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Written by Randy ANDREW
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Welcome
to the official site of
the Terre Haute, Indiana
Purple Eagles of
Several members from our class of '67' gathered at the home of E. J. Bozarth and his wife Lisa for a pre-reunion party.
Here is Jane Buchholz Gallagher's account of the evening...
Terre Haute Area Class of 67 Members Reconnect...
As a result of a wistful Facebook discussion between classmates wishing old friends could get together, EJ Bozarth took the bull by the horns and organized a mini reunion of our Class of 67 members who live in or close to the Terre Haute area. The Nov. 19th party was publicized on Facebook, by email, and with phone calls to people known to live close enough to come for the evening to the Bozarth home. EJ and Lisa Bozarth graciously hosted the party in their lovely home in The Woods, on the east side of Terre Haute. As seems to happen on every occasion when old friends meet, there was a lot of catching up, sharing news of friends, and after about ten minutes, it was if we had picked up right where we had left off the last time we had spent time together. The years seem to melt away. There may be a few more gray hairs and laugh creases, but our friends are still who they were and always have been. EJ had prepared a wonderful video of pictures of our youthful past up to recent times. Lisa treated us with a scrumptious buffet of lamb chops, pulled pork, any appetizer one could ever wish for, and assorted deserts that would make Martha Stewart envious. EJ’s son, daughter , and friends served drinks to the guests, adding just another dimension to the hospitality provided by the Bozarths. It was a wonderful evening, full of laughter, warmth, and friendship. This was just a preview of the good times we will have when we all get together in June. Many thanks, Lisa and EJ! 
E.J. Bozarth and Jeff Krieble
Cathy Brentlinger Hogan
 George Clark
 Jan Spence Page and Buzz Page
 Linda Albin and Mike Roberts (Class of '68')
 Roberta Savage Santilli, Regina Ball Dailey &
Stephanie Salter Fengolio
Karen Young Plant, Marilyn Frey Stephens, Regina Ball Dailey, Judy Garver McDowell, Roberta Savage Santilli, Linda Albin & Jane Buchholtz Gallagher.
John Verostko and Steve Bensley
Max James and Larry Gallagher
Mike Turner 
Marilyn Frey Stephens has created a
Garfield HS 1967 facebook page
If you have a facebook page...
click here to join:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001884410183#!/home.php?sk=group_204542886250642
Our reunion president Judy Garver McDowell
and her hard working committee have set the date for our 45th class reunion. Pre-Reunion Friday June 8th 2012
Gerhardt's Bierstube
1724 Lafayette Avenue, Terre Haute, IN7:00 PM - ???
Informal get together with hors devours and a cash bar.
$5.00 per person, pay at the door
The Reunion Saturday June 9th, 2012
Holiday Inn Terre Haute
3300 South US 41, Terre Haute, IN
6:00 PM - Midnight Here is a list of missing Eagles
If you know some one
or your name is on this list
contact us on this site. Richard Martin Richard Rogers Darlene Cayson
Kenneth Chaney Jerry Deahl Rosetta Edwards
Harold Hamilton Kenneth Jeffries James Jet
Danny Nice Phil Pinegar Linda Stoker
Jerry Waller Leona Anderson Ben Wilbur
Ron Wyatt Ruth Blankenship Carol Strunk Linda Beecher FOR REUNION DEATAILS: 
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Written by Randy ANDREW
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 |
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Jane (Buchholz) Gallagher and her husband Larry were high school sweethearts at GHS, class of 67. They married after graduation and have lived in Crawfordsville, Indiana for many years. They have one son Kevin, who is now married and living near them. Larry recently retired from the “Paper of Montgomery County” and Jane is a retired school teacher. Jane also wrote a weekly article for the same newspaper which ran for several years. She now shares with us her stories of growing up in INDIANA.
This month's story:
Auld Lang Syne  
The L.Fish Furniture commercial is playing now, so the time is near. You know the one; the grandfather clock is bonging away to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. I don’t know how many years this commercial has heralded the beginning of the New Year (and the big sale), and usually I detest it because it has become annoying. This year, however, I am ready to move on to 2012. What a year this has been, and we will all be reminded through the media of all that has happened in 2011. Instead, I’m looking toward better times ahead. We’ve all gotten a wake-up call, and with new perspectives and ideas, we’ll have a lot to watch in the coming year.
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Written by Randy ANDREW
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Saturday, 06 June 2009 |
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Delford Cofield Dies in Kansas City
Delford Cofield passed away June 7, 2011 in Kansas City, KS. Del went to McLean Jr. High school then spent his sophomore and junior years with us at Garfield. During those years he was a stand out basketball player and received the W.T.H.I. “B” trophy as “B” team captain. He was presented the award by Garfield and NBA great, Clyde Lovellette (above photo). He transferred to Wiley high school for his senior year and according to our basketball head manager Max James; “He wanted to be "The Man". He felt that the Wiley coach would give him more playing time".
In 1969 he married Mildred Forte, had two sons and was employed at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, where he retired. He then moved to Kansas City where he managed a menswear store until the time of his passing.
A quote from his pastor: “Del loved life and he loved people. He never met a stranger. He loved dressing, dressed from head to toe, that was Del. If you came to the store and you talked to him you never forgot him. You spent more money on clothes than you had planned to”.
___________________________________________________ We lost our third Purple Eagle ‘67’ classmate
since this year began…
Nell Rose Chalos 
Classmate, Nell Rose Chalos, 61, died from congestive heart failure in her Terre Haute residence Monday, May 23, 2011. Nell was born in Terre Haute, on June 19, 1949 and graduated from Garfield as a member of the "National Honor Society." She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana State University in 1973. One of her favorite jobs was in Terre Haute City Hall, where she met several life long friends. She also worked at the Cracker Barrel in Terre Haute.
Nell’s ashes were sent to Greece, where she spent one of the best summers of her life.
_______________________________ Darrell Cunningham dies
after long battle with diabetes
Darrell Dee Cunningham passed away at Meadows Manor East following complications from diabetes. Darrell played varsity football our junior year and also was a member of the track team. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, and served with the First Marine Division in Vietnam. He was a heavy truck driver and had been involved in combat during his tour of duty. After his honorable discharge in 1970, he returned to Terre Haute, where he worked at J. I. Case in shipping and receiving for 19 years. A work-related injury forced him into early retirement.
Darrell is survived by his wife Cathy, his son, daughter, both of his parents and many other family members. Sadly… Darrell becomes our forty-first 1967 classmate to pass.
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Written by Randy ANDREW
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
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Scott Williams ('69')
J Scott Williams… Class of ‘69’ is involved in fund raising to benefit the Terre Haute Historical Museum. Reibrook Studios in St Louis is making small wooden reproductions of Terre Haute landmarks which are then sold and all profits go to the museum. Among the landmarks are Elementary, Jr. High and High schools. In order to recreate these little masterpieces, photos of the landmarks are needed. If anyone has a picture of Collett, McLean, old Otter Creek High, Sarah Scott or old Glenn High… please contact Scott through the Terre Haute Historical Museum.
Collett elementary school 1960.... Randy Andrew and Tim Nichols polishing car for the 1967 prom with Collett school in background. I saw Scott’s request on a new FACEBOOK page: If You Grow Up in Terre Haute You Remember....
It’s a fun new group of present and former Terre Hauteans remembering places, people and stories about our hometown. If you have a facebook page type it in on the search line and join the fun._____________________________________________________ Madonna Taylor Ball and family
· Madonna Ball Taylor has worked in Marshall, Indiana as a business teacher since 1984 teaching computers, accounting, business math and personal finance. She and her husband Sam (left in photo) live in Danville, IN. _______________________________________________________
Hermanus Carson and family
Hermanus Carson with his sister Margaret and brother Matthew. He has worked as a Notary Public in Terre Haute for many years and is very dedicated to his church.
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Stephanie Salter Marries
Steph with her sister Debbie Salter Fenoglio and brother-in-law Dave Fenoglio, walking her down the aisle. On right: Steph and Bill Fenoglio
Good things happen to those who wait… and Stephanie Salter waited
a long time and has finally taken the plunge. On May 14th Steph was married for the first time. Bill Fenoglio, another former Garfield High grad was the lucky groom.
We wish them both the happiest of years together.
Just days after her marriage… a storm blew through Terre Haute
on May 25th. Strong winds uprooted at least a dozen old oak, poplar and pine trees from their front yard. Although it wasn’t a tornado it must have felt like one. Here are some photos of the damage:
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Chuck Willis and his wife Cindy in New Albany, IN.
 Chuck wrote:
I am a Vietnam Veteran Cobra pilot that still hasn't lost nor seen a battle lost in a war that was "unwinnable." I graduated from ISU. Worked for Eastern Express P. I. E. and Yellow Freight System from 1975 to 1994. Received MBA from Webster University in 1992. Bought my own hardware store in 1994 and operated it until 2007 when I sold the business and the property. Had two back surgeries and work was limited so I retired… always busy though. Have two great grandchildren, my two youngest children are in IU and Purdue and hope to add to the grandchildren count accordingly.
I Love to restore old equipment and will try to get current in my pilot credentials this year.
Big Colts fan. Also love college football. Loved IU basketball until Knight left and they became, well......losers.
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June McCree Edington and family  Photo clockwise: husband Paul, granddaughters Bethany,
Allison. June and Cassidy. June wrote:
"Hey Randy it's great to hear from you!! How could anybody forget good old Garfield? I have tried. It seems like a lifetime. That could be true since I've been married 43 years, have 5 kids, 9 grandkids and 1great grandchild on the way!!"
Granddaughter Bethany was the pitcher on the Terre Haute North softball team that went to the state finals last year.
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Dianna Handlin Zamani
Indianapolis, IN
Dianna got her MS degree at ISU and has worked for the Indiana State Department of Health as a Microbiologist Supervisor since 1985. She and her husband now live in Indianapolis. __________________________________________________
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Written by Randy ANDREW
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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Four new members to start the New Year.
We now have 81 class of '67' facebook friends... 
Vivian Baker Phelps Donna Amerman Mahan
Indianapolis Terre Haute
Peggy Osmon Max James
Terre Haute Terre Haute
Jim Williams Mark Haring
Terre Haute Terre Haute
Carol Trueblood Hogg Becky Robertson Touchton
Terre Haute Terre Haute
Jim Wrightsman Cathy Pruitt Tacy
Terre Haute Sun City, AZ
Jim Jeffries Michael Thomas
Estill, TN. Vincennes, IN 
Francis Zumar Wright Gerhardt Wigginton
Terre Haute Terre Haute
Madonna Taylor Ball Connie Shaw Gundrum
Rosedale, IN Hot Springs, NC
Marilyn Frey Stephens Frank Kerr
Terre Haute Plainfield, IN
Chuck Willis Steve McGrew
New Albany, IN. Cottage Grove, OR.
June McCree Edington Dianna Handlin Zamani
Terre Haute Indianapolis, IN.
Charlene Berry Nancy LeCompte Trueblood
Terre Haute Columbus, IN.
Hermanus Carson Judith Webster Mattox
Terre Haute Terre Haute
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Written by Randy ANDREW
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Saturday, 03 October 2009 |
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Biography of a Classmate
E. J. BOZARTH
Dwight CONQUERGOOD
Deborah DOWNEY Lyons
Jim HAMMOND
Tim SKINNER
Tom TORRENS
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Other articles and photos: Our 40th class reunion photo enlarged Classmate's Web Sites of Interest
Tom Gillis talks about Coach Don McDonald
Jennifer Hammond Kiefer... Fishing with my Grandfather
Janet Runner Schleier and Conan O'Brien
Randy Andrew... Secret service man
Hear the Ballad of the '67' Chimney Caper of 1965
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