BHS59 Website(s)!
Welcome to the Belmont High School Class of 1959 website! We are getting
to the time of life where we need to connect to our old friends. We went
through some great times together, a unique time in everyone's life.
I know I've been wondering about some of my friends from High School
that I haven't seen since I left Belmont.
The Belmont High School Athletic Hall Of Fame to Induct 1959 State Championship Baseball Team!
Today, 1/30/2010, our baseball team received the BHS Hall of Fame induction letters! The 1959 State Champion Team was one of the best of all time! Families AND friends are invited to attend the induction. The cost is $55.00 per person, and that charge will apply to team members as well. Wheaties will be calling teammates to determine how many will be in attendance. (Hopefully, everybody.) The room at the Oakley CC is large enough, (300), to accommodate as many as would like to come. The more the merrier. The induction ceremony happens to be the evening before Dot's party, so we should be able to have a great turnout to tell our baseball team how proud we are of them!
The induction banquet will be held on Friday Evening, May 14, 2010 at the Oakley Country Club from 6-10PM. Tickets are $55 per person. Tickets may be obtained, and tables of ten reservations can be made, by sending checks and requests to:
Belmont High School Athletic Hall of Fame
PO Box 341
Belmont, MA 02478
Thanks, Wheaties, for letting us know, and for helping to make this happen!
Our 50th Reunion was an absolute blast! We had 134 classmates, and a total of 203 attendees. What a great turnout! This was really a great time, and I think everyone was sorry to see it end. But it won't really end, because we are more in touch with each other than ever, and that will continue with phone calls, emails, and our two websites!
I have a lot of new stuff to post, and I'll be doing that over the next few weeks, so check in from time to time. I hope to get the first pictures posted today (thanks, Dom!). First set of Reunion pictures here.
Regina asked for a copy of the slide show that was running at the reunion. It was made up of a bunch of old pictures from various classmates relating to either our class or the Belmont of our youth. It's about 9.7MB so will take a while to download, but it is posted here.
We also had a memorial video of departed classmates running at the reunion. The video was Kevork's idea, and he was helped by his friend Sandy Boroyan
and her grandson. Many of us found it very moving, so we thought it would be a good idea to post it. You will need a fast connection to view it properly, it is big.
Classmates are continuing to send in pictures of the events. Keep them coming! My plan is to post all the pictures that I receive! The links to the picture galleries for the BHS 59 50th Reunion are on the Reunion50 page. I'll be adding more photos as I get them, so check back often! Just posted, pictures from Danielle Murray Duffy .
There will be a lot of new pictures of classmates who will be added to the Then and Now. If you aren't on there and couldn't make the reunion, how about sending me a picture or two? If you don't like your current picture, send me a new one and I'll replace it.
We've got a new forum. Try it out here! If you don't see any messages when you open the forum, click on "Regular View" at the bottom. If you can see the messages, you can click on "Post Reply" to reply to a message, or "New Entry" to start a new topic. Please give it a try!
50th Reunion
Henderson House
Our 50th Reunion, October 2-4, 2009, is now part of our wonderful shared history. If you have some thoughts (or pictures) you'd like to share with your classmates, send them to me at billclark42@comcast.net and I'll post them.
Linda Beach Johnston sent these thoughts to share:
Dear BHS Classmates,
It had been 45 years since I had seen my Belmont High School classmates. I had read about the May reunion parties at Dottie’s. I was always too busy or too far away. My husband died suddenly last September and I decided to move back to Massachusetts. For the first time I could attend Dottie’s Party.
I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about seeing old classmates. I wasn’t particularly popular in high school. I didn’t hang around with the “in” group. I wasn’t a cheerleader or, come to think of it, a leader at all. Just thinking about going to that party brought back all those old insecurities. To top it off, I looked in the mirror and saw a sixty-six year old woman. That was enough by itself to keep me from going.
Well, I did it. I hope I can convince you that you will make one of the biggest mistakes you’ll ever make in your life if you miss the 50th reunion. This will be the last of the official reunions. Let me just tell you why you don’t want to miss it.
There are no more “clicks”. Nobody has anything to prove to anyone. We are just a bunch of people who have a shared place in each others history. This is really as much about meeting new friends as it is about
connecting with old ones.
Please don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. I promise you that you’ll never regret it. I know I’m looking forward to seeing you.
Linda Beach Johnston
