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!

Class of 1965 Veterans. Norman William Grant Jr.

With the approach of Veterans’ Day, it is appropriate that we honor one of our fellow graduates who died in the service of our country in Vietnam.

The following came from his obituary (attached).  Double click the image to see it full size.  A photo of his grave is allow shown below.  His service metals are also displayed below.

Norman was the only son of a former Lynn police officer.  He lived on Glenwood St.  He received his education at the Chatham and Lewis St. Schools, Pickering Jr. High and LEHS.  He attended Mass. College of Pharmacy for a year following LEHS before becoming a marine.

He was a member of H&S Co, 1st BN, 7th Marines, 1st MARDIV, III MAF and was a corporal E4.  He was killed in action from fragmentation wounds to his head and body when the vehicle he was riding in struck a land mine in Quang Nam Province on Friday, August 23, 1968.  He was 20 years old.  He is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.  His name is on the Vietnam Memorial Wall, panel 47W line 43.

He was the 20th Lynn native and 66th North Shore native killed in Vietnam.

On Saturday following his death, his parents received a letter from him stating he would be home 2 days before Christmas.  At about 6 PM that same Saturday, they were informed of his death.

May Norman rest in Peace.   He will be remembered.  Please feel free to comment if you have memories about Norman you want to share.  To make a comment, click on the “add a comment” directly below this posting.  If there are already comment there, click on “x comments” to see the comments and to add your own.

On Veterans’ Day, look for the names of graduates from our class who served our country.  The list is by no means complete.

Norman Grant’s Obituary

 

Norman Grant’s Grave

 

Norman Grant’s Service Metals

Reminder about Sharing Contact Information (8/19/2011)

Your contact information is confidential.  We can not share it with anyone without your written permission.  If you want other members of our class to be able to write to you, please update your address information using the address update form and make sure you give permission on the form (there is a line for that) to share your contact information.  See the page “Communications Between Members of Our Class” for details.  There has been quite a bit of interest in contacting old classmates on the Lynn English High School (the 60’s) Facebook Group.  To keep your email (or snail mail or phone) from getting spammed please do not post your contact information anywhere.

The class address database is kept on Bob Maleszyk’s home computer with a back up copy on Eleanor (Shellgren) Starkenberg’s computer.  No information is stored on public databases.  We still don’t have current information for everyone in the class and we quite frankly can’t find nearly a third of the class.

NOTE:  Please include your telephone number if you update your contact information.  It is very helpful to find you if you move!

Still Searching for Missing (Lost) Classmates

We are still searching for lost classmates.  As of today, we have 203 classmates who are missing or we haven’t got to contacting.  If you have any knowledge of a classmate wear-abouts, please let them know of our class website and please let us know as well.  Please contact us if you know of anyone.  Please check the lost classmate page to see who is missing.  If you are reading this message and your name is on the lost classmate list, please use the update address information form (to the right) and update your contact information.  Also, if your contact information has changed, please let us know using the update address information form.

I am pleased to report that one of our “lost classmates” used the update address form this week and is no longer “lost”.  Hopefully others will do the same. 

Please remember, your contact information is confidential and will not be posted or given to anyone without your written permission (there is a line on the update address form to give us permission).  Even if you DO give us permission, the only people we will release your contact information to is other members of LEHS Class of 1965.  See the Communications Between Members of Our Class page for details.

Lynn, Lynn City of Sin

This was a comment from Frank Gately.  I copied it and am posting it for comment.

I was looking for the famous Lynn, Lynn City of Sin poem because I heard it had more verses. “We’ll Always Remenber Lynn” brought back the locations and the memories, for sure. I’ve read the early works of the poet, Vincent Ferrini, which relives Lynn, before the times of the class of “65. Also, the book “Loyalty” by John Curry uses Lynn as the setting for his gangster-fiction novel. It was great for remembering all the old places, like Monte’s, forget the plot.

Lynn, Lynn the city of sin
You never come out, the way you came in

You ask for water, but they give you gin
The girls say no, yet they always give in

If your not bad, they won’t let you in
It’s the damndest city I’ve ever lived in

Lynn, Lynn the city of sin
You never come out, the way you came in.

Author: unknown

New Page: “Classmate Activities”

A page has been created for each of us to post something special that is happening in our lives.  Be it a new grandkid, a new job, retirement, writing a new book, or anything you consider special about yourself (or your family).  Please remember, no phone numbers, addresses or email addresses.

Keep your postings free of political or controversial topics.  Your postings will be edited as necessary.  Please do not solicit anything on the site.  Postings advertising something “for sale” will not be posted as will any postings in bad taste.

To place something on the page, just use contact and an email will be sent to our class email address.  If you have a photo that you want to post, just put a comment in that you want to put a photo up for others to see.  We will contact you and give you instructions.

Our initial posting is by Lina Rehal who is announcing a book signing for her new book.  Check it out on the Classmate Activities page.