First, a huge THANK YOU to John Owen, who planned & carried out the details for our 61st class reunion that was held on Aug. 10!  Thank you for all the work & time you put into this, for us.

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Now, here is the next project that John is tackling.  He is looking ahead to our 62nd REUNION!  Yup, as in NEXT YEAR, SUMMER OF 2025:

Dear Friends:

I am looking for ideas for our next reunion. I was hoping to have the next one at Boston's place. Charley has too many family issues going on right now. So, I need more input.

We can always do a repeat of the 61st. However, we ran out of room at breakfast. The Embarcadero has more room, but I don't know if they do breakfast. Karen and I had dinner there on Friday evening before the reunion. Best dinner I have ever had in a restaurant. However, it was expensive. Maybe lunch is a better idea.

Do we need to go to the Port building? We had a better turnout at the breakfast.

We like a good picnic, but not everyone likes picnics.

I realize that I am not everyone's cup of tea. Maybe a different host that is a good speaker, such as Tillinghast or Maki, and there are many others that would do a great job.

I will miss Sue Oliver as she was at many of our breakfasts. Karen had a large garden when we lived in the Albany/Jefferson area and Sue loved to raid our garden. Karen always sent her home with bags of vegetables.

I did not know Sharon Tillinghast well, but I will always remember her giving me a big hug at Strands house after I disclosed  a health issue that kept me out of the service. She was a wonderful person.

Karen and I are going through an adjustment time in our life as we just found out that Karen has Parkinson's Disease Stage 2. She has a great attitude about it and is rigorously exercising every day and she is on meds for the disease.

Looking forward to seeing my friends again.

John Owen   541 403-2503

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The 61st reunion was good.  Around 24 class members attended, plus spouses and several guests from other NHS classes.  Weather was good, food was too.  But the visiting was even better.

Today I received a batch of reunion pictures from Vicki LeMaster Courtright and another batch from John Owen.  It will take some time to go through them, weed out any near-duplicates, crop them, etc., and then post them on the website.  Will get to it as soon as time permits!  Thank you for your patience!  PPH

To those who were unable to attend:  We missed you!  We are hoping that there will be a 62nd reunion next summer.

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61st NHS Class Reunion

Was held August 10, 2024 in Newport!

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NOTE:  Future Quarterly Breakfast Schedule:

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 22 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 the first 19 years, we only missed 3 times--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!   Then, in March 2020, Covid-19 shut us down for two long years, until March 2022.

Monthly Breakfasts resumed in April, 2022, but going forward they will  be quarterly instead of monthly.

 GO CUBS !

Did you know?  Our site has now been viewed more than 90,000 times! 

This site has had 100,828 total  visits since we started it in November 2013!

To make it easier for planning our calendars:

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

Other 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:  https://nhs.lincoln.k12.or.us/community/738-2/ 

 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! 

Patty Plunkett Holler, your site admin.