Hello Guys
Beautiful 88 degree day with sunshine and a fast flowing Mississippi river greeted us as we had lunch at the Pool and Yacht club today.
14 classmates showed up today and even three class of 63 guys from STMA came down the hall to visit with us and talk about the up coming 60th reunion activities. John Lentsch from Cretin and George Carroll from St Thomas are working on the effort to pull together another all school gathering like we had for the 25th and 50th reunions. In case you do not recall the class of 63 from both Cretin and STMA both meet the second Thursday of each month at the Pool and Yacht club, so we always have some socializing together
The Cretin guys attending today were; Tom Mega, Joe Brooks, Dick Butler, Tom Troskey, Dave Tree, Jim Dimond, Ed Sund, Don Danneker, Larry Moser, John Lentsch, Ted Moudry, Tom Schleck, John Runyon,
Joe Schufman and the guys from the Academy who visited for awhile were Larry Poppler, Mike McMenemy, and George Carroll.
Joe Schufman spent a morning at CDH last week with his camera to take photos from the two big photo displays that CDH has of each graduating class, Joe will provide CDH with all 268 individual photos and hold out the photos of our deceased classmates for use at the Memorial Mass Joe has arranged at CDH on Sept 27th to honor these men.
As you recall our classmate Tom Rubbelke lost his wife Carol (MCCourtney) two weeks ago. Carol’s wake at O’Halloran is Friday the 14th from 5-8pm and her funeral mass is at 11AM at Nativity on Saturday the 15th.
Our classmate Jim Beaudette passed away in February and will have services in Prior lake on May 15th at 11AM at St Michael Catholic Church.
John Runyon is continuing to put together a piece about two of our classmates that led extraordinary lives after suffering life changing injuries in their early 20’s.
CDH puts out publication about twice per year called . The most recent edition came to my house yesterday. It has several very interesting stories. Many about the history of ROTC at Cretin, notable ROTC alumni and the current very successful JROTC program. Also you will find a feature on Tammy Redpath (Jim Trenter’s Daughter).
It is always an interesting publication and I hope all of you get it in the mail but if not it can be viewed on the CDH website.
Next Cretin lunch is
Thursday May 11th
Take care
Tom Troskey
