1960: HHS 50th REUNION NOTICE

THIS JUST IN FROM ELEANOR GUEAR:
Eleanor Guear said...

Tom - Thanks again for posting our reunion info. Have received reservations from Calif. to Florida! We will also be having a breakfast at the school on the 5th of June at 9:30 followed by a tour - what changes we will see from 50 years ago!

Eleanor

2010: HHS 1960 50TH REUNION UPDATEDI received a guest book entry on my blog from Eleanor Goldy Guear requesting that I post information on the 50th reunion of Hamilton High's class of 1960. I am always happy to accommodate my fellow Hornets. The little vignettes I posted show mini pics of Eleanor Guear, lower left Ann Peters, lower center Cathy Csorgo, and to the far right, a photo of Mary Ann Belardino, sister of my HHS singing partner, Lee Belardino. Ann Peters grew up on the Hartley Avenue hill, and is the sister of my brother Bud's best friend, Bill "Beb" Peters, Cathy is a loyal visitor to my blogs and has added an incredible collection of amateur radio memorabilia from her dad Steve Csorgo's years as a local amateur radio operator. Small world!

FROM DON NUGENT MARCH 2; SORRY I COULDN'T SEND THIS TO ELEANOR AS YOU REQUESTED DON, I SEEM TO HAVE LOST ELEANOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN VERIZON NUKED MY COMPLETE EMAIL CONTACT DIRECTORY. TRUSTING THAT SHE OR A CLASSMATE WILL PICK UP THIS MESSAGE:

Tom,

I see where I am "missing". Please send my email address to Eleanor Guear: dnugent2@gmail.com.Thanks Tom. Still enjoying your blog.

Don Nugent

THIS FROM ELEANOR GUEAR:
Tom - Thanks so much for the Reunion announcement! I DID NOT know that you would include pictures! I'll keep you posted on our plans
Eleanor

John Wilkes wrote:

Thanks for the great blog. My wife, Pat, and buddy, college roommate, and still friend, Bob Chianese have commented, so I could not pass up the opportunity. Lalor School grad, lived on Reed Ave., family home for 70+ years. The best of times for us all in Hamilton and Trenton! My blog: www.homesteadishome.org south of Miami at gateway to the Keys.

Thank you, John. I will visit www.homesteadishome.org. I hope you return to www.glover320 often.

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This From Pat Wilkes:

Pat wrote:
As a former Trentonian, it was fun checking out this website and blogs. It really brought back many happy memories especially now since we're preparing for our 50th Hamilton High School West reunion. My high school days were the best of my life.
(Thanks, Pat; my school years were also a very important part of my life.)

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This from Bob Chianese:

Tom:

I just hooked up with your blog from a member of our 50th reunion committee-we're meeting in Hamilton this June.
I used to have call WA2AXE and remember the Trenton Sunday morning gang on 75 meters: my ham mentors were Gat, Zol, and Steve QJO. I had a Cal call sign many years (WA6LCC) until I forgot to renew my license at the 10 year renewal! I'm studying for a new General but it's hard.
I'm a retired university English prof. and look forward to our HHS reunion this summer. My wife is from Trenton High, also class of 1960.
73, Bob

(Many thanks for visiting Glover320, Bob. I hope you return often)

1954: IT WILL BE REUNION #55 FOR HHS '54

When I lost my complete list of email addresses and ALL the correspondence, I lost contact with many of my visitors. As explained elsewhere on this site, in my quest to be logical, I assumed that the transition from Verizon Fios to Verizon Broadband would not erase all of my thomglo@verizon.net library of messages and addresses. Such was and is not the case. Here's a warning to all who are considering the move I made. Believe it or not, Verizon Broadband told me they are a different organization than Verizon Fios, and have not facility to host emails. I learned too late that some logic can be very twisted. This has been one of them. So Karen, if you are reading this post, thank you so much for the yearbook. Please contact me at my NEW email address tom.glover51@yahoo.com.

1989: HHS CLASS OF 1954 CELEBRATE THEIR 35TH

1954: It was a very good year. some 55 years later, Judy Britton and Tom Glover celebrated 55 years of wedded bliss, along with those infrequent incidents that added wrinkle after wrinkle to our once young countenance. Here's an article I wrote for the Hornets from the class of '54. Unless my math is faulty, they will be headed for their 55th this year of 2009.

A FANTASTIC HIGH SCHOOL REUNION POEM

This gem comes from Carl Hoagland via Jack Lacy, both Hornets from the HHS class of '56. It is priceless, and quite typical of human nature.

Many thanks, Carl and Jack!
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Every class has one or two classmates who refuse to give in to the ravages of father time and admit that they have aged dramatically from their school years.
If I should be blessed with another reunion for my HHS '51 class,
I herewith forewarn all of my classmates:
As you squint to read my name tag, know that I have earned each and every wrinkle in my 75 year old countenance. Trusting you will forgive my one 50 year old exercise in vanity, when I opted for a man-made hair do, I want you to know that at the golden age of 75, I have no problem reminding myself almost daily that I am no longer a young stud. Don't look for me to do a teenager-type jitterbug, Cha Cha, or polka.....maybe a very slow two step. All the while, remember those eternal words of wisdom from Robert Browning:

"Grow old with me....the best is yet to be.."

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THE CLASS REUNION

Every ten years, as summertime nears,

An announcement arrives in the mail,
A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand;
Make plans to attend without fail.

I'll never forget the first time we met;
We tried so hard to impress.
We drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars,
And wore our most elegant dress.

It was quite an affair; the whole class was there.
It was held at a fancy hotel.
We wined, and we dined, and we acted refined,
And everyone thought it was swell.

The men all conversed about who had been first
To achieve great fortune and fame.
Meanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses
And how beautiful their children became.

The homecoming queen, who once had been lean,
Now weighed in at one-ninety-six.
The jocks who were there had all lost their hair,
And the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks.

No one had heard about the class nerd
Who'd guided a spacecraft to the moon;
Or poor little Jane, who's always been plain;
She married a shipping tycoon.

The boy we'd decreed 'most apt to succeed'
Was serving ten years in the pen,
While the one voted 'least' now was a priest;
Just shows you can be wrong now and then.

They awarded a prize to one of the guys
Who seemed to have aged the least.
Another was given to the grad who had driven
The farthest to attend the feast.

They took a class picture, a curious mixture
Of beehives, crew cuts and wide ties.
Tall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini;
You never saw so many thighs..

At our next get-together, no one cared whether
They impressed their classmates or not.
The mood was informal, a whole lot more normal;
By this time we'd all gone to pot.

It was held out-of-doors, at the lake shores;
We ate hamburgers, coleslaw, and beans..
Then most of us lay around in the shade,
In our comfortable T-shirts and jeans.

By the fiftieth year, it was abundantly clear,
We were definitely over the hill.
Those who weren't dead had to crawl out of bed,
And be home in time for their pill.

And now I can't wait; they've set the date;
Our 55th is coming, I'm told.
It should be a ball, they've rented a hall
At the Shady Rest Home for the old.

Repairs have been made on my hearing aid;
My pacemaker's been turned up on high.
My wheelchair is oiled, and my teeth have been boiled;
And I've bought a new wig and glass eye.

I'm feeling quite hearty, and I'm ready to party
I'm gonna dance 'til dawn's early light.
It'll be lots of fun; But I just hope that there's one
Other person who can make it that night.



Author Unknown

1904: SACRED HEART SCHOOL ALUMNI

How I would love to have been at that reunion at Sacred Heart School on South Trenton's Lamberton Street. At the time, the parishioners and students were mostly of Irish descent.

1981: Trenton High Class of '56 Plan for their 25th

These Tornadoes can copy this graphic and display it at their 55th in 2011. How time flies!