Hi Roxanne, Bob, and Dave, Bill Crane from our class (55) is in town this weekend and last night he and I along with Russ Banush (57) met for dinner at Peppina's and afterwards went to the Melvindale-Romulus football game. No one expected Melvindale to win (they're 0 and 4 and Romulus hasn't even been scored on yet) but it so happened at half time they held the second annual induction ceremony into the MHS Sports Hall of Fame. This year's inductees were the late Wes Danyo, Richard Heiden, and Robert Sims whose awards were accepted by relatives, and John Pinkowski, Dale Sawicki, and Frank Semperger who accepted the awards themselves. Eleanor Danyo Dubois from our class and her husband Chuck (54) sat right in front of us along with a bunch of their relatives. After the game there was a reception in the cafeteria and we ran into a bunch of other people we hadn't seen for a long time. Mario Bonfiglio was there; he's retired from teaching at MHS but is teaching at U of M - Dearborn. Donna Schwede and and Marie Morabito from the January '55 class were there. We also saw Cora Kelly who was the MHS principal but is now the district CEO. I talked to Gary Szakla, the baseball coach, who is proud of his new dugouts but reported someone tried to torch one last Tuesday. Someone asked Dale Sawicki if his golf score was anywhere near his age, and he said since he'd turned 75 it had gotten easier. He'll be leaving for Florida at the end of October. Bill Crane spent his working life writing for papers (the San Francisco Examiner was one) and working in PR. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is touring North America. He recently visited Jim Chalfonte, the president of our class, in Kansas City. Jim retired from Sprint not long ago. His wife will retire from that company next year and they plan on moving to Florida. We talked about what a good place to learn writing MHS was in the 50s with teachers like Minnie Bryan and Helen Gilbert. Pat Jones Andrews from our class, as you probably know, is the Focus Editor of the Heritage Newspapers. Other local news: we got five inches of rain in two hours on September 11 and nearly everyone's basement flooded, ours included. We've lived in this house since 1963 and it had never happened before. Tons and tons of stuff got thrown out. Curbs were lined driveway to driveway with couches, refrigerators, TV sets, laundry equipment, toys, bikes and like that. Gotta go, my wife wants to e-mail our daughter in law. Brian Rogers |