Sherry Cadwallader Found!
After graduation I attended Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois for a year and a half. In 1965 I married classmate Phil Brance and moved to San Diego where Phil was based on the USS Canberra during the Vietnam War. We were married for 9 years and had two children [Todd (1970) & Heather (1974)] . We divorced in 1974. Three years later I met and married my current husband of 38 years [Brett Jones]. He was a National Park Ranger. In 1983 I graduated San Diego State University in Physical Anthropology. Subsequently, we obtained our teaching credentials and we have been teaching ever since.
In one of her emails since we initially made contact with her, Sherry said Phil died of cancer on October 15, 2007. Our Missing and Deceased pages have been updated accordingly.
Sherry & Brett will be in Illinois in late May for a family wedding and would very much like to have lunch with us on Thursday, May 23, 1:00 PM at Tom Kelly's Chophouse, 495 Degroate Rd, New Lenox, Illinois. See it on our map! Please Contact Us for head count if you're interested. Summer Event NewsletterWEST CHICAGO CLASS OF 1963
AN INVITATION TO A COMBINED REUNION WITH THE CLASS OF 64 Fellow classmates:
If you read the newsletter about the 55 year reunion, you are aware we discussed having a combined reunion with the class of ’64. That has come to fruition and the date has been set for August 17, 2019 at the Pal Joey’s restaurant in Batavia, IL. The hours are between 12:30 and 3:30 and the cost will be $15.00 per person, payable in advance. Due to a limited space size, the maximum number of attendees we are allowed as of this writing for the event is 30. The class of ’64 has had an average of 35 – 45 attend the mid-decade reunions and the room will accommodate 80 max. If there is a large interest, we will address that with Pal Joey’s and the Co64 committee members and contact the later requests by phone with updated information. To keep track of the openings, please visit our website, www.wego1963.com where you will find the new address of Pal Joey’s, the afternoon menu and the current tally of those planning to attend with the remaining available space. Also, please indicate your desire to attend via the “RSVP” page and send your check, payable to WeGo1963 Reunion, to Reid Simmons by July 12, 2019. For questions and answers, please contact one of your Webmasters or the Planning Committee chair person.
Thank you for your time. The WeGo Class of 1963 Planning Committee. PS: Here's a link to the Class of 64 Yearbook. |
5/23/2019 - Lunch with Sherry Cadwallader Jones and husband Brett.
8/17/2019 - Class of 1964 55 year Reunion, at the new Pal Joey's, 2030 Main St, Batavia, IL (they moved their Batavia facility this past year) from 12:30p to 3:30p. The class of '64 has invited our class to join them.
Recent Site Changes 4/18/2019 - Added Ginger Lucht's name to Washington Junior High 8C photo per email from Terry Duber.
4/14/2019 - Updated our Classmates => Contact Info page.
4/7/2019 - Added Maureen McAleese funeral services to our Calendar and updated our Missing, Deceased & Bio pages accordingly.
4/3/2019 - Added Sherry Cadwallader Found story to our Home page and a lunch date with her to our Calendar.
3/31/2019 - Added A Little Bit of Heaven page under the Remembering -> WCCHS menus.
3/30/2019 - Added "What Happened to Our Teachers" story below on this page.
3/28/2019 - Removed Sherry Cadwallader Jones from our Missing page and added her contact info to our Classmates Contact Info page.
3/28/2019 - Added Phil Brance to our Deceased page.
3/24/2019 - It's Spring! Did you notice it finally stopped snowing on this site?
Site Changes continued on our Site Change Log page.
Fake News!"Back in Our Day...."
Seen above from left to right: Jackie Chada, Reid Simmons and Liane Buix, all departing
seniors, trying out personal locker phones.
Centurion, June 3, 1963.
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What Happened to Our Teachers?
The following email, regarding the whereabouts of some of our teachers, was received from Larry Stark on March 29, 2019:
I have no information on Ms. Caliendo and I have heard nothing about her since we graduated.
Gil DeMay is still alive and is living in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. I receive a Christmas card from him every year (Gil and I team taught together for about 8-10 years). His wife passed away several years ago, so Gil is now alone.
Dick Kerner is in the Silverado Memory Care center in St. Charles, behind Culvers. I recently visited him and he looks well and did remember me and others in our class. He enjoys visits and remembers a lot from the "old days" at We-Go. Visiting Dick would be better in the Morning hours as he sleeps a lot during the afternoons.
I don't remember where I heard this, but I heard that Don Morrison was brutally murdered in Chicago.
I also heard that Mr. Johnson also passed away.
Dr. Murphy passed away while I was still teaching at We-Go along with Don Smith, Russ Severe, and of course Dick Howard.
Charlie Cowden is still around and living in North Carolina, I believe he may now be living a managed care center.
I haven't heard from Dave Dean for a while, but he was living in Colorado.
Norma (Stahl) Wissing is married to Dick Wissing and was living in West Chicago.
I haven't heard from Dave Ream for some time, but he was living in Galena in a restored Hillside home with a beautiful view of the rolling countryside.
Winnie Thomassen passed away recently and was living in Bloomington, Il.
That's all I know or have heard, not all of this has been verified. I hope this helps somewhat.
Gil DeMay is still alive and is living in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. I receive a Christmas card from him every year (Gil and I team taught together for about 8-10 years). His wife passed away several years ago, so Gil is now alone.
Dick Kerner is in the Silverado Memory Care center in St. Charles, behind Culvers. I recently visited him and he looks well and did remember me and others in our class. He enjoys visits and remembers a lot from the "old days" at We-Go. Visiting Dick would be better in the Morning hours as he sleeps a lot during the afternoons.
I don't remember where I heard this, but I heard that Don Morrison was brutally murdered in Chicago.
I also heard that Mr. Johnson also passed away.
Dr. Murphy passed away while I was still teaching at We-Go along with Don Smith, Russ Severe, and of course Dick Howard.
Charlie Cowden is still around and living in North Carolina, I believe he may now be living a managed care center.
I haven't heard from Dave Dean for a while, but he was living in Colorado.
Norma (Stahl) Wissing is married to Dick Wissing and was living in West Chicago.
I haven't heard from Dave Ream for some time, but he was living in Galena in a restored Hillside home with a beautiful view of the rolling countryside.
Winnie Thomassen passed away recently and was living in Bloomington, Il.
That's all I know or have heard, not all of this has been verified. I hope this helps somewhat.
Iconic Cascade Drive-In To Close After 58 Years In West Chicago
The following article was seen in the Wheaton Patch on Friday, March 15. Many of us will have fond memories of this place from our youth, especially our high school years after we got our drivers licenses:
WEST CHICAGO, IL -- For the past 58 years, you'd know it was the start of summer in the western suburbs by the blinking of fireflies, the chirping of birds, and the smell of popcorn and flickering of big-screen movies at the Cascade Drive-In theater. Just as the iconic drive-in was prepping to open for its 2019 season, the screens will stay dark. The owners announced Friday that the theater, one of the last of its kind in Chicagoland, has closed indefinitely.
The theater's owners said on Facebook Friday that the property owner has decided not to permit the theater to open. The parcel of land is up for sale, but Cascade Drive-In owners say it has not yet been sold and that no development plans have been made.
Cascade Drive-In owners say they can "only surmise that the landowner believes he has a better chance to get any future development approval from the city of West Chicago and surrounding community if the business is closed."
The current owners have operated the drive-in for the past three decades and have paid $6 million in rent, the Facebook post said. They added."A conversation and a decent transition would have been the least we could expect from the landowner."
Cascade owners said, "It's devastating to us but we always knew the sale would be imminent one day but this scenario of closing with no other use for the property was totally unexpected."
On March 23, Cascade will host a sale of hoodies, popcorn machines, grills, a golf cart and more to give customers a chance to get their hands on a "piece of nostalgia."
The owners of Cascade closed their post by expressing a sentiment that will likely be shared throughout the surrounding community in the wake of news of the drive-in's closure.
They said, "Our hearts are broken."
The theater's owners said on Facebook Friday that the property owner has decided not to permit the theater to open. The parcel of land is up for sale, but Cascade Drive-In owners say it has not yet been sold and that no development plans have been made.
Cascade Drive-In owners say they can "only surmise that the landowner believes he has a better chance to get any future development approval from the city of West Chicago and surrounding community if the business is closed."
The current owners have operated the drive-in for the past three decades and have paid $6 million in rent, the Facebook post said. They added."A conversation and a decent transition would have been the least we could expect from the landowner."
Cascade owners said, "It's devastating to us but we always knew the sale would be imminent one day but this scenario of closing with no other use for the property was totally unexpected."
On March 23, Cascade will host a sale of hoodies, popcorn machines, grills, a golf cart and more to give customers a chance to get their hands on a "piece of nostalgia."
The owners of Cascade closed their post by expressing a sentiment that will likely be shared throughout the surrounding community in the wake of news of the drive-in's closure.
They said, "Our hearts are broken."
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