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Ya'll did a wonderful job with the reunion.  The idea of a three day get-together was great, because we were able to spend enough time together.It was fun, let's take a cruise next time! Special appreciation to Tom Halstead for arranging the "The School Tour."  Some time ago I said to him that I thought it would be a good idea to determine "...if gravity has had the same effect on the school as it has had on us," and, in fact, it has.  Schenectady High School is not Linton High School.  We were blessed. Photo CD to follow. Cordially, Doug and Elizabeth Gresham

Hi Peter:   Just wanted to express again to you and the committee what a wonderful wonderful weekend we had. I enjoyed it so much. I appreciate all the hard work that went into making this so successful. Today was great. Please pass along my appreciation to the committee. Thanks   Naomi

Pete:   Just a BIG thanks for a great weekend.   Please extend my congrats to the entire committee on a super job.  Was VERY apprehensive about going but am so glad I did.  Great weather (who was in charge of ordering that?), great food, and lots of great people.  (We really were, weren't we?) Donna (Peek) Fairlee

Hi Peter:  I had a wonderful time this weekend.  It certainly was great feeling the love from everyone and all the smiling faces that were there.  Thank you for being the friendly person and leader you are and making everyone feel special.  You did a fantastic job along with the rest of the committee.  I did forget and leave behind my favorite coffee mug (large black mug with red top).  Whoever may have found it, enjoy.  Love, Julie

Hi Pete, I just want to let you know how much I enjoyed the 50th reunion at the Western Turnpike. It was great to see everyone. So glad that I was able to attend. Special thanks to your reunion committee what a great job. Barb

Dear Peter and committee, I want to thank all of you for your effort in putting together a fantastic reunion.  I truly enjoyed seeing so many of my classmates and enjoying a walk down memory lane.  Thank you so much for  your excellent planning. You did a great job!   Both Davis and I had a wonderful time.  With love,  Lois Etkin

Hello Pete, and all members of the committee and the 1960 LHS classmates who attended this awesome event--my husband Paul and I had such a wonderful time this whole weekend.  It was great meeting classmates that I hung with from Junior HS thru graduation.  Many years has passed since I seen any of you, but the great memories came back to me this weekend.  Much time and work went into this event but the memories of this weekend will last forever!  We just got back home to Maryland, but wanted to send you a quick note of thanks!! Hope to see you all again soon!!! God Bless You and Yours!!!! Elaine A. (Jones) Marshall

Hey Peter, Just want to give a "Big Thanks" to you and your Committee Members for a truly fantastic Reunion. I have not seen anyone since the 25th Reunion and is was so good to see everyone again but also sad to see how many we have lost since the 25th. I'm already looking forward to the next one. Take care and God bless, Bob St. John

Hello Peter, I wanted to add my thanks to you and the committee for all of the work each of you did to make our 50th Reunion an unforgettable experience. The best part for me was to renew friendships that have been dormant for too many years. Diane and I had a great time and are looking forward to her 50th (Linton Class of 1961-next October) as well as our next one. Thanks again to everyone who helped make our reunion such a tremendous success. Take care, Joe Wolfe

Hi Peter, I returned to Arizona a couple of hours ago and what a treat to open my email and be able to see THE PICTURE!  Thank you for all the hard work you and the committee did to make our 50th Reunion phenomenal!  It was wonderful to get reacquainted with so many - hard to believe that 50 years have really come and gone!  I was also very touched by the memorial service you had for our classmates who are no longer with us. Thanks again, Doris Epstein, aka Mannies

50 th Linton HS Reunion Schedule
Saturday August 7, 2010
Western Turnpike Picnic Grounds

12:00 Noon Start of the Picnic
a. Table at entrance set up with Name Tags of Classmates and their Guests
b. Table set up with memorobila

1:00 pm Peter – Welcome Everyone - Tears on my Pillow, Linton ‘s fight song
a. Kathy Alberti Koivula - advise of todays schedule
b. 12-4 Music
c. Beer and Soda all day 12-6 - Cash Bar for all Liquor and Wine
d. Lunch 12- 3 Hot Dog, Hamburgers
e. Dinner 4-5 Table decorations at ea. table to be given away at days end
e.Pete - advise of Sundays schedule – at the Saratoga race track Big Red Spring Gazebo, Blue and White school colors – table cloths and balloons

f. Pete -Announce who is on the reunion committee

2:30 pm Peter – a. Class picture to be taken - $15 includes mailing -optional
b. CD mailer - $2 all photo’s on a CD mailed to your home

• Please share all your photo’s for this cd mailer
• by emailing your jpeg photo’s you take to Bob Guerierro
• at rg@cseresourses.com

3:45 pm Elaine Wright Mount – Thoughts

3:55 pm Gary DiLallo – Memorial - Prayer
assisted by :Vince Morelli, Ed Valachovic, Casey Furlong Hanrahan and Aggie Zukauskas Pike

4:00 to 5:00 pm Dinner

6:00 pm The Party’s Over …………….Good Nite Sweetheart , it’s time to go……..

Heavenly Father, we are gathered here today to celebrate our life long friendships. Many of us have known each other since elementary school. We all spent our adolescent years together sharing experiences we fondly recall.

Now it is fifty years since we left the familiar halls of Linton High School. We look back and remember our years together and our lives since those early days. We are grateful for the lives we were given, the families we raised, the spouses and partners who have been our companions in life.

Some of us have achieved much, others more modestly and still others have lived unremarkably. Some of us have been blessed with good health, others have experience health crises, some of us have health challenges today.

Devine Master, you know we have not been without failing and fault, sad times and challenges. We have made mistakes and have regrets. Through it all we have survived and grown. We have learned that our possessions are not important. It is our relationships that are important.

We thank you for this day, a chance to remember, to share and renew our relationships. We have so much more in common than what may have divided us.

Eternal Father, we have been greatly blessed and know that what you freely give exceeds our needs. May we express our gratitude in the way we continue to live our remaining days. Help us set aside guilt and resentment. We pray that you will grant us health, the opportunity to serve others, the richness of friends and family.

May we live our lives not counting the breaths we take but the times when our breath is taken away by the wonders of this world and our lives. At the end, may we have no regrets for what we have failed to do.

Bless this gathering today. Accept our gratitude for the food and beverage we have shared and will soon share.

Amen.

Over the fifty years since our graduation, we have lost 51 classmate from our class of 468. Many of us have not had the opportunity to participate in a memorial for our classmates nor deal with their loss. Today we have such an opportunity. Therefore our memorial will be presented as if our classmate had just left us, though some have been gone for years while other passed recently.

Let us remember those who are no longer with us,
those who have left us behind in their too short lives.
Lives we loved were torn from us.
Expectations the years once held have vanished.
The mystery of death has stricken us.
Oh God, you know the lives we live and the deaths we die- woven so strangely of purpose and chance,
of reason and irrational,
of strength and frailty,
of happiness and pain.
Into your hands our classmates have passed.

No mortal life you have made is without eternal meaning.
No earthly life is beyond your redeeming.
We hold up the names of our friends and classmates who have gone from their earthy life during the past fifty years.

Eternal God, you know all things in earth and heaven.
Fill our hearts with trust in you that,
by night and by day,
and in all seasons,
we may without fear commit those who are dear to us
to your never-failing love,
for this life and the life after life.

Amen

 

50th Linton High School Reunion
Class of 1960 - Schedule of Events  

---- Friday August 6, 2010 ----

Tour of Linton High School - 1:00 pm
Cost - Free

Schenectady High School - 1445 The Plaza , Schenectady , NY 12308 (518) 370-8196
Tom Halstead will lead a short tour thru the Old Linton High School for those who want to visit class rooms from their past to receive some of those warm, cozy, old time feelings.
New additions include the Pat Reilly Sports Center and the new artificial grass covered football field. For those who are interested, meet at 1:00 pm in the high school front office.

Mohawk Golf Club - 6:00 pm
Cost $25 per person with a cash bar.

Located at 1849 Union St Schenectady, NY 12309 (518) 374-9124

Don't eat too much before you come. There will be plenty of hot and cold appetizers at this Friday Night Reunion get together.

Come to an absolutely wonderful setting to relax, laugh, and cry with old high school friends.

One on one or in a group, catch up on what's been going on since the last time we saw each other.

---- Saturday August 7, 2010 ----

Western Turnpike Golf Course Picnic Grounds - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Cost $50 per person.

Located on Route 20 - 2350 Western Ave , Guilderland , NY 12084 (518) 456-9837

There will be live music, endless hot and cold food, beer and soda from 12 noon to 5 pm.

12 Noon to 3 PM Char-grilled Angus Burgers Hot Dogs Italian Sweet Sausage,Peppers & Onions Clam Chowder Tropical Fresh Fruit Display 4:00 to 5:00 PM Teriyaki and Orange Marinated Grilled Flank Steak Western Style Grilled BBQ Spare Ribs Italian Style Roasted Chicken Potato Salad, Tossed Salad, Baked Beans Corn on the cob Desserts Villa Italia Chocolate Chip Cookies Watermelon Coffee and Tea Also, They will accommodate any dietary needs

Bring your own outdoor chairs if you like. Professional pictures will be taken (for a nominal fee) for your memory books. Bring your own camera for some of those candid shots of classmates, to record a fantastic time together. A magical time that happens only once in our life. Your 50 th Class Reunion. It will never come again.

Who would have thought fifty years. …………Wow………. Where did the time go?

If you have not been to one of your class reunions yet, please think this over very carefully. We miss seeing you. Do not miss this one. And this I promise you, you will not regret this decision for one minute.

---- Sunday August 8, 2010 ----

Saratoga Race Course Picnic Grounds – 1:00 pm – Cost $3 race track admission per person

Located just off exit #14 on I-87 Northway

267 Union Ave , Saratoga Springs , NY 12866

For those of us who have an extra day and want to see the area, don’t miss this event.

We will be located in the Historic Saratoga Race Course Picnic grounds between the jockey saddle up area and the “Big Red Spring” Gazebo.

Linton HS picnic tables decorated in our school blue and white colors will be saved, but you can also bring your own outdoor chairs, coolers, and sub sandwiches (or buy there.) If you bring beverages, bring plastic bottles only and be sure to put the adult beverages on the bottom of your cooler (no problem). Watch the famous Saratoga horse racing excitement at the finish line or on the many TV’s located in the area. And who knows, with a little bit of luck you may win big. What a perfect ending to a 50th fantastic reunion weekend.

Costs:

August 6th Friday Night Get Together -  $ 25.00 per person

August 7th Saturday Reunion Picnic    -  $ 50.00 per person

Make out checks to:     Linton HS Class of 1960 - 50th Reunion

Please include number of people attending and send checks to:

Linton HS Class of 1960 -50th Reunion
Linda B. Sisson
31 Parkside Trail
Ballston Lake, NY 12019

Who To Contact with any Questions: Anyone on your Linton HS Reunion Committee

Linton High School Class of 1960 Reunion Committee 11/2/2009

1. Kathy Alberti Koivula  edandkathy3@nycap.rr.com hm 518-399-1863
2. Linda Bricoccoli Sisson Lsisson1@nycap.rr.com hm 518-877-6708
3. Sandra Campo Beauparlant sherlock1064@aol.com hm 518-377-3656
4. Gary DiLallo badgad@aol.com hm 518-877-8045
5. Carol Ferrucci Capperalla carolecc@verizon.net hm 518-399-7296
6. Casey Furlong Hanrahan sweetjosey@nycap.rr.com hm 518-374-9404
7. Bob Guerierro rg@ceresources hm  518-758-9210
8. Tom Halstead halsteadthomas@hotmail.com hm 718-423-7844
9. Ronald Lippiello rojo1415@aol.com hm 518-346-7394
10. Peter Maioriello petermaioriello@aol.com hm 518-584-4957
11. Carol Mangano Pike carolpike42@roadrunner.com hm 518-656-3006
12. Vince Morelli hm: 518-393-3821
13. Gary Neapolitano nneapolitano@nycap.rr.com hm 518-583-9518
14. Fran Penta Seaman pensea@aol.com hm 518-393-5510
15. Mary Ellen Quinn D’Andrea mdandrea@spa.net hm 518-584-0736
16. Julia Tama juliet711@verizon.net hm 518-355-0897
17. Ed Valachovic speclfrces@aol.com hm 518-355-7728
18. Agatha Zukauskas Pike agatha.pike@worldnet.att.net hm 518-489-0484

 

Linton HS 50 th Reunion Hotel Accommodations

Hotel Accommodations have been made at the following Hotels in the reunion area.

When making arrangements please mention “ Linton HS Reunion or Linton Reserved Block” and the reservation must be made by July 1, 2010 to receive “the special rate listed below”.  

The Belvedere Hotel $115.00 per night will also provide free transportation to and from the Western turnpike Picnic Grounds.

Toll free 866-4-Belvedere ( 866-423-583-3373 )
Local 518-630-4020
1926 Curry Rd.
Schenectady , NY 12303

Holiday Inn $134.95 per night
Tel 518-393-4141
100 Nott Terrace
Schenectady, NY 12308

Holiday Inn Express $119.00 per night
Tel 518-438-0001
1442 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12203

Best Western Hotel $85.00 per night
Tel 518-489-2981 or
1-800-WESTERN
1228 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12203

 

50th Reunion: In The Planning Stages A picture of your Class reunion committee hard at work on Our 50th Class Reunion.

This took place on Nov. 4, 2009 at Fran Penta Seaman and Jim Seaman's Home in Niskayuna. Looking Left to right -Standing - Fran Penta Seaman, Julia Tama, Vincent Morelli, Edward Valachovic, Peter Maioriello, Thomas Halstead, Kathleen Furlong Hanrahan, Sandra Campo Beauparlant, Carol Ferrucci Capparella. Looking Left to right Kneeling - Carol Mangano Pike, Linda Bricoccoli Sisson, Kathy Alberti Koivula, Robert Guerriero. Missing from Photo: Mary Ellen Quinn D'Andrea, Gary Neapolitano, Agatha Zukauskas Pike, Bruce Barbeau Photo by Jim Seaman