A re-cap of Malta's All 60's Class Reunion

They came from as far away as Paris, France and as from as close as down the block. Of the myriad of events held the first weekend in June, the All 1960's Malta High School Class Reunion was one of the most well attended event of a busy weekend.

"It was excellent," said Malta's Dianne Salsbery. "We started out as just three classes and then all the other classes wanted to join us so we opened it up to all 10 classes and it was just short of amazing. Everything fell together well."

Salsbery, with the help of a dozen others, was placed in charge of the event "kind of by accident" and said the three-day event was successful because of the

Don and Sharon (Johnson) Mitchell flew from Paris to Malta for the event easily giving them the crown of furthest traveled. Don is a 1965 graduate of MHS and Sharon represented the Class of '66.

Registration was held on Friday night at the Tin Cup in Malta and the evening was spent with many of the 275 people in advance reading nametags and being reacquainted with old friends, according to Class of '63's Gail (Hendrickson) Baldridge who now lives in Washington State.

"That was what everyone seemed to enjoy the most," Salsbery said. "The visiting and reconnecting with people who you hadn't seen, in some cases, 50 years for some of them."

During the weekend, the All 60's Reunion members broke into class years at various venues around town. Some classes held scavenger hunts, many attended the car show and on Saturday night everyone met back at the Tin Cup (home base for much of the weekend) to take class pictures, have supper and sing karaoke.

"The entire weekend was wonderful," Salsbery said. "The weather was wonderful and Jane (Ereaux) and Crew at the Tin Cup catered and set up picnic tables. Everything was just so beautiful."

Of the 275 people in attendance (192 of them Malta graduates, the rest, wives or husbands), many were from out of town. One thing Salsbery pointed to with pride is the reaction by the out-of-towners who returned home and what they thought of Malta all these years later.

"People could see the progressiveness of our little community," she said. "It's an amazing community that we live in."

Salsbery made special mention of Reunion Committee members who contributed their time to make sure everything ran smoothly and thanked Jane Ereaux for all she did as well as Marian and Putt Ereaux for hosting the Sunday Brunch at their home.

"It was an amazing honor that they blessed us with at their home," she said. "People just kept volunteering to do things and then they would follow through...it ran smoothly because everyone was so excited for the gathering. Aside from the All Class reunion held here several years ago, I think this was the biggest reunion yet."

Participants in attendance at the Malta High School 1960's All Class Reunion.

Editor's Note: All 10 class photos, including names, can be found with this story online at http://www.phillipscountynews.com with the story titled "A re-cap of Malta's All 60's Reunion."

MHS Class of 1960: George Taylor, Doug Durocher, Shirley Slaght/Weaver Davis, Brian Loucks, Lonnie Link and Elaine Dobson/Kvamme, Doug Barrett, Pete Wiese, Doug Smith, Ron Lundman, and Ann Sanderson/Johnstone.

Class of 1961: Ed Mangis, Kenneth Wiederrick, Donny Young, Steve Black and Vance Spencer, Karen Heintz/Perdreaux, Lorna O'Rourke/Knudsen, Bonnie Olson/Millar, Sharon Dyrdahl/Hill, NancyTerwilliger/Grube and Beverly Hould/Comstock.

Class of 1962: John Duty, Ross Wiederrick, Conrad Adams, Carl Vennes, Robert L Laroche, Sandra Lundman/Wiebe, Sherry Sintler/Richardson, Gloria Hodge Hanson, Clarice Smith/Lundman, Mavis Garland/Peterson, Patricia Patrick/Taylor, Sharon Zabel/Smith, Loretta Holzhey/Larsen, Madelyn Lundman/Braun and Charlotte Folkman Ayres.

Class of 1963: Ron Ohs, Kathy Thill/Peterson, Margaret Ore, Kim Kaufman, Dan Molloy, George Ashby, Ronald Holman, Karen Ohs/Wiederrick, Gordon Kron, Mary G. Mangis, Idella Lilienthal, Jerry Larson, Jean Boyce/Ereaux, Phyllis Spencer/Kemph, Gail Hendrickson/Baldridge, Rhonda Lefdahl Molloy, Shannon Smith Slaght, Darlene LaFond/Bennatt-Froman, Ralph Winkel, Ed Rasmussen, Laura Sanderson/McNamara, James Thompson, Julie Nesbitt/Wagner and Ron Tjaden.

Class of 1964: Roy Taylor, Buzz Kaufman, Elliot Bergsagel, Marshall Kline, Roy Waters, Bert Williams, Julie Morrow Howell, Paulette Shores, Larry Knutson, Donna Knudsen/Young and Bob Lumsden, Steve Tremblay, Mr. Allen Roush, Lulu Belle Seaford/Besel, Sandra Nicholson/Calk, Joyce Ohs Yager and Mike Hughes.

Class of 1965: Terry Stiles, Buddy Walsh, Scott Southwick, Mr. Allen Roush, Don Mitchell, Tracy Kelly, Don Gilbertson, Skip Kropp, Dan Dobson, Marty Vennes, Jack Molloy, Craig Ottinger, Teddy Freestone, Regan Lefdahl, Dennis Goodheart, John Bednarczyk, Marry Guttormson/Cosgriffe, David Digger Hanson, Wayne Waters, Dennis Clausen, Art Ferguson, Kristina Mebust/Hanson, Becky Simpson/Hunter, Sandy Jennings/Whitaker, Carol Buffington/McVicars, Kathleen Kron/Lumsden and Sherri Holeman/Ottinger.

Class of 1966: Bob Fry, Dennis Lundman, Rick Beyer, Charles Shorty Seel, Mel Sundin, Larry Lodmell, Brent Smith, Gary Trenblay, Roger Merideth, Mick Morrison, Scott Cowan and Joel Bergsagel, Susan McKoy/Lucht, Cindy Totman/Scott, Donna Licht/Waters, Linda Steinmetz Knutson, Mary Heberlee, Barb Paulson/Math, Judy Clausen, Trudy Young/Hicks, Sharon Johnson/Mitchell, Dianne Goodheart Salsbery, Charlotte Mitchell/Miller, Cathy Stiles Sanders and Allan Dancer.

Class of 1967: Allen Haugness, Jay Southwick, Roy Putt Ereaux, Harry Hughes, Bill Jaynes, John Hasler, Dale Slade, Gene Vennes, Bruce Cummings, Harry Buck Taylor, Gordon Lucht, Ingrid Bergsagel Maksirisombat, Barb Holman/Fladland, Darlene Emond/Rozak, Arlene Emond/Gee, Marie Compton LaDuke, Terry Seel/Mosier, Mike Lang, Paul Bruckner, Linda Lundstrom, Susan Wiederrick,/Renner, Marda Holzey Southwick and Margaret Maxie Hanson.

Class of 1968: Tim Barnes, Doug Henry, Art Lundstrom, Bill Mitchell, John McKeon, Chuck Graden, Roseanne Coleman/Young, Mary Lang Lundstrom, Debbie Dopp/Taylor, Teresa Hould/McKeon, Mitzi Nylander/Nesbit, Linda Wilke/Lundman, Gail Stiles Cummings, Marla Ashby/Sisco, Gloria Ohs/Allwin, Annie Daellenback/Blatter and Linda Hughes.

Class of 1969: Bob Maxie, Rod Perry, Tom Golik, Vic Lefdahl, Gary Lundman, Chick Korsbeck/Brogan, Shelly Sintler/Dunbar, Suzanne Taylor/Koss, Kerry Compton/Faaborg, Byron Ereaux, Ken Ulrich, Theresa Bebee/Frye, David Daellenbach, Mary Jo Taylor/McLean and Sally Potter/Wolf.

Editor's note: Apologies to anyone who attended but was not listed. A huge thank you to Diane Salsbery for identifying people from the classes and to Gloria Allwin for providing the photographs.