Newark over the holidays? Just checking. Hope alll is well

Mary Ellen Jackson Guiler

For all band members. I was reading the Advocate on-line and saw that Mr. James Morgan suddenly passed away 12/20/09, from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 69. You can go to the funeral home site and sign the guest book. So sad for the family, especially at the Christmas. He was a great guy!

Peggy Gartner Dunlap

Hello Everyone,
I have gotten back about 20 bounce backs (e-mails that are no longer correct). So please keep your e-mail updated so you will receive messages about the website. So sorry to not have pictures on yet, I cannot believe where the time goes. I will try to get moving on this.
I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful New Year!! Take care and God Bless.
Peg

Mike Kelley

First I would like to thank Peg for all of the work you and everyone involved in all our class of 1968 reunions have done. GREAT JOB!!!!!!! Hey dose everyone remember these places to go to dance or hangout? Grotto, Armory, Pirates Cove in Granville above the old Granville Pizza,Sugar Shack downtown NEWARK, Alcatraze east Newark, Castaways in Dougway west Newark, there was a place on Buckeye Ave., Oak Valley Swimming Pool and YMCA Swimming Pool both had outdoor dances in the summer.Also used to go out to Fulton School or CYO dances at ST.Francis. Lot of us remember Gym Jams at the YMCA. Of course the NHS dance after the games. The bands our own from Newark, The Penltons with Dave Pound and Terry Worth,of course Sticks and Stones. The Dantees, Sir Timothy and the Royals who later became the OHIO EXPRESS,The Fifth Order from Columbus,the Continetial from Lancaster just to name a few. Did you watch Dance Party with Jarry Razor on Ch. 4 you might have seen me or Auggie Boychan, Vickie Bennidict and even Garry Berry on there. Places we also use to go Valley and Heath Drive-In Movies, Pizza Villa or M&S Pizza, A&W and Steward root beer stands of course Frisches.
It didn't get any better than this, never a dull moment. There was always the POOL HALL for a little 8 ball. I remember the night of our graduation alot of us ended up at the TIKI BAR, NOW EMPTY NEXT TO THE BIKE TRAILS Off OF Cherry Valley road.

Dave Froberg

Mike... you want to stroll down memory lane? Go to Facebook's "Central Ohio's Rock & Roll Scrapbook" page. You'll probably get high just looking at it. LOL!

Roger McDonald

Mike K's encyclopedic survey prompted a little piece of verbal trivia to dislodge in my cranium the other night: A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the word "jimjams" which apparently means the DTs or the "jitters." Was this generally known to the youth of Newark? I had always thought that the old "Gym Jams" was just cute alliteration for packing people onto a basketball court, but perhaps some old hipster slipped one by the censors, not to mention this daft young nerd. I never minded being socially out of it, but etymological cluelessness is another matter entirely. If any of you local 68ers know the history, please enlighten me.

Dave Froberg

All I remember is they were held at the YMCA on Church St and there was one for Jr High and one for Sr High.

The first one I attended was in the summer of '61. (Boy am I old!)