Class Of '88 Reunion Attendees Once Again Trick Sue Thorpe Into Thinking Jeff Urban Likes Her

Wow! Has it been a year already since our Class of ’87’s 20th last Summer ?

Cheers,

Jay

From The Onion:

Class Of '88 Reunion Attendees Once Again Trick Sue Thorpe Into Thinking Jeff Urban Likes Her
July 8, 2008 Issue 44•28





ABERDEEN, ID—While attending her 20-year high school reunion Monday, 38-year-old claims adjuster Sue Thorpe was once again tricked into believing that used-car salesman and former homecoming king Jeff Urban had a crush on her, a replay of a cruel prank first played on Thorpe during her senior prom in 1988. "Becky [Linden] told me that Jeff was real lonely after his divorce, and that he had thought about me a lot over the years," Thorpe said tearfully after being humiliated in front of her entire class when the now 252-pound Urban refused to dance with her. "And Bella [Cortland] said that because Jeff's a notary public now, it's illegal for him to lie, so he had to be telling the truth when she asked Jeff if he liked me and he said yes. Why do they keep doing this to me?" Later that evening, a dejected Thorpe repeated another dark chapter from her past when she got drunk and was impregnated by Louis O'Keefe in a soccer goal.

Pictures from Eilisa (Maranville) Maes

Hi all,

Just thought we would send out a wildlife update from our new house:
The bear came through the yard last Saturday night about 10:30pm. We just finished up roasting marshmallows. By the time I got my camera out, he was already in the neighbor's driveway. Good thing he didn't come after me.

The mama and baby moose were in our driveway when we got home. We just had it paved and can't drive on it for a couple days. Brandon was the first to spot them while walking down to the house. We had to give them a wide birth and mama was thinking about coming after us. They stuck around for a while and gave us a good opportunity to snap a few pictures from the safety of the house.

Hope you enjoy the pics!
Randy, Eilisa and the boys

Rome's Visit

Here's a few pictures from Romadel's visit last weekend - a short stop on his way back to Japan from training on the East Coast.

Karaoke Night with Rome Friday 6/27

Romadel will be in town and he's looking for good sake and karaoke. We'll be meeting up with him at Bush Garden in the International District Friday June 27th at 9:00 PM.

Bush Garden Restaurant
614 Maynard Ave S Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 682-6830

Please email Rome or post a comment here if you're planning on coming - we can make reservations for 20+ people
romadeldelasalsas@hotmail.com

Hope to see you there!

http://www.bushgarden.net/

Congratulations x 2= Wetzel TWINS!

Congratulations to Jackie, Jason & big sister Erika

Welcome Catherine Jayne and Miranda Kimberly

7lbs; 19in. and 7lbs; 4oz 19.5in.

Check out their pictures at:

www.jwetzel.blogspot.com

If That Wasn't Enough Voting For You....

Try this one out.


Go to http://www.nwsource.com/ and choose '08 people's picks. Then under "Travel & Recreation" choose the Gym category. Or follow this link then type in Kristen's gym, Lift Personal Training Studio and scroll down to enter the code. You can vote again the next day.
It would be great to get Kristen some well deserved publicity.

KIRO TV School Spirit Contest

I received an email from the Kennedy Development office today. Here it is for all of you...

GREAT JOB LANCER FAN’S! Your votes helped us easily beat Seattle Prep in round-one of the kirotv.com online contest, “Which High School Has The Most Spirit?” (for more information about the contest, see the link on the JFK homepage at www.kennedyhs.org). Round-two will be a little tougher since Kiro threw out a challenge to the other schools. Here’s what they had to say about the awesome Kennedy Spirit…

Congratulations Liberty, Renton, Snohomish and Kennedy! You have all advanced to the Sweet 16 of the KIRO School Spirit Competition! A special congratulations to Kennedy who had 1747 votes and beat the old record set by Kamiak (737) by almost 1000 votes!! They are proving tough to beat. Great job!

Kamiak picked up the challenge. As we send you this reminder at 9:00 PM on Sunday evening, Kamiak has just passed the 1,000 vote mark…with 19 more hours of voting left! We need your help to defend the unbeatable Lancer Spirit!

Vote for Kennedy High School in round-two of the School Spirit Contest at: http://www.kirotv.com/schoolspirit/index.html. Voting for Kennedy begins at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, May 21 and ends on Friday, May 23 at 4:00 PM. You can vote as often as you like -- be sure to tell family and friends!

Go Lancers!

Dinner With Dan

Dan Furber is coming to town! Everyone who wants to have dinner with Dan will be meeting at Harmon Brewing in Tacoma, Sunday April 27th at 5:30. http://harmon.harmonbrewingco.com/

Harmon Brewing Company, Inc
1938 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402

If you email me that you're going to come, I'll make sure that we have a big enough table.email Stephanie

KATCH Auction 2008

It's KATCH Auction time and on behalf of the class of '87, we've chosen two items to donate to the auction.
The first item up for bid is the Navigon 2100 Portable GPS unit.




The second item is a Breakfast In Bed basket from Wine Country Gift Baskets.



The auction is April 25th and 26th at Kennedy. Check the Kennedy website for more details.
http://www.kennedyhs.org/1616101218163456310/site/default.asp?

Work Out With Kristen

Many of you know I have been working hard over the last several months to realize a life long dream of opening my own personal training studio. I am happy to report that LIFT is finally open for business! Thank you everyone for your continued support and patronage. Please visit our website at http://www.liftseattle.com/ or stop by next time you are in the Village. We are located at 3216 West Lynn Street right next door to Star Nails. Stay tuned for more information on upcoming events, studio specials and more.

See you soon.......

Kristen

Your DVDs are Ready

If you haven't picked up or been handed your reunion DVD, you will be getting them in the mail soon!

Okay, maybe not soon-soon, but as soon as Steph and Toni get together and feel like sending them out instead of talking. Wait, that won't work either. Hmmm... You'll get them by the end of March!

If you paid for any day of the reunion, then you get a dvd.
$15 for anyone else. Email JFK87@toniandmike.com to coordinate
Rome & Dan F - Steph and Toni are footing the bill for yours so don't send us any money!

One Year

I was deleting some old stuff from my computer and I found that it has been one year since Kathleen Marth (from the Kennedy Development Office) asked me to start planning the reunion.
WOW! What a bizarre, chaotic and fun year it's been! I do love a bit of harmless chaos. So, thanks for being part of one of the weirdest years of my life!

-Steph

GEAR DRIVER!! Thursday June 5th.

Check out Mark Ward (Class of '85) and Mike McCullough in their band GEAR DRIVER

You're Invited

You're invited to a birthday celebration. Come to congratulate Melanie Kelsey for surviving another year.

Where? Parlor Billiards http://parlorbilliards.com/ in Bellevue.
700 Bellevue Way, 3rd Floor

When? Saturday November 17th @ 8:00 PM

There are actually many November birthdays in our class, so if you're one of them, we'll buy you a drink too.

Last weekend I had a completely surreal experience.

All of my life I have been teased about my red hair. No one else in my family has red hair. My parents and sister all started out as blond children and then their hair got darker as they got older. None of my aunts or uncles or cousins look anything like me. I was teased about being the red-headed step-child, or the milkman’s kid. Even my eyes don’t match. My mom and sister both have blue eyes, mine are brown. In that respect, even other red-heads don’t look like me. It is more normal to have green eyes with red hair, second most common is blue. I always just figured it was because I’m so mixed up. I’m Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch, Welsh, German, Norwegian, and Bohemian. (The Bohemian part is the Vlach part)

Once when I was about 12 years old, we were at my Grandma Vlach’s house. Everyone was teasing me with the normal “The milkman’s your real father” “Maybe it was the mailman.” And it wasn’t just the kids, sister and cousins, the adults were doing it too. When my Grandma came into the room and heard them she got really mad. Over reaction mad. She started yelling at everyone for making fun of me. She yelled, “She is Not the milkman’s kid, she looks just like my sister Hazel!”

It never actually bothered me to be teased, so I thought that Grandma was going a bit overboard because she yelled at everyone for a couple of minutes. Then my uncle Larry agreed that I looked like Hazel and not only that but took after her personality wise too. Then he told me that in our family back in Wisconsin, every family has at least one red-head in every generation. Well, my Grandma was the oldest of 11 kids, and my Grandpa was the middle of 12 kids, so my Dad and his brothers have 106 first cousins. In contrast, my Mom is an only child and my Dad has two brothers and one sister, I have 5 cousins. I know all of my cousins. My Dad does not know most of his.

So, last weekend my uncle Larry turned 60 along with 2 of his cousins who have also moved out west. So there was a birthday party. The only people that I knew at the party were my Dad and sister, my uncle Larry and aunt Karen. All of the rest were complete strangers to me and all of them looked EXACTLY like me! (Well, except for the ones who had married into the family, there were a few of those.) It was so bizarre! A whole room full of people with red hair and brown eyes. Not only that but my nose and cheeks too! And I finally met my great-aunt Hazel; she’s 85 years old. I was talking to her and she said, “You kind of remind me of myself.” I said, “I’ve heard that before!”



Here's Hazel, Me, my kids Rachael & Rebecca, my sister Gwen, and her daughter Sydney.