Sunday, July 8, 2012
THE DALLAS POST
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Bob Kelley, right, of Stroudsburg, chats with Sharon Savage Tem-
plin, of Tunkhannock, at the Dallas High School Class of 1967
reunion at Lakeside Skillet in Harveys Lake.
Catching up with
Dallas High School Class of
1967 relives memories of
high school years.
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
The sounds of the 60s danced
around the Lakeside Skillet ban-
quet room during the Dallas High
School Class of 1967 anniversary
class reunion on June 23.
About 40 former classmates
from as far away as Colorado and
as near as Harveys Lake gathered
to reminisce as a playlist of songs
from the decade jammed
ughout the night.
ory Jordan Ryan, of Rich-
mond, Va. said her husband Jack
came up with the list and helped
create the nametags, even though
he didn’t graduate from Dallas.
“Were keeping it low-key,”
Ryan said of the event.
She said the class usually holds
areunion every five years, but she
visits with a few girlfriends every
year or so to catch up.
“I think we were a close class,
the fact that we attract so many
people,” she said.
Though finding former friends
can be difficult, Ryan said Face-
DHS classmates
book has made reunion planning
much easier over the years.
Though there are still a few
people she can’t find on the social
networking site, Ryan said she’s
glad many of the former Moun-
taineers gather every so often.
“High school is such a special
time in your life that you don’t
want to ever forget,” she said.
Ryan was an a cheerleader who
also was on the track, basketball
and drill teams while in high
school. She retired from the IT
department at a utility company
in Virginia three years ago.
“It’s fun to remember and it’s
fun to see what careers people
have, whether they've changed,”
she said. “And now a lot of us are
retired so we're traveling a lot. It’s
nice to see what people have
done.”
Bob Kelley, who splits his time
between Stroudsburg and Geor-
gia, is also recently retired,
though he’s been working since a
young age.
“My dad died when I was in
ninth grade so I had to work,” he
said. “I worked at the merry-go-
round (in Harveys Lake), at the
Forty Fort Dairy Bar and at Col-
lege Misericordia as a dishwash-
er. I hd to save money for 50 cents
a gallon of gas for my car.”
June Tippett Curran, left, of Danville, and Patti Larson Walsh, of
Hershey, pose for a photo at the Dallas High School Class of 1967
reunion.
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Rosellen Klaboe Steinhauer, left, of Halifax, Dauphin County, and
Sharon Savage Templin, of Tunkhannock, exchange a hug at the
Dallas High School Class of 1967 reunion.
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Pat Gula, right, of Shavertown, and Barbara Honeywell Wynn, of Trucksville, look for their name tags at the Dallas High School Class of
1967 reunion.
The former director of alumni
at East Stroudsburg University
doesn’t have a favorite high
school memory — or at least he
couldn’t say what it was.
“There was a group of guys I
did a lot of wild and crazy things
with,” he said. “Let’s leave it at
that.”
Sharon Savage Templin, of
Tunkhannock, remembers her fa-
vorite part of high school, but not
the specifics.
“I loved the plays,” she said. “I
was in ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’
and another one. I'm not sure
who I played.”
Some former classmates re-
membered even less, but enjoyed
catching up.
“I don’t remember what we
did, but we were always busy,”
said Myra Berti Gosart, of Harris-
burg.
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Denise Stefanowicz, left, of Harveys Lake, Cindy Mohen and Gene Mohen, of St. Cloud, Fla., and
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Diane Pilosi, of Dallas, reminisce during the Lake-Lehman High School Class of 1972 reunion.
Remembering LLHS days
Lake-Lehman High School
Class of 1972 holds 40th
anniversary reunion.
By SARAH HITE
shite@mydallaspost.com
The Lake-Lehman Junior/Se-
nior High School Class of 1972
may have faced plenty of hard-
ships during its high school
years but one wouldnt be able
ell from the demeanor of its
'hbers.
A 40th anniversary class re-
union held June 23 at Grotto
Pizza on Harveys Lake was
abuzz with gabbing, jokes and
plenty of laughter.
“We're the flood class,” said
Helen Sgarlat, of Forty Fort.
The group just happened to
meet on the 40th anniversary of
the date when thousands of
Wyoming Valley residents were
evacuated due to flooding
caused by Hurricane Agnes.
“And the annual football
game between Lake-Lehman
and Dallas was cancelled that
year due to the weather,” added
Cindy Osborne Mohen, of St.
Cloud, Fla. “And the band
didn’t go to Sherburne (Pageant
of Bands) because the New
York school system had a case
of meningitis. We were the kiss-
of-death class.”
The event was actually the
second of two reunions Sgarlat
planned for the class. She said
she wasn’t sure how many class-
mates would show — she just
started making phone calls and
posting about the event on the
social networking website Face-
book to try to reach as many
people as possible.
“We haven't all met in 15
years,” said Sgarlat. “Our last
reunion was our 25th.”
As members of the class slow-
ly began to arrive, memories
flooded the former students’
minds. Doris Parrish McGee, of
Harveys Lake, said the class
was a tight group as there were
only 133 graduates that year.
“I was the class nerd,” she
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Gene Mohen, left, of St. Cloud, Fla., Vito Pilosi, of Harveys Lake, and Doug Johnstone, of Dallas, chat
during the Lake-Lehman High School Class of 1972 reunion.
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Doris Parrish McGee, left, of Harveys Lake, Helen Earl Sgarlat, center, of Forty Fort, and Marie John-
stone, of Dallas, pose for a photo during the Lake-Lehman High Scho
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