Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

.So sorry to hear about Jim.  Enjoyed being on the 

class reunion committee with him.

RIP Jim 

Prayers for your family.  🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE E. M.

HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY!!

🎂🎁🍮🎊🍰🎉🎈🥂🍺

David Long

How many are coming to the reunion and the mini opening ceremonies?

Terri Baxter (Whirrett)

Sad news

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILAN J. AND DENNIS S.

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!

🎈🍰🎁🎂🍺🎉🍮🥂

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

This message is for the females in our class.  Please have your family put your maiden name along with your married name in the paper.  Judy Dreese pasted away in 2017 and we didn’t know it because her maiden was not listed.

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARSHA H. B.

HAVE A FUN AND FANTASTIC DAY!!!

🍰🎈🎂🎁🍨🥂🎉🎊

P.S.  Marsha I’m sorry for posting your birthday on the wrong day.  I guess it’s better than forgetting to post it.  

Suzi

Marvin Theobald

PLEASE NOTE UPDATED REUNION INFO ON HOME PAGE

Marvin Theobald

In reply to Dave long's questions, it appears we will have 62 in attendance at the reunion including 42 classmates, 19 guests and 1 special guest (Carla Smith). The Friday mixer plan is 49 attending including 35 classmates and the Sunday brunch plan is 29 attending including 21 classmates. In contrast we had 129 attendees at the 50th BCC event.

If you have not yet replied, it is not too late. We are committing a number to BCC Tuesday, so if you have not replied and still would like to attend please contact me before noon on Tuesday. The Reunion Planning Committee has put a lot of effort into making this another special occasion and is in hopes that you would all be able to join us.

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDY!!

HAVE A FUN AND FANTASTIC DAY!!!

🎂🎈🍰🎉🍮🎊🎁🥂

David Long

Thanks for the update, Marv.  The entire committee has done a great job putting this together.

With 142 classmates living in Illinois, maybe a last ditch effort to call them to the reunion is in order.

Bloomington is a short drive from almost anywhere in Illinois.  

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY FAITH C.C.

HOPE IT WAS A WONDERFUL DAY!!

🎂🎁🍰🎉🍮🎈🎊

Marvin Theobald

The 55th Class Reunion was a great success and Max sent a proxy that was the hit of the party!

Marvin Theobald

A sampling of reunion pics. More to come later!Ken Lehr, Allida Altemus, Madelon Newsom, Jim AltemusRich Crusius, Rod Hayes, Ed Buis, Jack Keefe, Patti Popejoy, Clayton JamesGuest Carla Smith, Judy Neal, Madelon Newsom

Carol Logsdon, Diane Gardner, Ed Buis, Patti Popejoy

Allida Frisch (Altemus)

It was a great reunion weekend. So good to catch up with everyone. Thanks for posting some pics. Everyone looks fantastic! It was also great talking to Carla Smith.

Richard (Rich) Crusius

Good time was had by all who attended our 55th.  Sure missed the ones that couldn't be there:

Wish these people could have made it:  Terry Maxwell, Tim Schmidt, Teri Sue Rapp, Terry Troxell, Vicki Daugherty,

Jack Hobach and Steve Huffman........just to name a few that I would have loved seeing!  Maybe next time?

Victoria (Vicki) Daugherty (Kasper)

Although I still check the forum pretty regularly, I just regained access to making a response Please bear with me as I learn more about how to actually use it!

thanks for missing me Rich Crusius! I guess it’s age, but this time it felt particularly bittersweet. My reasons for not attending are complicated, but I have no valid reason for not keeping up better on the forum. 

I truly do wish all my classmates both here and gone to a better place 

so much joy and peace.  What a great group we were, and still are!

I am moving a little slower but still consider my self a

 RAIDER OF 64!!

David Long

A wonderful surprise to see Wayne Kearney and Bill Walton at the reunion. It was like the 55 years just melted away.  FYI, Wayne was a bad ass Recon Marine. As tough as the vaunted SEALS except RECON  doesn’t  play with logs. 

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

BHS Class of 1964 55th Reunion Planning Committee at BCC. Thanks to all of you for making this weekend an unforgettable experience.

Seated: Diane Gardner, Carol Trenary Logsdon, Sandy Jeakins Singletary Sizemore, Liz Spillman Alex.

Standing: Mary Giermann Brucker, Mike Mink, Sharon Green Leipold, Steve Jetton, Jack Keefe, Madelon Henderson Newsome, Judy Winquist Neal, Marv Theobald.

Not pictured: Rich Crusius, Suzi Denton Merritt, Pam Hohnstreiter Zweng, Clayton James, Patti Miller Popejoy.

Marvin Theobald

Sep 27 BHS Homecoming Game

BHS is going to reserve a group of seats for the Class of 1964. Charlie Crabtree is being inducted into the BHS Hall of Fame and will be honored following the first quarter. Let's show BHS we are still around and make a big showing to honor Charlie. If you are interested in joining us please contact me so we can make sure we will have enough seats reserved. 

Marvin Theobald

55th Class Reunion

For those that missed the reunion festivities we enjoyed three very special gatherings. In attendance Friday at Cheeks were 44 happy faces. It was great to have classmates Sue McGinnis Payne and Jim Ogan join us since it was not known that they were coming. Long distance attendees were Terri Baxter Whirrett, Barry Ehrman, Rod Hayes, Ed Buis, Jim and Allida Frisch Altemus, Sue Leben Ochs, Dave Long and Judy Walker.

The reunion planning committee did a terrific job of organizing a reception table, setting up memorial and memorabilia displays, decorating with beautiful flowers, putting up signs, presenting a slide show, providing 60's music, and much more. Saturday at BCC was even more exciting than Friday with 62 in attendance including 43 classmates and special guest, teacher Mrs Carla Smith. Mrs Smith gave a brief speach about how special our class was to her and how she believes she learned more from us than we did from her. A special treat, in large part due to the encouragement of John Brown and Dave Long, was the appearance of Wayne Kearney and Bill Walton as first time attendees. To quote Dave Long, "It was like the 55 years just melted away".

Following a nice hors d'oeurvre arrangement, a welcome greeting and a few announcements, a buffet dinner was served that included salads, chicken picatta, pasta primavera, salmon, veggies and luscious cake. Mid-evening Ron Bess honored us with a very special remembrance of his life growing up in Bloomington including memories of his father, Coach Bess. It was a very heartfelt talk that added greatly to the beauty of the entire evening. To many of us Ron and Coach Bess were examples of excellence growing up and Ron wanted the class to know how special our class was to him and the Bess family.

Things wound down relatively early for us "old folks" and the committee cleanup was finished at 10:30pm. I assume that was necessary for getting to an early brunch at 10:00am. At our age we do need our rest. Brunch resulted in 21 attendees plus the proxy "Max" sent in his absence. Flowers from Saturday were used again at Michael's and a hearty selection of food filled our bellies as we completed the final stage of our 55th reunion. It was a magical weekend.

Following the brunch Madelon H., Judy W., Mel, Mary G. and I delivered the remaining flower arrangements to five very special recipients related to our class. Delivery was to Deb Pierce (Jim's wife), Kathy Crabtree (Charlie's wife), Cheri Wombacher Welch, Mary Selk (now 98 and doing well), and Jean Holcomb (4th grade teacher of many of our classmates).

Marvin Theobald

Below is the 55th Class Reunion Program

Marvin Theobald

Welcome to the website Garth Golden. Garth joined the website 8/19/19 and has been coming to the recent mini-reunions as well as the 55th Saturday. He and his wife Debbie are loads of fun.

Vicki Daugherty has recently updated her profile and gets "honorable mention" for posting a very nice message on the forum. Honorable mention does not get you much but maybe it will encourage others to post once in a while. 

It is great to see Annie Shields Ventura, Dick Briggs, Jane Wettaw Kuchefski, Gary Eskridge and Wendy Meyer Nesby providing profile updates.

A lot of you look at the website but don't communicate. Would love to hear what you are doing these days as well as getting your input on most anything you care to share with the rest of us. Especially memories of your days at BHS.

Marvin Theobald

55th Class Reunion Pics

Find below Message Forum

in selections on the left

Contact me if you want high resolution digital copies or prints of any of these photos

Susan (Sue) Leben (Ochs)

To the committee, Thank you for all of your hard work. It was a beautiful 55th Reunion.  It was wonderful seeing and visiting with everyone.  The one thing I will always remember is how kind our class was and is today.  My husband, John, died the week before and he wanted me to be sure to make the reunion.  I will always appreciate your kind words  upon finding out why John wasn’t with me.