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What's New on the Site?

8-2-2020 Larry (Mekemson) Gerbing is in the hospital now in Independence MO.  (See Caring & Sharing section).

Welcome to our newest guest member...Ray Moe, NHS '64.  Glad he found us! 

July 2020 Bonni Conrad passed away.  See Caring and Sharing section...and her obit is in the In Memory Section now.

Also, Laura Mekemson (NHS 65) passed away recently.  She was the sister of our classmate Larry (Mekemson) Gerbing.

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MONTH #3: Due to the virus,

THERE WILL BE  NO

CLASS BREAKFASTS until further notice!

Class breakfasts WILL resume as soon as it is deemed safe for groups like ours to gather together again!!!

Hope you and everyone in your family are staying well.

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ANNUAL CLASS REUNION UPDATE from John Owen:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic I am canceling the plans to hold the 57th Annual Class Reunion. I hope we that we can reunite for the 58th next year.

If anyone is interested in having an audio/visual online get together using Zoom, let me know. I will be happy to set it up and send you a link to join in. We would have to do this on a certain date and time.

If you are interested in a Zoom get together, contact me. I always have the time to chat with my friends. Feel free to call, text or email me at your convenience.

The best source of information is our website, www.newportcubs63.com. You can access coming events, classmate photos, caring and sharing… and much more.

I hope everyone is well and enjoying the Spring weather. Karen is recovering from foot surgery and I am busy disinfecting the schools and helping to empty my school building so that it can be remodeled. Hopefully school will start in September.

John Owen, Class of 1963 NHS

                                          541-403-2503                                     owenjohn93@gmail.com

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If you have any news you would like to share with the class, please send it to newportcubs63@yahoo.com

and I will post it here on the website.

We started having monthly class breakfasts 18 years ago, in February 2002!  That was when a small group gathered in Salem area to begin working on trying to locate all the class members, prior to our 40th reunion that was scheduled for the following year!  During those 18 years, we've only missed 3 times (until Covid-19 hit)--once when we scheduled the breakfast in central Oregon & no one showed up, and two other times when we cancelled the event due to severe weather limitations!   GO CUBS

Did you know?  Our site has now been viewed more than 55,000 times! 

This site has had 56,823 visits since we started it in November 2013!

To make it easier for planning our calendars:

Based on our breakfast location history of the past few years, here is a  more-or-less schedule that we have begun using for our upcoming breakfasts . It is "more-or-less" because we can always make a change if it seems good to do so.  (For example, say if someone who lives farther away than Western Oregon should happen to come through, we are always happy to change our schedule to a date or location so they would be able to join us!!)                                 [  ON HOLD FOR NOW... ]

ANNUAL REVOLVING BREAKFAST SCHEDULE:

Jan. & July       Woodburn or Wilsonville area

Feb. & Aug.      Newport

Mar. & Sept.     Spirit Mountain, Grand Ronde

Apr & Oct.        Tigard, Tualatin or elsewhere on I-5

May & Nov.       Albany

June & Dec.     Salem  

The idea is to make the breakfast sites reachable for as many classmates as possible!

Do YOU have other ideas?  Other locations where you would like to meet for breakfast?  In the past we have tried the Eugene area a few times, but the turnout there was usually low.  We have never met in Corvallis, so that is another possibility.    Would really like to hear your ideas!

Please contact us at newportcubs63@yahoo.com and let us hear your ideas!  

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Need your help:  We have NO pictures in the "Pictures of Years Past" Sections for the 1950s and the 1980s.  If you have some that you would like to share, please contact us at newportcubs63@yahoo.com.  If you will loan them to Pat, she will scan them & return to you promptly!

If you would like to have a better-quality copy of any of the photos from this site,  please "Contact Us" and we will be glad to email the digital file to you!  PPH

FOther websites of interest :

"Lost in the Fifties" video...thanks to Jeanene's Karl for sending this one in to us!  

http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZ Xu

On Facebook, check out "You Know You're From Newport, Oregon when . . ."

Newport High School Alumni Association:  http://www.newporthighalumni.com/

 Current news & weather from Newport and Lincoln County: www.newslincolncounty.com

and   www.lincolncountydispatch.com

Here is a bit of nostalgia to tug at the ol' heartstrings a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nSC7SXQpInM?rel=0

Lincoln County Historical Society:  http://oregoncoasthistory.org/

www.newportfishermenswives.com

http://www.newportchamber.org/

WHAT WAS THE #1 HIT SONG ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN?
This site will tell you what song was the #1 song on the day you were born.  
You can also see a video of the artist singing your birthday #1 hit! 
http://playback.fm/birthday-song 

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Baby Boomer's eMuseum:  http://www.bbemuseum.com/museum/index.php

http://www.pinterest.com/jannetie/1950s-nostalgia/

http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZ Xu  "Lost in the Fifties" video

Our website now has a connection with Facebook.  It is called Class Connection, and there is a link to it in the list of Member Functions at the left.  If you have a Facebook account, begin by clicking on the link.  Your name should come up (with your picture if you have posted one on your profile). Follow the prompts and use your Facebook name and password to complete the connection.  Information posted on this site flows seamlessly to Facebook, and vice versa.

Note to folks who are not part of the Class of 1963 but who attended NHS from 1960-1966:  If you would like to join our website and your name is not already listed on our guest list located in the Classmates List (click on tab at the top of this page) then please let us know by sending an email to newportcubs63@yahoo.com.

Many thanks to those of you who are helping to work on this site in various ways! 

Pat Plunkett Holler, your site admin.