Lyle Parin

Suzan Stone (Hurlburt)

I will call Elaine O'Neal and Carol Wahlquist

Wendy Werlein (DeGuise)

I have sent the email address of this site to Marg Manley Cason.

Lyle Parin

Thank you Wendy, and Sue too.  We appreciate that. That's just how we want this site to work. You're doing a great job!

Sorry Sue about the late entry and Thank you!!!

Lyle and Al

Josette LeMire (Nay)

Lyle,  This is Josette LeMire Nay.  I have Diane Purcell's address which is 355 South Lake Street, Forest Lake Minnesota, 55025.  She does not use email.  I don't know if she uses a computer but I do know that she does not have an email address. All of our communication is by mail.  That is how you may have to contact her.  My husband and I will be in White Bear  on the 4th of July for about a week and I hope to visit with her then.  I will encourage her to get involved.     Thanks for setting up this web page.     Josette

Dennis (Dj) Smith

Ted Thelin retired from the Air Force as i recall.

Mary A Blewett (Kloek)

I will send this info on to Sallie Hagstrom Peters who now lives in Taylors Falls, MN. Nice to learn about our classmates. Mary Blewett Kloek

Carl Bourdon

http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/53142/JAMES-F-UTTERMARK is now available for remembrances.

Please leave a message for Jim.

Carl Bourdon

It is 1:10 PM, I am in Mr Dietz's social studies class and Mr Kearney comes to the class room door and announces that the President has been shot. We were all in suspense and grief until we knew later the President is dead.

I am trying to remember the girl in front of me, Kathy Fury or Janice Lester but I did all I could to hold my emotions. After all, it was Mr Dietz's class room and boys don't cry.

Suzan Stone (Hurlburt)

I was in Glee Club with Mr. Engen.  He told us and started crying.

Evelyn Johnson (Haidt)

i was in home ec. when the news of president Kennedy was shot and killed

Shirley T Pederson (Mastel)

I was in Mr. Dietz's class.  This big football coach had a hard time holding it together.  Funny how you remember things like this so clearly.

James Wilcox Dimmers

I was in Mr. Thorson's class, 5th hour. It was almost over when he left the room quickly, then came back in telling us with his head held down, "Word has it that President Kennedy has been shot." He tried to take care of all of us by attempting a laugh of some sort. I realized afterward that he was stunned. 6th hour study hall barely began when it Mr. Walberg announced over the PA system that our president was dead. I still to this day get a lump in my throat when I remember the bursts of tears and as we all looked around the cafeteria to one another trying to digest the news, the LAST thing in our innocent lives we'd ever thought/ ever knew could happen.

Although henceforth we have experienced a lot we never thought possible politically it wasn't until 9/11 that anything so rocked our country at it's very foundation. That same blank stare as we turned to each other to maintain strength to get through this horrible event. It  so clearly illustrated what The United States means, despite differences  untold when it gets tough we WILL pull together!

Pat Gove (Proctor)

I was working in the nurse's office and heard the announcement. It was such a shock I didn't know whether to believe it or not. I can remember watching everything on TV for days.

Michael Plocher (Plocher)

I was at my locker at the bottom of the staircase from the second floor, next to the cafeteria.  Bob Mikeworth was at his locker next to mine.  We exchanged a few words and then we left for home.   I now live across from the old high school.  On Friday I walked the corridor down to those lockers and paused to reflect on where I was 50 years ago.  

Allen S Hodder

I'm not sure what class I was in, but I remember the room.  It was on the ground floor at the southern most part of the building.  I remember classmates crying.  I thought of the Bay of Pigs, and then the nuclear standoff in Cuba.  I thought war was imminent.

Dennis (Dj) Smith

I was in my most favorite class, honor study hall, when it was announced he had been shot.  Total shock!  And then quickly to my second favorite class, phy ed.  We all just sat there and it was announced he had died.  A sad, sad day.

David Clarke

I, too was in Dietz' class with Carl and Shirley I had heard it  for the first time working in the "Hole", the sports equipment room. Next class was Social Studies and I remember Mr. Kearney coming in. It seemed that it was impossible and I really didn't believe it until I got home and saw it on TV.

William (Bill) Zemke

Mrs. Ron Johnstone was driving a station wagon full of On the Job Training girls downtown St. Paul to our afternoon jobs.  I remember Sue Everson was in the car - sorry my "old" mind doesn't remember anyone else at the moment.  We had the radio on and the broadcast said that Mrs. Kennedy had blood on her pink suit in the back of the convertible.  The "President had been shot!"  With that II was dropped off at my job in the Minnesota Mutual Insurance building and when I got  up to the sixth floor and looked out across the city skyline - the American flags on the rooftops were all being dropped to half mast.  They were all being lowered exactly at the same time - very eiry.  I also remember that school was closed - probably the day of the funeral - but it was also the day that Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred in the court house and was shot on live television.  Even the cop show, Dragnet, didn't show people getting shot on T.V. and here was a live shooting. I am still substitute teaching in elementary schools and the kids today either don't know about President Kennedy or they really don't know about him any more than President Lincoln.  I suppose that's how our parents and grandparents felt about WWII - they lived it and we just studied it.  (Lois Schultz Zemke)   

Patricia J Schmitz (Hall)

I'll join in with my classmates in Dietz' classroom.  I can still picture staring at the intercom speaker by the clock.  A life changing memory for sure!  Thank you for sharing your memories.   Pat (Schmitz) Hall