October 2023 Edition

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a nice summer and are getting ready to enjoy fall and all of its beautiful colors!  

Take a scroll through this update and catch up with what's been happening with classmates!

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Mike Dooley's son Michael and his lovely bride Lauren got married on October 27th. Congratulations!

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Engagement  - Tamara Graham's son....

and the wedding - Tamara Graham and her husband and family celebrated the marriage of their youngest son in August.

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Here's Todd Cochran and his great Walleye catch! 

In July he was fishing with Jim Goodwine on Greenwood Lake.

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Birthday celebrations continue with many classmates hitting age 65! 

Best wishes to everyone! Here are some photos of  classmates celebrating in April 2023~ 

the group includes

Lynn Savino, Mike Grattini, John Baker, Todd and Ada Cochran, Jim and Lidwin Goodwine, 

Patty Menz, Paul Lange and Jean Branna

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Other gatherings - 

Classmates gathered at Mahwah Bar and Grill in August for the 

“Celebration of Life” for Mark “Max” Maxwell (class of ‘74) 

who sadly passed away August 2023.

Pictured left to right Paul Hydrean, John Sepp, Lynn Savino, Jean Branna, Patty Menz and Jim Schattschneider. 

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The annual Carty Golf Outing - Jeff Reisel, Lynn Savino and Bill Reisel

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Joe Cuhaj who has exciting news and photos to share ~

"Hi, everyone. Hope you’re all well. I wanted to announce that I have another new book out that was just published by Prometheus Books. It’s titled, Everyone’s Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11.

 "The book focuses on the month of July 1969 and the historic first moon landing by the crew of Apollo 11. Within the pages, I interweave little known tales about the preparations and eventual landing on the moon with important historical events that occurred during the month, long forgotten and obscure events (did you know a prototype of the internet was introduced in July 1969 only to crash when they first tried to login?), as well as the pop culture of the day, all of which helped shape who we were then and now. It also weaves in personal stories by everyday Americans and a few of the NASA engineers and contractors who helped make the landing happen only to find their lives up ended once the flight was over as budget cuts crippled the program.

"I also discuss the fact that in reality, not everyone had gone to the moon. Protests by environmentalists and Civil Rights leaders put pressure on NASA to re-evaluate their plans for the moon.

The book is available at your favorite brick and mortar or online bookstore. I hope you enjoy it!"

 "Here is a picture of me standing by the new moon rocket, the Space Launch System (Artemis) on the launch pad."

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Joe Fagan's son Shane successfully graduated from the Navy’s Nuclear Power School program 

on July 7th in Charleston, SC.  He is currently finishing up 6 months of Prototype school working on a reactor to get qualified before heading out to fleet.

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Dawn Wilson enjoys spending time with her son John Jr.'s daughters. 

These cute little ones are Anna age 5 and Lucy age 2. And Dawn is in the picture above with them.

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Ron Kort shares some family photos~ 

Ron Kort and his wife Kim

Ron's grandkids  TOP:  Colin  BOTTOM: Braydon and Jackson 

Ron and his brother and nephews

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Tamara Graham has shared these pictures of her grandkids ABOVE .

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Donner Tevis is still working cattle at age 65!  She has sent in some pictures~

She says, "It's that time of year again bringing down the cows from the high country. That's my life, horses and cows. Bad wildfire this year. Still smoldering from coal tailings since July."

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Congratulations to Tamara Graham and her husband!

She says, "My husband and I finished building our home, we are in the 

black hill of South Dakota;  if anyone finds their way out here look us up."

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Irene Bader sent this link to fall foliage dates in the US~

https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/

Take a look and see where you can still see some lovely colors. 

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With thanks to Philomena DePalma for sharing these pages - Football!

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That's it for news for now. Thanks to all who contributed news and photos! 

Usual business- if you have a change in your contact information, please let me know so I can keep the class database up-to-date.  You can send me your updates to mahwahhighschool1976@yahoo.com   If you are aware of classmates who don't receive the emails please give them this address as well so they can connect with us.  As it gets closer to 2026 I will post a list of classmates that we need contact information for.

The next edition of the blog will come out in March 2024 and I will send out an email to ask for contributions a few weeks prior to that.  (You can send to me before that, I will save whatever you send and post it in March. Please be sure to let me know it is for the blog as sometimes people just send me pictures and such so that I can see but not to share.)

The class group on Facebook is at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/47889678341  (titled Mahwah High School Class of 76) and there is also a group - "You Know You're From Mahwah If" at https://www.facebook.com/groups/46650173906

If you have a business or personal web site, Facebook group or Twitter- X that you would like to share with the class, please do! I will be happy to post info in the blog to get the word out.

Have a fun safe autumn and winter, all the best to all of you!

~ Thanks again,

Sue