The weekend of July 27-28 that the Class of 1959 of Concordia College Milwaukee spent together is now but a memory. But what memories we carry away from those hours we spent together, reminiscing about the life we lived during the six years on Concordia's campus, from entrance into Sexta in September 1953 through graduation from Prima on June 5, 1959.
A total of 31 class members made their way to the Milwaukee area for the weekend festivities which concluded with worship at Saint Paul Lutheran Church in Oconomowoc, followed by an afternoon of food and fellowship at Tom & Pat Truebenbach's home, where we got reacquainted with classmates, some of whom we hadn't seen for 50 years.
We came from California (Schroeder, Graff, Schedler) ... Washington (Gienapp) ... Virginia (Bloom) ... Florida (Arndt, Mennicke) ... Georgia (Steinke) ... Tennessee (Gil Pingel) ... Missouri (Toelke, Schaser, Kassulke) ... Kentucky (Berndt) ... South Carolina (Watt) ... Michigan (Kostizen) ... Ohio (Berner) ... Indiana (Mueller, Albertin, Berg) ... Illinois (Burke, Beversdorf) ... and Wisconsin (Holz, Hasse, Truebenbach, Gennermann, Jim Pingel, Stephan, Malchow, Fitzke, Ambelang and Jorgenson) ! Thanks to all for making the effort and joining the fun.
And, special thanks to Tom & Pat, who hosted the meal on the spacious grounds of their home in Oconomowoc. Helped by family and friends, they were the host and hostess with the mostest!
In coming days and weeks, well be posting memories (and probably some pictures) here on this blog. Those of you who were at the reunion will be given instructions how to post your own comments and memories.
