Checking the blog...

I know everyone is busy this time of year but if you find a few minutes with not too much to do, check out Dick Mills, and wife Libby's, blogspot. If you start reading, it sort of keeps you returning at least weekly to follow along on his travels along the east coast. I have included a link so you can stop by anytime. Anyone with news drop me a line.

http://dickandlibby.blogspot.com/

FM varsity cheerleaders off to Gator Bowl...

The Gator Bowl will be played in Jacksonville, FL on Thursday January 1st, 2009 at noon on CBS.
F-M cheerleaders to perform at Gator Bowl
by Elizabeth Doran
Saturday December 27, 2008, 5:18 PM
Fayetteville-Manlius High School's varsity football cheerleading squad will perform during half-time in the Gator Konica Minolta Gator Bowl on New Year's Day in Jacksonville, Fla.The squad is among 20 teams from across the United States performing in the Gator Bowl, and the only team from New York, said cheerleading coach Tami Rigling. The 20 girls on the F-M cheerleading squad will leave Sunday for Jacksonville. The squad will compete on Dec. 29 in the Americheer Gator Bowl National Championship, and then perform a five-minute dance/stunt routine to a medley of Beach Boys tunes during the Gator Bowl parade on Dec. 31 and the Gator Bowl half-time show on Jan. 1.

Were you there???

Where were you 50 years ago? Can you remember our late spring presentation of "Showboat"?

I guess I was there but without a program, I'm having a hard time remembering if I watched it or was in it. I was in it one year with Laurie Reynolds and Karen VanNewkirk but as I remember it was 1961 0r 1962; My boomerang won't come back. Anyone have any other memories from those early days? Just hit on comments below and type in a message. Click on

the picture to see enlarged view(any picture posted). What can you buy for $.50 today???

Life today at FM

I have enclosed a link to several Syracuse Post Standard articles about life at FM today. It provides a good insight into what some students are thinking and doing and how today's student think and feel. It is quite interesting.

http://blog.syracuse.com/voices/eastern_onondaga_county/fayettevillemanlius/

John and Joyce Staples

I received a Christmas card from John and he is on the road again. They stopped in Daytona for a Motorhome show in 2006 after having sold their home, car and most of everything else to take to the open road. We enjoyed dinner with them as they brought us up to date on the plans they were hoping to work out. The biggest trip they have planned is to travel north to Alaska. This is the plan as they winter in the Yuma, AZ area with the idea to go north when the roads open fully from the winter's storms. They traveled much of the east coast and out through the midwest enjoying much of our country along the way. I hope we can get them to send photos as they traverse the Rockies or Pacific coast highway come spring time. I've enclosed a picture of home when they visited in 2006. Anyone who needs to contact John, contact me and I will get the info to you. KR

Working on the rigs

Here are a couple of rigging pictures from Don Pollock. Don is in Texas and does a lot of cruising on the waterways.

from Steve and Lynda Muench

Hello Kerry, It's been so cold in Florida that Lyn and I are going to Australia in January. We've signed up for a 14 day cruise from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. Lyn's looking forward to the trip; me, you can have the one way plane trip of 32 hours.
We'll have all of our kids(4) and grandchildren (10) here for Christmas. Two of them live locally to help share the noise.
Are we ever going to have another class reunion? I went to Lyn's 45th high school reunion last summer in June. We were there for 3 days and it rained for 2 1/2 of them. Just as I remember Syracuse weather.
Have a Merry Christmas. Steve Muench

With us having so much time before our 2012 reunion Steve, we will have the local committee request three days of sunshine so we can all enjoy returning to central New York. KR


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