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“Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint.” Anna Halprin -
From Mary Williamson's Facebook Page.
DHS CLASS OF 1973
When: TBD
Who is invited: ALL former DHS Students. We are holding it as an informal event solely so the other classes feel free to join us. Not only is it open to other classes, we want the other classes to attend too. Besides our own class we all have friends in other years.
Will there be food?: TDB
How much: TBD.
Are there hotel rooms available?: TBD.
Are we having a casual Friday night gathering on Oct. 5, 2018?: TBD
I am are not sure I want to come: I heard a lot of people say later they wish they had joined our earlier reunion, but I have never heard someone say they were sorry they came. I have also heard countless stories of people who weren't going to join us and then they did and were very glad they had.
I lost my yearbook and I don't remember any one: To help people remember their classmates, we have scanned the yearbooks and our Classmates have converted them to a single PDF file by year.
Mauro Gelli of Italy was nice enough to convert the '73 files into a PDF. Garret Derner has or will do all the other files (70, 71, 72, & 74). See the link below. Thank you Mauro and Garrett!!
For a link to the Class of 1969 website: http://www.dhsclassof69.com/
For a link to the Class of 1971 website: http://www.classcreator.com/Deerfield-IL-1971
For a link to the Class of 1972 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/54483045982/
For a link to the Class of 1972 website: (LINK OUT OF DATE)
For a link to this site - the Class of 1973: http://www.deerfield1973.com
For a link to the Class of 1974 website, click on this link: http://www.dhsclassof74.com
For a link to the "In Memory of our Friends" Facebook page, click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/464866230327360/
For a link to the "Deerfield High School Warriors Alumni Association, click on this link: http://dhs.dist113.org/athletics/websiteFB/alumni.htm
For links to the Highland Park High School Class of 1973 - See the following sites:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/213222372126112/#!/groups/213222372126112/ or
http://www.classcreator.com/Highland-Park-Illinois-1973/
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Mark DeBolt
-847 219 3396-
email:markdebolt@compuserve.com
Jackie Millberger Hatfield
email: tinkerhatfield@comcast.net
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What some of your classmates are saying about reunions:
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"I don't know how someone could miss one of these"...Mark Fritzsche - at the Oct 15, 2010 reunion
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To my DHS Classmates,
When I was in high school I thought I knew a lot. I also thought that 50 was very old. I graduated from DHS in 1977, all fired up to go out in the world and achieve my goals. It was all about the destination; leave the past behind and bust your butt to grab that brass ring.
What I learned was I was all wrong. I did not know much in high school. Fifty is not old.It is the ride in life that makes us who we are. The ultimate value is not where we end up but how we got there and what we have learned along the way.
We are the sum of all our parts......where we have lived, worked, traveled and played. The people we have liked, loved, hated and laughed with. All the places you have been, the people you have encountered, the experiences you have shared are all pieces of a puzzle that fit together and become you.
For me Deerfield is a big piece of my puzzle. It is the first place I ever lived that truly felt like home. I moved the summer after 4th grade and began my 5th grade year at Deerfield Grammar School. I have lived the last 37 years of my life in Oregon and I love it here. I have had the good fortune to travel to many enchanting foreign countries. These are not the recollections that come to me in my dreams. There are a couple of places that have appeared to me consistently through the years as I sleep. Both are from my formative years. One is a summer camp I attended in the Rocky Mountains in CO. The other is Deerfield.
When I hear the name of a classmate from DHS, I can most of the time attach a face to that name. Often times I barely knew the person, but still I remember. I can only surmise that you people have had a profound affect on me.
I wish I would have taken the chance to know more of you when I had the chance .......... then again, maybe it is not too late.
The reunion, another stop on the journey, another piece of the puzzle.
I look forward to seeing many of you in October in Deerfield!
Warm regards,
Jackie Millberger Hatfield
P.S. Don't forget 50 is not old!
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Hi there dear friend.
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It's never too late to make another high school friend!
Bill Swanson, Class of 1974
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