Welcome!

1975Corvallis High School

Alumni

to the 40th Class Reunion

July 24-25th 2015

It’s been a long time since we left school, and our families to make our way into the world and find the

lives we were looking for…

And learning to accept what life held in store for us...

Well, it’s now 40 years later and we’re still here. Living, as we will, along the journey of life...

Wait! Stop the clock…

…and travel back in time with the aid of magicians Janet Olson and Jo Ringnalda

…way back in time 40+ years when…

High school was a big scary building, and you didn’t know what was going to happen when you first walked in that big door?

You had no idea what lay in store for you

You didn’t know where to sit at lunch time…

Or what to eat – Congo bars?

Remember how crowded with students it was -you could hardly get to your locker…

If could you even find your locker…

Remember passing through these doors?

And hallways…..

Do you remember...

Bellbottoms and hip-huggers, ponytails and halter tops?

Skipping class when the weather was nice?

Learning to type on electric typewriters?

When Mission Impossible was just a cool TV show?

Volkswagen bugs, student teachers, Slurpees at the 7Eleven?

When you thought all adults were SO old and stupid?

Deep Fried shrimp at Toa Yuen? Kimo’s drive in?

The A&W drive-in? Summer jobs at the cannery?

Track meets, football and baseball games, school plays?

Swimming in the high school pool ?

When the future was yours for the taking?

…our worries were few, like getting to class

…deciding who to hang out with

What classes to take and clubs to join

And who would be our friends…

Terry Beck & Cindy MeierDebbie Mills & Peggy Paarmann

Cindy Mol & Bev Hayden

We learned how to work together…

We were bound together

Hairstyles helped us to express our unique selves…

And so we did…

Just How Long can I Grow it?…

And what to wear….

Barb Varseveld

Debbie Lum

How we spent our time

Girls Basketball Team

Byron Kellar

Boys Track Team

Basketball

Football

Tom Watkins

Longest yard team prison photo

do you remember this?

1974 CHS /CVHS Football game - who won?

Playing tennis

Mike & Don Megale

The doubles team of Debbie Lum and Nancy Darby

Gary Brown & John Pinkston

Ping pong? Cross Country team?

Mike Megale

Or being dramatic…

Things got pretty intense in the CHS production of “Twelve Angry People”

Some were active in student government

Or Sparta Pacers

Sparta Pacers 1974/1975

We had Spirit

Yes, we did!

And we were musical

Who remembers the Homecoming Court? Robin Santos, Becky Gibbs, Terri Kinney, Laura Davis, Mary Kay Adams and Barb Varseveld

Or Chuck Solberg’s firstPyramid Scheme

If you let kids play with guns…give them a drink first

Or hanging out at the school saloon…

Mike Gallagher gaining life experience

staying alert and focused was sometimes a problem…

Even the Swim team had its issues –team hearing loss

First Viagra Test Group

Remember the day Billy said he caught a fish this big!

Billy Van Vleet Marla Van Vleet

Finally, after three years it was time to move on

How quickly those years passed…

We had no idea that our time here would go by so quickly

But we left school with memories...

And so, here we are - winning, losing, gaining, walking and talking, hoping, laughing crying, and celebrating... And living every day!

There have been many changes…

• We selected our first black president

• City of Detroit Michigan declared bankruptcy

• The legalization of recreational marijuana

What was acceptable at school then, isn’t today

Cleaning a Rifle in Class

Zero Tolerance? Not in our time!

0-60 ? (only over a cliff!) 0-60 2.8 sec

1975 Electric 2015 Tesla P85D

Cost: Who cares? About $120,000

GM

“CitiCar”

Range: 5-10 miles? Range: 265 miles

Electric Cars

When we were teenagers the future seemed so distant…

Corvallis High School’s production of “1984”

Pete Donaldson

Rory Rohde above left

And difficult to imagine. Would Big Brother be watching us as in George Orwell’s “1984”?

We had some of the latest that technology could give us back then!

But…what would advances in technology bring?

“Dave, open the pod bay doors”

Technology

• Rotary phones on the wall

• to:

• SmartPhones and Tablets with text messaging

• and Video Chatting!

• Wow!!!

And what changes we’ve seen…

In the book 1984

• They predicted:

– cameras everywhere

– Computer monitors everywhere

– How many video cameras are in this room?

And we have also changed

from children with dreams..

To adults who get to LIVE those dreams

Some of our Accomplishments

• Coordinate the largest Veteran’s Day Parade west of the Mississippi

– Patty Martinson-Lousiana

• Reads 120 Books per year

– Anne (Kingsbury) Bennett

• 8 Years in US Navy Submarine service

• 1 Year in Iraq

• Brews beer and cranberry wine

– Jeff Hanke

• Hiked the Alps

• Zip-lined through the Costa Rican rain forest

– Terri (Kinney) Urbansky

Donna Downey

So, what’s in store for us in the future?

Laurie ReimanJim Martin

“Retire in Corvallis and enjoy living at a slower pace and RV arount the US.” Becky Gibbs Conley

“To retire!” Laurie Reiman Madrigal

What are our goals before the next reunion?

International traveling,…learn to use and actually like social media.”

Mary Kay Adams Moment

“Reconnect with old friends”Pati Dezotell Craven

“Becoming a Grammie to more Grandchildren! Traveling with my husband and family to other parts of the world. Celebrating a 40 year wedding anniversary.” Marla Van Vleet Welsh

Zip Lining!And….Make it back home in 1 pieceTeresa Hockema-Frolander

See more on the website

Survey: when is retirement?

5-10 years ago 10.5% 1-5 years ago 05.3% This year 15.8% 1-5 years from now 10.5% 5-10 years from now 36.8% I will never retire! 21.1%

For more survey results go to www.chs75.weebly.com

Dave Zopf: Drove a Submarine

Imagine… Dave driving a sub

Thanks to the 40th reunion committee and all who contributed to this year’s reunion

Reunion Committee 2015

Peacock Bar & Grill 2015

Peacock Bar & Grill 2015

Peacock Bar & Grill 2015

Peacock Bar & Grill 2015

Dinner Prep 2015

Dinner Prep 2015

And then there are those who have left us:

In Memoriam CHSA moment of silence

That’s all folks!