B16 Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 22, 1990

The 25th anniversary reunion
of the Class of 65 was held in
Terrace on Aug. 3 to 5. The days
have gone by, but the memories
of this very special reunion will
be with most of the classmates
forever.

This was the very first reunion
of the Class of 65, and it was a
very emotional weekend for
many who had not returned to
Terrace in 25 or more years. On
Friday afternoon the welcoming
committee greeted out-of-town
guests arriving at the airport with
"welcome home" banners. All
classmates were invited to help
decorate the banquet rooms at the
Inn of the West. This also served
as an excellent opportunity to
begin renewing old friendships.

The first event on Friday was a
"welcome home" wine and cheese
party, which was well attended
amidst a vast collection of memo-
tabilia and other high school.
treasures from the '60’s. The next
day, two vintage cars, bearing
Class of ’65 Reunion banners,
entered the Riverboat Days’
parade. About 45 classmates
donned their souvenir reunion T-
shirts and accompanied the cars
along the parade route. Several
classmates, viewing from the
sidelines, joined in the parade, as
it proceeded through town.

The Inn of the West was the
venue for the banquet and dance
on Saturday evening. Balloons
and streamers in the traditional
Skeena high colours of purple
and gold were in abundance.
Emcee Jim Stainton welcomed all
Classmates, grads and teachers.
Special recognition went to Nico
Seinen, who travelled to Terrace
all the way from Kalamazoo,
Michigan. Erie Wade’s Disco
provided all the favourite tunes of
the ’60’s for dancing.

Anne Anson’s lakeside home
provided the perfect setting for
the family picnic on Sunday
afternoon. It was a warm and
sunny day, and several competent
chefs from the class prepared

motorized raft and several canoes
were available for “off shore"
entertainment during the after-
noon.

All in all, the weekend proved
to be a great success. Organizers
were happy that they were able to
create this successful home-
coming for all their friends and
teachers.

Teachers attending were Elvira
Bryant, Aileen Frank, Vera
Frank, Mary Little, Hugh Power,
Olga Power and Rose: Sharples.

To find old classmates fora —
reunion is no small feat in some
cases. After months of searching
there were still many people on
the "lost" list. One of them was
Linda Evans. .

She was one of those, persons

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who just seemed to have van-
ished. Through several different
contacts, finally a Linda Evans
was located in Vancouver. An
invitation and a letter were sent,
only to be returned to sender as
she was not the Linda Evans they
were looking for. Back to square
one. They then heard that Linda
had lived in the Vernon area and
the she might have become a
nurse. A letter was sent to the
personnel director of the Vernon
Jubilee Hospital, describing Linda
Evans to see if anyone there
remembered her. The personnel
director in turn gave the letter to
a person who had worked at the
Vernon Jubilee for many years,
and, binge, she remembered
Linda, except that she had not
worked there for some time, and
Linda also had remarried. Some

| old files were dug up, and there it

was: Linda had moved to Kam-
loops.

When the grad committee in
Terrace received all this good
information, they had no trouble
locating Linda Evans in Kam-
loops. The neat part is that Linda
lives on Skeena Street in Kam-
loops. When Linda’s colleagues
heard about the reunion they were
more than happy to work her
shifts so she could attend.

If you think that this is the end
of the story, not so. While the
classmates were getting
reacquainted during the reunion, a
fellow visiting Terrace from
Yellowknife was in Hanky’s.
When he saw the ’65 reunion
signs, he was curious to see who
all were there. He also had gone
to school here in Terrace during
the 60’s. Although he was a
couple of years younger than
these people he would probably
know some of them... and guess
what? Walking around the room
he runs into his sister, whom he
had not seen for a long time.
Neither knew that the other was
going to be here, His sister was
Linda Evans. This was a very
happy reunion in more than one
way for Linda Evans. Her brother
is Jim Evans, who teaches school
in Yellowknife.

Souvenir T-shirts with a
specially designed logo could be
seen all over Terrace during the
reunion weekend. Karen Keeler
from Manning, Alberta really got
into the act. She arrived wearing
her T-shirt, a yellow poodle skirt,
white saddle shoes and bobby ©
socks, ready to go to the sock
hop. -

Arie De Lange, now living in
Vancouver and owning his own
graphic design studio, designed
the logo for the T-shirts. He is
also a classmate from that time.

There is still time to send me

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Bill Van Westen, the man behind the shades, visited his old home town of Terrace during
Riverboat Days, joining friend Don Coburn and the Coburn twins, Aaron and Luke.

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SUNDAY: Terrace Athletics Association

. MONDAY: Terrace Minor Hockey (First three Mondays of |

. .. very month)
Terrace Minor Baseball (Remaining Mondays of
every month)
TUESDAY: Kermode Friendship Society
WEDNESDAY: Terrace Blue Back Swim Club
Terrace Peaks Gymnastics
THURSDAY: Sponsoring Comm. to 747 Cadets
Order of the Royal Purple
EARLY FRIDAY: Canadian Paraplegic Association
LATE FRIDAY: Nisga’a Tribal Council (Terrace Local)
SATURDAY: Canadian Parents For French — Morning 6
Terrace Soccer Association - (Alternate)
B.C. Paraplegic Foundation — Evening
LATE NIGHT: Kinsmen Club of Terrace
Terrace Figure Skating Club - (Aiternate)

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