Author: Ken

Reunion #55 Is On!

 

We are happy to report that we have now met the minimum number of attendees required for the venue, so our party is on! You can still register and join your classmates.

The Reunion Team awaits your arrival!

The 55th Year Reunion on September 26, 2026 at the Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune, N.J.  Attached below are all the details, including the menu, hotel information, and registration form. Please don’t wait until the last minute. 

We are sending info to all who have given us their email addresses.  We will also post it in our Class Facebook group, other Irvington Facebook Groups, and on this website. Why not reach out to a classmate with whom you have contact information to ensure they are aware of the event?  

Based on your feedback from the 50+ reunion, we will be having a daytime event (11AM – 4:00PM) which will include hors d’oeuvres, a buffet, and a cash bar.  Also, based on your feedback, we are not having a DJ, but we will be streaming music from our time and are planning to have a slideshow of pics we have accumulated from our High School years and reunions that we will project on a screen in the banquet room.  Dig out any pictures you may have and send them to the class email address, and we will include them in the slideshow.  We are also again planning a memorial for the classmates who have sadly passed.

If you have any questions, please direct them to the class email address ihsclassof1971 at gmail.com.  We hope to see you in September, and until then, stay safe and send those registration forms with your checks in ASAP!  

Download the registration form and information on the venue and hotels below

Reunion #55 Registration Time

 “So, it’s the laughter
 We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were”

“The Way We Were”

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Now that the holidays are over and the new year is here, it’s time to start thinking about our Reunion.  We hope you are looking forward to it and will be joining us for our 55th Year Reunion on 9/26/26 at the Jumping Brook Country Club in Neptune N.J.   

Can you believe that on 9/26/26, it will be 5.5 decades, 55 years, 663 months, 2,883 weeks, 20,186 days, 484,464 hours, over 29 million minutes, and almost 1.8 billion seconds since we graduated from IHS on June 22, 1971?  There are times that our bodies feel every one of the seconds we have lived, and yet many of us still have that spirit of a 17-year-old in our minds.  The Spirit of ’71!      

This reunion will be the 6th time we have formally gotten together as a class, post-graduation (10th, 20th, 25th, 38th Just Because and 50th).  Did you make them all?  Did you make any of them?    

This September, we’ll gather once again as friends, ready to celebrate the memories, milestones, and, for some, the lifelong bonds that began all those years ago. Our 55th reunion is more than just an event; it’s a chance to laugh, reminisce, and reconnect with classmates who helped shape who we are today.

Attached are all the details, including the menu, hotel information, and registration form. We are asking that you register and send in your check by March 6th to ensure we have enough interest to meet the venue’s minimum required paid attendees.  
Please don’t wait until the last minute.   
Note: John Manning will not be cashing your checks until we have the minimum required guests.  As we get paid attendance commitments, we will update you via a post on Facebook and periodically via email for those not on Facebook.

We are sending this info to all who have given us their email addresses.  We will also post it in our Class Facebook group, other Irvington Facebook Groups, and on this website. Why not reach out to a classmate with whom you have contact information to ensure they are aware of the event?  

Based on your feedback from the 50+ reunion, we will be having a daytime event (11AM – 4:00PM) which will include hors d’oeuvres, a buffet, and a cash bar.  Also, based on your feedback, we are not having a DJ, but we will be streaming music from our time and are planning to have a slideshow of pics we have accumulated from our High School years and reunions that we will project on a screen in the banquet room.  Dig out any pictures you may have and send them to the class email address, and we will include them in the slideshow.  We are also again planning a memorial for the classmates who have sadly passed.

If you have any questions, please direct them to the class email address ihsclassof1971 at gmail.com.  We hope to see you in September, and until then, stay safe and send those registration forms with your checks in ASAP!  

Download the registration form and hotel details below

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The Reunion Team awaits your arrival!

In Memoriam

UPDATED April 2026

Since the days of the Roman empire, the words “in memoriam” (in memory) have been found on monuments and gravestones. None of us want to think about losing people we know, but the reality is that over the course of the years since our graduation, we have lost a number of our classmates. At the 50+ Reunion, we thought it was important to acknowledge those who have passed.

Laura Krampetz Cuevas is a lifelong artist and teacher who is on the reunion committee. She volunteered to create an in-memoriam display for the 51st Reunion. Using yearbook photos and electric votive lights, she made luminaries and set up a multi-level display that was set up in the corner of our event room.

We saw attendees walking around the display and sometimes thinking of a friend now gone, and sometimes discovering that someone they did not know had died was there.

If you open your yearbook, take a look at those who have passed or just remember someone noted here that you knew in high school, and send out a good thought or prayer.

The alphabetical list of classmates below is from the current class database and includes a date when one was found in an obituary or a “?” when the date is unknown. Women are listed by the last name used in our yearbook. Some class members’ obituaries have been posted on our private Facebook group.

  1. Frederick Adamcsik – January 2021
  2. Carmen Algarin – 2017
  3. Lu-Ann Alliegro – 2019
  4. Julie Alliston – 2008
  5. William Alves – 1976
  6. Charles Ambielli – 2017
  7. Michael Balkun – 2014
  8. Jacqulyn Bellas – 2006
  9. Frank Bellis – November 2024
  10. Anthony Blasi – 2008
  11. Thomas Blasi – 2007
  12. Frederick Bol – 2015
  13. Linda May Boyce 2025
  14. Howard Brennan – 2019
  15. Peter Brunarski – 2004?
  16. Joanne Carbone – December 2010
  17. Reynold Catelli – while in high school
  18. William Charniga – 1974
  19. Paul Cocuzza – April 2020
  20. Glenn Conrad – ?
  21. Andrea Corrao – ?
  22. Karen Crawford – 2016
  23. John Crispin – ?
  24. Diane Demers Massino – 2015
  25. Joanne DiCecco – ?
  26. Frank Dobrowolski – 1993
  27. Philip Dombrowski – 2001
  28. Harry Donovan – Many years ago
  29. Michael Droppa – 1999
  30. Kim England – January 2022
  31. Richard Flynn – ?
  32. Phyllis Foti – late 1970’s
  33. Frank Fox – February 2023
  34. Beverly Friedman Bruno – 2023
  35. Kathleen Gallagher – before 1991
  36. Connie Gargiulo Kusher – June 2023
  37. Mike Geller – January 2022
  38. Alice Colleen Gensinger Yednak – January 2024
  39. Kenneth Gerisch – 2007
  40. Kenneth Gladd – 2012
  41. Elizabeth Grasmueck – April 2022
  42. Jeffrey Greenspan – 2019
  43. Marc Greenspan – April 2020
  44. Linda Gresham – 2022
  45. Michelle Grohol Andolino – July 2021
  46. Roy Gross – ?
  47. Warren Gross – 1971
  48. Thomas Gruppuso – ?
  49. John Haderthauer – 1996
  50. Jerry Heda – ?
  51. Hazel Hohweiler – ?
  52. Peter Jensen – 2009
  53. Joanna Junger Ciccone – January 2026
  54. Richard Kahl – April 2022
  55. Richard Kiefer – 2016
  56. Arlene Kokosinski Fetta) – August 2023
  57. Paula Kolodich – ?
  58. Joseph Kormylo – April 2016
  59. Eugene Lalevee-?
  60. Barbara Laue – 2014
  61. Karen Long Rohe – February 2024
  62. Joe Longionotti – January 2026
  63. Bruce Lovenberg – August 2002
  64. Frederick Lucking – ?
  65. James MacConchie – 2007
  66. Linda Maciolek – 2017
  67. Grace Murn Fairchild – 2019
  68. Rich Murray – 2018
  69. Gloria Neander Cignarella – 2018
  70. Esther Niwinski – ?
  71. Charles Nystrom – 2008
  72. Janis Olsson – September 2020
  73. Joseph Patriarca – 2018
  74. Sally Peralta-Wain – 2018
  75. Frank Pospisil – 2011
  76. Joann Raddi – October 2014
  77. Joyce Reingold Ciaburri – October 2021
  78. Clare Riggio – 2022
  79. Mario Russo – 2011
  80. Sandra Sanko – 2009
  81. Carol Schaffer – 2010
  82. Edward Joseph Sienkiewicz – 2023
  83. Keith Spaeth – 2007
  84. Dennis Testa – ?
  85. Steven Thatcher – 2017
  86. Gerald Turi – ?
  87. Joanne Urso – ?
  88. Manny Vazquez – July 2001
  89. Wayne Vogler – 2001
  90. Barbara Weekley – 2015
  91. Cinda Weldon – 1990
  92. Alexander Wieczorek – March 2007
  93. Ray W. Wills  – 2011
  94. Jane Woody – before 1996
  95. John Zabriski – 2014
  96. James Zangari Jr. – 2009
  97. Michael Zielinski – ?

Any updates to this list can be emailed to our class email. If you have a link to an obituary, please include that.