Colonel White High School Class of 1963 Homepage © 2009

Hey Little Colonels, Check out your new website! (click here)

Sad News, Victor Jacobs has passed away, details to follow...
Please visit the notice for Victor by clicking here.

Bing Davis holds special workshop... (click here)

Sad news, classmate Ted S. Moraites, has passed away.
Click here for details...

Winter '09 Newsletter

01/01/10

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Well, we certainly have found ourselves in one fine mess since our 45th reunion. Since the recent ‘Spring Cleaning’ of the Home page, all the items that were accumulating here have been put in their appropriate places. If you can’t find something, just click here and send me a note…

Little Colonels Reunion!!

The Class of '64 presents... The Little Colonels... Click Here

Jodi DeVelbiss – Writes:

SAVE THE DATE!
A “homecoming” reunion of former Little Colonels will be held on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010.

If you were a Little Colonel during the tenure of Band Director Jack DeVelbiss (1957-66) or Dave Harrison (1966-71) we want to hear from you. If you are from a class after 1971, we welcome you as well.

A Little Colonel reunion was always a wish of Mr. D’s, and we’re finally going to make it happen. It’s been more than 50 years since the unit’s inception! A steering committee of former Colonels has been organized and plans are being made. We are fortunate to have Dave Harrison and his wife Nancy on the committee; as well as our original Little Colonel mascot Jodi DeVelbiss Wells, and her mom Ci DeVelbiss, working with us to make it a truly memorable event.

So mark your calendars and come celebrate one of the best experiences of your years at Colonel White. Relive the memories of half-time shows, parades, band camp, and the Colonel bus. Come celebrate the pride of having been a Little Colonel. Contact us at lcreunion@yahoo.com to submit your contact information (including maiden name and graduation year) to insure future updates.
Colonels, fall in!
Fondly,
Kathy Keefer Fink 1965 Chairman
L.C. HOMECOMING REUNION

The newest area is the ‘Treasure Chest’… click HERE to take a look. It has the entire contents of our 1963 Yearbook. To copy a picture from it (no, I don’t know why… but if I don’t explain it, 3 or 4 people who visit will ask). The picture you might want to print should be saved to your desktop and then printed from there for the best result. Many other items will be added soon.

Another new area concerns present conditions. Click here for information about silver, gold, and being prepared, which I have come across since last summer. I was very surprised at what I found. No, I don’t sell or represent any commodities or dealers. Why gold and silver? Click here for 'live real time' reasons!

You might want to check your mayonnaise and onions on the F Y I page!

Here are the address links for two other C.W. reunion websites for the classes of '64 and '65.

http://www.cwhs1964.org/

The class of C.W. '65 also has a new address: http://colonelwhite.org/ - it's a long story… just click it!

Until next time, stay healthy, buy silver, for every economic crisis has a silver lining, and remember…

The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in time.
For the clock may soon be still.

Annual October Night Out! click here for pics from last year

P.S. Take a look at some old pictures of previous reunions and reunion planning by following this link.

So long for now…

Don Thompson

Sad news, Tom Bradrick has passed away, July 2, 2009
at age 79... click here for details. There was a memorial service, at 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, July 22 at Fairhaven Church, 637 East Whipp Rd. Centerville, OH 45459. Read about Tom's legacy in The Dayton Daily News HERE...

Bill Yandle of 'Brown School' days has passed away... click here...

Features:

Alumni Bios
Jeff Teens
Harry's Vettes
Thank You
Astronomy Pics
Courier Clips
Feedback

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Click for a Video Clip of a 20th Reunion Committee Meeting & Six Video Clips from the 20th Reunion

A special message to our classmates and supporters from "Cobra":

We, who are foolish enough to expose ourselves to your derision on this site, salute you. You guys have recklessly sent enough money to ensure that we will be able to keep the site going at least through the next reunion (Unless, of course, Lake runs off to Brazil with all our treasure. (I have never trusted him since he took Sharon to the prom.). We thank you for your generosity from the bottom of what passes for our hearts. Hopefully, we are humble enough not to mistake your contributions for endorsement of our writing. The scary thing is that some of us may interpret this as a mandate to write even more stuff, and in the process bore you and humiliate ourselves to death. Oh well, that is the risk of living in a free society. With our new web hosting service we have plenty of room to include huge archives of memorabilia and writing. The only problem is, we don't have huge amounts of memorabilia and writing to post. So, now that you have opened your wallets to keep the site going, we are asking you to open your attics and dig out any pictures, mementos, etc. that you have and scan them yourself or arrange with Don to get them on the web site. The process will not harm your stuff and we will ensure that anything you send gets returned safely to you. We would also love to have more people writing for the site. If you are too shy to write a full blown article, you can dip your toe into the water by leaving a short greeting on Tunnel Talk, then work your way up to replying to other people's comments, originating items yourself, writing short articles, and then cranking out interminably boring stuff like the rest of us do. But, even if some of you are too shy to participate actively (probably the same ones who were too shy to raise your hand in class), we know you are out there reading the site and we greatly appreciate that kind of participation also. Now, after holding Thompson's feet to the fire for many months, I have finally gotten him to divulge the telling data. So, here are the results you have all been waiting breathlessly for: Of the donors to the web site, nine were from Jefferson, a mere five from the lately lamented E. J. Brown, a smattering from Loos, and Fairview, a few unknown, and a few who had the misfortune of attending grade school in another town. This proves conclusively, that Jeffersonians are better people in every regard than ‘Brownies'. (Of course, it is not too late for you E.J.B. grads to open your wallets and reverse the results). In any event, we wish to thank each and every one of you again for supporting the C.W.'63 site either through donations or just taking the time to look at it occasionally. It is a wonderful way to strengthen the bonds that unite the best high school class ever.

Striving to do what is best, what is right…

Sincerely,

Paul Kottler &

The Colonel White Class of 1963 Reunion Committee

“Green and Gold Website Honor Roll”

Bruce Hulman

Paul Kottler

Becky Apple Wellbaum

Sam Kurtz

Jim Lake

Neil Paulson

Karen Decker Jones

Jackie Lecompte Wisniewski

Greg Marsh

Mike Waggoner

Mike Patton

Hugh Rockoff

Tim March

Susie Myers Chacko

Harry Malone

Elaine Pyles Sugarbaker

Don & Linda Thompson

Sharon Skolnik Flagel

Joel Goldman

Dave Neff

Jean Dykstra Gee

Click Articles or Click Here for Kottler's Baseball Memoir...
Click Articles or Click Here for Kurtz's latest piece...

Former Classmate Arrested-Read HERE

View Tribute to Les Mayerson- HERE

Click Here to go to the New Tunnel Talk Forum

Bread Crumbs

Be sure to go to the ‘40th Reunion Area for many pictures, thanks to Paul Kottler. If you are reading this you know ‘things have changed’! We have a new address as well as the old one. They will both get you here by the time you read this. If not, use the ’63.net address. There are many reasons for this, but at this time we are only interested in the future, and serving our class. This web site will be maintained for the purpose of keeping the classmate address list up to date, as well as any other purpose the reunion committee and YOU want. Write us from the ‘Contact Us’ page, with your ideas and suggestions. Just click on the blue E-mail address and talk to us. You will find many new things here, so be sure to hit the refresh button for each page you look at, each time you go to the site, because we are adding new material, and areas daily. Computers, being designed by humans, will do the easiest thing rather than the best thing, as they will load the site pages from their memory, instead of the web, where the latest info is, thus you miss the latest material. To change your address, it’s easy and efficient. It is available to you on the Home Page as well as the Classmate/ E-mail directory page. Simply click on the envelope, then write on your own E-mail service as it appears w/ the Address to: and the Subject: already typed in for you, and hit send! If you have information about a classmate, please use this to notify us, so the master address list can be kept current. Donations to maintain the web site can also be arranged here. Send me your phone number and I’ll call you to set it up, (endowment in Paul Kottler’s case). In the Library you will find specific areas of our collective past. There will be class pictures, from Loos, Longfellow, Fairview, and of course, Jefferson, home of the Jeff ‘Teens, along with features, such as; E.J.Brown tour, Miss Spring, Etc. whenever they become available. Use the drop down menu on the right side of the page. The ‘Memory Lane’ area is where you’ll find any and all material of a general nature. Items will change as more items become available.Until next time, so long for now…

Don Thompson

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