Dear Classmates,  

Well, it is official.  The 60th Class Reunion invitations are in the mail.  You should be receiving yours shortly.  The weekend of October 4-6 should be a memorable one, especially if you join us in celebrating the 60th anniversary of our high school graduation.  The Reunion committee is hard at work planning activities including the Friday night mixer, the Saturday night buffet, and the Sunday morning breakfast.   Please, seriously consider joining us.  Send your registration form in as soon as you can.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. My email address is siokosk@gmail.com and my phone number is 563-386-6124.  

Your classmate,

Kathy (Gartelos) Siokos

Two RIHS Class of 1959 websites!!

In addition to this site on Blogspot.com, we also have a Facebook page.  It is a private group, so you must request to become a member at the top of that page.  This will allow you to view the pages, comment, and even post photos or news you want to share.  Follow this link:  

 Rock Island High School Class of 1959  (https://www.facebook.com/groups/255971431806046/)

Vicki Swanson Wassenhove 

Our senior photos are already posted in this blog. Access them from the link on the right side of this page, However, if you want to see our complete 1959 yearbook, go to this site:  https://archive.org/details/1959_20191023

January 1st, 2019

Dear Classmates,

Happy New Year to all of you.  I promised I would wait until after Christmas to send this reminder out.  This way it will be fresh in everyone's mind.

We will meet on Tuesday, January 15th at 1:00 PM at the First Lutheran Church at 1600 - 20th Street.  We will be assembling the reunion invitations at this meeting, so it would be great if you could join us.  We need all the help we can get.  Hopefully, we can make short work of our task and have them in the mail by day's end.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone on January 15th!

Your Classmate,
Kathy (Gartelos) Siokos

We need your help!

Dear Classmate,

As you should already know, we are planning for the 60th Reunion in October 2019.  The planned events will occur in Rock Island on the first weekend of the month (4-6 Oct 2019).  Invitations are being printed with a planned mailing date of mid-January 2019.

If you have a current email address in our data base, you will receive your invitation at that address.  The invitation will be in a "pdf" format suitable for printing.

Classmates without email capability will receive their invitation in the mail. 

We need your assistance in the following:

1. Please provide a current address if you have moved in the last five years.

2. If you have changed your telephone (like you no longer have a home phone and rely upon you cell phone, etc)  please provide your current telephone number.

3. If you change your "active" email address please provide the "new" address torockyhighclass59@gmail.com.

In closing we wish you all the best for this Holiday Season and the best New Year 2019!

For the Class of 1959

SLB

Reunion Committee Notification

Dear Committee Members,

I hope this email finds you well and in a festive holiday mood.  

Stan Brown is working hard to update the class mailing list.   He sent a class email to everyone asking for any address changes.  Let's hope he gets a good response.  

Larry Stone will print our mailing labels in early January.  

We are still planning to meet on January 15th at 1:00 at First Lutheran Church in Rock Island.  Please mark you calendars accordingly.  This will be the meeting dedicated to preparing the Reunion invitations for mailing.  We will need lots of help.  Please try to come if at all possible.

I will send out another reminder in early January.  You know how easy it is for us to forget at our age.  Oops, did I say that???

Happy Holidays,

Kathy (Gartelos) Siokos