Note To Classmates

If your personal information, such as home address, e-mail address, phone number, etc. changes, please contact me at jldavid3@q.com or George Kent at louliegeorge@verizon.net or Margie James Perna at amperna5@gmail.com so that we can update out master information library. Also, if any classmate is aware of other classmates' change of status, please let us know.

This website is a gathering place for the members of Ithaca High School Class of 1961, the first graduating class from the "New High School."

Just because our 50th reunion is behind us doesn't mean you shouldn't register in our Classmates Directory. Just CLICK HERE and add your profile.

Checkout the Current Class Notes web page for new stories and post-reunion information of interest to the IHS Class of 1961. CLICK HERE to access the latest class information.

WEBSITE UPDATES

The following are changes to the website that have occurred since our 50th reunion in July 2011. These update announcements will be individually posted for about six months before they will be removed. Classmates will be able to keep current with website updates.

Posted Class of 1961 reunion history in General News on the Current Class Notes Webpage. Thanks Danilee Gorman Poppensiek. 8/10/2011
Posted a photo of East Hill 6th Grade Class on Early Years, Page 2. Thanks Millie Pirko Triff. 8/14/2011
Tom Yengo passed away on August 15, 2011
Classmate Directory now has 244 entries - 8/21/2011
Ithaca Journal article on our 50th Reunion posted on In The News Webpage. 8/21/2011
Posted reunion photos from Bev McCully Dunphy. 9/10/2011
Bob Campbell passed away on September 27, 2011
Ithaca Night in Ft. Myers, Florida. See Current Class Notes webpage for details, January 3, 2012.
Posted Mr. Bach and information on Teachers Passed On Webpage, January 16, 2012.

Wish I was in High School, a pair of white bucks on my feet,

Honor student, or delinquent, football hero, or just a creep.

I would gladly be anything, that was anything back then,

when I was busy growing away, from family and friends.

I never meant to do that, there was so much time to share,

But legions of years marched silent, through my garden, unaware.

Now in quiet desperation, I can't remember where they've gone.

The homeroom days, and classes, the homework nights so long.

I would barter with the distant past, to relive those slices out of time,
That disappeared like silent ghosts, to the farside of my mind.

Does life forgive, or just forget, the regrets that come at night,

When all we were, are but stardust dreams, that fade with morning light.

Yes, wish I was in high school....

I'd settle for that.

Rick Gravelding
IHS, Class Of 1961

Pepper The Skunk

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