MPHS Class of 1959 Reunion Program Archive Page

2004 Planning Committee
For 45th Reunion
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Kay Krapohl Smith
Margo Helber Link ----Email Margo
Mike Claus ---------------Email Mike
Pete Moutsatson-----------Email Pete
Connie Mullet Tersigni
Holt, MI
Ruth Collins
Kalamazoo, MI
Mary Ann Backus Birch--Email Mary Ann
Shepherd, MI
Kay Jones Bissett
San Francisco, CA
Caroline Merrill------Email Caroline
Fort Lauderdale, FL
John Hartman-------------Email John

Visitors

2004 Reunion Program Archive Page

......Our Thanks to Margo Helber Link of Mt. Pleasant for a Job Superbly Done as Chairperson of the 45th Reunion in September 2004.........We Had a Great Time at the 45th Reunion. If You Were Not There, We Missed You.........

Welcome

=========================================== Look thru our MPHS Class of 1959 Roster with Classmate Names and City Locations current thru November 2004.

Mary Ann Backus Birch was editor of the 2004 MPHS Class of 1959 Memory Book. She describes her assignment below and includes some personal info.

Click here to Go to Reunion Home Page to enter your Memory Book Input Form information....Upper Left Hand Corner.

Click Here to View and Print September 2004 Reunion Registration Form. Since the 2004 Reunion is over this form is obsolete. But it can be used as a future reference and template.

2004 Reunion Planning Committee Photo Below:

At an 08/04/2004 meeting, Class of 1959 Reunion Planning Committee puts final touches on our September gathering in Mt. Pleasant. From left: Kay Krapohl Smith, Mike Claus, Connie Mullet Tersigni, Pete Moutsatson, Ruth Collins, and Margo Helber Link.

Click here for a photo story introduction to the
Sept. 17-18 2004 Class Reunion Program events. Photos taken and collected by Rachael Moreno Delcamp, our Senior Student Council President. Rachael is currently a Michigan State University professor and lives in Laingsburg near Lansing, MI.

You have arrived at the 2004 Reunion Program Events Page. Click the kitty for Event Details.

September 17-19, 2004, Reunion Schedule.
Click on Day-Time below for Photos and More Available Info.
1. Friday Evening. Football tickets ($5.00) for the Friday evening MPHS football game may be purchased at the door. Game starts at 7:00 p.m. A stadium section will be reserved for us.
2. Friday Night. There will be an area set aside for us at Mountain Town Station on Friday night at approximately 9:00 o'clock.
3. Saturday Morning. We will meet at Island Park at 9:30 a.m. Saturday for directions (from Caroline) on a walk through our wonderful park system. Walk begins at 10:00.
4. Saturday Lunch. After the walk, meet at 11:45 a.m. for Coney Dogs at the Pixie Drive-In on North Mission.
5. Saturday Afternoon. The trolley tour ($5.00) will commence at 1:30 for a one hour tour throughout Mt. Pleasant. Pete Moutsatson is our tour guide. We will be taking names on a first come, first serve basis. We will provide a second tour at 3:00 if the need is there. The trolley will meet us in the large back parking lot of the high school just off Bellows.
6. Saturday Evening. Riverwood Golf Resort Dinner at 6 p.m. All is set with Riverwood. Margo's husband, Wally, has offered to bring in a CD Jukebox for the evening. We extended our registration and Cash Bar from 6:00-7:00. Ruth and Kay will be the "official greeters". A 7:00 dinner time is scheduled. The 3 entrees have been determined. Kay will MC a short program. We will have 50's, 60's cds playing in the background.

7. Sunday Breakfast Gathering: For those interested, we will meet at the Big Boy Restaurant (on Mission just south of the Embers) around 10:00 a.m. They have a hearty breakfast buffet or one can order from the menu. They have a nice Garden Room (inside) which usually holds larger parties. All restaurants are normally busy at this time with church and casino people. We will just have to make the best of it. If it is a beautiful day, we could continue conversations at one of our local parks. We can decide that over breakfast.

2004 Reunion Program Archive Page MPHS Class of 1959 Reunion website

MemoryBook Input
Form for updates next time around in 2009 The 2004 Memory Book was published 08/2004.

45th Reunion Saturday
Evening Dinner Details.
Class of 1959 45th Reunion dinner was held at the Riverwood Golf Resort Sept. 18, 2004. Registration and cocktails got underway at 6 o'clock. The Saturday evening dinner was the main Reunion event at Riverwood located at 1313 East Broomfield Road in southwest Mt. Pleasant. Registration and Cash Bar were held from 6:00-7:00. Ruth Collins and Kay Krapohl Smith were the "official greeters". However, Ruth was injured and could not attend the Reunion. Dinner time was 7 p.m. Kay MC'd a short program. 50's, 60's cds were played in the background.

Riverwood Golf Resort in southwest Mt. Pleasant where the MPHS Class of 1959 held its 45th Reunion Dinner September 18, 2004. Almost 100 classmates and spouses attended what was probably the most successful reunion ever held by our class. Riverwood is at the location of what we knew as Moss's Golf Course in the 1950's, a family that included our classmate Dan Moss who died in Flint in 1996.

Riverwood Photos by Ruth Collins

This page is kept for reference as a program archive of our 2004 Reunion.

Who Attended Sept. 17-19 45th MPHS Class of 1959 Reunion?
Read the 2004 Reunion List. Click here.

Click Icon at right to View and Print 2004 Reunion Registration Form. Form is out-of-date but can be used for future reference and template.
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Click to View all 307 photos
from the 2004 Reunion sequentially.

    I�m a late comer to the reunion committee. I�m warning you; don�t say you would like to help, because they take you seriously. I simply asked if anyone was doing the book (last done in �89) that gave us information about everyone. They asked �would you help?�, then �would you do it?� And so here I am, with a stack of questionnaires waiting to be stamped and mailed, eagerly anticipating your responses by July 4th. Then I have two months to put your information into the book, get it printed and bound and try to work in some summer vacation. The completed Memory Book will re-acquaint us with those young kids we stood beside in 1959, waiting to change the world. We will know where they are now, and what has been meaningful to them. While compiling the questions, I simply asked what I wanted to know. I hope you agree.
     This year is the first time I have attended the class reunion. I figured if I waited much longer I would be too old to walk into the room. This decision is just another monumental decision my husband Chuck, and I have made in the last two years. After 38 years in a little town where Chuck was the band director and I was office manager/marketing and community enrichment director for the local school district, I finally decided to retire. Along with that decision was one to move and so we purchased a home in Kalamazoo and moved the day after I retired. I had worked at a job here for 6 weeks when my daughter�s nanny quit and I decided to again quit a job and become the �granny nanny� for two of our grandchildren (I had sworn years ago I would never be a nanny for the gkids). We will have 6 grandchildren by reunion time (a 6 yr old, two 5yr olds, a 3 yr old and babies 6 months and 2 months).
     I can�t wait to see everyone at the reunion. A whole life time has passed since we last stood together.
                               --Mary Ann Backus Birch