Author: Ken

Reunion Team Update

If you are part of the IHS Class of 1971 and discovered this site – Welcome! Although the reunion committee has been emailing classmates that we have current address for, and posting in our Facebook group, that doesn’t include all of our class. This website will collect all the updates on organizing our 50th reunion.

This is the latest email update:

We hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend. It’s been a little over 2 weeks since our first communication and we wanted to give everybody an update. The good news is our Reunion team has grown. John Manning has agreed to sign up for Reunion duty again and will coordinate the financial aspects of the reunion. Ken Ronkowitz has volunteered to be our “Social Media Techie” and webmaster. Rhonda Goldberger and Tom Trokan have agreed to assist with the event planning. Karen Long Rohe, Terry Masucci and Karen Mericle Suter have also agreed to assist as needed.

Concerning this website: What suggestions do you have for website content to make it useful and relevant and a site that you will want to periodically check? Do any of you have old photos from our IHS years that you would like to post for all to enjoy? You can subscribe to the blog and get notified by email whenever new content is added.

When we sent out our first communication we asked for your help. How did you do? Do you have any additional email addresses for us or updates to your information? We have gotten a few updates and new email addresses (and unfortunately were notified of a few additional classmates who passed) however we still only have email addresses for about 36% of the living classmates 205 out of 570. At this stage of the planning this is where we need your help the most. There are quite a few classmates who are on Facebook and are Facebook friends with some of you and yet we don’t have any email contact information for them. Please take the time to go over the list of people where we don’t have any email addresses and private message them to try and get us their info. Or, try giving them a call to reconnect if they have a valid phone number listed. Be a super sleuth and find those Class of ’71 grads. Make this a challenge and see who can get us the most missing email addresses – we can report who is the most successful on the website.

We only have one 50-year reunion, so we want to make sure we get this right. Our goal is to make this a fantastic get together – one that everyone will be talking about for a long time to come. Please use the contact form on this website or the class Gmail account, or email directly to ihsclassof1971@gmail.com to stay in touch with the Reunion Team.

Have a great summer!

Do You Remember 1971?

I’m sure everyone in our class remembers a lot of things from our graduation year – school memories, the summer after senior year, heading off to college in the fall or starting a job. But our memories of the year in history and pop culture may be a bit faded.

I recall all the references in this time capsule video of 1971, though I’m not sure I would have remembered all of them as having been a part of 1971.

Which ones hold the strongest memories for you? What is missing?

Join Us On Facebook

The class has had a closed (members of class only) Facebook group since 2010. If you’re not in the group, join us! There are lots of photos and posts and it is a good way to connect with the class and individuals.

Click on the blue button/bar below to access the group.

 
Irvington (NJ) High School Class of 1971 Alumni
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