PROFILE UPDATES

Official Website for VHS Class of 64

Updated October 2  2024

As the Reunion on Friday October 4, 2024 draws near, we want to let you know again that you are welcome at the gathering (details below) registered or not.  But if you let us register you, we'll have a nametag with your picture (from the Yearbook) waiting for you.

Just call 1(505)235-7505 and say "I'm coming" and we'll register for you.  We have over 50 classmates and more than 70 people attending (that we know of), join us for a great afternoon: Friday 2pm at the NM Veterans Museum Conference Center.  You'll have a wonderful time.

Your Class of 64 Reunion Committee  (Click Here)

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It's almost here!!

Just a few more days until we all get together again to renew old friendships and maybe even make some new ones. We hope that our VHS Class of 1964 website has done its part in making all this possible. Don't worry, it's not going away after our 60th Reunion. It will stay to help us keep track of each other and share important news as it has always done.

Since our website was started on August 20, 2012, it has been visited 179,257 times! Yesterday, 29 classmates checked in. Friday, we can do all this face to face.

See you soon!

Wow!

We are getting more and more classmates registered for our 60th Reunion and we want YOU to join us!

We're having our 4th and final Reunion Committee meeting today (Sept 14, 2024) and we are all excited to get together with the Classmates we know and the ones we'll meet as new friends on Oct 4th.

Please... if you're having trouble registering online, don't worry, just come.  The registration is just to make sure we have enough food for everyone.  

If you would like, you can call anyone on the Reunion Committee (Click on this Link) and we'll put you down on the list. 

We expect between 60 and 100 people.  It will be a wonderful time!

Please Join Us!!!

The Reunion Committee

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Hi Classmates

Just a reminder, if you are planning to attend the Reunion on Oct 4, we NEED you to Register right away (no charge) so we can finalize the Food and Beverages cost.

The reunion is only 30 days away, so please help us with the count. It's easy, it takes just a minute or two.

Go to the tab on the upper left of this page and click on '60th REUNION REGISTRATION. Please(!) do it today while you are here. THANKS!!  (You need to be Logged In)

Your Reunion Committee

(The Reunion Details are down below...)

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Welcome Classmates!

In a very short period of time, we will be Celebrating

Our 60th Class Reunion...

It's Time to RSVP (Register)!!

Wow! That happened fast!

It's been 10 years since our wonderful 50^th Reunion party, and much has changed in this world.

Except for us... (Well. Maybe just a little bit?)

Yeah, ok, we're all a little bit worn and frayed these days, but the twinkle in our eyes and our shared past memories still remain. We may look old and rusty to our children and grandchildren, but to each other... we're still those young rebellious teenagers from the '60's. We are 'Vikings forever!'

We have so much in common these days, it's fun to get around each other and compare notes and share jokes. 

A group of us get together once a month, and I can tell you it's good for the soul. We're really looking forward to this reunion/party/gathering... Very much! We hope you are too!

Your Reunion Committee has gotten together 3 times already and we even managed to get some work done. We do this for you, because: We Still Matter. To each other, and the world. Covid taught us that being alone hurts. We sincerely hope that you will come and celebrate a very special event.

We feel so strongly about this, that as a committee, we raised almost $3,000 for the reunion costs to make good on our commitment to making this reunion free to our Classmates.  (If you want to join us in donating, send a check to our treasurer Mike Byrnes - Here's a link)

For more than 60 years we've shared a common history and now it's time to make a little noise, Come and join us!!!

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Things to Know:
 

The Date is Friday: October 4th at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial Park .  Located at Louisiana close to Gibson.  Address: 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 It's easy access and close parking.

It will be in the afternoon starting at 2pm till 5pm ; the facility offers inside and outside space, so the weather is not a concern.

As mentioned earlier, this will be a NO COST to Classmates (and your spouse/Significant Other) event.

Come and celebrate the wonderful Viking Class of '64 once again.  It's very important that you register soon, so we can know how many to plan for and cover the meals and refreshments!  (See the Registration Link here, and Below)

If you are teetering on a yes or no, please come and join the fun!  We've become a big family and you will leave with new friends, as well as seeing some of the old ones.  

We just need YOU to attend, to make it a real gathering. 
 

If you haven't already... please make a plan to attend!  Those who have attended in the past have said unanimously that it's been more fun than they ever thought it would be.  If you think you won't know anybody, you're wrong.  We all know who we are and we're family now.

Tony and the Reunion Committee 

(BTW Click on this 'Link' for easy Registration)

PS  The Registration Page is also available on the left at the top of any page.

 

Details: Social Hour (lots of time for conversation and mingling) with refreshments: Beer, Wine, Margaritas, Tea, Lemonade, Water

Buffett BBQ with sides, dessert.

Slide show/video, 60's music, trivia, prizes, laughter

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Previously Posted Information from September 2023 (and earlier)

WE HAVE A DATE FOR THE 60TH YEAR REUNION

We not only have a date, we also have a venue; thanks to Tony Scarton and Lou Hoffman!

When we looked over the suggestions and comments that you gave us on our survey a while back, it became obvious that we had a lot of boxes to check off to make people happy. We couldn't do them all, but we did try to cover the requests of the majority:

• Plan on having it in the Fall...for best weather, usually

• Close to the time of the Balloon Festival would be ideal for our travelers

• Not an out of town venue like the 50^th

• Earlier, so we're not walking and driving in the dark

• Easy access for less able guests

• Music not too loud, so we can talk

• Low cost for attending – maybe a buffet

Those are the items that a clear majority desired in our survey. So, I think Tony and Lou managed to check all those boxes with our date and venue.

The date is October 4^th, 2024 (day before the 2024 Balloon Fiesta starts). And it's planned from 2pm till 5pm.

The location is the New Mexico Veterans Memorial, Museum and Conference center 1100 Louisiana Blvd SE. Easy access for all.

And...the Cost is FREE. That's right, there is no charge for this reunion. We hope that makes is possible for more of our classmates to attend. (free for Classmates and Spouses/SO)

There are many things that go into putting one of these events on; and your Reunion Committee is already on the job. Visit the Reunion Committee page and send a thank you to the wonderful classmates that have been planning and executing our reunions for many decades. And don't forget Tony...our Class President For Life!

Much more to come, stay tuned...

PS While we are thanking people, here's a special thanks to the many people who spent time to fill out the Survey. It REALLY helped us!

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Email Address Problems

We have received an increasing number of "email bounce-backs" on our web page. These notifications indicate that the email address shown in our system for a classmate is no longer current and messages sent out come back as undeliverable. Your web page administrators receive a report showing the classmate name and some addtional contact information. An attempt is then made to contact the classmate to get current email information. Please remember that if you change your email address and still wish to receive important notiffications from our system, access your classmate profile and update your email address. As the time for our 60th reunion (!) approaches, activity on our site will likely increase.

The new VHS Veterans Memorial

Years ago, a VHS classmate envisioned a unique memorial to the Vikings we lost during the Vietnam war. Eli Padilla (Class of '65) felt there should be a permanent reminder of the loss we share from that now long ago conflict. Our classmates should not be just names in a book or on a wall in DC. He wanted to remind our present day students of the cost we pay to fight for liberty (ours and others) in a hard world.

Many of us remember Eli as a star basketball player along side our own classmates, including Tony Scarton our class president. Eli went on to become a PhD professor at UNM; but he remembers well the disruption of our lives by this unpopular war (a redundancy, to be sure).

Nonetheless, many were called to serve and far too many didn't make it home.  Or they came home forever changed; in ways today's students can't even imagine.

Shouldn't we remind and make personal the sacrifices we must pay, to have the freedoms we take for granted... in a world far less free than the one we share here?

Remember those carefree days in school?  We had no idea, did we... How the world would change us. How it forever changed these young heroes, willing or not.

To learn more about the details of Eli's work (and others, including Glenn Fellows - Architect, from our class) Click on this link and learn and appreciate (and maybe even donate to the special Scolarship fund that Eli started) Click here...

And to our Veterans, where ever they are... today and every day: Thank you for your service.

If you missed our Veterans Tribute, you can find it here:

Tribute to Our Veterans

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