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74 Going on 50: Saturday July 8, 2006

We had our "74 Going on 50" party to celebrate our 50th birthdays on Saturday, July 8, 2006. Pictures are now posted on this website. If you have pictures to share, please send them to me and I'll get them posted.

The database is operational and I hope you will provide us with current contact information. As we are a very low budget operation, you will have to get your information from this website and from e-mail messages. We won't be doing mass mailings. Feel free to leave a message on our guestbook.

SMNW School

Click here to see a picture of the graduating class

And for a poem submitted by Corky:

The Meeting
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

After so long an absence
At last we meet again:
Does the meeting give us pleasure,
Or does it give us pain?

The tree of life has been shaken,
And but few of us linger now,
Like the Prophet's two or three berries
In the top of the uttermost bough.

We cordially greet each other
In the old, familiar tone;
And we think, though we do not say it,
How old and gray he is grown!

We speak of a Merry Christmas
And many a Happy New Year
But each in his heart is thinking
Of those that are not here.

We speak of friends and their fortunes,
And of what they did and said,
Till the dead alone seem living,
And the living alone seem dead.

And at last we hardly distinguish
Between the ghosts and the guests;
And a mist and shadow of sadness
Steals over our merriest jests
.

Please visit us again.

Joyce Schalk-Duffin and
Deb Elliot-Murphy