Welcome to the

St Louis Park Senior High School 

 Class Of 1958 Web Site.

Home of the Orioles!

This is a Website devoted to the St. Louis Park High School Class of 1958.  It is intended for those Classmates who graduated from this place and time.  It is intended to be informative, inspiring, and nostalgic with memories of our time in the 1950s, including the music we loved and those we sat next to in class.

For music to accompany your viewing of this Home Page, click here:

We want to keep in touch with you.  If you change your email address, or mailing address or phone number, be sure to go to MEMBER FUNCTIONS  and make those changes under "Edit Contact Info." 

Alert

Need an "Attitude Adjustment" during the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Check out the link near the top at the left:

"COVID Attitude Adjustment".

You’ve no doubt heard a lot about coronavirus, or COVID-19, in the news. We want to help you stay healthy and understand when and how to get care if you need it.  We have all lived too long for this nasty virus to take us out!  If you live elsewhere than in Minnesota, here's what we are trying to do here.  Our Governor has ordered all of us to just StayHomeMN, while we avoid pushing our healthcare system beyond its capacity to take care of those who succumb to the virus.  It may be good advice wherever you live.

Your website administrators cannot vouchsafe for the total accuracy of the following message about the oncoming Coronavirus (COVID-19); but in the interest of our classmates' safety, we reproduce it here for your edification.  If you have superior knowledge that ought to be added to this ALERT, please send us a message.

CORONAVIRUS  

1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold. 

2. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose. 

3. This new virus is not heat-resistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26 or 27 degrees Celsius (but that's about 80 degrees Fahrenheit). It hates the Sun.  So, pray for hot, sunny days ahead! 

4. If someone sneezes with it, it can move about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne.  Hence, keep your social distance from others, which is 2 meters or more than 6 feet.  The further, the better.

5. If it drops on a metal surface it can live for at least 17 hours, according to the CDC.  So, if you come into contact with any metal surface, wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap. 

6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. Normal laundry detergent will kill it. 

7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice. 

8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes, but - a lot can happen during that time - you can rub your eyes, pick your nose unwittingly and so on. 

9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm water will suffice. 

10. Can't emphasize enough - drink plenty of water!

THE SYMPTOMS 

1. It will first infect the throat, so you'll have a sore throat lasting 3 or 4 days. 

2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about 5 or 6 days further. 

3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing; that’s why it’s so devastating for our super seniors.  Even St. Louis Park Graduates can get it!!  So be cautious...

4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you're drowning.   It's imperative you then seek immediate attention.  If this occurs, call your closest hospital and seek admission.

Classmate News for February

We have just learned of the passing of our Classmate Joy Rydholm Gallagher, of Gun Barrel City, Texas.  Joy passed away on Dec. 19, 2019.  Please see our entry at the "In Memory" link for Joy Rydholm.

Classmate News for March

We learned on March 25th of the passing of classmate Susan Elizabeth Zimmerman Wernz, of Hopkins, MN, on March 17th. No interment, visitation or memorials are planned at this time.  We have placed Susan's Obituary notice on our "In Memory" page.

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  Send in some new news about your friends from St. Louis Park High.

How about viewing this nostalgic video from 1955 to get your juices pumped up and ready for a whole-class, joint 80th birthday celebration?

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All we have to do is convince our event-planning group to arrange for such a special party so we can all see one another once more.

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We are sorry to announce the passing of two of our Classmates,

Nancy Irene Peterson Nord of Arizona and 

Curtis Petersen of Florida.

You will find an "In Memory" notice for both Nancy Peterson Nord and Curtis Petersen on this website.  

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Recall any of these early Parkites?

We see Nancy Foss, Gail Johnson, (Gary Eide and Kurt Falkman of the Class of 1959)...and, Oh, your Website Administrator in the lower right-hand corner, with his white rabbit.  Everyone in 4th grade is showing off their artwork.

Remember when this photo was taken?

Our 55th Reunion in 2013 at the SLP Hall of Fame Induction Dinner

(Yes, that's Roy Griak in the middle.)

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    Rememberance Quotes for December   

  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.  

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

John Kennedy