Eaton Rapids High School - Class of 1974

We must say goodbye to Joanie Love. Her memorial service was lovely and well-attended! Let's remember her the way she would want us to, hey; with love, kindness, and a helping nature.

God bless the family during the oncoming changes in their lives! These classmates are here to help any way we can! Hugs around!

It is with a heavy heart that I must let you know that we've lost Rob Owen... he suffered an irrecoverable cardiac arrest and died last Friday! Please see FB site of Jennifer Owen for details. Fifty on our Wall of Fame now! Hang in there people... take care of yourselves!

Please enjoy the King Street kids and Ms. Linsemier's 5th-grade group, as well as a couple of remotes from Irma at our event.

Irma sent me some pictures of our daring pontoon ride on the mighty Grand River!

Welcome back everyone! This MAY be a bit of a barrage, but they're all people pics that Tomi and Sean took during the event. Thank you ladies! Please forgive me in the event of a name error!

The following sort of reveal the itinerary of our event, and our special guests too!

Holy time warp Batman! Sorry for makin' ya wait. So busy this retirement thing! We don't have the professional pictures back yet either, as far as I know! So I'm still "ahead" of the game!

As an update...I've finally got the images received so far downloaded to my desktop, and sorted. I promise to get them up here ASAP.

Here are three pictures Dr. Paul Verle sent from our brief dam tour! It was sure wonderful to have Paul come all the way from Belgium! Not only that, but he rode his thirty pound bicycle from Toronto! Our hearts are warmed by ALL our classmates, but we are especially proud of Paul and his profoundly altruistic life! Bravo Paul!! Bravo!

Top 'o the morning all! We received some pictures from Sean from Friday night at Abie's! This of course was the pre-party! Filled the east end.

These will be in chronological order, so as time went on folks began to "relax" a little more! I had one margarita so drove like James Bond. It was really good getting together there as traditional.

Greeting everyone! If you have ANY pictures from the reunion, please feel free to send them to my email at [email protected] and I'll put them up after cataloging them! Thanks!

Just a few early pictures from the set-up process on Friday afternoon! We had thirty smashed into the east end of Abie's after that. Oh, the punishment of it all. Great sign for a good turn-out tomorrow!

Will post material as it becomes available. Have a great week! Wonderful to see everybody, and to be able to catch up a bit!

SPECIAL LATE ALERT - Eaton Rapids Class of '74 "50th Reunion" t-shirts will be available to be printed by YOU at the reunion, (or Tomi Turner will print yours with or for you, if you prefer.) for a donation. All sizes will be available. See you Saturday! Please see photo for the logo design this year! Gettin' mine right away!

Told ya!! I was reminded what posting yesterday was supposed to accomplish! Here's sort of a timeline for the day(s)! Friday night at Abie's 7:00 p.m.; On Saturday, an hour on a pontoon from noon to 14:00 for those in the mood; then enjoying E.R. if you haven't been here in a while till START TIME of 16:30 (that's 4:30 p.m.) at 5870 Island Hwy., Charlotte, MI. Home of Russ & Shannon Rogers.

Event chronology estimates are as follows:

16:30 Welcome gathering time for yakin' & huggin'...
17:00 Coming together to honor and remember classmates...
17:30 Further discussion regarding class business, etc.
18:00 Dinner to commence about now... DOOR PAY $15/person pls

NOTE: Taco Bar and Fried Chicken and CAKE furnished. Mmm!

Nutritional Coordinators suggest sides to consider bringing might be Spanish Rice, Refried Beans, Corn Chips, Baked Beans, Corn Casserole (not really), Watermelon, Cookies, Brownies (now we're talkin'), Potato Salad, Pasta Salad, Coleslaw, fruit, relish tray, or any potluck dish!!

NOTE: Photographer on-site from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. with GROUP PICTURE at about 19:00 (7:00 p.m.) Please be on hand for that!

Intentions include a 50/50 drawing for the Treasury; folks from a couple other classes and guests party-bombing; WHO KNOWS?

20:00 Continued GOOD TIMES for all until approximately 03:00 on Sunday morning when we plan to be dispersed to our own beds!

See y'all there! God willin' and the creek don't rise! N.F.