Reconnect during our 60th year since graduation.
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Go WeGo!
60 Year Reunion!
The following e-mail was sent to all classmates on record as of 11 July 2022. If you didn't receive your copy, please check your SPAM/Junk mail box. If it's not there, perhaps we don't have your current e-mail address. Please Contact Us!
Greetings from the CO 1963 Reunion Planning Committee
After an enjoyable lunch and meeting concerning the 60-year reunion, some of the following topics were discussed: When, Where, Plated or Casual Buffet, Afternoon or Evening, Anticipated Head Count, Lost Classmates since the 50th. There was the customary banter about offspring and their offspring, places visited, and what happened over the last two years.
For a quick bit of information, since June of 1963 with a graduating class of 140 people, we have lost the ability to communicate with 54; 34 have passed on and 20 are missing.
Getting down to business, I had a discussion with the new head of sales at the Holiday Inn of Carol Stream and what was once a need to reserve space for an event a year in advance has transformed to two months being the new norm. Giving thought to our age, current inflationary pressures, and uncertainty of what lies around the corner, we thought two months was a good number to use at this time.
One of the lessons we’ve learned repeatedly, is the fact this class does not enjoy showing any sign of preference until things are cemented in place. So, for now, there will be no formal news about a reunion until we are approximately six months out from having to make a choice.
If the desire to contact a committee member strikes, click here for a list of options and scroll down the left column.
This website will still be a source of information of any discussions taking place prior to the next committee meeting sometime in March or April of 2023. I’m hoping we can convene in February for the pizza and discussion event we used to enjoy prior to all the commotion. Until another time, have fun, do what feels good, and keep those cards and letters coming.
Tom Overton
Committee Chair Person
After an enjoyable lunch and meeting concerning the 60-year reunion, some of the following topics were discussed: When, Where, Plated or Casual Buffet, Afternoon or Evening, Anticipated Head Count, Lost Classmates since the 50th. There was the customary banter about offspring and their offspring, places visited, and what happened over the last two years.
For a quick bit of information, since June of 1963 with a graduating class of 140 people, we have lost the ability to communicate with 54; 34 have passed on and 20 are missing.
Getting down to business, I had a discussion with the new head of sales at the Holiday Inn of Carol Stream and what was once a need to reserve space for an event a year in advance has transformed to two months being the new norm. Giving thought to our age, current inflationary pressures, and uncertainty of what lies around the corner, we thought two months was a good number to use at this time.
One of the lessons we’ve learned repeatedly, is the fact this class does not enjoy showing any sign of preference until things are cemented in place. So, for now, there will be no formal news about a reunion until we are approximately six months out from having to make a choice.
If the desire to contact a committee member strikes, click here for a list of options and scroll down the left column.
This website will still be a source of information of any discussions taking place prior to the next committee meeting sometime in March or April of 2023. I’m hoping we can convene in February for the pizza and discussion event we used to enjoy prior to all the commotion. Until another time, have fun, do what feels good, and keep those cards and letters coming.
Tom Overton
Committee Chair Person
Change in Website Provider
Square, parent company to our website provider, Weebly, is now transferring accounts to work under the umbrella "Squareup.com". Should be an interesting time and learning experience for the webmasters. We're told we will now have access to additional apps and features that could be used to enhance our site and will be exploring those in the coming months. For now, we've created our new Square account and are working to assure ourselves and our classmates that wego1963.com continues to load and work exactly the same as when it was just a Weebly site.
Please let us know if you have trouble logging in or browsing our class website after the Squareup switch is thrown on October 6th. Thanks, Your webmasters....
Please let us know if you have trouble logging in or browsing our class website after the Squareup switch is thrown on October 6th. Thanks, Your webmasters....
WebMaster's Need Your Help?
Please help us keep this site interesting, current and relevant by submitting memories, stories and/or pictures form our high school days. Have you taken an interesting trip? Did you recently visit, or were your visited by, a follow classmate? What's happening in your life today?
While we can use all most anything, we are particularly interested in the following:
While we can use all most anything, we are particularly interested in the following:
- Pictures or memories from our first 3 reunions to add to Our Reunions page.
- The names of more local businesses from the 50's & 60's to add our Local Businesses page.
- Suggestions for things you remember from the "good old days" and might be wondering what they look like today or even if they still exist.
- Taken an interesting trip in recent years? Do you have a favorite memory or story from your youthful years in West Chicago?
- Would you be interested in participating in an interactive BLOG?
- Are you looking forward to our next reunion? Perhaps our 60 year reunion in 2023? Or, perhaps you'd rather wait for our 65 year reunion in 2028. Let us know!
Dec 17 - 2:00 PM CT
See Co63 Lounge for details
See Co63 Lounge for details
Dec 25
2022
Jan 1, 2023
Jan 21 - 2:00 PM CT
See Co63 Lounge for details
See Co63 Lounge for details
Feb 11 - 12:30 PM CT
Annual Pal Joey's Winter Event Luncheon
Annual Pal Joey's Winter Event Luncheon
Feb 18 - 2:00 PM CT
See Co63 Lounge for details
See Co63 Lounge for details
Recent Site Changes
11/23/2022 - Updated our Contact Info download file.
11/20/2022 - Added BLOG viewing tip to the FAQ page.
11/19/2022 - Added a letter from Sherry to our News page and added our 30th lounge meeting to this page.
11/18/2022 - Added an eRSVP page for the Luncheon. Added a BLOG page for your thoughts on celebrating our 60 years.
11/17/2022 - Added Winter Luncheon.
11/6/2022 - Moved our monthly Zoom lounge meetings from our Special Events page to their own Monthly Zoom Meetings page.
11/4/2022 - Corrected caption on the first picture on our Latin class page.
10/18/2022 - Updated our calendar.
10/15/2022 - Updated our 28th monthly zoom session with our 29th.
10/10/2022 - Archived a couple of out-of-date stories on the Home page and rearranged the remaining stories.
10/2/2022 - Added West Chicago makes the 2022 Fortune Top 25 Best Places to Live for Families.
10/1/2022 - Updated Fran's Celebration of Life information.
9/24/2022 - Updated our Contact Info download file.
9/17/2022 - Updated our 27th monthly zoom session with our 28th.
9/11/2022 - Updated Fran's obituary.
9/5/2022 - Updated Fran Kammes' a Celebration of Life.
9/4/2022 - Add a Celebration of Life info for our most recent classmate to pass on. See our Classmate News page.
9/1/2022 - Made minor changes to our About Us page to eliminate references to our long gone BLOG pages. Also revised our description of how we use links on our site.
8/22/2022 - Updated our Classmate News page with the passing of another one of our own.
8/20/2022 - Replaced our 26th lounge meeting with our 27th meeting.
7/30/2022 - Updated our Contact Info download file.
7/16/2022 - Replaced our 25th lounge meeting with our 26th meeting.
7/12/2022 - Updated our Contact Info download file.
7/11/2022 - Added a note about our 60 Year Reunion to this page.
7/1/2022 - Added a note from another classmate to our Classmate News page.
6/26/2022 - Updated our Contact Info download file.
6/19/2022 - Replaced our 24th lounge meeting with our 25th meeting.
6/15/2022 - Added the White Hat Restaurant to our Local Business page.
6/2/2022 - Added the Planning Committee meeting to calendar.
6/2/2022 - Updated the Planning Committee page.
5/26/2022 - Added "To Gather or Not..." to this page and updated page headers.
5/21/2022 - Replaced our 23rd lounge meeting with our 24th meeting.
5/10/2022 - Updated the 4/27 post on our Classmate News page as well as our Contact Info file.
4/27/2022 - Updated our Classmate News page.
4/23/2022 - Added "It's not Your Father's High School".
Site Changes are continued on our Site Change Log page.
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