Hi everyone,
Beautiful day in the Twin Cities.
There are two photos attached and one is of our Cretin Classmates and the other is of the class of 63 St Thomas Academy Classmates. Both of these classes meet the second Thursday of each month at the P & Y but are usually in separate rooms.
Today the P & Y was very crowded due to a funeral reception being held. Because of that Cretin and St Thomas were seated side by side in one of the rooms. It was fun in that because of who populated the schools back in our day, most came from about a dozen parishes around St Paul so many of us knew one another.
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The Cretin photos has from the left side of the table front to back; Don Danneker, Joe Schufman, Gary Stoffel, Dave Britz, Joe Brooks, Tim Valento, Frank Villaume, and from the right side of the table front to back John Lentsch, Joe M McGrath, Jim Dimond, Gene Bovy, Dave Tyree, Jim Hudak, Tom Mega, John Runyon.
In the St Thomas photo; left to right around the table; Dick Bisanz, Gene Allstat, Pat Feely, John Berken, Mike Byrne, and I can not remember the fellow in the orange shirt.
During the past week I had the good fortune of communicating with two of our classmates, Greg Halbert and Tom Rubbelke. Both of these guys said to say hello to all of you. Greg was injured in a fall and Tom lost his wife Carol two months ago.
I know both of these guys would love to hear from you.
The strong CDH baseball team lost last night in the section finals to East Ridge so no trip to state. The very strong CDH girl’s fast pitch won the sections and is headed to state.
Three boys off the Golf team qualified to go to state next week. Their top golfer is a Sophomore who has won the National Drive , Pitch, and Putt competition at Augusta National twice in the past three years. I think a CDH girl golf team member also qualified for the state but do not have confirmation on that.
John Runyon handed out a copy of the Congressional Record from May 25th where MN Rep Pete Stauber recognized our deceased classmate George Bonfe. A copy of the recognition is on the class of 63 web site here.
OUR 60th REUNION ACTIVITIES
Wednesday Sept 13th—Memorial Mass at CDH for the 85 deceased classmates from the class of 63. Joe Schufman has put this together. Please confirm attendance and any questions with Joe. Also family members of the deceased classmates are welcome to attend.
Thursday Sept 14th Annual Golf outing (THE CHARLIE) to be held at Highland National beginning at 9:30AM It’s a scramble a “BRITZ SCRAMBLE”. Please confirm attendance and any questions with Dave Britz
Thursday Sept 14th THE ONE CDH alumni dinner at CDH beginning at 5PM. More details on this event will be sent out by CDH. Contacts at CDH are Peggy Schafer and Megan Smith
Friday Sept 15th The CRETIN DERHAM / ST THOMAS ACADEMY football game at the Minnesota Viking Performance Center facility in Eagan, 7PM.
As far as a multi-school social gathering for the 60th I have no info at this time but want to thank Tim Valento for stepping forward to contact the other schools to determine their interest in a gathering such as this.
That’s all for now folks
Thanks
Tom Troskey