30 year reunion
Homer High School '77
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With most of the pictures below, you can click on what is shown to bring up a larger (original) photo.

 

 

Photos contributed by classmates for the 2007 reunion:

From Debbie (Rogers) Wilson: Brian Spollen's birthday party, 1977. 

Although he huffed and puffed, the house still stands to this day.
Photo contributed in 2007
From Martha (Drake) Christiano: Now all you guys can have a glimpse of the glamorous secrets of a Junior High Girls slumber party! Photo contributed in 2007 This was a going-away party for Sue Wright in the spring of 1973. Front: Debbie Rogers, Karen Marks, Sue Kerr. Back: Sue Wright, Tina Stevens, Joanne Henry, Debbie Schloop. Martha wisely volunteered to take the photo.
From Steve Albro: Several collages he recently scanned, from photos left behind at past reunions:

My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then!

From Brian Spollen: Just after Commencement. Pictured, left to right: Mark Darou, Debbie Rogers, Brian Spollen, Brent Gorman, Carl Thomsen, Jon Redfield, Steve Albro, Ted McBride, John Ivory, Brian Costa

 

 

 

 

A collage of the drawings done for the yearbook's Sports section by someone with the initials B.R. ....

Left...thriving downtown Homer, circa 1971

 

Right...John Ivory pulls together for the team: RPI, circa 1978

Joanne Henry with Jay Adams
Debbie Schloop with Kirk Baldwin
Jon Baniak, with Ellen Abbott and an unidentified cast member, from the production of "King John"



Jon Redfield
unearthed some issues of
The Olympian...









Jon Redfield
unleashed his scanner again...








... aimed, this time, at the 5th grade yearbook






From the archives: Photos contributed by classmates for the 2002 reunion:

 

5 from Kathy (Williams) Smith: "More from the Big Fish/Small Pond Department. Didn't Bill Allen's dad have anything else better to photograph? My poor kids wonder why they aren't in the Washington Post as often!!" Each of the images below brings up the full photo and caption that was below it in the Cortland Standard. We have the Homecoming candidates, two stars from "Oklahoma", the JV Cheerleaders, Boys State Candidates, and the Jr. Honor Society.

5 from
Diane (Adams) Ostrander

The Gang ...
CCC Camp - Jr Party
June 4, 1976

(clicking on the photo on the right will actually bring up 2 photos of 'the gang')

Party

"2001 Day" March 30, 1973
John Fellows and Kathy Dafoe (on larger picture)

Mr. Disenza,
Mr. Sweeney,
Mr. Quakenbush

Terry Picket (martian), John Abbot (cyborg), Bill Anderson & Barb Austin (martians)

"November Charlie" was raffled off Thanksgiving time

Ken Ferguson: Under the guise of a 9-year old's birthday party, the Homer chapter of the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" inducted it's 12 charter members in the winter of 1968. With one exception, they were all members of what would become the HCS class of 1977. Can you identify Pete Allen, Steve Cinquanti, Brian Costa, Paul Diamond, John Fellows, Ken Ferguson, John Healey, Derek Lienemann, Martin Knoble, Dale Murphy and Kirk Purcell. For extra credit can you name the sole member of the class of 1975 that shared the platform with the others?
Another from Ken Ferguson: The year was 1972. The entire country, still reeling from the Watergate fiasco, was mistrusting of government and their elected officials at all levels. Despite this new cynicism, these eager young faces embraced the opportunity to serve their constituents and return a measure of integrity to the political process. None of those pictured have been named in any federal indictments.....yet!

Phinal foto from Pherguson: Quick! What does the acronym M.A.C.O.S. stand for? It was an attempt, by the 5th grade faculty, to take some of the pressure off our parents and teach us about the birds and the bees and the salmon and the sea gulls and the baboons. Personally I was more confused at the end of the process than I had been at the beginning (my wife would confirm that a great deal of that confusion lingers on to today). Anyway, the experience allowed three participants to get their picture in the Cortland Standard (a HUGE deal to your average 5th grader). I can identify myself and Dave Lundeen without reading the caption. I have long since forgotten the name of the salmon.

From Kathy (Williams) Smith: Here are two more photos found in the depths of my scrapbook, both of the Boys of Summer '71!!

From Deb Wilson:
Who are we all, I took this picture. I can find Jon Redfield, Dan Camp, Steve Albro, Susie Kerr, Mark Darou, Ted McBride, Carl Thompson, Brent Gorman, Brian Costa, anyone else remember who was there?
 

From Brian Spollen:
(we *are* allowed to submit ones from the last decade, right?) Brian waves at the ABC television cameras with his not-fastest fingers (December, 2000)


Here's a couple from 1970, courtesy of Ed Stadelman.

From Kevin Dieffenbach: This a picture John Abbott took at our 5th year reunion. We are up at Song Mountain, where we just got kicked off the Go-cart track for DWI!!! John A wrote that it actually got worse AFTER this... '300 beers... Glen Haven Hotel... Stu's comedy act...'.

From Kathy Williams: Attached are two newspaper photos (note the contemporaneously done artwork on our illustrious president!!) and a photo of me and Beth Coburn on the very first Earth Day! See, I have no shame! I'm having a ball already. Can't wait to see everyone in July.

From Martha Drake: Here's a cool (I think) double-exposure: first exposure is of Kathy Williams on Total Involvement Day in 8th grade, then the same frame was exposed later during a trip to NYC with my family.


From Brian Spollen:
Ivory debates Baniak in the library, circa 1975

 

If you want your photos posted on the web pages, just e-mail them to Brian with appropriate commentary, and I'll take care of it. Thanks.