A Great Big Thank You To Everyone

Well our 50th reunion has come and gone and so we wanted to post some thank you's and final thoughts before too much time had passed.

First we want to thank everyone who attended, you all made it a success. It was a huge turnout, too many people to be able to talk to everyone, which was frustrating, a "wealth of riches." But it was a special time, the weather was perfect, the location very elegant, the decor was amazing, including several historical boards which brought back so many memories of growing-up in Tacoma! And, all that was just wonderful and exciting, but the true gift was spending time with so many friends, saying hello over and over and talking seemingly non-stop. It was so nice to see everyone again and catch up. It was practically perfect! Perfection would have been to talk to everyone!

Next, we've had several requests to list all the committee members who all helped put this event together and get the word out to as many classmates as we could find. We spent over a year working on this, sometimes in bursts of activity, other times in periods of calm, but the stone kept getting pushed up the hill and our work finally all came together in a series of unique events that made it a wonderful four-day celebration.

The Woodrow Wilson High School 1965 Reunion Committee:

Judy Brett Gunderson

Will Cunningham

Dan Fiorino

Rick Herrmann

Pam Hofto Brower

Gary Johnson

Kathy Johnson Martin

Dedra Jones Wilford

Sue Knutson Nelson

Gay LaBelle Barnum

Merrie LaBelle

Sandy Millar Svendby

Karen Oman Swanson

Gretchen Sandquist Ross

Bob Svendby

Lin Swanson

Carl Swanstrom

Linnea Swanstrom Rushforth

MikelAnn Thomas Robinson

Valerie Uthus Moehring

Tomi Varnadore Cranton

John Wheelock

We don't want to forget our alumni who weren't able to attend for a variety of reasons. We're so sorry you couldn't make it, no matter how many attended, you were missed and the evening was not complete without you. You are still part of our Wilson family, all of you out there who shared that special time with us in the halls of Wilson High. We hope you continue to stay in touch and if/when we have another get together maybe you can make it to that one. Please continue to check in on our blog. We'd like to keep this blog going as our touchstone for everyone to find out alumni news and share memories.

Finally, we can't end this post without a remembrance of all our classmates who have passed away. We have lost too many over the years. There was a video tribute to all those we lost which was shown at the Saturday reunion event. It is so well done, and heartbreaking at the same time. We hope to be able to post it on the blog in the near future. 

I will be posting photos taken at all four events that are currently being gathered. If anyone took photos from your camera or smart phone please send them to me asap. Everyone is very excited to see all who attended again!
Email to:
wilson65reunion@gmail.com

Thank you all again. Our reunion is still a joyous memory to me and I will treasure the conversations I had for a long, long time, and I'm sure everyone who attended any of the 4 events feels the same.