The Remarkable and Amazing 3rd Edition

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Cindy Schosker Emmons '69   "Just recently, I had the privilege of sitting next to Mr. Eugene Hudson, my HS geometry teacher at a wedding reception. His son married one of our employees.  He is 74 years old and full of vim and vigor.  Also, he was delightful to talk to and we discussed the good ole days at JHS.  I will  see that he knows about this wonderful website as soon as he returns from Fla.  

Does anyone know what has become of Tom Hoyer, Frances Smith, Bill Madden or Pat Dunnuck?  

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Back in the early spring things didn't look so hot for the Class of 71 30th reunion.  In April, far too late for mere mortals, Rick Miller '71 decided that having a reunion was important.  Rick called his old friend and classmate, Janet Sharp (Streich) and started putting it together.  Next Saturday the Class of '71 will be together.  

It's not been easy for the individual classes, the reunion committees, which is something I never gave much thought to until this site.   The comments some of you have made about not having a reunion and wondered how much easier it might have been if JHS had remained open.  

The question that begs asking is how much easier might it have been for our class reunion committees had there been a place we could have gone to update our  information, or asked for help. 

The SBAA functions in that capacity now, but it wasn't until we showed up that even a mention of JHS appeared on their web site...(see below) Alumni comments from other classes mentioned their disappointment that their class had not had a reunion.  I'm grateful for the efforts of our reunion committees over the years for their efforts at holding our class together.  I also understand the impossible task of trying to manage it long distance.   

It's not a question of spirit. It's not a reflection on any one single individual, committee or Class Officers.   JHS Alumni care.  We care about friends, faculty, foreign exchange students and have shown a great deal of pride and spirit still exists.

It's hard to believe that a school as alive and vibrant as JHS vanished.  It hit me when I took a look at the LaSalle alumni site. I was amazed to see the years scrolling by with the names of alumni long after Class of 75 graduated from our "sister school" .   Twenty six additional graduating classes.  

What cost or overhead would it have taken for the SBCSC to have supplied a contact point?  Or has the burden been ours all along  in case any JHS alumni contacted them?

 I'll spot them twenty years and answer that question by saying that the internet provided the SBCSC with the means to lend a hand.  It provided them with an opportunity to recognize, no matter how infinitesimal, the alumni from the schools they shut down on their site or the sub site organization formed in 1984, SBAA.  There was not a mention of our existence on either site. 

SBCSC is getting ready to close more schools. I don't live there, but I've gathered that the reason is simply a dwindling population, though I gather that they are going to re-open or re-calibrate Hamilton from special school back into an elementary school. Go Hawks!  If the SBCSC  decide to close another high school, I hope they do a better job of remembering the alumni. 

My hats off to the Central alumni for putting it together and keeping it together over the years.   I am grateful to the support and cooperation of the SBAA, Ron Bella, Executive Director. I'd like to thank the current SBCSC admin for remembering JHS and offering their support, and of course the JHS alumni for showing everyone else that we never forgot. 

JFaltot

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 No way...

 Way.

 Until recently I had no idea such things existed. They do. Here is the evidence to prove it. Now as to why they exist,  that's another matter entirely.  

Actually this t-shirt was sent to me courtesy of the South Bend Alumni Association.  They have gone back and found all the SBCSC school insignia's, worked out a deal with a sports supplier and now offer a variety of items for all the alumni from South Bend high school's.  Alumni can buy t-shirts, hats, golf towels etc. with the original Jackson Tiger logo. Pretty cool for reunions and from personal experience, I have to say that they are the same kind of soft t-shirts that require no break in period to feel good on.

I know it's not listed in the bookstore, but they do a great job on Jackson High School letter jackets. 

I know that because after they sent me several of the alumni t-shirts for helping them with their web site, I wrote a thank you note and told them that while the t-shirts were great...a letter jacket would have been better. 

When it arrived, it also had my name & class year embroidered on the front as a bonus.  It was awfully hard writing Ron Bella, Executive Director of the SBAA to thank him for the letter jacket without mentioning that while the letter jacket was great, a Mercedes.....

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-Married Alumni we are looking for you. Did you fall in love with another Jacksonite and marry? Did you know each other or date in school or did you meet and fall in love afterwards?  Romance among the alumni...send in your story and pictures to be included in the Old Hickory or if there is enough, we'll put a page together on the web site. We want to hear from you....