Arlene Vachon (Forrester)

While I have lived in Traverse City for 20 years now, Royal Oak will always be home to me!  Many wonderful memories with classmates and neighborhood friends.  How I wish my grandchildren would have the experience of a kinder, gentler way of life such as was ours.  

Update:  my oldest daughter, Nancy, just finished her 6 weeks of fractionalized radiation for the tumor on her optic nerve.  It will take approximately 3 months for swelling to subside, then another MRI to see how the treatments worked.  Keep up the prayers for her please!  A full return of her vision in that eye would be such a blessing.

Tom Scott -  bring us up-to-date on your knee surgery.  Have you had it yet?  

Kathy Chaivre (Brown)

Arlene , my prayers will continue for your daughters full recovery and for the rest of your family dealing with so much worry and stress.  

While I always spent my summers in Lake Orion (where we live now) , Royal Oak was always home.  So many great memories .  Dick and I  laugh about our "when we were kids...) stories .  Coming home when the street lights came on, never seeing an empty ball field on a Saturday  'cause everybody just showed up, playing tag, kick the can, etc.   Simple times to be a child.  

Arlene Vachon (Forrester)

Thanks, Kathy.  Prayers are definitely appreciated!!  We are soooooo looking forward to Spring here in Northern Michigan!  May you all have a wonderful Easter.  Hopefully with family and/or friends.  Bless you all.

Tom Scott

Tom Scott

Lucia Lenhard (Johnson)

Hi everybody,

Arlene, all the best to you and your daughter and her recovery.  There sure is more than enough misery to go around isn't the? 

Love all the RO comments, and sure agree. Feel sad for those kids walking around with their noses attached to a screen 20 hours a day watching instead of living life. 

Tom O, not to worru about renewal funds, Mary Jo and Janet sent a check,  we had a credit balance from last year and my charge card still works, so all is well, thanks for asking. 

Think Spring everybody! It is only 15 days away. Daffs and crocus have shown themselves! 

Tom O'Brien

Arlean, good news for your daughter and I'm sure it will only get better. Prayers are there every night for the class and families of "63"

Tom S. Glad to hear surgery was not needed. Keep of the pt and be careful. We don't respond the way we used to. Excercise with care but excercise.

Lucia, glad the kitty is healthy. don't be bashful (I know not you will be) when you need funds. Since your card is good, could I send you a $4000 bill for a down on my new Infinity Q60?

Judy Schoen (Grewe)

Hello everyone, come on Spring!  Winter here wasn't bad just very cold and very long, and still here!! I am home safe and sound from my bucket list challenge that has cured me of all wanderlust!!! Israel and Jordan was an adventure but going forward I will stay in USA!  Arlene, good to hear your daughter is doing well and prayers continue to you and your family.  Tom glad to hear you didn't need surgery and rehab instead. Heading back to Portland next week to work on wedding plans for youngest son in August , am still planning on 55 th reunion afterwards! 

Arlene Vachon (Forrester)

Happy Birthday to our beautiful Lucia!  I hope you have an incredible day!!

Bonnie Ellison (Zook)

Happy Birthday,Lucia.  Hope you have a wonderful day.  Enjoy!

Tom O'Brien

Happy Birthday to Kathy and wishing  many more on you. Enjoy your day

Pat Diggles

Happy Birthday Lucia!  Thanks for making all the effort to keep this website going!  It's been going on now for five years and has been a bright light on an enjoyable past!

Enjoy your day!

Pat

Janet Flick (Stickel)

Happy Birthdays to Lucia, Pat and Joyce!  March is a wonderful month for birthdays - Spring around the corner.  Promise of new life.

Tom Scott

Tom Scott

Judy Schoen (Grewe)

Birthday wishes to Pat Joyce and Lucia may they all come true!

Tom O'Brien

Lucia,

A Happy Bday to you. I wish you a fantastic day and I hope your wishes come true not just today but everyday.

You deserve more than one day and live each one like your birthday.

Enjoy and have a blast.

Lucia Lenhard (Johnson)

Good morning and Happy St. Pateick’s Day, everyone is Irish today.  🍀

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, they are a gift that truly tops the coin of the realm! 

This whole aging process is so fraught with diminished capacity and compensitory skills for ourselves and our contemporaries that the question “what do you want for your birthday?” might  now be answered “a few more please, and let me be able to blow out the candles when they get here!” So good to be among y’all for the journey. 

Lucia Lenhard (Johnson)

OR St PATRICK. Where is auto correct when you need it? 

Judy Schoen (Grewe)

Happy St Patty's to all , a huge day in Saint Louis !  All these years I sulked over this holiday not being Irish until I did my DNA  and found out I'm 33 % Irish!  I think of the UD days  at the St Francis Club having to sit on the German side of the table on the 17th of March ! 

Tom O'Brien

Judy,

Every one is a little Irish and St Patricks Day Every one is a lot Irish. Glad you found out your on the good side.

Tom O'Brien

Happy Birthday to Joyce and Patricia. It's your day and wishes for manymore.

Tom Scott

Tom Scott

Arlene Vachon (Forrester)

Tom Scott -  Congrats to Avery and her proud Papa!  That's wonderful.  Olympics are just a few short years away.  We will all be available for her cheering section (won't we?!?)