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60 Year Reunion Announcement!

The EMHS Class of 1959's 60th Reunion Was a Grand Occasion!

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The EMHS Class of 1959’s 60th Reunion was on Saturday, Sept 7, 2019, at the award-winning Minnesota Landscape Arboretum with 84 classmates and guests attending. The arboretum was the perfect location for guests to arrive and spend the day prior to more organized activities in the afternoon. By all accounts, the reunion was a fantastic success. The tram ride around the arboretum, the presentation about the arboretum’s apple development program, the ambience of the Snyder building, and the food all received excellent reviews. The setting was perfect for our group and the out of town guests who had not been to the arboretum were delighted.

“Thoughts on the 60 Years since Graduating from Edina-Morningside HS”
by Allen Wehr.

[Played song (0->1:19 Minutes) of the “Class of ‘57” by the Statler Bros……]

The Class of 59 had its Dreams too……. with our families and school, and growing up with the many activities at our churches, Little League, boy and girl scouts, high school sports and GAA!!

As our lives more or less began that summer of 1959. June 4, 1959 was the day Edina Morningside High School gave us our diplomas and said goodbye to the Class of ‘59.

For most of you, it was a day to enjoyed. But for me the morning of June 4,1959 was a bit different for me. It started downtown with my Dad in hand, at Juvenile Drivers Court, dealing with a 48mph speeding ticket on 50th Street. If that wasn’t enough for a very young and immature 17 year old, and the afternoon was spent at my grandfather’s funeral.

I actually don’t remember much about graduation…. but I do vaguely remember the class Party at Concord Grade School, then being bused around afterwards a bit and ending with some kind of 2AM scrambled egg breakfast at the Boulevard Theatre, while feeling totally exhausted.

But life did keep moving on that summer of 1959. Some of us went off to start working and some off to summer job. Then many went off to start some type of schooling and college. As our early 20’s began, our “real” first jobs, perhaps an apartment or first home, marriages, and our families began. The last 60 years went way too fast.

Just think we saw the first black and white TV broadcasts (even the test pattern was fun), then color TV, 45rpm records and Stereo LP’s. Our own kids grew up without computers and cell phones. Our grand-kids have thought all along we have enjoyed all this since now everything is automatic, and has power windows and steering. We on the other hand, have now had to learn how to use computers, operate our first flip and cell phones, and now we try to navigate the social media of Snap Chat, Facebook, What’s App, and have perhaps learned to even “Text”.

But now after 60+ years since EMHS set us free, we have learned and experienced much more than we did in those early 17-18 years of our lives, which now seems so long ago. Life has been interesting, hard sometimes yes, but hopefully our lives have been rich with memories and that we had many, many blessings along the way.


Invocation:
    
If you would like to bow your heads…….I would like us to take a moment before we eat….

We are a thankful for each one here tonight, as well as those in our class who could not be..

Thanks for giving us all these 77-78 years …..thus far….

Thanks for the meal that we are about to enjoy…..

And for the many conversations of times past and present

We also take a moment to honor those 69 of our classmates who have gone before us and have passed on

So we give thanks…….AMEN


Reunion Committee: Jane Ryman Danielson, Bill Hallberg, Judy Carlson Obermeyer, Allen Wehr and Jackie Heacock Wicklund.

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