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Lynn Wandelmaier Connell would like you to see her grandchildren, too!
New grandson, born May 30th to Lynn's middle daughter
Granddaughter almost 4 years old is her oldest daughter's child
Here are the two of them meeting each other for the first time.
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Congratulations are in order ~
News from Steven Burton
" Happy Fall!! I wanted to advise that I work for the State of New Jersey and have been promoted to Chairman of the Commission of American Indian Affairs. I get to work with all the state and federal Tribal nation members that reside in NJ to share and promote our culture, and be the liaison between the state and the tribal councils. Since most of us are related to each other, it's like working with one big family. I'm hoping to reach out to all the individual federal and state recognized indigenous members and offer our support."
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News from Joe Fagan~
Lt. Junior Grade Shane Fagan was awarded his "Dolphins Pin” qualifying as a Nuclear Power Submarine Officer out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor in April. He was also awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for superior performance. He is now assigned to USS Massachusetts for Commissioning later this year. *****
Engagement News!
Audrey Scordato Gleave and her husband Michael are thrilled to announce the engagement of their daughter Melissa to Ben. An October 2026 wedding is planned.
Best wishes to Melissa and Ben!
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Happy Retirements!
As classmates embark upon this next chapter we wish them well! In the little informal survey not many classmates (8) responded as to their retirement but if you have retired and want to be acknowledged, please let me know and your news can be shared!
Here are a couple of retirement pics sent in from
TJ Wilks and Debbie Demeduk
(They are Mr. & Mrs. if you didn't know!)
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June 2025 Greenwood Lake Gathering
Friends got together for a little summer fun and celebrating some birthdays and retirements!
(Jim and Lidwin Goodwine, Lynn Savino, Todd & Ada Cochran,
Randy & Andrea Swickle, Jeff & Anna Reisel, Patty Menz)
Lynn & Patty
Randy, Patty, Andrea, Ada, Lynn
Randy, Kathy, John, Ada
Jim, Paul, John
Andrea, Kathy, Lynn, Patty
Anna (left) overlooking table
Jeff and Randy
Let's eat!
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Classmate Diane Ananian Casey found some old photos to share!
Thanks Diane!
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Thanks to John Sepp for sharing this photo taken in September:
John Sepp, Dwight Lansing (80), Jack Lansing, and Paul Hydrean at Lansing's summer place in the Adirondacks
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Lynn Golden has been kind enough to be a go-between for class mail as Elaine isn't on-line.
She shared the following words regarding her sister.
"As far as working goes: Elaine worked at the Oakland HS cafeteria as the "cool lunch lady" LOL Retired early age 62 to take care of her husband Doug who lost his leg in motorcycle accident. A guy high on something and on his phone cut him off. Probably in news but Elaine has info and more.
I will see Elaine soon. Thank you Sue!"
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Enjoying a day out on the links in June -
Jeff Reisel, Lynn Savino and John Baker
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Debbie Demeduk and TJ Wilks traveled to Colorado (more on their trips later in the blog) for the wedding of Debbie's daughter Emma to Terry in July.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
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October Gathering at the Goodwine's Home
October 12th friends gathered at the home of Jim and Lidwin Goodwine for food and fun!
In attendance were: Jim and Lidwin, Lynn Savino, Randy and Andrea Swickle, Michael Grattini, Kenny & Roberta McBride, Todd Cochran, Cathy Holtham and her husband Rich, John Baker, and Paul Lange. Here are some photos~
Gathering around the island to fill their plates with yummy food!
Rich, Randy, Paul, Lynn and Todd
Winding down
Randy, Andrea, Jim, Todd, Rich
The group: Randy, Paul, Jim, Todd, John
Michael, Andrea, Cathy, Lynn, Kenny
Michael, Lynn, Cathy
Andrea and Lidwin
Randy and Lynn
Randy and Jim
Enjoying the fall outdoors - John, Cathy, Jim, Rich, Michael, Paul
Todd, Michael and Rich
Lynn, Todd, John, Cathy, Jim, Rich
Randy, Michael, Lynn
And introducing Ranger!
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TJ Wilks and Debbie Demeduk traveled over 9000 miles, to 14 states, and one wedding this summer.
Here are some pictures of their travels....
The Shiloh Vineyard
Playing Bingo at a winery in Missouri.
The barn was their second stop - at a horse farm in Indiana.
Hey Deb!
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Both of the above photos were taken at either Yellowstone or
Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Dakota.)
TJ operating one of the silver mining tools in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
They shared a sundae while in Coeur d'Alene too.
The arch is the North East entrance to Yellowstone.
One of the hot springs in Yellowstone.
A couple more travel pics above.
5 pics above- SEASIDE HEIGHTS annual trip
Emma, Debbie & TJ
This is from the pumpkin blaze (all of the log cabin is made of pumpkins)
Here is the web site for info:
https://pumpkinblaze.org/
And a few words from TJ- "The pictures encompass most of the states we stopped in, but not all. It was fantastic and that doesn't include the trip to the Thousand Islands in September nor the trip to the huge RV show at Hershey Park."
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The Sheraton Crossroads in Mahwah is no longer there. Here's a link~
Implosion of Crossroads
https://nypost.com/2025/05/11/us-news/nj-sheraton-crossroads-hotel-destroyed-in-controlled-implosion/
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News from the Reunion Committee
The following are tentative plans for the weekend. We wanted everyone to be able to 'SAVE THE DATE' now. The reunion will definitely be held in Mahwah.
Accommodations: we will reserve rooms at the Fairfield Inn and also Doubletree for those coming from out of town.
The date chosen is OCTOBER 10, 2026. The survey results showed that autumn is the favored time of year.
There will be activities planned for the weekend; some of them include a BBQ at John Dolans (1:00 pm Oct 9), Tour of the high school (morning Oct 10), hike (morning Oct 10), and we are awaiting the MHS football schedule as that could also be a fun activity to attend. Once the activities are finalized we will let you know.
Payment methods with Zelle and/or Venmo are being set up.
Stay tuned for more information about the reunion weekend!
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We haven't had too much success in locating folks, here is an updated list. Some of the people have a postal address on the spreadsheet but we would like to confirm their location and send info from email if possible as it is the most cost-efficient way to get the word out. Others on the list used to have an email address but the mail comes back either as undeliverable, no such address, etc. So if you can look at the list again and see if you can assist. Please let me know, thanks! Some names are on FB and LinkedIn but I am waiting to see if the persons reply to my inquiries.
Carol Beynon
Cathy Burns
Debbie DeGroat
Tricia DeJean
Jonathan Gant
Steve Hafner
Vince Hayes
Bob Iannacone
Mark Jablonski
Lynn Jawarski
Steve Jacob
Dennis Murphy
Bob Philpott
Karen Schmidt
Bob Whitman
Ken Yaffey
Todd Becker
Cathy Biss
Wayne Billings
Paul Conklin
Tim Dalenburg
Donna DeGroat
Frank DePalma
Nancy Duncan
Jane Faerber
Brett Hardman
Dave Hodges
Time Johnsen
Christine Karcz
Gail Knichel
Gary Kowalski
Jim Kowalski
Dennis Krupinski (his cousin said she thinks he is in TN)
Fred Mann
John Morace
Nick Muti
Sue O'Brien
Chery Pikaard
Greg Porraro
Steve Spaulding
Nancy Summerfield
Judy Torello
Bob Urgo
Mark Wichlinski
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A reminder - we have a private class group on Facebook, please visit
and join if you are on FB.
Mahwah High School Class of 76:
Also there is a group called You know you are from Mahwah if:
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If you have a business or website/social account that you would like to share with the class,
please do and I can include it in further editions!
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That should do it. The next edition of the blog will be in March 2026 BUT
you maybe hearing from me by email should you need to be notified of some news.
As always, thanks for your contributions and for reading this.
And excuse any strange formatting as this Blogger set-up seems to have a mind of its own some days!
Take care,
Sue
HI Lynn, Let me know if Elaine would like her update posted in the blog. That is sad that her husband suffered from someone cutting him off. I will keep good thoughts for them. Thanks for being the go-between for us! Have a good evening!
Yes she wont mind at all because it was in newspapers and on FB. Nothing Elaine would hold back anyway she is the same fun person as she always was. Lol.
Thanks Sue and you you have good evening also!
Thanks, I will get it into the blog. And I'll send you a note when the blog is up and running at the end of the month. Hope your weather doesn't get too bad there, I saw a nor'easter is coming to the east. We finally had the last of summer Tuesday. Now it is pretty cool up here in Ontario
. Take care
HI Lynn, I have copied your wording into the blog, it should be on-line next week and I will let you know so you can see what the class has been up to and lots of photos. I hope Elaine will like seeing it also when you can show her. Have a good week!
Thank you Sue. I will relay message to Elaine. Its so strange seeing classmates now at our age and visualizing what they used to look like 50 years ago! Some of my classmates I see in pics I wouldn't recognize if I fell on them! Thank you for all the work you put in to this project.
Talk soon and have a good night! Keep warm!
A reminder - we have a private class group on Facebook, please visit
and join if you are on FB.
Mahwah High School Class of 76:
Also there is a group called You know you are from Mahwah if:
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If you have a business or website/social account that you would like to share with the class,
please do and I can include it in further editions!
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That should do it. The next edition of the blog will be in October 2025 BUT
you will be hearing from me before the summer so watch your emails.
As always, thanks for your contributions and for reading this.
And excuse any strange formatting as this Blogger set-up seems to have a mind of its own some days!
Take care,
SueThank you Sue!
HI Lynn, Let me know if Elaine would like her update posted in the blog. That is sad that her husband suffered from someone cutting him off. I will keep good thoughts for them. Thanks for being the go-between for us! Have a good evening!
Yes she wont mind at all because it was in newspapers and on FB. Nothing Elaine would hold back anyway she is the same fun person as she always was. Lol.
Thanks Sue and you you have good evening also!
Thanks, I will get it into the blog. And I'll send you a note when the blog is up and running at the end of the month. Hope your weather doesn't get too bad there, I saw a nor'easter is coming to the east. We finally had the last of summer Tuesday. Now it is pretty cool up here in Ontario
. Take care
HI Lynn, I have copied your wording into the blog, it should be on-line next week and I will let you know so you can see what the class has been up to and lots of photos. I hope Elaine will like seeing it also when you can show her. Have a good week!
Thank you Sue. I will relay message to Elaine. Its so strange seeing classmates now at our age and visualizing what they used to look like 50 years ago! Some of my classmates I see in pics I wouldn't recognize if I fell on them! Thank you for all the work you put in to this project.
Talk soon and have a good night! Keep warm!
A reminder - we have a private class group on Facebook, please visit and join if you are on FB.
Mahwah High School Class of 76:
Also there is a group called You know you are from Mahwah if:
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If you have a business or website/social account that you would like to share with the class,
please do and I can include it in further editions!
*****
That should do it. The next edition of the blog will be in October 2025 BUT
you will be hearing from me before the summer so watch your emails.
As always, thanks for your contributions and for reading this.
And excuse any strange formatting as this Blogger set-up seems to have a mind of its own some days!
Take care,
SueI will see Elaine soon.
Thank you Sue!
HI Lynn, Let me know if Elaine would like her update posted in the blog. That is sad that her husband suffered from someone cutting him off. I will keep good thoughts for them. Thanks for being the go-between for us! Have a good evening!
Yes she wont mind at all because it was in newspapers and on FB. Nothing Elaine would hold back anyway she is the same fun person as she always was. Lol.
Thanks Sue and you you have good evening also!
Thanks, I will get it into the blog. And I'll send you a note when the blog is up and running at the end of the month. Hope your weather doesn't get too bad there, I saw a nor'easter is coming to the east. We finally had the last of summer Tuesday. Now it is pretty cool up here in Ontario
. Take care
HI Lynn, I have copied your wording into the blog, it should be on-line next week and I will let you know so you can see what the class has been up to and lots of photos. I hope Elaine will like seeing it also when you can show her. Have a good week!
Thank you Sue. I will relay message to Elaine. Its so strange seeing classmates now at our age and visualizing what they used to look like 50 years ago! Some of my classmates I see in pics I wouldn't recognize if I fell on them! Thank you for all the work you put in to this project.
Talk soon and have a good night! Keep warm!
Elaine worked at the Oakland HS cafeteria as the "cool lunch lady" LOL Retired early age 62 to take care of her husband Doug who lost his leg in motorcycle accident. A guy high on something and on his phone cut him off. Prbably in news but Elaine has info and more.
I will see Elaine soon.
Thank you Sue!
HI Lynn, Let me know if Elaine would like her update posted in the blog. That is sad that her husband suffered from someone cutting him off. I will keep good thoughts for them. Thanks for being the go-between for us! Have a good evening!
Yes she wont mind at all because it was in newspapers and on FB. Nothing Elaine would hold back anyway she is the same fun person as she always was. Lol.
Thanks Sue and you you have good evening also!
Thanks, I will get it into the blog. And I'll send you a note when the blog is up and running at the end of the month. Hope your weather doesn't get too bad there, I saw a nor'easter is coming to the east. We finally had the last of summer Tuesday. Now it is pretty cool up here in Ontario
. Take care
HI Lynn, I have copied your wording into the blog, it should be on-line next week and I will let you know so you can see what the class has been up to and lots of photos. I hope Elaine will like seeing it also when you can show her. Have a good week!
Thank you Sue. I will relay message to Elaine. Its so strange seeing classmates now at our age and visualizing what they used to look like 50 years ago! Some of my classmates I see in pics I wouldn't recognize if I fell on them! Thank you for all the work you put in to this project.
Talk soon and have a good night! Keep warm!
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