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Christopher Jensen

Welcome to the Pennsauken High School Class Of 1983 forums. Please press "Post Response" to participate in the discussion.

Joe Kerwick

Testing... 1, 2, 3...

Dennis Peter Ilagan

Chris, fabulous job!!!!

Robert Brunges

this is a great idea....hopefully friends can get re-aquainted through this....

Joe Kerwick

Theresa M. Gotterup Avila

I already started getting in touch with people....thanks for the great idea. Hope all is well!!

Gene Delrocini

nice job chris

Yvonne Appeltans

Calling all Longfellow Elementary School graduates - I've uploaded all my class photos

Check em out under my name.

Christine Golas

Thanks for making me part of the class, even though I didn't graduate with you. Hope to see dear friends that I haven't seen for many years but thought about often. Thanks again.

Sharon Kern Parks

Thanks for uploading the yearbook. Mine was destroyed years ago and I miss looking at it, especially now with the reunion coming up.

Donna Ragone Kearney

I love this! Looking a everyones' profile and seeing where they are today with kids husbands wives jobs Etc..
I must say I think we are all aging very graceful :} Can't wait to see old friends that I don't get to see anymore . Hope everyone can make the reunion.

Lynne Mac Arthur Doonan

Hi, Everyone! Check Out - www.pennsauken.net - there's a link for all Pennsauken Alumni as well as a first All Years Reunion on Saturday, August 2nd @ Flip Flopz Beach Bar & Grill in North Wildwood. Thought I would spread the news!

Lillian Missy Taylor Miller

Thanks, Lyn! It looks like a lot of fun and I'm thinking about going! My cousin owns Jo-Jo's Pizza on 2nd and Old New Jersey in N. Wildwood and I'm always down the shore. Maybe I'll see you there. Missy

Lillian Missy Taylor Miller

Hey everyone, I just came across a cool article regarding REUNION JITTERS! Anyone got them? Whether or not you feel anxious about attending, take a minute a read this. I think you'll feel a whole lot better! Missy

High School Reunion Jitters -
Anyone who has been to a class reunion knows there is a certain amount of anxiety associated with attending a reunion. As the reunion approaches your mind becomes flooded with thoughts. Will there be anyone there I know? What if my old boyfriend or girlfriend is there? What if nobody remembers me? What if I don't recognize classmates or remember their names? What if I run into someone I didn't get along with in school? I've put on weight. I've gone gray. I've lost my hair. I'm not that successful.

Relax! You are not alone in these thoughts. Everyone else is having the same exact thoughts and reunion jitters. Don't let these thoughts get in the way of attending your class reunion.

Bottomline is we have all changed. So what! Your not 17 anymore. The laws of gravity and time catch up with all of us eventually. Changes are an inevitable fact of life. Accept yourself for who you are. Be yourself. Celebrate life's changes. Relax and go and have a good time. Letting such negative thoughts impact your decision to attend may result in you missing out on a wonderful time.

Focus your thoughts instead on the positive aspects of attending. This is an opportunity to go out and have some fun once every 5 or 10 years, renew old friendships, catch up with each others lives, to celebrate your youth and feel young again (if only for a moment), to reminise about the good old days, to share time with old friends while we are still able to, to celebrate our changes. You will quickly find that people are not there to judge you but are there for the same reasons you are to have a great time and touch their past. It can be a wonderfully rejuvinating experience. When it is over we can take comfort in the fact that we have all changed, we've all gone down different paths in life but that we all still share a common bond and enjoy a good party.

Here's some tips to help you relax at your class reunion:
- Go with an attitude of having fun.
- Be yourself and be proud of who you are.
- Dress comfortably.
- Remember everyone will have changed. You're not alone.
- Hookup with a few close classmates beforehand and go to reunion together.
- It's perfectly ok to not remember somebody. Our memories all fade. That's why name tags were invented!

Lillian Missy Taylor Miller

Pictures Wanted * Pictures Wanted * Pictures Wanted

Anyone with pictures from the past reunions, please send to Missy Miller via mmiller@twp.washington.nj.us or mail to my house at 313 Michael Terrace, Sewell, NJ 08080. If you mail them to me and want them back after the reunion, please be sure to include a self addressed stamped envelope!

Thanks!
Missy

Donna Lilley Buono

Hi Everyone,
Just an FYI. They are renaming the football field after
"Mr McAneney" on Saturday September 13, 2008 at the Pennsauken game at 11:00am against Eastern High School. Hope to see you there.
Donna Lilley-Buono

See link http://ww2.pennsauken.net/tech/forms/vm/form.asp

Christopher Jensen

The following kind words regarding Gina Pendleton are reprinted from the front page of the Friday, October 31, 1980 edition of the Pennsauken High School student newspaper, the Penndian.

Special thanks are owed to Christopher Deighan for saving and scanning all of those Penndian issues so that we can share them again with everyone online.

I think Celeste had wisdom far beyond her years when she wrote this regarding Gina back in 1980.

Please take a moment when you can to post your thoughts or remembrances of the classmates in our online memorials.

--Christopher Jensen

Reflections
by Celeste Garcia

Many of us did not know Gina Pendleton personally; however, her tragic death touched not only her family but all of us. To many, Gina's passing may seem pointless, but it is difficult to believe that something of this magnitude can be meaningless.

Since it is possible that none of us may ever come to know or to understand the purpose of Gina's death, we must not allow the question why to dominate our thoughts.

Instead we - must realize the value of our lives and live our lives to the fullest. We must strive to derive all we can from each second and to see the positive in every element of our existence.

Perhaps the void that the loss of this Indian has created will draw the rest of us closer together. Most of all let us hope that this loss will cause all of us at P.H.S. to do as John H. Rhoades suggested when he said:
Do more than exist, live.
Do more than touch, feel.
Do more than look, observe.
Do more than read, absorb.
Do more than hear, listen.
Do more than listen, understand.