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 designed 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. We know that when the dust settles, we realize how little we need, how very much we actually have, and the true value of human connection.  This website accentuates that connection, with the hope that we will always be together.

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."

NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 2025

We have learned of the passing of Classmate Allan Moran.  Funeral services for Allan will take place at St. John's Lutheran Church of Mound, 2451 Fairview Ln, Mound, MN on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, starting at 10:00 AM with a pre-service gathering, then a celebration of life service at 11:00 AM, followed by a luncheon at the church.  Interment will be in the St. John's Lutheran Church Memorial Garden Columbarium.

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Due to the watchful eye of Classmate Al Thompson, we have learned of the recent passing of Classmate David L. Loberg.  Al called David, to wish him a happy birthday, only to find out that David had passed away just over 5 weeks ago.  We have entered an IN MEMORY notice for Dave here on our website.

NEWS FOR JANUARY 2025

It's time to start a new list of happenings for 2025.  As a review of 2024, we lost, or found out that we lost, several classmates.  To review, here is the list of the IN MEMORY notices that we added in 2024:

• Sharon Ann Slavin Krafft
• Sandy Canton Kerwin
• Glenn DePue
• Lowell Nelson
• Elliot Husney
• Brice Martinson
• Judith Marcus Daniels

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Some thoughts below from well-known people you are likely to recall,

all about getting older.  Hope you like them!

• “If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law."  (Eva Gabor)
• “Old age comes at a bad time." (Ed Sullivan)
• "Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." (Stevie Wonder)
• “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it."  (Golda Meir)
• "The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. (Mark Twain)
• "I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do." (Phyllis Diller)
• "Nice to be here? At my age, it’s nice to be anywhere." (George Burns)\
• “First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up; then, you forget to pull your zipper down." (Rob Reiner)
•  “You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not THAT tired.” (Princess Grace)
•  “Old people shouldn’t eat Health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” (Bob Hope)
• "At my age, flowers scare me." (George Burns)
•  “It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit.” (Ed Sullivan)
• The years between 55 and 75 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."  (T.S Elliot)
• "At age 20, we worry about what others think of us… at age 40, we don’t care what they think of us… at age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all."  (Ann Landers)
• “When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile." (Milton Berle)
• “The important thing to remember is that I’m probably going to forget." (Martin Scorsese)
• “We don’t grow older, we grow riper." (Pablo Picasso)
•  “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” - (Andy Rooney)
•  “The older I get, the better I used to be.” (Lee Trevino) 
• “I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam." (George Carlin)
• "Everything seems to slow down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips." (Elizabeth Taylor)
• “Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does." (Norman Vincent Peale)
• "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old." (Mark Twain)
• “You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." (Dennis Quaid)
• "There’s one advantage to being 102, there’s no peer pressure." (Adam & Eve)
• “There are three stages in man’s Life: he believes in Santa Claus, he does not believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." (Leon Phillips)
• "Looking fifty is great — if you’re sixty." - (Joan Rivers)

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When are we going to have the next Class Reunion? 

Ask KC Craven and the Gals Who Lunch!

Look who attended our last reunion:

65th Class Reunion

on August 26, 2023.

Can you name everyone pictured?

See our names listed below...

Moving Left to Right, here are our names...

       FRONT ROW                            2^ND ROW                                    BACK ROW__

  Karen (KC) Cravens Bretzke          Gordon Tanke                           Tom Rutledge

  Nancy Foss Harris                          Mary Enestvedt Nelson             Roger Johnson        

  Sara Lenmark Halverson                Barb (Mrs. James) Cogelow     Kent Brothen

  Barbara O’Neil Horbal                    Beverly Watts Hedin                  Allan Moran

  Janet Aarness Midtbo                    Judith Gronau Lausen               James Cogelow

  Nancy Atwood Steege                   Carol Ann Erickson Skala           Allan Thompson

                                                        Carole Banbury Shulman            Marvin Shedlov

                                                        Kay Knudson Studebaker           Bob Erickson

                                                        Barbara Brackett Solberg           Tim Kiernan

                                                        Janet Lien Bardahl                      J. Howell Owens

                                                        Gloria Hiner                                 Bruce Elliasen

                                                        Judith Gerber Tess

                       Barry Lazarus was also in attendance, but left prior to this picture being taken.

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You may enjoy reading the item at the top most link at the left margin entitled

"One Percenter".

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Classmate Howell Owens has discovered a video you may like.  It's a fast, virtual drone tour inside of St. Louis Park High School as it looks today, done by students themselves.  The students who attend these days really have it nice!  They likely will never know how much tender, loving care the taxpayers have provided for their proper education.  Below the modern-day picture of our high school, swipe the following URL and put that in your browser:

https://youtu.be/TuPzkwBTZwE

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We have added a new page to the links at the left, entitled NOSTALGIA MACHINE (for music and memories).  You will find it in alphabetical order on the Link List.  Enjoy!

We have also added a new page to the links at the left: Pandemic Stress Relievers.  It's essentially a lot of good old music videos for you to watch and listen to as you await the end of this terrible Covid Pandemic that has us all so self-isolating.  Get ready for some nostalgic reflection!  

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Let's all hope 2023 is a far better year for us Super Seniors!

Remember: Wear your mask and get the booster vaccine when it's offered.  Stay away from the new Omicron Variants.

If you need some nostalgic review of your teen years in the 1950s,  to remember those of us who still love you, then get ready to enjoy these

50’s Memories: Click on this video:

https://1funny.com/fond-memories-of-the-1950s/

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Need an "Attitude Adjustment" during the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Try This YouTube Video for some Nostalgia

Or, to review your love for America, watch this Video

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3c7GqpoM6wU

Then: Check out the link near the top at the left:

"COVID Attitude Adjustment".

  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 reunion, maybe in 2023?

http    ://safeshare.TV/w/   FEDEwZH Z Xu

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.

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 January  

“I like starting projects in January.

That’s the best time to start something.

It’s so inward.”

- Carolyn Chute