Looking forward…
With the 60-year Reunion of the B-CC Class of 1962 on the horizon, the organizers are really urging folks to save the date (the weekend of October 14–16, 2022), update their profiles, and encourage anyone from the class that you've kept in touch with to do the same.
You can email us through your profile options with ideas or offers to help. Currently, the organizers are Ainslee (Harris) Sadler, Bill Joseph, Bill Moyer, Butch Helsing, Carolyn Bryant-Sarles, Jeanne Smith, Jocelyn Trueblood, Ken Lavine, Linnea (Brown) Dayton, Rick Kramer and Scott Ferguson.
Looking back…
A group of our classmates, several from Wood Acres, got together in the fall of 2011 to talk about a possible reunion. The group came up with some general ideas and an initial plan to search for classmates. But as the group returned to their homes, the enormity of this task promptly slowed efforts... until the end of March 2012, when our class president, Ken Lavine, came to the rescue!
Ken had been reminded by Scott Ferguson, Jeanne Smith and Rick Kramer that this was a special year. They contacted the B-CC Educational Foundation, who had Jerol Desmond's contact information as a person also interested in this planning. The committee then began to grow.
This group of eleven (Ken Lavine, Scott Ferguson, Jeanne Smith, Jerol Desmond Briggs, Linnea Brown Dayton, Jocelyn Trueblood, Rick Kramer, David Ullman, Carolyn Bryant , Ainslee Harris Sadler, and Alice Witkowski) gathered by email from Florida, California, Oregon, Maine, New York and the DC area. Ken set up a conference call capacity which was first used on April 3, 2012. Now remember that some folks in this group had not seen each other in 50 years or might not remember each other at all. But they steadfastly trudged along with this effort to set the date, location, website and most important, to search, search, search for classmates. As of July 1 they had found almost 200 classmates and the rest of the names had been given to Classquest for an extended search. Sadly, 34 classmates were found to be deceased.
The B-CC Educational Foundation was contacted regarding an optional class gift to one of their programs. A tour of the newly renovated B-CC was arranged for November 17. Everyone worked on the search, coordinating with Classquest, preparing postcards for future mailing, opening bank and Pay Pal accounts, and tending to the website. In the middle of all this activity, Ken up and moved to Paris where he participated in the calls during the middle of the night.
The organizers were all very enthusiastic about their efforts and the many classmates who responded. There is so much to remember from those long ago days. Some of us have actually known each other since kindergarten.
