Pam Welsh '66 Jill Dalton '68 Jim Fadden '63 Wilhelmine Harper '66 Gail Niemann '71 Genie Beyer '67 Edward Ruple '66 Candy LeMonier '69 Peggy Funk '67 Nancy Glick '68 Frank Catano '66 Jim McNeil '66 Noel "Nick" Lane '67 Cindy Breyfogle '66 Dan Kitchen '69 Gail Chandler '67 Chuck "Doug" Chitwood '66 Ginger Killebrew '66 John Yonushonie '66 John Donohue '70 Summer Sayes '68 Theresa Thomas '67 Keith Barnes '67 Wilbur Beamer '69 Margan Sayes '69 Rachel Helm '68 Paul Brewster '66
I've lost the following Alumni. E-mails bounce back to me: Ralph DeMattia 68, Brad Davis 69, Lewis Clark (Counselor), David Clark 67, Nancy Donaldson 66, Pam Forsyth 64, Art Lee 67, Sherry Powell 67, Mike Traver 66, Dollye Ferguson 66, Elaine McLendon 65, Mark Battista 65, Jane Comstock 68, Cheryl Cook 68, Beverly Dale 64, Judith Dillard 65, Bob Edger 68, Joy Emerson 64, Kathy Fifield 64, Kate Foster 69, Cilfford Hensley 68, Elizabeth Jessup 64, Tom Jessup 66, Rosa Lewis 68, Lou Maricle 67, Linda Moore 68, Armelle Parker 66, Annette Plemmons 66, Henry Schrader 69, Carolyn Herrington 67, John Dennington 65, Vince Male 67, Steve Jervey 66, Brian Black '66, Linda Bruce '65, Buckey Harvester '65, Andrew Stykel '68, Thomas Houser (Asst. Principal).
If you have an e-mail address for the above Alumni or a Siblings please let me know. LWE9384@aol.com
Dear Fellow Alumni....
I have developed/produced a Slide Show about the past ten years of the Estes Park Reunions. It's 30 minutes long.... full of pictures, commentary and music. I have downloaded it to a CD so it can be watched on your computer. If you would like a copy please mail me $20 cash (only), for the expense and postage. Please make sure your return address is legible and allow about 2/3 weeks for delivery.
I have also developed a video explaining this wonderful CD and it is posted on the "Old Picture" Photobucket Page.
This Slide Show is a wonderful way to see what you are missing if you have not attended one of the EP reunions and I hope it motivates you to attend the next BIG Estes Park reunion in 2009. For those of you who have attended, it's a wonderful way remember! Most of us are 60 years old (or pretty darn close) and we aren't getting any younger, so 2009 might be your year to attend!
Disclaimer: This is not a solicitation or attempt to sell you anything. It's merely an offer extended to you to see what your HHS Alumni Classmates have enjoyed over the past ten years and what you might be missing out on. The cost of $20 is only to cover my time to produce and ship the CD.
Heidelberg Alumni Assoc.
Lane W. Ellis
P.O. Box 630515
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163-0515
Alumni and friends can buy their own CD recording (2 discs) of the 1967 HHS musical, SouthPacific! The recording was made at the dress rehearsal, and includes "whistle blowing" when we forgot to "project." It's the whole show, from (almost) the first note of the overture through the curtain call. This is audio only, transcribed from a reel-to-reel tape recording preserved by Shelly Ferrell ('68, but left for Arizona), and Bruce Barrett ('67). Sound quality is what you would expect from a single micropone out in an echoing auditorium. RCA Victor has nothing to worry about, but it's great fun hearing yourself and your friends in what was a darn good show.
Ready for some time warping? Our parents (the main audience) were in many cases the men and women who fought the war that we portrayed on the stage in Heidelberg. Another time warp? We are now older than our parents were when they came to see the show!
The cost is $10 for the two-disc CD recording, and $7 postage and handling for any address, state-side or not. Contact the company directly.
Reel 2 Reel 2 CD Transfer 114 S. Church St. New Carlisle OH 45344
I recommend them highly. Do any of you have tape recordings or super-8 film from back in the day? I believe these people will care for them well as they make them available for modern viewing or listening. The initial cost is reasonable and the price for additional copies (as above) is a bargain.
Go Lions!
Bruce Barrett, '67
AT FIVE MINUTES AND SIX SECONDS AFTER FOUR AM ON THE
8th OF JULY OF THIS YEAR, THE TIME AND DATE WILL BE:
04:05:06 07/08/09.
NOTE THEY ARE ALL CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. 6/4/2009
Good news for Heidelbergers. In todays Stars and Stripes it was announced the closure of V Corps (Headquarters) will be delayed a year so a closure can be re-evaluated. So hope for Heidelberg staying open!!
This is actually the link to the digital edition of the paper
Candace Merritt '92
Hi Lane --
I just went to a screening today of the film "Brats: Our Journey Home" in Cambridge, Mass. Small group but the film was great. Nobody from Heidelberg in the audience, but there are several great stills and some old film from a graduation at the Schloss. I think it's worth running a reminder to the folks, as the filmmaker is in the middle of quite an extensive tour. Check it out at www.bratsfilm.com.
I think you should contact the filmmaker directly, since you have done so much, and you also have a unique John Deere experience. I didn't tell her much about you, just that you have woven together quite a crowd from the sixties. Of course, the only e-mail I gave her was mine. Her name is Donna Musil, donna@bratsfilm.com, and she's very nice.
A few of us grabbed lunch after the show, and for the first time in many years I felt like I was on home turf, though I had never met any of them. There's a kind of tone, a cadence with everyone talking at once that I haven't heard since the lunch room at school, or Gerhard's, or zum Ritter.
Bruce Barrett, '67 Contract awarded for Wiesbaden USAREUR center By Mark Patton, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, October 20, 2009
WIESBADEN, Germany — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract for the design and construction of the U.S. Army Europe Command and Battle Center on Wiesbaden Army Airfield, seemingly ending any speculation that the Army’s European headquarters would remain in Heidelberg.
The $125 million contract was awarded to M+W Zander Israel, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District news release.
The battle center is the latest in a flurry of construction projects under way at and near the airfield. Those include a $32 million Army lodge, an $8.8 million entertainment center and a $133 million housing area where up to 324 townhouses, duplexes and single-family homes will be erected adjacent to the airfield.
“Plans to consolidate U.S. Army Europe headquarters in Wiesbaden have not changed, and the award of the contract for construction of the Command and Battle Center facility is a major step forward,” U.S. Army Europe spokeswoman Hilde Patton said.
The three-story, 285,000 square-foot center will include the latest communications and planning equipment for a U.S. military facility in Europe, Army Corps officials said.
A three-story parking garage is also planned as part of the project.
Work is scheduled to begin immediately, with construction expected to be completed in the next three years, according to the Army Corps.
Although it is anticipated that USAREUR’s move to Wiesbaden will begin once the new battle center is complete, Patton said the timing of the move is dependent on congressional approval of future construction, further host-nation notifications and operational commitments.
The Army has planned since at least 2004 to move USAREUR headquarters to Wiesbaden as part of reducing the American military presence in Europe. But Heidelberg Mayor Eckart Würzner has been petitioning the United States for the last two years to keep the headquarters in its current location, where it has been since 1945.
Würzner said the new contract does not mean the Army will move out from Heidelberg.
“We have to wait and see if the new U.S. Army Europe Command and Battle Center simply points at an expansion of the U.S. Army location in Wiesbaden,” he said during a telephone interview Monday.
Plus, moving 30,000 Americans out of the Heidelberg-Mannheim area would cost much more, Würzner said.
“The essential question is will the U.S. put Heidelberg on their base closure list?” he said. “At this time, Heidelberg is not on this list. We still have hope.”
The consolidation of U.S. Army Europe, along with the 5th Signal Command, 66th Military Intelligence Brigade and other support units at the airfield, is expected to add 4,000 troops, civilians and family members, bringing Wiesbaden’s total military population to 17,000.
4/10/2010 Here is the latest I have on Heidelberg High closing. This comes from the Chief of Staff of the Heidelberg District Superintendent's Office:
The draw down in Heidelberg will probably begin in a year or two. It is highly unlikely that HHS will close prior to 2014-15. Even Mannheim schools are still open and will not close this year. It was predicted they would close last year. HQ and Mannheim cannot move to Wiesbaden until the construction is completed. It is scheduled to be completed in 2013 if there are no delays. Heidelberg HS has dropped some in enrollment, but still has approximately 660 students. There has been no indication here in the garrison that a closing is impending in 2012. The German newspaper mentioned the possibility of 2013. It is impossible to know, but 2012 is only a year away in terms of school years. Seems highly unlikely. It is predicted that the school population will continue to decline over the next two school years and then will begin to increase as USAREUR moves to Wiesbaden.
