The Endless Reunion, Day 3, Part One

John O'Hare led a dozen people around the streets of Buffalo for a tour of the city's rich architectural heritage. John did a wonderful job of giving the details, that left everyone quite fascinated. There was no demand, however, for Budd Bailey to review the history of Buffalo's baseball stadiums. Some of those on the tour were Pat Tunkey, Steve Kies, Yvonne Massey, Jim Jozwiak, Sharon Lowry and Michelle Mangano. You can see them in the photos below.

 Ellicott Square Building often hosts political rallies, if only so that the candidates can make a grand entrance. A couple of scenes from "The Natural" (by the elevators) were shot there.

By a church on Church St. in Buffalo. Always pays to look around and take in the sights.

City Hall is one of the great places in Buffalo. If you ever get a chance, take a tour.

Visitors gawk at Niagara Square, which features a tribute to President McKinley in the middle. We're still sorry about your trip here in 1901, Mr. President.

Never knew that the front of the Genesee building was preserved and made part of the Hyatt when the new hotel was constructed.

The Electric Tower is based on the tower from the Pan-An Exposition of 1903, which celebrated electric power and light.


















Now that we've seen who was on the trip, let's take a closer look at the architecture. Thanks to Yvonne for these photos:

The Endless Reunion - Day 2

It's an Endless Reunion, of course, because you probably stay in contact with high school friends for life. These are from Thursday night at Brennan's. The name tags really are spiffy, but tough to read here.

They are still together - Kim Patterson and John Fassel.

Tim Porter and John Salzyn are still together too, but in a different way.

Tim McNally and Joanne Bosard compare patterned shirts.

The Endless Reunion - Day 1

We'll add a few photos as the proceedings go on this week - mostly group shots in order to save some space here. This is at the Penny Lane, where the barber shaves another customer.

Some fine tuning ...

We're making some progress on the schedule for Reunion '18 (subtitled unofficially as 45 Years and Counting) - which is now right around the corner.

Here is what we are looking at:

Wednesday, July 18 - Warmup at the Penny Lane Grill, 10255 Main St. in Clarence (near Strickler) on Wednesday night.

Thursday, July 19 - Feel free to drop in for an warmup adult beverage at Brennan's at Main and Transit after the dinner hour.

Friday, July 20 - John O'Hare is willing to lead a tour of downtown Buffalo architectural highlights. Sounds like it would get going around noon at the Washington Square Tavern near the ballpark downtown. Check with John (he's on Facebook, or write us and we'll get you in touch with him) for details. There is talk of golf on Friday afternoon, and tee times are available - contract John Salzyn is interested (he is on Facebook, etc.). The music festival "Rock the Barn" in Clarence gets underway, going 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.. Check out the event here. For those who would prefer a little exercise on a Friday night, there's a four-mile race  that at least one member of the Class of '73 (Budd Bailey) will do - although he expects to do it alone in terms of his high school pals. Afterwards, or in case of rain, stop by Brennan's for a beverage.

Saturday, July 21 - It's a re-run of Rock the Barn. Same story afterwards - meet at Brennan's afterwards and/or in case of bad weather.

Sunday, July 22 - A picnic will be held at one of the shelters at a Clarence Town Park on Main St. (You know, the old one with the clubhouse - where we had the Senior Class picnic about 45 years ago). We have rented the small pavilion (75 people?) that faces the lake. Bring your own food and drink to the affair, and maybe we can do some sharing for variety's sake. We have the shelter for the whole day, but it seems like 12 to 5 would be the peak hours. Yes, all are welcome to this and other events - spouses, children, grandchildren, friends from other classes, even teachers if you know them.

So who is attending? Here are the names (we stuck to maiden names for now) we have from Classmates.com: Marshall Andrews, Budd Bailey, Marlene Bonosky, Joanne Bosard, Dave Campbell, Tim Cashmore, Sue Cavanaugh, Jeff Chudy, Bill Conway, Barb Cutt, Eileen Duffy, Liz Dunne, Kathy Ernst, John Fassel, Greg Hartwig, Tom Herberger, Kathleen Herle, Kathy Hirschler, Kathy Hof, Dale Hughes, Bill Irr, Paul Jacobs, Steve Kies, Joe Kody, Dave Korduba, Bernice Leising, Cathy Lofgren,  Cindy Lyons, Julie Kreher, Sharon Lowry, Colleen Modaffara, Michelle Mangano, Yvonne Massey, Tim McNally, Kim Merrihew, Colleen Modaffara, Victor Myers, Kim Patterson, Harland Pope, Tim Porter, Sue Rosenthal, Karen Roth, Scott Roth, John Salzyn, Bob Schoenthal, Norm Schueckler, Sue Shaffer, Karen Stollsteimer, Craig Tierney, Pat Tunkey, Peggy Whitman, and Greg Wolmering. Maybe - Mike Siracuse and Vicki Zaferakis.

Please let us know if you are coming. You get leave a comment at the bottom of this post, or you can do the same on Facebook's Class of '73 page. We need to prepare spiffy nametags and a welcoming, nostalgic gift for those attending ahead of time.

Our email still works - ClarenceClassof1973@gmail.com. Drop us a note there or on Facebook at the Clarence Central Class of 1973 site, and we'll see it.

Strike up the band ...

Clarence Central High School had a lot of talented musicians pass through its halls over the years. Some of them were from our era, naturally.

Donna Kothen Raepple found photos of some of them, and thought they were worth sharing. She was absolutely right (as usual).

Click on the photo to get a look at a bigger image.