Author: Lester Libby

A Pictorial Tour of Lynn English Today – Third Installment

This is the third installment of a series of photos of Lynn English High School today.  This installment is the beginning of the photos of things that are NEW.  But, this installment shows what happened to the old.  The old gym and old cafeteria have changed.  The gym is now the library.  The cafeteria is now classrooms including the new art room.  I made the comment in the opening statement for the third installment that I can’t remember where the old library was IF we even had one!  I hope someone can remember.  I also stated the old art room was in the front center of the building on the second floor.  Does anyone remember?  Feel free to comment by clicking on the “add a comment” just below this blog posting.

To get to the third installment, just click on this link (third installment) or click on the page Lynn English Today – The Old Gym and Cafeteria to the right.  Click on the other Lynn English Today pages (exterior photos and general interior photos) to go to those pages.

So, continue your stroll around the old school.  Don’t forget, click on the photo to see it full size.  When you are done looking at it, click on “close” on the bottom of the photo.

The door to the new library (our old gym)

 

A Pictorial Tour of LEHS Today – Second Installment

This is the second installment of the series of photos of Lynn English Hish School today.  This installment has photos you may recognize.  The main office, the principals office, the auditorium, the little theater and a few class rooms and corridors.  Plus some things we didn’t have… a TV Department, ROTC, a bronze bulldog, and a few other things.  We hope this installment brings back some memories.  I remember I was in the language lab on November 22, 1963.  The language lab is still in the same room as it was back then.

Just click on the link, Lynn English Today – General Interior Photos, to go to the page containing the photos.  Remember, you can click on any of the pages to the right of this blog to go to that page.  To get to the first installment, Lynn English Today – Exterior Photos, either click on the link (highlighted) or click on the page to the right of the blog.

So, continue your stroll around the old school.  Don’t forget, click on the photo to see it full size.  When you are done looking at it, click on “close” on the bottom of the photo.

LEHS Bulldog GRRRRRRRRRRRR

A Pictorial Tour of LEHS Today – First Installment

Quite a few people have wondered what the old school looks like today.  Unfortunately, it is difficult to schedule a tour for everyone who wants to go.  To solve this problem, Sue Rummel and Bob Maleszyk took a tour of Lynn English on July 25, 2012. The tour allowed us to take numerous photos of the school both inside and out.  We will post the photos in a series of installments over the next few weeks.

The first installment of photos are the exterior shots of the school.  Future installments will include interior shots showing how our alma mater has changed (or not changed) since we graduated.  We hope you enjoy strolling in and around the school via this photo gallery.

To see the photo gallery of the exterior of LEHS today, go to the Lynn English Today – Exterior Photos page.  To see each image full size just click on the image.  When done viewing the larger image, just click “close” on the bottom of the photo.

 

Drive way and Front Entrance of LEHS

Life is Good… Here’s Proof!

Recent Get Together at Anthony's Hawthorne in Swampscott

 Note:  click on the photo to make it bigger.  Hit back arrow to go back.

Front Row (seated):

Linda (Hoey) Bergeron, Marcia (Sanborn) Roach, Gail (Minton) Hickey

Standing (left to right):

Maureen (O’Connor) Hendersen, Karen (Hyde) Mancinelli, Jan Cawlina, Eleanor (Shellgren) Starkenberg, Linda Witham, Helen (Heffernan) Jennings, Mary (Montejunas) Kaufman – in town from CA, Kathy Hashian, Janet (Thomas) Scholz, Janet (Durgin) Atkinson

Searching for lost classmates… the search continues!

Hello everyone.  I am hoping that someone sees this post and responds.  This is to update you with some statistics concerning our search for all of our classmates.  We are searching for 647 classmates (total) including some people who didn’t graduate from LEHS because they either dropped out or moved to another high school during their senior year.  Of those, we have contact information on 401 people and we know of 66 who have passed away.  If you have been contacted by one of the LEHS search members and have provided your contact information, update your contact information every-so-often to make sure we have it correct.  Just use the Address Update Form.

That leaves 179 with dubious contact information.  Of those we know of one or two people who have decided not to give us any contact information and we have 101 people we have been unable to reach (for whatever reason).  Those 101 people have contact information that needs to be updated.  Their names are on the Need Update Contact Information List. 

Another 77 people are considered “missing or lost”.  Their names are on the Lost Classmate List.

Recently we have received some unsubstantiated information that some of our missing classmates are no longer with us.  I repeat… UNSUBSTANTIATED.  This presents us with a dilemma.  Do their names belong on the Memorial List??  Six of our classmates are listed below who may have passed away.  If you have ANY information on these folks (or any of the 180 people with dubious contact information) please contact us.  Thank you in advance for your help.  We all hope that we are mistaken with

Here are the names of the six members:

Ernest A. Hoffman
Henry E. LeBlanc
Earl F. LeGault
James J. McCarthy
Robert J. McIntyre
David Santos

Support Our Scholarship Program

Hello everyone.  This website is for Lynn English High School Class of 1965.  It is free for you to use and we don’t like asking for money.

BUT…. we DO award scholarships to deserving Lynn English High School Seniors and would like to continue to do so.  We have a page on this site which explains our Scholarship Program and we hope you check it out.  Click on Scholarship Program under the Main Menu or just click the highlighted words Scholarship Program in this posting.  They all go to the same place (hint hint).

The Scholarship Program is funded by your donations.  During a reunion year, there is a place on the reunion registration form to add a donation as you pay for your reunion tickets.   Most of the money in our scholarship bank account comes from money that is donated during reunion years.  Not very much comes in during off years.   Deserving students can use every small amount of financial help they get to help pay for skyrocketing college tuition and expenses.  We would like to continue to fund our Scholarship Program in the off years and perhaps increase the amount we give as our bank account allows.

So we are asking for donations.   Many of us are retired and on fixed incomes.  Under those circumstances, donations may not be possible.  But  if you can find a way, please make a donation.

All the donations will go to Pat (Johnson) Morley who will make sure the money is deposited in our LEHS Class of 1965 bank account.  For everyone’s protection, we have a policy of not posting contact information on this website.  So to make a donation, please request a scholarship donation form by clicking on CONTACT  under the Main Menu and requesting a Scholarship donation form.  We will email you a scholarship donation form which you can print, fill out and send to Pat via US Postal Service.  Her address is on the donation form.  By the way, if you don’t have email, just ask us to mail you the form and we will.

You can also update your contact information (which is great to do annually even if it hasn’t changed) and request a scholarship donation form at the same time by clicking on Address Update Form under the Main Menu.  When you send the address update, just request a scholarship donation form in the box for “anything else you want to add?” at the bottom of the address update.  Don’t forget to include your phone number in the address update form.

That concludes this request for money… something we REALLY don’t like doing, but sometimes we just have to do it.  Please don’t forget to visit the Scholarship Program page and see who contributed in the past year (mostly at the 45th reunion) and a list of all the award recipients over the years.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP.

Class of 1965 Graduation Program and Photos

A new page has been created under the Photo Galleries called “Graduation Program and Photos“.  If you lost your program from our Graduation on Friday morning, June 4, 1965, you will find it here.  Also, the photos provided in a Yearbook Supplement are included.

Note:  See my comment under this post for detail on how to make your own program.  The scans are available.

Graduation Program Page 1

Veterans Day 2011

To all the Veterans who served our country… Thank You Very Much.   Please join in giving thanks to all our Veterans.  They served our country well and deserve our thanks.

The Class of 1965 provided many men and women to the armed forces at home and around the world.  Those who have identified themselves are listed below.  Some died in the service of our country.  Some will never be the same.  All were very young.  Last year, only a few people took the time to thank them by making a comment below this posting.  Perhaps there will be more this year.

To those vets who would like to comment, please feel free to do so below this post as well.

Lynn English High School’s Class of 1965 Veterans include:

Donald Baillie  Naval Reserves

Frederick Bollen  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Robert Bonin  Marine Reserves

Richard Bowlby  Navy Reserves

Temma Brown  Air Force

Richard Burke  Army

Howard Burnett  Army National Guard

James Cogen  Marines (saw action in Vietnam)

Brian Doucette  Navy

David Emerton  Marines (saw action in Vietnam)

Lawrence Flanagan  Air Force (died while serving in Texas)

Arthur William “Bill” Fogarty  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Ronald Gerstenhaber  Air Force

John Gotimer  Navy

Reverand Arlyne Grant  Army Reserves

Norman Grant  Marines (killed in action in Vietnam)

Mark Hammond  Coast Guard

Robert Johanson  Army

Henry Emile LeBlanc Army (saw action in Vietnam)

John MacDonald  Air Force

Walter Mehm  Navy (saw action in Vietnam)

Haig Nalbandian  Air Force

Paul Nardone  Air Force

Robert Newhall  Army

John O’Neil  Air Force

Albert Paradis  Army

John Pension  Navy

Leland Perry  Army

Bruce Phillips  Navy

James Prendergast  NH Army National Guard

James Prunier  Air Force and Army National Guard

Robert Reed  Army

Michael Rodgers  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Charles Sarcia  Army Aviation (saw action in Vietnam)

David Schulze  Air Force

Michael Schulze  Navy

Robert Tibbetts  Army

John Warwick  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Douglas Waters  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Bradley Wentworth  Army

Paul Yacovitch  Army (saw action in Vietnam)

Francis York  Navy

 

Fifty Years!

In 2015, the Class of 1965 will be celebrating our 50th anniversary.  Please start thinking about the reunion that year.

Will it be a single evening reunion (like our previous reunions) or will it be a weekend affair?  Will it be someplace close to the City of Lynn or will it be further away?  Somethings will be important… the number of people attending will determine the size of the venue.  It would be awful to select a venue that is too small forcing the “first come first serve” attendance plan.  On the other hand if we pick a venue to handle the entire class and only a hundred or so people show up then the cost per person would be very high!  So the earlier the reunion committee knows about who will be attending the better the planning will be. 

Cost is important.  Many of us are on limited incomes and can’t afford an expensive shindig.  On the other hand, many will be travelling many miles to attend and may want to build in a vacation around the reunion.  Should we have a sit down dinner, buffet or just food available to graze?  If we have a sit down dinner, who will make the seating arrangements?  Should we have our photos taken or have a group photo?  The more time we take to set up photos the less time we have to roam around and see people we went to school with…but a photo would be a nice remembrance.

Although it is pretty early to make plans, it is time to start thinking and making your desires known.  Speak up by commenting either in public (below this posting) or making a private comment by clicking on CONTACT.

This is your opportunity to make your desires heard!