Hello Everyone,

Hope the new year is starting out well for you!

Today we had a very spirited group of 15 class of 63 members together for a couple of hours of socializing. If you were not there we sure wish you were. The monthly class of 63 lunch is select group open to ALL class of 63 members. Love to see you!

I have been in contact with the son of our classmate Kerry Knodle and sadly Kerry is dealing with early onset Alzheimer’s and is living at the St Cloud Vets Home. Keep Kerry and his loved ones in your thoughts and prayers.

For those of you who never see ice outside a drinking glass, there is a photo of the ice-covered Mississippi, just in case you forgot what that looks like!

I know that we have quite a numbers of classmates who have authored books and there is a photo of our latest classmate/author, Jim Hudak with his new book Blood & Brilliance. Congrats Jim on this Sci Fi thriller.

Jim’s book can be ordered as follows;

I would like to ask all the classmates who have authored books to send me an email with your book titles and the year of print. I know I have asked this about 10 years ago but it would be great to put out an updated version. THANK YOU and I know your classmates will appreciate seeing the list of 63’ authors.

One of the photos included in today’s email is a photo from the class of 63 play Tea House of August Moon-Ed Kurhajetz brought it in today and we want to see if you can ID the folks in the photo—please send me who you think each person is. Hint – look to the class of 63 web site link at the bottom of this note (click on continue reading). Thanks ED. Ed was publicity director of the play!

Finally, we continue to discuss that we are all going to be 80 this year. With that said the plan is to have an 80^th birthday party lunch for class of 63 members this summer on Thursday August 14^th Details should be forth coming but we need a couple of guys to volunteer to work on this event. The main items that need to be identified and determined by the volunteers are where to have the party and what the food arrangement should be. Once that is done the communication will be done through emails and the class of 63 website. So please let me or Joe Schufman know if you will take on the task of determining the place and food arrangement. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Two other dates to write down;

Next lunch is Thursday February 13^th—————————–Annual Charlie golf outing Wednesday August 13th

Best to all of you and a healthy 2025

Tom Troskey

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