25TH CLASS REUNION
FRIDAY NIGHT MIXER
July 6th, 2001 - Friday Evening
The 25th Class Reunion Friday Night Mixer was held July 6th, 2001 at the Winding Hills Golf Course, Route 17K, Montgomery, New York.
117 Classmates joined us for the evening. Students from other classes also dropped by. To our surprise our outdoor affair was kind of chilly, the weather turned out to be cold, I’m sorry classmates. However the scenic view of the golf course and flower gardens were just beautiful. Fun was had by everyone, and the food was delicious compliments of Megan and Mark Devitt our hosts for the evening. Two of our fellow classmates who were on our missing list showed up, Joe Dolly and Terry Hadden Rivera, leaving only 18 remaining missing classmate!
If you took any photo's on Friday evening that you can share with us, so we can add them to this page
DINNER DANCE
July 7th, 2001 - Saturday Evening
Our 25th Class Reunion Dinner Dance was held on July 7th, 2001 at Spruce Lodge, Route 17K, Coldenham, New York. 106 people attended including classmates and their spouses. The above photo’s are from Louie Estrada, if anyone else has other photo’s that we can post on this page, please email them to Kim Baty Kosteczko @ kimkosteczko@yahoo.com
Our DJ’s for the evening were from Soundwave Productions, out of Ellenville, New York. They did a wonderful job getting our class up and dancing!
Ruth Pettine Hall our co-chairman for the 25th reunion committee, did an excellent job as our Master of Ceremony for the evening! Ruth you were made for the mike!
Ruth presented the following awards to our classmates with style, grace and laughter, can’t wait until the 30th to see what she has planned next!
Classmate who thought he was an expert on people wearing Thongs: Prize was a Thong Inspector T-Shirt : Louie Estrada
Full of shit award: Prize was a poop squirting piggy: Tim Balogh
Having the most children: Prize was book – Mom’s pregnant: Susan Millspaugh Tighe – 5 Daughters
Female Classmate who drives a motorcycle: Prize was a book on Motorcycles & play tattoos: Helen Hornbeck Herbert – who’s been riding for 13 years.
Most Balding Contest: Prize was a straw hat : Michael Kelly
Longest Job Since high school: Prize was Play Money, Piggy Bank and a book called “Dear Mr. President”.
Dave Cocks : 23 years. After all of these years working at the Walden Savings Bank, he is now the President. Great job Dave!
Traveling the Farthest: Prize was a bag of toys to play with on the ride home : Lorraine Bennett – Alaska
Bachelor: Prize was red boxer shorts with white hearts : Rich Kirnan
Bachelorett: Prize was a red boxer shorts with white hearts: Ranae Ruger
Female Classmate having the most tattoo’s: Prize was a book on Tattoo’s: Terry Hadden Rivera
Traveling the most since High School: Ann Luckas
Village People Impersonator Classmates YMCA Song : Prize was Village People Hats:
Ray Baty – Army Guy
Ron Decker – Construction worker
John Panaro – Fireman
Kyle Cavanaugh – Black Cowboy hat
Steve Cook – Green hat
Erich Kikel – small brown cowboy hat
Russ Doolittle – Taxi driver
Louie Estrada – Policeman
Mike Kelly – extra YMCA dancer
Tim Balogh – extra YMCA dancer
Family picnic
July 8th, 2001 - Sunday Afternoon
The 25th Class Reunion picnic was held on July 8th, 2001 at Castle Park in the Town of Crawford. 126 people were scheduled to attend the picnic, but only a little over half of that number actually came due to the heavy rains in the morning. They missed out on a fun time, rain or shine the picnic goes on!
Some classmates showed up who were not original signed up so it was nice to see them. There was plenty of food and drink to go around. The soda and water was supplied by Ron Decker and Coca-Cola. Thanks Ron!
Classmates and their kids played softball, and volleyball. By 5 o’clock that evening most of the classmates were en-route to their homes, and successful 3 day 25th Class Reunion Weekend came to a close. See you again in the year 2006, at the 30th Reunion!
If you took any photo's on Sunday that you can share with us, so we can add them to this page
the 25th reunion book
REUNION COMMITTEE
Kim Baty Kosteczko
Co Chairman
Ruth Pettine Hall
Co Chairman
Betsy Smith Sullivan
Committee Member
Kathy Privitera Sherman
Committee Member
Paula Bellarosa Quist
Committee Member
Ron Decker
Committee Member
Bruce Helstrom
Committee Member
Richard Kirnan
Committee Member
Reunion Committee News
Special thanks to Kim, Ruth, Betsy, Kathy, Paula, Rich, Ron, and Bruce for dedicating hours and hours on the phone, internet searches, newspaper articles, classmates.com, Cable 8 TV, flyers, trying to keep track of 344 Class Members, this year we only had to find 128 missing classmates. The committee was able to find 315 Classmates, 11 Classmates have passed away, 18 Classmates are still missing.
A special thanks to all of the Classmates who called and helped us in our phone and on line search for our missing classmates. There are to many of you to name, but it is important that you know that your time, help and class spirit was greatly appreciated, we couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you.
A special thanks go out to the Reunion Committee, Kim, Ruth, Betsy, Kathy, Paula, Ron, Bruce and Rich for coming together once again to help plan our 25th Class Reunion. Each committee member has played an important role to make this reunion a huge success. Planning a reunion is a very time consuming project that requires hours of dedication and commitment. The Reunion Committee started planning for this one year ago.
As you know Betsy Smith Sullivan retired as our reunion chairman after our 20th reunion and Kim Baty Kosteczko and Ruth Pettine Hall took over to CO-chair our 25th Reunion. The committee was lucky enough to talk Betsy into staying on the reunion committee once again. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to her for her dedication to the Class of ’76.
A Special Thanks
Darlene (Dorner) and Mike Caridullo were kind enough this year to donate their time to print our reunion information on postcards, our main letters, and the Reunion Book. Letting you, our classmates know when our 25th Reunion was being held. It also gave us time to find over 100 classmates whose postcards; been returned as they had moved within the last five years. Rich Kirnan thought it would be a great way to help our classmates plan vacation time, so you could attend, and it definitely turned out to be a great idea!
Barbara FitzPatrick Webb and her husband Gene of Sanitary Welding of Georgia were kind enough to cover the cost for the paper that was used to send out our main letters. We greatly appreciate your donation and Class Spirit!
We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Ron Decker and Coca-Cola for their donation of soda for our reunion picnic. Ron, it is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
A special thank you to Mr. Brett Gehrke from the Wallkill Middle School Technology Department, Wallkill, New York who designed our 25th Class Reunion T-Shirts as a favor to Kim Baty Kosteczko. The hours he spent drawing it and then creating it on the computer was great appreciated.
We would like to say thank you to Ruth Pettine Hall for keeping track of our reunion finances, and Charlie Davis for his donation of flowers.
To our classmates who were unable to join us this time, there is always the 30th…. Thank you for responding and letting us know you were unable to attend.
To our classmates who have made the journey to attend our 25th Reunion, whether living close or far away, we thank you for coming.
May this reunion unite you with an old friend, make new ones, and may you leave with great memories. See you again for our 30th Reunion in 2006.
Things that happened in 1976
The Bicentennial Year
It was our Country’s 200th Birthday 1776 – 1976
They made Bicentennial Quarters 1776 – 1976
They printed the $2.00 Bill 1976 Series
1976 Olympics were held in Montreal, Canada
Montgomery hosted the Bicentennial County Fireman’s
Parade, some of us were late getting to Graduation
