Dear Classmates:
Planning for our 40th high school reunion has been quite the challenge. This is our first reunion in 35 years without Gretchen Freymiller Tompson leading the planning; we lost her to cancer in November 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic is also presenting challenges.
Given the uncertainty of the pandemic situation, the Reunion Committee decided to move to a virtual gathering this year and postpone our in person celebration to September 18, 2021. Please plan to join us via webex meeting/call from 6 - 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 26. (Details of the call/meeting will be posted on our class website and also sent via email in mid-September.)
This year's virtual gathering will include an overview of the activities planned for our 2021 gathering and a toast to Gretchen and our other classmates who have passed on. Unfortunately, many of us have already lost a close friend from our class. We want to take a special moment this year to remember our friends and classmates.
Please help us ensure all classmates who have passed are accounted for. Go to the "In Memoriam" page and make sure your friends are noted. If you have a favorite high school memory you would like to share of one of our classmates, you will have the opportunity to do so at our virtual gathering, or email it to me pamelajhaley@comcast.net and one of the reunion committee members will share it for you.
Please contribute the following to our photo gallery---your high school picture and a picture of you now, pictures of classmates while in high school, and any favorite pictures you have from past reunions. Please email any pictures to: pamelajhaley@comcast.net and nanilsen62@gmail.com
For our 30th reunion, Gretchen and I had a vision to start a scholarship at LaFollette in honor of our class. At the 30th reunion, we raised $2000 for scholarships. In the last 10 years, our class generously funded from reunion silent auctions, golf outings, and other fundraisers more than $15,000 for graduating LaFollette seniors.
The future of the scholarship fund was so important to Gretchen that she left $2500 from her estate to the fund. In honor of Gretchen and all of our classmates who have passed on, the Reunion Committee has challenged that we meet or beat Gretchen's donation this year.
How can you do this? Go to: Fmps.org/donate/give to a fund/LaFollette High Class of 1980 Scholarship Fund or send a check written to: FMPS LaFollette Class of 1980 Scholarship and send to:
Pam (Clark) Haley
1205 Dorchester Drive
Mundelein, IL 60060
I am so proud to be a member of this class! Our legacy continues to live on. I love our reunions and look forward to "seeing" you virtually on 9/26/20 from 6 - 7 p.m. and again on 9/18/21 when we celebrate in person.
Be safe and healthy!
Pam Clark Haley
Planning for our 40th high school reunion has been quite the challenge. This is our first reunion in 35 years without Gretchen Freymiller Tompson leading the planning; we lost her to cancer in November 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic is also presenting challenges.
Given the uncertainty of the pandemic situation, the Reunion Committee decided to move to a virtual gathering this year and postpone our in person celebration to September 18, 2021. Please plan to join us via webex meeting/call from 6 - 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 26. (Details of the call/meeting will be posted on our class website and also sent via email in mid-September.)
This year's virtual gathering will include an overview of the activities planned for our 2021 gathering and a toast to Gretchen and our other classmates who have passed on. Unfortunately, many of us have already lost a close friend from our class. We want to take a special moment this year to remember our friends and classmates.
Please help us ensure all classmates who have passed are accounted for. Go to the "In Memoriam" page and make sure your friends are noted. If you have a favorite high school memory you would like to share of one of our classmates, you will have the opportunity to do so at our virtual gathering, or email it to me pamelajhaley@comcast.net and one of the reunion committee members will share it for you.
Please contribute the following to our photo gallery---your high school picture and a picture of you now, pictures of classmates while in high school, and any favorite pictures you have from past reunions. Please email any pictures to: pamelajhaley@comcast.net and nanilsen62@gmail.com
For our 30th reunion, Gretchen and I had a vision to start a scholarship at LaFollette in honor of our class. At the 30th reunion, we raised $2000 for scholarships. In the last 10 years, our class generously funded from reunion silent auctions, golf outings, and other fundraisers more than $15,000 for graduating LaFollette seniors.
The future of the scholarship fund was so important to Gretchen that she left $2500 from her estate to the fund. In honor of Gretchen and all of our classmates who have passed on, the Reunion Committee has challenged that we meet or beat Gretchen's donation this year.
How can you do this? Go to: Fmps.org/donate/give to a fund/LaFollette High Class of 1980 Scholarship Fund or send a check written to: FMPS LaFollette Class of 1980 Scholarship and send to:
Pam (Clark) Haley
1205 Dorchester Drive
Mundelein, IL 60060
I am so proud to be a member of this class! Our legacy continues to live on. I love our reunions and look forward to "seeing" you virtually on 9/26/20 from 6 - 7 p.m. and again on 9/18/21 when we celebrate in person.
Be safe and healthy!
Pam Clark Haley
