In Memoriam - 2014

As we come to the end of this year and enter 2015, our 50th reunion year, we wanted to remember those Wilson 1965 Alumni that we lost in the past year. Of course, our information may not be complete, these 3 are the ones we know about. Don Melvin passed away in November, Kenn Johnson and Wolfgang Chandler in December. I had the pleasure of corresponding with Don a few times starting in August after he discovered this blog and our upcoming reunion. He was really looking forward to coming and seeing everyone. I knew Ken from 3 years of homeroom together, he was on the honor roll, such a nice guy. I didn't know Wolfgang but read that he was a proud veteran who served in Vietnam as so many in our class did.

These gentlemen are and will be dearly missed.

Wilson 50th Commemorative Emblem

The Wilson '65 Reunion Committee members voted on a couple of choices we came up with for the 50th Reunion Commemorative Emblem and this is the winner by a landslide. We'll be using this emblem on future communications and marketing platforms to help us celebrate our Golden Reunion Anniversary (can you believe it's the 50th?).

A Wilson Memory - How Not To Skip School

Here's a story Walt Connor posted on Facebook which we didn't want you to miss:

"My favorite Wilson memory is when Tom Teitge and I were in student council and skipped school to go up to Crystal to ski (it was just too great a day not to ski). When the office called my mom, she said I was sick. When they called Tom's mom she said he was up skiing at Crystal. Very hard to explain to Mr. Beers the next day when we both had deep sunburns to the turtleneck line on our necks. As Mr. Beers said: 'So much for the future leadership of Tacoma.' I guess he was right."

We'd love to post more Wilson memories on the blog. Please email your stories and photos to wilson65reunion@gmail.com.